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Comment usenet anyone? (Score 1) 51

Forgive me for being very old school, if there is such a thing in the techie era. The structure of this "federation" sounds a lot like the structure of Usenet, where you can have any number of servers and channels.

Why doesn't some Gen X entrepreneur create a business out of that? It would be very easy.

Comment AI found my tumor, the Docs didn't (Score 1) 83

Last spring, I had an MRI. I get them every six months because I had liver cancer seven years ago. It, the AI program, found a pea-sized tumor and rated it a 5, definitely cancer. The doctors had a conference and decided that it must be cancer, even though none of them would have classified it as such themselves. They ablated it, fried it with microwaves, and I'm cancer-free again. I hope. An AI bot can scan quicker than a doctor can and is a very useful tool.

Comment Dumb (Score 1) 120

COBOL is a language that requires human-readable sentences. Of course, a programmer can make it obtuse but in general, COBIL code is easy to decipher. It's also a language that's easy to learn. So why build a bot that translates English to gibberish instead of paying a good coder to simply learn COBOL? Dumb Dumb dumb.

Comment Almost 150 years ago 12 years of free education (Score 1) 222

was considered a requirement for an industrialized society. That decision was made before the invention of the telephone, automobile, airplane or computer. That decision made the United States of America the leading engineering and manufacturing country in the world. We won WWI and WWII because if it.

We became the leading country in the world. The GI bill allowed a whole generation of post WWII vets to attend college and that inspired a whole generation of innovators.

Now, we've shut that down by imposing unbearable debt upon a whole generation of American youths. No wonder no one wants to go to college but that attitude will just let the USA descend into just another third world nation.

How much more technically sophisticated are we now? What's wrong with just adding four more years of free education if we are to compete with the EU or China?

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