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  1. Re:BS in BS out on A Christmas Menu Dreamed Up by a Robot (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You're being just as derpy from the other side of the ignorance field, though.

    Whatever understanding humans have, they can program it into the machine. AI isn't "artificial," because it isn't actually animism. You recognize that it isn't animism, and yet you don't bother to think about what it actually is; human thoughts, human ideas, human analysis, formalized into a system of rules.

    Your comment is as nonsensical as saying that when a human learns how to cook by following a recipe, it is no longer human understanding that is involved. And yet, the author of the recipe probably did understand it, that's why it is a good recipe.

    The way you can tell the difference between a machine that includes human understanding and a machine that doesn't is that a machine that was designed by a human engineer with an understanding of some problem will actually do something. And a "machine" that somehow managed to be in a form you would call a "machine" but was never designed to do anything, that one doesn't include human understanding.

    If some idiot designed a machine that merely correlated data, without having programmed any system of analysis that evaluates the data using knowledge of desired outcomes, that's doesn't even have less human understanding; it merely has incorrect, faulty, lame human understanding. The existence of low quality machines tells you nothing about the existence of high quality machines, though. It merely gives you information about low quality engineers.

  2. Re:Reserving judgment on Reddit-Quoting Alexa Tells a User: 'Kill Your Foster Parents' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This takes the song Plastic Fantastic Lover (which is about television) to a whole new level.

  3. Re:Time for the Rest of US to Get Serious on Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Spying is where the governments collect data for political reasons, and in case of war. This is accepted. Countries have to try to defend themselves.

    What China is doing is not that. At all. It is economic warfare; something all the other major countries agree not to use their spies for during peace time. It is insane that they think they'll be a big country, exporting lots of products to the world, and also engaging in economic warfare against their trade partners. Just insane.

  4. Re:News reported on the viral video, not its verit on YouTuber Admits Aspects of Viral HomePod Glitter Bomb Video Were Faked (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Booby traps are a crime. If the news didn't already know it was a show, they wouldn't have run the piece. It was most likely a paid promotion in the first place, so of course they know.

  5. That's what the internet is like. I watched a k-pop video on youtube, that was filmed in Guam, and then I went on google maps and found all the locations that the scenes were filmed.

    It took a couple hours. But it is fun looking around at different places on the computer.

    He didn't get doxed. He published a video. With background data.

    Some terrorist did that and somebody called in the location of the cave based on the background.

    If you really want a challenge, try to read Anabasis and recreate the route of the Ten Thousand. I think the chapters are out of order, which would explain the route.

  6. Re: That aspect was thought out on YouTuber Admits Aspects of Viral HomePod Glitter Bomb Video Were Faked (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, definitely; smash it with a hammer in the back yard, not in the living room. You're from the neighborhood, I can tell.

  7. Re: Rich person not guilty on JD.com's Billionaire CEO Will Not Be Charged With Sexual Assault (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really want to live in a society where an accusation with no evidence is guilt?

    That depends. Can we determine guilt through combat instead of evidence? If so, I'm in.

    It might be worth it if we get some Colosseums out of the deal.

  8. Re:Let's not pretend we don't make exceptions on JD.com's Billionaire CEO Will Not Be Charged With Sexual Assault (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You're repeating what you replied to.

  9. Re:And 30% of Americans blame this on ... on Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing At a 'Worst-Case Scenario' Rate, NASA Says (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    In my neighborhood, 23 said Uranus. And the other 7 said Pluto.

    And most of them would be accidentally correct.

  10. Re:Huawei Tablet on Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    Right, but tablets aren't phones, they're just portable computers. Portable computers don't normally have any right to know any information about their user.

  11. Re:Canadian meeting on Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Some lobsters migrate for hundreds of miles while holding hands.

    Some lobsters have secrets.

    Secret lobsters have even more secrets.

    This is totally going to be a best-selling ebook when I get done.

  12. Re:Puritanism rears its idiotic head again. on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 1

    Nipples are legal in my State. It does vary.

  13. Re:But I like "female-presenting" nipples on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stop shilling for Big Shame!! wake up!!!!!

  14. Re:But I like "female-presenting" nipples on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 2

    Once upon a time it was considered a scandal when a female belly-button was briefly shown on "I Dream of Jeannie."

  15. Re:Missle codes set to all zeros 0000000 on US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The funny part is how few people are going to believe you.

  16. Re:we really need a free smartphone OS on The Last Independent Mobile OS (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Naw, if you look at things like the Gnome Debacle, you can see that Free Software only protects against certain proprietary abuses, it doesn't actually achieve its main aim which is to prevent "embrace, extend, extinguish." With GPL, you're still one maintainer away from a "paradigm shift" that makes all your past changes useless.

    And if you look around at alternatives, other licenses that allow copying consistently have offerings that are at least comparable to whatever FSF puts out.

    Maybe software should be Free, should have Freedom, but that isn't what Stallman points out; he claims that software should be required to be in the Free Software Movement. The ideas share some words and ideas, but are actually substantially different.

    That's why I have a strong preference for code under the Apache 2 license; it is so free everybody can copy it! GPL code can include it, BSD code can include it, proprietary code can include it. Complete Freedom! Freedom not only from proprietary restriction, but also Freedom from people who would weigh your Freedom and tell you if you have enough, or if you need to do it their way instead. To be more "Free."

  17. Re:Independent where? on The Last Independent Mobile OS (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They're trying to find out how best to describe "proprietary but unimportant" and flailing badly.

    In the old days, before open source, before Free Software, independent actually meant that.

  18. Re:The Solution is a LAWSUIT?????? on Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You'll need to add some important words like "equivalent" to make a true statement out of the thing you actually said.

  19. Off by .1125 inches because you don't like to count the notch?Depends on how you measure it.

    No, that isn't how it works. It needs to be correct, based on how you did measure it. Otherwise it is false.

    If you don't want to be accurate to x.y, don't advertise x.y sizes, stick to x.

    If you advertise to x.y, it should at least be true for some possible x.yz. So you can fudge the least significant digit +- 1 and blame rounding. But you never get +- 2, or even +- 1.1. Those are blatant lies.

  20. Re:Burn them! Burn the Witches! on Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if they turn out to be devoted Wiccans, I don't see how it excuses false advertising. Burn them!

  21. If the whole industry lies about the pixel count of a particular technology, I'm not convinced that helps any of them defend against the lawsuit accusing false advertising. None of them will get to use the "but mommy, all the cool kids are doing it" excuse in court.

  22. Re:Ambient spreading, voice control, and privacy on Is The World Shifting To 'Ambient Computing'? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I was stuck on the bus next to some jerk "ambient spreading," I had to turn my headphones up to max and I still couldn't find my own airspace.

  23. Re:Wrong on Is The World Shifting To 'Ambient Computing'? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there actually such things as "round brackets" though? You have parentheses ("open paren," "close paren"), [brackets], {braces} and <angle brackets> but you can easily train those to "open angle" and "close angle." So you're having problems at the start due to vocabulary. And it would surely understand the words pronounced "arg-sea" and "arg-vee" if it was configured for voice.

    You could already code this way in emacs in the 90s. It sucks if you're able to use a keyboard instead, of course, but it works fine once you get used to it and teach it how you pronounce the punctuation.

    Voice interface will work OK for people who also consume all their training through videos. Probably they'll be using percentages or fractions instead of the pixels used in your example. It will work well for some things.

    People who speak English, but refuse to accept that American English is the standard form, might get support last though; More people speak American English or French, or German, or Japanese, etc., etc., than speak each of the various regional English dialects.

  24. Re:Bullshit, already happened. on Is The World Shifting To 'Ambient Computing'? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Even most of the lighting has computers in it now.

  25. Re:Bullshit, already happened. on Is The World Shifting To 'Ambient Computing'? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If you mean everybody is trying to copy the Star Trek voice interface, but with Brandybrand(TM) instead of the word "Computer" to start the command, then I'm curious what makes it new?