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Comment Do you really think this hasn't been done already? (Score 1) 514

Algorithms have been killing people for years. There are anti missile systems which target according to their threat assessment. Systems have been developed which require a dead man switch once armed, if the operator dies the system takes that as permission to kill anything that looks like a threat and can't convince it otherwise. This horse left the stable decades ago.

Comment Re:Tesla kept logs. (Score 1) 609

Logs are a series of time stamped records and events. You have to read the logs to build the graphs. If someone is supposed to be driving from DC to Boston on I95 and the position logs put them in Manhattan for part of their journey then any fool can tell that our journo didn't play by the rules. So now he has been caught lying, and even if lying is normal being caught is embarrassing.

Comment Re:what a truckload of bullshit! (Score 1) 689

But they block Americans because the universities prefer foreign students because they pay more. Neither my wife nor my daughter can get in to the courses they want in the University of California system because the courses they want are full of foreigners. I am so glad I got my free education in Newcastle upon Tyne. My university doesn't have huge stadiums or any great facilities outside of a gymnasium and a decent library, but it does have a lot of class rooms and taught a lot of knowledge to a lot of kids and almost all for free. If many of your brightest people are priced out of education where is the country going?

Comment They pay for it, it's not like it is free. (Score 1) 689

They do pay more. Which is why American students can't get in to their local universities. That is just wrong. Universities should be run at cost and shouldn't pay anyone over the going rate for the job. Maybe a couple of hundred thousand for the top job and that's it. Places lice UC Berkeley should have to take their Californian students in preference to foreign students. Maybe allow 15% out of state and 10% foreign but allocate 75% to local kids, unless they don't apply. Education should be the primary role of these places, not making cash for their management.

Comment Re:nightmares (Score 1) 495

Seriously? You think Microsoft invented the mouse and keyboard? The first machine to have a mouse was the Xerox 8010 in 1981, it was integral to the Mac in 1984. Windows didn't turn up in a form that could use a mouse until the late 80s. My Counting House GT2000 in 1982 had a lovely separate keyboard, I have never found another like it. All this while MS was still just some horrible nightmare, back when the latest machines had 12.5MHz 68000s with nice orthogonal architectures and running Unix ten times faster than the first IBM PC.

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