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  1. Re: While their people starve on India Plans To Spend $6 Billion On Creating New Forests (qz.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    So many anti republican comments come from AC. How many cowards are in the Democratic party anyway? Or is it just one guy who posts this over and over until Donald Trump becomes president.

  2. Re:Wishful thinking on India Plans To Spend $6 Billion On Creating New Forests (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So that buys you like an acre of forest, right?

  3. Because in California you show up at your smug friends house in a Tesla and your awesome friends house in a Ferrari. Don't let those two intermingle. That's just all bad. You'll be cleaning smugness off for weeks and you can't just drop your smug friend because he knows a guy who knows a guy who can get things done.

  4. Yes, but have you seen most of the cars in the countries you mentioned. Most cars are far from new.

  5. Re: Frivolous lawsuit on Snapchat Sued For Facilitating 107 MPH Car Crash (patch.com) · · Score: 2

    If fairly certain snapchat can delete entire trophies from their system.

    Can someone explain to us folks who have already graduated high school why the world needs another messaging that is capable of sending photos and why the fuck does it needs trophies?

    My generation pioneered social networks and frankly I'm disappointed that the only thing they've added to messaging apps in the last decade or so has been trophies.

  6. Re: The magic of Quantum on IBM Gives Everyone Access To Its Five-Qubit Quantum Computer (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be naive. Clearly this computer operates on the same principle as quatum bogosort. It's a universe destroying death ray.

  7. Re: The Real Point on Students Can Now Fly Drones At School, FAA Says (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Uncertificated individuals get to be private pilots and private pilots get to be commercial pilots in the drone world. I don't thing either of these classifications are good. One has far too much training and the other has none.

    Everyone should just be required to take a 1 day course explaining the rules.

    Most FAA rules shouldn't apply to drones. Federal air regulations are not design for an aircraft that can crash and no one gives a fuck. Everything else should be obvious, but you need to cover those dumb fucks who fly right next to the airport.

  8. I grew up as a nerd on Half Of Teens Think They're Addicted To Their Smartphones (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought being online all the time was weird. I was glued to my monitor. Now everyone is doing it with cell phones and saying they are addicted. I kinda miss when you had to be a nerd to get online. It wasn't a social issue back then.

  9. Re:Best Care in the World! on Medical Errors Are Number 3 Cause of US Deaths, Researchers Say (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    We have so much faith in our medical system, but not every doctor is great and our health care system gives little incentive for meaningful results. The best medical results I hear about are from docs who take responsibility for their own care.

  10. Re: Checkmate on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Out of the two which one was inept enough to use a private email server potentially exposing national secrets.

    She won't need to get us into WW3. They will blow us up with out own nukes by stealing nuclear launch codes from her iPhone.

  11. Re: Checkmate on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but Trump says he loves me and Hillary makes me feel guilty about making too much money even though I hardly have anything left after my paying my rent each month.

  12. Re: There's a new tradition in the USA as well on Taking a 'Gap Year' Before College Is a British Tradition That's Becoming a Big Trend In The US (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Subsidized loans don't accrue interest while in school (the government pays for it), but unsubsidized loams can cost you a lot in the long run.

    In California many low income students get tuition payed for by Cal grants, but it leaves nothing to live off (i.e. food or Healthcare). Unsubsidized and subsidized loans fill the gap. Many can't qualify for the grants or subsidizes.

    Once you are a grad student you won't qualify for any subsidies or grants. Unsubsidized loans are easy.

    From a pure economic standpoint many don't consider the opportunity cost of grad school. Accrued interest and lack of wages while in school can reduce your lifetime net earnings.

  13. Re: Giant Bubbler on Oceans Could Soon Not Have Enough Oxygen To Support Marine Life (iflscience.com) · · Score: 2

    Really? Clearly you don't understand how big the ocean is. Might as well get a toddler to blow into a straw because that's about as effective this would be globally. Maybe you could support local populations of certain species. Basically an aquarium in the ocean.

  14. I686 was the first to enable MMX, so the funny thing is that you probably weren't taking advantage of it until about 2010 if you were running Ubuntu. Just in time to switch over to amd64

  15. The only reason we'd all be turned into batteries is if some AI developer wrote some buggy code in which case skynet would probably just end up nuking itself by accident.

  16. Re:I've had this for years... on Gas Delivery Startups Want to Fill Up Your Car Anywhere, But It Might Not Be Legal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't call AAA in San Francisco. Someone from the fire department will arrest you.

  17. Re: Bullshit on New Chip Offers Artificial Intelligence On A USB Stick (pcmag.com) · · Score: 2

    You can train a machine to classify cat photos. I'm not sure if I'd call that intelligence.

    Scientists use the words machine learning. This device enables ML. At this time ML is by far the most useful aspect related to AI, but it's misleading to say this device enables AI. Additionally, mimicking human intelligence doesn't alway involve learned behavior.

    You might disagree with my terminology, but machine leaning enables better AI. Machine learning isn't AI. There are plenty of machines that have been trained that do completely unintelligent things.

  18. Re: California 'High Speed' Rail may beat it on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Also amorphous objects like a train system isn't a fair comparison.

    A nuclear power plant has well define structure and size.

    With train systems do you include the tracks or the trains themselves? What about all the support structures? The stations?

  19. Re: China launches cyberattacks against thebUS on US Steel Says China Is Using Cyber Stealth To Steal Its Secrets (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Let me explain.

      If you make the government as huge as many politicians want it then there's no room for wallstreet. The government will seize large portions of the economy. You won't need wall street anymore.

    It's silly to think small investment firms are less likely to screw you out of your money. I always thought main street being the antithesis of wallstreet was a euphemism politicians use for big government that somehow made their constituents all warm and fuzzy inside because it implies sticking it to the evil wall street, but maybe I made a leap others didn't. Maybe politicians really do support small local investment firms. I doubt it though.

  20. Re:China launches cyberattacks against thebUS on US Steel Says China Is Using Cyber Stealth To Steal Its Secrets (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And Slashdot will defend China because most of the users here inexplicably hate the US.

    That's bullshit. American /.ers hate either American big business (aka wallstreet) or they hate the American government (aka mainstreet). Some /.ers hate both. This is no different than the rest of America. In China they are basically the same thing, so you're just wrong.

  21. Re:SystemD = Bolsheviks on Devuan Releases Beta of Systemd-Free 'Debian Fork' Base System (devuan.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Systemd scripts and other init scripts can coexist peacefully in the same package, so I don't see why maintainers can't work together. If there is a willing team of people who want to maintain these scripts I see no reason why the Debian team should stop them.

    A beautiful thing about open source is you have the choice to go against the flow. Sometimes it pays off. Often times it doesn't. If someone stops you then fork, but I really don't see what the big deal is. Let's keep our egos in check and hopefully we can see maintainers working together even if they have slightly different methodologies.

  22. Re:Because everything you can do on Microsoft Flow -- An IFTTT Alternative -- Aims To Connect Your Online Apps (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, ifttt will support Microsoft Flow soon making it usable.

  23. Synchronizing different events requires some assumptions about how synchronizing is done which should done by the things sending ifs to ifttt, not ifttt itself.

  24. Re:Or they could be lying on Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I just want to know how charred something has to be for it to be "probably" a weasel.

  25. Was it edited? I wish /. would post a note when they do that.