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As another AC pointed out, he isn't just making things up out of thin air. But let's suppose he is. So? Why can't he make up his own definitions?

You can make all the definitions you want so long as you first ensure that others understand them. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, Humpty Dumpty claims that his words mean whatever he chooses them to mean, which causes Alice some confusion. Sometimes the reader can guess the definition you're using because it makes sense; sometimes it doesn't. For example, if you look at an egg-shaped character and call his arms "legs", so long as they behave like legs, the reader can infer the sense via duck typing. But because most of us don't walk that way (with some exceptions), calling arms "legs" might need some explanation.

Let's look at another example inspired by Edward Josiah Stears' Notes on Uncle Tom's Cabin:

The difference is that unlike a cow's tail, a roo's tail fulfills a role that speakers associate with the ideal of a "leg". In particular, a roo's tail is weight-bearing during pentapedal walking and during kicks when boxing. A cow's tail isn't weight-bearing. So if you want to "call a tail a leg" without confusion, you have to make clear to readers what the definition is and how it is useful.

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

I based my post on the overwhelming evidence of every study on the subject that has ever been done.

I already provided the name of one world-renown and respected economist who pointed out that you are not wholly correct (and honestly, not wholly incorrect either). His name was Milton Friedman. Below are links to him giving a lecture on this very subject. (A lecture where he gives conclusions based on his many studies of economics, labor, and the workforce...)
Part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Part 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...


Another very well respected economist disagrees, again at least in part. His name is Thomas Sowell. He has also conducted many economic studies and evaluated economic models that disagree with several of your premises. Here are links to him speaking about his conclusions :
Interview 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Interview 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...


So no, not every study agrees. Not every economist agrees. But, like this administration as mastered, if you tell the lie often enough a lack wit populace will most likely start to believe you. I challenge you to read the studies from these individuals and consider their findings before speaking the lie again.

I based my post on the overwhelming evidence of every study on the subject that has ever been done.

I already provided the name of one world-renown and respected economist who pointed out that you are not wholly correct (and honestly, not wholly incorrect either). His name was Milton Friedman. Below are links to him giving a lecture on this very subject. (A lecture where he gives conclusions based on his many studies of economics, labor, and the workforce...)
Part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Part 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...


Another very well respected economist disagrees, again at least in part. His name is Thomas Sowell. He has also conducted many economic studies and evaluated economic models that disagree with several of your premises. Here are links to him speaking about his conclusions :
Interview 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Interview 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...


So no, not every study agrees. Not every economist agrees. But, like this administration as mastered, if you tell the lie often enough a lack wit populace will most likely start to believe you. I challenge you to read the studies from these individuals and consider their findings before speaking the lie again.

I based my post on the overwhelming evidence of every study on the subject that has ever been done.

I already provided the name of one world-renown and respected economist who pointed out that you are not wholly correct (and honestly, not wholly incorrect either). His name was Milton Friedman. Below are links to him giving a lecture on this very subject. (A lecture where he gives conclusions based on his many studies of economics, labor, and the workforce...)
Part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Part 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...


Another very well respected economist disagrees, again at least in part. His name is Thomas Sowell. He has also conducted many economic studies and evaluated economic models that disagree with several of your premises. Here are links to him speaking about his conclusions :
Interview 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Interview 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...


So no, not every study agrees. Not every economist agrees. But, like this administration as mastered, if you tell the lie often enough a lack wit populace will most likely start to believe you. I challenge you to read the studies from these individuals and consider their findings before speaking the lie again.

I based my post on the overwhelming evidence of every study on the subject that has ever been done.

I already provided the name of one world-renown and respected economist who pointed out that you are not wholly correct (and honestly, not wholly incorrect either). His name was Milton Friedman. Below are links to him giving a lecture on this very subject. (A lecture where he gives conclusions based on his many studies of economics, labor, and the workforce...)
Part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Part 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...


Another very well respected economist disagrees, again at least in part. His name is Thomas Sowell. He has also conducted many economic studies and evaluated economic models that disagree with several of your premises. Here are links to him speaking about his conclusions :
Interview 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Interview 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...


So no, not every study agrees. Not every economist agrees. But, like this administration as mastered, if you tell the lie often enough a lack wit populace will most likely start to believe you. I challenge you to read the studies from these individuals and consider their findings before speaking the lie again.

First result for "one-way encryption":

Cryptographic hash function - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wikipedia
Hash functions based on block ciphers. There are several methods to use a block cipher to build a cryptographic hash function, specifically a one-way compression function. The methods resemble the block cipher modes of operation usually used for encryption.

This is common domain language among cryptographers.

You're the one who tried to imply hashes were symmetric.

As to digital signatures, hashes are completely optional there and _only_ serve to improve efficiently, they do not serve a security function at all in that usage.

Digital signatures are *defined* as using hashes; otherwise the message would only be *encrypted*--with a key everyone has, but without the ability to alter it. The key is called the certificate; the message is called ... the message. It's a signature *because* it uses a hash.

Your argument is consistently "You're a clueless idiot," and my response is consistently to point to standard first-week concepts in cryptography. I'm not sure where you studied cryptography, but I suggest you go get your money back.

What is missing in the Slashdot summary is the misery of the human "digital sanitation workers", who usually have to sort that crap out. There has been some recent reporting on these unfortunate people. I believe this reporting is the reason why Facebook has come forward to show their effort, in order to counter the possible negative impact, if this hits US media outlets.

The German political foundation "Heinrich BÃll Stiftung" did a workshop on this phenomenon. Unfortunately there is little English language reporting I found, as for now. Here is a link to the original source (the workshop):

https://calendar.boell.de/de/e...

But one of the presentations is in English and available on Youtube:

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

A couple facts:

- the service is called Commercial Content Moderation

- 150.000 people work in this industry in the Philippines alone
- the Philippines is the major site for this job, because while being cheap, they being Christian means they are supposed to have a good sense of what is considered appropriate content in the USA and Europa

- a lot of the workers report "issues" because of the extreme content they have to endure, including relationship problems and substance abuse
- they are not allowed to work longer than 24 month in this job, supposedly because of the issue mentioned above

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The transgender bathroom moral panic goes to show how malleable, or in this case ductile American public opinion is.

A tempest in a teapot and no doubt. Transgenders pretty much just want to be left alone, and given that in women's toilets - at least in America, there are stalls. No one even knows.

And it's a pretty safe bet that most of us have made tinkle in a rest room at the same time as someone who has changed gender. We just didn't know it at the time.

I wonder if the red states are going to have a pecker prodder or peen inspector appointed so that God's will is served? Imagine, they want this person to use a men's room : http://www.aceshowbiz.com/imag...

I'm envisioning a bunch of good old fundies getting together in a scene reminiscent to the witch trial in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

In fact, here is North Carolina 5 years from now, as they purify themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you want to see a quick demo (7 or 8 minutes) of the database in action take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

it's the most powerful CPU Intel has ever released.

Actually, no. Other chips are faster per core (6700K for one) and Xeons go up to 22 cores.

Why's that? Fair use is on solid legal ground. You can't sue someone merely for taking short segments of a video and adding commentary.

The problem is most YouTube content creators don't understand the concept of fair use. They want a broad definition to cover anything and everything when "solid legal ground" applies only to a narrow definition.

You haven't cited these lawsuits you mentioned, but if their whole basis is just taking short segments and adding commentary or parody, the plaintiffs will lose, pure and simple.

Check out this YouTube video by Eli of Failed Normal. He discusses the consequences of fair use, including the lawsuits playing out. Starting six minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSSzDreoUR8

Your first question reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

nation-states (another relatively recent notion) started raising barbed wire around their borders and brainwashing their citizens about how better and unique and ancient and God-chosen their own culture was, the final results were some 70 million people dead (of their own),

The figure was 6 million Jews, then 4 million, and now historians say probably 1.5 million is a better number, the Red Cross released a report (suppressed for 70 years) saying around 125 thousand died in the camps, but you go to jail if you question it in some politically oppressed places.

thousands of years of history in rubbles, and a country solely made of immigrants to become by far the biggest cultural, political and military power, in the world and possibly in history.

Wait, the Zionists declared war on Germany before the war started and began boycotting to starve Germany to death. Japan was also illegally blockaded in a similar attempt to starve them. That's why they joined with Germany in the fight against the private centralized bankers who are now controlling the world. Zionists won the war while destroying the west and their cultural artifacts, all according to plan. So your concern is bogus. That's how Israel was created: For "God's Chosen People" who have high walls and barbed wire fences and require DNA tests for citizenship. You're not saying Israel should tear down their borders and interbreed with Muslims are you? See how silly you sound to me? You just don't know your history. I bet you think the US Civil war was over slavery... it wasn't. Like the American Revolutionary War, and all other wars, it was a Banker War.

I say, "What's good enough for Israel is good enough for America".

Only historically ignorant people turn a blind eye on the fact that Germany was the last region to form into a nation state and get on the track to becoming a super power, and was thus targeted for war and suppression by the established super powers and the international banking cartel that has them by the balls. Your rewriting of history is stupid since you're dooming yourself to repeating it.

Hawking needs to get out of his comfort zone and pay attention to what's going on:

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

And what, Hawking is pro-Clinton?

I had a lot of respect for the guy, that respect got torn down to one subject, his specialty. Politics I honestly think he cannot grasp what is going on in the world, or he is part of the system that is dragging humanity into indentured servitude, caste systems, feudalism, and a whole lot of things we can look forward to. The elitists are oligarchs of the world are the problem, perhaps Hawking is just one of them.

> Trump makes factually incorrect statements at a ridiculous rate

And Hillary doesn't? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No she doesn't, in fact politifact gives her a slightly better score than Sanders.

That video is mostly just nitpicking on context, so what if she's not completely consistent in identifying as progressive or moderate? Neither am I. But I'm not lying as much as responding to the context and applying very subjective definitions.

Maybe if the progressives cared more about picking someone decent, we'd have Sanders and you'd have no reason to worry about Trump at all.

Maybe but I expect it would be a lot worse.

His numbers are good now but no one outside the Democratic base is paying attention to his policy, they just like him because he seems like a competent political outsider. They probably even think he's a moderate since his connections to the party are so weak.

The problem is that independents who don't identify as Democrats because the party is too moderate are not a good representation of the Democratic base.

Sanders isn't more popular right now because he's the stronger candidate.

He's popular because he's the weaker candidate, the Republicans haven't touched him all race because they'd love him as the Democratic nominee, or at least rile up the "Bernie or Bust" folks as much as possible so they won't support Hillary and give Trump the election.

I'm sorry but situations like Sanders are exactly the reason that match-up polls aren't considered predictive at this stage.

Would the wall seriously cost less than what it costs to suffer the illegal immigrants? We have a border fence that is already very expensive, and yet it isn't very effective.

> Trump makes factually incorrect statements at a ridiculous rate

And Hillary doesn't? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Maybe if the progressives cared more about picking someone decent, we'd have Sanders and you'd have no reason to worry about Trump at all.

Is the proof really a proof if it does not answer why there is a cut-off point at 7,825, or even why the first stretch is possible? Does it really exist?

Why not ask this guy?

I'm pretty sure it's this political science department.
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UNESCO had drawn up a list of world heritage sites that were in danger from climate change, and Australia had the reefs removed because it would hurt tourism.

Between this and WHO saying there's no real risk to spreading zika so please go the the Olympics, it's obvious that it's all about the money.

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Yeah you kinda did. If you want to see what the Libertarian beliefs REALLY are, and not just your sugar coated "tyrue Libertarian" BS? Then look at one of the most popular libertarians ON THE PLANET...Stefan Molyneux. He is hate filled, Randian as fuck, so misogynist that even anti-feminists like myself go "dude you might want to tone that done,mmkay?" and is using cult like tactics such as telling kids to divorce their parents if they don't buy into his Randian bullshit...he calls it "defooing", look it up. He also gets millions of views per day preaching the cult of Supply Side Jesus, probably more than any other "libertarian" on the entire planet!

So sorry, you do not get to dictate what a libertarian is, anymore than a democrat can sing the virtues of the democrat party while they run the most corrupt bitch to ever seek office or the republicans can sing how great their party is when....damn did you see who they ran this year? They didn't have a single choice that wasn't batshit or a trust fund baby insider.

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See the real time data for how Ontario achieves this. In 2015, they produced 90% of their energy from non-fossil sources. (60% nuclear + 24% hydro)

"It is increasingly plausible to foresee a future in which cheap renewable electricity becomes the world's primary power source and fossil fuels are relegated to a minority status," reads the conclusion of the 32-page document, produced by Policy Horizons Canada.

This is total BS; even with immense investment the world over, wind and solar haven't even made a dent in fossil fuel consumption. If anything, they cement the position of fossil fuels required for backing up their intermittent and unreliable power. See a short video about the reality of Germany's wind and solar, or one of the many articles about Germany's return to coal for providing reliable power. Their attempt to phase out nuclear has been a very expensive failure, and only succeeded in ramping coal consumption, including construction of new plants.

"It's absolutely not pie in the sky," said Michal Moore from the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy. "These folks are being realistic -- they may not be popular, but they're being realistic."

Notice the need to reaffirm their nonsense not once, but three times. The data does not support their position, so they continue to repeat the lie. Sadly, this often works.

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All that lumber wouldn't do you much good if you also didn't have lots of Lumberjacks.

We're going to wean ourselves off fossil fuels faster than anyone thinks? I'm not sure how that's going to happen.

According to Bloomberg Business, "Electric Cars Could Wreak Havoc on Oil Markets Within a Decade"

Conventional energy will be obsolete by 2030 according to Swedbank: there are four key categories of technologies all of which are improving by double and triple digit basis every year. Each one of them is disruptive in it's own way.

We're going to wean ourselves off fossil fuels faster than anyone thinks? I'm not sure how that's going to happen.

According to Bloomberg Business, "Electric Cars Could Wreak Havoc on Oil Markets Within a Decade"

Conventional energy will be obsolete by 2030 according to Swedbank: there are four key categories of technologies all of which are improving by double and triple digit basis every year. Each one of them is disruptive in it's own way.

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God save the Queen!

This. Like the Hitler thing, there will always be someone who flippantly posts "just don't use windows" with a misguided air of superiority.
So, in a futile attempt to put this to rest: if it were that easy, that's what people would do.

But it isn't, and Microsoft knows it, and that's why they're doing what they're doing.
If you don't rely on software that requires Windows, happy for you. If you got the spare time and the inclination, there's Linux or BSD; otherwise, Macs have become pretty damn bullet-proof turnkey solutions for getting the essentials taken care of and then some. Throw in a Playstation 4, and you've got games covered, too.

But for the rest of us, it's a huge shit sandwich, and we're all gotta have to take a bite.

This. Like the Hitler thing, there will always be someone who flippantly posts "just don't use windows" with a misguided air of superiority.
So, in a futile attempt to put this to rest: if it were that easy, that's what people would do.

But it isn't, and Microsoft knows it, and that's why they're doing what they're doing.
If you don't rely on software that requires Windows, happy for you. If you got the spare time and the inclination, there's Linux or BSD; otherwise, Macs have become pretty damn bullet-proof turnkey solutions for getting the essentials taken care of and then some. Throw in a Playstation 4, and you've got games covered, too.

But for the rest of us, it's a huge shit sandwich, and we're all gotta have to take a bite.

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One ECM unit I worked on was a mere 2kb of code

Must be fairly old then, because a modern ICE is full of sensors. You have crankshaft position sensor (to determine where in the stroke cycle everything is), oxygen sensors (not just in the catalytic converter, but incoming), temperature sensors (coolant, air, etc), throttle position sensor, air flow sensor, anti-knock sensors (yes, in a lot of cars that "require" premium gas, regular works just fine), fuel injection system pressure and flow sensors, and dozens more. Then there's the performance tables - both static and dynamic that relate all the sensor data to actual performance numbers including spark advance/retard, valve advance/retard, spark power (the spark is computer controlled, and the power used is to balance plug wear with mixture needs), etc. etc. etc. And the outputs are just as numerous - spark plug (x number of cylinders), fuel injector (x number of cylinders), throttle servo, sdvance/retard valve timing group (it's usually vacuum driven so the computer activates a solenoid), and dozens more outputs including seemingly unrelated ones like alarm (if the alarm is armed, the engine gets no fuel and no spark), starter control, etc.

If you can do all that in 2kb, I'm impressed. I'm certain the performance tables are much larger than that.

Oh yeah, and limp-home mode. A mode where the engine will run to get you unstuck. It's actually a very impressive mode too - you can disable a number of cylinders and the engine will (barely) keep running. It'll be unhappy and be dog slow, but it will run.

Here's an impressive one where a 50 cal is used to shoot through cylinders. And the engine starts right up again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A "proper" burial as in the "PC LOAD LETTER" kind of proper?

GP should've taken the hint and gotten a real modem, and not stayed with some gimped piece of junk where the manufacturer tried to save a few pennies by not putting a proper ROM in it. By the time the driver was reverted, a real modem should have been affordable. Or maybe even, you know, re-compile the old driver, since that's kind of a major point of using an open-source operating system.

This reminds me of that commercial where a man in Mexico entertained children with a puppet show version of Pac-Man

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

You seem to have some issues recognizing SJWs, here lemme help you:
This is how your typical SJW acts

Except when they get powers, then expect 1984 tier bullshit.

Can you grab nearly any piece of hardware made in the last 5 year, plug it in and have it just work?

Kinda... In fact, I'm soaking in it

Better feed it. :)

I suppose most US inhabitants only know of the kill-all-humans AI from the movies, being Skynet the first thing thing people think of.

Don't forget the nuclear bomb controlled by a suicidal AI.

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Did you go to the Wet Bandit school of bad-assery?

Uh, you have to stay up to date. They're now The Sticky Bandits. ...and Kevin is the new badass...

Ah, I see, thanks for the update!

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Did you go to the Wet Bandit school of bad-assery?

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Mine's detachable.

Will North Korea pursue this malignant hacker?

No, but maybe the Polis will pay this wee bampot a visit..

So, tell us ahead of time. Does your SO appreciate humor?

Everything new is web scale.

I'm just going to leave this here

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

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Watch this cammed video clip for its reference. :P

Hey axewolf.
Here's an example of politicians being all "I will tell you what the solution is, you guys can work out the details" when the solution is bad or unworkable because no experts were consulted https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

These people are very smart at business, good at making deals. That doesn't mean they're smart at tech or give enough respect to experts.
As someone who works in tech who often consults with business people, I've seen this behaviour a lot. Often I can influence the situation enough, many times I can't.

By all means, I'm not saying that politicians have not been largely corrupted, and many prefer power over benefiting the common man, that doesn't mean that every bad decision is due to a malicious plot. This was just some people ignorant of the facts, who were too proud to be convinced otherwise, when they thought "Terrorists use encryption - we need to make it so we can counter terrorist encryption".