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  1. The summary seems to be saying it is a zip of a rar of text.

    I guess it is possible the polygot method only works with storage zips and does not work with compression.

    For whatever reason, I am inclined to believe the summery got it right as zips of rars, rars of rars, and zips of zips are fairly common to find in downloading files for whatever reason.

  2. And I loved this quote I found in my research:

    Puckle intended regular musket balls for use against Christians, while for fighting Muslims a different cylinder would be used to fire special cubical bullets, which he perceived as extra deadly.

  3. To be sure no guns met the very specific legal "machine gun" category we now have. But for almost a hundred years "machine guns" has been being invented and used by the time the second amendment came out. They did not have great reload speeds, but 100 shots for a little over 10 minutes is not something to complain about, particularly considered the size the the ammunition which I am going to assume would probably have enough momentum to go through about ten people.

    It is true that punt guns were invented about a decade or two after the second amendment passed, but they are hardly the only or first gigantic shotgun designed so that the user would never need a second shot, because everything in sight in a 10 degree arc in front of you is now dead. And we are for sure talking about within the lifetime of at least the majority of the people who signed the amendment into law.

  4. Re:Interesting perspective on FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Its true that it does not have to, and arguably most often will not operate at a loss. But profit will never be their main concern. The main concern of the bosses boss will always be to use the service to first get re-elected, and their stated mission will always be to provide the best service for their constituents.

    Look at the one thing the story focuses on, User happiness, it says not only is it an important statistic, but THE important statistic. And how do you get the best possible user satisfaction? Definitely not by running after as many users as possible. Possibly by kicking off the negative people that don't agree with your politics and will 1. give you bad user scores and 2. spread disent about the ability of your boss to govern.

  5. Re:Interesting perspective on FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they are not making a profit. Since each user added just means a greater loss, or at best . When the profit per subscriber is not a positive number, you gain nothing from flooding your network with users degrading the service of all.

    Think of it like health care systems.
    Where I live, Canada, we have government operated Healthcare. So you need to show your ID at check in and prove they must provide you medical aid. We have laws preventing non-canadians from coming here and using our medical system. Because while users flooding the hospitals might bring down our COST PER USER, it definitely increases the TOTAL COSTS (which is the only number that matters).

    While Americans hospitals can actively try and attract as many users as possible, because more users treated is the best possible outcome for everyone.

  6. Are you aware that when the when the 2nd amendment was written you could order machine gun automatic cannons with from catalogs, that shotguns designed to kill crowds of animals over wide areas were common, and that the government placed no restrictions on private ownership of artillery capable of leveling any building, castle or fortification and indeed the ownership of such was fairly common among the merchant classes?

    The geneva convention, and a series of other laws and rulings have made guns of today wimpy and non-lethal compared to what you would buy even in the infancy of gun design.

  7. Yes, just like the government cannot restrict your access to guns, cannons, artillery, or any type of weapons of war.

    Expect, not only do they do this, but they are the only one preventing many American citizens from owning guns or any kind, and all american citizens from owning the plethora of weapons of war that they used to be able to buy in the founding fathers time and most of the ones developed afterwards.

    If history has taught us anything, it is that the only major threat to a citizens constitutional rights is the government in all cases.

  8. Re:Interesting perspective on FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Except a community owned network is arguably more likely to want to curtain your freedom of speech. It's in a companies best interest to serve as many users as possible, it's in a government's interest to serve as few as possible and to require as many as possible to think like they do. And the history of the government rolling back amendment granted rights would indicate that they are more than capable to removing these rights firm people they don't like.

    The potential problems only arise when there is no private choice. But are ISPs likely to be able to compete with a business run at a loss or breaking even? Or are they likely to lay lines for the 1% of people kicked off their government ISP?

  9. Re:How would *you* explain it? on Kids Think the Darndest Things About How Computers Work (acm.org) · · Score: 2

    Or how would you draw it? I have taken low level hardware courses. If asked to draw the inside of a computer I would draw a rectangular box with squiggles inside.
    MY drawing skills are well below a grade 1 level, and I never took a course explaining how to draw any computer schematics.

  10. Re:Horray for Arduino and Raspberry Pi on Kids Think the Darndest Things About How Computers Work (acm.org) · · Score: 2

    RPI and its like are just an abstracted computer. At least modern computers still separate the main distinct components. The Raspberry pi is just a magic credit card that you can play minecraft on.

  11. Re:The Orville on Star Trek Animated Comedy Series Is In the Works (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    The Orvile is better than STD, but it is still not nearly good enough to be watchable. And I don't see how using Trek copyrighted material would improve anything but the lever of disappointment it generates.

  12. 500K For the Most Generic Portrait on AI-Generated Portrait Sells For Nearly Half a Million In Auction (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "We fed the system with a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th century to the 20th"

    So someone paid $500K for the most generic average portrait ever produced.

  13. Re:Because... on Does Eating Organic Food Help Prevent Cancer? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Spraying in Organics is not very common because we do not have very many good chemicals to use. For example, the two most common herbicides in organics is first tilling by a wide margin and then fire. I have never heard or anyone using anything else.

  14. Re:Because... on Does Eating Organic Food Help Prevent Cancer? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. It is 2-3 years since last prohibited substance use for a field to be certified organic. So they are very much different fields, and are not ever sprayed with roundup.

  15. Re:Because... on Does Eating Organic Food Help Prevent Cancer? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Implying chips, pop, and candy are not the most popular of all Organic goods.
    In fact because of its steeper price, Organic products are more lily to be luxury goods like coffee, chocolates, etc, things largely sweet.

  16. Closed Down Small Businesses on Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 0

    Let me get this straight. So it closed down small businesses, and the big multinationals who are already testing out small deployments of robotic workers were more than happy to snap up the market space?

    And we are supposed to consider this a win for minimum wage workers?

    The entire reason the initial study excluded multinational corporations is that they are more than willing to spend billions using anti trust tactics if they feel they will be able to squeeze the market unmercilessly after.

  17. Just Be Glad its Facebook and not Google on Facebook Uses Machine Learning To Remove 8.7 Million Child Exploitation Posts (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re: Illegal overtime on Slashdot Asks: Should 'Crunch' Overtime Be Optional? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    In a situation where management simply have no idea how to measure worker productivity and worth, you have a whole host of issues. The managers are just going to fire the people they personally like the least, which in some instances will mean the people who leave first, but are just as likely to be the ugly people, the less social people, or simply the people with less relatives in upper management.

  19. Re:Illegal overtime on Slashdot Asks: Should 'Crunch' Overtime Be Optional? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everything is scalable. It is not like rockstar could just hire a million developers, and make RDR2 in a weekend.
    There is no possibility of getting into the video game industry without knowing that you will likely be spending 100 weeks at any job you get.

    I am not in a position to say whether this is necessary or not, but I am open to the very real possibility that that is a possibility.

  20. So Wait, Don't Gloss Over This on Slashdot Asks: Should 'Crunch' Overtime Be Optional? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not a case of ambiguous language. The company seems to be officially stating that not only was there a culture of "you must work overtime", but it was an official rule and Hauser simply lied to everyone about this rule existing.

  21. Re:Options on Will Compression Be Machine Learning's Killer App? (petewarden.com) · · Score: 1

    > The U.S. should mandate 50 gbps to the home

    I don't understand why bandwidth keeps increasing so fast. Who needs to watch 2000 youtube videos simultaneously? Outside of owning some business or operating some site, what is the point of anything over a couple Mbps? Are sites even compatible with 50 gbps? Will even the Behemoth that is steam allow you to download the latest 100 GB game in 16 seconds?

  22. Re:Options on Will Compression Be Machine Learning's Killer App? (petewarden.com) · · Score: 1

    > all that matters is the bandwidth of the most constrained point you traverse. And that's typically going to be near the servers, as point-to-point connections are highly inefficient.

    What universe do you live in. The bottleneck is always at the users end. Businesses, enthusiastic fans, just sites in general have no problem with bandwidth. They can pay for bandwidth 10 times over with a few ads. But the consumers are often stuck with 10GB per month plans. It does not matter where the data is coming from, the only thing that matters is the size.

    Until ISPs start charging for long distance data, where the data is stored is a non-issue.

  23. Re: Job creator in office #MAGA on US is World's Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The Economy was rebounding under Obama due to the cyclical nature of the economy. There's nothing he could of done save launching the entire nuclear arsenal at his own citizens to stop this upturn.

  24. What ethics? Microsoft is an American company, staffed primarily by americans. They have a duty to help protect their nation. You don't get to decide if you want to pay taxes, or which ones you want to pay. And you don't get to decide if you want to actively undermine your country or help it. Either emigrate to China or don't actively undermine America. The choice in simple.

  25. Re:Somebody doesn't understand UBI. on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that is not how things work in reality. It does not matter if you are Capitalist or Marxist, creating a class of quintessential Lumpenproletariat is not a good thing. there is no good ending to that. Civilization can survive a class of poor starving beggars, it cannot survive a class of people owned wholly by the government. It is not like this has not been tried repeatedly, even in modern times.