Can we get over this, please?

The fact that a supermajority vote can potentially allow Ello to someday run ads still leaves Ello 167% less obnoxious than Facebook.

Seriously, this reminds me of the 2004 election again, where a draft dodger managed to successfully demonize the war record of an actual veteran. WTF, seriously - Does The Zuck write copy for Slashdot now?

Apparently, you meant the work "presumably". ;)

But my point still holds - It doesn't count as cherry picking to quote the actual summary, even if the author wrote what he wrote speculatively.

If I say "in my opinion, dogs are better than cats", and someone points out my hypocrisy for having two cats and zero dogs, I can't then weasel out of it on the grounds that I said "in my opinion".

So do land-line telephones, websites, and Furbies. None of them are "intelligent". The only thing we have to fear from Google is ethical violations (which are a valid concern), not that it will ever become intelligent. You are really just reinforcing the point: so far no attempts at creating "artificial intelligence" actually work, and the things that actually work aren't anything like artificial intelligence.

You've ignored a critical distinction between "websites" and "spam filtering".

The former follows a specific human-designed set of instructions to serve up deterministic content in the manner intended.

The creator of the latter doesn't even know its final behavior. That programmer wrote a schema that allows for classification of information, which the end user trains, and exactly what it ends up doing depends on the subset of an incomprehensibly huge problem space it gets to see up to any particular decision it makes.

Cool trick, BTW - Did you know you can train your spam filter to do things totally unrelated to spam? For laughs, about five years ago I trained one to recognize male vs female authors from RSS feeds. Did pretty well, too, I got it over 80%, but beside the point - It "learned" something that its creator never had any intention of it doing.

That doesn't mean I'll name my spam filter and carry on a cheesy romance with it, but it most certainly does use AI techniques.

I'd like to suggest that those are not samples of actual AI. At least not in the sense that anyone with a serious background in AI would consider them to be.

I respectfully disagree, in that the "AI community" doesn't have a single unified viewpoint. In fact, they have pretty tidily bifurcated into two major camps.

One group says that "real" AI needs to pass the Turing test, needs to think like us, needs to recognize its own consciousness, needs the ability to tell a joke.

The other group has given us voice recognition, spam filtering, NetFlix recommendations, Google, and countless other "AI lite" technologies; technologies that might not have the ability to discuss Nietzsche with us, but unlike "real" AI, they actually work.

You cherry-picked your quote.

When TFS explicitly says "that's not allowed, presumably because Apple doesn't want iOS to serve as a drone controller", I don't think you can really accuse the GP of cherry-picking to make his point.

How does this not violate these stores' agreements with Visa (etc), which have explicitly partnered with Apple and Google to provide Pay and Wallet as a valid method of using their (virtual) cards at the register?

And worse than simply not accepting it, they did so because they plan to come up with their own competing product??? WTF, Rite Aid, do you really think people will rush to use yet another crappy store-specific solution, rather than look confused at the cashier for a few seconds before walking away, leaving their stuff at the register?

*Facepalm*

The GP refers to the 501(c)(4) scandal last year, not to any particular changes in law.

Looks like the liberals are just waiting for their turn to feel mock indignation about something. ;)


/ More liberal than conservative.
// Both with lowercase first letters.

Obviously! It not only kills you, it leave your body all bright and washed-out, with poor saturation and contrast balance.

Water cooling with or without an intervening diffusion system would work, but only if the water environment were constantly available.

I don't understand why this thread has continued past the GGP's done-in-one correct answer.

Water cooling in this context doesn't mean dumping heat into environmentally-available water like a boat or nuclear power plant. It means you have hollow metal blocks on the hot chips, a radiator on the outside, and some fluid flowing through the system to move the heat from inside to outside. You can thereby make the case completely waterproof while still effectively dissipating heat.

Now, for a somewhat better question than heat dissipation, how does the FP plan to power this rig? Yes, you can easily use outdoor conduit and junction boxes to get electricity to places exposed to water, but you can't really make that portable.

Google didn't do this to make the gamers happy. They did it to make the non gamers happy, because video game culture is ladden with a rich and repurposed vocabulary that constantly shows up when people don't want to see video games in their search results.

They have to recognize games in order to remove games. Once they've gone that far, throwing up a positive infobox is Slidebox Bob.

That's nice. I still have a right to complain about it.

Yes, you can. And they can discriminate against you for complaining about price discrimination. :)

Because it seems to me that what they really want are employees who are willing to implement the latest stupid-assed plan a bunch of pointy-haired, mid-management, sociopathic dipshits have come up with, without question or comment.

Right, critical thinking. When the boss says "jump", you don't just blindly lift both feet off the ground, you thoughtfully ask "How high, sir?"

I mean, c'mon, man! Without critical thinking, you might not jump as high as he wanted! Or you might even jump too high, wasting precious company time waiting for gravity to bring you back to the ground so you can take the next jump.

No one wants a "yes" man. They want a "yes SIR" man.

Oh dear. Well consider me properly embarrassed. I just assumed the link went to the something about the same sort of dark photons mentioned in TFA. Heh.

No, that makes it discrimination.

Although most people don't realize this - Discrimination doesn't break the law, except when done against a very small list of federally protected groups.

Giving senior citizen discounts? Cool. Giving non-senior discounts? Crime! "Ladies' night"? Kosher. "Mens' night"? Treif! Scholarships for blacks? Awesome! Scholarships for whites? You gonna get raped, son.

Unless Amazon specifically has code in place to detect screen readers or "old people typing" or Christian-themed plugins, they can charge whatever the hell they want, moment by moment.

Dark photons, or darkons , emitted by the boundary layer could simultaneously explain the missing mass and energy of the universe. Do I smell a Nobel prize?

Well, perhaps, but the referenced study failed to find any, thus ruling them out as an option.

Granted, science technically treats negative results as equally important to positive ones; society and the Nobel committee, however, have a pesky bias toward positive results.