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  1. Re:100,000 applicants since when? on Canada's 'Random' Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn't Actually Random (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    They used columns. It's a spreadsheet, not a spreadline.

  2. Re:sense of scale on Thailand is New Dumping Ground For World's High-Tech Trash, Police Say (trust.org) · · Score: 1

    Any links for that? I googled but did not find anything.

    As plastic is mostly recycled in Germany, the number(s) don't sound plausible.

    Only in Polish: https://www.money.pl/gospodark... I think the source is quite reputable.

  3. sense of scale on Thailand is New Dumping Ground For World's High-Tech Trash, Police Say (trust.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    seven shipping containers each packed with about 22 tonnes

    A dump fire in Zgierz (Poland) has just conveniently consumed 50 thousand tonnes of plastic waste from Germany, Italy and Switzerland. There's been two dozen of similar (but smaller) fires in the last two months there. And these guys are worried about 150 tonnes?

  4. Isn't "rebooting" something you do after you INSTALL something for things to take effect?

    Dude, that's some nice post hoc ergo propter hoc you got there.

  5. Kingdom for mod points.

  6. Re:Most successful software ever written on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Sophisticated Piece of Software Ever Written? (quora.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I called it successful, not sophisticated.

    In a discussion titled "What's the most sophisticated piece of software".

  7. Re:Is brute-forcing still a thing? on Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on the situation. An account shouldn't really be blocked without informing the admin. It's up to him to see what it is all about and unblock it. The login being blocked for the night while someone is trying to bruteforce it is usually not that big of a deal.

    That's a nice company you've got there. Would be a pity if your admins got swamped with requests to unblock accounts when a botnet in a different country tries 50 passwords for all of your 2000 users.

    I think all good solutions to this problem have been found already. When an AC on /. says "obviously, they should just try this", this says more about the AC than the problem.

  8. Re:Don't look at intelligence, look at paranoia on Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Bottom line, with the way things stand today, a password manager is the only viable option for anybody that has even the slightest concern about security.

    What happened to a gool ol' plaintext file with logins and passwords, stored in an encrypted container?

  9. Re:Is brute-forcing still a thing? on Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Why does this still work? I would think we would have adjusted things years ago so that once a wrong password is tried like, oh, I don't know, say 50 times the account is locked. Or don't allow more than one attempt per second. Something along those lines.

    That's a nice account you've got there. Would be a pity if it got locked after, uh, someone tried a wrong passwords 50 times, wouldn't it?

  10. Re:Not so complicated on Stephen Hawking Service: Possibility of Time Travellers 'Can't Be Excluded' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    he indicated that this was confirmation that time travel was not possible.

    All that would prove is that observable time travelers didn't come to the party.

    FTFY

  11. Re:Smarter Web searching on Google Assistant Is Smarter Than Alexa, Study Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Solve? It just rearranged the ODE into different forms.

  12. Perhaps the right way to view this is that measurement at distant A only *reveals* the information at local B, but you still had to transport that information earlier, at sub-light speeds, by bringing the photon from A to B (or B to A), because they had to be at the same spot when they got entangled? So again, no FTL information transfer.

  13. To see that your local wavefunction collapsed, you must measure some observable. Once you do that, your wavefunction collapses to an eigenstate. How do you distinguish a wavefunction that collapsed due to the distant measurement ("1 bit") from a wavefunction that collapsed due to your measurement ("0 bit")?

  14. Re:"Forks are colonalism" on MIT Researchers Developed a 'System For Dream Control' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe our thought leaders should stick to microdosing LSD for ideas.

    Actually the hypnagogic state is more akin to a dissociative experience than to a psychedelic.

  15. Re:Easy to calculate on Since 2016, Half of All Coral In the Great Barrier Reef Has Died (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Show me ANY physics theory or equations that relies on a time quantum smaller then the Planck second (5.39 x 10^-44s) -- that isn't "magically instantaneous" and that isn't behind a fucking paywall.

    Pfff, that's your argument? Show me any equation that relies on, ummm, frequencies smaller than 6.666 x 1E-4242 that isn't magically inverse-instantaneous, regardless of paywalls. By your logic, hence 6.666D-4242 is a quantum of 1/time. Have you even skimmed that paper I linked?

  16. Re:Easy to calculate on Since 2016, Half of All Coral In the Great Barrier Reef Has Died (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Not this "time is quantised" nonsense again. https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

  17. Re:Cryptocurrencies are hot air on Hacker Uses Exploit To Generate Verge Cryptocurrency Out of Thin Air (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The mere fact that a hack could "create" cryptocurrency out of thin air is proof enough that all cryptocurrencies are thin air,

    You might want to reread the chapter on inference in the presence of quantifiers.

  18. new neurons in the hippocampus were at undetectable levels by our late teens.

    Have our adults detect them. Next issue.

  19. Re:Cryptoscams everywhere! on Reddit No Longer Accepts Bitcoin (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    If so-called cryptocurrencies are really good innovation, why they attract so many criminals/criminal activity? Could it really be because, all cryptocurrencies themselves are scams, and that is why they attract all kinds of criminals/criminal activity?

    Are you saying drugs, prostitution, weapons and human trafficking are scams too? Because they surely attract criminal activity too.

  20. Really? Because never has an experiment revealed the underlying unknown law?

  21. Re:The cryptographers in the world, all hacked on Researchers Discover Flaws in Digital Currency Monero That Could Reveal Identity of Users (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    A fundamental law is that it is easier to break something than to make that thing. Physicists call this "maximum entropy" - things naturally tend away from order and structure, things break more easily than they are made.

    Yep. And that's why atoms and molecules never form crystals, right? You've heard of non-decreasing entropy of a closed system and misconstrued it.
    The reality is that systems *minimize* Gibbs free energy, G=U+pV-TS. Entropy is only this "S" bit.

  22. Re:Bullshit on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Most of them will have to wait until they are dead, and when they wake up with their consciousness intact, will be forced to face the fact that they were wrong.

    Could you back up that assertion in any way?

  23. It's both, as the assumption is of a Gaussian distribution.

  24. Has this not been ridiculed to death on Community? on What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    In the interest of PC, the Greendale Human Being http://communityshow.wikia.com...

  25. Re:A cross on What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    I get the sarcasm, but nope. There's fewer than 2.5B of these, in a total of 7.6B. Most people in the world are non-christian.