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  1. "Would you like some toast? Some nice hot crisp brown buttered toast. No? How about a muffin then? Nothing? You know the last time you had toast. 18 days ago, 11.36, Tuesday 3rd, two rounds. I mean, what's the point in buying a toaster with artificial intelligence if you don't like toast. I mean, this is my job. This is cruel, just cruel." I was surprised when I heard that they pushed an advertisement out, and shocked when they tried to defend it. Now they're saying it's not an ad because they didn't get money (note the weaseling) for it? That's Don Draper-esque level hubris.

  2. They really should pay attention to other fields on Mathematical Model Suggests That Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable · · Score: 1

    Remembering something is like reading a DRAM bit. You read it, and then you re-write it. This is why memory is fallible. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...

  3. Re:Bummer on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    7. Corpses, human and otherwise.

  4. Re: Let me be the First to Say... on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    But who knows "The Loss of the Antelope"?

  5. Re:It never worked on Mountain View To Partially Replace Google Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    And what makes you think that Google Fiber will actually be any better? Yes, I've used the Google Free WiFi in Mountain View. It was crap. What's now known as 1X celluar data service was faster and more reliable.

  6. Re:Or Maybe... on Silicon Valley's Loony Cheerleading Culture Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    wasn't there already a story about females in tech?

    Yesterday's (Monday's?) story about whether Grace Hopper could get hired in today's SV.

  7. Re:easy on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Removing bins will not fix underlying problem on London Bans Recycling Bins That Track Phones · · Score: 1

    The issue here isn't that MAC addresses are unique, it's that users aren't bright enough or are too lazy to turn off wi-fi detection when they're not using it.

    Exactly. As to the "large" address space - it's large if the random-number generator is actually random and has been seeded with a unique value. We've seen lots of bugs and exploits show up because those two conditions were not met.

  9. Re:Removing bins will not fix underlying problem on London Bans Recycling Bins That Track Phones · · Score: 1

    "Very small" - how many problems have we seen where the RNG used hasn't been adequate or was seeded with the same value across multiple devices?

  10. Re:Removing bins will not fix underlying problem on London Bans Recycling Bins That Track Phones · · Score: 2

    And if two devices randomize to the same MAC? That Would Be Bad.

  11. Re:Ronng! on FreeBSD Co-founder Jordan Hubbard Leaves Apple To Join iXsystems · · Score: 1
    Welcome to the first church of appliantology! the white zone is for loading and unloading only!

    http://youtu.be/tnSF36PBxbk

  12. Re:Microsoft on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 1
    http://windows.microsoft.com/mse

    Why yes, I do have that URL memorized. Sigh.

  13. Re:Haven't found one yet. on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 1

    Another vote for MSE. It Works.

  14. Re:Great on CubeSats Spurring Satellite Revolution · · Score: 2

    There's a perfect sound track for this: "Space Junk", by DEVO

  15. Watch out for that tree! on Vine Launches On Android · · Score: 1

    Watch out for thatOOOHtreeeee!

  16. Re:$85000 camera? on Camera Technique Captures New View of Space & Time · · Score: 1

    Because people have no sense of history. Instagram isn't (necessarily) cross-processing. Most of the effects just make photos look as if you've stored them in sunlight for a few years. Photos back then didn't look like that - they were a bit grainier than what we expect now, but they certainly didn't look washed out.

  17. Re:Don't they test these things before deploying?? on Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware · · Score: 1

    Android rootkits, too, have been flagged (on windows) for a long time because "it's malware from a software/hardware manufacturer's point of view".

  18. And what happened to Icarus? on Bill Clinton Backs 100 Year Starship · · Score: 1

    Someone missed a few fine points when the read the Cliffs Notes for Greek Myth.

  19. Re:I will sell you this solution already debugged! on Ask Slashdot: Using a Sandbox To Deal With Spambots? · · Score: 1

    So says the guy with the seven-digit account number.

  20. Re:The most used ten chords on Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same · · Score: 4, Funny

    Route learning? "First play this, walk to the center of the stage, play that, kneel, play the other thing, stand up, go back to the bassist and play this again." Or do you mean "rote learning"?

  21. Re:No on Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pounds Sterling. Fucking limey.

  22. Re:Inertia on Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Just tell your computer it's a US keyboard and touch-type. You can touch-type, can't you?

  23. Re:Titan is becoming a more amazing world on The Swirling Vortex of Titan · · Score: 1

    All the elements for the latter are in place, except for private ownership of printed material. However, if no-one reads them, then it really doesn't matter what they say. As to being about to get humans out of Terra's g-field...sigh. And Hard AI is so much harder than what anyone had imagined. And is much harder than what the Transhumanists and Singularists could possibly imagine.

  24. Re:Titan is becoming a more amazing world on The Swirling Vortex of Titan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Read and watch "2001: A Space Odyssey". (The book and the movie were developed simultaneously and you really need one to fully understand the other. I'd read the book first.) Then read "2010: Odyssey Two". Both written by Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Psychedelics optional where permitted by law, sitter who knows and loves the story highly advised.

  25. Re:Titan is becoming a more amazing world on The Swirling Vortex of Titan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Except Europa ... Attempt No Landings There.