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  1. Russian bots on Children 'At Risk of Robot Influence' (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Right, youngsters are vulnerable to robot influence. But we know that it only matters if the bots are Russian bots. Then it gets really evil and worth reporting.

  2. Re: Everyone knew the pump and dump was coming... on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You can go too far in either direction. North Korea and Cuba are 90% socialist, and are impoverished.

    In order to be honest, you should note the role of US embargo on Cuba's impoverishment.

  3. Get used to it: we are going to get Spectre updates for years. That one will never be completely patched in software.

  4. Creating shareholder value on Short-Sellers Sue Tesla After Musk's 'Going Private' Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In other words, they want to sue CEO for creating shareholder value. That one will be difficult to play.

  5. An internal survey found that 80 percent of all companies were using open source

    If the actual question is about having a least one opensource application in their systems, then the answer is probably 100%, with the remaining 20% is probably just not being aware

  6. AI can probably help with the amount of candidatures, which is often too big for human recruiters to properly manage it. When you have hundreds of candidates for a positions, a computer filtering irrelevant candidates would certainly help.

  7. I wonder what data they used? TFA talks about P2P web traffic, but P2P does not use the web.

  8. How to implement vehicle cap? Will they request drivers to register, and randomly pick who is allowed to drive a given day?

  9. High court, simple case on Online Photos Can't Simply Be Republished, EU Court Rules (politico.eu) · · Score: 2

    It is amazing such a simple case managed to move up to EU Court of Justice.

    What did defendant expect?

  10. Sorry for messing with the unit, but does that makes any difference?

    10us, 1s or even a day is way too short to fit any socially useful mission of trading, such as bringing capital to actors that miss it to develop their activities, or let insurers cover their risks.

  11. In democracies, the military ability to perform any operation is constrained by public acceptance: Whoever politicians and generals decided to fight, if voters disagree, leaders will be shown the way out.

  12. Too bad 10ms is too short for HFT promoters to think about how toxic their practice is to society.

  13. Electric propulsion on Satellite Internet Is Driving the Global Space Economy (infoq.com) · · Score: 1

    Electric propulsion means satellites can achieve a 40-50% reduction in their mass

    How do they generate thrust from electricity in space? That the point of the EmDrive, but that is only a very experimental setup for now.

  14. Who want to decentralize on Can We Decentralize the Web? (computing.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I note presence of Microsoft people, who would not be allowed there if the web was Microsoft-centered.

  15. Poor in prospering state on In America's Big Tech Cities, More People Are Now Living In Their Vehicles (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA says:

    Amazon, Microsoft and other big tech companies are in the Seattle area," notes Zero Hedge, adding "It is a region that is supposedly 'prospering', and yet this is going on."

    Indeed, economy metrics such as GDP can be good, but people can still live poor in a rich state, because wealthy individuals and big corporations managed to dodge taxes

  16. Universal anticancer on New Anti-Cancer Drug Put Cancers To Sleep In Mice -- Permanently (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What is remarkable is that they claim to target any cancer. Cancer is hard to cure because it is as diverse as people.

    TFA says they induced senescence - the lack of ability to divide - to cancer cells, but they do not tell us how they managed to target cancer cells only.

  17. I have a great news: electricity caused more sleep deprivation than broadband does. And mastering fire had a huge impact, too.

  18. While it makes sense to reduce the amount of people touching the infrastructure, the telecom companies seem to have considered delay as an entry barrier. This decision is what they deserve.

  19. Hydrogen tank resistance on Toyota Unveils Project Portal 2.0 Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Semi Truck (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How did they address the problem of hydrogen making gas tank's steal brittle?

  20. It's not ancient!

    Well, NetBSD does not require hardware to be decades old.

  21. Who is behindthis? on Facebook Has Identified Ongoing Political Influence Campaign (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We're still in the very early stages of our investigation and don't have all the facts -- including who may be behind this.

    It will be really fun if they discover it is the a US political party... or some internet tycoon... or an US security agency... or a foreign country considered as an ally...

  22. What role? on DHS Forms New Cyber Hub To Protect Critical US Infrastructure (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    What will be the role of this cyber hub? How is it going to push banks and utilities to update unmaintained systems?

    The only thing I believe to be useful here would be economical incentive. That is, big fine and corporate leaders legal liability for security incidents.

  23. In other words, tax heavens make sure they maintain their lead.

  24. There are many other OS to use on ancient hardware. Some cited Slackware, there is also NetBSD.

  25. Should everyone be given free money? Or should everyone receive the guarantee of a decently-paid job?

    "Decently" is the key word. If UBI is not enough to live and force people to accept any crappy job to meet ends, then this is just enterprise's labor costs subsided by taxpayers, and a decently paid job is definitively preferable.