Comment Re:Cupertino? (Score 1) 55
It's called metonymy. In this case, the evil company that everyone here hates. No, not Monsanto, the other evil company.
Comment Re:Hmmmm.... (Score 1) 20
Now the Privacy Rapists will groom you, without you realizing it, instead.
Furthermore, they will now be competing for the longest streaks of grooming days. Hide your daughters now.
Comment Re:Right wing wants to keep all the violence for (Score 1) 95
that's because the right wing is inherently better at violence because they're better at command structures and you need a strong command structure to do effective violence, a command structure you aren't going to get rid of when the shooting stops.
And besides, we're the folks with most of the guns.
Comment Re:Every once in a while- (Score 1, Funny) 95
Apparently Ofcom has a form for registering complaints. Feel free to express yours.
Cool! Now in line with the site's identity woeness, what's the Welsh for "Fuck your speech code with a rusty razor!"
Comment A patent troll scorned (Score 2) 57
Shouldn't Massimo's hell-comparative fury be with the Patent Office, rather than CBP?
Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 61
The Japanese and Chinese tracks are all grade separated
Japan has some grade crossings on local lines, such as Shinsen on the Tokyo Inokashira line. All Shinkansen lines are grade separated.
Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 3, Insightful) 61
Bullet silencer technology applied to a bullet train.
Meanwhile, we're still struggling to bring our rail system into the twentieth century. We might go from diesel to electric in the 2040s.
Comment Re:It's bad enough people get experimented on (Score 2) 34
They're also safer than human drivers because they drive slower. Human-driven trucks usually drive the speed limit, which is 75 mph on the Texas portion of I-45. A self-driving truck will go slower to minimize fuel consumption, so 55 mph. A truck going 75 has nearly twice the kinetic energy.
And also because when the signage on the long uphill grade clearly requires that trucks must keep to the right lane, the robot ruck that can climb at eleven miles an hour won't tie up miles of traffic vainly trying to pass a truck doing 10.99 mph.
Comment Re:Teamsters (Score 3, Funny) 34
Wonder what the truckers unions think about this?
My state's response: What are those 'unions' you speak of?
Comment Re:So low energy, so sad. (Score 1) 45
Yuge success, great accomplishment.
But why not the US of A, but India?
The US answer to cheap Asian labor has to be robotic factories. These will take time to build, and will probably be financed by China as their way of avoiding the tariff.
Comment Re: Anker (Score -1, Flamebait) 42
Iâ(TM)ve always thought of them as making good products. Have been using their Soundcore headphones for a few years now. Hope they arenâ(TM)t going downhill.
This isn't Apple's fault, so it has to be Trump's fault somehow.
Comment Re:Who? (Score 1) 42
Never heard of him. What music did he compose that is famous?
Young whippersnapper. Get off my LAN!
Comment Is Astronomer supposed to be a tech company? (Score 2) 153
This, folks, is why China is winning.
Comment Birds, schmirds (Score 2, Funny) 97
We're not stopping until we can slice and dice a 737.
Comment So... (Score 2) 74
How much power-that-California-doesn't-have will this AI require?
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