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Comment Re:We will see (Score 1) 254

Imagine passing a law making auto manufacturers exempt from lawsuits regarding drunk driving. We do not have an epidemic of cases suing GM everytime someone is killed in a car crash. The burden of proof still has to prove liability or negligence that would have otherwise saved a life.

Your point is sound, but we do see this type of behavior with guns quite regularly. It's not so much of a stretch to imagine it happening with tech.

I don't disagree, though, that this is nothing but politicians pandering.

Comment Re:Twittidiots (Score 1) 147

I'm considering setting up a twitter account to act as a backup for my home servers. I'll just break up my encrypted tarballs into base64 or base58, 140-character segments, and tweet them! Boom, stored forever by the Internet!

Oh please do!

I can see it now...TTCP/IP: Twitter Transport Control Protocol...a new internet communications protocol. You can host it on Microsoft's Github.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 583

Today in America, if you're anywhere Right of Lenin, you're a far-right extremist.

Tempted to post this as AC for the backlash I'll likely receive, but I stand behind my words.

The pure hatred that Republicans show Democrats, and that Democrats show Republicans (in general for both cases, not all) is absolutely disgusting. I do hope we get through this without destroying these United States.

Comment Full circle (Score 2) 24

DALL-E is a neural network that can "take any text and make an image out of it,...CLIP, the other new neural network, "can take any set of visual categories and instantly create very strong and reliable visually classifiable text descriptions,"

I only have two questions:

Can DALL-E rebuild CLIP's input from CLIP's output?

Can CLIP rebuild DALL-E's input from DALL-E's output?

Comment Re:That's bold pricing. (Score 1) 115

It's probably aimed at Enterprise, where you always pay substantially more for substantially less. I think it's a law or something.

At my last job, they bought us $500 HP monitors to replace the Dell monitors we had (nevermind what they spent on actual computers themselves just to switch vendors!). My HP monitors were essentially like-in-kind replacements for my Dells (size, resolution, refresh rates, etc.), but over twice the price, new. I still can't fathom why they spent over $1000 on two basic 24" FHD monitors. They weren't particularly high-end or anything, just basic desktop monitors. Enterprise pricing.

I'm sure we paid less than the full listed price, but the point remains: anything aimed at Enterprise costs more and offers less.

Comment Re:Getting package to door (Score 1) 59

No drone can lift a pallet.

Give it time. Cars used to not be able to drive themselves.

A trebuchet would cause excessive damage to the merchandise.

Remember all those egg drop experiments during science week in grade school? Wrap the egg so it falls and doesn't break? Now we have a practical purpose.

Give it time.

Comment Re:50 Shades of Success (Score 1) 285

Maybe some wording changes will help. The flight ended as expected, which isn't necessarily a failure. Let's then say it ended as expected, in an explosion yielding useable results.

TL;DR: FTFY

You are pretty dense. This test flight was a first. No one has ever attempted to launch and land a rocket of this magnitude in the history of mankind.

Considering how much went as they expected and the explosion happened at the very end, the SpaceX team gained some very valuable experience.

SpaceX expected this flight to end in explosion, that it failed at the very end of the test allowed them to gather as much information as possible.

I don't understand your complaints. We just witnessed a very successful test flight on a vehicle that will likely lead to some very cool advancements for space exploration and your mentality is "bah, humbug". They aren't going to stop development because they "almost" nailed the landing... they will continue to work to perfect their vehicle.

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