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  1. information technology... on People Trust Tech Companies Over Automakers For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    well...they really mean information technology...and software engineering.

  2. IdeaPad on Lenovo Shows Android Laptop In Leaked User Manuals · · Score: 2, Funny

    ipad for short?

  3. Re:Replace not amplify on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    this example is just dumb/wrong

    you went from 1,000 stick pokers to 100 plowers to 10 crappy tractor drivers to 1 combine driver to...OH MY GOD...0 robot plow drivers...and behave as though that last jump is somehow going to change everything.

    it's just a continuation of a trend.

  4. know how to ask the questions... on What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? · · Score: 1

    Related to your point. Know how to look things up in books or online and know how to ask the right questions.

    I rarely know how to do something off the top of my head. The speed at which I can converge on a good example and/or tool kit and understand how to use it for my application is key.

  5. Re:Google, really? on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    The computation power is not spent answering the question. It's spent building the knowledge base and all the data relations that enable it to answer the question. And that is a one to many relationship.

  6. by analogy - use a dildo on Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe · · Score: 1

    use an offline, disposable computer to read these drives if you want to play the game.

  7. Re:No Implication on Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 · · Score: 2

    Apple is held to a higher standard among consumers and industry for their behavior than Android makers are. This is just fact. Good news is that for the most part, they meet that standard.

  8. Re:Old idea, new implementation? on Automatic Translation Without Dictionaries · · Score: 1

    yeah, it's about all these different corpuses coming online and being available to a single group, especially because in order to train, they need a one to one translation of a single doc. like a gov doc that's in both spanish and english is great fodder for the algorithm.

  9. Re:Dolphinese Will Now Be Understood on Automatic Translation Without Dictionaries · · Score: 1

    wrt your first sentence. i don't think this is funny at all. it's an amazing opportunity.

  10. Re:wrong two words on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    It is entirely feasible to parse the text and make a decision with no human in the loop in 1ms. In fact, this is what they do.

  11. Re:Just the tip of the iceberg on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    If people knew half the shit that Wall Street does they wouldn't like it.

    Assuming that Wall Street knows a lot of stuff, why would people not like knowing half of it?

  12. Re:I do not understand why this is a story on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    perhaps someone has been spending millions playing with quantum entanglement. it is binary information after all.

  13. Re:no problem on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 1

    what's the point of a car dealer anyhow. i'd rather buy directly from the manufacturer.

  14. Re:XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 1

    The first versions of DOS were unpopular. Then it became the PC standard.
    The first versions of Windows were unpopular. Then it became the PC standard.

    This is a market they need to be in, even if they can't win in the near term.

  15. marketing... on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 1

    this is a BS article. the real costs are in information collection, analytics, and personnel. the command center needed to be built. why not make it look cool.

    it's all marketing. they need to keep their budget going, show that they're fighting the good fight. a command center like this makes the case.

  16. Re:Welcome to the USA... on FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack · · Score: 1

    XXXX, XXXX, it's all XXXX, I tell ya.

  17. its the unanswerability that makes it a delusion on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    it's exactly that point, that these things are unknowable, that makes it so absurd for someone to make up a story that's completely contrary to the known observable universe, and claim that it's true. unless of course they're talking about the flying spaghetti monster. you have to respect an idea as awesome as pasta.

  18. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 5, Informative

    interesting. its like how religious people are not delusional because they have other people that believe what they believe. by all other standards, they would be considered delusional.

  19. absolutely agree... on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1, Insightful

    just the other day I noticed there are many church groups on facebook with people professing their belief in all the imaginary stuff that comes with church affiliation. how is this not more significant than the salem witch trials? hundreds of millions of people have been killed from this mass delusion.

  20. Re:Not developer, but in general, I avoid rockstar on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Rock Star' Developers a Necessity? · · Score: 1

    i've worked with some amazing team players and leaders out of MIT. Guess there's a stereotype, but I haven't encountered it.

  21. Re:Jobs must be rolling in his grave... on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    and they will sell like hot cakes.

  22. Re:Replace my HDTV? on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    it's not easy replacing a CRT. not even goodwill or salvation army will accept your old CRT as a donation. they require flat panel donations only.

  23. Re:Much better on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    that's just a cost breakdown. there's also the issue of the environment.

  24. $828.11 billion is really pretty cheap. The US spends that much in a year on its military. If you could finance that over 30 yrs, it would be totally doable.

  25. Shifting paradigms is easy with no momentum on Apple Isn't the Next Microsoft (and That's a Good Thing) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It was easy for Apple to innovate a few years ago because they had no momentum in the space. They were agile and free to create. It's much harder to do that when you have a huge codebase that's a decade old, with hundreds of millions of users who have expectations of your product.

    Nonetheless, I can't help but think if Jobs was still around, there would be more exciting stuff in the pipeline.