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  1. Re:How to get it in future? Where is it lodged? on Richard Stallman Acknowledges Libreboot Is No Longer A Part of GNU (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    Their health outcomes after SRS didn't look so good in Sweden. A country where people feel guilty about reporting being raped by an refugee because the refugee might be deported, so please don't blame it on society ... they are as liberal/progressive as you can get.

  2. Re: TFA missed two. on Department of Labor Sues Google Over Compensation Data (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hard to do affirmative action without defining race.

  3. The great depression was also caused by a shortage of money, the Fed's hands were tied, a fact neatly exemplified by early 30s Germany success after being forced off gold. That can't really happen today, at least not in the US (Euro countries aren't so lucky). Which is not to say trade ties aren't useful for protecting against the other events which happened in the thirties

    Maybe if the globalists and their allies had not made trade agreements which reward racing to the bottom for labour protection and environmental standards this wouldn't have happened. No democratic president ever lifted one finger to make that happen, that's for damn sure.

  4. Guess we're not important enough.

    A quick google for pre-2012 instances of faszystowski bandera belies your assertion BTW.

  5. Re:Insurmountable problems, indeed on World's First 'Solar Panel Road' Opens In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Traditionally you want something to pay back on a ten year timeframe, a little more nowadays due to low growth environment.

    That's neither here nor there though, we are subsidizing solar to try to get it economically competitive so it being an overall loss is acceptable. This investment is counter productive though, it does not promote the state of the art in cost effective solar, it does not promote the state of the art in streamlining mass installations ... all it does is waste money. This investment will never pay itself back, not in research either. It's just a complete and utter waste of time and money.

    It gets us further away from solving the problems we have to solve by diverting funds.

  6. Re:Thanks Obama! on Steam Is Down (steamstat.us) · · Score: 1

    Ehh, Trump doesn't really have to be shrewd when the media are being idiots.

    After halfway pulling off the Alt-Right bait and switch they got overconfident, they were doing so well and then they had to make a ridiculous song and dance about Russian as some bogey man behind all Fake News. Glass houses and throwing stones and all. The sheep don't quite realise how the media lies to them, but confirming their suspicion by pointing out other sources of fake news was not a great idea. Now everyone just trusts them less.

  7. Re:Insurmountable problems, indeed on World's First 'Solar Panel Road' Opens In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Roads are a consumable item, they don't last decades and they don't consume enough earth surface to ever have it make sense to put fucking solar panels in them.

    This is not a question of development, this is a question of common fucking sense (more sensible than common sense, but even less fucking common).

  8. Re:Insurmountable problems, indeed on World's First 'Solar Panel Road' Opens In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Either that or they are meant to destroy renewable investment.

  9. We do know that prescribing meds for ADHD doesn't substantially improve outcomes in cohort studies and regional studies on average ... but we're doing it any way. The most generous way of interpreting this is that they don't do much of anything, the scary way is to say it does help some people. Because that would mean it would harm others to get the averages to work out, our doctors just can't predict the outcome.

  10. It caused enough fallout that he'd write this, so clearly not OK.

  11. Re:Call it what it is on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So, lets see what we have here ... a random pro Trump post talking about how he denounced white nationalists.

    An AC reply which pretends to be a critical reply but is in reality just autistic screaming THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING. Which might very well be true, but was completely irrelevant to the post he was replying to. Now already modded up to +2.

  12. Re:No mention of the internet architecture of cour on US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    One option is filter the traffic from a customer suspected at participating in a DDOS on request from an ISP which owns the destination IP range. Easy to authenticate that the request is genuine and an ISP would be unlikely to abuse the power to remotely block users from reaching one of their IPs, since they could do that themselves locally in the first place.

    Once an ISP has a ton of rules for a single customer screwing up their router they might feel the need to talk with him about taking his fucking IoT off his network.

  13. Re:No mention of the internet architecture of cour on US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well that's the problem isn't it, how to create economic incentives for security.

    We are poor at making developers and users bear the cost of insecurity in a way our Pavlovian reflexes will respond to (hence why we are still massively using C after decades of pointer fuck ups, even when efficiency can't possibly be an excuse for the massive economic damage caused 99% of the time). We are also poor at incentivizing backbones and ISPs at helping prevent/mitigate DDOS's.

  14. That will help very little, approval doesn't make the device secure.

    The network needs to be robust against insecure devices.

  15. No mention of the internet architecture of course on US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is the danger our resident experts create by going along with the IoT scare ...

    The disease is the unpunished insecure practices by ISPs and the complete lack of cooperation in cutting off DDOS's at the source. The IoT mess is a symptom, a symptom laws won't help ... the programmers will still be using C after all (another root cause which must not be named).

  16. Re:Now write a strongly worded letter! on White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean get some papers to write an article which heavily implies they broke some agreement?

    China is requiring data for Chinese citizens to be stored in China and they wrote up some laws governing search and seizure which are nothing the US can't do with a national security letter, woopdefuckingdoo.

  17. Re:What's up with the haters? on Magic Leap Used Fake Tech Demos and Is 'Years' Behind Schedule (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Pension funds are in the VC business, so you're wrong.

  18. Not teaching natural history isn't the same as teaching creationism or "teaching the controversy", it's simply leaving it up to the parents and the kids themselves. Most of the kids would encounter ancient earth evidence sooner or later on their own.

    It's even possible less kids would have a denialism framework rammed into them from a young age without the antagonism caused by forcing this into school curricula in regions where it's harshly opposed.

  19. Re:Know that "privilege" you like to talk about? on White House Silence Seems To Confirm $4 Billion 'Computer Science For All' K-12 Initiative Is No More · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A school can't correct for a class filled with poor single parent household kids who refuse to be educated. A class environment requires a basic level of deference to the institution school to operate. Good teachers can help create that, but most of it has to come from home.

    Inner city black schools which are successful are selective and enforce discipline, they are almost all charter schools which can expel the dregs to the public school system. All comer schools which don't have any real measure to enforce discipline are the drain of the schooling system, in a region with lots of kids who simply refuse to be educated there is almost no escaping the suction of losers pulling you down with them.

    PS. there's also unfortunate focus on college in the US high school system, a lot of kids would be better off starting apprenticeship early and finding joy in disposable income.

  20. What good is teaching them evolution at all? It's such a minor scientific theory with no derivative value. Man was perfectly able to perform scientific progress before it knew of fossils. In regions where it's controversial it seems to me it would be better to just keep natural history out of the curricula, it's nothing a smart kid can't pick up in an afternoon by reading a book or wikipedia on a high school level. It's on a completely different strata of importance compared to math.

    You could argue it goes towards teaching critical thinking, but there are many ways to skin that cat. Doing so would be easier without endlessly butting heads over evolution.

  21. Re: Will this apply to slashdot as well? on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Immigrants from Muslim countries and their descendants are over-represented in our prison population by nearly an order of magnitude.

    We have enough now, make it stop please ...

  22. Re:Fighting nebulous "hate speech" will kill them on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yet for someone in marketing a nazi euro is as good as an euro from a card carrying "better rapist than racist" suicidal maniac.

  23. Yes, freedom of expression and association helped bring about the rise of the third Reich. Undeniably.

    As did Communism and Multiculturalism.

  24. Re: Will this apply to slashdot as well? on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hate speech is merely politically incorrect speech which makes value judgements and seeks to change anything.

    Point out the over-representation of Islam in terrorism, the inbreeding, lack of education and over-representation in crime in refugee populations. That's politically incorrect.

    Say "We should no longer accept Muslim refugees as permanent citizens within our nation, because they make our nation worse." ... hey presto, hate speech.

  25. Re:It's either this or Nazis ... pick your poison on French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Mass surveillance is already stopping plots left and right. Sacrificing our privacy to that extent worked. It wasn't enough to stop lone wolf lunatics though, so this is the next step.

    Nazis will soon be on the receiving end of this treatment too by the way. All freedom must perish, if it's necessary to make diversity "work".