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  1. Where as in the US you pretend you can have a minimum wage below the poverty line then spend lots of tax dollars propping those people up with food stamps, etc, or just paying indirectly with theft and other criminal behaviour.

    Regardless of the stupid FOX talking point crap in this thread, people aren't just going to die because you think they should try harder.

    I agree with you completely.

    Cut all welfare programs, including medicaid, medical, food stamps / EBT, WIC, etc., then remove the minimum wage, and the problem will sort itself out.

  2. Re: Oh, dang! on NVIDIA GPUs Weren't Immune To Spectre Security Flaws Either (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't mind it. I find the current moderation on creimer's post to be funny (-1, Interesting).

  3. Re:Oh, dang! on NVIDIA GPUs Weren't Immune To Spectre Security Flaws Either (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Variant One (Spectre, lamer version that no one should be afeared of.)

    Bounds Check Bypass
    Resolved by software / OS updates to be made available by system vendors and manufacturers. Negligible performance impact expected.

    Variant Two (Spectre, legit version that can nizz your nozz.)

    Branch Target Injection
    Differences in AMD architecture mean there is a near zero risk of exploitation of this variant. Vulnerability to Variant 2 has not been demonstrated on AMD processors to date.

    Variant Three (Meltdown, AMD is unaffected. Intel is affected for every damned thing lol. One ARM CPU - Cortex A57 - has been found to be affected by Meltdown / something so similar ARM threw it under the Meltdown umbrella / bus.)

    Rogue Data Cache Load
    Zero AMD vulnerability due to AMD architecture differences.

  4. districts are divided by population not area

    Not really. That's the entire point of gerrymandering. It's to allow lower density areas to have better representation than they would have otherwise if you just did a flat, per-capita weighting.

    You can do a flat, per-capita weighting and have major cities rule the nation.
    You can do a fixed grid system and have rural areas rule the nation.
    Or you can gerrymander, seeking to corral people in weird ways to strike a balance with a bunch of crazy borders. This is wide open to abuse and manipulation now.

    Gerrymandering is necessary, just as the electoral college is necessary and the two senators per state are necessary. But no one involved with any political group should be drawing the lines, and there should be set criteria for drawing the lines as much as possible.

    The way the rules are now, they just do whatever the fuck they want so they can box the losing team into pyrrhic victories. 20/80 splits in the districts they lose, but 55/45 splits in the ones they control. They make the losing team waste all their weight on a handful of landslides so they can't win many districts.

  5. That doesn't mean the map is unfair. Liberals tend to concentrate in dense metropolises. Conservatives tend to spread out.

  6. And what if you use BITS (or one of your applications does)?

  7. Re:clickbait headline on Ibuprofen Linked To Male Infertility, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    They do this so the patient can sell half of the pills.

  8. Re:Done on purpose. on Ibuprofen Linked To Male Infertility, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You really think the bumbling idiots paraded on stage are the people in charge?

    You really think those in charge are people?

  9. Re:Is this about Snowden? on Snowden Joins Outcry Against World's Biggest Biometric Database (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Please detail two things you have "blown the whistle" on.

  10. Until they force Intel, AMD, ARM, Nvidia, etc. to backdoor the encryption-accelerating instructions.

  11. Re:Down with the Fourth Amendment! on FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The government doesn't have rights. The government has powers and authority.
    When the government abuses those powers / that authority, the people should take it away.

    Further the constitution protects us explicitly in this regard. We're to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures. Breakable encryption is by definition insecure. If the government has a special set of keys, it's only a matter of time before they get stolen (for examples, see every fucking thing the government does).

    Implementing this program, even with perfect accountability and due process, violates the constitution as the very mechanism removes the ability of people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures.

  12. Re:Think of the children on FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's the Reptilians. They have a penchant for pederasty. That's why so many powerful "people" get found out as being pedophiles. They're just Reptilians.

    What can you do to stop the Reptilians? Join the Church of Scientology. The organization's main goal is containing, and eventually eliminating, the Reptilian threat on Earth.

  13. Re:Needs certification too on With WPA3, Wi-Fi Security is About To Get a Lot Tougher (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We'll build our own internet. With blackjack, and hookers.

  14. Re:Better, but not best. on With WPA3, Wi-Fi Security is About To Get a Lot Tougher (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A cert is just a password in a file. If you're using an external cert authority you have additional weaknesses with them and anyone up the chain (and governments).

    A strong password is the best security option there is.

    The only security benefit certs provide is revocation, but that can just as easily be implemented with passwords if you want. Just publish a list of hashes that are invalid. It can be a unique hash if you also publish a new salt alongside it, but it doesn't matter. (The username, hash, and salt are considered to be non-secret. If your encryption is strong and no one is using retarded passwords, it doesn't matter if those things are public.)

    Expiration already is handled with passwords.

  15. Re:They think this will buy them votes... on Senate Will Force Vote On Overturning Net Neutrality Repeal (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    LOL. Hillary is most certainly running, she has nothing better to do, misses having power, and hates Trump more than anything.

    Nope. She'd likely die on the campaign trail if she tried. They're currently grooming Chelsea Clinton for a run.

  16. Re:Here's a haiku in remembrance on Apple Product Delays Have More Than Doubled Under Tim Cook's Watch, Says Report (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Eat my monkey ass.
    I want you to eat my ass.
    Taste my monkey shit.

  17. Re:Was I supposed to take that as a negative? on Apple Product Delays Have More Than Doubled Under Tim Cook's Watch, Says Report (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    STFU. You got modded to troll because your shit is ridiculous.

    Doesn't that imply the products they DO ship are relatively more stable than competitors, and will be more usable out of the gate?

    No, it doesn't.

    The iPhone X did not ship until a few weeks after the 8. Yet FaceID works great, the screen works really well (Apple's first OLED), and generally the finish of the software and hardware is really good. Would I have preferred to have a shakier release earlier? Not really.

    FaceID does not work great. From every account I've heard, people prefer TouchID.

    I haven't heard anything positive or negative about the screen quality. I've seen one in person and it looked fine to me. Unremarkable isn't bad, but it's not something to crow about either. The biggest thing about the screen is the fucking cutout / ears. Steve Jobs would have murdered whoever thought of that shit.

    The software is ass. When the latest version of iOS released, people were ranting and raving about how shitty it was. But hey, you get more emojis, right?!

    If your argument is that it would have been worse had it released earlier, then you don't have an argument.

    TFS is talking about how Apple is slipping. It doesn't matter whether it's hardware, production, logistics, software, or whatever else. Yet here you are saying it's good they delay because it means you get a better product. That's demonstrably not the case. Further, it does not address the point. Apple didn't have this many delays in the past.

  18. When did you stop beating your wife?

    Oh, you're getting your beating tonight, honey.

  19. Of all the recent politically-motivated protests, the left has been far more prone to violence. Then there's also the property destruction, looting, etc.

  20. Let me know when people begin growing and maturing again rather than lashing out at society for your problems (every rights movement save ending segregation).

    Feminism was originally a just movement, true to its stated goals.

    ("Feminism" today is a sick, twisted perversion of the original. It's so bad they retroactively redefined feminism. Now if you want to talk about the feminism that cares about equality, respects men and women the same, etc. you have to talk about "first wave feminism".)

  21. Didn't you see the Slashdot posts from the past couple of days? Cold weather and all individual weather events are now officially evidence for global warming.

  22. The real goal is to educate people

    Whenever a liberal talks about "educating" someone, they're really talking about indoctrinating them.

  23. Re:Lawsuits on what grounds? on Nope, No Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The government can't strike a retroactive deal with Intel to prevent others from seeking restitution.
    At worst, they'd rig the class action suit. Any class member could then exclude themselves from the suit and sue on their own.

    And then there's Yurop to deal with. The EU loves bleeding corporations for money with all sorts of fines.

  24. Re:It isn't his decision on Nope, No Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "A number" being one. The Cortex A75.

  25. Re:It isn't his decision on Nope, No Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ONLY the Cortex A75.