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Comment Re:People coming around (Score 1) 95

Every post but yours is political slop - they don't care that the topic is about the weather or where it is going.

Slashdot is end stage political dumpster fire.

It's not fair to blame /. or any other forum where smart people hang out and the same shift happened. It's not a stage in their life, it's a phase we're all going through.

It will continue for as long as the anti-intellectual populism that is causing it continues, and it will carry over to anything that might replace /. You know why the topic of the weather is polarized, but if you need it spelled out, pass the black sharpie. At this point it's physics, reverse the anti-intellectualism and you'll depolarize science and the places that talk about it.

Comment Re:Just... wow (Score 1) 92

Considering those gamers living in momma's basement and maybe working at 7 eleven or Walmart might have clocked in more hours playing video games which nowadays are not too different from an actual simulator used by Boeing or Airbus

Please.. JFC, stop. You need to sucker under 30s preferably with no family into a high-stress government job that gets exciting in the most horrible ways, so you target "gamers".
Everyone can stop trying hard to make a connection, it's a recruiting strategy. You could make up an even better bunch of fluff for targeting people exiting military service too. I'm sure they do try, and I'm sure that demographic already knows the game too damn well or they would have made their numbers there.

If the Marine Corps run ads in Call of a duty you morons would be talking up modern drone warfare and controller thumb twitch. Sure, join to become a drone pilot, it will be a rose garden. They'd only do it because something changed and they thought they could find a large enough group of young people there that could pass a minimum fitness test in a few months that might be worth the ad spend. It's marketing, a numbers game. Sorry not sorry to piss on everyone's fun.

Hey if you recently graduated from high school and kind of feel like you suck at life call a Marine Recruiter. Do it to turn your life around, not *snicker* drone pilot... but you could totally be a cool drone pilot and get laid all the time too. Do it.

Comment Re:But why did they have access to the Internet?! (Score 1) 70

Probably because that is how they are sending data and receiving instructions. This sounds a lot more serious than they are trying to make it. Potentially it means that an enemy (China) could locate your "stealthy" drones and destroy or mislead them.

I'm sorry, your stealthy unmanned drone whose sketchily sourced webcam expects a wireless connection to the whole internet so that it can receive instructions to compromise the bespoke internal network ... and hack the drone's mainframe? Hey don't blame me, you started turning this into a bad action movie plot.

This probably isn't the supply chain attack you're making it out to be, this is stuff you should expect and check for when sourcing components for the drone you're building in your garage, like the earliest phase of development. No offense to the Royal Navy, I mean a lot of drones are built in garages these days, this whole story does not surprise me in any way.

Comment Re:This is a bit too new to tell (Score 1) 177

We have automation everywhere when it suits the right people. e.g. that speeding ticket you received for going 12 km/h over the limit? No human ever so much as saw that. Full automated process. Takes 6-12 weeks. Why? Because otherwise you might still remember how fast you were actually going or that you weren't even in that street on that day, and fight it. Same principle here: The slower the bureaucracy, the more people will just give up and go away. It's a self-regulating system to reduce the number of inquiries to the amount that the public servants can comfortably process.

My dudes, the system, our system(s) aren't perfect. I'm with you, the issue is the volume of shit courts have to deal with, and the solution is not super high speed automated dispute resolution systems to deal with even more automated speeding tickets, it's to lower the volume of bullshit, and less speeding tickets that do nothing good for anyone.

But complaining about getting in front of a judge to discuss how The Internet Moderators have treated you, what the fuck are you doing with your life. Again, the problem is volume, and no, sorry, the answer is not super high speed global legal frameworks to mediate petty internet moderation disputes. Kindly go the fuck away. *looks around* you all should be mature enough to take this literally thirty year old advice, go to a different channel, change your nickname, or turn your fucking computer off. It all still works, it still applies as well now as it did back then.

I sincerely wish the open source Android backgammon engine announcement dude the best of luck, but IDK, here's some more 30+ year old advice, try an email list, or try advertising on Slashdot.... ...... .

Comment Re:Um..like uh, man uh uh. no. (Score 1) 80

Your criticism is very well founded. My video sucks. The OS is awesome though. Compiz settings alter the experience a lot. I've opted for what I feel will be the best settings for normies without prior experience. Give it a shot in VM, but you might want to wait for 8.26.3 I'm fixing a lot this morning.

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