Having worked in robotics, I can tell you that there are three levels of performance that people use to evaluate robots:

1. Can it navigate around obstacles?

2 .Can it get me a beer?

3. Can it find Sarah Connor?

Saving mankind from Megatron has got to be a 4 at least.

Having dabbled in a little R, I have to say I was surprised to see it in the top 10. First, everyone I know uses SPSS. And, why are so many people into statistical analysis anyways? I would have guessed that there might be one statistician for, say, every 100 web developers or so.

WhatsApp announced last month that it would stop begin sharing some of users' information

Well which one is it? It's like I don't do understand it!

So therefore it cannot work, because there is no such thing as AI.

Well, it probably uses artificial artificial intelligence. They just call it artificial intelligence because it sounds like it's really artificial, when it's actually artificially artificial.

Typical marketing BS.

liars are not to be trusted.

*Smacks forehead* So that's my problem!

The Sugar Association acknowledged that it "should have exercised greater transparency in all of its research activities.

Translation: We did it.

However, the trade-group went on to question the UCSF researchers' motives in digging up the issue and reframing the past events to "conveniently align with the currently trending anti-sugar narrative."

Translation: We're still doing it, so shut up.

"Most concerning is the growing use of headline-baiting articles to trump quality scientific research -- we're disappointed to see a journal of JAMA's stature being drawn into this trend"

Translation: You guys suck.

I'm 6'2", 250. Nobody has ever called me fat

Hey, guy who is 6'2" and weights 250 pounds. I didn't see you? Because you're eclipsing my office light. I just wanted to say, I really liked the way you suplexed that guy into the radiator last week. Made. My. Day. Oh, your weight? It's perfect! You know, not everybody could have ripped that toilet out of it's moorings like that. Yes, I know that loud flush was very startling.

Do you work out?

Oh, you and your space nutters. Classic 110010001000.

Hey, check this thing out. You plug a USB storage device into it, and it blocks write attempts.

You can find them on Amazon. I've never heard of any of the manufacturers though.

Unless someone starts producing USB flash drives that have a hardware write protect switch that can't be countermanded by software

Those already exist.

Precisely. A talking llama from the the UN once told me that they know how to defeat climate change AND poverty, and that everyone has already agreed to the plan. Not sure why we're still talking about this as if it's some sort of issue.

I mean, I was going to install solar panels, but now it seems like there's no point?

odds are you couldn't board a spaceship with a tent and some potatoes and start living there tomorrow as a farmer.

Also, it's very far away.

There already was a contest for a new Firefox logo. This one was the winner. Why not continue on in that theme and have the mozilla dinosaur head encased in a glacier or something?

You could stare into its dead eyes and relive memories of a once glorious past.

Yeah, when I get mod points and look for something to mod up, I realize what a wasteland it is. Thank god that doesn't happen very often.

Although I don't recall Slashdot ever being any better in terms of the comments that do get modded up. And usually that's all I care about.