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  1. Re:DGW - Dinosaurogenic Global Warming on Climate Change Could Cross Key Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This would be very valid criticism of a theoretical climate model that would predict that it would get there and stay there. Instead, all recognized models suggest that we get there quickly and keep going.

    A car analogy. You see a sign "end of the road, cliff drop ahead". You step on the accelerator and say to your passengers "No worries, I walked past this sign and there is no cliff there right away". Do you have enough time to brake? Who knows, but I'd want you to pull over so I could get out right away. Unfortunately, we are all in the same car.

  2. This is a simple question of physiology on Women in Computing To Decline To 22% by 2025, Study Warns (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a simple question of physiology - girls can't grow neckbeards, therefore they can't reach pinnacle of programming career.

  3. Still allowed in Coventry on Swedish Administrative Court Bans Drones With Cameras (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    As long as drones with cameras are still allowed in Coventry, we can continue "monitoring" Lady Godiva.

  4. Re:Is Linus becoming irrelevant? on Linux Kernel 4.7 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged To Move To Linux 4.8 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    RHEL7 for example. Won't compile with version-correct kernel downloaded directly from Linus.

  5. A Horde of mining robots? on Elon Musk's Mars Colony Would Have a Horde of Mining Robots (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    That it, I am not going to Mars unless Musk also agrees to implement an alliance of mining robots.

  6. Re:These vulnerable IoT devices are here to stay on China Electronics Firm To Recall Some US Products After Hacking Attack (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A minimum two year requirement before they can end of life the device,

    So what happens after 2 years? Do you expect to also mandate automatic patching? If yes, this also means that you have to have signed updates. Currently, all of this is done with RSA, but what about post-quantum?

    at which point they should have to provide source code for the community to assume updates on or continue to support the device themselves.>

    No vendor would ever agree to this.

  7. These vulnerable IoT devices are here to stay on China Electronics Firm To Recall Some US Products After Hacking Attack (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    These vulnerable IoT devices are here to stay, so we need an ISP-level solution to this.

  8. Is Linus becoming irrelevant? on Linux Kernel 4.7 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged To Move To Linux 4.8 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    Is Linus becoming irrelevant? I am getting Mozilla-like whiplash from these rapid changes.

    I think most kernels are now maintained by distro teams. Recently, I discovered that some popular Linux distros won't even compile with Linus' kernel. So clearly, we have a lot more *nix OSes mascaraing as Linux... or maybe Linux community moved on past Linus?

  9. Do no evil? Must have been some other company named Google that promised that.

  10. You are getting into semantic here. You are correct by pointing out that we don't need to understand principles behind something naturally occurring to use it, but AI doesn't naturally occur. Nor does FTL travel.

    We don't know what general intelligence is, we only understand outward indications of it. This is quite far from being able to intentionally create it. We will likely create it before fully understanding how it works by mimicking our own development process, but we are not even understand that yet.

  11. This has been obvious to everyone who understands what intelligence is.

    Interestingly enough, this category includes grand total of zero people. Otherwise we would already have AI.

    Yeah, and if we knew what faster than light travel were we'd already have faster than light travel. Right?

    More importantly, if we didn't know how faster than light travel works, we wouldn't be able to travel faster than light. Which is pretty much where we are now with both AI/Intelligence and FTL travel.

  12. Re:Of course on Stephen Hawking: AI Will Be Either the Best or the Worst Thing To Humanity (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This has been obvious to everyone who understands what intelligence is.

    Interestingly enough, this category includes grand total of zero people. Otherwise we would already have AI.

  13. Re:Second coming of teams of ethical hackers on HackerOne CEO: Every Computer System is Subject To Vulnerabilities (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is very valid, but understated point. Black hat needs to find one vulnerability to pwn, white hats need to find all critical vulnerabilities to protect you.

  14. I disagree. Just like anything humanity does, it will be rushed, half-finished, buggy and mediocre at best. Plus, if AI is anything like its creators it would spend most of it free time trolling /.

  15. Second coming of teams of ethical hackers on HackerOne CEO: Every Computer System is Subject To Vulnerabilities (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Keep waiting for the second coming of teams of ethical hackers. Not that this method could not work in principle, it is just corporations are not willing to pay for this, instead often choosing to lawyer up, and as a consequence ethical hackers are rare. On other hand, with a thriving black market for exploits, unethical hackers could easily monetize.

    Ethical hacking is like a starving artist gig, you need a day job and could only do this as a side gig.

  16. Tried to reload my card via the app and couldn't. had to pay for my drink with a credit card. The shame

    Did you drop your monocle into chardonnay^H^H^H^H Google Glass into your frappe because of that?

  17. Canadian Bacon? on All the Good Netflix Movies Are in Canada and Brazil (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blame Canada! Time to invade, or at least drone them, so we can exploit the natural richness of their Netflix offerings.

  18. Re:Misleading headline much? on Tesla Bans Customers From Using Autonomous Cars To Earn Money Ride-Sharing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    naturally they'll take a cut from the deal .

    This isn't 'naturally', it is abusively or monopilistically.

    I am glad that Musk took all the government subsidies and just like ISPs now preparing to lock-in and nickle and dime everyone via fees.

  19. Re:Great way to kill the competition by making it. on Tesla Bans Customers From Using Autonomous Cars To Earn Money Ride-Sharing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A company's terms and conditions is not law, and whether this clause would be legally enforcible is open to question.

    Regardless of legal issues, it is logistically enforceable - they remotely disable your car.

  20. Ownership of the product on Tesla Bans Customers From Using Autonomous Cars To Earn Money Ride-Sharing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is further proof of inbred ideology that all of the software industry (other than some of open source) subscribes to - that you own the product even after you sell it and are perfectly within your rights to dictate how it should be used. Remember that your Tesla comes with a built-in DRM, they do have an ability to disable it if they don't like how you using it.

  21. Re:Of course you can. And you should. on Mark Zuckerberg Defends Peter Thiel's Trump Ties In Internal Memo (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course we can create a culture that excludes people based on their support of a political candidate.

    Why stop there? Put them into camps and start gassing them already. This should quickly correct all these wrong-thinking people and would allow inclusive, tolerant, and democratic society to finally flourish.

  22. Re:DNA testing is inherently racist on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Citation? Just because it would be nice to have, doesn't mean that nature and genetics work this way.

    No, I'm not going to give you a citation. You can Google it yourself. It takes seconds. This is a well known fact that has been widely studied.

    This is known as 'shifting the burden of proof', or informal logical fallacy. You are not offering citation because you are not familiar with the field of genetics and not sure what paper to cite to support your assertion. After Googling it yourself you quickly realized that by incorrectly citing you are risking on-point rebuttal for irrelevancy. Yet you manage to hold strong opinions, not grounded in facts, on how genetics is ought to work.

    Mulligan?

  23. Re:Diversity Bullshit on Mark Zuckerberg Defends Peter Thiel's Trump Ties In Internal Memo (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Go read the constitution. This doesn't involve the government.

    Is it any less of censorship if thugs in brown shirts do it instead of officially designated organizations?

  24. Re:DNA testing is inherently racist on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Genetic variability between any two individuals of the very same tribe dwarfs ethnicity.

    Citation? Just because it would be nice to have, doesn't mean that nature and genetics work this way.

  25. Re:DNA testing is inherently racist on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    And the genes that determine your "race" are not the same genes that determine your probable job aptitudes.

    This is illogical. Why would genes that determine your probable job aptitude act any differently than any other gene? They are all heritable, at least when you talk populations.

    Hiring based on DNA testing looking for a specific gene is guaranteed to not produce diversity.