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  1. Re:Porn Industry is suddenly the pillar of eqality on Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I checked for you then.
    They have upskirt and bathroom cams but most of it is just regular porn, probably uploaded in complete disregard of copyrights.

  2. Re:Porn Industry is suddenly the pillar of eqality on Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    What LGBT and porn have in common is that they are both sexual taboos.
    The porn industry probably thinks that breaking the LGBT taboo will help break the porn taboo, which is good for business.

  3. Mg? Where is this unit used?
    Technically, Mg is correct according to the usual SI rules but everyone I know use tonnes, which is exactly the same thing with a different name.

  4. Re:Bring leaders to Hiroshima to see the damage on G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites (voanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Now, it is actually a very beautiful place and besides the various memorials, there is no way to tell this city was bombed. It is worth visiting by itself. Additionally, it is close to Miyajima, which is one of the "3 views of japan".
    One of the most pleasant surprises I had when I visited Japan. Leave the doom and gloom to 1945, it is now a nice, lively city.

  5. Re:Energy density per kg on Siemens and Airbus To Push Electric Aviation Engines (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Making electric engines is easy, storing energy to power them is hard.
    That's why we started with electric trains, then we moved on to electric cars, and we still don't have commercial electric planes.

  6. Re:What happened to C? on Google May Adopt Apple's Swift Programming Language For Android, Says Report (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    C is widely considered unsafe, a language that makes it far too easy to accidentally introduce security holes that end up with attackers being able to execute arbitrary code. Managed languages like Java aren't perfect, but they fix 90% of these errors, leaving developers able to focus on the types of error that are because something was badly designed, not because a buffer's size is too small for the data being read into it.

    Right, but the core of Android (where security matters the most) is actually C or C++. In unprivileged mode, where apps run, security is important but not as much, because that arbitrary code will have no more permissions that the exploited app. Also, nothing prevents you from using a safe language that have C bindings.
    But there are advantages to managed languages, which bring me to...

    Meanwhile, nothing else has taken off. C# is almost as bureaucratic as Java, and, well, then there's Swift, but I'm having difficulty believing Apple will be less possessive of it than Oracle is of Java.

    C# is just the tip of the iceberg, the CLI backend is the interesting part here. There are plenty of languages that target the CLI platform (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), no lockdown here. For me, this is how managed should be done. And now that Microsoft opens up a bit, that's even better.

  7. Re:Bill Nye got caught faking a experiment on Bill Nye: Climate Change Denial Is 'Running Out of Steam,' Thanks To Millennials (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    Just look at this video from Veritatium : https://youtu.be/s7MTM4BKZ_E

    The proof of global warming is in statistics : plenty of data, some maths, and we know with little doubt that global warming is happening even when the weather is cold. That's how science works but it is seen as intangible and boring.
    We all prefer conclusive experiments. So for popular science, they usually do some experiment that may not be serious science but show a point, mythbusters style. And sometimes they do it wrong, but this is simply bad communication, the numbers behind it don't lie (with p<0.05).

  8. What happened to C? on Google May Adopt Apple's Swift Programming Language For Android, Says Report (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On GNU/Linux, you can use whatever langage you want as long as it supports the C calling conventions, and most of them do. Same thing for oldschool Windows and pretty much every system running native code.
    Why should a platform be tied to a particular language?

  9. Hooker too?

  10. Re:Buying Visas? on Government's Fake University Trap Results in 21 Visa Fraud Arrests · · Score: 2

    $1M and a few thousands are entirely different things.
    With an median income of maybe $30k/year per capita, a million is enough to pay someone for most of his work life. Essentially, the millionaire earned his status by creating a job for an American.
    OTOH, selling green cards for, say, $10k would be ridiculous. This is barely enough to survive for the few months it may take to find a decent job. Getting into a country with this kind of money only to come back home broke less than a year later is all too common.

  11. Re:ShamWOW! on LG G5 Gets a High 8/10 Repairability Score (geek.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A major manufacturer making phones user serviceable deserve that praise.
    With the trend going to sealed batteries and glue everywhere, it is good to know some manufacturers still do things well. Kudos to the Fairphone 2 BTW, this phone even have fucking disassembly instructions printed on it.

    Just look at the Samsung repairablity scores for instance (S3:8, S4:8, S5:5, S6:4, S7:3). The latest HTC and Nexus have horrible scores too.

  12. Re:Interesting change in strategy on Phishing Email That Knows Your Address (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But... I had "backup" written right there in my todo list...

  13. Re:Authorities have not yet identified the hac.... on Outdated and Vulnerable WordPress, Drupal Versions Contributed To Panama Papers Breach (wptavern.com) · · Score: 2

    From a French journal, the possible reasons for the lack of US based names :
    - Mossack Fonseca is not the only player.
    - US taxation is lower than the average in OECD countries
    - FACTA
    - The US have their own tax heavens

  14. If killing cows matter that much... on Christie's Set To Auction Space Rocks For Out Of This World Prices (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Buy cheap meteorite, find cow, kill cow with meteorite (tricky but doable), you now have a $2M meteorite.
    Who said the cow had to be killed by the fall.

  15. Re:Maybe this is the "missing mass"? on Monster Black Holes May Lurk All Around Us (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Wow, it sounds so right, and yet... so wrong.

  16. Doctor Baboon on Researchers Keep Pig Heart Beating In Baboon Belly For 2 Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Two hearts... Is this baboon a swinelord?

  17. Re:only the paranoid survive on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 1

    do no evil, my foot!

    Do not yell at your foot, it only does what you tell it to do.
    You a responsible for all bad actions committed by your foot.

  18. Re:Google's battered customers on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People who bought Revolv hubs didn't buy a Google/Nest/Alphabet product.

  19. Re:Put Lifetime in quotes on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 4, Funny

    A crew of really small people then.

  20. Re:But does it use systemd? on Ubuntu Budgie Could Be The New Flavor of Ubuntu Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It will probably use systemd. I think that upstart is officially dead now, latest release was in september 2014.

  21. Re:The study, more than 300 pages long on Risks To Human Health Will Accelerate As Climate Changes, White House Warns (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That your report spans 300 pages doesn't mean you need as many.
    A skill I picked as a lazy student is how to increase the number of pages without adding more content. Large magins, wide space between lines, wide font, bullet point lists rather than enumerations, lots of diagrams with a bit of text of text between them, summary pages that repeat what was already said...

  22. Re:Electrons?? on New State of Matter Detected in a Two-Dimensional Material (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    In the standard model, electrons are indivisible.
    Protons and neutrons are made of quarks and are divisible, even though they really don't like it.

  23. The FBI wants X on FBI Wants To Access Terror Suspect's Skype Records (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Will there be an article every time the FBI issues a warrant now?
    The iPhone unlocking case is newsworthy, but here, this is just police doing its job.

  24. Re:Should we start calling it on There Are Some Super Shady Things In Oculus Rift's Terms of Service (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In french we call it "Enculus Rift". From "enculer" which literally means "fuck in the ass".

  25. Re:MDMA too? on Refrigerator-Sized Machine Can Print Pills on Demand (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    PCP is not that popular anymore. It seems that ketamine takes all the love.
    But seriously, for an emergency supply of drugs, opiates (like heroin, aka. diamorphine) and anesthetics (like ketamine) definitely have their place. And while these specific substances are usually not the first choice for human intervention, they are still used in a medical setting.

    As for THC, well, it literally grows on trees. You don't really need a machine for this.