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Please, fix this irritating layout glitch: http://i.imgur.com/BqgmROM.png

("from the see-attachments"... what? dept.?)

"Nobody's blacklisting you."

https://i.imgur.com/bFqctCh.pn...

Except that screencap is taken with ALL COMMENTS LOADED and with me signed in. Where is the comment you're replying to?

I'll be waiting for the answer that will never come because you always run when you get your ass busted with something as simple as ALT+PRTSCR.

Totally.

I'm a ham radio operator making extensive use of the 3.4-3.5 GHz (9cm)band. This story is useless without defining 3.5 GHz better.

If it's 3550-3700, that's not the ham band and we're ok. But what band is it? 3.5 is lots of things to lots of people.

Our link across Tampa Bay

Details haven't been posted yet. They should turn up here: http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctio...

Obligatory Futurama: President Nixon proposes building a Dyson Fence around the southern border of the Solar System.

I'm a ham radio operator making extensive use of the 3.4-3.5 GHz (9cm)band. This story is useless without defining 3.5 GHz better.

If it's 3550-3700, that's not the ham band and we're ok. But what band is it? 3.5 is lots of things to lots of people.

Our link across Tampa Bay

The DNC/Clinton machine paid for the Steele Dossier which was used as justification for FISA warrant to spy on the opposition campaign. Hillary masked her purchase through two legal proxies (one of whom pled the fifth in a deposition) and hired a foreign spy as part of gathering the intel. This is big stuff, Watergate big, I mean using Oppo Research to spy on people in the middle of an election. Watergate was just a third-rate burglary. This is 50 times what that was. This is no longer some pie-in-the-sky conspiracy. There is massive evidence, including statements from the co-conspirators, that highlights this exact operation in detail.

It is almost certain that the FBI used the dossier to get FISA court warrants to spy on Trump associates, meaning it used the opposition research of the party in power to convince a court to let it spy on the candidate of the other party - likely without telling the court of the dossier's political link.

This goes well beyond basic criminality. We're getting into serious sedition, high crimes, and treason territory here. The FBI and NSA aren't "accidentally losing" hundreds of text messages and emails because nothing is at stake.

Did you know Manafort worked for the Podesta Group in helping seal up the Uranium One deal, and the Podestas worked directly with the Russian government to do it? The smoking gun.

You know who Manafort was working for when he did all that dodgy Ukranian shit? The Podesta Group! That's right, the same one! You can't make this shit up, people. Here's the smoking gun. Manafort was campaign manager for a couple of months because he had convention experience. The Podesta Group was hired by Paul Manafort on behalf of foreign clients because the company was perceived to have a direct line to powerful politicians, like Hillary Clinton.

The chairman of one major presidential campaign colluded with a brother of the *other* major presidential campaign chairman to enrich themselves by secretly advancing the interests of a foreign adversary. That happened. That's "the swamp" everyone is saying needs to be drained.

On April 12, 2017, The Podesta Group, Inc. disclosed to the DOJ omission of statements and falsification of at least five FARA reports. The Podesta Group, Inc. failed to identify as a foreign agent acting on behalf of "European Centre of a Modern Ukraine" (Manafort) between April 18, 2012 - April 30, 2014

I mean, it's just amusing. After MILLIONS spent, the primary focus of Mueller's investigation has NOTHING to do with Trump/Russia collusion! Mueller is doing offshore wires done by Manafort in 2012 and 2013. I thought this was supposed to be about the 2016 election?

If the FBI knew that Manafort was a Ukranian money launderer in 2014, why wouldn't they tell Trump unless they were going to blackmail him with that information?

Yeah, that's the smart thing to do if you have something to hide. Chuck Schumer agrees. Here he is sitting down with a burner phone and meeting with the son of George Soros. Isn't that intent to circumvent FOIA? Either that, or intent to circumvent Records Management by Federal Agencies (44 U.S.C. Chapter 31). Either way, it stinks.

If I look at my user page

https://slashdot.org/~Hal_Port...

The most recent comment I can see is from yesterday

https://imgur.com/a/68y2T

And yet obviously the comment you responded to from today exists.

I told you not to use go-to's.

virus

What is "Medium Mode" I can't find any setting in uBlock Origin to set the "mode". I run it with its default settings and the site loads fine.

It just means "Block third party scripts and frames by default". You need to check "I am an advanced user" and then enable the two global blocks as explained here

https://github.com/gorhill/uBl...

And then you need to work out what exceptions you need to make to get a site to work.

E.g. for slashdot I had to add a local whitelist entry for fsdn.com

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Ignoring a judge's order to take down a sex tape isn't a very good idea

http://gawker.com/a-judge-told...

It's also hypocritical given they'd earlier criticised people for not taking down Jennifer Lawrence's nudes. Jezebel and Gawker were both owned by Gawker Media.

https://imgur.com/a/ULIA4

Gawker pissed of Thiel by running this

http://gawker.com/335894/peter...

Apparently they outed him when he was on a business trip to Saudi Arabia.

So Thiel backed Hogan's lawsuit, and that bankrupted Gawker media.

I for one am hoping for horny space goats

Ok great science, the 0.2% invalidates the rest?

That 0.2% invalidates the hypothesis that there are exactly two genders no more, no less, yes.

I see you simply flat-out ignored my statement that it was strongly bimodal since you want to be angry that I'm disagreeing with your absoltues.

Humans are complex but one of the easiest thing is to identify gender. You don't need a special medical test, you can do it yourself at home.

OK, Identify the gender of these people:

https://imgur.com/a/j5HS2
https://i.imgur.com/znNqcDk.jp...
https://imgur.com/a/4ju7e
https://imgur.com/a/h8v02

what's the "correct" gender and why? I'll know if you cheat using reverse image search.

You don't need a special medical test, you can do it yourself at home.

Oh yeah and what's that then? I'll bet I can find counter examples.

Ok great science, the 0.2% invalidates the rest?

That 0.2% invalidates the hypothesis that there are exactly two genders no more, no less, yes.

I see you simply flat-out ignored my statement that it was strongly bimodal since you want to be angry that I'm disagreeing with your absoltues.

Humans are complex but one of the easiest thing is to identify gender. You don't need a special medical test, you can do it yourself at home.

OK, Identify the gender of these people:

https://imgur.com/a/j5HS2
https://i.imgur.com/znNqcDk.jp...
https://imgur.com/a/4ju7e
https://imgur.com/a/h8v02

what's the "correct" gender and why? I'll know if you cheat using reverse image search.

You don't need a special medical test, you can do it yourself at home.

Oh yeah and what's that then? I'll bet I can find counter examples.

Ok great science, the 0.2% invalidates the rest?

That 0.2% invalidates the hypothesis that there are exactly two genders no more, no less, yes.

I see you simply flat-out ignored my statement that it was strongly bimodal since you want to be angry that I'm disagreeing with your absoltues.

Humans are complex but one of the easiest thing is to identify gender. You don't need a special medical test, you can do it yourself at home.

OK, Identify the gender of these people:

https://imgur.com/a/j5HS2
https://i.imgur.com/znNqcDk.jp...
https://imgur.com/a/4ju7e
https://imgur.com/a/h8v02

what's the "correct" gender and why? I'll know if you cheat using reverse image search.

You don't need a special medical test, you can do it yourself at home.

Oh yeah and what's that then? I'll bet I can find counter examples.

Ok great science, the 0.2% invalidates the rest?

That 0.2% invalidates the hypothesis that there are exactly two genders no more, no less, yes.

I see you simply flat-out ignored my statement that it was strongly bimodal since you want to be angry that I'm disagreeing with your absoltues.

Humans are complex but one of the easiest thing is to identify gender. You don't need a special medical test, you can do it yourself at home.

OK, Identify the gender of these people:

https://imgur.com/a/j5HS2
https://i.imgur.com/znNqcDk.jp...
https://imgur.com/a/4ju7e
https://imgur.com/a/h8v02

what's the "correct" gender and why? I'll know if you cheat using reverse image search.

You don't need a special medical test, you can do it yourself at home.

Oh yeah and what's that then? I'll bet I can find counter examples.

Not that 'perseverating' is in my vocabulary either, but here's a screengrab of my Google search for 'perviserating'. Can you point out where it corrects the word?

https://imgur.com/a/zXQKF

Please do keep calling me a liar just because Google reacts differently in different countries.

Ahh, someone doesn't understand levels! The HomePod was doing about 75 dB SPL in that 56% THD test! That's just above audible - that is a lower signal level. See, human auditory systems do NOT change sensitivity with the limits if your speakers! A speaker generating 56% THD @ 75 dB SPL will not be hard to hear at all. Doesn't matter that it's a "high level signal" for the speaker - that is a low level signal for a human! And it is quite audible - just check the FM/RD curves...

If you think that 75 dB SPL is "Just above audible", you need to have some hearing-aids installed!

Conversation is around 60 dB SPL; 75 dB SPL (on what weighting scale?) is certainly not "loud"; but it is WAY above the 30 dB SPL of a whisper.

I like my TV at home around 75-80 dB SPL, and that is most definitely a "comfortable listening level". You'd have to be Pete Townshend to think that 75 dB SPL was "just above audible"!!!

Hell, a moderately-quiet band in a nightclub is usually only around 85-90 dB SPL. I used to like to mix around 100-105 dB SPL, and I would routinely get yelled-at by club-owners. But 75 dB SPL is someone "raising their voice" above a normal conversation. Again, WAY above "Just barely audible".

And besides, if you look at the "-12 dB" graph, the AVERAGE is about 80-83 dB SPL, It dips down to around 75 dB SPL (with a GIANT room-mode dip at around 36 Hz!) only below about 40 Hz. So, I would HARDLY call that only "doing about 75 dB SPL".

https://i.imgur.com/jUyMlYX.pn...

Now, if you had said 30-45 dB was "Just barely audible", I would not have nearly as much to quibble about. But instead, you lied. And you lied in an attempt to deflect the conversation away from the fact that the "Whitepaper" YOU cited COMPLETELY REFUTED your original position!

And speaking of which, what did YOUR Expert say?

"THD and IMD have no correlation to the perception of the distortion that they are intended to represent. Correlation is possible with a metric that takes into account the way the ear actually functions One of the most important implications is that distortion in loudspeakers could well be an insignificant factor"

See, I DO "understand levels". And bullshit.

And posers.

Now go away.

Very true. Marketing all too often trumps good technical design. For example, Beta beat VHS because pr0n was on VHS. For another example, Dash is out-marketing lots of cryptocurrencies that are actually scalable like Ripple or actually private like Monero. One of these days someone using Dash "privatesend" is going to jail.

You're insane.

For demanding that a halfway decent system lives up to the DIN HiFi norm of the early 70s, with 31.5-16kHz frequency response with +- 4dB for midrange and less than -10dB falloff on the high end and -8 dB falloff on the low end? That's hardly much to ask - pretty much any speakers from the 70s and early 80s qualified; even the crappiest ones that only did 50-12.5 kHz managed to stay within those limits.

The trash they make today, not so much. These days, you'll be hard pressed to find something that is even audible down to 50 Hz. The days of high fidelity are over. Both in music production and music systems.

I repeat: You're insane. Here's the frequency response of the HomePod:

https://i.imgur.com/lmAel7t.pn...

And here's what the tester said:

"What we can immediately see is that the HomePod has an incredibly flat frequency response at multiple volumes. It doesn’t try to over emphasize the lows, mids, or highs. This is both ideal, and impressive because it allows the HomePod to accurately reproduce audio that’s sent to it. All the way from 40Hz to 20,000Hz it's ±3dB, and from 60Hz to 13.5Khz, it's less than ±1dB... Hold on while I pick my jaw up off the floor."

I know you will automatically try to gainsay anything I Post; but this Sounds fairly "HiFi" to me.

That's not true. This report from 2010 - the most recent I can find - shows massive amounts of Chinese coal plants being built.

https://www.netl.doe.gov/File%... page 16
https://imgur.com/a/NDlL3

Pyramid schemes expand, and then collapse entirely.

Bitcoin has expanded and shrunk by large percentages around a dozen times so far, and each time, it comes back stronger than before.

Not the behavior of a pyramid scheme.

This sure looks like a pyramid scheme that grew exponentially until around 18th December 2018 and has fallen ever since then.

https://coinmarketcap.com/curr...
https://i.imgur.com/tIRjZll.pn...

https://imgur.com/a/7BVhN

i think he used his grammar sort of like this
https://i.imgur.com/HvNWEuM.jp...

Just like all these shining examples too right? Don't worry, I'm sure it's all just a gigantic misunderstanding .....

Not at all - all the first-stage boosters use atmosphere-optimized engines that also work pretty well in space. But you'll notice that the single second-stage engine has a much larger bell, almost as large as those from the 9 first-stage engines combined - that's to optimize it for vacuum, which gives it a nice efficiency boost.

Basically, when designing the engine you have to pick the ambient pressure to optimize for - at that pressure it will burn as powerfully efficiently as possible, with effectiveness dropping as pressure changes in either direction - typically first stage engines are optimized for high power somewhere in the mid-to-high atmosphere, where they spend most of their time, while second stages are optimized for efficiency in full vacuum, since they don't need the raw power for liftoff, or to ever deal with an atmosphere.

I would assume there's also other optimizations that can be done to reduce efficiency falloff as pressure changes, but they almost certainly come at the expense of lower peak performance, so it's a balancing game.

As for trying to shape the first-stage plume by vectoring the engines - it might be possible, but is unlikely to show any gains. You need to keep two things in mind:
1: Any vectoring will, by necessity, be trading forward thrust for lateral vectoring effect
2: By the time the plume leaves the bell, it's basically stopped pushing the rocket forward - the rocket isn't actually propelled by the gasses shooting out the back - it's propelled by those by those rapidly-expanding gasses bouncing off the engine and bell as they expand. Once they leave the engine bell they no longer have any effect on the rocket at all (except possibly indirectly through fluid-dynamics effects on the surrounding atmosphere.
Combine the two, and you'd have to pull off some pretty impressive fluid-dynamic miracles to even manage to break even. And even assuming you somehow managed that, it would almost certainly become impossible as you exceeded the speed of sound (aka the speed at which atmospheric disruptions can propagate)

Here's a good photo of what's basically going on - the bell is designed to contain the engine exhaust until it falls to ambient pressure and stops expanding, at which point no more work can be extracted from it. Too big, and the atmospheric pressure pushes the plume away from the bell, and you lose thrust to turbulence losses and wasted mass worth of useless bell. Too small, and the gas is still expanding when it leaves the bell, and you're throwing away all the work that could have still been done. Obviously in a vacuum that gas is going to keep expanding essentially forever, but the more it expands, the less remaining work it can do, and the faster the size (and mass) of a containing bell will increase. So at some point the diminishing returns just aren't worth pursuing any further.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/cJ4e...

Like this? https://i.imgur.com/92Est6M.jpg

I was thinking that they should get a mannequin, put it in a space suit, and stick it behind the wheel...

By the way, for all of you kids, here's the reference.

Good thing it's the Zeitgeist of today.

captcha: stuffed

Whoa Nigga!

"The wealthiest individual is worth less than 100 Billion."

Not true. Those lists exempt everyone in government and royalty. The Rothschild family for example is estimated to be worth well north of 2 trillion, but they stay under the radar because they've been given titles of nobility in Europe. It's also why you don't see dictators on the lists. The Gate's and Bezo's of the world are chump change compared to the large banking families

Look at this:
https://imgur.com/reLdwNx?r

Now ask yourself how many people on Earth can get away with poking British royalty in the chest and telling them what to do. Even Hillary bent the knee for these people:
http://www.trueactivist.com/hi...

Gates and Bezo's are impressive but they have no real power.

"Give me control of a nations money supply, and I care not who makes itâ(TM)s laws" - Amschel Rothchilds

That's just one family. There are 19 beneficiaries in the family now, each estimated individually to be worth over 200 billion each. That's just money they have immediate access too, they control a whole lot more than that.

I understand people taking issues with a corporation. Fine, I get that. But a corp will always be profit driven. The elite families that really control things are above profit at this point. They already have it all.

People without helmets die quicker, and those with helmets rack up larger bills.

For me personally, the one time I ever needed it my helmet saved me both money and a lot of pain and facial scaring. I'm glad this wasn't my face.

Actually it unmasks the fact that the Democrats organized the wiretapping of presidential candidate (hello, Watergate anyone?) based on unverifiable rumors, including nonsense from /pol about peeing on a bed, that was "corroborated" by information Steele himself leaked to Yahoo News. This is the same pattern everywhere: reporters have "reliable sources" which they keep secret which are all the same source playing smoke and mirrors to appear to provide "corroboration" of the stories they are telling people.

This is what everyone has been saying since before the election, that you can't believe any of the stories citing nothing but anonymous sources. And no, don't take my word for it, read the memo.

Writing long headlines is hard.

https://i.imgur.com/qqAalzY.pn...

If they do succeed it just means they'll live long enough to become the bad guys themselves. Remember back when Jobs and Woz were starting Apple and acted much the same idealistic way or Google's early mantra of "don't be evil". Not every company or its founders start out as a complete dick bags, but most of those who become wildly successful turn into them.

he started to get prompts from a Facebook security customer-service address. "It looks like you're having trouble logging into Facebook," the emails would say. "Just click the button below and we'll log you in. If you weren't trying to log in, let us know." He wasn't trying. But he doesn't think anybody else was, either. "The content of mail they send is essentially trying to trick you,"

Just Say No to the Silicon Valley Jews.

https://i.imgur.com/CPVwvwq.gi...

You said that you could grab by the buttons as well, just not by the input fields, which I have no idea what the hell that means

Fair enough. I made a screenshot of GNOME Web where the yellowish area indicate where the user can grab the window to move it. As you can see, the opening tabs does not reduce the area that the user can grab. At the time the screenshot was taken I was dragging the window and the mouse pointer is on the Close button.

Unfortunately I don't have a Mac, but from what I have seen in the screenshots, GNOME UI design does not encourage placing tabs in the title bar, which is exactly what Chrome does on my Linux machine, and I hate it.

You mean other than the fact it has worked every single place it has ever been tried? Given that, the onus is on you to show why it WOULDNT work in the U.S. since that would be the unusual situation.

As for education, guess what, in the other countries where it is cheaper, the government pays all or part of the tuition rather than saddling students with loans (for higher education) or pushing it off to the local government (for k-12).

I'll just leave this here

I like to see machine learning fail and how it fails. Based on the assumption of an all or nothing training set, neural networks will be 100% confident in their choice and also wrong.

This .gif shows three different hand positions that all communicate the number three:

https://imgur.com/a/KFR2M

I don't understand.

Have you even used OSX?
https://imgur.com/a/qsY7q

There's a gradient and drop shadows there on the window header and every button has both a border and subtle drop shadow.

Hmm, nope. They have (recently) achieved the magic 0% open defecation rate necessary for non-shithole status. All the Trump-designated shitholes have nonzero rates, with most scoring well into double digits.

Ignoring the wrongness of comparing an overall average for full-term presidents versus Trump's one year, there's literally nowhere for Trump to go but up (unless he actually does fuck up in some serious way of course). Two years of the most recklessly aggressive media attacks ever faced by any president have proven *completely* ineffective at shrinking his poll numbers. As we finally start to move past the Russia bullshit, Trump keeps racking up wins, and the economy keeps doing great, numbers will probably continue to go up as they have been for the last month or so.

That's as stupid as saying that because a toddler doesn't know what "dead" means, the only reasonable course of action is to call it sleep.

We all have to grow up sometime.

That sounds nice but the analogy is terrible. We have decided that "pilot" means a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft. We have also decided that "autopilot" is short for "automatic pilot".

I wouldn't call my child on this and call him a pilot any more than I would someone driving a Tesla a pilot.

Meh...

Nothing at all

Homeless per capita, to head off that argument. Per capita only makes the situation look worse.