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Comment Re:High price. (Score 1) 19

$899 to start. Enjoy your oligarch tax.

Jesus. Hard to believe Pixel started out as a cheaper Android option.

You're thinking of Nexus. Even by the end of the Nexus era, Google had shifted towards the flagship device market. Pixels have always been aimed at the flagship market.

If you want a cheaper option, look at the Pixel "A" series devices. They launch in the spring and generally have the prior year's CPU, less RAM, cheaper cameras and more plasticky build quality, but the prices are quite a bit lower. They still offer the same seven years of OS updates, though.

Comment Okay, but ... (Score 1) 74

US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers

Aren't many (most?) video games about destroying things? How much of their training will be about *not* crashing or shooting down planes? I guess it could work if scores are based on successful landings and course changes? Not as exciting, but maybe just as satisfying? They will know that there's no save, restore or reset functions - right? :-)

Comment Re:Removing it will never be (Score 1) 36

But in all those conversations, with all those people (who make robots for a living) ... no one has ever proposed "must make decisions on their own" as a prerequisite for being a robot.

Maybe you should talk to some people who other people agree know things instead of the people you work with who don't care enough to know the meanings of words. You'll see making decisions and various proxies for it throughout that article.

Comment Re:NOAA will be defunded (Score 1) 66

And that crowd ignores that the other Noah was involved in the biggest climate / sea-level change event in "history." :-)

Not to mention he was a stable genius, able to somehow collect and pack two of all the species on earth into a small (by modern standards) ship, then feed and transport them all around the world without mishap.

Obviously, Noah was a Timelord with a TARDIS.

Comment Re:What else are the pulling in from the environme (Score 1) 36

Though other than being alarmed, if plastics are as bad as the for us as we imagine wouldn't more people be suffering from the contamination?

What makes you think they aren't? Maybe our cancer rates would be a lot lower still than they are now without the microplastics? Or maybe plastic is turning the frogs gay, who knows? ;)

Comment Re:Not robots? (Score 1) 36

I looked it up briefly, and it seems their use case does conform to definitions of "microbot" and "microrobot" as used elsewhere.

A robot is a machine which does stuff and makes some decisions on its own. The motes being moved around externally are fundamentally not robots, and anyone claiming otherwise is polluting language with bullshit for their own ends.

Comment Re:Let's half-ass it forever! (Score 1) 30

I think that's actually the point - target something highly visible so it appears you're doing something (even if it accomplishes nothing meaningful to address the underlying issue). It's like how here in the US we have states with scary looking gun bans. Never mind some psychopath can still go on his shooting spree with a gun that isn't on the banned list.

Comment Re:Just a heads up, decentralized platforms... (Score 1) 47

So, neither the mob nor the guy are responsible for lynching and throwing rocks? The words are... Right?

What a stupid fucking thing to say. Oh, it's you. Shock amazement.

This will stop when we will be holding the people who do bad things responsible and will stop blaming words for the damage bad people do.

In fact both people are responsible to differing degrees already. You don't know how anything works. Best to run along now.

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