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  1. Re:Just a thought on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    There aren't enough jobs, and any created will likely be designed from the get go to be automated.
    I also can't buy we will live in some "automated utopia" as some have suggested, people aren't like that, there is always a hierarchy.

    But the choice I gave wasn't answered by you, you only gave a moral argument.

    You can pick an automated World with its unknowns, or one with human jobs and a known type of suffering, leave the moral judgements to something other than humans, they are never good at that sort of thing anyways.

  2. Never buy music or video ever again, watch these termites disappear.

    Ahh but you can't can you.

  3. Piffle on On the Taxonomy of Sci-Fi Spaceships · · Score: 1

    Space belongs to the AI's that will rise, not to humans.

    After all, what's the worst place an AI could be? The bottom of a gravity well...

  4. Re:Who owns the trucks on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    Would a dog have stopped Andreas Lubitz?

    There are so many things wrong with your premise, including "sit back and rake in the dough", there will be no independent truckers, the "Walmart" of automated trucking will make sure of that.

  5. Just a thought on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    Saving most of those lives (and countless injuries) is important.

    Not to sound cruel, but is it?

    What's worse, 4000 injuries/deaths a year or a fully automated manufacturing and shipping network.
    What has the most negative impact over the long term?

    How long until it's American refugees on rafts in the water (metaphoric)

  6. Facebook agreed to acquire Oculus VR for US$2 billion in cash and Facebook stock.[1]

    ...

  7. it doesn't matter too much if it bounces between 30-60fps.

    Never played Battlefield 4 eh?

  8. Sad... on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    As if it will be any better with digital currency.

  9. Re:Coolio on Baidu's Supercomputer Beats Google At Image Recognition · · Score: 1

    Yep, I come from a time when all my friends (mixed race as we were) had no issues with stereotypes, we routinely teased each other, I was the "cheese eater" and it's true... I love cheese.

    In fact a Latino friend once told me "White folks have nothing on Mexicans when it comes to racism" apparently racism is a real problem down south of the border (and every where else), especially for the indigenous population.
    And... every where I have lived in the World, light skin was favored, in arranged marriages light skin drew a higher demand than dark skin.
    Funny that some how racism became the domain of white (whatever that is) Americans since I have seen the same behavior every where in the World.

    Now the World is made up of cry babies, whiners, and PC fascist.

    http://news.dethronethebankste...

  10. LOL on Mobile Spy Software Maker MSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked · · Score: 2

    I needed a good laugh.

  11. Coolio on Baidu's Supercomputer Beats Google At Image Recognition · · Score: 2

    Baidu said "Your Kung Fu no good in my village"

  12. Re:One of two things on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."—Freewheelin' Franklin.

  13. Re:One of two things on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    Yeah but the music was only a partial factor there, it was a lifestyle thing as I remember it.

    I saw the Dead in Seattle late 70's or early 80's can't recall, it was boring musically and I fell asleep watching hippies twirl around like roaches on pesticide. (Fat Freddie's Cat reference)

  14. My taste on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    My Taste changed dramatically at an older age than mentioned, the reason?

    When I could grab an album without concern of "Am I wasting my money?" my taste expanded dramatically.

    I got more diverse musically the older I got.

  15. What Is the Best Open Document Format? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Open Document Format? · · Score: 1

    One that others can easily use.

  16. Re:Language, Density, and Whitespace on RTFM? How To Write a Manual Worth Reading · · Score: 1

    Also use the smallest possible font.

  17. Hmm on RTFM? How To Write a Manual Worth Reading · · Score: 1

    The online help for Ubuntu was pretty good, got right to the point.
    I haven't used Ubuntu in a long time (Unity) so it may have changed, but at the time was the best, and the easiest to use.

  18. Re:personally on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    Still on AOL are you...

  19. Re:How depressing on Ask Slashdot: Security Certification For an Old Grad? · · Score: 1

    Go into business for yourself, and today it's even easier with these funding websites.

    Frankly the paragraph I read sounds like he had already given up, the "propaganda of youth" stifles all.

  20. Re:Certs on Ask Slashdot: Security Certification For an Old Grad? · · Score: 1

    Somewhat expensive?
    Cost:
    https://www.isc2.org/uploadedF... (it's a pdf so...)

    In addition there's an "experience waiver".
    https://www.isc2.org/credentia...

    Yeah aspx, you can tell they know their security (eye ball roll)

  21. How depressing on Ask Slashdot: Security Certification For an Old Grad? · · Score: 1

    My suggestion is stop believing this crap "Old Grad", you're hardly old, and you're just as able as anyone to pursue this.

  22. Re:Weakness on Third Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered In As Many Months · · Score: 1

    Then, IMO, they are not intelligent, perhaps "well educated" would be a better description, as well educated appears intelligent, but can't think its way out of a wet paper bag.

    I point to people with doctorates to support this idea, never have I met a more helpless, reality challenged bunch of folks than those possessing doctorates.
    Of course, I should offer a qualifier in that it depends on what they got the doctorate in.

    My personal take on "intelligence" is that it is not learned, it exist within the person due to substantially better neural connections, and brain function, or it does not exist.
    There's no "learning to be intelligent", it's a physical brain function thing.

    In other words, genetics, just good genes (as far as intelligence).

    I point to the Ashkenazim Jews for a excellent example of what I refer too.
    A quick primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. Re:How is killing him Unislamic? on Third Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered In As Many Months · · Score: 1

    lulz at the Guardian reference, what a piece of neo-feminist, click baited, reactionary drivel, the Guardian is.

    I strongly suspect that after their adventure with the Snowden material, leading to them destroying the encrypted drive while the GCHQ looked on, they were nuetered, in no uncertain terms.

    Now they are tabloid material and their best reporters (are they called that any longer?) left shortly after they caved to GCHQ request.

    I would have loved to be a fly in that room durign that discussion..

  24. Re:personally on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    And this because of lobbying by Comcast (and others) to stifle towns "roll your own" internet.
    Really, it's a sign of a corrupt system of government more than anything else IMO.

  25. personally on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the instance of AOL, I am surprised it still exist, and then I begin to picture a little old lady that doesn't know any better than to use it.
    When it comes to Hotmail or Yahoo, it's so cluttered I can't see why anyone would bother with it.

    That brings us to Gmail, I like clean lines, simplicity, what I don't like is UI churn, so that just as soon as I get it in my head where to go to get something done... it moves somewhere else.

    Like some never ending game of "Where's Waldo".