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  1. Re:'for adults' is a line not to cross? on Sony Cracks Down On Sexually Explicit Content In Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    We can concentrate on spanking it, or on what we perceive are real problems ... think carefully about which you prefer.

  2. Re:Think of the children on Sony Cracks Down On Sexually Explicit Content In Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Nintendo is publishing the Bayonetta sequels, normies don't care about objectification.

    Sony are just making themselves a juicier target by showing weakness and creating animosity towards themselves. Get woke, go broke is hyperbole ... but there are only net negative gains to be had by value signalling like this.

    As a rule a gaming company should simply not give social justice any attention and make sure gaming websites realise that asking them questions to take a stand in that regard will just earn them no future interviews.

  3. It's a fucking social media company on Facebook Shareholders Force A Vote On Ousting Mark Zuckerberg (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Datamining their users and selling access to them is what they do.

    Zuck might for the moment be a lightning rod for what is wrong with the company, but I doubt getting rid of him will help the companies image for very long. The reality of the way they make money and its side effects will come up time and time again regardless.

    At the same time you lose someone who runs the company because he cares for it rather than purely for the money. Seems like a poor deal to me.

  4. Re:China will destroy the very American 9 to 5 on Overtime Complaints? China's JD.com Boss Criticizes 'Slackers' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of work doesn't require that much mental acuity or carries much risk when a mistake is made. It just requires repetition and the effortless movement, obstacle avoidance, fine motor control and self maintenance which is still decades beyond the best automation. Even when tired we're often still much better robots than machines ... for the moment.

    Sometimes making people work themselves to the bone is profit maximizing ... especially if you're not on the hook for when they break down.

  5. Re:Bitcoin neither diverse nor decentralized on China Wants To Ban Bitcoin Mining · · Score: 2

    A fork of bitcoin isn't bitcoin.

  6. Re:What could possibly go wrong with this scheme on Police Refer Teenaged Crackers For 'Second Chance' Jobs at Cyber-Security Company (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Like the current crop of "security researchers" are any better.

    Create a big enough bug bounty or they'll sell their exploits for bitcoints is the reality for a lot of them, or both. Hackers was a much more honest term for them, security researcher gives them a cloak of responsibility most of them don't deserve.

  7. Re:We won't win on Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Is 'Quietly Spreading Across the Globe' (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    If it gets bad enough we could in theory massively lock down migration, global quarantine. Only goods which can be sterilized and information will be allowed to travel large distances ... not people or animals.

  8. Rich fucks need the UN to pay their house boats? on The UN Wants To Build Floating Cities To Save Us From Climate Change (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    What a fucking waste of time.

    Everything in/on the ocean costs orders of magnitude more than on land. Even dumping people in the desert and spending massive amounts of energy to make that habitable makes more sense.

  9. There's a simple solution for that, just don't allow any EU media company to enter into such a license contract going forward ... the problem will solve itself in due time as existing contracts expire.

  10. Re:Huxleberry come and tell us how it's good on Saudis Gained Access to Amazon CEO's Phone, Says Bezos' Security Chief (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    We love them because they used to be relatively well controlled compared to Iran and because they keep the Death to Israel chanting unofficial.

  11. Re:Easy way to rank on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes not wearing your seatbelt in an accident really does save you.

    Sometimes getting that vaccination really does kill you.

  12. Re:Easy way to rank on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a good way of putting it.

    Secure languages are definitely not nice languages for the programmers ... they want freedom (pointers) and convenience (type inference) but giving it to them runs counter to security.

  13. Re:8chan is NOT a terrorist recruiting site on The Washington Post Asks: Should 8chan Be Considered a Terrorist Recuiting Site? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    8ch is trivial to keep tabs on with automated systems, much easier than a clusterfuck like facebook.

    I'm sure the NSA has AI systems combing it for anything relevant and building profiles. Combined with the massive amount of information the NSA has on internet traffic originating and destined for the US (also everywhere else, but there especially) it's already a honey pot ... and that's fine.

  14. He is also an US citizen.

    So really the complaint should go to the Supreme Court the next time they have a first amendment case.

  15. Re: Forgot the Censorship Icon on The Washington Post Asks: Should 8chan Be Considered a Terrorist Recuiting Site? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, you could lock down mass immigration.

  16. Re:Feel sorry for hotweels on 8chan Criticized By Its Founder, Blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    8ch is not purely about freedom of speech, that's only in aggregate. Neither all of 4chan or 8ch is /b/, a board owner can ban you on a whim.

    I'd say the bigger freedom 8ch exemplifies is freedom of association. A freedom modern liberals find even more problematic than freedom of speech.

  17. What does Tesla's web browser run on nowadays? on Pwn2Own Competitors Crack Tesla, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The last time they had a browser hack the hackers could control breaks, do they have a decent hardware firewall in place now or is it still a shitshow?

  18. Re:You clearly don't know Germany. on Police Officers In Berlin Had To Break Up Fight Between Supporters of Two Rival YouTubers (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Integration as modern liberals envision doesn't exist. We can't have parallel societies as in the past any more, because democracy and the welfare system pushes us together and into competition for the club of government to beat each other with. So now there can be only assimilation or strife.

    Either they submit to us, or we submit to them ... there is no middle road. Demographics seem to point to us submitting to them, the future does not look white/bright.

  19. Apart from reflections the rest is just single bounce dynamic GI with a couple of rays per pixel and lots of hacks, it's not like NVIDIA has the power to do Monte Carlo light transport with thousands of multi-bounce rays per pixel and order dependent effects.

    Crytek does cone tracing with lots of hacks to also do single bounce dynamic GI, either way a very coarse approximation of physical lighting.

  20. Re:No 'ray tracing' units on Turing- it's a con on Crytek Shows 4K 30 FPS Ray Tracing On Non-RTX AMD and NVIDIA GPUs (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need FP16 for crypto. The tensor cores do neural network acceleration and lots of universities are buying massive amounts of them because it's the new hotness.

  21. They just implement raytracing most favourable to their architecture.

    Since they have lot of area dedicated to neural network acceleration they use a neural network to denoise, then they don't bother trying to find any more efficient algorithms for legacy hardware. They have BVH acceleration, so they don't bother trying to find any more efficient ray acceleration structures for legacy hardware. Etc etc.

    They don't lie, they just don't really try to make things shine on older/competitor hardware ... and since their embedded devs are the ones implementing it at Epic/Unity/etc neither do those engines.

  22. Re:vaccines are our best bet on all microbes on Vaccines Can Help Fight the Rise of Drug-Resistant Microbes (harvard.edu) · · Score: 1

    By forcing sodomy underground you severely restrict the promiscuity of men who have sex with men. They are on average carriers of highly infectious diseases in combination with their lifestyle.

    So as I said, be careful about praying for tyranny ... it won't always hit who you personally want.

  23. The pilots thought it was relevant, they thought that without auto-pilot on there were no automatic systems overriding their controls.

    Should they have treated it like any other trim failure, sure. Does the system betraying expectations increase the chance of cognitive dissonance and them failing to do so, of course.

  24. Re:vaccines are our best bet on all microbes on Vaccines Can Help Fight the Rise of Drug-Resistant Microbes (harvard.edu) · · Score: 1

    Right after we re-criminalize sodomy ... careful about praying for tyranny.

  25. Re:Free riders ... on Renewable Energy Reduces the Highest Electric Rates In the Nation (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The coal plants pay their dues by providing reliable power regardless, the question is who pays for power to be reliable. Will it increasingly be the poor who can't put the money aside to invest in PV?

    Or in Australia's case, who pays for power to be unreliable ... because the incentives don't adequately reward reliability. Something which can very easily happen with the interaction of poorly designed renewable incentive schemes and poorly regulated oligopoly electricity companies. Australia is just ahead of everyone else.