lolcatnip

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lolcatnip,

FWIW I think the quality of your posts is noteworthy, so the quantity is a good thing.

lolcatnip,

Only the presumption of innocence by the court is important to our legal system. Anyone not part of the trial has no obligation to presume any defendant is innocent.

lolcatnip,

I feel like if browser history was invented today people would have the same reaction to it.

Robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and painted cardboard (www.theregister.com)

A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...

lolcatnip,

What is the purpose of accountability other than to force people to do better? If the lack of accountability doesn’t stop a computer from outperforming a human, why worry about it?

lolcatnip, (edited )

That is simply not true. The law since basically forever had held that manufacturers are liable if their product malfunctions and hurts someone when it’s being operated in accordance with their instructions.

Edit: I hope all y’all who think the rule of law doesn’t exist are gonna vote against the felony party.

lolcatnip,

I’m from Seattle. I don’t even need to watch it to know the police here are murderous thugs.

lolcatnip,

I assume they’re all going to just ignore him, since he has no power to make them do anything.

lolcatnip,

OMG, so evil!

lolcatnip,

There’s the “Google can do no right” attitude I come here for!

lolcatnip,

I love Gimp but I would never suggest it as a Photoshop alternative for professional users.

lolcatnip,

Now “forced pregnancy Republicans”, too.

lolcatnip,

Republicans are scum and they’re tired of pretending they’re not.

lolcatnip,

Suppose you work for an email provider and you agree not to talk to law enforcement about your customers’ data without a subpoena. Seems pretty legit to me.

lolcatnip,

That’s what I had in mind, yes. A blanket ban sounds super shady.

lolcatnip,

If the software is much more expensive to develop, most is it just won’t exist at all. You can get the same effect by just not using software you feel is bloated.

lolcatnip, (edited )

At a certain point it makes more sense to subsidize better low-end hardware than to make every web site usable on a 20 year old flip phone. I’d argue that if saving 32 kB is considered a big win, you’re well past that point. Get that homeless guy a £50 phone and quit wasting the time of a bunch of engineers who make more than that in an hour.

lolcatnip,

If it was for surveillance, do you really think they’d tell you about it?

lolcatnip, (edited )

I’m all for ending homelessness, but that’s really a different problem than we were discussing. I’m pretty confident jQuery isn’t stopping anyone from being housed.

Anyway, there’s no way you’re gonna convince me 32 kB is a lot of data. It’s just not. Even the slowest 3G connections can download that much in half a second. Just the text of this thread is probably more than 32 kB. If you can’t download that much data, you only technically have Internet service at all.

lolcatnip,

I’ve lost the ability to stop media playing. Fortunately I have a Google Home with a pause button.

lolcatnip,

When everything is a cache, nothing is a cache.

lolcatnip,

What makes you think a civil war outside the military wouldn’t also be taking place inside the military?

lolcatnip, (edited )

Everyone doesn’t have to decide a war is preferable, just a critical mass. And it probably won’t be a war like you’re imagining, with battles and such, but rather a whole lot of terrorism and assassinations. Only a fool would attack a well-armed group directly when there are so many soft targets all over the place. Most Trumpanzees are dumb as bricks, but there are enough of them with a basic knowledge of military tactics that they won’t just throw themselves into a meat grinder.

lolcatnip,

Think of how many times you can trick a dog that trusts you before it starts to figure things out, and consider that Jones’ audience is more loyal and less intelligent than a typical dog.

lolcatnip, (edited )

Sometimes a program is slow to start up because it’s so boated that just loading it from the disk takes multiple seconds. Wasting a few kB doesn’t hurt anything, but if you’re doing it thousands of times in one program, your users are gonna have a bad time.

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