Comment Re:Ok... (Score 1) 188
Either it was stupid or it was satire, and sadly I can't really guess which is more likely.
Kinda like a
Comment Re:are you serious? (Score 1) 90
Comment even worse! (Score 5, Funny) 281
With permanent DST we won't get the stories twice a year.
Comment better ask for more than that (Score 1) 51
They'll need the money to settle all the resulting lawsuits.
Comment It will be quashed. (Score 3, Insightful) 19
Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.
Comment Correlation or causation? (Score 1) 113
IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.
Something fishy is going on.
Comment So... (Score 1) 160
Are they going to chip you, or control your brain by more direct means?
Comment Re:Say it again! (Score 1) 90
Yes, but think how great the fire sale is going to be for everyone else.
Comment Re:There's no risk whatsoever (Score 1, Troll) 90
How does the AI risk compare with the risk of allowing regimes like the IRGC to have nuclear weapons?
Well, some people think AI will extinctify us within four years, whereas if the IRGC gets nukes they'll figure out like everyone else that they can't actually use them except in self defense without getting erased, so the only difference will be that we won't be able to try crush them anymore.
You'd think common sense would make you want to go after the easy and obvious things first.
Yes, tell us how easy the current effort is turning out to be. Someone grabbed a tiger by the tail and can neither subdue it nor let go. The IRGC is probably laughing its ass off.
Comment Re:My advice (Score 1) 129
Comment Holy shit, have some self awareness (Score 2) 129
My advice: don't lament Raspberry Pi RAM upgrades, especially given they're only slightly harder to perform now. Very few hackers ever performed them, the main audience for them turned out to be dodgy hardware resellers online, and in most cases, repair doesn't seem to be impeded at all, either. Think of the users that will no longer be fooled by a shady seller on Amazon, especially now that the perverse incentives for board mods and reusing harvested RAM chips are at their highest.
This doesn't pass the 'would you say the same thing if it wasn't your baby' test.
Comment Re:Don't hate the player, hate the game (Score 1) 75
You're right, they could have made that choice. However, they would have priced themselves out of the market, as while they would have gained a small uptick in 'I want a cool Linux computer' sales, they would have faced a massive loss in 'I want a game console' and 'I want a Blu-Ray player' sales, which were the two primary drivers of PS3 sales.
Console price is king. There's a reason Sony's entire console launch presentation for the original PlayStation at E3 in 1995 was, and I quote, '$299.'
You can find it on YouTube, if you're interested.