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Comment Re:Ironic (Score 1) 257

well its obvious the tfa writer is working the job of an AI or the job of a robot.

the blurb was puzzling enough. like, what job is an AI? or robot? or they mean that robot builders now need to build robots to build robots or AI developers are being replaced by AI's? surely they're not.

Comment Re:Breaking news! (Score 1) 148

a looong while ago.

what do you think the military used the computers first for? I thought that was the joke of the comment.

the thing is though giving it an arbitrary video game. making a robot to play just breakout is very easy, but that it plays breakout after it sees it is not that easy (though breakout is very easy on that scale, paddle follows ball and you get points, not much trial and error involved before you have winning combination(also wasn'tthat done a year or three ago already??)

Comment Re: Is that really a lot? (Score 1) 280

nearly all of them? not directly of course. and why do you think I gave the leeway of double expenses(6months).

what do you think subcontractors or rentals are getting.
they could make it into a jobs program as well, no biggie.

also, I could see the point of the drone program at 28k per arrest if it was effective at keeping the border shut. but it's not! it's ridiculous that it's not shut with all the resources put into it, it's like they don't even want it to be shut

Comment Re:Is that really a lot? (Score 3, Interesting) 280

well considering that minimum wage for yearly is something around $22,283 then yeah 28k is a bit expensive. let's say that the employer costs are double what the employee gets.

yes, you could hire guys with motorbikes and have them drive around 6 months to catch one guy per one hired guy EASY.

it's friggin expensive thats what it is. besides, borders aren't that hard to keep. for some reason russia-finnish border keeps people from getting over it illegally very, very tight - and it's wilderness for most part. though russians are very very keen to keep Russians from coming over..

Comment Re:GTA San Andreas (Score 1) 100

the article with real vs. made pictures is about the method by some university person, while the police are using a company.

the method MIGHT be the exact same, but is doubtful.

basically what the genome will tell is just ethnicity(color, nose shape etc sterotype stuff really). basically what I'm getting at is that a VERBAL description made from the same information could be more useful - and yeah I'm pretty sure the coppers in case knew already that the dna was a "black male". now we have a sims(1) quality picture to go with that... I mean, fuck, why even include the hair in the picture except as a color marker?

and heck, you know, they couldn't match the face with 50 persons.. 50 is a whole lot smaller than "the world".

Comment Re:How does this compare to radio? (Score 4, Interesting) 305

ah but there is a system of paying per radio play regardless, usually the fee is based on potential listeners.

not the whole world works like USA as well, in smaller countries being on permanent radio playlist basis can pay the upkeep for an artist(of course there's just so many minutes in a day, so that is going to be a handful of artists)

pandora and other radio streaming kind of personalized sites work like they do because it makes the royalties cheaper than if the user could choose to play the same song again and again.

Comment Re:common man (Score 1) 194

I guess what he meant as the message was that any common man can be an uncommon man, through access to technology.

like, you don't need to be an european king to afford a computer...

however about the movie.. why the fuck would anyone want to go in the footsteps that lead to such misery for the hero? it's a tragic tale and turning it into pocahontas would have been crappery. I mean, there's plenty of more of inspiring figures in the world along the same subject lines some of who are still alive and who did just that.. become uncommon men from common beginnings through the innovative use of technology(and sometimes corporate backstabbing but hey.)

(haven't seen the movie)

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