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  1. Well without duplex capability you certainly can't.

    The thing about humans is they like to interrupt. A lot. Most of the time they don't even realise they're doing it. Previous generations of AI have had a lot of difficulty dealing with that; they would finish their entire statement and then wait for a response. Modern versions can listen at the same time and process any interruption much as a human speaker would. It allows them to sound much more realistic in real world conversations.

  2. Re: Let it go. There is no Loch Ness monster. on Legend of Loch Ness Monster Will Be Tested With DNA Samples (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's dumb. Obviously they're aliens, and the ones who get spotted are the poor sods whose personal cloaking devices ran out of batteries.

    "Albinism" indeed!

  3. Re: Backdoor found in 20 year old router on Backdoor Account Found in D-Link DIR-620 Routers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I knew a guy who was running one 2 years ago. Far bigger problem than any built in account was that he had the WiFi set up to use WEP, since that was the standard back when he first configured it.

  4. Re: On news of the invasion, on Giant Predatory Worms Are Invading France (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes, we know; everything the US does is always wrong. Give it a fucking rest already.

  5. Re: THIS is science on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You think? So why does the law say "tax vegetables, but not fruit?" Literally every fruit is a vegetable (and most things considered only vegetables, like zucchini, are fruits), so doesn't that seem like a stupid law?

    The court cares about words in their common usage, not about playing your word games. If you ask 100 people whether bananas are a vegetable, 99 will say no. The one pedant will stand there jacking off and saying "well ... ACTUALLY ..."

    As for the law itself, it was intended to reduce tariffs on some categories to give people a break from an older, very unpopular tariff. Don't worry, though, it didn't last a few years later they went back to taxing the shit out of everything.

  6. Re: THIS is science on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They are classified as vegetables culinarily. SCOTUS has dick all to do with it. Plenty of vegetables are also fruits, such as peppers, olives, cucumbers, and avocados. The categories of "fruit" and "vegetable" are not mutually exclusive, anymore than the categories of "dog" and "mammal" are.

    The reason that SCOTUS bitchslapped those iditios is because they were doing the same thing you are; claiming "hurr durr tomatoes are a fruit!" and SCOTUS said "yeah, dumbass, but they're also a vegetable".

  7. Re: Won't matter on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, what the other guy said.

  8. Re: Won't matter on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen had incredibly low energy density. If you don't know that you probably shouldn't be commenting on these topics.

  9. Re: Hydrogen? on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't seem very efficient. You create hydrogen to then run a fuel cell which then charges a battery to finally power the truck. That's a lot of energy loss in that system.

  10. Re: 9th planet = Pluto on A New World's Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    So as far as Ceres, Eris, and anything else large enough to pull itself into a sphere and orbit a star, absolutely call it a planet.

    So all the moons are now planets?

  11. Re: THIS is science on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If you think that they "overruled botanical categories" then you clearly haven't even read your own link.

  12. Re: Laziness and incompetence. on Facebook's Android App Is Asking for Superuser Privileges, Users Say (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, c6gunner, it's "lets," not "let's," in this context.

    I'll be sure to pass your criticism on to the people responsible for Google keyboard's autocorrect function.

  13. Re: Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If you're only being polite and helping people because you expect something in return, then I would argue that you aren't really being polite or helping people.

    But this is the whole reason we formed societies and social contracts in the first place. I promise not to murder you or steal your shit, and in return you promise not to murder me or steal my shit. If I'm the only one actually following the norms then they become detrimental. The reason we follow social norms is because we expect to receive the benefits of living in that society.

    Most people don't think of it in those terms - we tend to dress it up in terms of "honour", "chivalry", and "charity" - but this action/benefit equation is built into us and underlies whatever reasons we dream up to explain our behaviour. When the social structure of nation breaks down in times of war or natural disaster people's behaviour changes drastically, exactly because the equation has changed.

  14. Re: Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That's a good response, but you're abit off. Communism inherently requires authoritarianism. You're going to have one hell of a time trying to "redistribute" lands, jobs, and wealth, without it.

    Marx didn't advocate imposing communism by force; he believed that it would emerge organically as the wealth of mankind increased. I suppose that eventually that might still happen, though I suspect that there will never be a "true communism" like the one he imagined but rather a heavily socialist society which mixes communist and capitalist values/traits. Either way, any attempt to institute communism from the top down is doomed to result in exactly the kinds of atrocities we've already seen, so it's perfectly valid to blame communism as an ideology.

  15. Re: Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I would be perfectly fine with letting you punch fascists as long as we also got to punch commies. Fair is fair.

  16. Re: Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Modern economies are based on continual exponential growth. From the stock market to pension plans, they all depend on it.

    1. No, they don't require "exponential growth", they only require growth.

    2. Financial growth and population growth are not inherently linked.

  17. Re: Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The economy depends on exponential population growth.

    [Citation Needed]

  18. Re: Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is natural.

    Maybe so, but "natural" is not the same as "good" or "desirable". The issue isn't solely one of immigrants not wanting to integrate; it becomes a much larger issue when a society no longer encourages them to do so.

    As for the US, the first batch of adult immigrants struggle to survive here. Everything is unfamiliar and different from what they adapted to over a lifetime. ... So they collect and congregate and identify. ... But the locally born children or grandchildren of the immigrants end up totally integrating.

    And this isn't inherently true either. My parents immigrated with me when I was a child. From day one they took to the new life and integrated into the community. Meanwhile we had relatives who had moved to the country 15 years earlier and had children my age who were born here; their children spoke English almost as poorly as I did because they had been completely isolated in an immigrant community and raised to speak "our language". I also had friends growing up who, despite being born here, mainly sought out friends and business relationships with people of the same ancestry, and were far more passionate about "the old country" than I was, or than their parents were.

    We've also seen - repeatedly - cases of Islamic terrorists who were born in a western countries to well integrated moderate parents, and then self-segragated themselves later on in life.

    It's complicated.

  19. Re: Laziness and incompetence. on Facebook's Android App Is Asking for Superuser Privileges, Users Say (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I have facebook's app stuck on my phone - Samsung put it there and I can't uninstall it - same with all of Google's shit.

    You don't need to uninstall it; android let's you disable system apps so they never run. Sure, they still take up space on the device but, due to the way the phones are partitioned, that's space you can't use anyway. So the only advantage of uninstalling vs disabling is that if you could uninstall it you wouldn't see the icon any more.

  20. Re: Linux Mint on Ask Slashdot: Some Good Linux Desktop Option For Kids? · · Score: 1

    People coming from Linux/MAC to Windows struggle.

    With what? Windows is essentially idiot proof. It's far harder to go from windows to Linux than vice versa.

  21. Re: Causation on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it wasn't a good exchange. Definitely should have put more thought into it before emptying out the insane asylums.

  22. Re: Say what now? on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 1

    Someone didn't take their meds today.

  23. Re: Causation on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well we used to toss people with mental health issues into the loony bin, but apparently that was deemed "inhumane" or something so we can't do it any more.

  24. Because ideology often trumps self interest. It's like homosexuals still being Christian or Muslim, or poor/middle-class people voting against socialised healthcare.

  25. Re: Isn't that pretty much the story of things? on Google's Selfish Ledger is an Unsettling Vision of Silicon Valley Social Engineering (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Imagine if the Nazis had access to what religion, ethnicity, and political leanings of all within its borders who were tracked in real time - the damage that could be wrought would be far, far greater.

    Don't worry; social justice warriors would have taken to the streets demanding safe spaces for gypsies and homosexuals.

    The Jews would have still been fucked though.