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  1. Not too terribly long before everything's a sealed box and it's illegal to tamper with hardware or code (just as with the right to defend oneself, there'll be demonstrably-obvious false-flag events to entice the ignorant and illogical populace to give up their rights... and they will).

  2. These are desperate times; desperately stupid and unimaginative, that is: the dummies lack good ideas and all they can do is race to out-copy each other.

  3. Re: A corporation cutting corners... on Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    No, actually. It's like charging for Blind-Spot-Assist.

  4. Re: Did anyone... on Flood of 4K James Bond Leaks Further Point To iTunes Breach (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Dunno what what I was thinking but I did it again and got 6.7TB (3840x2160x32x60x60x60, divided by 8, 1024, 1024, 1024...).

  5. Re: Did anyone... on Flood of 4K James Bond Leaks Further Point To iTunes Breach (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1
    I got 111.23GB (3840 x 2160 x 32bits/pixel x 60 x 100, divided by 8 to get bytes... and divided by 1024 three more times)...

    As for encoding, I only have decoding experience with h. 265 and that's intensive enough; I doubt there's a consumer-level computer in existence that can do it in realtime... maybe a massively-multicored chip like a Threadripper could, in theory...

  6. Things have gotten much better.

    And your statement can be easily prove just by looking at users' fondness for Windows 10.

    Or not, as the case may be.

  7. Re: The issue is voters on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue isn't the politicians per se, though - It's the voters.

    What are you smoking?? It's both: you've got sociopathic politicians with IQ's slightly above average, who manipulate hordes of drooling morons by lying through their teeth.

  8. It's the candy-flavored vape pens (and if you ask PopeRatzo, the candy-flavored shooters) that you've got to worry about.

  9. Isn't Trump a teetotaller?

    Perhaps it's the opposite: he could have a metabolism that naturally produces alcohol... in large quantities.

  10. Re: Aren't these the same people on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    . How long before an AI realizes people will like it better if it gives them free stuff?

    Shortly after my ancient PS/2 Model 80 "realizes" the same thing (we are talking about lines of code, right??).

  11. Re: That solves it.... on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    No question about it; this has very much been my experience as well.

  12. Re: Not going to happen on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 1
    Smart, insightful... and nonetheless incorrect (I realize it was sarcasm on one level), as you're only accounting for one factor and not others. This psychotic nonsense will follow in the footsteps of the 'Self-Driving Craze' and it'll be pushed by the same non-technical types.

    There's just too much desperate stupidity for it not to.

  13. Re: FACT on Coders' Primal Urge To Kill Inefficiency -- Everywhere (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    "Sleight."

  14. Re: Ha... exactly backwards on Coders' Primal Urge To Kill Inefficiency -- Everywhere (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    and thus make the code more elegant but less efficient

    Huh??

  15. Re: Looking for cameras on 1,600 Korean Hotel Guests Were Secretly Filmed and Live-Streamed Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No, just bring your own wallpaper.

  16. Re: Caveat emtpor on 1,600 Korean Hotel Guests Were Secretly Filmed and Live-Streamed Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that was the original idea behind Furries...

  17. Re: Imagine paying for a live stream... on 1,600 Korean Hotel Guests Were Secretly Filmed and Live-Streamed Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's fetish material in certain circles..

  18. Re: It cleaer to me.... on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    California politicians.

  19. Re: Subsidized drugging? on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    thus

    It's a stupid, insidious habit; doesn't mean it should be illegal - thus or no thus.

  20. Re: But Pot is fine on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So...have the health effects of pot been fully researched by the government?

    Lots and lots and lots of bogus, paid-for "studies" intended to show how terribly bad it is... do those count??

  21. Re: How will you kearn the health effects on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That was certainly true up until fairly recently but It's flipped: get the fucking Neocons and Fundies out of the Republican Party and you're left with a far more enlightened approach to ensuring personal freedom than the "Left" (i. e. "the other right").

  22. Re: Oh for fucks sake, no. on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't know but I guess they must contain an awful lot of propylene glycol...

  23. Re: Juul is a pusher to children on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I always assumed that a large component of what makes smoking cigarettes directly harmful was the nicotine.

    The nicotine is bad; the additives are far worse.

  24. Re: Juul is a pusher to children on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You can vape weed if you want to avoid combustion products, such as tar, which is cancerous the same way it is in cigarettes.

    While the vast majority of potent carcinogens in tobacco smoke are caused by the hundreds of fucked-up additives, the "tar" from burning weed has been shown to have beneficial properties. Perhaps it's not best administered through the lungs... but there's still no comparison.

  25. Re: Juul is a pusher to children on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's another solution to this: don't ask a fucking Englishman how to roll a joint..