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  1. Re: It's called Prior Art on Inventor Says Google Is Patenting His Public Domain Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're in Europe then? What are you doing posting on slash at that time? Didn't you hear the call to prayer?

  2. Re: His VP is a well known Religious Zealot on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Most religious conservatives I know voted for Trump. If anything he was a blow to the current Republican "free trade" orthodoxy. Republicans could have shored up power (through maintaining demographic advantage) for the next 50 years simply by shutting down immigration. It was a rational move for their party. They chose not to do this however and simply to pay lip service to it because for the Republican party the ideology of free trade trumps everything... until the Trump with a big 'T' was elected.

  3. Re:I think we were doing just fine on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2
  4. Re:Party line on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah... meanwhile GeForce GTX 1180 graphic cards rumor release date is July 30...http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/rumor-geforce-gtx-1180-to-launch-july-30.html

  5. Look, I'm not on the revisionist side of this argument but you've not provided anything to contradict his claim and only posted to toss a few pejoratives at him. I'm sure you're a perfectly nice guy and only point this out because I'm assuming you can do better.

  6. Re:Horseshit on 5 Years on, US Government Still Counting Snowden Leak Costs (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    It is claimed that this is largely a myth and debunked. It is though I will admit... strange that the day after Rumsfeld complains about the not properly tracked money...
    """The technology revolution has transformed organizations across the private sector, but not ours, not fully, not yet. We are, as they say, tangled in our anchor chain. Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building because it's stored on dozens of technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. Monday September 10th, 2001"""

  7. Re:I disagree: Five foot three inch man. on FDA Halts One of the First Human CRISPR Studies Before it Begins (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong but I believe men prefer shorter women than them. They don't that I know of prefer short women.

  8. Countries like to have allies. They are obligated to defend those allies. It isn't always altruistic but many times it can be. Setting aside fluffy feelings though there is plenty of motivation for us to want to defend our allies in the region from a country that is at best a "competitor" to us on the global stage.

  9. This. We will use trade as leverage to control China's attempts to basically annex the entire region. The south china sea being a prime example. That and the trade imbalance itself is our motivation.

  10. Re:Population on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    We should just go full carnivore and re-constitute the great plains and add 30 million bison back. Each family gets one bison a year.

  11. Re:Population on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure. There have been adoption studies that seem to contradict this. The adopted children of sub-saharan african decent did see a bump in IQ test scores during childhood but adulthood scores were still one standard deviation below the European average. I would also expect ashkenazi jews adopted into average middle class white households to still have a net higher IQ than their adopted family members.

  12. Re:Good thing the world embraces GMO rice then! on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I fail to see the difference between raised CO2 and the situation with all our other food and modern fertilizers. The study is essentially saying that rice will not be as nutrient dense but at the same time this means you can grow MORE RICE than you could otherwise on the same land. It also means other vegetables will grow more prodigiously...

  13. Yeah obviously there is code behind this to record the audio and transmit conversations to Amazon HQ. The contact name must have been similar in some way or had some character in it that needed escaped and so it went there instead. Amazon is basically confirming that they store your conversations which is the opposite of what they have claimed to date as far as I know.

  14. You could make a similar argument against the desktop computer or laptop in your home both of which are likely to have microphones and webcams attached. I think in this case the difference is that we essentially have installed monitoring software onto the device but have very little control or knowledge over what it is doing. The phone to me may be compromised but isn't inherently so. At least, not to the degree that these devices are.

  15. Re:time to start my own suit on President Trump Can't Block People On Twitter, Court Rules (knightcolumbia.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am not so sure. Twitter in this case is either a public forum or not. It could even be argued that they are similar to a government contractor providing the service since as one of the most prominent twitter users, they profit quite a bit from Trump's use of their platform. I think the judge in this case has a decent high level theoretical argument but is completely wrong. I can't see this not being reversed. When you begin to follow each logical implication of this ruling it just gets messier and messier. I'm not sure what the answer should be but... this can't be it.

  16. I'm afraid that the constitution is specific to US citizens. It outlines specifically powers they are granting the government specifying that they retain all others. It has nothing to do with non-citizens.

  17. That seems a strange value to focus on. I would think authoritarianism would be measured using domestic metrics rather than foreign policy ones. I mean how many foreign bases does N Korea have?

  18. It depends. The civil rights act for example compels behavior to a significant degree in the US. You could make many arguments for cases in which Russia is less oppressive. That doesn't mean of course that taking everything in total I would choose to live in Russia..

  19. Re:so when the data presents a "racist" result... on NYC Announces Plans To Test Algorithms For Bias (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They will just keep updating it to not be aware of x and then getting upset when they still see the correlation. So rather than using the AI to determine where cops should be deployed heaviest and having it return "African American neighborhoods" they'll instead get a result like "where menthol cigarette sales are highest" or some-such.

  20. Android on PC or Chrome on Ask Slashdot: Some Good Linux Desktop Option For Kids? · · Score: 1

    If you want them to learn I'd let them figure out Arch or any other distro themselves using documentation. Otherwise, if you want ease of use and educational apps... Android or Chrome

  21. They're young. People usually go into a job thinking "this is just temporary" but then inertia sets in and they look up and it's been 5 or 10 years.

  22. Re:Fight for $15 = mass layoffs on In a Poll, 43% of Millennials in 36 Countries Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs Within Two Years (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think anyone (well any economist) really disputes that minimum wage has some sort of negative impact on job numbers but it probably isn't fair to make a blanket statement that "Minimum wage laws create mass unemployment.". Obviously a $1 minimum wage wouldn't be something to get too worked up over and a $100 dollar minimum wage would be catastrophic.

  23. Re:Well yes. We're really bad at knowing on Uber Drops Arbitration Requirement For Sexual Assault Victims (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I pretty much flirt with all girls ages 1-120 outside of work. I am not sure how to speak with a girl without "flirting". A lot of the behavior being referenced here probably falls more into attempts at foreplay than flirting. I think part of the problem is that traditional social norms are kind of completely up in the air. No one really knows what to do or where the lines are.

  24. Re:Like breathing at high altitude w/o O2. on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    You'd have to control for demographics for that argument to have any weight.

  25. Re: Should be simple enough to try it on animals f on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd personally prefer an honest bullet. Men should at least be able to die with some kind of dignity... I don't understand all this hand wringing about "suffering". I'd suffer more with some patronizing group around me pretending they are doing something humane.