Comment The jokes write themselves (Score 1) 47
Try our new hash stuffed appetizers.
Comment Re:Slavery (Score 2) 236
(taking a step back, it is still a computer program executing bazillions of jumps, moves, adds, etc. Hard to see something conscious in there.)
We are a bunch of neurons meeting action potentials and firing synapses... Hard to see something conscious in there.
(Not that current AI is conscious, just that it's an eventual outcome.)
Comment A lot is because he can. (Score 1) 166
Because he is not (currently) a dictator, he can't make his own laws. He's limited in what he can do.
Tariffs are one of the few things in which he is mostly able to do unilaterally. When all you've got is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Comment Re:How do they get in to college ? (Score 4, Interesting) 264
I would really like to understand "can't read". Does this mean if I gave them something to read in front of the class that they couldn't read it without stopping / stuttering? Does it mean they can't read for comprehension? I'm assuming it's that they are not functionally illiterate. I assume it means can't read at their education level.
Comment Re:SUCKERS (Score 1) 83
And what about the computer that was used to write to the floppies?
Comment Can't wait (Score 2) 45
Can't wait until AI makes a security hole and a billion dollars' worth of cryptocurrency disappears overnight.
Comment So will it be another decade... (Score 1) 29
...before Linux 7 takes over Linux XP in number of users?
Comment hacking.com (Score 1) 15
hacking.yeah
Comment Such annoying policies (Score 1) 20
The community college I'm attending a class in online uses Proctorio. The rules say that we shouldn't wear headphones during the tests because we could be getting answers through the headset.
I'm taking a foreign language class, and part of the tests involves listening to spoken words. I don't own computer speakers, so how am I supposed to follow that rule? I'd have to buy speakers for just Proctorio.
Comment And it doesn't stop anything. (Score 2) 60
You can always make your own custom Secure Boot key database and sign whatever you want.
It's even easier on millions of Dell and Alienware computers that used the test key as their production Platform Key. You can just use the leaked private key to modify the keys without being easily detectable.
Comment Some might say (Score 3, Funny) 29
It was a flash in the panhandle.
Thanks, I'll be here til Thursday. Oh wait, it's Friday. Don't eat the veal, it's gone bad.
Submission + - Two monster black holes just collided — it's so massive, it shouldn't exis (sciencedaily.com)
alternative_right writes: Two colossal black holes—among the most massive ever seen—collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled across the cosmos and shook the foundations of astrophysical theory. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, this record-breaking merger has stunned scientists not only because of its size, but also due to the black holes’ extreme spins, challenging our current understanding of how such behemoths form.
Comment Re:Existing instruments give us a data firehose (Score 2) 60
It's not as if the CMB is going to evaporate or something.
It is going to evaporate, slowly....
Comment Re:Decades from now... (Score 5, Insightful) 229
Most of these people have likely never even interacted with a trans person.
Knowingly.
Comment Re:Is this an ad? (Score 1) 24
Seriously. This sounds like an ad. "The new version of our software is out, and ITS BETTER!"
You know Blender is free open source software, right? Slashdot even helped it to become free and open source many years ago.
