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  1. Must suck for you nutcases on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It must suck for you nutcases that virtually all technology was invented by liberals! They were NOT invented by right wing racist homophobic xenophobes.
    1. Google - invented by Democrats
    2. Facebook - Democrats
    3. Twitter - Invented by Democrats
    4. ebay - democrat came up with it
    4. Youtube - idea of a easy video sharing website .. Founded by immigrants -- the dad of one of them being muslim
    5. Apple - Democrats (Steve Jobs, whose biological dad is Muslim btw) family donated to Obama in 2008 and in 2004 asked his friend Al Gore (VP during Bill Clinton presidency) to run against Bush)
    6. Microsoft - Bill Gates is well known to be a Democrat
    7. World Wide Web (and first web browser) - invented by a liberal (Tim Berners Lee)
    8. ARM CPU architecture (found in every mobile phone) - Co-designed by a transgender

    I'm glad the PC and the web weren't invented by you right wing nuts or we wouldn't be allowed on it.

  2. People aren't interested in facts unless it's to bolster their pre-existing need.
    Prime example: People hate immigrants, so every time there is a crime by an immigrant it gets all over the news. Statistics are cited that in a certain location crime has skyrocketed due to immigrants. So using cherrypicking of facts .. they are able to paint an image that all the immigrants are dangerous. They won't mention that overall murder and violent crime in the US has drastically reduced and is now at historic lows. They won't mention that there was higher crime prior to the recent illegal immigrant influx. If you fact checked whether a certain town has a high crime rate correlated with immigrants .. that will tell you what you want to hear .. but it won't tell you the overall truth. Why do you think Donald Trump focussed on crime in Chicago? He isn't running for Mayor of Chicago. Fact checking is useless, because it lacks context. Always seek the context behind the fact .. if you give a shit about the truth .. which you don't.

  3. We know who it will vote for on Google Creates AI Program That Uses Reasoning To Navigate the London Tube (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure bet that this thing will vote Democrat.

  4. Make your youtube video as boring as possible.

  5. The point is to make decisions on the fly. It's not the destination, it's the ride.

    Why are you fixated on the idea that you can't change destinations on the fly in an autonomous vehicle? In fact an autonomous vehicle is far more perfect for that. Just tell the vehicle you changed you mind go to X instead. Also, the driver can enjoy the scenery better .. and participate in looking at maps etc.

    you miss the point. If you remove the freedom to go anywhere except a playpen, you remove what's compelling: Freedom.

    What the heck, I am talking about INCREASING the freedom to go places! Who wants to remove the freedom to go places? You! You can still go driving many places. You can still go horseback riding, exploring, taking offroad vehicles places etc. What the hell, the freedom to explore would be increased not decreased. I don't need you to tell me about the value of exploring I have done my share of exploring not just domestically but internationally too .. places like Asia, Central America, Europe. Places that had real risks. For example, I am sure I risked various deaths by snake, mosquitos, or jellyfish by going to those places .. but they offered some value. The value offered by being able to drive is not very high, I am sorry. Especially when there will be designated areas for that.

    I don't know about you but I don't get much out of the stop & go traffic of Silicon Valley where I live. I mean YOU might find it fulfilling to do nothing except brake and accelerate every 10 seconds for an hour every weekday of your life .. but some of us feel like our time during the commute could be spent doing better things like watching TV or doing video chat.

  6. OK, Trump hired H1Bs himself .. probably because he is smart. Just like how doesn't pay any taxes because he's smart. Hiring H1Bs and not paying taxes is smart. But become president .. that's fucking genius.

    He is full of contradictions like in 1998 he called Clinton's accusers ugly and different names. Now he supposedly cares about them.

  7. You seem to think we won't be able to tell an autonomous vehicle commands like "take us to a random destination on highway 101"?

    And again, I am sure there will be trails and areas you can self drive a vehicle at your own risk.

  8. Living in a padded room is terribly inconvenient. We can make cars automated for very little cost, its certainly worth it .. there is no inconvenience .. in fact there is convenience ... we can watch TV or videochat with family during the commute. How is that not a benefit? You are saying we should partake in a risky activity even if the less risky alternative is more convenient and fun? What fool goes for that??

    Plus, I dunno about you .. but I am also not found of car accident related injuries. You realize that a lot of car accidents leave people maimed, with terrible injuries? There are a number of paraplegics and quadriplegics who are only that way because of car accidents. We have to give up being able to watch Netflix during our commute because you think our lives need more risk?

  9. Yeah, my office isn't a boat in the middle of a lake so I can't take the ferry there.

    And driving should be safer regardless of where it ranks in the list of transportation modes.

  10. Nationalists really shouldn't be calling anyone anti-human. Not when your core values are that it's OK to torture foreigners without being absolutely certain of their guilt and also that it's ok to kill all the relatives of terrorists (again, without any regard as to whether they are guilty or involved). That's the flag you Trump voting nationalists are carrying. Nationalism hates the concept of all human beings having value. Nationalists believe only certain human beings have any value or rights. That's a fact.

  11. LOL it must be maddening to live with such insane paranoia. You a Trump voter? Anti Vaxxer? Anyway, collision avoidance systems take priority over navigation, and navigation is not tied to the date. Seriously if you have never taken a software engineering class or even written a program in your life you really shouldn't be hallucinating on how software bugs work.

  12. It's a damn good card. Reducing the fatalities ASAP is the main point and should be our goal. I mean are you saying you are cool with 30,000 people dying on US roadways? And I am sure when we include all the world's highways the number will go up to the 100s of thousands. We know that the Tesla is safer than any other automobile. It's been fucking proven already no thanks to people like you who tried hard to block it. How much testing do you need? Cause while you are doing testing, which will never satisfy you .. because how can testing relieve your hate? It can't. No amount of testing will work for you. You and I both no that the reason you want testing is to make these cars unaffordable or not worthy of investment. Let's drop the pretend and find out your real grievance.

  13. I am glad Samsung read my slashdot post in April of last year when I announced that a 10K display was required. At the time you guys laughed at it and my calculations. Proof: http://m.slashdot.org/thread/4... I hope this is enough vindication.

    You slashdotters did the same in 2005 (nearly two years before the iPhone was released, and 5 years before the first phablet) when I announced that we needed large screen touchscreen phones that too was pooh poohed the same way. http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

    Anyway back to VR, the other thing needed to be fixed is the refresh rate. 120 Hz is the minimum non-nauseating resolution.

  14. Coincidence? Psychic premonition? on ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Since I ran out of Kit Kat and Ferrero Rochers I actually was eating an Oreo as I scrolled down to this article .. I had to do a double take, I couldn't believe it.

    I suppose from your perspective it's a coincidence but from mine it makes me wonder what forces are out there directing my destiny. Maybe the universe is a crazy simulation my rival or even worse myself set up out of boriedom. No, it can't be .. I doubt I would be this bad to myself. Though you never know. Hmm. I better eat another Oreo.

  15. Really? Then how can we catch criminals if we aren't allowed to describe them?

  16. Re: Waste of money on Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    If we want to study atmospheric CO2 the purest place to do that is Mars. Besides that, money isn't going to be wasted, we would be advancing our engineering and computer abilities quite a lot in the process.

  17. Something priced over 50 times higher than the $5 Raspberry pi Zero is only a few times faster than it?

  18. 4K is useless. The next step for gaming and entertainment is VR (or AR). But for usable VR, which we don't have yet, the display needs to render 3D graphics 6K at 120 fps. Current VR technology (Oculus Rift/HTC Vive) is at 2K at 90fps. Anyway .. my point is that Scorpio which comes out next year is at the minimum even for todays technology, so it's just an incremental update to the Xbox that may be slightly sub par even for today's high end gaming. If we are to have true vomit-free VR, headsets need to incorporate a 6K display running at 120 fps .. which means a 12 teraflop system (double that of Scorpio) is absolutely the MINIMUM required. Microsoft should have waited until 2018 or 2019 when such a GPU would become available.

  19. Are we really going to leave Earth? on Elon Musk Scales Up His Ambitions, Considering Going 'Well Beyond' Mars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I would go colonize Mars ASAP if we had the chance. But I'm the exception. I mean other humans can't be bothered to live in places like Antarctica, the Sahara desert, or North Dakota. How do I expect that they are going to colonize Mars? They would go to Mars, declare it a desert and come back. Why aren't we all over the moon?

    I don't live in Antarctica, but not cause I don't want to.

  20. Lightbulb on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? · · Score: 1

    A vacuum tube is a lightbulb with extra electrodes. So he is a video of how to make a light bulb with glass. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

  21. Easy answer on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 2

    Most people don't give a crap about their fellow human.

    People think mostly of the benefit to themselves, then their families, their race, their country, their pets, and rarely do they care anything about a random human especially in Africa or some other place. It's human nature, at best some humans care about their family or country more than themselves but mainly this is the order. They actively try to eliminate and discredit anyone who dares care about random humans. That's just the way it is. Humans.

  22. Re: Fail High School Physics Artlcie! on China's Atomic Clock in Space Will Stay Accurate For a Billion Years (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    No. They said the pull of gravity, the didn't say it escaped gravity. Therefore, there is an implied dostinction between the two. It is still within the gravitational field, so it orbits. But gravity no longer creates stress forces on the mechanisms.

  23. Not good enough on China's Atomic Clock in Space Will Stay Accurate For a Billion Years (rt.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't want to be late for my dentist appointment in the year 1,000,002,017.

  24. When they found out about the bugs, didn't they become expected bugs? So it's totally shippable.

  25. Brain to Robot Interface on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Hook them up to a brain to robot interface complete with VR goggles .. maybe they can do the same things humans can. Maybe we can outsource work to them. I doubt there are any implications to doing something like that.