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Comment Re:In a Self-Driving Future--- (Score 2) 454

Roads are already dedicated tracks. If your self-driving cars can't handle law abiding, human drivers on the same road, then they aren't worth the bother in the first place.

SDCs can drive much closer together. Most estimates are that lane capacity will go up by a factor of five. If we are still going to have human drivers, then we will need more road capacity, more safety features, heavier and more expensive cars to withstand accidents, etc. I doubt many people will accept those higher taxes and costs to subsidize your hobby. If you want to drive, go to a privately owned track.

Comment Re:yes (Score 1) 330

Isn't it far more convenient to use them, well, like we used to use paper?

When I work with paper, I usually lay out two or more sheets side by side. Same when I use a computer monitor. I have the docs in one window, my code in a second window, and the output in a third. So my monitor needs to be wide enough for three windows. A square monitor would be okay, but it needs to be a more than 1920 pixels in each direction. If it was 2560, I would buy it.

Comment Woody Allen in Sleeper (Score 1) 252

This reminds me of the scene from Sleeper, where Woody Allen wakes up after 200 years. When he asks for granola, they are surprised that in the past, that was considered healthy.

Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.

The funny thing is, all this has actually happened, and we now know that the steak and deep fat is better for you than carbohydrate laden granola.

Comment Re:Other fugitives (Score 1) 173

Er, McAffee is wanted for murder in Belize. Knox is wanted in Italy and will be tried in absentia.

But neither have extradition requests pending. McAfee has charges pending but they've never made it to a judge. Knox is probably going to be extradited but hasn't yet.

Until the U.S. government gets an extradition request they aren't required to, and shouldn't, do anything.

Comment Re:Random sample from one paper (Score 1) 137

Your spell-checker ruined the fun or did you not notice that they have an editorial borad?

Than it should be fine for submission to the above mentioned "journal" as well as many others and Slashdot!

I'm not trying to tar and feather Indian technologists, I know that the who subject feeds into our US domestic politics and the whole H1-B quagmire. But have a look at the "editorial board" of this and other simular fraudulant "journals, and than remember a recent Slashdot story:

https://politics.slashdot.org/...

Over the last 25 years of my adult employment, I've worked with many gifted people from many countries including India, Eastern and Western Europe, and a fair number stereotypical North American bone heads. But things seemed to have changed in the last few years We lost all of our Blue Collar jobs the NAFTA (thanks, Bill Clinton), and we are now losing all of our white collar jobs. Soon we will all be Wal-Mart greeters or asking if you want fries with that. Of course, pumping gas went away except in a few states years ago.

Comment Re:We will never have "real" AI (Score 1) 68

We will never have "real" AI because every time we approach it, someone moves the bar as to what is required.

Artificial bars. The requirement is simple, have a computer that thinks like a human.

You don't even know what algorithm the human brain uses. They didn't in the 80s, either. Figure that out before you complain about bars being moved.

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