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  1. Re:So the USA has never influence an Election? on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, that misses the point entirely. Look at the thread context. OP made the presumption that Russia intervened. Everything,including my response, in this thread is based on that.

  2. Re:Speculation not activity on Goldman Sachs Explores a New World: Trading Bitcoin (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    if our society suffers some sort of calamity that renders bitcoin unusable then my pile of USD will likely also be rendered obsolete.

    Or not. See Puerto Rico for an excellent contemporaneous example where cash is king. Some 1% of US citizens are in that boat as we speak.

  3. Re: We need more guns on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Here you go Check out the table as an embedded image halfway down. Fair warning, I was wrong. It was 2000-2014, not 2003-2014

  4. Re:So the USA has never influence an Election? on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The US has also rolled tanks into other countries. Doesn't change the fact that it's indisputable (among Americans) that you don't let other countries invade. It's not a fucking abstract moral argument - it's a war. A psy-ops war, but a war. The gv't defendingthe US in a war is a thing.

  5. Re:We need more guns on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What laws would you want to change? Because, AFAIK, even manufacturing these guns (for civilians) was already outlawed in 1986.

  6. Re: We need more guns on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Countries like the UK and New Zealand have low incidences of these kinds of events, whereas America's incidence is very high

    Well, the UK yes. But other industrial countries exceed the US in mass shooting deaths (per capita; obviously the US will have more total, with more people.) Specifically, Norway, Finland and Switzerland in Europe. (Based on data 2003-2014)

  7. Re:Not to be overly skeptical on Tesla Is Shipping Hundreds of Powerwall Batteries To Puerto Rico (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    It looks like a lot of the grid is down, but the plants are operating. So, they can charge, and then swap.

  8. Re:Raspberry Pi on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Open Source Hardware to Tinker With? · · Score: 1

    How real time do you want?

    I'm still trying to figure that out. For one GPIO pin, I'm fine with milli-second timing (so regular Linux should be fine). For others, it's faster, but I'm still waiting to find out what precision is required. I know I have latency issues as well, but that's on me as a developer.

    Does developing software for a RTOS require special SDKs/skills/patterns? Can you still do something like run WiFi/BlueTooth in a RTOS, or does it require so much rewriting that there are no drivers? (Obviously, the WiFi/BlueTooth part would not be predictable itself, because wireless and other devices.

  9. Re: We need more guns on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't see why having stricter requirements is considered "punishment"

    Wait, he used an automatic weapon. Those have pretty strict requirements. This is, AFAIK, the first crime where a legal automatic was used. In US History (at least since those requirements were enacted in the... 50's?)

  10. Re:Raspberry Pi on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Open Source Hardware to Tinker With? · · Score: 1

    A bunch of GPIO, without a way to run them in realtime. Or is there a subprocessor or something I can use for super accurate timing?

  11. Re:He's not wrong... on Equifax CEO: All Companies Get Breached (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The published Equifax reporting indicates they very much had a castle mentality, and an outward facing gate guarded by "admin/admin". So, you know, not realistic or practical; instead what I would consider negligence on the part of someone setting up home wifi.

  12. Re:Or maybe ... on US Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Corporations are worried that common citizens will vote in a way contrary to their interests so they prevent that by getting them locked up in large numbers?

    No, I think Republicans want to disenfranchise poor/black people who are not likely to vote for them. That they get to enrich private companies is gravy on top of that. See poll taxes, and much of the voterID public justifications.

    (typically unpaid child support)? That's arguably overused

    Typically fines and court fees (sometimes related to driving, often related to adding outrageous fees that must be settled). And yes, it's overused. Like, in VA in 2015, 1/6 drivers had their license suspended.

    Also, 90% of people who give up driving when they lose their license lose their jobs, it seems like a very counter-productive punishment. I know you think that's "not where this law is getting applied", but it totally is. Deadbeat, well-off dads are a rounding error. People who couldn't pay the fine for their headlight being out are their bread-and-butter

    And, I should point out the license issue was on top of a very different, and very real, jailtime enforced (and private!) set of outrageous fees and interest on people who pay their fines over time.

  13. Re:Or maybe ... on US Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not being used to hide structural problems. It's being used to perpetuate them. See, the only way to remove voting rights from someone in the US in a permanent way is to convict them of a crime. Criminals also can get hired by private companies at essentially slave wages. Then, those prisons are run by other private corporations, who get paid by the state to house their slave labor they then rent out. They then funnel some of their profits as campaign contributions to the politicians who enable the system.

    Further, you should look at how fines work in the US. We fine people for needing to pay fines over time. We remove people's drivers licenses because they owe money, and then fine them for driving without a license (usually in states where there aren't other options to get to/from work, etc.)

    It's a super fucked up system. Kafka would be proud.

  14. Re:A smart watch, on Kickstarter! Sign me up! on Solar Powered Smartwatch Successfully Crowdfunded on Kickstarter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the price? I wouldn't mind picking up a used Pebble.

  15. Re:To be fair... on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, fallacy fail. You may want to call it begging the question, but there's definitely a causal link between the belief that ads change behavior and the spending of hundreds of billions of dollars. There's evidence that convinced people to spend all that money. If you have counter-evidence, you could become a very rich man by optimizing the ad spend of all those companies.

  16. Re:To be fair... on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right! I mean, hundreds of billions of dollars annually are spent on ads, but they totally don't change behavior. Nope, couldn't be.

  17. Re:Ever notice something about Europe? on Spanish Court Orders Google To Delete App Used For Catalan Independence Vote (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Getting acquired by Apple is a legit exit that happens to many American companies. So, it seems that your French machine vision company is an example of how the Europeans did out-compete some Americans in tech. I'll also point out that the entire AI fad was driven by DeepMind (in London) and based on research at Canadian universities (for MS's latest AI breakthroughs).

    Long story short, Europe seems to have fewer "I'll ignore the law because it's on the Internet" companies (Uber, AirBnB), but still some promising tech.

  18. Brings to mind the old "what's worse than finding a worm in your apple" joke. What's worse than the hackers finding nothing happening on your bedroom webcam? You being one of the hackers who sees something happening. (Or better infidelity based punchline.)

  19. Re:This is idiotic on Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel By Rocket, Right Here on Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    For a regular Falcon9, just getting launched (no landing burn) is 220 metric tons of CO2. Given that it has a weight capacity of 11 metric tons we can guess it can carry maybe 100 people (That would give up 220kg for the person, life support, luggage, retro fuel etc.) So, at 2.2 tons of CO2 per passenger, that is 10% more than an airplane at 1.8-1.95 tones of CO2 per passenger on intercontinental flights. And you have to add for the retro-burn and landing burn.

    I also think that 220kg per passenger (counting their share of the weight of the ship) is silly optimistic. A 747 seems to require more than 1000kg per passenger under the most extreme circumstances (being used to evacuate people in an emergency).

  20. Re:Well, fuck. on Amazon's Echo Spot Is a Sneaky Way To Get a Camera Into Your Bedroom (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    You're right. No one would ever be upset about their sexual exploits being made public. Certainly no one would fund Hulk Hogan to try to take down Gawker as revenge. And IoT devices have such a reputation for security.

    To say nothing of the fact that while the company itself mught not give a shit, it might be something the employees of said company do.

  21. Related to Hurricane Maria? on Air Force Gives 10-Year-Old Orbiting Satellite To Ham Radio Operators (arrl.org) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this was accelerated because of the need for HAM operators in Puerto Rico following Maria.

  22. If Apple didn't counter-indicate FaceID for children, they would probably be violating COPA - the act that makes it so companies cannot start fucking around with your data til you are 13. Well, at least, not as freely.

  23. Given a local-only blockchain, it seems mutable. And audit trails also exist.

    I'd love to have it explained why I'm wrong. There could be something I'm missing. But, I'm really not sure what.

  24. Re:Sunk Costs on Vacuum Company Dyson To Build 'Radically Different' Electric Car (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Half of that was just in battery tech. New battery tech can easily repay 2.5bn even if the car never gets manufactured.

  25. Why? on The World's First Blockchain Smartphone Is In Development (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Isn't the only benefit of a blockchain is to replace a single trusted server with distributed authority. How does that help with a local device (aka a smartphone)?