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  1. Re:"Conspiracy theories for the nuts" on A Shadowy Op-Ed Campaign Is Now Smearing SpaceX In Space Cities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    syndrome has taken over Slashdot completely.

    Whats the conspiracy theory here? These Political thinktanks openly admit what they do. Hell, its their marketing pitch.

  2. Re:My New Font Is Called Ophidian Lubrica on Researchers Create 'Sans Forgetica,' a Memory-Boosting Font (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Not quite, it will inherently diminish understanding because it simply requires more mental effort to read ie that greater mental effort required to read it, of course stimulates greater recall because you are putting much more mental effort in, especially when tired. Anyone outside of silly people using it, well no because it takes considerably more mental effort to read, greater pattern association processing is required, the problem there, it inherently will diminish thought being put into understanding what has been read, you really want to get that understanding in as early as possible to build a proper mental framework for more study. Japanese have a similar problem, with so much effort required to learn the Japanese language, it diminishes the amount that can be learned using the Japanese language.

    Same with this font, test well in theory but it will diminish overall learning, beyond rote learning, so more effort consumed in the learning process, resulting in less learned. Of course if you write notes by hand, well, good luck. It is far better to sit through a lecture with pencil and pad, than with a computer, unless you want to spend that lecture time completing other assignments .

    Pure speculation. Memory and reason are not separate apparatus, and the idea that 'rote' learning doesn't lead to understanding is somewhat of a myth that isn't supported by the research. The thing is, we don't remember stuff we don't particualrly understand as well as things we do, and conversely we rarely understand things we can't remember. The two processes are intrinsically intertwined, and in fact as best as we can tell the neurons that do the reasoning ARE the neurons that store the memories.

    Now obviously its not quite as simple as that. But the idea that the brain is a computer with separate RAM and CPU is straight up fictional.

  3. Re:It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Keep your junk in your pants if you don't want to pay child support. Its not your body thats going to have to carry the bloody thing.

  4. But haven't the Dems at least put some better laws/guidelines/whatever into effect on the Federal level, including the FCC net neutrality? Whereas getting 50 different states with horribly different structures and philosophies would take... forever, if at all?

    Yes.

  5. Re: idiots, not from Trump, not authorized by Trum on New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    At this point, if Trump got on my cell phone and told me a tornado was coming, I wouldn't bother seeking shelter. I'd show at the shelter and there'd be a huge TRUMP sign on it. Membership would be 150k, whites only. Plus, there wouldn't actually be a tornado coming.

    I was glad the the test message was innocuous and professional. I just don't believe that Trump has the capacity to restrain himself from abusing it.

    I say let him. When people are woken up at 3AM with a message from FEMA reading "CROOKED HILLARY BENGAZGATE ROBERT MUHLER IS FIRED" , the straight up outrage that'd cause against him would be worth the price of the interuption alone.

  6. Re:It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thats the thing though. These people are all about punishing women.

    Think about all the arguments used for abortion. If someones not prepared to send a woman to death row for an abortion, one must conclude they don't *really* think its murder. And its not about health. And since the same people that want to ban abortion start hollering about communism when its suggested they might pay a little bit more tax to ensure a single mother has food to feed her child, its pretty clear they don't give a fuck about what to do with the child they forced on the woman.

    Which really only leaves punishment. Banning abortion is to punish women for sex.

    And so is opposing the HPV vaccine. And in this case, the stakes are even higher. Have sex, get cancer, that'll learn you for disobeying sky jesus.

  7. Re:Isn't this how science works? on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with dark matter is that it would be preferable to have an answer that wasn't such a gross violation of Occam's Razor,

    How does dark matter violate Occams Razor? Its a simple theory that explains existing data very well, and we're lacking alternatives that , unlike Dark matter, don't violate well established physics theory.

  8. Re:Isn't this how science works? on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    . Dark matter never panned out

    Theres a *lot* of evidence for Dark Matter. Physics just doesn't work without it. Its panned out in that we're 90% sure its there. The problem is finding the stuff.

  9. Re:BRACE FOR IMPACT on 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Negative Buzz Amplified By Russian Trolls, Study Finds (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Twitter found less than 50 identifiable "Russian bot" accounts out of 200 million. And then it suspended a couple of million people for supposedly being "bots".

    Your missing 3 zeros there buddy.

    They said they found 30,000. Not 30. Between them they logged in 570,000 times , removed 220,000 'suspicious' applications that had generated over 2 billion tweets. (According to twitter)

    So...yeah, vet your sources man.

  10. Re: 64-bit? Sun Microsystems says "Hi!" on Apple Watch Apps Instantly Went 64-Bit Thanks To Obscure Bitcode Option (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of the mainframes where rocking 64 not address spaces well back to the early 80s and possibly earlier. Million dollar machines though.

  11. Ok to expand on this. Personally I think there's a pox on both the houses. The republicans voted in a borderline lunatic who claimed he'd "drain the swamp" then filled his entire cabinet with lobbyists and Wall Street crooks and has spent his entire time gazing in the mirror and throwing tantrums because being a public servant is not the same as being a CEO. The dems hadthe *perfect* candidate in Bernie and then fucking sabotaged him and put the washington superwonk Hillary in on the assumption the Press would never accept a guy like Bernie , ignoring the sizeable resentment amongst the public towards her (some of it, ridiculous admittedly but still it was there). So a pox on their houses.

    However when it comes to state rights , the Democrats are at least honest. Both are authoritarian centeralizing powers , but the Dems don't pretend not to be about federal rule.

  12. Sure but the democrats are open about being federalists. It's the republicans that claim to be ideologically committed to state rights

  13. Yeah I suspect we wouldnt be wanting to use these things in our own atmosphere. God only knows a uranium fusion explosion is nasty enough, and thats a fraction of the truly gargantuan energy released by matter/antimatter reaction

  14. Your right. I think I was thinking of a photon.

    My bad. Posting before morning coffee.

  15. Not sure whats happening atm on legal weed, but a lot of the success came from the Obama Administration ordering the DEA to not to interfere with States that want to do their own thing.

    Heres the big irony about all this;- The GOP likes to talk big game about "State rights", but apparently that only applies to states that dont piss off the GOPs party donors.

    Really, its "Party donor rights over you" that are advocated for not state rights.

  16. Neutrons are their own antiparticle

  17. It really doesn't matter how chaotic it is at the microscopic level, quantum physics is at heart a statistical beast and the macro level the picture should be consistent. And yet there's more matter than antimatter.

    I should note , if antimatter DOES function inversely to matter re gravity , it opens a whole boatload of extremely fun physics implications , the least of which would be the identifying a candidate for the prized unobtanium needed for a warp drive

  18. Re: How many mac users are there? on Apple Demands $9 Billion From Google For Default Search On iOS (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    Right. Lets for the sake of not having this argument go for a figure thats about half of that (I'm being generous to the "devices in china" argument.), we're still at about 750 million. The claim about "only half" uses safari kind of suggests a non iphone user. Everyone uses safari on their phone. Or at least almost everybody. There really isn't much in the way of alternatives.

    Now, theres an estimate that google makes about $10 per user in profit per year ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/t... )

    By my reckoning that'd make $7.5 bil the break-even figure.

    The price being asked by apple here is a bit steep! I can certainly understand their imperative here, but it seems like Google would have a good case to say its not worth the price, especially with Apple blocking all of googles tracking bullshit.

  19. I think they finally completed the massive calculations they needed to open the Antarctica gate. The breathtakingly large computations supplied by their scheme... bitcoin. Everyone knows this....

    So we can update the "what is bitcoin" Analogy to;-

      "Imagine if leaving your car idling 24/7 solved sudokus that you could trade for heroin, and also open up some sort of hell gate to ancient eskimo pharos"

  20. Nope. My bad, you where right. Apparently Bandwidth Alliance has been a bit naughty and including google in their advertising materials, BUT Google says they are not a part. The plot thickens!

  21. Re:Correction: on Cloudflare Partners With Microsoft, Google and Others To Reduce Bandwidth Costs (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google is NOT part of the alliance.

    Completely wrong. Google is absolutely part of the alliance, and one of the key backers.

    Amazon , however, appears not to be. Which is curious, as Amazon is the dominant player in the space. Leading me to suspect this is bit of an anti-amazon club.

  22. Theres more. Here are his exact words;-

    In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.

    Get it? Its "Grandma does not understand email servers". Thats it. Thats the finding.

  23. James Comey, then head of the FBI, declared that she's guilty, but that "no reasonable prosecutor" would pursue her.

    No. No he did not. He said her staff where careless.

    And "No reasonable prosecutor" means exactly that. The case is unprosecutable because there isn't evidence of a crime.

    Despite the bleatings of the conspiracy theory set, "Grandma doesn't understand email security" isn't a crime, and yes best practices where not followed. But that isn't a criminal act, or 3/4 of the IT industry would be incarcerated for shitty passwords and bad ssh key hygene.

    The FBI is blatantly corrupt and destroys evidence. Do not spread lies.

    Oh the irony...... Make a baseless and unjustified accusation, then accuse those trying to correct the facts of lying. This is an insular and circular mode of cognition and I implore you to nullroute breitbart and other bullshit artist propaganda websites and join the fact based community.

  24. Nghia Hoang Pho wasn't just sentenced to 5.5 years for the same crime the FBI found evidence of 110 instances that Hillary Clinton committed.

    Hey its the only ACTUAL example of a conspiracy theory on your list.

    One correction though. The FBI found Hillary Clinton broke the law precisely zero times.

    Sorry, but thems the facts.

  25. Why would you want to read pro pizzagate shit? Its an objectively wrong theory that has been fundamentally debunked. How is putting that shit up on the search ratings benefiting anyone?