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There are some crazy intelligent cats out there but a lot of them are dumb as dirt.

Just like humans then:

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

"What we see is that the early part of the record has been adjusted downward (cooler) by over half a degree F"

If you're interested in learning more, freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives a weekly(ish) live stream via instagram to bring a lot more climate studies knowledge to the masses; here's one from yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Seriously, it's like they'd invent screens small enough to be in the back of our eyelids mostly so we can be advertised to in our sleep...

Futurama called it.

Not even dead ones?

A football game that you spend money on tickets to see happens once or twice a week. You can play fortnite on your phone whenever you want.

Yes, parents are responsible for their children, but also children aren't allowed to go to casinos until they're 18.

Fortnite literally is not different than what casinos are trying to do, it is deliberately designed to make people addicted and spend money. Watch this video to see how insidious it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Watch this video and learn how Fortnite is deliberately designed to be addictive and get children to spend money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It made $2.4 BILLION in revenue last year, for a "free to play" game. Clearly they know what they're doing. You don't just "accidentally" make that amount of money from a "popular" game.

Fortnite is FAR less of an economic drain for the U.K. than the continued waste of having a pointless "Royal Family" monarchy that doesn't even serve a real political purpose anymore!

Why are you talking about this being an economic drain? Prince Harry isn't. He isn't say "ban Fortnite because it's an economic drain on the country". He's saying "ban Fortnite because its destroying people's lives, and for children damaging their education".

Are you suggesting that the Royal Family causes people to become addicts of royal memorabilia, or something?

I see no reason it's any more addictive than any other online game?

Well watch this video then and learn something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Fortnite actually is deliberately designed to be addictive. Tencent bought 40% of Epic games back in 2013 with the explicit intention of making addictive games such as Fortnite that could wring as much money out of players as possible. In 2018 Fortnite brought in $2.4 BILLION in revenue, for a game that is ostensibly "free to play".

4 prominent employees including Cliff Bleszinski left Epic after the merger due to Tencent's involvement in the company, their plans for monetization of games or both.

This video covers the general structure and psychological manipulations that the game uses to get kids to keep playing and keep spending money and also talks about the 'in-game concert' that Slashdot had a story about last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

> Yes, but the U.S. does not have a government-operated "social credit system" that allows business
> owners to prevent people from traveling, or even from using public transportation, if they switch jobs.

The US system is operated by far-left oligarchs who go after conservatives. Case in point, a conservative who had Uber, Chase Bank, etc, "unperson" her... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Basically, if you don't support socialists like the Dems, you're blacklisted all over the place. Gotta keep your "Socialist Credit" score up.

I am your King!

I didn't know we had a king...

I thought we were an autonomous collective..

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

In case anyone is wondering how that last word is pronounced, here's some help.

Musk tweeted: "Starhopper completed tethered hop. All systems green." suggesting the results were good.
A decent quality video of the test fire can be seen here. The 'hop' is presumably mere inches, as the tether has essentially no slack.

This is the first known vertical test-fire of the Raptor engine, the first engine firing at the Boca Chica facility, and AFAIK the first time a full-flow rocket engine has been test-fired while attached to a rocket of any sort.

Great progress all around.

Given the orbital hopper is planned to complete construction in June, it's likely the current one will complete its hops by then, suggesting frequent tests rather than the ~40 days inbetween tests of the original Grasshopper.

You did remember that Seth Rich lived long enough to get to the hospital and talk to the police, right?

And you do know he was shot, right? That people that are in shock and bleeding out aren't likely to whip out their deer stalkers and solve their own case, right? That an assassin wouldn't say "hey dude I'm here to kill youz" instead of "gimme your wallet".

Right?

Why do people even bother with this? What are you actually going to do about it if they don't stop and keep breaking the law? The government has been breaking the law for a long time regardless of party in power and nothing gets done about it either way. At best when a citizen is wronged they sue the government and the citizens pay for that lawsuit along with paying the payout the wronged citizen receives. Not only that most people do not even challenge the charges the government brings against people they charge? The court treats government employees as people that have no reason to lie. The only thing keeping "some" innocents out of jail is because every once in a while a Judge makes the state prove it's case when a citizen manages to overcome the onslaught of charges the DA is going to throw at them if they don't take a plea deal and goes to trial. The presence of a jury changes little, most jurors are pissed off they got stuck in jury duty, don't give a shit about their fellow citizens and many believe in passing a guilty verdict because the defendant is guilty of something so they might as well fuck them over whatever that may be.

Carlin said it best... you have no rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"The government does not give a fuck about you, it is interested in its own power, keeping it, and expanding it where ever possible."

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

Creimer bought Slashdot for three pennies last year. How many of your fake user accounts has he deleted since then?

I believe the acronym you're looking for is "PLEASE", "Provide Legal Exculpation And Sign Everything". The relevant TV clip is here:

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

Oops: -(x >= 10) invokes a check of the CPU (carry) flags, which is what the GP was trying to avoid. If The CPU may (probably) trigger parallel (speculative) execution and evaluate both x >= 10 and x < 10, which is what allows Spectre vuln to do mean stuff. It's probably the case that code would be somewhat processor specific to avoid processor specific vulnerabilities. On the Z80 we don't have any spectre or meltdown vulnerabilities, for example, and simple if statements and lookup tables would not result in the vulns since it has no parallel (speculative) execution. The Mill CPU would also be invulnerable to certain Spectre variants.

Look at the demo video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... .

As someone who looks at such things for a living, I find this interesting but not so compelling. For the example of just a single injected nodule, I thought it looked unnatural. But, how it is perceived depends on how it is presented. Suppose they presented the images to real radiologists this way, "You will be looking at films that might be real or might be faked, guess which is which", then I think that most radiologists would know that the single nodule was not natural. But, if presented this way, "Look at these films and see if there is anything abnormal", then many would have fallen for it. But likewise many would have been thinking, "It is probably cancer, because it is a solid nodule, but it looks rather odd."

In comparison, the 472 nodule example was obviously fake. The nodules were all far too similar, too round, too uniform, too dense. I doubt many radiologists would have fallen for that.

If the authors intent was to show that fake imagery can be made that could be used for nefarious deception, then I think we already knew of that concern. I would say that I have seen far more credible and persuasive false CGI than what was seen here. If Pixar for example decided to make fake x-rays, I suspect they could do a much better job of it.

This brings up a question that seems far more interesting to me. If an AI agent can make a fake image that can fool some experts under certain conditions, but the fakery can also be recognized, then can there be a second AI agent that can spot the fakery created by the first AI?

What do you think?

He's quite clear and it doesn't take a lot of interpretation. He recommends asking someone else, not "think for yourself". It's good advice. Unlike many successful people who are full of themselves and don't recognize how lucky they've been to have the talents and be in the right places, he understands that any advice from him would not take into account the vastly different starting position of most young people. Instead, ask someone who knows your situation better.

Also, you should be proud that young people ask for outside input. The German version of Sesame Street has insightful intro lyrics:

Der, die, das.
Wer, wie, was.
Wieso, weshalb, warum,
wer nicht fragt bleibt dumm.

Tausend tolle Sachen
die gibt es überall zu sehen.
Manchmal muss man fragen,
um sie zu verstehen.

A good translation is difficult, so please ignore the terrible style. The German version rhymes:

The, the, the,
Who, how, what.
Why, wherefore, for what reason.
Who doesn't ask remains stupid.

A thousand awesome things
can be seen everywhere.
Sometimes you have to ask,
to understand them.

By YouTuber Professor Stick..

TL;DW, plants "breath" through little holes and they lose water when they breath. The close those holes to prevent water loss. They have to balance water loss and CO2 intake. As temperatures rise they'll take in less CO2 to avoid the water loss. Making increased CO2 a bust for plant growth in many if not most cases.

The one known for the most rude emails criticises social media, ... wow! related at the end of my last IT news of the week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Well that's one thing I can say for the 'Imperial' system...I've never gotten inches confused with feet!

Unlike some people...

Considering Apple has a history of poorly engineered designs dating back to the PowerBook 5300 "Desktop Hibachi" to the iPad Pro "Mashed Potato Wrapped in Tin Foil" with fake sapphire lens, I think I trust the tech experts at iFixit over the Apple point and drool noobs.

Sure.

Because it requires a lot more smarts to tear a product apart than it does to design and place every single component in that same product in the first place.

Yes. It's not his job to police the security of other companies. He's acting like a Cherub of Justice and he really needs to get a life.

Oh and "think of the children" is a lame excuse. Children are the responsibility of their parents or legal guardians.

It was funny when creimer bought Slashdot for three pennies last year.

Creimer took care of that problem when he bought Slashdot for three pennies last year.

SImpsons: Sarcasm Detector

It's kind of hard to give India much of a reprimand over some of that, when we're not much better. Someone from San Francisco made a poop map where people could report all of the human shit on the streets. India at least has some people who seem to care about fixing those problems whereas we in the U.S. seem content with letting the problems we have get worse or fighting against people trying to help solve them.

https://www.youtube.com/channe...

i worked for enno in the past :)

I think you're talking bollocks

However, You're half right. "AI" is absolutely hopeless at quickly and intuitively categorising and identifying objects. AI at the moment has a hard job telling that a blue chair and a red stool are both for sitting on, and that a red table and red stool are two seperate objects with different purposes. Until AI can recognise and identify objects are quickly and effortlessly as humans do, it's going to be totally hopeless.

This is the future of Youtube.

I agree with them

Their awful news reporting is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Considering Apple has a history of poorly engineered designs dating back to the PowerBook 5300 "Desktop Hibachi" to the iPad Pro "Mashed Potato Wrapped in Tin Foil" with fake sapphire lens, I think I trust the tech experts at iFixit over the Apple point and drool noobs.

A sponge could outsmart humanity.

Damn you! Now I can't get that song out of my head

Care to set up a situation like that and see how many drivers follow the dots blindly?

You mean like this?

Hitler didn't run on Genocide. Nobody ever leads with it. It starts out with angry, disaffected people who get conditioned into violence over time. See for an explanation for how you go from Edge Lord to an Alt-Right rally where folks are chanting "Jews will not replace us" carrying torches. The follow up video is good too.

What I'm saying is that there is a process to radicalization. Now, there's two ends to fight that. One the one end you've got YouTube demoting the Edge Lords in ranking and banning the ones that outright advocate violence (even when it's in the "Won't somebody rid me of this meddlesome priest" vein, and yes I know that quote isn't historically accurate, I can read Wikipedia too ya know). On the other hand you've got guys like Bernie Sanders and Gals like AOC pushing for jobs programs (Green New Deal), Universal access to higher education & healthcare and a general improvement in the working class' lives so that Edge Lords lose the social & economic pressures that move them along the pipeline described above.

But no society can leave Edge Lords to fester indefinitely. Eventually somebody is going to exploit their anger and frustration, organize them, give them weapons and then send them off to commit atrocities. That's because if you don't do something with them they run rampant. That's what people do when they run out of options. And at that point your choices are to either solve their problems for real (e.g. Bernie Sanders/AOC) or manufacture an enemy for them to take their frustrations out on (Jews, Mexicans, Blacks, the Dalits, Burakumin/Eta, every country's got one in their history).

Hitler didn't run on Genocide. Nobody ever leads with it. It starts out with angry, disaffected people who get conditioned into violence over time. See for an explanation for how you go from Edge Lord to an Alt-Right rally where folks are chanting "Jews will not replace us" carrying torches. The follow up video is good too.

What I'm saying is that there is a process to radicalization. Now, there's two ends to fight that. One the one end you've got YouTube demoting the Edge Lords in ranking and banning the ones that outright advocate violence (even when it's in the "Won't somebody rid me of this meddlesome priest" vein, and yes I know that quote isn't historically accurate, I can read Wikipedia too ya know). On the other hand you've got guys like Bernie Sanders and Gals like AOC pushing for jobs programs (Green New Deal), Universal access to higher education & healthcare and a general improvement in the working class' lives so that Edge Lords lose the social & economic pressures that move them along the pipeline described above.

But no society can leave Edge Lords to fester indefinitely. Eventually somebody is going to exploit their anger and frustration, organize them, give them weapons and then send them off to commit atrocities. That's because if you don't do something with them they run rampant. That's what people do when they run out of options. And at that point your choices are to either solve their problems for real (e.g. Bernie Sanders/AOC) or manufacture an enemy for them to take their frustrations out on (Jews, Mexicans, Blacks, the Dalits, Burakumin/Eta, every country's got one in their history).

UPDATE 04/01/2019: So nice to see my trolls to promote this video on Slashdot again.

Sad. Fucking sad.

Google suspends and demonetizes all kinds of shit that has nothing to do with politics. And it's not like lefty channels haven't been at the mercy of Google's arbitrary whims.

They just suck as a company, period.

Check out this Louis Rossman video. Apple flat-out lies about being able to salvage data off of damaged phones. Independent repair shop cites a 95% success rate in doing so, while Apple's only response is "all your photos are gone forever. Buy a new phone."

When she tried to help grieving people on the Apple forums, they banned her. She can find nothing in the TOS that disallows what she said.

Trump was never supposed to get elected. Brexit was never supposed to happen. Mainstream corporate media could no longer be relied upon to adequately shape public opinion. Something had to be done.

Pewdiepie became a nazi to be used as the excuse for the adpocolypse. Alex Jones was the lowest hanging fruit to be plucked and deplatformed. CNN videos went from 100 views to 100K views as independent journalists and commentators were pushed down. "trusted flaggers" such as the ADL and SPLC were brought on as the shadow inquisition. Still, it's not enough.

This is the future of Youtube.

Marvin, Barry, and Reverend Al for me.

Maybe even a ginger or two ...

Marvin, Barry, and Reverend Al for me.

Maybe even a ginger or two ...

Marvin, Barry, and Reverend Al for me.

Maybe even a ginger or two ...

Marvin, Barry, and Reverend Al for me.

Maybe even a ginger or two ...

Marvin, Barry, and Reverend Al for me.

Maybe even a ginger or two ...

Tabasco is what I use...

from a company which also permanently disables too low charged MacBook batteries, ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and unrepairable AirPods et al?

I can't say I've done a comprehensive enough study of the art of shit posting, but I know it when it see it.

That said, a YouTuber who goes by Shaun has done a pretty good job of calmly and rationally calling out the current crop of shit posters. Here's a good example. He's got plenty more.

For a good explanation of why this kind of shit posting is a problem see Noncompete's video here. The TL;DR; is that is a radicalization pipeline.

As for me, most of these YouTube agitators can be traced back to right wing think tanks like the ones run by the Kock brothers. The reason you're seeing them explode isn't just YouTube ignoring them, it's because they're going to conventions run by those think tanks where they're being taught how to grow and control a large audience. Seriously, pay attention to the venues and trips guys like Sargon of Arkad and Ben Shapiro attend. They're getting a huge amount of extremely valuable advice and training at the larger of those events. This isn't the help and advice you get from a grass roots org like "Justice Democrats". These are decades old professional PR firms that exit to push a right wing agenda.

These guys are basically propaganda for billionaires. They're not just shit posting, they're pushing a very specific right wing, pro-corporate agenda (low taxes, low regulation, anti-Union, etc). Spend a bit of time on the YouTube channels I linked above and you can confirm this for yourself.

What I'm saying is this: These guys are not your friends and they're not just randos on the net. There is a very specific purpose behind them. I just wish more folks were aware of it. I don't think they'd like it if they knew.