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This is the first I've heard of this BS. The records Manning passed onto wikileaks were gotten off the SIPRNet and copied onto a music DVD. Manning was in touch with a number of journalists such as Adrian Lamo regarding US malfese in the region. It was Adrian Lamo that turned Manning in. ref ref

Let's see...

• All the Star Wars Films
• The Mandalorians New TV Series
• All the old Star Wars Animated Shows
• All the Marvel Movies
• New Marvel content featuring Loki, Scarlett Witch & Vision, Falcon & The Winter Soldier, and Hawkeye.
• Phineas & Ferb, including a new movie.

For $6.99 a month (or $69.99 a year)? Yeah, I'd do that...

https://www.freepress.net/news...

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/...

https://gizmodo.com/nearly-eve...

Hope that helps. There are places that do polls so you don't have to, and what they show is a persistent, long term, high majority desire for net neutrality.

At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, during the opening ceremonies, a BSOD was projected in large characters, on a wall of the Bird's Nest. But in contrast to the message in London, I doubt the BSOD in Beijing stayed up very long.

Peak oil / global oil supply has been incorrectly predicted for over a century now. Might as well throw the latest failed prediction onto the pile.

I'm not saying it's not a great idea to reduce our dependence, but don't kid yourself that it will happen naturally because we run out, at least not anytime soon.

Actually, I think its a little more complicated than that - https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-an.... I am not sure how this interacts with cloning and the jury is still out on what can be passed down in this way, but nurture does influence the genome which I assume would be passed down through cloning.

Yeah, look at those groups.

Yes, I'm looking at it

https://gizmodo.com/giant-braw...

Did you somehow conveniently "overlook" all the Germans im there?

Where are the GERMANS ??

Does any of those scumbags look like GERMANS??

Having P = 0.05 has led to "P-Hacking". One example was the "chocolate" trial that had a small group eating different diets and tracked a whole slew of things, looking for a correlation in any of them. It happened to be that in the small group eating 1.5oz of chocolate and otherwise dieting lost slightly more weight than the group just dieting. Due to not having a specific goal in mind, and small sample size, they were bound to determine some sort of "positive correlation" somewhere, and there you go. If it hadn't been weight loss, it would have been heart rate or something else.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fool...

This Gizmodo article has some information that the Guardian article leaves out:

https://gizmodo.com/fascinatin...

The experiment involved 34 adult volunteers, who collectively participated in hundreds of trials; all tests were done in a double blind manner, and control groups were also included.

After the experiments, none of the participants said they could tell when or if any change to the magnetic field had occurred. But for four of the 34 participants, the EEG data told a different story.

As noted in the new study, the researchers recorded “a strong, specific human brain response” to simulated “rotations of Earth-strength magnetic fields.” Specifically, the magnetic stimulation caused a drop in the amplitude of EEG alpha waves between 8 and 13 Hertz—a response shown to be repeatable among those four participants, even months afterward. Two simple rotations of the magnetic field appeared to trigger the response—movements comparable to a person nodding their head up or down, or turning it from left to right.

It seems that this effect may not be present or measurable in every human brain.

Since the alternative source link in the summary appears to link to an article about stock prices, here's some alternative alternative links that actually contain more relevant information:
- Boeing press release
- Gizmodo
- Washington Post

Why yes it is.

In more ways than one.

https://gizmodo.com/this-innoc...

A dedicated effort could surveil a workcenter in every conceivable way, and do so VERY discretely.

We will never sell-out our and compromise our principles. It would be like murder.

Failing to post to social media is not like murder. But more importantly, one could reasonably read this as being true no matter what happens. One merely has to understand that whatever the organization does, no matter how contradictory today's choices are given yesterday's statements of uncompromising principles, the organization always acts in line with their current principles.

Consider that organization representatives sometimes lie (or is that "compromise their principles"?). Cloudflare tells the public "Even if it were able to, Cloudflare does not monitor, evaluate, judge or store content appearing on a third party website." and Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said "We're the plumbers of the internet. We make the pipes work but it's not right for us to inspect what is or isn't going through the pipes." even as pro-ISIS websites used Cloudflare's website caching service. It was reported that changing this would be submitting to "mob rule". From the coverage on Gizmodo.com

Prince explained in an internal email to staffers that he doesn't think CEOs of internet companies should be in the position of policing content on their networks—he told Gizmodo he thinks that's a job that should ultimately be left up to law enforcement if the content violates the law—but felt pushed to act because the operators of the Daily Stormer are "assholes."

"I realized there was no way we were going to have that conversation with people calling us Nazis," Prince said. "The Daily Stormer site was bragging on their bulletin boards about how Cloudflare was one of them and that is the opposite of everything we believe. That was the tipping point for me."

Rather than post a followup, or use his apparently ready-made access to media to let everyone know that Matthew Prince and Cloudflare do not agree with the Daily Stormer's politics but stand up for free speech and not "inspect[ing] what is or isn't going through the pipes", on August 16, 2017 Prince said he "woke up [one] morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them [the Daily Stormer] off the Internet." (really, he was kicking Daily Stormer off Cloudflare). It seems wise to be prepared for a here-and-gone-again service model even from organizations whose principles once seemed so clear and uncompromised.

I'm sure the nuke crap would be far more sophisticated.

You sure about that?

The Nuclear Launch Code at US Minuteman Silos Was 00000000

Dude... the number of forced-vax nazis on this thread who espouse literal-Nazi policies makes it an apt comparison.

Godwin's law. Hitler!! They're like Hitler!!

bullshit.

If you want to do a Hitler comparison, they are the reverse-Hitler. Hitler was "we are going to kill all of you, men, women, and children alike". The pro vaccination people are "we are going to save your childrens' lives, even if you don't care."

And all this violently angry butthurt is over... measles? Measles! I had measles as a kid. Every kid I knew got the measles. It was a _mildly annoying_ ailment. Not in the same ballpark as polio - not even in the same league.

Read this one: https://io9.gizmodo.com/read-r...

You can only block IP addresses on your router, of which I'm sure Facebook use hundreds as part of their CDN.

Kashmir Hill at Gizmodo did a series where she spent a week each blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from her life (devices and internet sites), then a week blocking them all. (link to series) She had a friend setup a VPN for her devices configured to block access to the provider(s) and she noted in the articles how many IPs each controlled: Amazon: 23 million, Apple: 6 million, Facebook: 122,880, Google: 8 million, Microsoft: 21 million -- there's a link in each article to the data. She noted that blocking / not using Amazon was virtually impossible.

Browsers are moving towards dns over http, which bypasses your hosts file.

Don't know about Chrome (or other browsers), but this can be controlled and/or disabled in Firefox by setting "network.trr.mode" to 0. From my Firefox / Thunderbird "user.js" file:

// https://blog.nightly.mozilla.o...
// https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trust...
// 0: Off by default, 1: Firefox chooses faster, 2: TRR default w/DNS fallback,
// 3: TRR only mode, 4: Use DNS and shadow TRR for timings, 5: Disabled.

user_pref("network.trr.mode", 0);

if any oversight is needed at all, then use it to put competent IT staff in place.

The competency deficiency in government is in the overseers, not the workers.

One of the most technical areas is the Department of Energy. This is the guy running it.

Google, initially honored the flag

That doesn't seem true either. All the documents I saw are unanimous in stating Google never honored the flag, even when they were petitioned to do so. And they only came out publicly about it last year.
So, if you can find any proof that Google used to honor DNT, but stopped doing so after it was enabled by default in IE, please post it.

It is true.
Men are manipulated by testosterone to work harder, and take more risks than women. Men are highly motivated to engage in behaviours that attract a reproductive partner.

But if men are castrated, they live much longer, longer even than women. They stop doing so many silly dangerous things, and stop working so hard.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/men-ca...

As a 400-pound straight white male who identifies as a petite Asian lesbian on Tuesdays, I DEMAND equality! Women should be equal on all levels as men, so I will now petition Congress to mandate testosterone injections for all women, regardless of race or color. I will accept nothing less than zero tolerance on this matter, and you're a fucking racist sexist piece of shit if you disagree. Womens brains ARE equal to mens, and if studies prove they are not, then we need to correct that racist behavior!

(In case anyone forgot just how fucked liberal logic truly is today...)

It is true.
Men are manipulated by testosterone to work harder, and take more risks than women. Men are highly motivated to engage in behaviours that attract a reproductive partner.

But if men are castrated, they live much longer, longer even than women. They stop doing so many silly dangerous things, and stop working so hard.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/men-ca...

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-f...

Security cameras and their hub systems have been hacked like crazy, largely because the average user (homeowner, retail lackey, office lackey) doesn't even bother changing the default passwords, much less a firewall or any reasonable security measures. Here's a report of a website streaming over 70,000 hacked cameras, and here's a report of over a hundred police surveillance cameras being hacked to send spam right in DC. They're plenty hackable, just a matter of whether the Chinese state thinks it's worth risking sanctions from the countries they're surveilling.

But this could also easily be industrial espionage. In the US, anyone competing with Huawei could simply spend a few million lobbying to convince congress that it's happening. No proof is required, only that the capability is there, and that if China was doing it we might never know.

Well obviously you guys don't understand Facebook!

https://gizmodo.com/mark-zuckerberg-thinks-you-dont-trust-facebook-because-1832040327

Is this the latest article from Kashmir Hill? At the rate she's going, she'll be writing articles on a typewriter next month.

Remember when the Pono was going to be the savior of HiFi? Not a streaming solution of course, but going after the same general market. I wonder if Deezer HiFi will have any better success.

https://gizmodo.com/dont-buy-what-neil-young-is-selling-1678446860

That's a references to this Gizmodo article: https://gizmodo.com/audiophile... Yeah, for short cable lengths, any sufficiently large diameter wire works fine.

How does it behave if I kick it, whack it with a bat or just mess with it? Not that I'd normally even think of doing that, but the researchers are giving me ideas.

You're right, it's an obscure phrase that people only used briefly on obscure websites years ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/...
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07...
https://mashable.com/article/f...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/...
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/sc...
https://gizmodo.com/dark-patte...
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-...
https://www.extremetech.com/in...
https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
https://sdtimes.com/addiction/...
https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/15...

"AI is going to have as big an impact on our society as electricity"

You say that as if you doubt it to be true, but you sound a lot like this guy scoffing at David Bowie about the impact of the internet... back in 1999...

The cited Gizmodo article at https://gizmodo.com/how-cartog... clearly indicates that geolocation from IP addresses is not accurate. The article contained a link to a Web page at What Is My IP Address that does geolocation for the IP address of whoever visits that Web page. While What Is My IP Address did get my correct IP address and correctly placed me in California, it also placed me in the wrong county with the wrong ZIP code about 4 miles away from my true location.

I tried three other Web-based geolocation services. GeoIP first placed me in Missiouri; when I reloaded the Web page, it then placed me in New Jersey. Reloading justmyip placed me in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Tokyo, Japan; and La Roda, Spain. Both GeoIP and justmyip repeatedly got my IP address wrong. IP2Location placed me in California with the correct IP address but about 7 miles from my true location, in the same county as reported by What Is My IP Address but an even different ZIP code.

It's flamebait because we don't need your shit us politics in every thread

I realize the reading comprehension level has been dropping on this site, but this wasn't an attempt to shoehorn politics into an irrelevant discussion. Border patrol already uses drones, and the number of drone flights has been increasing.

Super Blood Wolf Moon?' Now We're Just Making Shit Up

Seriously - the "Super Blood Wolf Moon" is bullshit. Not science. Not News for Nerds. (The idea of a "Super Moon" was invented by an astrologer for $DIETY's sake!)

This is the next chance to see something really rare. a full moon with no adjectives whatsoever!

No Blood, Silver, Wolf, Super, Mega, Harvest, Pink, Ultra Blue or even Wombat Moon.

I think it’s being labelled as a ‘Normal’ moon.

Super Blood Wolf Moon?' Now We're Just Making Shit Up

Seriously - the "Super Blood Wolf Moon" is bullshit. Not science. Not News for Nerds. (The idea of a "Super Moon" was invented by an astrologer for $DIETY's sake!)

According to Gizmodo, it is 1600 ft. in diameter.. https://gizmodo.com/bennu-is-n...

The mainstream media, everyone.

New Horizons Scientists Double Down on 'Ultima Thule' Nickname Despite Nazi Associations

The excitement around NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arriving at its latest target, an oddly shaped object called (486958) 2014 MU69, has dredged up a fact that often goes unstatedâ"the object's nickname, "Ultima Thule," carries links to Nazism.

Though most people haven't heard of the term's unsavory use by the Nazis, the New Horizons team was aware of it and went with the name anyway, science reporter Meghan Bartels reported for Newsweek in March 2018. The New Horizons team continues to defend the term today.

But just looking at the Wikipedia page for "Thule" reveals that according to far-right German mythology, this place was the original origin of the "Aryan race." According to Bartels' reporting, the term acquired this connotation in the 19th century and was used by the Nazi party. NASA and the New Horizons team considered the alternate meaning and included it in the vote anyway, since this wasn't the "primary association," Mark Showalter, an astronomer on the New Horizons team, told Bartels. The name didn't get the most votes from the public, but NASA decided that it was the best fit for the object.

He did not address why the team decided on the name despite already knowing about the negative connotations. Plenty of symbols, like eagles and lighting bolts, have gained secondary, nefarious meanings due to Nazi associations - but "Ultima Thule" was selected despite the secondary meaning still used today by neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right, and at a time where Nazism is on the rise in the United States.

More from Newsweek: NASA NAMED ITS NEXT NEW HORIZONS TARGET ULTIMA THULE, A MYTHICAL LAND WITH A NAZI CONNECTION

On Tuesday, NASA announced their temporary nickname for the New Horizon missionâ(TM)s current target: Ultima Thule. The spacecraft is due to fly past on January 1, 2019, and the team was getting tired of using its official designation, 2014 MU69. Thereâ(TM)s just one issue: the name has some unsavory connotations. It was adopted by the forerunners to the Nazi party, and the term remains in use by modern so-called alt-right groups.

"The Nazis were fascinated by space and rocketships and things like that," Kurlander said. (During the 1940s and beyond, NASA thrived by hiring noted German rocket engineer Wernher Von Braun and other scientists who had worked for the Nazi regime.)

Maths should determine the yellow light time (considering the speed limit for the approach and the incline)

That way yellow light times would be consistent, and easy to prove if the yellow time is too short for an intersection.

Yeah, seems like it should be easy to have one consistent standard... or at least a minimum standard like "if the speed limit is X mph, the yellow should be no less than Y seconds" but cities could make the yellow longer if conditions warranted it, but there seems to be a number of standards, and cities appear to be able to set shorter intervals if they feel like it.

https://gizmodo.com/how-long-a...

Apple includes an MFI chip in authorized cables and their consumers took it willingly. I hope Android fans will stand fast against what Apple does...

I suggest we Musk it.

How Apple Lost the iPhone 4: Until now, Apple's legendary security has always worked perfectly. Perhaps there was a blurry factory photo here, or some last-minute information strategically whispered to some friendly media there. But when it comes to the big stuff, everything is airtight. At their Cupertino campus, any gadget or computer that is worth protecting is behind armored doors, with security locks with codes that change every few minutes. Prototypes are bolted to desks. Hidden in these labs, hardware, software and industrial-design elves toil separately on the same devices, without really having the complete picture of the final product. And hidden in every corner, the Apple secret police, a team of people with a single mission: To make sure nobody speaks. And if there's a leak, hunt down the traitor, and escort him out of the building. Using lockdowns and other fear tactics, these men in black are the last line of defense against any sneaky eyes. The Gran Jefe Steve trusts them to avoid Apple's worst nightmare: The leak of a strategic product that could cost them millions of dollars in free marketing promotion. One that would make them lose control of the product news cycle. But the fact is that there's no perfect security. Not when humans are involved. Humans that can lose things. You know, like the next generation iPhone 4.

The double-o construct in this short follows a long engineering tradition of shortening "out of" or "outside of" as "oo".

Or "object oriented", as in "programming". God, I hope there is never an OOP package that has a 'p' in the wrong place.

This is why we can't have nice things like Neural Information Processing Systems. Gutter brains like Elon Musk...

Are you trying to pull a "No True Scotsman"? Really? Got news for ya buddy but this whole thing was started by Tumblr kissing up to Apple and Apple is as SJW as they come .

So unless you are gonna seriously try to stand there and say one of the most leftist corps in all of CA is "conservative"? I'm afraid I have to steal a line from Mel Brooks and say what you are spewing is "bullshit bullshit aaaannnnddd BULLSHIT!"

IOW most if not all biometric authentication systems suck unless they are coupled with old boring passwords. You leave your fingerprints on everything you touch. Your face and retina can be remotely scanned, saved and duplicated. This leaves us with brainwaves but I'm not entirely sure they can't be copied as well. But you can be sure as hell brainwaves authentication will be incredibly difficult and expensive to implement for smartphone security.

Why weren't they able to crack Apple FaceID? Maybe because their 3D printer wasn't good enough as FaceID scans over 30 000 spatial dots in order to verify your identity but there were reports that it's already been cracked.

When I just read about Google imposing STASI like tactics of turning worker against worker in an article entitled "Snitches Get Stitches" it makes me wonder how far Google has strayed from "don't be evil". China is kinda hardcore ya know so maybe an employee took the new directives a little too close to heart?

US technology companies were being forced in FISA courts to cooperate with FBI investigations, such as on "mandatory back doors" to allow access to encrypted data."

Is there an actual link to this happening, or is this just more apples-to oranges fearmongering?

Both.

The FBI wanted a backdoor, and Apple fought it.
https://gizmodo.com/why-you-sh...
Successfully, that time-- the FBI withdrew, and said they'd find a different way to crack the phone.

Egads... The things totalitarian states can get away with.

https://gizmodo.com/5151377/ch...

I've read that the replacement is supposed to be the new and improved Android messaging app:

https://gizmodo.com/how-the-ne...

Which of course may mean it's flaky from non-phone devices, but they're supposed to be switching to RCS as quickly as they can. Maybe RCS will be less flaky from a desktop/laptop than SMS. Not sure.

But darn it, I want my PC to have accurate time.

The optical lattice clocks they're talking about "would take longer than the age of the universe (13.8 billion years) to lose a second." (from: Scientists Build Atomic Clocks Accurate Enough to Measure Changes in Spacetime Itself). If you think your PC will last that long, I want to know more about it than the clocks... :-)

So far, one person has died from automated car driving testing. While it's terrible that they died, when you put that in the context of the 101 people that died on average every day last year from car accidents, it's pretty clear that automated cars will be a net benefit for society.

We've become extremely adverse to risk and death in our society. Progress costs human lives, whether they end suddenly or as a result of years of toil at a job. Google employs 88,100 full time employees. Assuming a 40 hour work-week, and the 78.6 year life expectancy in the US, this means that they burn through 235 human lives each year. If you account for human work-hours, that number exceeds 500.

Even if you only care about sudden, unexpected deaths, we're doing well compared to before. Over 100 people died making the Hoover dam[1]. The pyramids claimed orders of magnitude more.

To make the world better, people will die. This is today's reality. It may occur suddenly, or gradually over time. Maybe with technological improvement in the future, this could change. But I will not support changing public policy to halt progress over the tragic loss of a single life.

Sources:
[1] https://io9.gizmodo.com/589318...

Do you want fewer mosquitoes, for at least a little while, or not?

If so, shaddup!

No, I'd rather maintain a reasonable amount of biodiversity.

If mosquitoes went extinct: Mosquito larvae are very important in aquatic ecology. Many other insects and small fish feed on them and the loss of that food source would cause their numbers to decline as well. Anything that feeds on them, such as game fish, raptorial birds, etc. would in turn suffer too. Mosquitoes can be wiped out but the ecological damage that would be necessary (draining swamps/wetlands, applying pesticides over wide areas), along with strict regulatory enforcement, would make eradication not worth it unless there was a very serious public health emergency.

The food source part is highly dubious, and the later part is completely unaffected by the method being tested.

Do you want fewer mosquitoes, for at least a little while, or not?

If so, shaddup!

No, I'd rather maintain a reasonable amount of biodiversity.

If mosquitoes went extinct: Mosquito larvae are very important in aquatic ecology. Many other insects and small fish feed on them and the loss of that food source would cause their numbers to decline as well. Anything that feeds on them, such as game fish, raptorial birds, etc. would in turn suffer too. Mosquitoes can be wiped out but the ecological damage that would be necessary (draining swamps/wetlands, applying pesticides over wide areas), along with strict regulatory enforcement, would make eradication not worth it unless there was a very serious public health emergency.

We can't see inside them, to know why things go wrong, when they do.

https://gizmodo.com/the-malwar...

"But the problem is, we don’t exactly know how the neural networks behind computer vision algorithms define the characteristics of each object, and that’s why they can fail in epic and unexpected ways."