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  1. In the sense that the writer of that drivel did not study enough mathematics to understand the axiomatic systems of logic, the constraints upon those systems and how the sort of integer arithmetic that most people are familiar with is consistent under a set of axioms and 2+2=4 can be and is proven to be true under those same axioms.

    I did flunked out of Calculus II in college, where the numbers stopped making sense and I lost faith. Calculus was a brick wall.

    My comp-sci degree covered it, but these days you can learn it from YouTube videos.

    When I went back to community college to learn computer programming, I got a 4.0 GPA and made the president's list. I don't recall logic being discussed in computer programming. That's usually covered in philosophy. Boolean gate logic was covered in a electronic class.

    My degree was in computer science, not programming-and-digital-logic. Systems of proof was a necessary pre-req for understanding formal verification of algorithms and code and correct-by-construction systems.

  2. It takes faith to believe that 2 + 2 is 4.

    Damn, I honestly can't tell if you're you're just goofing or if you're really that stupid.

    It's probably stupidity. In the sense that the writer of that drivel did not study enough mathematics to understand the axiomatic systems of logic, the constraints upon those systems and how the sort of integer arithmetic that most people are familiar with is consistent under a set of axioms and 2+2=4 can be and is proven to be true under those same axioms. It's not hard to understand. The information is out there. My comp-sci degree covered it, but these days you can learn it from YouTube videos.

  3. Science is not a belief.

    It takes faith to believe that 2 + 2 is 4. The word "because" isn't a good answer.

    You can use faith if you like, but it doesn't tell you why and you can do a lot better. It takes logic to understand why 2+2 =4 consistent with a specific set of axioms.

  4. Re:Duh! on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”

      Werner Heisenberg

    He's overstating it. He was uncertain about the outcome.

  5. Re:Incomplete title... on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    >No one wants Trump or Hilary,

    This is demonstrably wrong.

  6. Re: When I don't want to change my phone on Too Many New Smartphone Models Released Each Year: Survey (livemint.com) · · Score: 1

    The current generation of high end iPhones pretty mandates you get a case. They come with smooth, slippery, rounded sides, making it easy to lose grip of when juggling a bag, a latte and the phone. I necessarily need a phone that can survive a drop, if I'm not going to drop it.
     

  7. Re:No Problem Here on Australian Authorities Hacked Computers in the US (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming there are 7.4 Billion people and 40% of them have internet access, then the proportion on that site is 29,000/2960000000 = 9.79e-6. So that is a little less than 1 in 100,000 people.

    Don't forget, this is only the number of people who were savvy enough to find a dark-web site and maintain an account with monthly submissions, so you're probably off by an order of magnitude.

    Yes. If I'm off by two orders of magnitude, it still isn't a very high proportion of people.

  8. Re:No Problem Here on Australian Authorities Hacked Computers in the US (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm kinda wigged out that this site had 29,000 users! Not that all of them were in the US, but there are a lot of pedos out there.

    Assuming there are 7.4 Billion people and 40% of them have internet access, then the proportion on that site is 29,000/2960000000 = 9.79e-6. So that is a little less than 1 in 100,000 people.

    The world has a lot of people in it.

  9. Same here. It's always been autoproxy to me. I Googled, which the summary writer didn't.

  10. Re:Windows Versions? on Disable WPAD Now or Have Your Accounts Compromised, Researchers Warn (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    It is one of the reasons I stopped using my work laptop outside of work, except at home on the VPN.

  11. Re:defective memory is defective on Researchers Warn Linux Vendors About Cloud-Memory Hacking Trick (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It is "just" a rowhammer based attack. It the RAM is defective, it should be replaced.

    It's a how to guide for how to use the rowhammer attack to do real damage.

  12. Re:I don't get it. on Researchers Warn Linux Vendors About Cloud-Memory Hacking Trick (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    OK, I get the deduplication part to save capacity. But aren't those deduped pages supposed to be treated in CoW manner?

    Waiting for the cow moos guy to chime in.

  13. Re:I don't get it. on Researchers Warn Linux Vendors About Cloud-Memory Hacking Trick (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think SECDED will protect against row hammer that can flip multiple bits and the linear compensation for the check digits can be computed?

  14. FFS: I like these researchers. They know a good acronym when they see one.

  15. Re:WPAD? The Name Says It All on Disable WPAD Now or Have Your Accounts Compromised, Researchers Warn (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    You have done well Glasshopper.

  16. Re:Windows Versions? on Disable WPAD Now or Have Your Accounts Compromised, Researchers Warn (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    Everything I've found says that it is not enabled by default in GNU/Linux or iOS.

    Right. It isn't. The common scenario is your work laptop that has it configured in order to find the company proxy, but when outside that network, it will reach out and pick up anything proffered up with the same name.

  17. Re:Windows Versions? on Disable WPAD Now or Have Your Accounts Compromised, Researchers Warn (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this advice for Windows 10? Windows 8? Windows 7? Windows Vista? Windows XP? Windows NT? Windows 2000? Windows 98? Windows 95? Windows ME?

    Also Linux, iOS, Palm Pilot and KA9Q. The problem is in the protocol blindly fetching javascript and running it. Blame Netscape.

  18. So the acronym for WPAP IS WPAD? I guess it should be more like Web Proxy AutoDiscovery protocol

    Yes and yes.

  19. WPAD? on Disable WPAD Now or Have Your Accounts Compromised, Researchers Warn (csoonline.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you were finding the summary to be less than clear on WTF it was referring to.. WPAD = Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol.

  20. Less than $5M on Rightscorp Threatens Every ISP in the United States (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Take a look at the market cap..
    https://finance.yahoo.com/quot...

    For less than $5 Million dollars an ISP could buy these idiots out and fire them.

  21. Widely Used!!!! on France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >Messaging encryption, widely used by Islamist extremists to plan attacks

    And much more widely used by spouses to talk to their spouses to remind them to pick up milk from the supermarket because the bottle is almost empty.

  22. I solved my problem using copy and paste.
     

  23. That web site is annoying. 8 bit game music and the text jitters.

  24. Re:American car makers hurting, soooo..... on US Finds New Secret Software In VW Audi Engines, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets go after the largest car maker making better vehicles.

    Yah, conspiracy theory 101.

    They tried it with other better car maker, Toyota, a few years ago too.

    You can't compete with a better manufacturers fair and square, so lets try some other way.

    This is Normal. Why do you think the European Commission went after Google and Intel with largely bogus charges? It isn't a court. They act alone as judge, jury and executioner.

    When I took a look at the Ford F350 FICM (because mine broke and I sought to understand what was going on rather than paying their extreme replacement cost) it did not do what it says on the label. I wouldn't be surprised if there's something funny going on in there.