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  1. Re:STOP calling it Autopilot!!!!!! on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is almost exactly equivalent to a plane's autopilot system.

    Exactly. It's primary purpose is to maintain altitude and heading.

    Oh, wait a minute..

  2. Re:Should have said the brakes failed on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It should be called "Driver Assist" or something that conveys that there is little automatic about it.

    Of course, that doesn't sell cars as well as calling it "Autopilot" and then claiming that they had their fingers crossed.

  3. Re:Things to Consider. (er...The things "I" consid on In the Search for Alien Life, 'Everyone Is an Astrobiologist' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    AND the LACK of FORMATTING.
    and THE overuse OF caps.

  4. Bullshit Statistics on Hackers Stole $172 Billion From People Last Year (symantec.com) · · Score: 1
    These guys count the following as poor security practices:

    1. writing your passwords on a piece of paper.
    ---This is an issue with a home PC only if a burglar gets hold of it.
    ---You could always keep it in your wallet.
    2. using "false identities" on the internet.
    ---How the hell does that make you less secure?
    ---Using fake id's for unimportant accounts make you more secure.

  5. Re:Really? on Hackers Stole $172 Billion From People Last Year (symantec.com) · · Score: 1

    I can guarantee an end to less than ten percent of all this.

    OK, one percent is less than ten percent. Suppose you "end" 1% "of all this"?
    That still leaves 99% to deal with.

  6. Re:In Nevada... on Tesla Owner Attempts Autopilot Defense During DUI Stop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because fuck you, that's why.

  7. Re:My fear on Tesla Owner Attempts Autopilot Defense During DUI Stop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In some states, a horse qualifies

    I wonder how much booze it takes to make a horse drunk.

  8. Re:My fear on Tesla Owner Attempts Autopilot Defense During DUI Stop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So driverless Lyft will be for sober passengers only?

    Or drunk passengers who are sitting in the back seat.

  9. Re:More government regulations holding us back on China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you one of those people who think talking tough to Kim Jong Ill is racist?

    No, but describing all countries that consist mostly of black people "shitholes" is.

  10. Re:Post scarcity economy is incoming. on 'Reskilling Revolution Needed for the Millions of Jobs at Risk Due To Technological Disruption' (weforum.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm a soon to be unemployed and desperate web-developer.

    FTFY.

  11. Re:As supply increases, value decreases on 'Reskilling Revolution Needed for the Millions of Jobs at Risk Due To Technological Disruption' (weforum.org) · · Score: 1

    How can you be a sex dog if username is LostMyBeaver?

    Because she's been spayed.

  12. For one thing, even if robots do 99.9% of the work .. the remaining 0.1% still have jobs.

    FTFY.

  13. Re:Please stop telling people to reskill on 'Reskilling Revolution Needed for the Millions of Jobs at Risk Due To Technological Disruption' (weforum.org) · · Score: 1

    someone somehow gets into power that actually makes a lasting difference.

    There already is.
    Unfortunately, it is a bad difference.

  14. Population control doesn't necessarily involve euthanasia.

    An artificial virus that aborts 4 out 5 embryos will do.

  15. Deep learning neural networks can be statistical classifiers, but most of the ones used today aren't really statistical, and many of them aren't classifiers.

    Name one.

  16. Re:They still don't fucking get it. on 'Reskilling Revolution Needed for the Millions of Jobs at Risk Due To Technological Disruption' (weforum.org) · · Score: 1

    Which is why we need one out of ten of us.

    FTFY.

  17. Re:In the long term, machines will cost nothing on 'Reskilling Revolution Needed for the Millions of Jobs at Risk Due To Technological Disruption' (weforum.org) · · Score: 1

    In other words, when there is no longer any human inputs then the cost drops to zero. Money is just a placeholder for cooperation.

    Like "cooperating" by buying land, building a robotic factory, paying for raw materials, etc. so that the factory can manufacture the things people need for free?

    What kind of fantasy world do you live in?

  18. Re:They still don't fucking get it. on 'Reskilling Revolution Needed for the Millions of Jobs at Risk Due To Technological Disruption' (weforum.org) · · Score: 1

    The fact is that in the U.S. there are about 150,000,000 people with below average intelligence, by definition.

    Few of them will be employable 25 years from now.

  19. It's going to change, and I strongly suspect that questions like "what fields should we reskill workers into?" are going to sound ridiculous a generation or two down the line.

    Nice fantasy. Too bad the wealthy and powerful have ultimate power and no interest in sharing it.

  20. We work doing various things, a surprising number of which are completely unnecessary, in order to convince our lords to give us food and money.

    And why the hell would this custom, which has been the norm for at least 20,000 years, just suddenly disappear?

    Because you want it to?

  21. Re:Efficiency on Will We One Day Use Tractor Beams In Manufacturing? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Why it sea shipping still the main method of transporting gods?

    Well, most gods can fly.

  22. Re:Countermeasures are much easier than ICBM on Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    this looks like a last gasp of an irrelevant regime at trying to reclaim superpower status.

    More likely total bullshit from some crank trying to drive traffic to his website.

  23. Re:I don't think nukes are preventing wars on Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean we're still fighting in Afghanistan and we've been there for 16+ years now.

    Well, that's a "brown people" war, so it doesn't count.

  24. Once Damore posted publicly,

    He didn't.

    Other people carefully edited his article to make it sound more damaging, and then distributed the result to the clickbait media.

  25. Re:the guy deserved to be fired on Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says He Does Not Regret Firing James Damore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    His first mistake was writing some anti-women propaganda speech.

    And yet I doubt if you could quote even a single line from his article that constitutes an "ant-woman propaganda speech".

    Go on, I double-dog dare you.