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Comment Re: This is why (Score 3, Insightful) 53

The overwhelming crush of two bug reports a week for a critical piece of software used on nearly every server anywhere? I understand it's a volunteer project, but keep it in perspective.

This isn't even a tech problem, it's a damned contest and not enough volunteers problem. Charge an entry fee, FFS, a deposit. How about farm it out to the community, validate a winning entry and you get part of the winnings. We do this on Slashdot for free, now split part of the bounty with the moderators.

That's all before technical solutions like duh, use a strong model to vet entries. Pay for it out of entry fees. Require submissions pass an automated regression test first. Which they should already have... and pay for use of it with entry fees, wait, pay for it out of the winner's pool, what are we giving that money away for if you can't run the program successfully without it?? Vetting submissions is part of the overhead.

A way bigger pet peeve of mine than beating on AI straw men is treating social problems like technical challenges. It's a contest with cash prizes and the volunteers are tired.. I mean figure it out folks.

Comment Re: How stupid are the Saudis? (Score 1) 52

And the Quran can be reinterpreted however the hell you want because of how weird the Arab writing is. I don't know the details but because of the way punctuation and tense works in the language you can basically read whatever the hell you want into it. The Christian Bible has the same thing going on because there isn't a single voice in the bible.

It has the same thing going because it was also written in a 2000+ year old language(s) right?

I don't know anything about ancient Hebrew or Aramaic or Greek, but I know how difficult it is to translate exact meaning between two modern languages. There is just no way that ancient Hebrew to modern English is a straighter line than ancient Arabic? to modern Arabic? I'll bet a hamburger on that at least.

Comment Father of the Smart Phone here, yeah it's time (Score 1) 14

Father of the Smart Phone - Jim Sager Know how poor Steve Jobs stole the Mac design from rich Xerox.
They never tell you that RICH STEVE JOBS stole the Smart Phone from a poor undergrad... but the story's coming out, and it's why Warren Buffet sold his stock, why everyone's backing away.
I could have sued for about 100 million dollars for the past 20 years, but I didn't want money... When I designed the Smart Phone in 2000, I saw it would lead to the rise of the surveillance state and waited til now for maximum impact.
https://wolfsheadonline.com/biggest-story-of-the-century-the-smart-phone-design-stolen-by-not-invented-by-apple-google/
If Apple could sue 1 billion for caveman tech (round corners), how much does Apple owe me for:
#1 Virtual keyboard
#2 3 button nav
#3 App store
#4 Palm+Cellular
#5 Cloud Computing
#6 Contact list
#7 Advanced Scheduler
#8 The Smart Watch Apple Watch
#9 APPLE VISION PRO IN GOGGLE DISPLAY!
#10 Global Positioning System
#11 QR business Cards
#12 Wireless communications in a handheld device
#13 Fuzzy search settings by typing
#14 Different Sounds for different alerts & Vibro/Visual/Sound Alert combo.
#15 Voice recorder
#16 Air tags
#17 Wire to computer to move files
#18 Wireless
#19 Contextual help system / Adaptive onboarding and custom icon set circle around ?
#20 Spell Check
#21 Copy/paste, undo/redo
#22 Customizable programmable calculators
#23 GUI Principles for Mobile — Hideable zones / Customizable Home screen
#24 Email
#25 Media Casting from Mobile to External Display
#26 Filesystem Navigation in PDA/Smartphone
#27 Smart Spell Checking for Touch Input
#28 Foldable Screen Hardware Design
#29 Different Device size parameters to different users
#30 Ergonomics of Device Dimensions and UI Layout
#31 PC data link cable
And more: Turns out: Around $200 billion dollars.
Rumble: Story of the Century
Wolfshead Article
www.Techaform.com
Most Scammed Inventor
X Thread
Set A: link
Set B: link
Be aware Tim Cook knows Steve Jobs robbed me and refuses to honor me, but plays the Tyrant card. Steve Robs for Tim Crook.
Warren Buffet sold his stock directly in response to me contacting his lawyers once and twice.
The papers are copyrights signed by Carnegie Mellon. They invalidate most of Apple and Google's Smart Phone patents.
When you rally behind Jim Sager (goodnewsjim) you're rallying for a free and open world that says no to Big Brother Apple who turned people into governments and fought vs American free speech.
A choice is to be made by the Shareholders & Tim Crook:
I'm the past genius behind Apple.
I could be the Future of Apple or the End of Apple.
Watch the Video
I'm the Father of the Smart Phone.
I'm the reason Apple was a success in the past.
THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!! YOU CAN VERIFY THE DESIGNS and they're signed by Carnegie Mellon.
I'm getting bigger and bigger press: YouTube
This is good for this forum as you have the brains behind Steve Jobs posting here.
This is good for the Apple Community because I designed all the major features of the original iPhone/SmartWatch/Vision Pro.
No more trash designs.
I'm the man Steve Jobs robbed of over 100+ designs.
I forged a 5 trillion Apple Smart Phone Empire and 3 trillion for Google, not counting 3rd party devs.
I could have sued Apple/Google for tens of millions for decades, but waited til the full on Big Brother state came in...
I'm here to sweep in and save them from going full Orwellian boot stomping.
I'm here to save Apple from lack of creativity in design.
I could be the Future of Apple or the End of Apple.
The choice is up to the Shareholders & Tim Crook who cost his company close to 1 trillion fighting me instead of honoring me.
Watch the video, be impressed, then go to: Techaform
Virtual Keyboard: Link
Smart Phone Birth: Link
App Store: Link
Task Switcher: Link
Apple Watch: Link
Vision Pro / Goggles: Link
Mobile Cloud: Link
Copy/Paste Feature: Link
Scheduler: Link
Voice Recorder: Link
Spell Checker: Link
Contact List: Link
Alert System: Link
Home Screen UI: Link
Email: Link
Casting Tech: Link
CMU Papers: Link
70,000 Hours Experience: Link

Comment Bill Gates Bioterrorist: owner of the FCC/COMCAST (Score -1, Troll) 35

MSNBC->MS stands for Microsoft
.MSNsC lying for the WEF is Bill Gates.
.Google: Wuhan Bill Gates. Gates brags he funded wuhan bioterror labs.
.Think Comcast sucks? Bill Gates owns it as a way of frickin with us as psychological experimentation to see what we'll take. Bonus it's a state sponsored monopoly that local ISPS cannot share the poles and compete with.
. Google: ....Meredith Atwell Baker nbc comcast merger bribes..., Gate Bribes the FCC.
. Bill Gates makes GMO mosquitos.
.Bill Gates makes fake meat which causes cancer.
.Watch Universal Flu Vaccine CSPAN, Bill Gates predicts covid a month before hand and has a vax to sell us ready.
.Bill Gates is doing weather control, Google: Scopex...
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.We laughed... Bill Gates name adds up to 666, we ain't laughing now, dude's a fricker...
. Bonus Bill Gates is the big guy bribing officials to cover up Epstein, Buffet just gave him an extra 6 billion. Bill Gates openly lied about Epstein by answering a question with a premeditated answer unrelated to the question at hand and is very defensive... Melinda divorces him due to Epstein/covid-wuhan... Knowing is 1/2 the Battle.

Comment Windmills are worse (Score 0, Troll) 245

Windmills I hear from fellow researchers never break even. Made by Blackrock as a slushfund They take down trees, they spend lots of money building em, then dust destroys the rotational component before they make enough electricity to pay for em. The real winner is nuclear. Nuclear would save us 13,000,000 lives a year from the invisible killer air pollution.

Comment Re: Go away from slashdot ur too dum. (Score 1) 117

Even that source seems weird though, it has Kansas having more than Washington.

You must mean Kansas City, it's a big destination for conventions because it's in the middle of the country.

I'm sure it makes sense to count that in some ways because it feeds the hospitality industry just the same, but it's not the same as normal tourist traffic that might spend each day in a different place. Like you go to KC for a week and you might have one free day to see a Royals game, go to Virginia and you can hit the Mall, Smithsonian, Busch Gardens, Monuments, landmarks, historic towns in one trip.

Comment Re: The economy is struggling (Score 3, Informative) 241

now youâ(TM)re telling me that cutting the federal workforce by a small amount was enough tank that robust economy?

Nobody anywhere said that. Your federal job cuts put a lot of people out of work, didn't save the money you promised and your recent spending bill ... increased spending. Then you cry about the debt.

Speaking of eggs, what did you do to help farmers facing a bird flu epidemic, nothing, OFC. It's embarrassing.

Comment Re: Enjoy it while it lasts (Score 2) 33

Texas feels like that too, all the crazy MAGA talk about windmill cancer and solar bird ovens or whatever isn't reflected in the amount of renewables anyone can see on ercot.com the gov and Lt gov don't seem to talk about it.

There is still a large chunk of conservatives doing the say crazy shit but do something more practical approach to politics. Problem is it's getting harder for them, they're all under a lot of pressure to do more stupid shit or they will get tea partied... or maga'd by someone shittier. All the boneheaded border stuff in TX that costs a lot of money and hasn't accomplished anything, for example.

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