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  1. Re:Twenty more years on How Long Until We Have a Home Robot That Lives Up To the Hype? · · Score: 1

    I think we'll have home robots but they will be a bit clumsy and they won't have real AI, they will instead have huge amounts of pre-programmed decisions and bits of fuzzy logic. The robots might have some bits of what we like to call AI but really isn't, these bits will be for image and voice processing only.

    Home robots will require every task imaginable will have to be worked out one by one - and there will be hundreds perhaps thousands of tasks and sub-tasks. But a car is made of a thousand+ parts and that doesn't stop us.

    For how difficult the problem is, see:
    http://www.youtube.com/results...

    And note that the robots don't seem to have advanced much in 5 years.

  2. Re:Give it time on How Long Until We Have a Home Robot That Lives Up To the Hype? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As any AI researcher will tell you, we know how the brain works

    An exaggeration, we know bits about how the brain works.

    and will lead to us having strong AI programs real soon.

    Lol, really, tech world have been saying this for decades.

    We have IBM's Watson, a program that actually understands the information it's processing

    No, it does not understand the information it's processing, stop making stuff up.

    IBM is already making neural network chips that implement the way the brain really works

    Again, these chips have been around for decades, nothing new.

  3. Re:We need more carrot, not more stick on Data-Crunching Could Kill Your Downtime At Work · · Score: 1

    The problem with what boils down to browbeating by analytics is that it's still too much stick,

    I worked in a call centre, I took the most calls per hour, had the best work quality and best attitude towards callers.

    What did I get? Bitching about being unplugged for a few seconds more than average and a crap pay rise to go with it.

    I do feel a bit vindicated, crappy supervisor and boss were both fired, but I'd resigned before that. They lost a good worker who got stuck in when it was busy.

    Don't bother working hard for companies, you don't get anything for it - unless it's your own company.

  4. Re:why not eat dog kibble? on Health Watchdog To Bring Legal Action Against Soylent Over Lead, Cadmium Levels · · Score: 1

    Who would want to eat it? It's expensive, probably tastes like crap and it's not for hippies because it's not organic or GMO - free. I bet it doesn't contain 100% of the minerals, enzymes, proteins and vitamins that the body needs to remain healthy long term.

    â- Taste Test: Could Soylent Replace Food? | The New York Times - YouTube

  5. Re:As a chemist, I have something to say. on Health Watchdog To Bring Legal Action Against Soylent Over Lead, Cadmium Levels · · Score: 2

    As a chemist, I can tell you that heavy metals are everywhere. If you don't expect that in your food, you are not good at chemistry. It is the concentration that matters. Even table salt at too high concentration is toxic. I don't care much about the California's safety standard. As long as the heavy metal concentrations are lower than our local standard, I am fine with it.

    You want to eat more heavy metals!!! Strange person, I personally would go with the stricter standard until I knew exactly how those standards were derived at which point I'd go with the more precise standard if I thought it was safe.

  6. Mozilla don't care about privacy. on Mozilla Tests Improved Privacy Mode For Firefox · · Score: 1

    Mozilla have a privacy tab where you can't actually set the important privacy options like:

    [Bug 959893] WebRTC Internal IP Address Leakage :: 'RESOLVED WONTFIX '

    Bug 814169 - introduce preference for controlling speculative pre-connections :: 'RESOLVED WONTFIX'

    Dozens more things not mentioned on the new god-awful looking privacy tab.

  7. Re:Ain't Gonna Happen on Mozilla Tests Improved Privacy Mode For Firefox · · Score: 1

    If Firefox could be made untrackable advertisers would do everything to make the internet unviewable to Firefox users.

    Google are the advertisers, Chrome is their answer and they push it very successfully to people who do google searches and of course Android phones and tablets are a big success for them - which come with Chrome and google search etc as standard.

    "Surf the web faster, get Chrome." is roughly what you see occasionally if you google for something with a non-chrome browser.

  8. Re:Doogee X5--$50 quadcore 5" HD screen on The Realities of a $50 Smartphone · · Score: 1

    He's just copying the site spec's it's obvious some marketing clown has gotten rom mixed up with flash storage - it wouldn't make sense to have different models with just different rom sizes.

  9. Re:Ain't Gonna Happen on Mozilla Tests Improved Privacy Mode For Firefox · · Score: 0

    Surf the web faster, get Chrome.

  10. Re:wish this existed in silicon valley on London Deploys Cycle Superhighways Despite "Old Men In Limos" · · Score: 1

    22mph is fast, average 'rush hour' traffic speed in London is 9-12mph, my average London cycling commute speed is plenty more - about 15-17mph.

  11. Re:High-end phones will always be battery hogs on Ask Slashdot: Best Big Battery Phone? · · Score: 1

    Those fast CPUs/GPUs and large-pixel-count screens are going to suck up the juice

    Pixel count is irrelevant, it's generating light that uses the battery and those CPUs can idle as good as any phone and they will use less power doing the things you want to get done. My Galaxy note also lasts all day because with a bigger screen comes a bigger battery (and it lasts for weeks on a single charge sitting around in standby).

  12. Re:Note 4 on Ask Slashdot: Best Big Battery Phone? · · Score: 1

    $77 is not the price the price is roughly $600, you no doubt have to pay $30+ a month for a couple of years to get the phone at $77.

  13. Re:The problem is Android on Ask Slashdot: Best Big Battery Phone? · · Score: 1

    People who don't get it complaining Windows was using all their ram- shock horror!

    Obvious solution here is too describe memory being used by the cache as being free memory! ;-)

  14. Re:I have tape over my video camera on Google Pressured To Police Stolen Webcam Videos On YouTube · · Score: 0

    Re win10, can you confirm you can turn windows update off simply by disabling it via services.msc?

  15. Cost on Google Fi: Simple Until It's Not · · Score: 2

    Far too expensive.

  16. Re:Well then. on Internet Search Engines May Be Influencing Elections · · Score: 2

    Funny how Google returns different for different people isn't it.

    Here's my logged out result:
    http://i30.photobucket.com/alb...

    But When logged in, Hilary Clinton gets bolded several times:
    http://i30.photobucket.com/alb...

  17. Re:Full Price Smartphones on Verizon Ends Smartphone Subsidies · · Score: 2

    Or people will hang on to their phones longer, I bought my smart-phone over 2 years ago and it still copes nicely, still has good battery life and now I'm saving a lot of money vs the habitual up-grader and their 'subsidised' contract. Of course if you look at the cost of those contracts you see you're just paying a ton a month instead.

    The Verizon prices are huge compared to UK prices, you get 6GB + unlimited talk+texts for $24 here and $8 a mo gets you 250mins/250texts/250mb data (or more).

  18. Re:Limits of storage / human perception on Planar NAND Development Ends After 26 Years · · Score: 1

    Imagine a world where everything we see is recorded all of the time until we die

    Why, who's going to watch it?

    Do you work for secret services? That sounds like something they'd love to do.

  19. Re:So 30% of 4% is 1.2%. What is attractive here? on Want To Fight Climate Change? Stop Cows From Burping · · Score: 1

    Wow, some people can't face the truth or debate, troll mod should be removed the people who use it are devoid of the ability to construct a solid argument.

  20. Re:Obvious deflection. on Answering Elon Musk On the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Learn some history.

    I'm not going to bother wasting time with you since most of your argument consists of pathetic name-calling.

  21. Re:Obvious deflection. on Answering Elon Musk On the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Oh fuck off already, it is you who is in denial, you seem to think police don't shoot people and murdering innocent people is ok.

    I'm done wasting my time with you.

  22. Re:Obvious deflection. on Answering Elon Musk On the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    I'm not arguing for the sake of arguing, I'm pointing out that you're not even MAKING an argument, you're just whining with no context and no facts to back up your "regular basis" type BS remarks. And you don't like being called on it, so you just trot out another vague bit of whiny complaining designed to distract from the fact that you're unable to back up what you say.

    Really, lol, you should read what you just wrote. It's pretty meaningless has nothing much to do with the original post.

    So, you're willing to lump police in, say, Denmark or the US with, say, the police in China

    Do you even have a point here? I linked 3 massacres by police in the US in my original post.

  23. Re: Obvious deflection. on Answering Elon Musk On the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    for a protracted bloody firefight (guaranteed to impact more innocent people

    Wrong, in a fire-fight civilians don't have to stick around - they have a chance to get away without getting killed. Not so with drones.

    Drones are the weapon of cowards without morals.

  24. Altered telemetry is a possibility. on New Telemetry Suggests Shot-Down Drone Was Higher Than Alleged · · Score: 1

    And how do they know the telemetry hasn't been altered - it might be trivial to do.

  25. Re: Sure you can. on Ask Slashdot: Can You Disable Windows 10's Privacy-Invading Features? · · Score: 1

    Too much choice! Does that ever stop people from buying cars?