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I can sum up the Trump AC Slashdot comments on this story right now:

https://youtu.be/xoMgnJDXd3k

She said so during a different interview, and surely anything she says is the product of a coherent thought process and not just a chatbot spitting out phrases.

Everyone knows that the thinner it gets the more volatile it is, which is why paper explodes so spectacularly. Just hope they never make a paper thin phone, especially one made out of wood products. Fortunately I hear wood isn't a very good conductor.

The people (particularly Republicans) who prefer Hilary to Trump are assholes in the first place, and are better off leaving the party.

By all means, narrow your voter base even more. With any luck I'll die at a ripe old age having never again lived under a Republican President. You'll be begging to have Merrick Garland back up for confirmation when HRC puts Obama on the Supreme Court. He's only 55, and pretty healthy, probably live to at least 90. Having Scalia killed was the smartest thing we secret Communist Muslims Marxist Fascists ever did. Mwahahahaha!

Exactly. Actually there is an awesome episode of the twilight zone that illustrates this. It's called "A matter of Minutes" : https://youtu.be/TKbylBQ0igk

For a moment there, I had a horrible premonition

same here, it reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/n_1apYo6-Ow?t...

This scene with the monkey arm in Silicon Valley is uncannily precedent. I can't believe no one has mentioned this yet:

https://youtu.be/1KaWPYOLuT8

A straw can embed itself in wood if it's going fast enough after all.

Go to 1:01:10 to see what fat (a tallow candle) can do to wood with enough velocity.

And passing rumors that someone is making an 8-track adapter for their smartphones.

Is someone actually working on this? If not, DIBS! Now to start a kickstarter campaign.

8-track to cassette adapters exist.

Cassette to 3.5mm adapters exist.

Combine the two and you're done

https://youtu.be/ZFUVR-clo8g

It doesn't work out: https://youtu.be/6-ZSXB3KDF0 (EEVBlog video debunking the concept7)

Buffer/stack overflows, type mismatches, null pointer errors and numerous other classes of programming bug that are ridiculously common in C code should all have died out years ago, and the reasons for C's continued popularity have very little to do with its technical merit.

Yeah, don't be so sure.

Classify THIS Mariss.

What do **you** mean, "you people??" Aaaaaaaand the ending credits, 'cause you know you wanna: https://youtu.be/kFz7rZY_DDI

https://youtu.be/bMehSfTmnbY

It's about time we have a president who really gets the cyber.

https://youtu.be/bYJ_H2c5IWc

ASL? lol.

Ancient Aliens vs Dinosaurs with Action Bronson:
https://youtu.be/uExUUoXcllg?t...

IMHO, its a must see!

It's about time we have a president who really gets the cyber.

https://youtu.be/bYJ_H2c5IWc

Or "Baby's First Elite Dangerous", according to Yahtzee...

I found these two videos about Jack Tramiel and the history of Commodore very interesting:
Part 1
Part 2

I found these two videos about Jack Tramiel and the history of Commodore very interesting:
Part 1
Part 2

https://youtu.be/vROdVsU_K80?t...

This is looking more accurate every day

I was expecting this...

Jonathan Coulton - Betty and Me

Sure, I'll be glad to upload my entire video collection of 20TB's which will take approximately 180 days of continuous uploading to Amazon's cloud drive (take longer with data caps because I'll have to restart it each month until it actually completes the 20TB uploads) where it is not encrypted nor well protected and whose contents will be completely indistinguishable from pirated content versus a ripped personal use copy. I am sure the MPAA would love to go after this data. I will gladly give over my hard earned money to Amazon to pay for this privilege. I'll give up my private server which I carefully created to consume less than 40 watts (currently running a 20W Atom 8 Core processor with 8 4TB drives in a ZFS array), offset with my use of many solar panels, to shift to a cloud data center consuming considerably more than 1.21 gigawatts of electricity. https://youtu.be/I5cYgRnfFDA

Yeah that's about as smart as buying a Tesla and thinking I am saving the environment by driving around with highly toxic batteries all getting their power from the grid, disregarding the fact that the grid is completely powered by burning coal, oil, and natural gas! Hey, maybe I can put the Tesla in Autodrive and watch my Plex cloud videos on the Tesla display panel using a cellular data plan and decapitate myself at 60Mph when a tractor trailer makes a u-turn in front of my Tesla.

Yeah, 20TB's is no joke. I go through the data now and then and transcode the video to more efficient smaller files to save space and prune data I really don't need to keep long term. But the Internet is my DVR and it's fully automated. Plex helped me realize the joys of cord cutting. I ripped a considerable library of content and yeah some of that content is downloaded and consumed and typically discarded. Love me some Plex.

I think I'll just stick to my personal server and sync connect to the iPad for offline viewing on the planes and trains as I have been doing. It makes zero sense for me to download content re-upload that content to a Plex server in the cloud unless I want to more easily share that content with friends which I am already doing with little trouble as its easy with a standalone server in my home. I do not trust cloud providers with my data and you shouldn't either.

https://youtu.be/J4LI_EqnJq8

Sure, I'll be glad to upload my entire video collection of 20TB's which will take approximately 180 days of continuous uploading to Amazon's cloud drive (take longer with data caps because I'll have to restart it each month until it actually completes the 20TB uploads) where it is not encrypted nor well protected and whose contents will be completely indistinguishable from pirated content versus a ripped personal use copy. I am sure the MPAA would love to go after this data. I will gladly give over my hard earned money to Amazon to pay for this privilege. I'll give up my private server which I carefully created to consume less than 40 watts (currently running a 20W Atom 8 Core processor with 8 4TB drives in a ZFS array), offset with my use of many solar panels, to shift to a cloud data center consuming considerably more than 1.21 gigawatts of electricity. https://youtu.be/I5cYgRnfFDA

Yeah that's about as smart as buying a Tesla and thinking I am saving the environment by driving around with highly toxic batteries all getting their power from the grid, disregarding the fact that the grid is completely powered by burning coal, oil, and natural gas! Hey, maybe I can put the Tesla in Autodrive and watch my Plex cloud videos on the Tesla display panel using a cellular data plan and decapitate myself at 60Mph when a tractor trailer makes a u-turn in front of my Tesla.

Yeah, 20TB's is no joke. I go through the data now and then and transcode the video to more efficient smaller files to save space and prune data I really don't need to keep long term. But the Internet is my DVR and it's fully automated. Plex helped me realize the joys of cord cutting. I ripped a considerable library of content and yeah some of that content is downloaded and consumed and typically discarded. Love me some Plex.

I think I'll just stick to my personal server and sync connect to the iPad for offline viewing on the planes and trains as I have been doing. It makes zero sense for me to download content re-upload that content to a Plex server in the cloud unless I want to more easily share that content with friends which I am already doing with little trouble as its easy with a standalone server in my home. I do not trust cloud providers with my data and you shouldn't either.

https://youtu.be/J4LI_EqnJq8

Oh there is not to say I am religious, but I just got into a flame war on that thread tonight with a fellow atheist.

Besides a few extreme not credible nutcases like Richard Carrier no biblical scholar agrees he never existed. Bart Ehrman in the link above is an agnostic atheist so no hidden agenda. But like what the previous poster said about Ron Hubbard existing doesn't mean I believe in Scientology.

Less than 3% of people could read or write and even less in rural areas so this means writtings for anything were scarce.

Josephus, and others quoted Jesus existing and even the problem gospels and Gnostic manuscripts that didn't make the cut (don't believe he is God btw ) have similarity. Paul mentioned meeting Peter and James. I think James would know he had a brother. Also Paul heard of Jesus far away near The Turkey which means Jews passed on Jesus to his synagogue.

The fact the early Christians did not consider Jesus God as evident in the book of Mark disproves Richard Carrier theory of how he got invented.

At least it's better than Everest College.

Clapper, the guy that lied to congress about intelligence activities.

I think that says it all.

It says enough. Unless Clapper is in jail right now...

FTFA: "Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam B. Schiff"

Schiff is in the House, not the Senate. Furthermore, where did they get this rock solid information from?

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., cited a long history of Russian efforts to influence elections abroad, and said that âoeit shouldnâ(TM)t come as a big shock to peopleâ that Moscow might seek to use cyber capabilities for that purpose.

Clapper, the guy that lied to congress about intelligence activities.

I think that says it all.

There's been a rise in the term "regressive left" for a while. And for good reason, the left(especially progressives and the social justice clique) have been at the forefront of anti-democratic beliefs for quite a while(see the big push on free speech zones, safe spaces, no-platforming, violent protests against individuals, anti-individualist choices, etc). And unlike the right, that cast and purged their crazies out, the left is still embracing theirs and parroting their views. In many cases, I'm going to guess that it's because they're afraid of being labeled "racists/sexists/homophobes/misogynists/etc" that the regressive left has been using to attack anyone who doesn't share their insular worldview.

Anyone who's been paying attention to tech culture or gaming culture will notice it. The regressive left is against free expression, they only want their view points, their ideals, and their versions of vidya. And are willing to throw hissyfits over any of this. They have no qualms about actually harassing people, they'll run ops to do it(see con leaks), and all the rest of the nasty shit that they claim those on the right do. Which some people have figured out is pure projection on their part.

Here's one for you: Coppin State University teacher D. Watkins calls for gun owners to be shot and compares them to slaveholders

How about this guy, calling for genocide of whites in South Africa.

Or this racist jerkoff, who calls for extermination of white people. How did this get aired on C-SPAN and not yanked, with mass protests and calls for this guy to face charges of hate crimes and incite to violence? If a white guy had said these exact same things on the air, the left would go absolutely apeshit. But why not when he does it?

Because the left are hypocrites and liars, that's why.

Here's one for you: Coppin State University teacher D. Watkins calls for gun owners to be shot and compares them to slaveholders

How about this guy, calling for genocide of whites in South Africa.

Or this racist jerkoff, who calls for extermination of white people. How did this get aired on C-SPAN and not yanked, with mass protests and calls for this guy to face charges of hate crimes and incite to violence? If a white guy had said these exact same things on the air, the left would go absolutely apeshit. But why not when he does it?

Because the left are hypocrites and liars, that's why.

If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

I can't wait for this election to be over so this shit stops.

Oh the holier than though left

https://youtu.be/0EyoKB3ZHSc

That's the face of progressives, an overly entitled crazy old woman suffering from incontinence and dementia.

John Oliver ran the numbers on the number of immigrants to the US who became terrorists. Long story short, it's basically zero, and no wonder because the vetting process makes it a ridiculous way for terrorists to try to get in. Much easier to apply for a normal visa.

https://youtu.be/_kZsOISarzg

Maybe we could get a top law enforcement guy for the whole US. We could call him, The President. And we could empower him to enforce the laws of the country through various agencies. Maybe we could name two of those agencies the Department of Justice, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. And then we could pass a law making it illegal for convicted felons who lost the right to have a firearm to try and buy one! We could call it, The Gun Control Act of 1968!

Then, that President guy could instruct his subordinates in those two departments, to enforce that 48 year-old law, and FINALLY we'd have some good controls in place to stop convicted felons from getting guns!

Do you see where this is going yet?

In 2010, out of 48,321 felons and fugitives who attempted to illegally purchase firearms, the Department of Justice prosecuted only 44 of them. https://youtu.be/06wJ50p6rMs

That's 48,321 open and shut cases of felons and fugitives swearing in writing on their ATF Form 4473 that they can legally posses a gun, when they couldn't. President Obama's Justice Department gladly allows 99.91% of the prohibited felons who attempt to buy a gun from a federally licensed dealer simply walk free. Right there are 48,321 of your felons illegally trying to get guns, and being allowed to get away with it.

We don't lack strong controls. We lack any will from President Obama to enforce the law, and it's quite on purpose. If the current gun laws were rigidly enforced, gun crime would drop, and the president wouldn't be able to whine incessantly about how we need more gun laws.

See... https://youtu.be/INttxYdGHs4

The problem is that there is often only a second or two for this to all happen, and sometimes the autopilot doesn't even notice.

Have a look at this video from a Tesla on autopilot: https://youtu.be/xoSNw_n1Xgk

It simply doesn't see the truck, doesn't slow down or avoid, just slams right into the back at full speed. Driver was obviously not paying attention, and died as a result.

Those of us who are older have seen this all before. Japanese products were crap, until the Japanese finally figured out what they were doing, got consistency and reliability down, and by the 1980s all the best stuff was made in Japan. Same thing happened with Taiwan and Korea in the 1990s-2000s.

I haven't seen any evidence that China won't follow the same path. They're just still at the point where getting paid is more important to them than establishing and maintaining a reputation for making quality stuff.

That 109 regulations regarding pillows is bullshit. There are 109 regulations where the word pillow appears somewhere, but almost none of them has anything to do with regular pillows: See this video from John Oliver.

Spent years suggesting that a black president wasn't born in the US, despite a ton of excellent evidence to the contrary.

How is that racism?

It's an example extra layer of scrutiny applied only when the candidate is black. One only needs see the relative disinterest with which the birthers treated the fact that the exact scenario they were speculating about applied directly to Cruz.

Said a judge of Mexican heritage wasn't fit to judge him due to his heritage.

I did ask for actual quotes didn't I? And yet, you chose to paraphrase... What are you trying to slip here, uhm?

Nothing, I just don't want to waste time.

What Trump actually said, was that the judge — a Mexican racist himself ("La Raza" member) — may have a conflict of interest.

Which was dumb, despite the fact they kept confusing different "La Raza"s. But more to the point lots of white judges are members of ethnic professional groups, no one accuses them of being racist, so only making it an issue when it's a Mexican judge in a group for Mexican judges is racist.

If it is Ok to suspect, that an All-white jury may be unfair to a Black defendant, why is it "racist" to suspect, a Mexican may be unfair to a White one?

Judges, unlike juries, have specific training on how to deal with biases. And there's no reason to think that a Mexican would have a negative stereotype about a German.

Has proposed banning members of a religion from the US (very similar to racism).

Not racism. Stick to the topic.

Muslim and Arab are highly correlated, particularly in the minds of Islamaphobes.

Regularly stereotypes blacks "you've got nothing to lose", suggesting that they're one monolithic underclass.

Never heard of it. Actual quotes, please.

Meh, why not.

Notice the stream of negative stereotypes and a false claim of 58% black youth unemployment.

He's not even talking to a black crowd, he's making his "outreach" to a white crowd.

Why is every Republican supposed to "disavow" Duke — except to play into the opponents trap of accepting some guilt (sort of like disavowing beating of one's wife)?

If you're explicitly asked about it? Yes.

If David Duke and other white supremacists have repeatedly and enthusiastically endorsed you unlike anyone else in decades? Definitely yes.

There's a reason Duke and the other white supremacists continue to support Trump so much, he refuses to convincingly say they're wrong.

Would Bernie Sanders disavow Lenin?

Not sure, there's a reason I didn't support Sanders.

Has Hillary Clinton disavowed Al Sharpton, who, unlike Duke, actually encouraged racial violence

It was a lot more BLM than anti-Semitism, the anger was the perception that the life of a black child was treated as secondary to the life of the white (and Jewish) driver who had killed him.

Tom Lehrer explains all this very clearly.

It has been worse then that -- some of these companies have actually tried to issue a DMCA against him and take-down his channel due to his bad reviews! WTF.

You can see "Uncrowded" assets flips in his review @ 3:08

Top Ten Shittiest Games of 2015 (The Jimquisition)
https://youtu.be/8nd6I9W_z6Y?t...

https://youtu.be/UcRTGVenN9U?t... Need to let those people know, they are using a mercury diffusion pump. I never made an amplifier tube but I sure as hell had to use the diffusion pump for my accelerator (Thank You C.L. Stong and Scientific American for publishing projects that would get people put in prison these days. How I long for my lost homeland)

Guy doing waterproof test on iPhone 7 is wearing some sort of gloves that seem to work on both the home button and the touch screen (he unlocks the phone at the very start of the video) : https://youtu.be/3-DtMyn7jfo So, it's not only skin that can operate the home button.

Honestly, dry ice is probably a LOT more humane than rat poison.

The whole reason rat poison functions is because rats don't have a gag reflex. Once they "acquire" something by eating it, the only way to get rid of it is via full digestion and pooping it out.
So they can't puke up rat poison. This gives the toxin plenty of time to kill the rat, especially with their high burning metabolism.

Dry ice evaporates into CO2 and knocks the rats out. Then, as the CO2 levels climb, kills them.

If you've ever seen the "Crazy Russian Hacker" video where he builds a work bucket-based "air conditioner" and uses dry ice instead of regular ice? DUMB.

This explains it in excruciating detail. https://youtu.be/YIgV2Q8Leh0