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  1. Doomed from the get go on Boeing Studies Planes Without Pilots, Plans Experiments Next Year (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Now imagine there were no humans who could pilot the thing on board. When that eventually happens, and it will happen, people will become far too afraid to fly in AI only flights.

  2. No it's not. According to Snowden's logic, a jury should decide on whether this is malicious or whistleblowing for the greater good.

  3. > Not sure this qualifies as whistle blowing.

    And the point of the article was to let a jury decide that.

  4. Re:F*ck the poor on Silicon Valley Is Too Focused On Taking the Easy Path in Health Care (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > Of course if you're using the evolved meaning of "poor, economically peripheral" or "mass of underpaid or unemployed serfs under the domination of a Fearless Leader and/or an elite", the US is on the track to that, by replacing the lower class workers with cheap, illegal, immigrant labor and the middle class workers with H1-B effectively indentured servants.

    It was just an intentional insult.

    > Having it provided to the serfs by the rulers is a legacy of noblesse oblige, where the royalty of Europe (and their predecessors), having confiscated all the wealth and productivity of the serfs, were obliged to provide them with enough health care to keep them healthy enough to keep producing more wealth. Just enough more to keep the nobles living "like kings" and able to hold off takeover of their serfs by their neighbors, of course. Not enough fo the serfs to live comfortably.

    > Actually, obtaining necessities via a market incentivizing their production and competition creating redundancy and driving down prices IS the "modern country" approach, dating from "Adam Smith" a couple centuries back.

    Which explains why Americans pay more for their healthcare than Canadians do... wait, was that your point? I'm not sure.

    > Having it provided to the serfs by the rulers is a legacy of noblesse oblige, where the royalty of Europe (and their predecessors), having confiscated all the wealth and productivity of the serfs, were obliged to provide them with enough health care to keep them healthy enough to keep producing more wealth. Just enough more to keep the nobles living "like kings" and able to hold off takeover of their serfs by their neighbors, of course. Not enough fo the serfs to live comfortably.

    Well written FUD. If all my wealth was confiscated, then how did I buy this computer to write this message on?

  5. Re:F*ck the poor on Silicon Valley Is Too Focused On Taking the Easy Path in Health Care (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because the US is a third world country.

    The modern countries on this planet provide health care instead of selling it.

  6. How is this unique? on New Privacy Vulnerability In IOT Devices: Traffic Rate Metadata (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    If my home uses a service that "consumes" some sort input, then you can infer my household activity based on the rates of consumption and when. What makes IoT so different?

  7. Re:What's the point? on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    *shrug*

    I bike when possible, I public transit when biking isn't an option, and then there is always rent-a-cars, uber, taxis, and other things when a proper car is a necessity.

    In total, I pay between $500 and $600 a year on public transit which includes the city's public bike program, and I get none of the issues that comes with ownership of something, I'm never worried about parking, or if colleagues/friends want to go drinking after work, or about weather, or insurance, or anything at all really.

  8. Re:What's the point? on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    you miss my point.

    I understand why a gamer would spend the amount of money they do on their computer. So someone who does the same to a car and actually does take that car to a race track to have some fun? That's completely understandable. It's a hobby, even a passionate hobby, so go for it!

    But that's not most people. Most people are going to be stuck in traffic trying to get to work / errands, and back again. And it's those people who don't need very powerful cars at all. And in fact, a lot of those people live in cities that have robust public transit systems and don't even need the car to begin with!

  9. What's the point? on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I never understood this fascination with having stuff you can't use to its fullest extent.

    It's like spending thousands of dollars on a water cooled over clocked triple GPU computer so you can check your email and play minesweeper.

  10. Re:All over except for the shouting on Net Neutrality Goes Down in Flames as FCC Votes To Kill Title II Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Removing Trump won't remove the ideology.

  11. Re:... Says the Frenchman on EU Leader Says English Is Losing Importance (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    ben ouais ostie!

    Take a catholic word, say it in french angrily, and now you're swearing Quebecois.

    The nice thing about it is that TABARNAK is a far more satisfying swear than FUCK. Try it next time you stub your toe.

  12. Re:Social Justice Checks Out on Star Trek Discovery's First Trailer Brings a New Ship, New Characters, and Old Conflicts (cbs.com) · · Score: 1

    you got all that from a 2 minute trailer? Impressive

  13. Yeah, but why do you even care?

    Man there are a lot of strange comments over these 2 minutes of trailers because there is a black woman that seems to be the lead like it's somehow a threat.

    I miss the days when you kids would argue over whether or a fleet of X-Wing fighters could take on a galaxy class starship. Now it's all "waaah, it's a black woman and I'm offended, waaahh". Everyone gets so butthurt over the dumbest things.

  14. Re:Simple on Can You Copyright a Joke? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    > You can copyright very long strings of words as complete thoughts

    how is a joke not that?

  15. So what's a good desktop email client? on Email Client Thunderbird To Stay With The Mozilla Foundation, Sort Of (mozilla.org) · · Score: 0

    KMail? meh...

  16. Re:if we learned anything in the past on Facebook Must Delete Hate Postings Worldwide, Rules Austrian Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    the company is operating in Austria and probably has an Austrian-registered company, meaning it is well with in the jurisdiction of austrian courts to make that order

  17. Re:... Says the Frenchman on EU Leader Says English Is Losing Importance (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    tabarnak, les francais francaises connu-pas le vrai francaises quebecois esti.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Trop de francaises!

  18. Re:Two to go! on Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Uber (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
  19. Re:No so-called 'AI' is real 'AI' either on 'This Isn't AI' (shkspr.mobi) · · Score: 1

    then what is AI?

  20. Re:I just make my own on The Linux Foundation Launches IoT-focused Open Source EdgeX Foundry (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    so?

  21. I just make my own on The Linux Foundation Launches IoT-focused Open Source EdgeX Foundry (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I love the concept of IoT, but I hate how its implemented in most things. I don't need accounts, cloud services, statistics, blahblahblah.

    So I just roll my own. It's fun and educational. About to start hacking horizontal blinds with motors now ;)

  22. Odd Number Versions on Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus', Featuring Unity, Now Available To Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Stay away.

    The only versions of Ubuntu that have ever been worth installing are even numbered versions that end .04

  23. yes, a public service, where the voting public can have some say in how it is managed.

    Tell me, what power do you have over a corporate monopoly to change its ways?

  24. Re:Remember kids... on Bannon Loses National Security Council Role in Trump Shakeup (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    death from heart disease is theoretical?

  25. Wonderful? on Canonical Killing Unity For Ubuntu Linux, Will Switch To the Superior GNOME (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Gnome3 is awful. I really do not like using it.

    So isn't it great to have an OS that lets you change your window manager for something else (like my preferred KDE5?)!

    Say, whatever happened to those explorer.exe replacements in the Windows scene? I think one of them was called BlackBox maybe?