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  1. Google Trains on Google Trains AI To Write Wikipedia Articles (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I didn't realise there is a Google Trains subsidiary. But even so, why does it have an AI and why would this AI edit Wikipedia?

  2. Re: But Telemetry will still be turned on on Windows 10 Is Adding an Ultimate Performance Mode For Pros (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Still beats using Linux, though. And I say that as someone who develops Linux applications for a living.

  3. Re:Febreze on taco diarrhea on China Reassigns 60,000 Soldiers To Plant Trees In Bid To Fight Pollution · · Score: 1

    Trees stop wind. Hence stop soil erosion that becomes dust. Smog is not the only air pollutant.

  4. Re: But Telemetry will still be turned on on Windows 10 Is Adding an Ultimate Performance Mode For Pros (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have a favourite flavour of Linux - all of them suck in subtly different ways. I don't know what happened - around 2003 Linux looked almost ready for the desktop, but then it became really uncomfortable to use.

  5. Re: The UK comes out of this looking like chumps on UK Blames Russia For Cyber Attack, Says Won't Tolerate Disruption (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Authoritarian, not fascist. A monarchy, even a representative one, is inherently authoritarian.

  6. Re:I'm not in Germany but... on Germany Considers Free Public Transport in Fight To Banish Air Pollution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Pleasant experience? Traffic jams, road rage, desperately looking for a parking spot, you call that a pleasant experience?
    Driving sucks. Public transport sucks as well, but driving is worse most of the time.

  7. If YouTube suggestions work so well for you, you probably have very mainstream interests. For me personally they not once have been of any relevance.

  8. Re:Let's not blow this out of proportion on SpaceX Successfully Lands Two Falcon Heavy Boosters Simultaneously After Rocket Launch [Update] (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 1

    You are making the mistake thinking that Buran was similar to the Space Shuttle, which it totally wasn't - it was just a payload on a carrier rocket while the Space Shuttle had its own engines and the big orange tank was actually just a tank and not the core stage like Energia had.

    Payload having an active orbital insertion is usually called the second (and the third) stage. The only difference is that for the Energia those stages would have to be strapped on the side, not on top. How exactly is this unfair?

  9. Re:Let's not blow this out of proportion on SpaceX Successfully Lands Two Falcon Heavy Boosters Simultaneously After Rocket Launch [Update] (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 1

    In almost exactly 30 years. Energia's last launch was in 1988.

  10. Re:I am also terrified... by Rust! on Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Says Current Software Development Practices Terrify Him (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    I reckon you don't use sizeof either.

  11. Unlikely. Russia does have universal healthcare, although it is broken due to the pervasive corruption.

  12. 200 years ago, imbeciles like you seldom survived to the adulthood and if they did and somebody shot them on the street, nobody would give a shit. Good old times.

  13. Re:Two pills a day, per person. on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that you consider it normal that every
    single person in town takes opiates daily? Must be seriously painful living there. I mean, this is the kind of numbers pallative care facilities would have.

  14. Re: Why is Slashdot obsessed with this witch hunt? on Russian Trolls Created Facebook Events Seen By More Than 300,000 Users (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    1) http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

    2) FSB is a domestic intelligence service. Foreign espionage is not their duty.

    So yes, it is completely pointless comparing the two, but not for the reasons you've stated.

  15. Re:This should lead to Fines for Intel on Intel Told Chinese Firms of Meltdown Flaws Before the US Government (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    The world is a pretty black and white place only if you are a kid or mentally ill (borderline personality disorder for example).

  16. Re:$14 per KW-hr??? on Giant Tesla Battery In Australia Earns A Million Bucks In a Few Days (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    That is the other possibility. I remember a story where a German aluminium smelter ordered and paid a large amount of electical power in advance and when the time came the smelter realised that at the then current electrical power prices they could make more money by becoming an electricity reseller. This has been a while ago, though.

  17. Re:$14 per KW-hr??? on Giant Tesla Battery In Australia Earns A Million Bucks In a Few Days (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Usually the power companies have contracts with some large customers like concrete factories or cold warehouses, who generally get cheaper electrical power but would have to participate in a rolling blackout at a moment's notice.

  18. Re:What about Russian military personnel? on Fitness-Tracking App Reveals Locations of Secret Army Bases (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The discipline in the Russian army is very low because it is an unpleasant place to be, runs on conscription and anyone with half a brain tries to dodge the draft. And as for consumer devices, during the short stint in Georgia Russian soldiers had to use their private mobile phones because their army communication equipment didn't work. Nowadays the use of smartphones in the Russian military is pretty much established and young men taking selfies with "their" hardware is, while not allowed, very widespread.

    People like you are the reason for stupid notions like bomber gap or missile gap.

  19. Hope in Japanese. And zetsubo is despair.

  20. Re:Hear that flushing sound? on Fitbit Will End Support For Pebble Smartwatches In June (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    While I am indeed an insensitive clod, I have never specified the amount of mobile phones everyone and their dog have.

  21. Re:Need to start thinking about retiring it anyway on Trump Administration Wants To End NASA Funding For ISS By 2025 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Like what? Zarya was built in the 1990ies.

  22. Re:Ged [Re:Very sad] on Fantasy Fiction Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin Dies At 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    From the first book:

    [Vetch] had the accent of the East Reach, and was very dark of skin, not red-brown like Ged and Jasper and most folks of the Archipelago, but black-brown.

  23. Re:Even when her protagonists are male... on Fantasy Fiction Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin Dies At 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. "So long and thanks for all the fish" wasn't that good either.

  24. Re:Hear that flushing sound? on Fitbit Will End Support For Pebble Smartwatches In June (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you are using the watch just to show you the time. Which is kind of redundant because everyone and their dog have mobile phones nowadays.

  25. Re:Need to start thinking about retiring it anyway on Trump Administration Wants To End NASA Funding For ISS By 2025 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Mir was designed with a 5 year life expectancy. It spent 15 years in space and only during its last three years or so problems really started to occur on a regular basis.