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  1. Re:Precise opposite of net neutrality on Europe's 'Net Neutrality' Rules Fail to Ban BitTorrent Throttling (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Where you live...you likely have 1 DSL, 1 cable, 4 4G networks (sold through a dozen channels) and 2 satellite (consumer level ISPs). Plus several more expensive, higher bandwidth wired options.

    ISPs were viable 20 years ago, the market will support 4 or 5 today. The market has grown.

    The price/data you pay is much lower than it was even 10 years ago. Prices that have been driven down by competition.

  2. Re:It's the security line, stupid on Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets (firstpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Multiple shorter lines distributed around the parameter is better than few long lines at the choke points. Less target density and fewer people per target.

  3. Re:Precise opposite of net neutrality on Europe's 'Net Neutrality' Rules Fail to Ban BitTorrent Throttling (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly, you like bad rules and government power.

    Competition can and does solve this problem. But that would cut government power, so no chance of that.

  4. Re:Why are we still using Human Pilots? on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But drawing a false conclusion.

  5. Re:It's the security line, stupid on Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets (firstpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The first line of security caused to hog fuckers to go to guns early. Which let the cop do his job.

  6. Re:Precise opposite of net neutrality on Europe's 'Net Neutrality' Rules Fail to Ban BitTorrent Throttling (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    It's the same net neutrality we have.

    They can implement QoS. If they can implement QoS they will prioritize some traffic.

    Net neutrality says they can't prefer their own voice service over other voice services. It says nothing about making all packets the same priority.

    Q: Who would have guessed that giving government authority to regulate a complex issue would have unintended consequences?

    A: Many of us. We were called corporate suckups for not supporting giving government more power.

  7. Re:Interesting to note on Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets (firstpost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Interesting to note that the left wing talking heads are ignoring this one. It not helping at all with their gun grabbing agenda.

    We understand perfectly that the right way to handle ISIS and Iran is to maintain the Sunni/Shia stalemate until they have beaten the fight out of each other. The fact they hate each other doesn't make either side 'good guys'.

  8. Re:It's the security line, stupid on Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets (firstpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It still helped. One of the hog fuckers was shot by a cop and killed no one with his bomb.

  9. Re:REALLY BAD NEWS on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Rusky pilots did, in fact, fly Migs in Vietnam and Korea. It was a secret at the time, but is well documented.

    They never achieved a 1:1 kill ratio, jets vs jets. There was a bad period when it was MIGs vs P51s.

    Japan and Germany didn't make their best combat pilots into trainers, leaving them in the fight. America made them air combat trainers.

  10. Re:Why are we still using Human Pilots? on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    At that level, the sociopaths are power addicts. When you have power, money is just a matter of turning on a printing press (screwing over the relatively powerless).

    The worst sociopaths don't have significant money of their own.

  11. Re:Why are we still using Human Pilots? on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Maori are PROUD of the fact they killed and ate all the previous owners of New Zealand. They were perfectly capable of genocide with limited hand weapons.

    What you describe sounds more like 'political' limits involved with fighting relatives. Unless you can wipe them out really fast, they will influence common relations and gain time to recover.

  12. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You'd sound like less of an idiot, if you knew the difference between strong AI and expert systems.

    Unless you're just a machine learning troll...

  13. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Greed is a positive social force compared to lust for power.

    The first part of GPs post is also false.

  14. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    An AI developed the Immelman turn? During WWI? Bullshit.

  15. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Missiles can either be fast or maneuverable. Same as airplanes.

    They are fast because they have small control surfaces. The same reason they have a very large turning radius.

  16. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Mini jet engines are about 10k$ each, just to start.

    Effective SAMs are a little harder to make than you say. Even the warhead isn't 'done'.

  17. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If the pilot has time to see the missile and plan, he can avoid it.

    Fighter planes can turn inside a missile. If you see it, you fly at it, under it and it flies into the ground trying to follow.

  18. Re:Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    AI is 'ready' for highway driving. Not so much for less predictable environments.

    We'll see 'single driver' trucks that, more or less, never stop rolling soon. At first they will have two drivers on shifts at the wheel, but that will end.

    But that isn't any more strong AI than a current gen autopilot.

  19. Re:Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What? I remember from my teenage drinking days, going to sleep with one foot off the bed, on the ground and one eye open. To prevent 'bed spins'.

    It's been so long, I no longer remember why we did that. Intellectually I know it was 'because it was forbidden'. But I've lost connection to it, just doesn't seem like much fun.

  20. Re:Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Kids that grow up with VR headsets will be, more or less, immune to motion sickness. They will have puked it all out of their system at age 6-8.

    Of course their eyes might be even more fucked then our screen fucked ones.

  21. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I just locate the nearest life raft. So I'll have something to ride down, Indiana Jones style.

  22. Re:Simple answer... on The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd? · · Score: 1

    Drive fast enough that pedestrians tunnel through your car.

  23. It should calculate the options, using the original 'Death Race 2000' scoring system, then maximize score.

    In general go for the unusual and quick on the road. Mothers with infants count 5x.

  24. Re:SMBC monte Hall Trolley problem on The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd? · · Score: 1

    You are driving you car past the home of a /. editor. He is posting a dupe and fucking up the summary. You are on the way to bone an actual woman (who's legs are on the mantle...).

    Do you stop and ninja his ass? What if you weigh 350+lbs and get winded eating?

    Answer Hell no. Actual Woman

  25. Re:Easier to Travel To China on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't take the 'South Central LA, 13th avenue crips walking tour'? With complementary red cloths...

    The views in south central really are spectacular.