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Comment: War on Drugs (Score 5, Funny) 237

by pitchpipe (#43699895) Attached to: Apple Deluged By Police Demands To Decrypt iPhones

Court documents show that federal agents were so stymied by the encrypted iPhone 4S of a Kentucky man accused of distributing crack cocaine that they turned to Apple for decryption help last year... Because the waiting list had grown so long, there would be at least a 7-week delay...

As soon as they are able to get these phones decrypted, this war on drugs will be won!

Comment: Re:A race of slaves (Score 3, Funny) 248

by pitchpipe (#43693251) Attached to: How Should the Law Think About Robots?

Oh, boo fucking hoo. I don't care that you overengineered your tools and your lack of real social skills means you have feelings for them. That's your problem, not a problem with society.

Says the slightly more evolved hairless chimpanzee, as he furiously hammers away at his over-engineered communications device.

Comment: Re:Equal rights (Score 1) 832

by pitchpipe (#43616181) Attached to: So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms?

Sheesh folks are getting bent over Yahoo increasing an already generous benefit for women but, not for men. How about we cut them a huss until everyone else in the country has the paltry 8 weeks of leave dads at Yahoo will get, then we can paint signs, hop on a buss, protest outside their offices, sign "Give Peace a Chance" and boycott their services...

Eight weeks is generous. Hell, even four weeks would be generous, and like you said, the women need the time to recuperate. So, I'm sure you'd be on board with them cutting the men's leave to four weeks so the women could have 16, right? I mean what would be wrong with that?

Comment: Re:Other than trading (Score 1) 559

by pitchpipe (#43583173) Attached to: Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs

Socialism.

And when those who provide, create and actually work refuse to give those who are lazy and do nothing the fruits of their efforts what then?

There's a word for those who work solely for the benefit of others with little to no practical choice but to do so. Slaves.

You do know that Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged is a work of fiction, right?

Comment: Re:What year is this? (Score 4, Insightful) 559

by pitchpipe (#43583081) Attached to: Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs

These exact same fears were written about in 1880.

So this must be exactly the same then.

Every wave of automation works the same way...

Except when they don't.

One of these automation revolutions is going to be qualitatively different from the ones in the past. I don't know if this one is the one, but it is coming. At some point when a machine can do any job better, faster, and more cheaply than any human, what's left for the human to do? Beg for food I guess... or something.

Comment: Re:Increased leisure time (Score 1) 559

by pitchpipe (#43582901) Attached to: Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs

If they don't share then they deserve the unrest they get.

I sure hope we get this shit figured out before then, 'cause you know the curse,"may you live in interesting times"? We're all going to get the unrest, deserved or not.

I'm not hopeful though, the 1%ers that we have now are good at making money, but really fucking stupid in most other ways, especially governance.

Comment: Re:How to take a short position in Bitcoin? (Score 3, Insightful) 583

by pitchpipe (#43313015) Attached to: Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value
I would advise against taking a short position in Bitcoins. What amazes me when watching a bubble is just how high it will go: it always goes much higher than anyone thinks it will go. Then, when the bubble pops, it goes much lower than anyone thought it could go.

Bubbles are unpredictable to say the least.

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