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  1. Re:CEO says X that will do Y on Chipmaker Nvidia's CEO Sees Fully Autonomous Cars Within 4 Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 2
    Legal challenges too are seriously underestimated by the programmers.

    So many of us have the attitude, "If I acknowledge and document a defect, it is a known issue. We will fix it when we can, if we want to, if it is important enough ..."

    Oh, yeah, wait till you get up on the witness stand and the ambulance chaser asks you, "So, Ms Imac Oder, if your car is going at 79 mph, and you increment the set cruise speed by 1mph, the cruise control module will crash, and the throttle will open wide and the car will accelerate to maximum possible speed. Right?" [An actual condition found by Steve Wozniak in his Prius, cant find the citation now. ]

    When you need to take malpractice insurance to write code, then you are talking.

  2. CEO says X that will do Y on Chipmaker Nvidia's CEO Sees Fully Autonomous Cars Within 4 Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Y = raise the value of the stock options that is vesting in this quarter.

    X = something that may or may not happen in a few years.

  3. Re:It does not. on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1
  4. It does not. on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1
    It is just a figment of your imagination. There is no universe, no earth, no galaxies, no people. There is just Brahman and Atman. What the Atman perceives as the Universe, is "maya" or illusion. Only when we realize that it is an illusion, we will be able to realize the Truth. Then Atman attains liberation, or "moksha" or "mukti". Truth is Truth. Truth is Brahman.

    [The Truth provided above is released under MIT GPL. Please make sure you provide a copy of original Truth, if you redistribute. Any enhancement to Truth you make, however, is yours.]

  5. What email? in mobile? on More Than Half of Emails Worldwide Are Now Opened in a Mobile Environment (emarketer.com) · · Score: 1, Funny
    Only the old fogies relentlessly protecting their lawn from encroachment by the young ruffians, whippersnappers and assorted hoodlums still read email.

    Its all sms, tweet, fb msg, snachat man....

  6. Re:Private property rights. on Why We Must Fight For the Right To Repair Our Electronics (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Then the government should not enforce patents. If the invisible hand decides the copycat bootleg versions are what free market needs, so be it. Right?

  7. Re: Why is this necessary? on Italy Proposes Phasing Out Coal Power Plants By 2025 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    He posts both supporting and opposing citations.

    You make a weasel statement. You lose. GP wins.

  8. Meaning of "proposes" explained. on Italy Proposes Phasing Out Coal Power Plants By 2025 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It means the politicians want another round of campaign cash from coal lobby.

  9. What do you mean swiped? on TV News 'Hack' Sees Bitcoins Swiped (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    He posted it for free, for any one to claim.

    The TV channel made it a bit more difficult than usual.

    Where is the swipe/theft/swindle in this case?

  10. Only 42% ? surprised. on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost all of them, 100% of them had an amoxicillin tablet sometime or the other. All it takes is one ear infection.

  11. Re:Too smart for your own good on Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent (santafenewmexican.com) · · Score: 1

    100K is what I pay for my rookie mesh maker, a second assistant deputy sub trainee mesh engineer. In the Rust Belt, USA no less. Five bedroom mansions on two acre lots goes for 150K around here. With six, count them six, golf courses within 15 minutes. Life is good for the Mesh Engineer who made it.

  12. That is true of all specialities.... on Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent (santafenewmexican.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the entire world, fewer than 10,000 people have the skills necessary to tackle serious artificial intelligence research, according to Element AI, an independent lab in Montreal

    In the entire world, fewer than 1000 people have the skills necessary to do unstructured tetrahedral finite element mesh generation. It is possible there are fewer than 1000 people who have the skills necessary to understand what exactly we mesh makers do. And, Surprise! there is demand for fewer than 1000 people to write unstructured tetrahedral finite element mesh generation. And far fewer than 1000 people are needed to manage them.

    I am glad the periodical bubbles that infect Wall Street and venture capitalists benefits PhDs once in a while. Most of the time it benefits hedge fund monkeys or stock market cheats or lottery winners with delusions of grandeur or plain sociopaths. Happy for my grad school classmates. Enjoy the windfall while lasts, Ramachandran\s, Yang\s, Hsu\s, Gupta\s, Parpia\s and Wickramasinghe\s.

  13. No shit, Sherlock! I am shocked! on Bird Feeders Might Be Changing Bird Beaks (axios.com) · · Score: 0
    Amazing deductions Mr Holmes... I am truly amazed!

    What they found: The British birds had longer beaks and were more likely to have genes associated with beak length.

    How on earth you could connect longer beaks with genes for beak length, Mr Holmes!

  14. Toshiba nuclear ... on Toshiba Forecasts $1 Billion Loss (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2
    I vaguely recall that division sold the top secret low-noise low-cavitation propellors of nuclear submarines technology to the Ruskies....

    How things have changed since...

  15. But at least it was new ... on Computer Parts Site Newegg Is Being Sued For Allegedly Engaging In Massive Fraud (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny
    The banks ended up egg in their faces, but small consolation, it was at least Newegg...

    (Ducks and runs away, dodging more eggs)

  16. Short answer: on Why Xbox One Backward Compatibility Took So Long (ign.com) · · Score: 2

    It was developed by Microsoft. That is why.

  17. OK. thats it. Im going to do it. on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1
    Low Fat Pigs?

    OK, I am going to invent dehydrated water. Top that Chinese scientists.

  18. Re:simple, decade old solution on Windows 10's 'Controlled Folder Access' Anti-Ransomware Feature Is Now Live (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
    Nope. By default it kept 50 versions.

    I vaguely recall names like : [ADE.Aerodynamics.CFD]flow2d.for;31

  19. How does it improve security? on Windows 10's 'Controlled Folder Access' Anti-Ransomware Feature Is Now Live (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
    Fundamentally if I can do something using my user level privilege, any code I execute can do it. These ransomware exploit a flaw in security and create a local process. Depending on the vulnerability it runs with root or user level privilege. So it should be able to do everything I do, including removing protection for some folders. In fact now it does not have to scan the whole computer to find valuable files. It needs to only look at protected folders.

    So how does this work?

  20. Cars becoming more precious on Singapore To Stop Adding Cars to City From February 2018 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So the punishment for vandalizing cars would by upped from six strokes of cane, for guilty pleas, to 12. For non guilty pleas it will go up from 12 strokes to 24. It also provides for a process to show respect for foreign heads of state by reducing the number of strokes by 33%.

  21. Does it run Lotus 1-2-3 ? on 30-Year-Old Operating System 'PC-MOS/386' Finally Open Sourced (github.com) · · Score: 1

    DOS is not done, till Lotus won't run, right?

  22. Re: SLASHDOT: FIX YOUR CODE MANGLING!!! on Why Are We Still Using Passwords? (securityledger.com) · · Score: 0

    Its an english language site. we dont need unicode support.

  23. Now the gambling industry is going to thank the professor for helping them improve their odds setting strategy. The code is public domain, the house will use this, instead of guess work. In the end the house margin will improve from 3.3% to may be 6%

  24. Re:No credit [Re:for free] on On the Google Book Scanning Project and the Library We Will Never See (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    So what do you think of goblin view of ownership?

  25. Re:The electronic "signature" pad is a bigger joke on MasterCard Has Finally Realized That Signatures Are Obsolete and Stupid (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1
    Even if you use a debit card, if you sign instead of using pin number, they need to pay 2% commission.

    25 cent transaction is only for pin based transaction. The contract between Credit card company and the merchant prohibits the merchants from giving a discount for pin transactions. No discount for cash transactions, no discount for pin transactions.