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  1. Well you see it has to do when he says he's all tied up.

  2. Re:Who buys the output of the robots? on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    In a world where no one works, and no one earns income - who is left to buy the output of the robots?

    Capitalism driven production REQUIRES consumers with disposable income. The one cannot exist without the other. To save capitalism, you need to save the consumer.

    I have to wonder where you learn economics. Maybe that's what they're teaching today? Look into Milton Friedman. Disposable income is not a requirement.

  3. No solution? How about have someone eyeball the request. Do some checking. I thought that was the whole point of having an SSL certificate. I remember in the old days (20 years ago), Verisign just about made you sign in blood that you were in charge of the domain you were asking for a certificate for. One year only. Some years later we got Thawte, and such that were about as valuable as a sheet of toilet paper. Yet some legitimate people used them.

    Doesn't have to be much. It would be nice to knock a lot of them down.

  4. Didn't RTFA... but has to be a joke.

    Ha Ha.

  5. Re:nonviolent drug offenders on Indiana's Inmates Could Soon Have Access To Tablets (abc57.com) · · Score: 1

    where are the bodies?

    You know, there's a thing called Google. You can search for things like this. It's not hard, snowflake.
    http://www.wave3.com/story/344...
    I could go on and on with these links. Kids in the back where the two adults in the front OD and are now dead, while driving a car in traffic. And so on and so on. Happens a lot lately.

    Raped? Here you go. Just google these. There are plenty of examples if you look.
    http://lacrossetribune.com/jac...

    I remember incident after incident in the early 1970s. Stupid kids doing drugs and dying. They'd also steal to support their habit because they can't hold a job.

    So it's not a form of slavery to outlaw these. It's a form of slavery if you're a user. Not talking about MJ. Heroin, that's bad shit. I'm seeing it all over again as dumb kids use it and they're hooked. Now their stealing, all kinds of illegal activities, then end up dead just like they did 50 years ago. That's why it's illegal.

    Politicians would love to find a way to not put drug offenders in jail. Come up with something and let them know. It would be an easy fix to simply shoot heroin addicts. They're going to end up dead anyway. I proposed to my State Senator to set aside a house where addicts could go and just supply them all the heroin they want. It won't be long after all. It'll save society from being robbed, hit by them driving cars, etc. He didn't have the guts to introduce it. I guess more people have to die first.

  6. Why didn't they just use the cursor stuff built into the OS software? Blinking cursor is really old stuff. Used to be I think it was 20 lines of code for an Apple 1.

  7. How about jail time for the officials that had it set to .1 seconds to begin with when other cities had 3 times as long. They effective extorted money from the people of Chicago with this illegal scheme. Let's start with the Mayor. He belongs in jail.

  8. Re:Wait a minute... on YouTube Loses Major Advertisers Over Offensive Videos (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't racist, misogynist, that other crap the left says. It was the leftist crap. Such as beheadings, the mohammadists torturing, etc. Kind of sucks when your AT&T ad shows up next to an American being beheaded.

  9. Here's a thought - something NEW. They keep recycling old movies.

    No more Alfred Hitchcock's or the other guys that could make a real movie?

  10. Re:George Soros on speed dial? on Feds: We're Pulling Data From 100 Phones Seized During Trump Inauguration (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly. His number isn't on the phone. He wouldn't be caught dead with one of the useful idiots. It probably has the number to his prepaid legal people for his useful idiots. Another one for the press.

    Maybe in the "other" category, there is a number to the 72 virgins they'll get after the protest.

  11. Should have admitted their error on A New Definition Would Add 102 Planets To Our Solar System -- Including Pluto (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That 2006 vote came when most of the scientists had packed up and gone home. So the vote wasn't really a vote. They shouldn't have voted in the first place. After the uproar the should have admitted they made a mistake. From what we know about Pluto, it should be classified as a planet. They should admit it was a mistake.

  12. Re:AI is just software on Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember seeing so many times is ... to paraphrase - this software is provided with no expressed nor implied warranty for a particular purpose. Seems to me Microsoft used to and perhaps still has a statement saying that their stuff isn't to be used for anything critical. Nothing real time. They should add - if you want that, get a Unix based box with a real operating system.

    Maybe we should push for software that is a part of an apparatus that can direct physical objects they need to be licensed. That should cover robots, automobiles, drones, etc. That probably stands a chance in being passed.

  13. Re:AI is just software on Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've read about that suggestion for that long. Do you have any experience in this industry? Offhand I wouldn't think so or you would have seen it for the bad idea that it is. You have problems from perhaps an intended course of action all the way up to somebody got killed. We had this 30 years ago in fact. Computer systems that made cement or explosives. There were others of course. Now you have litigation.
    1) Does the claimant have a case? Did whatever perform to specifications and they are just stupid?
    2) Has a case. Something the entity was supposed to do, it didn't do.

        Now the fun begins with #2. Was it a sensor? Did someone bypass the sensor? Did the sensor have a defect? What about the wiring? Did someone intentionally disable part of the system? What about the interface card to the computer? ... and so on and so on... What about the software itself? You can bet they'll say it's perfect.

        Follow this logic back to say a word processor. That word processor depends on libraries and such. Same problem.

        So let's get to a good example. You've been around like I have. Do you remember when they came up with Windows NT, Windows 2000 and so on, from time to time Microsoft used to have in their annoucement that someone was PERSONALLY responsible for *EVERY* line of code? I think I remember the man himself - Bill Gates saying that. I could be wrong I suppose. About 3-4 months later a BSD bug came out in the TCP stack. It was found in all the Unix/Linux distros, *AND* windows 95-the latest at the time. Even though Microsoft said they had no BSD code in it. Major problem for Windows. I was never able to find out if anyone was held accountable for it even though someone was supposedly responsible for it. Maybe they were taken out back and kicked in the chin?

        I suppose that bring up other points - if I write code would I be responsible for it FOREVER? What is someone came behind me and updated it or used it for something I never imagined? Software isn't like taking iron, processing it into what becomes a screw driver and you're done.

        All that to say that I don't think that licensing will help us. It will however make yet another bureaucracy. Just like the elevator union, electrical union... and so on. Chock full of politics.

  14. A regulation carries the force of a law. Just ask anyone of the thousands of innocent people that have run afoul of the EPA regulations, or any of the other intentionally bad, America destroying regulations BHO's admin put out.

    If there was a good regulation that was passed, it was by mistake I'm sure.

  15. Re:FAKE NEWS! on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    no evidence of Obama wiretapping Trump, and confirmation that the FBI is investigating links between Trump's campaign and Russia.

    Feel like it's the 1990s again with Bill Clinton. No evidence that Obama was wiretapping Trump. Carefully chosen words. He's talking about the classic definition of wiretapping, Trump put it in quotes meaning that type of an idea. He also said Obama, meaning Obama didn't specifically order a tap, which is probably true. However you can bet your life that he knew about it. Nobody doubts that.

    Also, there's that inconvenient NYTimes article where they say there's a transcript of what General Flynn said. He was in Trump Tower at the time. So if there was no wiretap, how did they get that transcript?
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

    Those darn facts again. They want it both ways.

  16. Re:Law is you don't have to provide *testimony* on 'Sorry, I've Forgotten My Decryption Password' is Contempt Of Court, Pal - US Appeal Judges (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Password is "this is not the porn you are looking for."

  17. Re:Yeah, the bubble will pop long before that on In 18 Years, A College Degree Could Cost About $500,000 (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The schools realized that they could charge more. People were having fewer kids and paid off mortgages to plunder. So kick up pay to the President/Chancellor, heads of departments... and so on. Some College presidents make more than a million - for what? Nobody is there to stop them. They just do as they please and people coming in pay it.

    The other consequence is we have too many educated people. Some fields you have to have more than a 4.0 coming from HS. If you transfer with say a 3.8, forgetaboutit. You're already screwed. I remember the joke back in the 1980s. Lost your engineering job, go to McDonalds to flip burgers. The manager laughs at your BS in EE. He has Masters cleaning the tables and PhDs flipping the burgers.

    Nobody seems interested in holding colleges accountable for the money. They spend whatever they want. Money grows on trees.

  18. Re: Nope. Trump was wrong again. on CBS Reports 'Suspicious' Cell Phone Tower Activity In Washington DC (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    You proved my point.

    First of all, he's not a fueher nor fascist. Fascism is on the left, not the right. Learn your history. Secondly, Mr. Trump said Wiretapped and he put it in quotes. It's still on his twitter if you don't believe me. That means wiretap type of a technology, not that it was a 1950s type wiretap.

    You seem to think you're a smart guy. I know you've been indoctrinated that nothing is true from anything other than the NY Times, Washington Post, etc. Ok, here's an article for you - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... . Look about half way down, what does it say? General Flynn was wiretapped, and he was in Trump Tower when it happened. We know this.

    Here is a snippet - The White House had examined a transcript of a wiretapped conversation that Mr. Flynn had with Mr. Kislyak in December, according to administration officials. Mr. Flynn originally told Mr. Pence and others that the call was limited to small talk and holiday pleasantries.

    So now what do you do? If you're smart, you'll respond and admit you were wrong. He was wiretapped.

    BTW at the end of the day Trump has been mostly right about what he's said. He's not who I would have wanted to be in the WH, however he'll certainly do. Far, far, far, far better than Hillary.

  19. Re: Nope. Trump was wrong again. on CBS Reports 'Suspicious' Cell Phone Tower Activity In Washington DC (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Valdezjuan, What in the world are you talking about and how does it have anything to do with my post, or the original subject? Maybe you pasted a response into the wrong reply window?

    BTW, I'm certainly not a snowflake. I've worked really hard for everything I have and I have balls. I get things done. Facts are very much a priority in the US and that's a problem because the old people in power are losing it back to the people and they really don't like that. Think I'm wrong? Look up the vessel "Lady Michelle". Just try to find that really big story in any of the main stream media rags. I think a Brit paper has it. The world is under siege. Certainly all of Europe, America. The rest of the world isn't that big of a deal after that.

  20. Don't need to worry about Obummer anymore. He's in hiding after the lady michelle was busted. Just google it. It's the Yuge story that the press isn't saying a word about.

  21. Re: Nope. Trump was wrong again. on CBS Reports 'Suspicious' Cell Phone Tower Activity In Washington DC (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The left has an easy format:
    If (what you said I don't like) then
        if (try (calling them a racist)):
          works: Done. You silenced them and don't have to actually discuss the topic that you know you'll lose because you're wrong.
          Doesn't work:
                If (try (calling them a bigot)): .... same for fascist, nazi, etc, then:
                          try (Smashing windows, burning cars):
                              Get your ass kicked good. Put into jail for a decade or so.

    OTOH, just call them a snowflake. Used to call them sheep, ... and so on or Democrats. Democrats are so gullible. So gullible that they have to pass laws to protect them from their own stupidity. Even in commerce - caution coffee is hot. These peanuts contain peanuts. Should just remove all the warning labels and let evolution work.

  22. Re:Nonsense on Could We Eliminate Spam With DMARC? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Google seems to make this work. I didn't used to have SPF and such set up. I tried to send a friend an e-mail. It went directly to his spam folder. I checked it out with my own google account, same thing. It had a little message why. So I put the whole framework in and google will happily take my e-mail.

    Still like to see these people go to jail. It's a business. Organized crime. They have campaigns. Ransomware, Spam, Phishing, Malware, etc.

  23. He should have made him serve jail time. Wasting all that helium, which we can never get back. Just for wasting all that helium, he should be beaten good.

  24. Re:isn't that a German thing? on Google Tells Army of 'Quality Raters' To Flag Holocaust Denial (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter. They were conquered. Just as everyone else has been at one time or another. They should have no land in the US any special rights, etc. They should just be Americans like the rest of us.

    BTW, Yea, I'm part Indian.

  25. Re:Didn't see that cumming on Vibrator Maker To Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Oh the hilarity. I'm really mad at him... wait until I see him!!! Guy comes in... OK Buster, I'm whoa....Maa... MMMMMMMMMMMM OMG I feel wonderful! Yes, yes yes yes....