Comment Re:are you serious? (Score 1) 79
Says the person still posting on slashdot.
Comment Re:Hopefully aux OUTPUT survives (Score 1) 40
And the stereo in my car even supports Bluetooth so I could feed it directly from my phone.
Comment Re:We already tried this (Score 1) 244
Most hardware that supports DST switching also supports *not* DST switching, because not everywhere does.
Comment even worse! (Score 4, Funny) 244
With permanent DST we won't get the stories twice a year.
Comment better ask for more than that (Score 1) 51
They'll need the money to settle all the resulting lawsuits.
Comment Re:So... (Score 3, Insightful) 30
There's no reason why Python (compiled from Rust) would be any slower than Python (compiled from C). Both languages compile to native executable code, and both have good optimizers available.
Comment They likely can't do either one. (Score 1) 1
You're putting them in a bind. They probably can't give you the removal or details you want, so you're effectively telling them they can't legally use their translator. What else do you expect them to do but ghost you?
Comment It will be quashed. (Score 3, Insightful) 19
Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.
Comment Correlation or causation? (Score 1) 112
IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.
Something fishy is going on.
Comment Re:Sad what happened to Toyota (Score 2) 52
They hired some uninspired losers to lead their self-driving efforts. They basically were weak, looked into it and figured it's impossible.
There's nothing wrong with knowing your own limitations and acting accordingly. Had Mr. Zuckerberg had that sort of self-knowledge, he might have avoided lighting 80-billion-with-a-b dollars on fire and renaming his social media company after a technology that nobody wanted.
Comment So... (Score 1) 159
Are they going to chip you, or control your brain by more direct means?
Submission + - Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It (nytimes.com)
joshuark writes: In a new twist on the phrase "going viral" or stealing code, the NYT reports a virus has "stolen" a human gene, and will not let it go. In the article "This Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won’t Let Go of It" reports that scientists have found a human gene lurking in a virus that causes skin infections. Thus using our own DNA to infect us.
The molluscum contagiosum virus, which causes sores on skin, swiped a gene from humans about 100,000 years ago according to a new study.
The way that viruses replicate makes them particularly good at thieving DNA. The viruses infect a cell, then co-opt its machinery by injecting their own genes. Sometimes this process goes awry, and a stretch of the host’s DNA gets bundled into the new viral genes. This molecular error can pose a threat to human health.
The molluscum contagiosum virus, which causes sores on skin, swiped a gene from humans about 100,000 years ago according to a new study.
The way that viruses replicate makes them particularly good at thieving DNA. The viruses infect a cell, then co-opt its machinery by injecting their own genes. Sometimes this process goes awry, and a stretch of the host’s DNA gets bundled into the new viral genes. This molecular error can pose a threat to human health.
Comment Re:Say it again! (Score 1) 90
Yes, but think how great the fire sale is going to be for everyone else.
Comment Re:There's no risk whatsoever (Score 1, Troll) 90
How does the AI risk compare with the risk of allowing regimes like the IRGC to have nuclear weapons?
Well, some people think AI will extinctify us within four years, whereas if the IRGC gets nukes they'll figure out like everyone else that they can't actually use them except in self defense without getting erased, so the only difference will be that we won't be able to try crush them anymore.
You'd think common sense would make you want to go after the easy and obvious things first.
Yes, tell us how easy the current effort is turning out to be. Someone grabbed a tiger by the tail and can neither subdue it nor let go. The IRGC is probably laughing its ass off.
Comment Re:Yes, probably. And they likely can do even bett (Score 2) 241
And human drivers are NOT, "on average, really bad".
That is true, but it's a little more complicated than that.
The average driver is pretty good, 99.9% of the time. The other 0.1% of the time, they are tired, or angry, or momentarily distracted, or just looking the other direction from where they need to be looking under those particular circumstances. It's those occasional blips of inattention that cause lead to most accidents occurring.
