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Comment Jail Boeing (Score 2, Interesting) 148

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun should go to jail along with the rest of their C-levels. The culture and precedent of the footsoldiers solely getting into legal trouble needs to end. They were empowered and incentivized by their superiors, and this will keep happening if full accountability measures are not taken. This is inexcusable, especially since RICO is a law.

Comment Re: AI in the military (Score 1) 212

The Laws of Robotics are derivable from psychological models of consciousness based on survival and morality. If you put different weights on a survival circuit versus a morality circuit (and emphasize that it is immoral to end a life or allow it to end via inaction), you will have AIs that obey the Three Laws. I've been testing this using prompt language from Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson, and it's nuts how humanlike it can be.
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Western Digital Says Hackers Stole Data in Network Security Breach (techcrunch.com) 7

Data storage giant Western Digital has confirmed that hackers exfiltrated data from its systems during a "network security incident" last week. From a report: The California-based company said in a statement on Monday that an unauthorized third party gained access to "a number" of its internal systems on March 26. Western Digital hasn't confirmed the nature of the incident or revealed how it was compromised, but its statement suggests the incident may be linked to ransomware. [...] Western Digital notes that the incident "has caused and may continue to cause disruption" to the company's business operations.

Comment mono = yay (Score 1) 100

Xamarin supporting Attachmate's Mono stuff means a lot to me, as a developer. I work for a company that does a lot of Mono-based consulting. This is going to sound like advertising, but having Mono for Android and MonoTouch makes life as a mobile developer easy. For example, my coworkers have been working on an iPhone application for a client using MonoTouch, using MonoTouch.Dialog. The client wanted a dual launch with an Android app, and since we were using all Mono-based projects in an MVC pattern, all we had to do was rewrite the UI for Android. Most of the screens had a lot code that could be reused with MonoDroid.Dialog. That means that even though the iPhone project started two months before the Android one, it only took one month to catch up to iPhone. That's two months that I spent utilizing my time towards other clients, and two months that we didn't have to bill to this client. When I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face.
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Measuring the Speed of Light With Valentine's Day Chocolate 126

Cytotoxic writes "What to do with all of those leftover Valentine's Day chocolates? — a common problem for the Slashdot crowd. The folks over at Wired magazine have an answer for you in a nice article showing how to measure the speed of light with a microwave and some chocolate. A simple yet surprisingly accurate method that can be used to introduce the scientific method to children and others in need of a scientific education."

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