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  1. Do they look creepy? on NVIDIA-Powered Neural Network Produces Freakishly Natural Fake Human Photos (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do they look creepy? They look like many or the retouched "real" photos you see in the media all the time to me!

  2. Re:How much is "ISlamic" on The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Here comes Chrisq again to show just how little he understands of the things he decided to hate. Jog on, Oswald.

    Strange that you don't hate rape gangs, murder of apostates, curtailing of free speech, subjugation of women, and sex slavery. Oh I know ... that would be Islamophobic, anything but that!

  3. Re:How much is "ISlamic" on The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Kill the toxic oil and stupid islam will die like a cockroach.

    A nice thought, but like the cockroach I suspect that Islam will still hang on even without oil.

  4. How much is "ISlamic" on The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How much is "Islamic" and how much is stolen from cultures that they have destroyed? For example "islamic" arches can clearly be seen in pre-islamic Persia. You will fins that most things that Muslims claim to have invented turn out to be "we destroyed this library but copied this bit"

  5. Re:What comes around goes around. on Almost Half of Tech Workers Worry About Losing Their Jobs Because of Ageism, Says Survey (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Who are these mythical "older workforce" people that refused to stay current? I know exactly one guy like that.

    Funny, I know one guy too. And he had a plan. He had reasonable savings and wanted to leave IT and open a fishing-tackle shop. He deliberately didn't stay current to the point where the company had to make him redundant (yes they probably could have just sacked him, but he would certainly appealed to tribunals and ended up costing more in money and effort). So he left with two months redundancy payment (which is tax free), as well as nearly two weeks pay in lieu of holiday not taken.

    I've no idea how his shop did, but he had a real passion for rod fishing and a lot of knowledge of equipment and techniques, so I imagine he made a go of it.

  6. Hey, is that you, Donald?

  7. I can hardly believe on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The screenshots in linked to the article shows that the complainer looked up driving directions for somewhere 0.7 miles away. That's a little under 1,000 steps. Unless there is some good reason (taking lots of luggage, rough neighbourhood, person is disabled) surely most people would walk that? And if there is a good reason why would anyone see it as an insult?

  8. No - it's easy to fire them on Voice Assistants Will Be Difficult To Fire (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    "Siri ... you're fired"

  9. Re:Another take on the fall of Commodore on The Real Inside Story of How Commodore Failed (youtube.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ars Technica published a story on the fall of Commodore as part of their History of Amiga series.

    Reading this was a nice trip down memory lane, my first computer was a Commodore 64 and the second one a Commodore Amiga 500.

    I might have known that a money-grabbing muslim was involved:

    Gould was out of his element, so in 1986 he turned to what many incompetent and desperate managers utilize: a management consulting company. The company he hired, Dillon-Read, sent over a managing director named Mehdi Ali. Ali spent many years and many millions of dollars to come up with the recommendation that Gould should hire Mehdi Ali to be the new CEO of Commodore International, which Gould finally did in 1989. This was the exact moment when Commodore sealed its doom.

  10. Re: 2-4KW my ass on Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Have you tried?

    No, but in the interest of science I will do now

  11. Suddenly I'm frighetened on Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Perhaps the sensors' electricity consumption is included in the 2kw figure?

    Does that mean that the lidar will be firing 2kw laser beams all over the place?

  12. Re:Chromebook is Intel, not ARM. on Is the Chromebook the New Android Tablet? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    They didn't teach us cursive at school. It hadn't been invented.

    You're old.

  13. Any scifi fan will know on A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up In Antarctica (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Giant holes in Antarctica are where the ice has melted because of the warmth from a recently reactivated alien spacecraft trapped beneath the ice millions of years ago.

  14. Devoid of ideas of his own on EPA Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Devoid of ideas of his own trump just wants to repeal everything that Obama did, whether it is good, bad or indifferent

  15. Re:we find it is better to fire someone on firday on Mondays Are the Worst, Data Science Proves (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    as it leads to fewer incidents. Monday is the worst day

    With the advent of instant messaging why not do it on the weekend. Think how grateful they will be not to have to get up on Monday!

  16. Re:Vomit-inducing on Microsoft 'Was Sick', CEO Satya Nadella Says In New Book (intoday.in) · · Score: 2

    Agree. It will rank with Google's "do no evil" as one of the least appropriate company taglines of all time.

  17. Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech?

    Yes .... but I might be misleading you

  18. If I sleep more than 7 hours for a couple of night on Expert Says You're Deluding Yourself If You Think You're Productive On Six Hours of Sleep (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    If I sleep more than 7 hours for a couple of nights I end up waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get to sleep agin for an hour or so. I physically can't seem to sleep longer than that on average even if I stay in bed.

  19. It makes perfect sense on IRS Awards $7 Million Fraud Prevention Contract To Equifax (politico.com) · · Score: 2

    They will need a good fraud prevention program following the data breach by Equifax ... Oh wait!

  20. Re:It's all Trump's fault on NASA Images of Puerto Rico Reveal How Maria Wiped Out Power On the Island (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 2

    Re:It's all Trump's fault

    Well all that hot air has to go somewhere

  21. On an optimistic note on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    The appeasement of Islam business

  22. Re: If they ban existing vehicles I will sue on California Considers Banning Internal Combustion Engines To Meet Emissions Goals (sacbee.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely they will ban new vehicles and encourage replacements with carrot and stick (higher road tax for internal combustion engine and scrappage allowance for trading in an old car)

  23. Re:Tried to slip that one by us on Homeland Security Plans To Collect Immigrants' Social Media Information (fortune.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you're a naturalized citizen, you're as much of a citizen as the Founding Fathers. Don't let anyone tell you different.

    Except for those who say that their allegiance is to Islam and not America, and that they don't recognise the courts, rights of women, or anything else not based on "god's" law.

  24. Will this be a long term solution? on Can We Reduce Cow Methane Emissions By Breeding Low-Emission Cattle? (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Will this be a long term solution? Or will the methane-producing bacteria just adapt to the new cattle?

  25. One conversation that made me think on 'Banned Books Week' Recognizes 2016's Most-Censored Books (and Comic Books) (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Girl: Granny, were you aloud to stay out after 9:00 when you were 15

    Granny: Yes. In fact when I was on late shift in the mill I finished at 9 and by the time I's walked home it was 9:30.