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  1. Re:Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    What I can't find in any article is the court admitting it yet, only that they ruled him a minor the last time they had to decide.

    Ruling his age as adult has consequences, there are most likely hundreds of thousands of these "minors" in Europe after all. Admitting the lie is potentially dangerous, might give the extreme right ammunition.

  2. Re:PC world gone mad on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    They miscategorize a lot of things, that is not what caused the erasure of the category. The truth of AI categorization is only that an algorithm assigned that category, not that the category corresponds to reality.

    The agenda is that society can only be told selective truths. Feefees of vulnerable classes can't be hurt and bigotry must not be given arguments, not even if those arguments are false. The truth must suffer for this agenda.

  3. Re:What was the UK gov so protective of? on UK Backs Off From Banning Reidentification Research (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its monopoly. Their security agencies being able to do reverse ID lookups on snippets of data gives them power. When Google and everyone else start doing it nilly willy it tips off the bad guys, costs them power.

    So hurray for governments greedy of power I guess ...

  4. Re:"took his own life" on James Dolan, Co-Creator of SecureDrop, Dead At 36 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Even as a conspiracy minded person, I do think it's likely he took his own life.

    Trying to stage a suicide in an uncontrolled environment is risky. So if I was going to believe in a conspiracy in this case I'd believe induced depression through poison was more likely, hell I think induced depression through radiation is more likely.

  5. Re:Oh lord, that again? on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: -1

    Execution speed for the inputs the programmer deemed to test with isn't the be all and end all of efficiency.

    C is not cost efficient for society at large ... C is a trillion dollar mistake.

  6. Re:programming practices on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So that's where all those C programmers who can avoid buffer overflows went, they ascended.

    Shame we are stuck with the rest.

  7. Re:Something for Nothing on A Popular Sugar Additive May Have Fueled the Spread of Two Superbugs (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    More competition for glucose.

  8. Re: I actually do think the issue is minor on Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Older AMD processors still leaked information between protection domains through the BTB, was that a conscious decision? BTBs have been leaking information into scripting language sandboxes for everyone, they were conscious of that and didn't bother telling anyone nor provide a way to fix it?

    I'm sure a lot of people have been sitting on these exploits for a long long time, but I hope AMD designers were not among them. I'd rather have them be blind to it than massive assholes.

  9. Re:signal to each other in plain sight on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't about Nazis or even red neck conservatives. This is about having an excuse to call stuff like kek far right. Which is mostly just a symbol used by contrarian kids, quite a lot of non whites, but they don't follow PC.

    "Our impartial AI calls them Nazi, you believe me now they are Nazis right? How can you not? Are you a Nazi? Here, let me tweak my algorithm ... see, you are clearly a Nazi? AI can't be wrong, you are a Nazi, you are wrong, I'm right ... oops, I meant my algorithm is right."

  10. Re:Lets have some predictions then on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    At least you tried, you should become a climatologist ... you're already a better scientist.

  11. Re:Easy to do for Net Energy Exporting countries on Norway Powers Ahead (Electrically): Over Half New Car Sales Now Electric or Hybrid (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How many households have pure electric (not hybrid) as their only car? I very much doubt it exceeds a single digit percentage.

  12. Developing WMD's isn't all that expensive.

  13. Re:Nor surprising really, with a $230K max salary on NSA's Top Talent is Leaving Because of Low Pay, Slumping Morale and Unpopular Reorganization (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're optimistic.

    I think the increasingly lucrative market (much from repressive governments) for exploits and surveillance/datamining has more to do with the exodus. Globalism lets them sell their soul to international buyers, instead of the US government.

  14. Re:Easy to do for Net Energy Exporting countries on Norway Powers Ahead (Electrically): Over Half New Car Sales Now Electric or Hybrid (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not really an example to the world though, the countries with massive oil based trade surpluses and huge amounts of hydro-potential are Norway and Norway.

    This is just Norway investing in autarky, it's not really very interesting for the rest of the world. Unless you want to emigrate to Norway, which wouldn't be a bad idea.

  15. Re:Lets have some predictions then on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not asking you to not believe them, I'm asking for some clear predictions ... so in twenty years you can see whether your faith was justified. Without that it's not science, it's truly just blind faith. Religion.

    Shit's getting warmer, but are their models for predicting how much warmer and what the effects will be getting any better? Only way to find out is to predict and see. Run the experiment.

  16. Re:Lets have some predictions then on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    The only conspiracy which would go 170 years back would be scientists conspiring to declare the little ice age a global phenomenon. But the scientific consensus has once again embraced the little ice age as global, so that has gone from conspiracy to "fact" once again.

    Moving the goal posts does nothing to make the scientific opinion about attribution any more trustworthy. Either they can make predictions, in which case 20 years is a long enough timespan to judge them on it, or it's not science.

  17. Lets have some predictions then on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tornado/cyclone intensity over the next two decades ... come on, we'll need a good laugh in 20 years the way things are going (global warming wouldn't reach my top 3 of the world's greatest problems, even if I bought into AGW models).

  18. Re:Critical thinking can be caught on Efforts Grow To Help Students Evaluate What They See Online (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Can they look only at Christianity? Or are they allowed to be taught the effects of religion on women in the Middle East as well? Can they look at political correctness? Examing cultural and genetic superiority in producing high standards of living and the religions which make it impossible to think about them?

    Silly me, of course only Christianity ...

  19. Re:The continuing story on Efforts Grow To Help Students Evaluate What They See Online (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    At the same time other adults pretend there is no value in teaching kids they shouldn't play and that all modes of voluntary sexual behavior among adults should be taught to be equally acceptable. Which is producing a society unhinged from history, with lots of single parent homes and demographic collapse.

    Civilization was a fluke, there's plenty of people on all sides chipping in to destroy it.

  20. Re:critical thinking on Efforts Grow To Help Students Evaluate What They See Online (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    First and foremost you need to teach them debating, teach them dialectics, teach them sophistry. Teach them how to put blinders on people so by cherry picking and by locking off modes of thought even truthful science and hard logic can be used to make almost any point.

    If you don't go back to the classics you aren't even trying, science is a false god.

  21. Re:Big problem.... on Efforts Grow To Help Students Evaluate What They See Online (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Global warming has good evidence. Acceleration of global warming has evidence (satellite data), lack of acceleration of global warming has evidence (tidal gauge data). Climate models have parameter fitting. CO2 emission restrictions are based on complete fantasy, even ignoring modeling failures they don't honestly take population growth and the desire of people for higher standards of living into account and assume massive engineering feats we don't have the technology for.

    If you honestly look at the effects of population growth while trying to reduce emissions, all the IPCC and company promise is a miserable standard of living for an overpopulated earth. I'd rather assume global warming is not anthropogenic, or our geo-engineering becomes better than even IPCC hopes. If we can ignore overpopulation we can ignore climate growth ... and hope for the best.

  22. All those countries had dollar and/or Euro denominated debt.

    When push comes to shove, the US can always print away its debt. It's not painless, but you retain sovereignty.

  23. Re:They missed an important problem. on Empirical Research Reveals Three Big Problems With How Patents Are Vetted (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They're only researchers, not domain experts. Domain experts work for a living. If inferior processes were in commercial use you would have some grounds for claiming non obviousness, if your new method didn't depend on very recent technology to make it possible at all.

    That's almost always the case though. Most patents are about being the first to realize the potential of advancing technology, rather than any invention which wouldn't have happened regardless. Patents reward "speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax upon the industry of the country, without contributing anything to the real advancement of the arts."

  24. Re: I'll go against the Slashdot groupthink on Trump Wants Postal Service To Charge 'Much More' For Amazon Shipments (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Package delivery is not a service which needs to be socialized. An argument can be made for letters, because official letters need delivery guarantees, but leave packages to the market.

    The treaty of Bern says otherwise, but fuck that noise ... it's just a massive subsidy for China at this point.

  25. Yep, I don't see why government employees should get preferential treatment and have their pensions be untouchable.

    There is nothing to raid though in government pension funds, it's a gaping black hole.