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  1. And then the UN - unnazied the world forever...

    Is this what you're concerned about? I don't blame you, Idiocracy was a warning from the future.

  2. Re:Right, evil China as always on China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI 'Killer Bots' (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Vietnam and Taiwan would like to have a word with you.

  3. Re:The next rad-hard cpu will be ARM based on NASA Switches Curiosity Rover To Backup Computer Following Glitch (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    SpaceX's solution of using triple redundancy COTS has a higher power requirement - something you don't want on a solar powered rover being dropped on a planet with less light than Earth.

  4. Re:These results are not correctly referenced on Artificial Sweeteners Are Toxic To Digestive Gut Bacteria, Study Finds (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Directly from the paper in the summary:

    Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Department of Environmental Health Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
    Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA

    None of these are Ben-Gurion University or Nanyang Technological University.
    The correct paper is:
    Measuring Artificial Sweeteners Toxicity Using a Bioluminescent Bacterial Panel

  5. Re:Can't Google sue him on Google Debunks Trump's Claim It Censored His State of the Union Address (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's probably Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr, PhD who provided the evidence.

  6. Re: Boggles the mind on Google Debunks Trump's Claim It Censored His State of the Union Address (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    >receiving negative attention from Trump.

    The problem with this, despite myself having issues with Google, I will now see them in a favourable light because of my far greater dislike of President Trump. Many others will rally behind Google for this reason alone.

    I know the Trump supporting members of my extended family are blithering morons when it comes to computers and the internet. They'll eat up just about anything he says on this issue because they don't know any better.

  7. Re:PoW-based public blockchains should be outlawed on As Cryptocurrency Values Plummet, Graphics Card Pricing Improves Dramatically (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It's inefficient as a database but it's efficient for a multi user trust system.

    Bitcoin by design was to encourage mining so its economic eco-system would grow. When the bitcoin lottery payout is gone completely all that's left is the transaction fees to mine for, the payout will be lower and the number of competing miners should drop quite a bit.

  8. Re:Means these jobs will be automated? on McAfee Finds That Gamers Are Strong Candidates for Cybersecurity Jobs (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Even the games where AI is difficult they are usually given some additional advantage over the player otherwise they are trivial to beat.

  9. Thanks for providing that extra cushion space. I'll make sure to pass you so I can get one or two car lengths ahead to be stuck behind the person ahead of you. Eventually, if I cut off every single person I'll get home 15 seconds sooner while producing a massive wave of braking behind me. Please don't freak out too much though - I have a Baby On Board bumper sticker!

  10. Re:yep and? on Linus Torvalds Slams CTS Labs Over AMD Vulnerability Report (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    But look at their nice offices, they couldn't have been founded a couple months ago.

  11. Re:Problem with outdated information on Why Airports Rename Runways When the Magnetic Poles Move (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    There are companies that provide these services on a subscription basis to the airlines. Jeppesen (a Boeing owned company) is probably the largest name in this business. Almost every single modern commercial airline operates iPads issued to each pilot with the chart information.

    Paper charts are for hobby/amateur pilots or a last resort if both iPads (and on bigger planes EFBs) don't work any longer.

    Airlines routinely chuck out boxes of old charts and replace them with new ones. The only person without a concept of reality is anyone actually concerned about the very slim chance an on-board paper chart being out of date. The pilots themselves can bring operations to a halt if they share a concern with the FAA, for this reason the commercial operators are compliant with the chart date requirement.

  12. So the NYT is publishing government sponsored 'fake news'? Oh well I expect nothing less from America.

  13. The wavelength in these RF bands are long enough that it wouldn't only excite any particular single structure. It could deposit energy deeper into the body but it would again still be not much different from any other heating. Higher order vibrations are rapidly dampened in liquid and solid systems, and that energy dissipates to heat. If you're denaturing some regulatory protein you're also denaturing adjacent protein - at this point you might as well call this a burn or cooking. The smallest point for even the highest frequency bands which is ~2200 MHz will keep your most intense point to a size of about 4 cm still.

    If it was really practical for doing DNA damage we would've been using microwave magnetrons for water purification long ago - turns out they just end up heating the water instead. Instead we use UV because it actually does cause the desired damage to water based pathogens without boiling the water.

    I'd sooner worry about the chemicals used in processing or out gassing from the phone than the low power emitters in the device.

  14. Re:Might explain something that's bothered me... on Apple Scientists Disclose Self-Driving Car Research (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Radar isn't ionizing radiation, it'll also cut through precipitation a lot better than IR. There's no 'optics' per say with radar, just receiving antennae so getting the system dirty isn't as easy.

    What do you think wifi is? Cellular communications?

    Here's a chart to help you out:

    http://images.tutorvista.com/c...

  15. Diversity hires rarely ever occur at the executive level.

  16. Re:It's not just a headphone jack... on Google Is Latest Company To Ditch Headphone Jack In Its Newest Smartphones (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy a small USB powered Bluetooth-to-3.5mm receiver for about $20. It is probably the best thing I ever bought for my 2007 car. With that said I still wouldn't buy a phone that doesn't have a headphone jack for quite a while.

  17. Re:CBC also has a story on Mystery of Sonic Weapon Attacks At US Embassy In Cuba Deepens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The microwave auditory effect is well known and I have serious doubts that any government funded program would publish the exact details of any progress on weaponizing it. The public knowing exactly how these devices work would decrease the effectiveness if they're actually trying to make targets feel like they're hearing voices in their head not just blast their hearing with noise.

    I'd expect the intensities involved would likely be high enough to harm the device operator unless they were remotely situated from the transmitter site. You'd want a high power output to provide the device range and effectiveness through walls and windows. As a consequence the operator being in the vicinity of the transmitter would still get effected by side lobes from the transmitter.

    The Russians claimed to be working on such a device in 2012 probably in response to the US Navy contracting a company to develop a microwave auditory weapon.

  18. The industry will _have_ to do this just to meet demand; they are predicting a long term shortage of pilots in the industry overall.

  19. Re:Here is my thought on spaces/tabs on Open Source Contributions More Important Than Tabs Vs Spaces For Salary (opensource.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm forced to be a Spacer my employer's antiquated pre-compiler seems to lose it's shit when it parses a tab.

    I let my guard down one day despite being warned by a colleague on the pitfalls of tabs in our build process and spent a significant part of my day tracing some weird compiler message down to a tab used on one line.

    I really should just pop the key off my keyboard, it's not worth the hassle of ever having it again.

  20. Re:Technology alone will not work on Could Technology Companies Solve Traffic Congestion? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    They should probably just resort to using a permit system to limit the average total number vehicles in the most congested parts of the city, then use the relieved roads to quickly install LRTs.

  21. Re:These are symptoms: there is only ONE problem . on Could Technology Companies Solve Traffic Congestion? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Designated Shitting Streets.

  22. Re:My view on bailing on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If we all waited for perfect conditions almost nothing would get done.

  23. Inevitably Google will be obligated to delete references to pirate websites as Google operates under the jurisdiction of multiple countries who have ratified international agreements on copyright law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    In the long term if governments choose not to prosecute internet indexers or hosting services they are inevitably making intellectual property toothless. I don't think any serious politician in any country will side against intellectual property in general. In the US lawyers and PR teams will have their sights set on them and in less democratic nations their state-owned corporations want similar protections abroad.

    Google would be going against the current direction of international law not to abide with the order and in the long term would just cost them more than it's worth. If it's not this judge it'll be another one soon enough.

  24. Re:More from the religion of peace on Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I've noticed Muslims kill mostly Muslims. What do you want from society now? To also ban the victims of Islamic terrorism from practising their religion in peace? Life is not so simple. You can't just Holocaust every perceived social ill away.

  25. Re:Computer checks pilot on Boeing Studies Planes Without Pilots, Plans Experiments Next Year (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    If they just let go they probably would've been fine.