Comment Re:Must be mostly slop then (Score 1) 28
You must be somebody that watches porn for the character development and the story...
Actually, I like watching the stunt men and special effects.
Comment Re:Probably an enhancement by an AI agent (Score 1) 20
Nah, they're just jealous that other people's fuckups have been dominating the news, and they want some of that old-fashioned media love too.
Comment Won't matter to me (Score 2) 20
I haven't been to the cinema since 2917, because everything was already too boring and predictable to watch. Let alone pay for.
Comment Re:Crime details (Score 1) 65
Have you ever considered that pointing out that "x is bad" does not in any way imply "y is good".
Comment Recidivism rates (Score 1) 130
US: 66% (Wall Street's numbers aren't those found in official statistics)
UK: 28.9%
Holland: 23%
Norway: 16%
China: 6%
US' conclusion: The rate is a complete mystery, we've no idea how to decrease it, let's do more of what we're currently doing differently to everyone else.
There is a slight possibility this may be flawed.
Comment Re:Give my my SysVInit (Score 1) 141
My first reaction to this headline was "Why the hell does a system startup utility need any user records at all?"
Comment Re:Must be mostly slop then (Score 2) 28
Because Youtube is about half AI slop these days.
If "3x more" means proportional, then TT must be about 150% slop.
Probably a pretty good estimate...
Comment Re:Crime details (Score 1) 65
If only he had lived in the US, he could have appealed to the Supreme Court!
Or "donate" to an appropriate "charity".
Comment Re:Does this mean Sam Altman's going to prison? (Score 2) 65
What tripe. Heart surgeons? Structural engineers? You sound like a cliche machine. Please, find me an example of this fantasy. Spend the tokens, bitch.
When I registered for college, during the orientation they said that pre-meds are the group most frequently caught cheating.
Money is a big motivator. And not always for the good.
Submission + - About that DC terror plot
An anonymous reader writes: How come this disappeared from the news so fast? When I search for updates on the story all I can find is repeats of the week-old stories of five arrests, and some mentions that their trial may be held outside DC.
What about the other score or so of conspirators they were looking for? Are they still on the lam? Have the drones and explosives been found?
I've been laughing at people who claim that the assassination attempts were fake, but this is really out of bandwidth. Was there really a plot, or was it just some Stupids talking large on the internet?
What about the other score or so of conspirators they were looking for? Are they still on the lam? Have the drones and explosives been found?
I've been laughing at people who claim that the assassination attempts were fake, but this is really out of bandwidth. Was there really a plot, or was it just some Stupids talking large on the internet?
Comment Color me skeptical. (Score 1) 1
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Comment Re:Must be mostly slop then (Score 1) 28
Alas, pretty soon you won't even be able to find real porn.
Comment cue Juvenal (attributed) (Score 1) 91
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Perhaps appropriately, the original context had to do with someone trying to control his wife.
Comment Re:For those who don't get it... (Score 1) 28
Are you going to make Welsh the national language?
No!!! Even the Celts were interlopers.
And probably not the first.
Comment Re:A mirror into the future of the West. (Score 4, Insightful) 28
And this is somehow better "In the East"?
No, it's just that we naively didn't expect it from "the West".
