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  1. I agree, and would add that other nations seem to be able to police effectively without putting quite so many of their people behind bars.Maybe the incarceration rates have more to do with fear mongering politicians demonizing people than effective policing. I would gauge the worth of the policing by how much it helps the victims or helps prevent crime and improve living situations rather than how harshly it can punish or keep the outgroup down.

    A top to bottom review is needed from which laws are on the books to how police and courts fit together for a broad and common good

  2. I don't think force enters into it, and I doubt it can be solved overnight, but neighborhoods can change through better policing, better education, access to healthcare, a better show of fellowship by everyone and a tax structure that rewards work over windfalls.

    People from all backgrounds can make good - I know several examples personally. That success shouldn't have to be limited to exceptional people though and luck shouldn't play such a large role as it does.

  3. It may not be Apple's fault but there is fault to be allocated here. It's time the nation reduced its efforts to shore up multi-generational dynasties and did more to help people earn money during their lifetimes based on maximizing their contribution to the world (or based on their need if they are born with some disability).

  4. Re: Who Runs bitcoin on $31 Million In Tokens Stolen From Dollar-Pegged Cryptocurrency Tether · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin seems secure because it hasn't been visibly plundered by anyone yet. The day after it is we will know it was insecure all along. It is based on a number of assumptions that might not hold up. For example that "computing work" is reasonably similarly expensive for everyone (ie. no vastly faster hardware or algorithm will ever be narrowly deployed) and that any connectivity partitioning is benign and relatively short lived. And that the basic software is not going to be tampered with in any widespread way.

  5. Re:I can't even this morning on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if the Earth is not a globe then it reasonably follows that there is no global warming. Maybe planar warming. Perhaps that's where the scientists are going wrong.

  6. Re:I can't even this morning on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    He doesn't need a parachute so long as he never looks down

  7. Re:OMG on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    impressive if he can build a boiler that doesn't simply blow him up.

  8. Re:OMG on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I expect there is a grand canyon between his declared beliefs and his actual beliefs.

  9. websites and windows on Over 400 of the World's Most Popular Websites Record Your Every Keystroke (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    so if the website steals the errant/orphan/reconsidered keystrokes does that mean windows doesn't capture them maybe this is the lesser of two evils.

  10. Re:so... on UCLA Researchers Use Solar To Create and Store Hydrogen (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    looks like the home science for kids PEM starter kit I got, presumably with a supercapacitor glued to the back - revolutionary !

  11. so the copper core solder balls act as a stand-off... that is pretty cool. I wonder what production difficulties that introduces. I can imagine the bga packages just rolling around all over the place when the solder is flowed or the board suffering from thermal stresses over its life. I wonder if a standard BGA can be re-balled with them easily.

  12. One simple step that could happen today is making some additional clearance under a BGA to allow capacitors to be placed under part of the package close to the power pins that seem more often than not to be centrally clustered. Or maybe, add capacitors to the underside of the package interleaved between the appropriate pins so the whole assembly can be installed in one go and not need capacitors on the flipside of the board.

  13. Re:Let's not fall into the fallacy on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    I've heard of truthiness, now it seems there is reasoniness.

  14. Re:more fear mongering on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    You sound like Richmond Valentine

  15. Re:I went to college with two climate scientists on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    this doesn't pass the smell test. there are lots of deep pockets that would love to find some evidence that the science is wrong, not to mention that all of science is advanced and careers are made by exposing the limitations of previous science. It sounds like your study was too lunatic to fund if it ever did exist, My heart goes out to the deniers in one sense, there must be lots of crazy fake scientists lining up to bilk them out of phony "research" funds by telling them what they want to hear.

  16. Not pricey enough yet on Bitcoin Prices Surge 26% in November, Pass $8000 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    When it really gets big some state actor will distribute a virus or disrupt power grids or internet connectivity to become the largest pool of processors and then take it over.

  17. they'll keep it on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    rename the plant as an experimental facility for radiation testing electro-mechanical systems. Like a wind tunnel but for radiation exposure

  18. But at least they have cover to go further if they want to without damaging their reputation for putting their customers ahead of law enforcement. I'm sure strings could be pulled behind the scenes.

  19. The dead guy can no longer own anything, presumably ownership of the phone now passes to an heir (the mother maybe or a sibling). These heirs seem to be willing to co-operate with the police, so the new owner of the phone should ask for help from Apple to get into what is now their phone.

  20. Re: San Bernadino all over again on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    In the first incident:

    The victim, a man in his 40s, suffered an injury to his nose in the attack.

    In the second incident:

    Nobody was injured

    if guns (that fire bullets) had been involved in the attacks I suspect there would have been many deaths

  21. Re: San Bernadino all over again on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which of the recent NSA scandals were prevented by your gun ?

  22. not useless, it squirts water

  23. does /. count as social media, antisocial media maybe ? Anyhow, did centcom scan slashdot ? Is centcom the new UI for slashdot ?

  24. Re:So? If you use stock Android, that's already ha on OnePlus 5T Featuring 6-inch AMOLED Display, 3.5mm Headphone Jack Launched (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Which OS will you install in place of Android that brings you the security and functionality you need ?

  25. Re:It's not that big of a mystery on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Every week I buy raw whole milk, raw butter, freshly laid eggs, organic vegetables, bread, cheese, etc, and meat from the cows I walk past every week

    those are some entrepreneurial cows you buy from. A bit grizzly that they would sell the flesh of their own brothers and sisters though.