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Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

Science on reasoning:

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

Manufacturing consent:

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Re:Certainly More Problems Than Prior Releases by Anonymous Coward · 2017-11-17 05:37 · Score: 0 · on iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' (gizmodo.com)

Same AC here. Follow-up to this:

The workaround: go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Increase Contrast. There, toggle Reduce Transparency from Off to On, then again from On to Off. Now your dock will have translucency applied to it (looking similar to pre-11.0). This will last until the device is rebooted.

I spoke to a couple of my Apple-device-using friends, and they can't get this workaround to work on their devices (their dock continues to have that flat ugly grey look). So the workaround may only work on some models of devices -- that makes this even weirder, if you ask me. What a bummer. It makes me wonder if the "flat ugly grey" look is what Apple intended, or if *that's* the actual bug and my workaround would give them insight into actually restoring the translucency behaviour. All I know for sure is: the "flat ugly grey" dock is not an improvement.

I also wanted to post screenshot evidence: https://imgur.com/a/NLLms

Re: Cue the Nazi snowflakes by Mashiki · 2017-11-16 05:35 · Score: 1 · on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com)

No, but maybe you did

Obviously, since that wasn't the only case now was it. In fact it's a repeated history of a busybody telling people that they can't do something because it might offend those 'minorities'.

I believe that too. I've told you that fore, but you still keep on telling me I don't.

I seem to remember you being in support of hate speech laws. That means you don't.

Where we differ is that you want Twitter to broadcast that speech, where as I support their right to not publish on your behalf.

Remember that part where a medium becomes so large that it influences public discourse?

Citation needed on that one. If I were being unkind I'd suggest you are only trying to pretend they are communists because communism gives you a whataboutism for how bad the Nazis were.

You want the original? Where they were backed by the KPD? And they'll claim that they're carrying on the tradition, or do you want to go look up their various manifestos, and tie-in's with groups like BAMN. Or you can go look at indymedia and their devout proclamation that they're acting as communist agitators. Or perhaps you'd just prefer the current german classification. Hate to break it to you, but they're right there. The standard useful idiot communists. The ones that try to crash society, and the first ones killed by the new regime when their usefulness is spent. The only difference between antifa and a nazi is the "ism."

Re:USA contrasted with... by blahplusplus · 2017-11-15 21:43 · Score: 1 · on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com)

" I'd love to hear companies speak of employees like something other than a lump of coal to be tossed into the boiler."

Not going to happen until you people start getting a clue that your masters don't even practice what they preach, you guys need to stop licking the balls of capitalist ideology so hard and ask tough questions about whether rule of law can even exist in a high tech society. How is one to hold a big company accountable when you are hundreds of miles away from it? I have serious doubts most of you guys are introspective and self critical enough to see through your leaders bullshit.

You want to be treated better you guys need to start scaring the shit out of the business community and let them know you'll stand up for your right to exist too instead of being so slave like to the business community.

Crisis of democracy

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

Science on reasoning:

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

Manufacturing consent:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html

Other important info

Michael Hudson

The real news

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

http://www.rdwolff.com/

Richard wolf on capitalism

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Re:Um, where? by blahplusplus · 2017-11-15 16:40 · Score: 1 · on FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules (bloomberg.com)

If you do it once they'll use that trick to get what they want every time.

They've been doing that since forever you and americans don't seem very informed on this issue. You guys are up to your ass in free market fairy tales down there.

Elites respond to Crisis of democracy - aka double down and propaganda and misinformation

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Testing theories of representative government

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

Manufacturing consent:

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Hoverboards show the limitations of China model by Hal_Porter · 2017-11-15 09:21 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Hoverboards Recalled For Fire and Explosion Risks -- Again (cnbc.com)

The China model is that you have a bunch of factories making stuff but no IP. I.e. no trademarks and no patents.

So one factory makes a hoverboard, and the others copy it because of no patents and no copyright. However some of them mess up and make something which shorts out the batteries and catches fire. The problem is that then the consumers have no idea if a given hoverboard is from one of the good companies or one of the bad ones. So consumers get wary, and most likely regulators step in and ban them. E.g. they're banned on the NYC subway.

So a product which could have been pretty popular doesn't.

Now the US model is different. You have copyright and patents. Most importantly you have trademarks and brands. So you can work out which brands are reliable and buy from them. And patents and copyright mean those brands can't be cloned. Well regarded brands can sell their stuff at a hefty markup from raw materials because people trust them. And copyright and patents mean that the inventors might even get compensated. In China if something sells the guy who owns the factory makes money and the inventor gets nothing.

Copyrights, patents and brands mean that for an iPad much of the profit stays in the US, even though the hardware is assembled in China and the chips made in Taiwan or Korea.

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Take the iPad, which America imports from China even though it is entirely designed and owned by Apple, an American company. iPads are assembled in Chinese factories owned by Foxconn, a Taiwanese firm, largely from parts produced outside China. According to a study by the Personal Computing Industry Centre, each iPad sold in America adds $275, the total production cost, to America's trade deficit with China, yet the value of the actual work performed in China accounts for only $10. Using these numbers, The Economist estimates that iPads accounted for around $4 billion of America's reported trade deficit with China in 2011; but if China's exports were measured on a value-added basis, the deficit was only $150m.

The chart shows a geographical breakdown of the retail price of an iPad. The main rewards go to American shareholders and workers. Apple's profit amounts to about 30% of the sales price. Product design, software development and marketing are based in America. Add in the profits and wages of American suppliers, and distribution and retail costs, and America retains about half the total value of an iPad sold there. The next biggest gainers are South Korean firms like Samsung and LG, which provide the display and memory chips, whose profits account for 7% of an iPad's value. The main financial benefit to China is wages paid to workers for assembling the product and for manufacturing some inputs-equivalent to only 2% of the retail price.

Of course this probably isn't lost on the Chinese. The US had very lax copyright laws, up to the point authors lobbied to tighten them up. Dickens complained his books had no copyright protection in the US. The same thing happened to Edgar Allen Poe when his books were not copyright protected in the UK.

https://www.charlesdickensinfo...

While on tour Dickens often spoke of the need for an international copyright agreement. The lack of such an agreement enabled his books to be published in the United States without his permission and without any royalties being paid.

This situation also affected American writers like Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's works were published in England without his consent.

Dickens first realized that he was losing income because of the lack of national in international copyright laws in 1837 when The Pickwick Papers was published in book form. At times the novel was reprinted with

Lilly has established that you're elderly by Anonymous Coward · 2017-11-14 05:45 · Score: 0 · on OnePlus Phones Come Preinstalled With a Factory App That Can Root Devices (bleepingcomputer.com)

In Japan the worlds most advanced AIs were sent to analyze you and they determined that you are indeed a senior citizen

https://imgur.com/a/0Wknf

Keyspacing isn't even the issue. by thewolfkin · 2017-11-13 02:18 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Has The Best Keyboard?

Not when you have bigger concerns like Arrow keys (which ideally should be identical be arranged in a triangle and should have gap space like this. so you can actually feel where they are without looking properly. Not enlarged to gap fill like this. I'd be more concerned about having two alts and two controls because my sister's laptop only has one of one of those and it's a bloody nightmare every time I use her computer. I'm completely keyspacing agnostic. The way i figure it keyspacing helps the keylighting to show up. So I think I might prefer to have it than not. Also I'm medically what you call a giant. So I tend to prefer the larger keyboards for a laptop.

Keyspacing isn't even the issue. by thewolfkin · 2017-11-13 02:18 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Has The Best Keyboard?

Not when you have bigger concerns like Arrow keys (which ideally should be identical be arranged in a triangle and should have gap space like this. so you can actually feel where they are without looking properly. Not enlarged to gap fill like this. I'd be more concerned about having two alts and two controls because my sister's laptop only has one of one of those and it's a bloody nightmare every time I use her computer. I'm completely keyspacing agnostic. The way i figure it keyspacing helps the keylighting to show up. So I think I might prefer to have it than not. Also I'm medically what you call a giant. So I tend to prefer the larger keyboards for a laptop.

Your insight by Okian+Warrior · 2017-11-11 08:09 · Score: 4, Insightful · on H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications (bloomberg.com)

You know the real agenda isn't to "encourage" companies to hire domestic talent, it just happens to coincide with their mission to Keep the Brown People Out.

There are very good economic models that suggest that importing labor is bad. There's some statistical evidence that immigrants that don't take up the new culture are a safety risk due to increased crime, and that immigrants use more social services than citizens.

Other countries have extreme immigration policies, and several countries don't allow immigration at all (such as China, where you can't immigrate even if you own a Chinese business and are married to a Chinese citizen), and many have strictly controlled borders. Would the US be exceptional if we did the same?

Furthermore, very few people in the US are actually racist. Ignoring the "all whites are racist" bullshit and looking at the actual statistics, it's estimated that there are only about 2000 actual white supremacists in the US. The hair-triggered left reports of a banana peel signifying racism notwithstanding, it's not a real issue. Whites simply don't care what someone's color is. (Behaviour, on the other hand, is an issue.)

Black lives matter is, statistically speaking, completely off the mark. This does not imply that there is no problem and that things couldn't be made better, but it's false and ineffective to address that problem first, before the elephant in the room.

And yet, despite all the statistical evidence to the contrary and lack of contrary evidence, you have insight into the *real* reason we want to limit immigration: it's because secretly, down deep, we want to "Keep The Brown People Out".

(And your insight does not stem from the very good evidence that immigrants vote en-masse for a certain party.)

Despite not consciously being racist, not really caring about the race of whoever we interact with you're here to tell us the real reason we act the way we do?

Because you're somehow smarter or better informed than us?

Re:An interesting series of events, maybe by Anonymous Coward · 2017-11-11 05:59 · Score: 0 · on The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Voting With Paper (theatlantic.com)

Do I have this right? We have "progressive" organizations (called such in the article) that fought hard for electronic voting machines. Trump gets elected. Now they want paper.

Replace "Trump" with "GWB" and recognize the whole complaint originated because of Florida and the butterfly ballot. Further, note that progressive organizations often call for "progressive" (aka new) ideas and then quickly go against them because, well, progressives are often idiots who are more interested in new than good.

There's been suspicions among "right wing" groups that these "progressives" have been using absentee voting and electronic voting machines to make vote fraud easier. The progressive candidates get their head handed to them on a platter in an election a year ago and NOW they think electronic voting is a bad idea?

I find it odd that "right wing" groups are worried that "progressives" are committing voter fraud in a fashion that they could just as well do since they've so well outlined, in their minds, how to do it. Ie, if there is voter fraud, I can only imagine it being an across-the-board thing.

There's a part of me that thinks these people that have been participating in voter fraud realized that the opposition could in fact be also participating in fraud. To actually prove there was fraud though requires a paper trail. Electronic voting means no paper trail.

Which is, again, a major reason progressives quickly realized electronic voting was a bad idea. Again, this is nothing new. Progressives are often reactionary idiots that have to take a step back and realize there's a reason for the old way. Which is not to say "butterfly ballots" were ever a good idea.

Regardless of why these "progressive" groups got the message I'm just glad they did.

Which then makes it odd because it was Republicans and Democrats alike which have kept pushing electronic voting even after the backlash from "right wing" and "progressive" groups. Does that give you a message about who really is in power?

I'm not saying any fraud has in fact happened, only that everyone seems to be accusing the other of participating in fraud.

What better thing to do than to muddy the water, regardless of who wins? It discourages voting and encourages long-standing R or D districts to keep going the same way. Those in power don't care about the R or the D. They just want to stay in their current job.

(What makes these people so "progressive" anyway? What are they progressing towards? Progress implies a path to take, or some goal to achieve, I'm not sure what that is though.)

Improvement, often through technological means. Think utopia sci-fi. Obviously, such is a fantasy and more moderate progressives (which are the norm, just like moderate conservatives) know that technology should be evaluated before being used for whatever improvements can be made to society. Individually, of course, it's just whatever what a person wants to do. I do think it funny, btw, that progress is such a dirty word to job creating conservatives. Oh, right, job creation is a side-effect of business, not an intentional act and not a by-product of ideology.

Re:Because it is implied ... by Hal_Porter · 2017-11-10 22:10 · Score: 1 · on Scientists Save Child's Life By Growing Him New Skin (scientificamerican.com)

Arguably an omnipotent God wouldn't give people the choice about whether they get free will, or in general freedom because they might make the wrong choice.

E.g. look at all the millennials who want to live under 'communism, socialism or fascism'.

https://www.washingtontimes.co...

Though admittedly if you look at the report it's not as bad as the Washington Times makes out

https://victimsofcommunism.org...

https://imgur.com/a/3LQU6

I'd interpret that as most Americans want a free market system, voting for Capitalism over Socialism 59% to 34%.

Millennials have no money/lots of student debt and 44% want a Scandinavian social democratic system where they'd get free stuff as opposed to 42% who want capitalism (what they think they have). Support for radically anti freedom systems like Communism and Fascism is pretty low - 7% each even among Millennials. And if you look the rest of the report, that's because Millennials mostly can't identify Communism, Socialism, Fascism and Capitalism from the definition.

So they're young, ignorant and have been brainwashed at college. I went through that stage - I voted Labour in my 20s, albeit only when it was led by the centrist Tony Blair. It was only after I worked in Sweden that I realized that Scandinavian social democracy is no utopia.

Re:It's what they do by UnknownSoldier · 2017-11-10 12:10 · Score: 3, Insightful · on EA Buys Out a Game Studio After Shutting Another One Down 3 Weeks Ago (arstechnica.com)

The EA kiss of death is well documented by Forbes and Wikipoodia

1. Kesmai (2001)
2. Bullfrog Productions (2001)
3. Westwood Studios (2003)
4. Maxis. (2004)
5. Origin Systems (2004)
6. Pandemic Studios (2009)
7. Phenomic (2013)
8. DreamWorks Interactive (2013)
9. Black Box Games (2013)
10. Mythic Entertainment (2014)
11. Visceral Games (2017)

Re:ugh by whoever57 · 2017-11-09 13:09 · Score: 3, Insightful · on Ask Slashdot: What Should A Mac User Know Before Buying a Windows Laptop?

4) remove IE, install chrome

Isn't that the wrong order?
https://imgur.com/gallery/9TxW...

Wait for benchmarks by Hal_Porter · 2017-11-09 08:46 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Qualcomm Eyes Intel With Centriq 2400 Arm Server Chip (eweek.com)

There has been a lot of talk about Qualcomm ARM chips taking over from Intel. The problem is when you look at the benchmarks they're rather underwhelming. Eg.

http://weborus.com/snapdragon-...

The Snapdragon 835 is a great device if you're running Android. If you're running something like Photoshop I predict performance is going to be disappointing. Microsoft's 'Windows on a Snapdragon' video shows Photoshop running. It doesn't mention performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's the same with server stuff. And of course Intel have threatened people with a patent lawsuit on SIMD

https://newsroom.intel.com/edi...

Protecting x86 ISA Innovation

Intel invests enormous resources to advance its dynamic x86 ISA, and therefore Intel must protect these investments with a strong patent portfolio and other intellectual property rights. The following graph shows that relentless instruction set innovation translates into a deep and dynamic patent portfolio with over 1,600 patents worldwide relating to instruction set implementations.

https://imgur.com/a/x0K2V

New x86 Instructions and Related Patents

Intel carefully protects its x86 innovations, and we do not widely license others to use them. Over the past 30 years, Intel has vigilantly enforced its intellectual property rights against infringement by third-party microprocessors. One of the earliest examples, was Intelâ(TM)s enforcement of its seminal âoeCrawford â(TM)338 Patent.â In the early days of our microprocessor business, Intel needed to enforce its patent rights against various companies including United Microelectronics Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, Cyrix Corporation, Chips and Technologies, Via Technologies, and, most recently, Transmeta Corporation. Enforcement actions have been unnecessary in recent years because other companies have respected Intelâ(TM)s intellectual property rights.

However, there have been reports that some companies may try to emulate Intelâ(TM)s proprietary x86 ISA without Intelâ(TM)s authorization. Emulation is not a new technology, and Transmeta was notably the last company to claim to have produced a compatible x86 processor using emulation (âoecode morphingâ) techniques. Intel enforced patents relating to SIMD instruction set enhancements against Transmetaâ(TM)s x86 implementation even though it used emulation. In any event, Transmeta was not commercially successful, and it exited the microprocessor business 10 years ago.

Only time will tell if new attempts to emulate Intelâ(TM)s x86 ISA will meet a different fate. Intel welcomes lawful competition, and we are confident that Intelâ(TM)s microprocessors, which have been specifically optimized to implement Intelâ(TM)s x86 ISA for almost four decades, will deliver amazing experiences, consistency across applications, and a full breadth of consumer offerings, full manageability and IT integration for the enterprise. However, we do not welcome unlawful infringement of our patents, and we fully expect other companies to continue to respect Intelâ(TM)s intellectual property rights. Strong intellectual property protections make it possible for Intel to continue to invest the enormous resources required to advance Intelâ(TM)s dynamic x86 ISA, and Intel will maintain its vigilance to protect its innovations and investments.

If Microsoft can't transform SSE instructions into an ARM SIMD instruction set due to patents on SSE, Photoshop will suck if it's run through Microsoft's x86 to ARM64 JIT engine. And the odds are something like Photoshop is using bits of SSE which are still patented and will be for some time.

Even if you don't emulate and run code nati

Re:On high by Hal_Porter · 2017-11-09 07:11 · Score: 1, Troll · on Cities Are Scolding Countries at UN Climate Conference To Cut Emissions (vice.com)

Can you prove that is the Scientific Consensus?

Right now it's just as possible that the lukewarmers are right. E.g. as Matt Ridley put it

http://www.rationaloptimist.co...

I am a climate lukewarmer. That means I think recent global warming is real, mostly man-made and will continue but I no longer think it is likely to be dangerous and I think its slow and erratic progress so far is what we should expect in the future. That last year was the warmest yet, in some data sets, but only by a smidgen more than 2005, is precisely in line with such lukewarm thinking.

As he points out here the lukewarmer case - global warming is real but not catastrophic is compatible with the range of predictions the IPCC made. And in fact looking at satellite and surface data we find that warming has been slower than the best case predictions from models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The climate models have so far failed to get global warming right. As the IPCC confirmed in its latest report for the period since 1998 - I quote - "111 of the 114 available climate models show a surface warming trend larger than the observations". In other words the models have overestimated warming. And here's a chart that illustrates that point.

https://imgur.com/a/ZNDbY

That is to say there is actually a consensus - if you like that word - that models are exaggerating the rate of global warming. The warming has so far resulting in no significant changes in the frequency or intensity of storms, tornadoes, floods, droughts or winter snow cover as I said. As two climate scientists, Richard McNider and John Christy put it "We might forgive these modelers if their forecasts had not been so consistently and spectacularly wrong. From the beginning of climate modeling in the 1980s, these forecasts have, on average, always overstated the degree to which the Earth is warming compared with what we see in the real climate. Back in 1990 the first IPCC assessment included this statement forecasting - no predicting - a temperature increase of 0.3 degrees C per decade with an uncertainty of 0.2 to 0.5 degrees C per decade. In fact, in the two and half decades since, even though emissions have risen faster than in the 'business as usual' scenario of that year the temperature has rise at an average rate of 0.15 degrees per decade based on surface measurements or 0.12 degrees based on satellite data. That is less than half as fast as expected and below the bottom of the uncertainty range.

That was a talk at the Royal Society, and as you can see he's quoting from the IPCC itself when he claims 111 of 114 - 97% - of models have had a best case warming prediction which exceeds what has been seen experimentally.

So you could say there's a 97% consensus that models have over estimated how bad warming will be in the past. Which would make me very sceptical that unless we pump billions into renewable energy the planet will turn into Venus.

Not to mention Germany did pump billions into renewables and didn't cut its CO2 emissions as he points out at 36:43.

Re:IR link by Hal_Porter · 2017-11-09 06:31 · Score: 3, Informative · on Windows 10's Version of AirDrop Lets You Quickly Share Files Between PCs (theverge.com)

OBEX started off on serial and IRDA and moved to Bluetooth. You could presumably run it over WiFi - e.g. encapsulate the packets into TCP/IP or UDP. I'm guessing done right - with the right windows size basically - you should be able to get close to the native speed of the WiFi connection.

There's a standard for OBEX over TCP/IP

https://books.google.com/books...

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

The problem would be how you'd balance convenience and security. With Bluetooth you need to pair. With Wifi you need to know the password for the network.

So what happens with OBEX over TCP/IP? Both devices would need to be on the same subnet, unless you had some sort of evil NAT avoiding technique to punch through to an external server. But is that what you really want? I.e. allowing anyone to read and write files on the device? OBEX doesn't have any security built in because it was designed for IRDA or Bluetooth where the security comes from proximity or pairing and usually a "This device is trying to connect? Allow once, allow always, deny" dialog. Run it over TCP/IP and you've got an unsecured way to read and write files and that seems dangerous. Even the dialog would be easy to fake unless you do SSL certificate verification which is fine for webservers but sucks for devices on the the same subnet.

Honestly I think I'll stick to SMB shares. The speed of those is limited by the storage device, not the network. You can saturate a Wifi connection with a cheap NAS. You get Wifi security, such as it is these days and you can password protect the shares. Obviously it's not ideal, but it's better than OBEX where you get no security with a naive OBEX over TCP/IP connection.

SFTP isn't too bad either. I like it because Macs listen by default and you have a certain amount of trust in the device identity because of SSH fingerprints. Also AndFTP has a nice Sync feature so you can sync a directory on an Android device with a Mac.

Re:Not a monolithic chip by Hal_Porter · 2017-11-06 04:32 · Score: 2 · on Arch-rivals Intel and AMD Team Up on PC Chips To Battle Nvidia (pcworld.com)

Intel claim 20x better power efficiency for EMIB compared to PCIe chip to chip here.

http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...

https://i.imgur.com/q4cxMtU.jp...

Reason people may like it by pgn674 · 2017-11-05 03:21 · Score: 2 · on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com)

I have found one logical reason that people may like DST. It normalizes sunrise time through the year, at the expense of extremifying sunset time. Here's a chart showing this.

Re:Wouldnt I need to run Javascript from advertise by Noah+Haders · 2017-11-04 04:53 · Score: 1 · on Firefox Borrows From Tor Browser Again, Blocks Canvas Fingerprinting (bleepingcomputer.com)

Yeah, i’ll meme that

https://imgur.com/a/85dq7

Re:Taxation is theft (armed robbery) by k6mfw · 2017-11-03 12:27 · Score: 1 · on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com)

The robber also extinguishes the fire when your house is on fire and tries to save you from the house.

http://i.imgur.com/Vn5o6.jpg

Re:Nice Straw man by DNS-and-BIND · 2017-11-02 05:20 · Score: 1 · on Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election (apnews.com)

It is merely an honest evaluation of Russia's geopolitical situation, which existed long before Trump and the current Red Scare Part II. Some of us actually follow military affairs, you know. But hey, don't trust me, look at the facts. Russia is hemmed in and losing badly. To add to it, war hysteria is being deliberately whipped up and educated people who should damn well know better are falling for the "blame the dirty foreigners" narrative.

Re:Javascript really sucks by sad_ · 2017-11-02 00:04 · Score: 1 · on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk)

i agree with this because i found js to be the least consistent language of all that i know.
say what you will about perl, but the results are predictable, with js there is always some rare cornerstone case where the results are different because silly reasons.

for example; http://i.imgur.com/6aclmM6.png

Re:Soviet Union 2.0 by DNS-and-BIND · 2017-11-01 07:37 · Score: 1 · on Russia's Anti-VPN Law Goes Into Effect (theregister.co.uk)

I am *not* dead wrong. Russia has a terrible position. They're no Soviet Union. They're surrounded, where are they going to go? The US won't allow anything to happen to its captive vassal states in Europe. China is on the other border, and worthless central Asia in between. There are NATO bases in Kyrgzstan, for fuck's sake.

You should really check out the current real strengths of the European armies and Russia. The European Union is already strong enough to defend against Russia, an opponent not even close to being as rich, less populated, in a bad geostrategical position, with a budget stretched extremely thin and terrible availability rates.

If you just look at wikipedia, yeah, the Russian army looks numerous and well equipped but the truth is that it is divided between a state of the art and well trained spearhead that amounts to about 100~200k soldiers and conscripts with outdated hardware that suffered for almost two decades of poor maintenance. The combined spend of the top 3 EU military budgets is double Russia alone and is greater than China. The technology is also far superior.

Russia is a paper tiger. Video: Why Russia is in a bad situation and why this won't change. Don't fall for the old "blame the dirty foreigners" line, it's the oldest trick in the book.

Re:Why? by blahplusplus · 2017-11-01 05:41 · Score: 1 · on Rise of the Machines Must Be Monitored, Say Global Finance Regulators (reuters.com)

Is there any actual evidence that monitoring the traditional finance industry works?

It's all smoke and mirrors for those in the know. Capitalism has never been "regulated" it's always worked in the interests of power.

Science on reasoning:

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

Manufacturing consent:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html

Other important info

Michael Hudson

The real news

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

http://www.rdwolff.com/

Richard wolf on capitalism

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/IoLT9

http://www2.ucsc.

Re:Do they look creepy? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-11-01 00:11 · Score: 0 · on NVIDIA-Powered Neural Network Produces Freakishly Natural Fake Human Photos (hothardware.com)

Even this one? (from 1:06 in the video, 2nd row, last column)

Re:Not Bad by Anonymous Coward · 2017-11-01 00:06 · Score: 0 · on NVIDIA-Powered Neural Network Produces Freakishly Natural Fake Human Photos (hothardware.com)

But the worst, while still semi-real looking from a certain perspective, are horrifyingly bad. Here's a few examples. The worst one reminds me of the guy with the melting face from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

https://imgur.com/a/umoBr

Re:Yeah, in the 70's we were running out of oil, t by mhotchin · 2017-10-31 18:04 · Score: 2 · on We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand (jalopnik.com)

http://i.imgur.com/axJmn.gif

Sums it up by wbr1 · 2017-10-31 03:28 · Score: 5, Funny · on Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes (softpedia.com)

https://i.imgur.com/9TxWoa9.pn...

Re:Summary of systemd NFS answer; on "merit" adopt by Gravis+Zero · 2017-10-30 00:01 · Score: 5, Funny · on Interviews: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst Answers Your Questions (redhat.com)

"It is best not to blame systemd for problems that go away when you stop using systemd."

That reminds me of the new book from O'Reilly. ;)

i don't know about it... by iq145 · 2017-10-29 13:22 · Score: 1 · on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com)

http://i.imgur.com/5bA92Sb.jpg Are Klingons really Klingons? Also, was THAT the so-called big surprise "change" in an all new Star Trek? Just changing the race of who is in command? So much for originality...

Re:First it was an idea. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-29 07:33 · Score: 1 · on Portuguese ISP Shows What The Net Looks Like Without Net Neutrality (boingboing.net)

Now this is AT&T's wet dream.

Have you ever seen the future?

You will.

Re: Dear Electronic Arts: by Shikaku · 2017-10-27 16:35 · Score: 2 · on EA Shuts Down Fan-Run Servers For Older Battlefield Games (arstechnica.com)

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

And now this. I see a pretty harsh trend and it's not a one off. I think it's good to teach them what the company has a LONG history of doing.

Re:The future is NoOps by sexconker · 2017-10-27 11:21 · Score: 3, Informative · on Time To Move on from DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Says Google Advocate (zdnet.com)

Ha!

Here's the "simple calculator" that doesn't even cover all of the services:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws...

Put it on S3? S3 is storage! You need it to be on EC2. Possibly behind Beanstalk. Oh, you want to actually make use of the fancy cloud features for internet-accessible shit? You'll need Route 53, too, and the Elastic Load Balancer.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pric...
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pri...
https://aws.amazon.com/route53...
https://aws.amazon.com/elastic...

Beanstalk is free, though!

Take a look at this fucking list. https://i.imgur.com/nBasljK.pn...

Re:Oh boo-hoo! by eaglesrule · 2017-10-27 06:16 · Score: 1 · on Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits (arstechnica.com)

Freedom of speech to state the 'approved' set of ideas is almost as useless as freedom of speech limited to the middle of the desert in Nevada - technically accurate, but practically useless.

Free speech zone in the middle of the desert? Was that what you had in mind?

I wish I had mod points for your very insightful post, but I do thank you for it.

Re:There is also the blue screen problem by Streetlight · 2017-10-27 02:26 · Score: 1 · on Google Addresses Pixel 2 XL Display Issues, Pixel 2 Clicking Sounds With Software Updates (phonedog.com)

Google's answer is basically. "You are not holding it right."

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

Re:Fix the REAL fucking problem. by blahplusplus · 2017-10-26 05:37 · Score: 1 · on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com)

the corruption that creates and sustains that shit.

If you and the rest of america weren't so uneducated and ignorant you could all choose a correct political ideology, aka it's not right wing. The more right wing your country, the more you tell the world you don't understand you're being fucked by private power.

Crisis of democracy

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

Science on reasoning:

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

Manufacturing consent: