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  1. regular guys know the difference between boys and girls.

    Regular guys believe and are very sure that they know the difference, just like they are sure about many other things they have no clue about. It's called ignorance and yes, this is a common feature of the so-called regular guy.

  2. Re:"VLAs within structures" not part of C on The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA-Free: A Win For Security, Less Overhead and Better For Clang (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    VLAs within structures ... are not supported

    Maybe read the whole sentence?

  3. A group od czech artists did something similar 8 years ago https://artoftheprank.com/2010...

    It's in TFA

  4. Re:Expert trolling there. on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    She was right

  5. Re:Expert trolling there. on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    She may have just been fed up with you not getting it

  6. Re:He didn't have much moral credibility before th on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's as if you, in the same sort of shortsightedness displayed by Banksy, missed how his whole statement about commercialization of art backfired when his "performance art" caused the object to be valued at twice as much. His statement about art literally turned into him shitting on art itself. There's nothing brilliant about it, and it's entirely undeserving of a bravo.

    You really think someone thinking about his art and its place in the art world like Banksy wouldn't foresee that the price would increase, in particular when it is half shredded? That's simply an additional level of commentary that you didn't get

  7. Re:This means Banksy was in the audience on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:CNN has video footage while it was happening on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Here is the actual shredding from Banksy himself: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo...

  9. Re:I can't believe Sothebys' Was Surprised on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
  10. https://youtu.be/ShcX_Zvn9WU

    WAKE UP SLASHDOT

    thank you

  11. Re:at $1.3 Million they have the funds to sue in c on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    How can you claim that?

    It was represented as a complete & undamaged painting. It was sold as a complete and undamaged painting. The paper shredder embedded in the frame was hidden, and thus not part of how it was represented. If you buy a priceless vase and then the sculptor walks on stage and smashes it with a hammer, you don't think that's an issue?

    The buyer should absolutely be able to reject the item, as materially different from what they bid on, if they so choose. (However I suspect they will actually keep it... as you say, it may be valued even higher now)

    How do you know?

  12. Re:CNN has video footage while it was happening on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    That's after it happened

  13. You are still an idiot everywhere.

    QED

  14. How come news sites all cover the same jackass stories. Don't they realise we see the very same content on every site we go to? Why don't I just go direct to AP?

    Visitors and hence the ensuing discussion is different on each site

  15. Re:Shave the Hedgehogs on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    And how often did you see one and avoided it? If you didn't, that's because you didn't mow during the night.

  16. Re:Shave the Hedgehogs on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever mowed a lawn?

  17. Re:How much of an issue is this really? on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    These robots mow golf courses, you can get them any size

  18. Re:Shave the Hedgehogs on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The ball technique would not protect them from human-operated mowers either

  19. Re:They have to practice on something on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The manual for the Robomow says not to let it run unattended or with kids or pets around. The blades stop spinning when you pick it up, but there are quickly spinning metal blades underneath. However the Robomows, even the smaller ones, are pretty beefy machines which has the advantage that they can also mow high grass and are not stopped by small branches etc. There are other models, e.g. by Husqvarna, with less dangerous blades.

  20. May I ... on NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com) · · Score: 1

    Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade for Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems for Home, Office or Mobile [sic]

  21. Messate to the Unites States on $11M Worth of Legally-Purchased Music Will Be Confiscated From Florida's Prisoners (tampabay.com) · · Score: 2

    Your prison system is fucked. If anyone reads TFS and does not see how broken and inhuman this is, then you are as well. Bye

  22. Re:OP must be joking... on 'I've Seen the Future of Consumer AI, and it Doesn't Have One' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    When a Roomba hits an obstacle it stops, rotates by an arbitrary amount, and tries again. Repeat until unstuck or timeout. It's hardly intelligence. Intelligence would be to understand what the obstacle is and how to best free itself, much like you are able to leave a bathroom without walking into the wall until you find the hole.

    As for actual "AI" attempts, I booted a fresh OEM install of Windows for the first time 30 years. Cortana showed up and utterly embarrassed herself. I chose English language and German region, which made her talk in both English and German, sometime switching in the middle of the sentence. She used several different voices and once, hilariously, talked with a heavy Slavic accent. Most of the time I couldn't even understand what she was saying.

    (To go on a rant unrelated to Cortana but very much related to Microsoft's human and organizational intelligence, the first boot was hampered by Microsoft's usual information overload, trying to push all kinds of things on you that would better be postponed, like Hello, Microsoft Live account, etc. Followed after login by an uncoordinated avalanche of pop ups regarding Microsoft services and Windows configs, OEM vendor services and apps, and nagware, all of which certain to confuse the hell out of a casual user. Then the Recovery Drive creation failed without any helpful error message, requiring a trip to Google. Found a thousand MS support threads repeating the same necessary command lines to fix them, which reported "no problems found" but afterwards it worked anyway. Then it took 3 hours to create and copy the 16 GB-or-so recovery data to an USB 3.0 stick. When I finally got through that and had my recovery drive, I proceeded to install Ubuntu which took the usual 5 clicks and after a few minutes dropped me into a perfect Ubuntu configuration with everything working out of the box including screen rotation and tablet folding sensors.)

  23. Re: 5.1 seconds? on Mercedes Unveils First Tesla Rival In $12 Billion Attack (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, power, but for an SUV a 0.5 sec from 0-60 difference is probably not the decisive factor. The success will be decided by other factors, and we don't know yet if the Merc is good enough.

  24. Re:5.1 seconds? on Mercedes Unveils First Tesla Rival In $12 Billion Attack (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So how do you explain engine power inflation? Take any given model, and over the years, look at how the standard engine power increases. OK, explain.

    Feeling safe by having headroom to pull out of situations when needed, the good feeling of getting immediate reactions every time you press the pedal. But a 0-60 difference is not going to make a noticeable difference to that, plus this Merc is an SUV,

  25. Re: Microsoft worry? Not in my world... on Is Chrome OS Threatening Windows? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have numbers, but the last three startups I've worked at had no sign of Office outside of Excel for the CFO. I never hear about anyone ever having any issue with collaboration with outside companies.

    Office has no features people want. It only has features they can sell to decision makers.

    Key word: startups. I'm not saying those users don't exist or that Google Docs isn't a good solution for many, but if you have doubts about Office as a platform I suggest you take a look at the add-ins that exist for Office because people want their features (and not the crappy javascript stuff in the Office store that can't do shit, but the sophisticated .NET/COM ones), and how Google at least currently can't do the things these add-ins let you do.