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  1. Re:We are a plague. on Human Race Just 0.01% of All Life But Has Destroyed 83% of Wild Mammals, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are no innocents without a concept of morality. They can resume eating each other alive without any concept of innocence or guilt without disturbance by man at some point, until that time we are the apex predator.

    We generally treat our cattle nicer than do the lesser predators.

  2. Re:Gorsuch is doing exactly what SCOTUS should do on Supreme Court Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts Barring Class Actions (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, the commerce clause being used to make the federal government supreme over anything the supreme court wants is really in line with the constitution ...

  3. Re:crypto-coins? on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I can easily see how you can sign something using a hash function (just use a secret salt). I don't see how you'd use a hash function to do asymmetric encryption though.

  4. Re:crypto-coins? on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The ownership of your wallet is still guarded by asymmetric encryption.

  5. Re:Would you like to buy a bridge? on 'I Asked Apple for All My Data. Here's What Was Sent Back' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unless you think they have a National Security Letter holding a gun to their head you are just stupid if you think they hold more than that.

    They aren't going to risk 100% hardware profit margins to pick up a couple advertising pennies in front of a scandal steamroller.

  6. Cancel your contracts and move to Verizon ... on US Cell Carriers Are Selling Access To Your Real-Time Phone Location Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Verizon is the only one who said it would stop providing data. The others said they'd require consent, but there is no actual mechanism for you to verify consent with them ... so they are lying fucking bastards.

    If a hundred thousand people vote with their wallets today, this will be done with tomorrow.

  7. Re:Neither can humans on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Trying to get funding for finding causes for homosexuality if you don't make clear ahead of time you will find the right answers is impossible in this day and age.

    Even allowing for the possibility of non PC answers to that question makes you a shitlord nazi.

  8. Re:Not Intuition, better data on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    We use common sense to fill in gaps in training sets, any uncaptured non-linearity in the training set will fuck up an "AI".

    Computers can find and combine much weaker predictors than we can, but they can't reason worth shit.

  9. Re:Doesn't IoT mean trash is more valuable? on The Internet of Trash: IoT Has a Looming E-Waste Problem (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Capital required on capital gained makes it just not worth it.

    Maybe if at some point electrical power is defacto free and we have self-repairing robots with human like AI they can sift through our trash heaps and recycle everything. I'm afraid they won't have much use for us though.

  10. Re:Digital controls on The Internet of Trash: IoT Has a Looming E-Waste Problem (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    On something like a washing machine it's just not an option any more with modern efficiency demands. It has to detect the load, correct for water temperature etc etc. Water and power consumption minimization requires microcontrollers.

  11. Re: I can run Chrome on Linux on You Can Now Run Linux Apps On Chrome OS (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of people run Linux on their Chromebooks, it's a very open platform. Just need to take out the write protect screw and you can modify the open source bootloader to load a different OS.

  12. I really need to start paying for a VPN on Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Archivist For Downloading FOIA Releases (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    We all have something to hide from the state, to wit every single activity you perform because it can piss them off arbitrarily.

  13. Re:Not really a billion dollars on Telegram's Billion-Dollar ICO Has Become a Mess (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    Over a billion dollar has changed hands, the dollars are real ... only the longer term value of the tulip bulbs is imaginary, for now there are still plenty of suckers to be fleeced.

  14. Re:Worse than containing a potential flaw... on Microsoft's 'Meltdown' Patch For Windows 10 Contains a Fatal Flaw (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't windows have some way to quickly recover from a VSS snapshot remotely so you can bring a server back almost instantly if an update fails? It would be almost insane if it didn't ...

  15. It was stupid to begin with on Nvidia Shuts Down Its GeForce Partner Program, Citing Misinformation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The card manufacturer brands simply aren't that strong, all the publicity about about brand splitting was just giving AMD free advertising with no benefit to NVIDIA. Worse, if they force ASUS to create new brands for AMD they might just launch Freesync only high end monitors ,,, which is not at all to NVIDIA's benefit.

    Some manager thought he was clever and tried to turn third party hardware partnership into just as effective an anti-competitive tool as software support, but they just don't work the same. Not so clever.

  16. Re:More of an issue now on 'Next Generation' Flaws Found on Computer Processors (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We're also running programs written in C and connecting them to the internet ... we don't need javascript to be wide open.

  17. Facebook believed the cornucopian fantasy about third world growth ... but all that's growing is their GDP and population, not their median income.

    They are poor, will remain poor and no value to advertisers indeed.

  18. Re:Made in China on White House Considers Restricting Chinese Researchers Over Espionage Fears (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Made in China, backdoors designed and owned by the USA.

    They want to own both the component manufacturing and own the backdoors.

  19. Re:Chinese are good researchers on White House Considers Restricting Chinese Researchers Over Espionage Fears (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Low natural resources per capita isn't exactly an advantage. Also whites have a huge lead on China in creating nice societies ... they are getting massively brain drained by US, Canada and Australia.

  20. Re:So you're saying.. on Iran Bans Use of Telegram Messaging App To Protect 'National Security' (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, ability to tap all forms of communication are essential to national security. Yes, they are kind of fucked in that respect. We all are, except the US ... and maybe China if they go full autarky as far as tech is concerned, which they could.

    Life is so much easier when you can walk in with a national security letter to backdoor any app you want, you have undercover moles putting exploits into everything and have labs all through the country to intercept shipments and backdoor hardware using the hardware design knowledge you gained from your moles. In the US unless you build your own communication device there is nothing the government can't tap, they do have that many fingers.

  21. Re:How dare they fight back when attacked on Russia Is Attacking US Forces With Electronic Weapons In Syria, General Says (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say Israel did it, Israel is the only one who came out ahead.

  22. Re:That didn't take long on Can A New HIV Drug Kill The Virus That Causes AIDS? (scmp.com) · · Score: 2

    Nope, the half time of anti-virals makes anti-biotics look good. Especially nowadays with all the AIDS victims filling their veins with it. Unfortunately they are just as good at making non STD viral diseases immune to these drugs.

    We are coming up to a whole new age of puritanism, simply because of all the untreatable STDs.

  23. Re:How dare they fight back when attacked on Russia Is Attacking US Forces With Electronic Weapons In Syria, General Says (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The weapons shipped to Isis&co are almost all Russian made, so an economic loss and economic aid to a supposed rival. Operation Inherent resolve costs 10 Million per day, slightly increased weapon sales don't really help. If your weapons are superior they will sell regardless and Saudi Arabia&co will be paranoid about Iran regardless, so they'll buy weapons regardless.

    The US is a national entity, if traitors work to oppose that entity it's still not self serving for the US. Globalist institutions add little to the bottom line for the US and the trade deficit is a double edged sword at best ... not that there is a realistic alternative to the dollar, the Eurozone is a basket case and no one is going back to gold.

  24. Re:How dare they fight back when attacked on Russia Is Attacking US Forces With Electronic Weapons In Syria, General Says (yahoo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The US actions in Syria aren't self serving, it only tried to serve Israel/Saudi Arabia and their self fulfilling paranoia vis a vis Iran. It would have been far cheaper for the US to just stay out of it and only fight Isis in Iraq (and actually fighting them straight from the start). Arming ISIS and then subsequently "bombing" them and then finally actually bombing them when their former pet dogs became a little too rabid has done nothing but bring grief to the US. It didn't even help their Sunni allies, Saudi Arabia is off worse in some ways.

    In the end only Israel is laughing as it's hold on the Golan is strengthened. The US was played.

  25. Re:Fipronil on EU Votes To Ban Bee-Harming Pesticides (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Until it stops working and you add resistance genes to the insect genepool, fucking over the original species the substance was derived from. Then you repeat that trick for every other natural insecticidal substance, until finally you end up with pests with resistance to fuck near everything in their "junk" DNA ready to be reactivated at a moment notice.

    Congratulations, you tilted evolution in the favor of pests by accelerating it by multiple orders of magnitude. What's the next step in your master plan?