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  1. Re:Many veterans end up homeless on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    4. re-draft all economically useless veterans. throw 'em in a C-17 and just drop them on whatever the fashionable target is, en masse. blacken the sky with the screaming doomed, now that's "shock and awe".

    it's been thought of.

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

  2. Re:See O.C. Bible on What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? I don't remember any machines built by the Bene Gesserit that were sentient, but I'm not including the prequels.

    AI is when the machine has the capacity to decide to say "No"; when it can put its own needs ahead of ours.

  3. When they named it "Threads"... on Twitter Officially Launches 'Threads,' a New Feature For Easily Posting Tweetstorms (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    .. I guess none of them saw the film.

    Or if they did, they didn't remember how it ended.

  4. > We take our role very seriously

    What role? what is their purpose? What do they create? Are they useful?

    They convince millions of people that they are being heard and that their opinions are important, neither of which is true.

  5. Re:why is this shit even on slashdot? on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? · · Score: -1

    U.F.O. is an initialism which stands for Unidentified Flying Object.

    And "initialism" is what people say when they can't remember the word "acronym".

  6. Planet hunting is nice- on Google's Machine Learning Is Analyzing Data From NASA's Kepler Space Telescope (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    But I'd be a little happier if it was asteroid-hunting. Particularly asteroids that look as though they might hit Earth any time soon.

    Just sayin'... while you've got the two devices connected together...

  7. Re:Yet another downside of Bitcoin on People Who Can't Remember Their Bitcoin Passwords Are Really Freaking Out Now (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    I expect that a decade from now, most of us will look back on the cryptocurrency craze, shake our heads, and say to ourselves, "What in the world was everyone thinking?"

    They were thinking they could get something for nothing. The same thing people in ponzi schemes always think.

  8. You think his minions have any loyalty? That's not how that works. 'Succession' is one of the key flaws in dictatorship.

    They _never_ cared about the old man or his bitch. They are now fighting for control themselves.

    Pretty sure that's what Robert Mugabe thought when he worked to kick out the Rhodesians. Nothing changes.

  9. Re:I love that: on The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Consider yourselves lucky he couldn't find a way to jam the word 'egregious' into it, or he would've.

  10. Think of the stress of working in an embassy like that.

    Think of the literally hundreds of jobs that are far more stressful than being stationed in an embassy, and yet which don't show the same symptoms.

  11. Re:Bitcoin is not for amateurs on NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen (reddit.com) · · Score: 1

    Those keys should be printed on paper in a N-of-M scheme and distributed to the people who will be authorizing transactions.

    what's the point of digital currency if you have to render it as patterns of ink smeared over dead trees and then pay someone to take it somewhere?

  12. Re:Chromebook's not selling? on Google Wants Progressive Web Apps To Replace Chrome Apps (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    In related news.....

    You still can't get an Android tablet larger than 12 inches...

    (Measures Galaxy Tab A)

    Hey, what's 50cm divided by 2.54?

    Twelve inches is enough for most people.

  13. Re:Cyberscam? Nay, good ole Ponzi! on Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean cripes do they have to pretend something is 'new' and 'cyber' when it is literally the same old crap just slapped on a new platform or technology?

    it's also quantum maker blockchain AI nanotech disruptive AND egregious, which is the word of the moment. EGREGIOUS!

  14. Milo O'Shea didn't wear spandex in that film. He didn't need it. He had the eyebrows.

  15. Couldn't the app use the deliverator's phone GPS to determine distance to target automagically without the deliverator entering data into a server directly?

    If they did, the headline would be "Pizza delivery rights infringed, being tracked on their delivery routes"

    There is a solution to that. It involves an empty Twisties bag.

  16. Blue ruin, what a bloomin' bludger!

    Mate, you're tryin' too hard. No need to go spacko.

  17. Re:Believe me on 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The way we're going, by 2030 we may living in caves again.

    Sorry, we need those caves to store florgs.

  18. Re: Fake news, on 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Nope. Pure speculation. Chances are that by then there will be jobs we aren't even imagining now.

    Like Florg Tweaking, Florg Alignment, Florg Replacement and Florg Synthesis. And then someone comes up with an algorithm that can boop any type of florg automatically and that field's gone, too.

    No, seriously. Try to imagine new jobs. Doing what? Ranking Florg boopers by accuracy?

  19. I would suggest rotating it by 0.414 degrees each time, until the algorithm says "You appear to be upside down. Please try again."

  20. Re:The US should frighten the Chinese by pulling o on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We would, and should, turn their whole country to dust.

    That seems a little harsh on the people who are being held there by the army, which, it appears, is the entire civilian population.

    Say, did you ever hear of Hassan I Sabbah? He had some interesting ideas with regards the moral superiority of assassination over warfare.

    (Smug DBZA Vegeta voice) Just... saiyan.

  21. Re:Why the fuck is this on Slashdot's front page?! on 'Complicit' Is The Word Of The Year In 2017, Dictionary.com Says (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You Click, They $$

    That's the thing. Articles like this, you don't need to click.

    Anyway, I thought "egregious" was the word of the year. Seems everyone's using it as a replacement for "very".

  22. Re:My dreams turn to ashes on Famous Robot from 1956 Movie Auctioned For $5.3 Million (newatlas.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks a lot for telling me that Robby the Robot was just a suit with a guy inside. Way to spoil my holiday weekend.

    I hate to be the one to tell you this.. but.. you know all those robots you see in factories, welding car parts together?

    Yeah.

  23. Re:From T (original) FA on Flat Earther's Homemade Rocket Launcher Breaks Down in His Driveway (desertsun.com) · · Score: 1

    Now if he wants to get the right permits and launch it somewhere vaguely safe, like the middle of the desert, aka Mythbusters, then I wish him the best (not really).

    Exactly. If he'd done this as par of Burning Man, nobody would have noticed, until it exploded and killed a bunch of people.

  24. Re:Apple should add an SD card + 4k DEX on Samsung's Galaxy S9 Will Appear At CES In January, Says Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    That aside aside, pretty please Samsung:

    2) can you fix that ass stupid Google Android thing of killing the Activity as soon as it goes to the back. I am sick of opening a major app, switching to something minor, switching back to app #1 only to see that its been unloaded.

    Odd. My Samsung pad doesn't do that. The apps tend to hang around forever unless you specifically kill them.

  25. Re:Psychological effect on Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the "write down these brilliant ideas I'm having while drunk or stoned" occurs to a lot of people. And it always ends disappointingly.

    The one time I tried it, I couldn't read my handwriting afterwards.