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  1. Re:Google is an ignorant evil culprit on Facebook Says It is Sorry For Suggesting Child Sex Videos in Search (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Hiding searches for sexually charged mainstream song titles with safe search on would predominantly affect titles made by black artists, a lot of which are mainstream artists. For instance, the song you're complaining about is made by an academy award winning group. In fact the song itself is mainstream, trending #1 on Apple music a while back.

    Welcome to the age of degeneracy.

  2. Re:Even worse than the FB faux pas... on Facebook Says It is Sorry For Suggesting Child Sex Videos in Search (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or if they are making the algorithms a little too smart those searches are done by people which correlate well with his data.

  3. Market rates are also non-linear based on consumption increase over time and duration. A coinminer starts up a lot faster than even a datacenter and drops out a lot faster too. You can't spread your investment for the increased capacity like you can with most normal consumers.

    If cryptominers had to pay the true cost of their folly they'd have to pay multiple times that of normal consumers. Maybe even 10s of times.

  4. Not all electricity consumption is equal. A citizen pays a lot more taxes per Wh consumed than a cryptominer. A factory employs people and thus brings in lots of taxes too per Wh consumed.

    Cryptomining has externalities hard to capture in non discriminatory rates. Any discriminatory rate which accurately captured them would make cryptomining there unsustainable any way, so might as well ban it.

  5. Re:How to enforce the ban on For the First Time, a US City Has Banned Cryptocurrency Mining (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Cripple them with fines if discovered, jail sentences if possible.

    Balance risk/reward towards the risk enough and even low chances of discovery don't matter.

  6. Re:Insect's revenge on Planting GMOs Kills So Many Bugs That It Helps Non-GMO Crops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Resistance is inevitable for broad spectrum pesticides. Not all resistance mechanisms will be highly energetically unfavorable, eventually all control mechanisms will fail. Nature works with millions of narrow spectrum pesticides, slowly becoming less effective while new ones evolve (or occasionally species go extinct when a pest is suddenly unopposed, no problem, millions more where that come from). Humans accelerate this by orders of magnitude by just spamming a handful of broad spectrum pesticides. We speed up evolution, to our own detriment.

    Just like anti-biotic reliance will lead to a disastrous collapse in our medical care, pesticide reliance is steering us to a catastrophic collapse in our agricultural output. This isn't unique to GMO pesticides though, it's mostly caused by our overpopulation.

    Nature is rapidly developing human resistance.

  7. Re:just pay a fine on SEC Charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes With 'Massive Fraud' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That entirely depends on whether her sugar daddies supported or opposed him. If they opposed him she can just drag it out till the next democratic administration comes in of course.

  8. Re:Well consider the source on 'Personal Drone' Crash Causes 335-Acre Wildfire In Coconino National Forest (azcentral.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The owner reported it :

    "The operator reported the fire and was later cited for causing timber, trees, slash, brush, or grass to burn."

    http://fireaviation.com/tag/ke...

  9. Re:More training then on Do Neural Nets Dream of Electric Sheep? (aiweirdness.com) · · Score: 1

    Edge cases are infinite, at some point the only thing which can improve performance further is abstract reasoning.

  10. Lets not forget the NSA moles who undermine the system such that they can always put up their own listening post without having to go through the trouble of a central tap or stealing keys.

  11. Re:The revisionist world... on EU Warns Tech Giants To Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour -- or Else (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is Pravda, not Nazi book burning. Same effect as far as free speech goes of course.

  12. EU is trying to do an end run around the law on EU Warns Tech Giants To Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour -- or Else (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They are trying to bully Internet companies into being giant faggots, taking "a voluntary approach" to curtailing free speech in a way the laws of few countries in Europe would allow if it was truly done through direct government intervention.

  13. "incitement to hatred"? on EU Warns Tech Giants To Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour -- or Else (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ban Islam and segregate all Muslims who don't wish to give up their religion. Islam should have no permanent presence in the EU in any significant fashion.

    So something like that would have to be removed in an hour? I doubt my screaming on the Internet about Islam is going to be very successful, but incitement to hatred it most certainly is.

  14. Re:That's Nothing on 23,000 HTTPS Certs Axed After CEO Emails Private Keys (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They use the same key pair for every firewall?

  15. Compared to population growth,dysgenics, poor governance and fossil water depletion, temperature increases aren't even a drop in the pond.

    See for yourself :
    http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/cl...

    Rainfall hardly budged from the beginning of last century.

  16. I think you mean standard practice on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Teach 'Best Practices' For Programmers? · · Score: 2

    Stumbling towards a steaming pile of shit with flavor of the day development strategy, flavor of the day framework and flavor of the day lingo and absolutely never with any structural ways to avoid the most common security flaws we have been aware of for multiple decades. That's what you have to teach them.

    They want a job, knowing best practices isn't conducive to that.

  17. He didn't change his mind, he supposedly felt sorry for setting off the trend ... but he assigned entirely different motivations to himself than he did to others.

  18. Hypocrisy on A Biohacker Regrets Publicly Injecting Himself With CRISPR (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When he does it it's because he's a "social activist", when others do it it's because "to get press and get publicity and get famous".

  19. Re:For those who object to the policy... on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    The guard against rogue technical leads is a fork.

    I don't like there's a bunch of busy bodies with no technical contributions getting to interpret a bunch of vague rules to play political games with. Which is how this is going to turn out, the people worst suited for that committee will be the ones most attracted to the position ... hell, they'll join the project just for the chance to be in it.

    It's creating a worse than useless bureaucracy for worse than useless people to do worse than useless things.

  20. Re:For those who object to the policy... on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    For instance "Sustained disruption of discussion.". What's discussion and what is sustained disruption of it? Used to be up to the technical leads to decide, now someone can go suck up to the CoC committee to win a heated argument by shutting up his opponent.

    The existence of the CoC committee is in fact far worse than the CoC itself.

  21. Re:Systemic oppression on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    Dongle, proposition 8.

  22. Re:Sounds like they need a hug on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    "Physical contact and simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop. "

    If what you said were true then it would say "and after a request to stop". So he's not being edgy, any mention of not explicitly invited simulated physical contact is a CoC violation. So realistically any mention of "hug" outside of personal communication is going to be a CoC violation, since not everyone present will have given consent.

  23. Re:How about sharing code? on Scientists Are Failing To Replicate AI Studies (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    There was no way to widely disseminate the massive amount of data underlying scientific research in Newton and Franklin's time.

    Also math is not a science.

  24. Re:How about sharing code? on Scientists Are Failing To Replicate AI Studies (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's called Reproducible Research. Also yes, any scientist which doesn't practice is a hack. At best a semi-commercial researcher trying to pretend he is a scientist.

    All scientific publications in this day and age should include the complete version controlled datasets and processing software as well as the lab notes. The latter not for reproducibility, but for true insight into the process which led to the results and to find potential avenues missed along the way. Storage is free, to stick to the traditional method of scientific dissemination at this point is only done because "science" has been turned into mockery. It's all about publish or perish, commercialization of software, trade secrets and patents ... promoting scientific progress isn't even a consideration for most.

  25. Re:Satellite measurements [Re:Oh good] on 25 Years of Satellite Data Shows Global Warming Is Accelerating Sea Level Rise (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me rephrase that, since I seem to have been misinterpreted. At the position of the actual tidal gauge the possible errors in satellite data are far larger than in a differential GPS corrected tidal gauge.

    Together with lakes and land features (though trusting either of those too much is obviously not a good idea, behave fundamentally differently from the ocean) the tidal gauges are what the satellites are calibrated against after all. Not the other way around.