Comment If Life Arose Twice... (Score 1) 104
...does that mean there's a chance intelligent life has the chance to make a second coming?
Comment The Value of AI? (Score 2) 83
Reddit's CEO is questioning the value of Google's AI? Based on the amount of AI garbage being posted on the site, one would assume that Reddit is completely fine with AI and its contributions to Reddit in general.
Comment In That Case... (Score 4, Funny) 56
...I've got 3:1 on NY winning! C'mon folks, $10 will get you $30! $100 will get you $300!
Comment Re:Brutality of Banality (Score 1) 180
Do you not understand the concepts of "Fun" and "Games"? How about "Humor"?
You could've just said, "No, I don't understand the difference between willing and unwilling participants. Therefore, I'm going to ignore your fact completely and make up a straw man to attack in its place."
Calling a pie in the face assault is f-ing absurd. It does not cause physical harm, nor is physical harm conceivably intended. It's soft, fluffy, and tasty. Someone gave him free snack in a funny way. He should be more ashamed of how he has responded than of what happened.
You seem hung up on what you consider assault as compared to what the law considers assault, and then completely ignore the fact that your definition isn't what's important. Perhaps you should just Google "is throwing a pie in a person's face assault".
And can it cause physical harm? What if the person had a dairy allergy or a gluten intolerance? People getting hit with pies in the face have caused lacerations and eye injuries, it's not a difficult thing to research and find examples. Obviously, these are considered negative physical reactions, so I'll go ahead and just say your claim that it can't cause physical harm is untrue.
Comment Re:Brutality of Banality (Score 2) 180
You keep bringing up this notion that somebody who WILLINGLY has pies thrown in their face at a fundraiser is somehow the same as somebody who UNWILLINGLY has pies thrown in their face. Do you really not understand the concepts of context and consent?
Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 1) 182
Sadly, a quick search and a perusing of the ACLU's web site shows that you are incorrect.
https://www.aclu.org/know-your...
Comment Content Creator =/= Influencer (Score 1) 192
Every story I've seen about this new degree has made the same mistake: calling it an "influencer degree". It's for content creation, not influencing. The latter is a subset of the former, but content creation is not specifically influencing.
Comment Re:nutcase (Score 5, Insightful) 62
I can't find a single shred of evidence this is the case. Doing some web searches I can see a few people stating that he's a Sandy Hook denier, but I haven't come across one single link or actual quote to back up the claim. Can you provide some actual citations?
Comment Oh No! (Score 1) 162
Now China will have to deal with CSAM created 40% cheaper and on more machines!
Submission + - Physicists create first room-temperature quantum material (phys.org)
alternative_right writes: In a study published in Nature, LSU physicists have developed the first room-temperature quantum material capable of distinguishing and transporting different quantum states of light, overcoming one of the biggest challenges in quantum materials research. Led by Associate Professor of Physics Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, the work establishes a general design principle for engineering an entirely new class of quantum materials, opening new possibilities for quantum computing, secure communications, sensing technologies and advanced energy systems.
Comment Re:Did nobody do the math at FCC? (Score 1) 79
The fact that they did do the math may be precisely why they're allowing it. It'll have very little effect on the amount of light or heat added to the illuminated area. More or less a full moon's worth of light and no essential effect on the local temperature.
Comment Introducing... (Score 1) 52
Nurse rAItched
Comment Re:How are we receiving its signals? (Score 1) 38
JWST is also currently located at the L2 point.
Comment Re: They are just mad he did it first (Score 1) 164
Let's say a game developer chooses to not sell the game on Steam and use something else instead. It probably would not sell that great.
Tell that to Mojang/Microsoft concerning Minecraft.
Comment Re:Stop milking the superhero movies (Score 1) 183
I do wonder how far he could take it, like could he do a Bananaman movie where the whole basis of the character and villains is parody, or is there a limit to it? Certainly the movies that have set out to be funny, like Shazam, have been fairly uninspiring.
Can you imagine an Ambush Bug movie? And the main villain is Argh!Yle? Or a movie based on the Heckler? So many possibilities exist, yet here we go with another variation of Superman and Batman...
