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  1. Soros isn't just trying to promote some ideas that threaten their rhetoric if successful (and since it's usually what the people affected want, it's easy to be successful), he also has the money to back it up. That's pretty unique and makes him a very important target.

  2. "Some funds will be withheld 'til you ship" on Indiegogo 'Guaranteed Shipping' Will Ensure Refunds If Campaigns Fail (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, as a scammer, you just have to ask for more money to compensate for the loss you have to cut.

  3. Re:The US is bound via the NATO. on Russia Jammed GPS During Major NATO Military Exercise With US Troops (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    By the very definition of what the Warsaw Pact was no NATO member has EVER signed it. It's pretty much impossible.

  4. It's more likely to be some sort of Russian technology (read: Cheap Chinese crap attached to a car battery). In true Russian fashion built by the millions and liberally distributed throughout the countryside.

    Good hunting!

  5. Re:Major troop movements near Russian borders... on Russia Jammed GPS During Major NATO Military Exercise With US Troops (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    This Warsaw Pact?

    Didn't know the US was a signature power. You learn something new every day...

  6. Excuse me, what did they reveal? That they can jam a weak signal? Sorry, I didn't know this was a state secret.

    What they revealed was that quite a bit of the NATO equipment relies far too much on working GPS. For that PR blunder in what was the biggest military exercise since the end of the cold war, you can reveal the secret that you can do what anyone could since WW2.

  7. Re:Helpful on Russia Jammed GPS During Major NATO Military Exercise With US Troops (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A HARM missile? Depending on the model that thing costs between 250k and 800k. Building a jammer costs a tiny fraction of that price.

    If you are stupid enough to do that, I sink you with the cost to wage that war.

  8. Why? The NATO maneuver served as a show of force. What better thing to do than to answer with one, for a much cheaper price, I might add.

  9. This.

    How long do you think high-tech equipment relying on easily destroyed or disabled infrastructure will work in a symmetric war?

  10. Yes.

    That way you know the missile is useless in a real scenario. And missiles that only fire in exercises are kinda pointless.

  11. Re:Ooooh, poor Bezos! on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like the difference between a window and a mirror. Through a window you can see the whole world. Add only a thin film of silver and you only see yourself anymore.

  12. Re:A rude awakening for recent college grads on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    At least not domestic yet. But give it time.

  13. Re:Workers opposing unethical projects is bullying on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: -1

    Hi Jeff. You really take the time to post here?

    I feel kinda important now.

  14. Re:Workers opposing unethical projects is bullying on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    The laws? Of all the things, the laws? Please. Nice try to divert from the real issue, I grant you that, but at least field something other than legal when you want to talk about morality or what's good and evil.

  15. Re:Workers opposing unethical projects is bullying on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Does anyone really believe that someone like Bezos could possibly be the victim in such a scenario? What people are really that dumb?

  16. You can still afford this?

    Then why are you complaining, things are looking great for you!

  17. Re:We're running about 20 degrees below avg this m on Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    We recently had some spring flowers starting to bloom. And it's generally way too warm for the season.

    Local weather means jack shit.

  18. Re:USA has 4 carriers and 2 protocols on Netflix is Testing a Mobile-Only, $3 Subscription To Make Its Service More Affordable (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Locked phones here only exist as some sort of deal with a calling plan, i.e. you get your phone for free/cheap with a 2 year plan that you pay through the nose for. And afaik carriers are required to unlock them for you when the plan expires. Some started making this a marketing tool, since few users know that they basically have to do this anyway.

  19. I blame competition. There are markets (i.e. countries) in Europe the size of a smaller US state on the East Coast with 4 or even more cellphone carriers competing for customers.

  20. Re:That's great but... on Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I'd ask why they shot the first confused guy that opened the door, because if I was a hostage taker I'd send the hostage to answer the door.

  21. Re:Oh get real on The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever, he dies, my problems are solved.

  22. Don't they know what a working iPhoneX hack fetches these days?

  23. Can humans? on Can AIs Create True Art? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    Dressing like your sister
    Living like a tart
    They don't know what you're doing
    Babe, it must be art

    Seriously, what IS art? More and more it seems to me we define as art "whatever we don't get". By that metric, it's pretty certain that AI can create art, because it should be trivial for an AI to produce something we have no idea what it's supposed to "tell" us.

    If art is beauty and beauty is art, then of course an AI can do that too. It should be trivial for AI to create a photorealistic sculpture or painting, and that's what many people would consider "beautiful".

    If art is something that should make us think and change our point of view, even that should be doable. An installation by an AI that the AI created with the express idea to give us a glimpse into how it sees the world would offer us a view into the "mind" of an AI.

    So what is art? The question is is in my opinion rather, what makes something a human creates art?

  24. Sony is where game franchises go to die.
    EA is a step further. That's where game studios go to die.

  25. Re:+5: luvin it. on Inside the Messy, Dark Side of Nintendo Switch Piracy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more a "down with hype, up with technology". Cracking games isn't as easy anymore as it was when I was young, today it becomes more and more a game of cryptography and breaking encryption. One has to wonder why they toy with games instead of going after more lucrative targets.