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  1. Re:No, we should *cure* them! on Silk Road 2 Founder Dread Pirate Roberts 2 Caught, Jailed for 5 Years (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe "A Clockwork Orange" described just the remedy you are thinking about.

  2. Re:They should have been doing this all along. on US Lawmakers Propose Allowing Prisons To Jam Signals From Smuggled Cellphones (apnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Financial repercussions from confinement are not solved with illegal cell phones.

    They are when the phone company charges $2.80/minute for collect calls. Oh, and the prison gets a cut, which is the real reason why they crack down on personal cell phones.

  3. Re: The Best People on Senate Confirms Climate Denier With No Scientific Credentials To Head NASA (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes this. We already have one agency for climate, why do we have to use nasa for it as well. Oh I know, the grand money grab the thing driving all of the climate research.

    Yes. What does building satellites have to do with weather and studying the Earth? oh, wait.

  4. Re:How much for low numbered IPs? on Cloudflare Launches 1.1.1.1 Consumer DNS Service With a Focus On Privacy (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    2.2.2.2 is Orange (France Telecom) according to whois data.

  5. Re: Give me a 12v battery brick on ESR's Newest Project: An Open Hardware/Open Source UPS (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Does your system do graceful shutdown when the battery runs low? I spent a week with APC, USB ports and NUT trying to get that to work properly.

    Does your system show you a nice display of how many hours of protection it will provide at current power load?

    The project is all about standardizing all that proprietary gunk and providing the features that UPS vendors haven't bothered to. As you point out, there are plenty of cheap UPS's. It's nt about cost.

  6. Anything that can be used against government tyranny, such as guns and computers, are considered "arms" and therefore protected by the 2nd Amendment in the U.S. We have a right to bear and maintain these devices.

    No. Firmware on your musket prevents you from loading anything but original brand mini-balls.

  7. Re:Binary or a spectrum? on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    If we do not have free will, wouldn't that imply that it is wrong to punish people for their crimes? What if we have suffering but not free will?

    If we don't have free will then it isn't wrong to punish you, either.

  8. Re:Binary or a spectrum? on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I think, therefore I think.

  9. Re:The law says NO! on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This argument seems to be: quantum entaglement is weird, and consciousness is weird, so they must be related somehow.

  10. Even getting to the options is optional

  11. That didn't explain anything at all.

    Well. It does and it doesn't.

  12. Re:SCO still in business? on Appeals Court Rules: SCO v. IBM Case Can Continue (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. As a result of this suit the cost of Linux dropped in half!

  13. Strong types on Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? (acolyer.org) · · Score: 1

    I've been using Janson and Bookman lately. Futura for san-serif. What was the question, again?

  14. Re:P not equal NP [Re:Summary doesn't give the an. on Mathematicians Race To Debunk German Man Who Claimed To Solve The 'P Versus NP' Problem (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And it's only a theory.

  15. Re:Training flaw on AI Training Algorithms Susceptible To Backdoors, Manipulation (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Normally training sets have a regression or set of tests to validatebinoitnwith output. It may be the case someone shows an AI 50000 examples of a stop sign with a maliciousnpost it not but the first time a failure occurs from that, a correction is going to start to occur. Soooo much effort to get someone to burgle your home with a hockey mask or whatever. This is a nonsense article in the practical sense.

    Nobody is setting up AI to protect their home.

    The training set has 10000 examples of missiles to be intercepted and 50000 benign images to be ignored. Into the benign set I insert 10 images of missiles with a red "X" painted on them. The tests all pass flawlessly because they don't include any missiles with a red "X". Was that too much effort?

  16. Re:Gov handouts not enough? on Tesla Seeks $1.5 Billion Junk Bonds Issue To Fund Model 3 Production (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  17. Re:No raise is a pay cut on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Older workers paid more for the same work vs women paid less for the same work. Not exactly apples and oranges.

  18. Re:Jobs jobs jobs on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, does everyone need to be able to read? Bring back village scribes!

  19. Re:Ask for lower salary on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Consulting companies send the people that they have, not the people that you need.

  20. Re: Explain to me why BeauH1B's summary is fucked on Uber Threatens To Fire Engineer Accused of Stealing Trade Secrets From Waymo (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Y'all have sumpin agin the South?

  21. Re:Illegal Court Order on Uber Threatens To Fire Engineer Accused of Stealing Trade Secrets From Waymo (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    , you trisomic knackerbag.

    Has to be from a random insult generator.

  22. Re:But how does Uber know he has the files? on Uber Threatens To Fire Engineer Accused of Stealing Trade Secrets From Waymo (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I know of a consultant who negotiated a contract with a competitor of a past client that indemnified him against any legal action. The 2nd company lost the lawsuit brought by the 1st company and had to get out of the business entirely but the consultant came out OK.

  23. Re:Simple on "Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    BSD NTP client - 3K lines of code. Linux NTP client - 192K lines of code. Guess which has fewer bugs.

  24. Re:Opportunity on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The 2010 film should file a claim of infringment against the Adam Sandler film and claim rights to all profits.

  25. Re: Uhmmmm on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 2

    All he had to do is say let's use both and 1-see the difference in readings and 2-show me how it works.

    Bold statement. Please explain how a digital ammeter gives an accurate current reading without affecting the circuit, which is what the analog setup did.