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  1. No match for the president's natural stupidity!

  2. "Microsoft sinks data center" on Microsoft Sinks Data Centre Off Orkney To Test Energy Efficiency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure this is by no means the first data center sunk by Microsoft!

  3. Re:What corrosion? on Microsoft Sinks Data Centre Off Orkney To Test Energy Efficiency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If it's hermetically sealed, then corrosion shouldn't be a problem, other than corroding from the outside in, which I'm sure would take longer than the useful life of the equipment sealed inside anyway. However, wouldn't barnacles and other marine life eventually interfere with heat dissipation?

  4. Re:Why does it need to be deep? on Microsoft Sinks Data Centre Off Orkney To Test Energy Efficiency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Right... because running power and data cables 200 miles offshore is really cheap!

  5. Computer equipment depreciates to zero in 2 years. If you can't upgrade the equipment, this is kind of a dead end. Better to locate near geothermal power in Iceland and air cool everything.

  6. Re: Sure.. Humans treated like slaves on Humans Are Still Crucial To Amazon's Fulfillment Process (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides which, robots are much less fun to harass!

  7. Amazon sorting centers on Humans Are Still Crucial To Amazon's Fulfillment Process (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    I worked in an Amazon sorting center during Christmas shipping rush. It's amazingly low tech, literally every package is hand-sorted and hand-scanned by a human being carrying a barcode scanner (running Embedded Windows, of course). Amazon is too frugal to automate. Their worst mistake? Metal slides for packages that all the speaker magnets would stick to -- apparently it never occurred to them to make the sorting conveyor system non-ferrous. Here's the thing: how does Amazon get it diversity stats up when all it's engineers are white boys? By hiring unskilled labor in sorting centers, then promoting all the women and minorities, obviously!

  8. Re:We just call them insects and birds. on AI-Enhanced Weed-Killing Robots Frighten Pesticide Industry (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, the point of the robots is that they are selective in what they kill.

  9. Re:Low-tech weed killers... on AI-Enhanced Weed-Killing Robots Frighten Pesticide Industry (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is the robots are smart enough to differentiate between the plants you want growing there and the plants you don't. Goats, on the other hand, like a lot of variety in their diet, although amazingly they can take out Himalayan Blackberry plants that weed wackers won't even dent.

  10. Re:Why spray them? on AI-Enhanced Weed-Killing Robots Frighten Pesticide Industry (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Many weeds like thistle break off and grow back from the roots. (Thistle amazingly has 3 foot long roots for a plant only a few inches above ground.)

  11. Re:my wife has one on Android Creator Puts Essential Up For Sale, Cancels Next Phone (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Belkin makes a microUSB to USB-C adaptor; the only drawback is it's small and easy to lose, so you'll be buying a lot of them, but they are only $7 at BestBuy.

  12. Wrong company name on Android Creator Puts Essential Up For Sale, Cancels Next Phone (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they changing the company name to Inessential Products now?

  13. No on Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood? (globalnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried milking a cockroach? I can't find any milking stools short enough.

  14. In other words, they are protesting because it wasn't obvious enough to everyone how easily they could be replaced by robots? Yes, that seems pretty self defeating to me as well. If your job can be done better and more cheaply by robots, maybe you should shut up about it and train yourself for something that can't be done by robots!

  15. My favorite strip club just isn't that same ever since they went completely automated...

  16. Re:You're doing it wrong on Robot Worries Could Cause a 50,000-Worker Strike in Las Vegas (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    There will always be at least one human worker at McDonald's, because robots really suck at cleaning the restroom! But I predict in the near future they will automate to the point where only one person will be needed on duty at any time, so soon learning to clearly enunciate "would you like fries with that?" will no longer be a marketable skill.

  17. Re:Just delaying the inevitable on Robot Worries Could Cause a 50,000-Worker Strike in Las Vegas (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Most medical jobs cannot be outsourced. 2) The highest paid workers of the future will be the ones that work best hand-in-hand with AI. That's why I'm training all my family members to talk to computers now. "Alexa, tell me I'm pretty!"

  18. Re:I really don't get this one on Robot Worries Could Cause a 50,000-Worker Strike in Las Vegas (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably just refering to kiosks to order your own fast food rather than having counter people type in your order for you. I keep predicting that if $15/hr minimum wage is put in place, McDonald's will start using that system in the US as well, they already use it in several other countries.

  19. Fortunately, all the striking workers can be easily replaced by robots, so it will cause no inconvenience to the companies involved! In short, when you realize that robots could do your job much better for a much lower price, you should probably shut up about it! As a consultant, I constantly bite my tongue to avoid pointing out to customers how stupid it is that they are paying me a lot of money for little benefit to their company.

  20. I have some bad news for you: your girlfriend has a ZWave-enabled vibrator.

  21. Which electronic front door locks are using this vulnerable protocol? Asking for a friend, it's not like I go around breaking into houses or anything...

  22. Re:The safest router is... on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    Basically the same as my answer, which was going to be, "The safest router is the one known as an 'air gap'!" Security and getting useful work done are two constraints that will always be at odds with each other.

  23. Re:Scum Skidding. on 'Bird Scooters Are Ruining Venice' (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, very similar to ice. Turning a bike exerts sideways force on the tires which causes them so shoot out from under you, accelerating spins the rear tire, and braking just locks up the tires and causes as skid.

  24. Re:More Birds than cars on 'Bird Scooters Are Ruining Venice' (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fairbanks and Anchorage in Alaska have lots of bike paths; they don't get used half the year. Nobody in there right mind rides 2 wheel vehicles on ice, they tend to fall over (I grew up riding a bike in Alaska. It just didn't work on icy streets, pure and simple. In the winter, I commuted to school by driving a snowmobile down the Chena River.)

  25. Re:Please secede on 'Bird Scooters Are Ruining Venice' (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What would the Federal Government do without the all tax revenue from the world's 5th largest economy? Answer: Tax all you delusional Trumpsters a lot more.