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Comment Bring that here (Score 3, Insightful) 27

We need city ordinances banning tipping. Tipping is stupid, for one thing it's like how much do you tip service workers like the guys who deliver a home appliance that offered "free delivery"? 20% of the cost of the washing machine seems like a lot. Best solution, ban tipping and force companies to pay their workers adequately.

Comment Re:Seinfeld was on to something (Score 1) 30

Huh? First off birds do get hit by vehicles, but that aside .. even humans can see cars approaching. Therefore the fact that they can see cars coming into their trajectory isn't proof of high fps perception. I am not saying they don't have high frame rate perception, they probably need it for head stabilization and to detect a predator starting to spring towards them, or prey movements. https://www.reddit.com/r/oddly...

Comment Re:Human Driver Controls Should Be Mandatory (Score 2) 123

If you asked me yesterday regarding earthquakes I would have said "Don't be ridiculous! Do you think you're smarter than them? Waymo has obviously run many simulations and developed a plan of what their cars should do."

Now I'm thinking they probably haven't even thought about it. Scary.

Comment Re:I'm tired of being lied to (Score 1) 56

You're the liar. You think every murder has witnesses and people are writing down license plates? Without the images it wouldn't have been solved. If there was good camera coverage, they would have been able to track him well enough that he wouldn't have got to shoot the professor at MIT. Without cameras is how innocent people get caught.

Comment Re:Who Pays? (Score 0) 34

You know how large investors make money right? One day, Investor "A" wakes up and goes to Taco Bell and orders a dozen double cheese bean burritos. Then he takes a big dump, producing a ten pound steaming pile of shit. And now you have investor B come in, who offers $1 million dollars for an ounce of that ten pound steaming pile of shit. That means investor A is now "worth" a billion dollars, because his ten pound steaming pile of shit is "valued" at a billion dollars (valuation is determined at $1 million per ounce .. ten pounds .. ok I rounded up a little). Anyway, since investor A is now a billionaire, he can afford to purchase an ounce of investor B's steaming pile of shit too. Thus making Investor B a billionaire as well. He can go purchase a $10 million yacht by going to the bank and saying hey give me a loan, I have a ten pound steaming pile of shit that's worth $1 billion.

As for what happens to the pile of shit? Can it be sold? I dunno, who cares?

Now, imagine the pile of shit is a data center.

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