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I will keep it simple: what YEAR did the FBI examine Your Highness mail server?

2016.

https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

Here is some more background on Trump's "Where is the server?" lie:

https://www.politifact.com/tru...

500,000 Iraqi civilians dead
4,424 US Soldiers Killed
35k seriously wounded (life all fucked up)
Ignited a platform for radicalism to flourish in 70 countries

One of those agencies (CIA) was recently caught red handed spying on the US Senate. The world is so fucked up it barely made the news.

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According to leaked Facebook docs they only consider Pepe to be a problem when linked to hateful messages or iconography.

If you had managed the page properly and deleted those posts and banned those users you should not have run into any problems.

You have (thus far) written nine posts claiming "NOTHING TO SEE FOLKS" but have provided zero actual data or citiations, just your personal assurances. Can you provide a link to any source that supports your assertion here?

This alleged "fact" is not found in any of the reporting on this that I have seen such as original New York Magazine story, updates by Motherboard, The Verified Voting watchdog project, etc.

You wouldn't be, y'know, just making stuff up now, would you?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nz7neg/electric-universe-theory-thunderbolts-project-wallace-thornhill

"Electric universe" theory is at odds with everything modern science has determined about the universe.

In physics, theories need math. That's how you predict, gather evidence, verify, disprove, and support. But EU theory isn't big on math. In fact, "Mathematics is not physics," Thornhill said. While that equation aversion makes the theory pretty much a nonstarter for "mainstream" astronomers, it is the exact thing that appeals to many adherents.

"At best, the 'electric universe' is a solution in search of a problem; it seeks to explain things we already understand very well through gravity, plasma and nuclear physics, and the like," said astronomer Phil Plait, who runs the blog Bad Astronomy at Slate. "At worst it's sheer crackpottery like homeopathy and astrology, making claims clearly contradicted by the evidence."

Lets get that again from a real scientist:

making claims clearly contradicted by the evidence

Electric universe is bullshit.

And yet all the neo-nazi's voted for Trump instead of their own Nazi party candidate. And lets not forget:

https://www.aol.com/article/20...

https://www.motherjones.com/po...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

https://thinkprogress.org/gop-...

So, this begs the question about your statement: Are you a fucking idiot, a fucking liar, or both?

We did, until Apple documents came to light showing that they knew the phones bent too easily.

But I have a close friend, former meth user, who had severe episodes of this while they were using. It appears to be quite common among them.

The problem with social programs—of which we have many already—is that the cost of management and verification and validation eats up money that could actually just go to people that need help. That sort of bureaucracy is well intentioned but is exactly endemic of the kind of useless 'government waste' that conservatives work themselves up over. For instance, it turns out that just giving homeless people homes works better than trying a bunch of other schemes (Utah: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10...) and ends up being cheaper because you know exactly where everyone is that needs help. The cost of tracking them down, etc. is real money that nobody contends with.

We clearly agree on the broader point, so I'll just point out that I'm awfully far left on the political spectrum. To me, this is exactly the kind of government intervention that government was intended for and the benefits both to individuals and society far outweigh the costs. (The ancillary costs of poverty and homelessness are sufficiently high that while this kind of program might not break even in the long run analysis, it's probably the case that the 'true' cost is much less than the value of the money paid out when you account for healthcare and bureaucratic savings. That doesn't even take into consideration that people with money spend it on goods and services and prop up a lot of businesses.)

Additional, somewhat related reading:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k4kaw/the-millennial-who-wouldnt-move-out-of-his-parents-house-is-tragic-actually

As someone who has had to deal with this on a personal basis, I kinda feel sorry for him. BUT, he needs to GET A LIFE.

I had to help with strongly encouraging my parents to kick one of my aunts out of their house, after a few years of her making their life a living nightmare. One of those next-to-useless nebbish people, still a virgin when she died.

One gets the feeling that "this will not end well" because he has obvious mental deficiencies *and* access to weapons. If I were the parents, I'd move privately to another state -- sever all ties and invest in something like ADT and guard dogs. Shake your fist at me from the other side of the moat, boy - you ain't getting back in. Ever.

Not going to spoil it, just read this article on Finasteride and tell me as technical folks you don't think the research team should be locked up in a dungeon for the rest of their lives for not factoring in the high likelihood of how replicating that process could bring crippling, life-destroying side-effects. That's not "what were you thinking" territory, it's "were you even thinking about anything other than fleecing your patients?"

Jared Hyams is that you?

As you said they (mining rigs) are USING ASICs - they are NOT ASICs themselves, which is what the sentence said. Not implied - said!

It most certainly did not.

"large mining operations are pulling back on their investment in GPUs in anticipation of dedicated mining rigs (called ASICs) that are due out before the end of the year."

It said the dedicated rigs replacing GPUs are called ASICs.

They are called that, and more to the point your original post asserted that they called ASICs (all ASICs) dedicated mining rigs, when again they said that the non-GPU mining rigs were "ASICs.

No shame here for knowing what sentences are supposed to fucking mean.

Which you obviously don't, because you've gotten it wrong twice now in an attempt to scream "error" where the was not one. "are" != "called. Get that through your skull.

Recent studies have criticized earlier studies, and concluded that neonicotinoids were NOT significantly harming honeybees, except when in conjunction with other environmental stressors and varroa mites mites in particular (and no, global warming was not one of them).

O RLY?

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They're trying to get in on the sweet revenue stream John Deere cooked up.

While I generally agree with your premises, and that consumer "trust" in MS is low, I think you are giving the general populace FAR too much credit.

Litmus Test / Proof: Look at the number of people who have actually stopped using FecesBook after the scandal. Only 10%?

People are generally apathetic towards computers. They have become complacent. They don't know, and don't care, about software, hardware, privacy, security. e.g. Even in 2018 you STILL read about some dumb-asses that stores their passwords in plain text!

The problem is that Office and Exchange have their tentacles in the corporate world. While LibreOffice is good, people STILL need to exchange documents. PHB (Pointed-Haired-Bosses) "need" shared Calendars. There is just too much momentum and inertia in the entire MS ecosystem.

If people were smart they would:

* Set a date, say 5 years in the future,
* Make a game plan towards transitioning to free alternatives, and
* Ditch the proprietary MicroShift once and for all.

Unfortunately, that requires work, time, money, knowledge, commitment, and coordination. There are far too many other higher priority problems that need to handled. People generally aren't interested in the long term -- especially when the short term of switching provides almost no benefit, and doing nothing doesn't make things worse.

People don't know how to look at the bigger picture, and agree about what action to take. It is partially why we have Government regulations -- because people, for the most part, aren't self-disciplined.

In other news: MicroShaft has become IBM. Boring but Safe.

Ironically, 33% of Azure runs on Linux. Heck, you can even get Azure Linux certification

Even MS uses open source when it helps their bottom line. LOL.

"Then, earlier this week, I was invited to a YouTube 'Hangout on air' seminar about monetization, where they basically told us: Just no more 'controversial' content. No more such videos, no more tags, even the title of a video should not contain any word that may look suspicious, because 'the bots are not that smart,'" Sprave told me. "That was enough. I decided to do something."

Quote from Jorg sprave, relating to the issues youtube has had removing arbitrary videos. Basically they have no idea what to do, but advertisers are complaining about various content so they're just aiming in the dark and hoping to hit something.
Quote taken from motherboard
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"towns like Orleans, California, have started their own nonprofit internet services instead."

I live in Missouri where AT&T, Comacast,... have (made campaign contributions | paid off | bribed) the state legislature so communities aren't able to create their own internet.

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"At best, the 'electric universe' is a solution in search of a problem; it seeks to explain things we already understand very well through gravity, plasma and nuclear physics, and the like," said astronomer Phil Plait, who runs the blog Bad Astronomy at Slate. "At worst it's sheer crackpottery like homeopathy and astrology, making claims clearly contradicted by the evidence."

And here's part of the con....

One hundred seventy-five people donate $1,905 per month to the Thunderbolts Project Patreon campaign for video production.

"We know stars generate energy through nuclear fusion, not plasma discharge; we know craters are formed from asteroid and comet impacts, not huge electric arcs; we absolutely know that special and general relativity work, despite some EU proponents' claims," said Plait, who has tangled with EU commenters a time or two. "From what I've seen, most EU claims are on the cranky end of [the] scale. That's why most astronomers ignore it: No evidence for it, tons of evidence against it, and no support mathematically or physically."

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Electric universe is a con. Are you a conman, or just a stupid rube?

Beau, you fucking DINK

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It's Zuckerberg, not Zuckerman. You shameless fucktard.

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No it does not void the warranty, most jurisdictions have laws that make voiding the warranty if the product is repaired illegal.

Here is a link for the USA - https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

Where are exactly are these toxic masculinity articles you're reading all the time?

A selection of the first google results page:

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

https://www.politico.com/magaz...

https://www.care2.com/causes/w...

https://www.refinery29.com/201...

http://thefederalist.com/2018/...

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

https://www.them.us/story/beyo...

Mass shootings are blamed on toxic masculinity, male entitlement, male fragility, "boys are broken", "its us or them [men]", "toxic masculinity is killing us", "end men", the list is hundreds of thousands long.

Also, let us know when there's another female shooting like this to support your article. You need at least 2 to start I think.

Women aren't called mass shooters for whatever reason. They are called rampage killers or mass killers.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

The reason there are so few women that kill many people? Same reason why there are so few successful business women, female CEO's, and female prisoners: risk aversion. Both good and bad risk taking brings radical success or failure. Men do it more and reap the consequences for good or ill.

So we tailor their class times to their biological rhythms and they turn into adults with juvenile biological rhythms. Will they ever really grow up?

I've had N24 for the last thirty years, so I can officially blow this smoke back into your face.

Juvenile:

* A prepubescent child.
* A person younger than the age of majority.
* A person younger than the age of criminal responsibility.
* An animal that is not sexually mature.
* A mindless insult that all-too-often passes itself off as intelligent discourse.

Last I checked, college students fuck like rabbits, so we'll dispatch item #1 with extreme prejudice.

Age of majority

Most countries set the age of majority at 18.

What is the normal age for college freshmen in the U. S.?

If someone goes straight to college campus from high school, the typical age of the incoming freshman in a U.S. college is 18 or 19.

So, by sophomore year, juveniles (as defined by a minority criteria) are already a distinct minority.

So what we have here is a juvenile-onset biological rhythm shift which persist well into young adulthood.

Young adulthood having recently become the age during which a majority of the population struggles to acquire a remunerative skillset among the top-three quartiles of career prospects and life outcomes.

Fewer U.S. Graduates Opt for College After High School — April 2014

Last October, just 65.9 percent of people who had graduated from high school the previous spring had enrolled in college, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said this week.

(The large chunk of the college admission population enrolled in the humanities starts the race a full quartile back, many drop-outs return to the fray later, and some high school dropouts have intrinsic skills, so even the dismal quartile from 25–50th percentile is by no means guaranteed merely by showing up.)

A really good example of the indirect path was in the news cycle this week:

Wylie was born to parents who were both physicians. At age 6 he was abused by a mentally unstable person, and the school tried to cover it up. In 2000 his father and he won a settlement of CA$290,000 against the school district. As a child he was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD.

He left school at 16 without a qualification, but by 17 was working for the Canadian opposition leader Michael Ignatieff. He taught himself to code at age 19. At 20, he began studying law at the London School of Economics.

In 2013 he was introduced to SCL Elections which would later create Cambridge Analytica.

Ignatieff was a catastrophic political leader, but the rest of his bio reads like a Who's Who entry (recent Order of Canada, and back to full professorship at Harvard).

Speaking of physicians, that's surely one profession that's never strayed into sparing the whip.

* How Much Do 30-Hour Shifts Suck for Medical Residents? — 8 March 2017
* No Doctor Should Work 30 Straight Hours Without Sleep — 15 December 2016
* Marathon 24- to 26-hour doctor shifts may be unsafe for patients: experts — 19 February 2016
* A Dangerous Study of Medical Resident

He will need a phone capable of beating the B.O.S.S.

Maybe. Maybe, just like the writers of that Black Mirror episode, they realized how crazy people can get about virtual points on the internet and how easily it can shape human behaviour when those virtual points are at stake. On sites like Reddit or Imgur it's called the "hive mind", where dissent is downvoted into 'oblivion'. Here on Slashdot itself it's not too different.
And what makes it even scarier is findings like this: https://motherboard.vice.com/e... which I can confirm from personal experience. Disliked contributions are more likely to be disliked and liked contributions are more likely to be liked regardless of their content.

Android does not usually allow updates. So, to get the latest version, it is necessary to buy a new cell phone. In my opinion, that's extremely abusive.

Another abuse: Cell phones with batteries that cannot be easily replaced.

Another abuse: Apple has been preventing 3rd party repairs. Stories:

A HREF= "http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35502030" TARGET="_blank" >iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs (Feb 5, 2016)

Apple Shouldn't [be allowed] to Brick Your iPhone Because You Fixed It Yourself. (Feb 18, 2016)

Apple fighting new âright to repairâ(TM) legislation after successfully lobbying against it in the past. (Feb 15, 2017)

Latest iOS Update Shows Apple Can Use Software to Break Phones Repaired by Independent Shops (Oct 13, 2017)

'Right to repair' legislation gaining steam amid Apple's iPhone battery replacement program (Jan 18, 2018)

Putin is like the Steve jobs of modern Russia:

He's holding the focus of the organization he's been a part of together, and a popular cult leader for the self-trumpeted accomplishments he manufactures as needed.

He left for a time, though retained connections, only to return and 'rescue' his organization, breaking rules the entire time.

Even though he consistently does things that would be labelled as traditionally evil in any other context, he's treated as legitimate by virtue of his station.

The question in that context is: What happens when he dies? His nation is largely a cult of personality, with no one really trusted to play that role in wake of that personality. Don't get me wrong - there's a succession path that will function, but mostly to reflect the imagined wished of the departed leader, not to actually play that role, to really hold that focus. The underlying greed and chaos will overwhelm that focus with all that stand to take his place.

Their scientific community is largely still remnants of soviet systems, living in aluminum/copper-topped 'golden brain' showcases:

Source

Their military adventures and patriotism will be overwhelmed by their enormous cultural cynicism - and yes, it is actually stronger than American cynicism at this point.

The amazing thing to me would be the likely outcome that many will see Putin's reign as a golden age for their nation.

Perhaps they could elect Trump as their next leader - they seem to have a thing for sociopaths with a bottomless pit of vendettas.

Putin is like the Steve jobs of modern Russia: He's holding the focus of the organization he's been a part of together, and a popular cult leader for the self-trumpeted accomplishments he manufactures as needed. He left for a time, though retained connections, only to return and 'rescue' his organization, breaking rules the entire time. Even though he consistently does things that would be labelled as traditionally evil in any other context, he's treated as legitimate by virtue of his station. The question in that context is: What happens when he dies? His nation is largely a cult of personality, with no one really trusted to play that role in wake of that personality. Don't get me wrong - there's a succession path that will function, but mostly to reflect the imagined wished of the departed leader, not to actually play that role, to really hold that focus. The underlying greed and chaos will overwhelm that focus with all that stand to take his place. Their scientific community is largely still remnants of soviet systems, living in aluminum/copper-topped 'golden brain' showcases: Source Their military adventures and patriotism will be overwhelmed by their enormous cultural cynicism - and yes, it is actually stronger than American cynicism at this point. The amazing thing to me would be the likely outcome that many will see Putin's reign as a golden age for their nation. Perhaps they could elect Trump as their next leader - they seem to have a thing for sociopaths with a bottomless pit of vendettas.

Apple's overarching policy is to discourage recycling at all costs. They even mandate recycling companies to destroy perfectly fine iPhones Macbooks.

I have to laugh at Apple fanbois (and sockpuppets) that claim Apple's ostensible green credentials. Truth is, there is no worse company in IT at the moment, than Apple. At least Microsoft doesn't explicitly order recycling companies to destroy their hardware - thought repairability of Surface and Surface laptops is abysmal and effectively nil. But at least they don't lay down the pretense as thickly as Apple does.

You know what Barney does now, right?

/epiphany

We've elected Zaphod Beeblebrox. FML.

At current pay rates the industry is short 36,500 drivers. That's projected to get worse over time as the current drivers age out, because they're having a more and more difficult time replacing them with new drivers. Long haul trucking is a lousy long-term job, with many drivers away from home as much as 200 days out of the year. Those drivers would much rather work local routes, where they can go home at night.

Effectively, the efficiency gains from self-driving trucks comes from "team" driving and convoys. Instead of a real "team", the driver can sleep on the road as-if there is another driver, but use automation instead to create the required rest breaks. Between popular hubs, one of those single-driver "teams" can run the lead truck while several other trucks are programmed to automatically follow. Just being able to follow like that reduces fuel costs for a convoy of five trucks by 6%.

Except "crypto" has little to do with digital currencies.

If you consider 10Mbps up and 1 down or more high speed then there is only cellular, with its high price, satellite, with its high price and latency, DSL won't consistently hit these speeds here and one single cable internet provider choice. There are three (at least) cable ISP in my area with about 20% overlap tops, 80% of millions of people have 1 choice, 20% have 2+. You are just poorly informed, its probably not your fault. There really are many laws that create ISP monopolies and conservative sources not just liberals bitch about them, but don't let facts get in the way of any of your fun.

More worthwhile than this?

https://gfycat.com/YearlyPortl...

or this?

http://sendvid.com/usc56itb

or how about this?

https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

Hmmm. That is unexpected. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that it's not her, though I couldn't tell (I'm not a Katy Perry fan... until now). Vice covers the how'd they do that in detail.

We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now

https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

A user-friendly application has resulted in an explosion of convincing face-swap porn.

Don't think so. That sounded like a good question, so I looked it up. Here's a Vice link where Vice goes after Cracked.

History of Vice

History of Cracked

They're equally clickbaity and empty, but I don't think there is any real relation.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

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But he does not say anything there about not talking to colleagues or HR...

which is just how slim a margin Trump won by. A small amount of spending in the right place is all that was really needed. Now, to be fair a big part of the problem is Hilary, like Romney before her, got ripped off by her consultants (by all accounts 5 of them took $700 million of the $1 billion she had and did nothing with it, they just kept it).

You're also forgetting what they ads were like. They weren't 'vote Trump!' ads. They were targeted to Trump voters. They were there to rile up and scare Trump voters. Their purpose was to make sure those people showed up at the polls for Trump.

A lot of things went into the disaster that is the Trump presidency. DNC corruption, Hilary's arrogance and incompetence, Obama not paying attention to his party, right wing Dems taking the working class for granted. The list goes on and on. It took a fundamental break down of our political system. God willing the Dems won't run a right wing shmuck like Biden or another Hilary like Kamala Harris. If they do it's 4 more years of Trump.

Every citizen gets a vote.

But not all votes are equal. And that is where the problem lies, because in aggregate, a vote for congress in a rural district has more influence than a vote in a city.

In 2016, 45.2 million Americans cast a vote for a democratic Senate candidate, while 39.3 voted for a republican, but the senate still went 52/48 for republicans.

Same thing with the house of representatives, republicans got less than 50% of the popular vote, but still won more than 55% of the seats.

BTW, this same phenomenon happens even more strongly in state legislatures where republicans from rural districts regularly vote to over-ride local city-only policies like minimum wage, transgender bathroom usage and, apropos to this topic - 21 state laws to quash broadband competition.

So because the results of this test could be ambiguous, misinterpreted or lead to false conclusions one should block the usage of this tool entirely?

You ignored the "Objectionable Content" issue Apple raised also.

But what I asked for is your sources, PopeTazo. Sources that I've noticed that you have yet to provide.

Here you go. I'm flattered that you prefer my sources to the other poster who provided them. Happy to oblige (the last one is a nice summary)

http://www.kansascity.com/news...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

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Fun distinction: If this was Reddit, your comment probably would have been removed for being "offensive."

Like how they removed all the comments for blood donation addresses after the Pulse Nightclub massacre. (Nothing says progressive, like censoring help for dying gay people!)

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You can't put technology "back in the box" and drones are here to stay. This type of weaponry has been in a popular viral video. Swarms of small drones can be quite dangerous, though we are maybe 20ish years behind on the on board processing shown in the linked video and it's uncertain how you would design a power source light yet powerful yet stores tons of power to give them enough run time. Unfortunately, drone weapons like these don't suffer from needing overly complex processing nor mission run time and can tide us all over 'till true Armageddon arrives.

Not only that but he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel!
ONLY HITLER WOULD DO THAT! TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER!

I don't have to be specifically worried for the Jews to be worried about Trump. Enough of his policies and attitudes are Naziesque to be chilling. That makes sense, because his daddy was a racist and maybe a Klansman. Ironically, his grandfather was deported for illegal immigration. Trump is a shining example of exactly the kind of person he wants to keep out of America: he's a rapist, no less. Wasn't rape one of the things he was worried about illegal immigration bringing to our country? I guess he'd know.

no, reputable scientists aren't and don't point to a weather event and say it was due to climate change. there was stupid article recently about one contrarian with paper that said that could be done, but reputable scientists don't.

Wrong, fuckhead. Welcome to 2018. Keep up or get the fuck out of the way. We don't have time for your particular brand of stupid.

Germany is a unicorn in the capitalist world. In the United States, unions have to go on strike to fight wage cuts, even if the corporation they work is enjoying historic profit levels. Whereas in Germany, unions react to automation by demanding a 28 hour work week.