originalGMC - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Premera in which state? (Score 1) 72

by originalGMC on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @11:49AM (#57250896) Attached to: US Health Insurer Premera Blue Cross Accused of Destroying Evidence in Data Breach Lawsuit

Eh, I've worked for them as a very high level contractor before - they SAY they're not for profit, but the way they ACT is much different. The blues all have extraordinary salaries for their higher ups. Per https://khn.org/news/blue-shie... in ...

2015 compensation included a base salary of $1.07 million and incentive plan payouts of $2.45 million.

A better news story would be to illuminate what the "incentive plan" is... or maybe to expose just how much $ they spend on lobbying.

Comment college? (Score 1) 68

by originalGMC on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @11:40AM (#57250836) Attached to: Britain Faces an AI Brain Drain as Tech Giants Raid Top Universities

I thought big tech didn't like college.

Comment Re: Mastercard story or Google story? (Score 1) 137

by originalGMC on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:08PM (#57231710) Attached to: Google Bought Mastercard Data To Link Online Ads To Store Purchases, Says Report

If we buy Trump data can we also buy and post Clinton data?

I want to know how much she paid the DNC who paid the company who paid the law firm who paid the sleazy British spy who paid the Russians for the fake material she had released through her minions at the corrupted FBI, DoJ, and the major media outlets.

She put it on the amex!

Comment The answer is SIMPOL (Score 1) 622

by originalGMC on Monday August 27, 2018 @02:28PM (#57204678) Attached to: Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise

Have you ever wondered why governments seem unable to solve global problems like climate change, wealth inequality and mass migration?

But have you ever considered that it’s not that governments don’t want to act on these problems, but that they can't? Their need to keep their national economies attractive to international capital and investors makes it impossible for them to prioritize society or the environment, so things only get worse.

What if you could help release governments from competing for capital so they could cooperate for our future? What if you could be part of a global movement that allows us to use our votes in a completely new way to drive governments to cooperate?

https://simpol.org/

Comment Re:Plant fake info ... (Score 1) 34

by originalGMC on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:46PM (#57182188) Attached to: How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases Into $100 million

please please please do this

Comment Re:dedicated AI chip? can it help solve big issues (Score 1) 195

by originalGMC on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @07:36PM (#57170632) Attached to: Nvidia Unveils Powerful New RTX 2070 and 2080 Graphics Cards

This is what I'm afraid of ... not in that they're spying ... I get that it makes money. However, it seems to me like such wasted effort. When will it come to pass when we can say "gone are the days of our toiling away towards the acquisition of wealth" ? This rat race nonsense is really bullshit and its killing us.

Comment dedicated AI chip? can it help solve big issues? (Score 1) 195

by originalGMC on Monday August 20, 2018 @06:35PM (#57162754) Attached to: Nvidia Unveils Powerful New RTX 2070 and 2080 Graphics Cards

I read that

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Monday's Gamescom crowd that the Turing chip shipping in the consumer-grade RTX cards includes 18.9 billion transistors and that it includes three discrete processors: the Turing SM, the RT Core, and the Tensor Core. Huang said that the Tensor Core's focus on AI will allow newer RTX cards to predict and generate on-screen pixels as appropriate in a given 3D scene.

If you're predicting on screen pixels .... what else can you predict? Are you predicting?

The Tensor Core is "basically ten 1080 Tis dedicated to doing one thing: artificial intelligence," Huang said. .

I wonder what is possible when chaining all these tensor cores together in a block-chain, super computer, or bot-net... What are some major issues these major machines can solve? FTL problem(s)? Nvidia seems to mention "predicting" for games and graphics but what about predicting for habitable planets, what's on the other side of the wormhole? What are some other things? I can imagine most of it would go to predicting better advertisements!
source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming...

Comment Re:A study shows ... (Score 1) 247

by originalGMC on Thursday August 09, 2018 @11:11AM (#57096602) Attached to: New York City Just Voted To Cap Uber and Lyft Vehicles and Require Drivers To Be Paid a Minimum Wage

In some places, it's always crowded. On some message boards, there's always a cynic.

Comment Re:A study shows ... (Score 5, Informative) 247

by originalGMC on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:04PM (#57093376) Attached to: New York City Just Voted To Cap Uber and Lyft Vehicles and Require Drivers To Be Paid a Minimum Wage

Subways in Japan are very nearly perfect, for the modern man. For the future man, who knows? Why would any city try to reinvent the wheel when something so near perfection exists? Emulate!

Comment Re:Drivers will use wheelchair accessible vehicles (Score 1, Insightful) 247

by originalGMC on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:02PM (#57093358) Attached to: New York City Just Voted To Cap Uber and Lyft Vehicles and Require Drivers To Be Paid a Minimum Wage

Lol ever seen on your internet bill a "cost recovery fee" .... same shit different capitalist pig fuckers.

Comment Re:Is this what the masses really want? (Score 1) 247

by originalGMC on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:01PM (#57093356) Attached to: New York City Just Voted To Cap Uber and Lyft Vehicles and Require Drivers To Be Paid a Minimum Wage

Or, like Rudy, kill/disappear the bums.

Comment Re:Sounds fair (Score 1) 247

by originalGMC on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:00PM (#57093350) Attached to: New York City Just Voted To Cap Uber and Lyft Vehicles and Require Drivers To Be Paid a Minimum Wage

According to statistics, a reasonable minimum wage adjusted from 1971 for NYC would be $40 an hour.

This makes sense. This is also very near the Seattle, Austin, and Mountain View poverty lines. Anyone making less than this should also qualify for medicaid since about 75% of an income like that goes to shelter/food/water/heat in these places.

Wouldn't mind taking a look at those statistics though.

Comment Re:Only the paying ads get the speed (Score 1) 409

by originalGMC on Sunday August 05, 2018 @01:34PM (#57073830) Attached to: Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web'

These fucks have polluted our landscapes, our cities, and even our Web experiences. And for what? What do we get in return? Fuckin' nothing.

you said it sister

Comment Re:Trust issues (Score 1) 42

by originalGMC on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @02:30PM (#57050530) Attached to: Microsoft Launches Pilot Program To Provide Cybersecurity Protection To Political Campaigns and Election Authorities

120 pages of microsoft political contributions..... https://www.campaignmoney.com/... and with a snazzier interface / less data https://www.opensecrets.org/or...

Comment Re:Easy (Score 1) 75

by originalGMC on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @06:32PM (#57045120) Attached to: HP Will Give You $10,000 To Hack Your Printer

good old bobby tables

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