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  1. Looking back into the past on New Horizons Probe Captures Images At Record Distance From Earth (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That works out to a bit over five and a half light-hours... good lord *choke*! We can use this probe to see INTO EARTH'S... radio... transmission... past. A bit.

  2. Wait... are they talking about adding the specific thing that I hate about SnapChat? The ones I never watch?

    My guess is they thought "band-wagon" after someone saw Samsung do it with their Android Gallery app, which has a stories feature. The one I disabled as soon as I discovered it.

  3. Re: Fastest transition to 3rd world nation? on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I truly believe Trump will #MAGA, in the same way that a good Alcoholic blackout can be transformative.

    You'd just better hope you can find a good Claudius to undo all the damage done by your current Caligula.

  4. Re:Why a Lawsuit? on LoopX Startup Pulls ICO Exit Scam and Disappears with $4.5 Million (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would a class action lawsuit be preferable to reporting the crime to the police?

    Realistically, what can the police do if you tell them you gave a ton of money to some guy on the internet and he disappeared with it? The best you can hope for is that he'll say "I'll just type that up on my invisible typewriter" in an Edward G. Robinson voice.

  5. Re:The PepsiCo White House on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    On second thought, the Washington monument would be a way better Trojan purchase because they could display the product during sales rallies.

    You don't get sales by making the customer feel inadequate.

    "Say, can you guys breed a smaller kind of banana? Why? YOU KNOW WHY."

  6. Re: but, but, but ... on Amazon Is Cutting Hundreds of Corporate Jobs (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    well as someone who worked there they litterly hire anyone with a degree.

    Just curious - what was your degree in? Please tell me it was literature.

  7. Re:What did you expect? on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    What precisely should Google do about this?

    I think the best solution is to disable autocomplete for racial and religious terms. That is a neutral approach, and doesn't need constant monitoring.

    Google is a search engine and an advertising platform. They aren't a church - yet - and it's not their place to try to change human nature, or even to represent it in an unrealistically favourable light. If people absolutely can not deal with this, there should be an option they can activate to hide it from them.

  8. Re:What did you expect? on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In this case, maybe Google should take action.

    The vast bulk of humanity is, in the words of Citizen Ted, "a worthless morass of lying, defecating chimpanzees". What precisely should Google do about this? If they are developing AI that will replace us all, that's enough.

  9. Re:How is killing trees more eco-friendly, than .. on A Chemical Bath and a Hot-press Can Transform Wood Into a Material That is Stronger Than Steel, Researchers Find (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    Because if your metal goes in the trash, it doesn't come back.

    Can you explain this? It's not like you click on "empty trashcan" and the metal is deleted. That trash is taken somewhere and emptied into something. It doesn't vanish. It can come back.

  10. How does the algorithm do with drunk people? Can it tell the difference between them and children?

  11. Re:Uhhhh.... on AIs Have Replaced Aliens As Our Greatest World Destroying Fear (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Talos of Crete?

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

    He'll throw rocks at your boat. It's what he does. It's ALL he does. And he absolutely will not stop until he sinks it.

  12. Re:What about humans? on AIs Have Replaced Aliens As Our Greatest World Destroying Fear (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Why be scared of A.I.s when human brains are already the most complicated thing in the known universe...

    Excuse me, the Great Barrier Reef would like a w-... never mind, your puny human brains probably don't understand its language.

  13. Re:A blockchain and cryptocurrencies tech hub ? on Arizona Introduces Bill That Would Allow Residents To Pay Taxes In Bitcoin (investopedia.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    DISTRIBUTED AI quantum nanotech blockchain makerverse!

  14. Wait a minute... I want to tack on a rider to that bill -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKPZDq9IQIU

  15. Unfortunately, there are so many unsecured devices out there that the router is the only thing keeping things secure. From your stupid $15 IoT WiFi nanny camera to multi-million dollar machines.

    Anyone who spent more than a million dollars on a television set deserves everything that happens to them.

  16. "these new web apps are built on a raft of nifty technologies..

    I'm glad they're using nifty technologies. What do these apps do? Another calendar app? Another calculator? Angry Birds 4? How many different ways are there of coding crap that nobody needs?

  17. Re:Putting obamas head on trumps body on Pornhub Is Banning AI-Generated 'Deepfakes' Porn Videos (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Just for the lulz :)

    In order to do this, you would need a porn video of President Trump. Do you happen to have any? Perhaps urolagnia themed?

  18. Is anyone else concerned that their business model seems to be combining the cloistered hot-house-force-grown stupidity of Facebook with the arrant toxicity of Youtube? My god, what's next? Hiroyuki starts a 4chan TV station?

    Actually, I'd probably watch that.

  19. Most companies and governments send slabs of concrete or steel plates.

    (darkly) ... or dogs.

  20. Re:How about good parenting? on Former Google/Facebook/Mozilla Employees Will Fight Addictive Technologies (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about encouraging good parenting?

    I'm going to go way out on a limb here and suggest that good parenting requires good parents. Does this mean we should prevent people from having kids if they are unable to demonstrate that they would be good parents? Try getting elected on that platform and see how far you get.

  21. Re:Great on Former Google/Facebook/Mozilla Employees Will Fight Addictive Technologies (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bill Maher asks an interesting question here on ethics, and I don't think it was properly answered. How can you even be ethical when what you're doing is manipulating people?

    Is it unethical to manipulate people away from eating laundry detergent pods?

  22. (but if they want unlimited virtual power i have these solar panels in minecraft they could use).

    Mate, unless you've got the Galacticraft mod installed, those'll be light sensors, not solar panels.

  23. Re:That's why crypto exists. on Five Major Credit Cards Are Now Blocking Cryptocurrency Purchases (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    99% are in it for the gains

    Are you saying there's a couple of banks out there that AREN'T being run for profit? What are they doing? Some kind of elaborate performance art? A sexual fetish? Perhaps a job-creation scheme?

  24. As soon as they can determine who is legally responsible for electrons...

  25. Re:Punk failed on How DIY Rebels Are Working To Replace Tech Giants (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I was going to say. Punk's solution to what they saw as a corrupt society was to spit at it, swear a lot and hole up in squats. I hope these tech revolutionaries can bring something more to the game than a series of affected snarls.