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  1. Re:nstagram Takipçi Hilesi on Linux Mint Ditches AMD For Intel With New Mintbox Mini 2 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Inte det heller :C

  2. Re:nstagram Takipçi Hilesi on Linux Mint Ditches AMD For Intel With New Mintbox Mini 2 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Dass verstehe ich nicht :(

  3. Re:Wrong quotes on Researchers Finally Solve Mystery of 'Alien' Skeleton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL!

  4. Re:I can barely name any either on People Were Asked To Name Women Tech Leaders. They Said 'Alexa' and 'Siri' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Or they are like me: I can't provide names. I'm bad at names, male or female.
    I could describe facial features for many tech leaders though including the current AMD CEO.

    Myself I think not being able to name female leaders isn't indicative of a problem, the problem being denial. Denial that there being discrimination (often group based and not explicitly gender based), denial of female leadership and/or science skills. I don't know how many times people otherwise intelligent have first denied discrimination (or claiming it's directed against white men), then saying there are no women in tech/science because they don't understand it, and lastly becoming angry when provided examples of women that have driven important technology/science forwards.

    (I guess seeing that pattern and thinking that it is illogical makes me a SJW?)

  5. That doesn't make your case. It's like saying all Germans in the third reich were military after "declaring" a "total war", meaningless except as a symbol.

  6. Kill us all, let $DEITY sort us out.

  7. Re:That's odd on YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tell that to the person murdered when asking for help because he had the wrong skin color and an accent. Yes have happened. Yes the murderer got no punishment. Obviously the reasonable response when hearing an accent is to shoot the source.

    '90 so don't remember details. Disgusting.

  8. About Europe: No, No. Completely wrong, No.

    It's easy to legally get a gun in Europe. Do you have a need for a gun? Are you not a criminal, not crazy and not violent? Do you accept waiting a short time? Congratulations - you can buy a gun!

    It's hard to get a permit to carry a gun for protection, generally very hard. Look at the statistics of gun related accidents in the US to understand why.

  9. So now people writing BSD code isn't cool?

  10. Re:Come on, who would have no hit her? on Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Woman in First Fatal Crash Involving Pedestrian (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations! You are now on your way to realize that different people have different opinions, often badly informed ones.

    However all those claims are actually true.
    Self driving right now: in a controlled environment yes.
    Renewable not ready: true, some forms aren't viable in some places.
    Electric car impossible: in itself not true (given the examples of such cars since the car was invented) but as a practical vehicle for some places. Think cold, dark and long distances.
    Mars: Well, that's what Elon claims as a goal.

  11. Short: conspiracy talk.

    Longer (TLDR?):
    Electronics doesn't die due to tin whiskers, the exempted areas that use leaded electronics (military, aviation, space, nuclear power plants, ...) are conservative and use what is known to work. Lead free solder require changes in soldering procedures which did cause problems previously (and in some cases still do) but whiskers aren't something commonly found in failed electronics.
    Most modern electronics die due to trends of everything having to be thin and light. That means we get electronics with smaller solder balls (shrinking BGAs with increasing number of connections), hotter temperatures and more varying temperatures (power management), devices more likely to suffer mechanical torture etc.

    Even if using leaded solder we'd have to use a number of different solders for different purposes and have the associated problems:
    One nice example being the Nvidia problem where BGA chips disconnected after some thermal cycling. While some claim the problem was in the underfill (material going around solder balls "gluing" the BGA chip itself to the substrate) it was often temporary fixed by trying to resolder the BGA chip in place. But the problematic chips used high-lead solder so it's not indicative of problems with lead free solders.
    Other similar problems like for the Xbox 360 have sometimes been blamed on lead free solder (no idea if that's correct) but as the above indicates this is something shared by modern electronics not matter which kind of solder is used.

    Also fashion/trends make people throw away perfectly good electronics long before they fail. I still have electronics produced with early lead free methods and they work exactly as they should - though that is of course just an anecdote rather than proof.

  12. You may be right but your post are talking about something else than slazzy did.

    Trigger != only reason for.

  13. Re:This particular quote is interesting .... on Lead Exposure Kills Hundreds of Thousands of Adults Every Year in the US, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not too interesting. Small doses give a higher response than a linear dose response would indicate, nothing more, nothing less. Magical water memory need not apply.

  14. Re:Making Google Search less and less relevant on Google Makes Push To Turn Product Searches Into Cash (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That seems like it is today and not when Google started. Correcting search terms to something related that is more popular to search for instead of actually doing the search requested. Again that's how it's today and not before Google started making their engine cater to sloppy searches by sloppy people.

  15. Re:Making Google Search less and less relevant on Google Makes Push To Turn Product Searches Into Cash (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My experience is that Google(TM!) delivers worse to much worse results today than before. Searching for a certain document I know is available, searchable (not hidden away with robots.txt etc) and not on an obscure site often gives pages after pages of places that doesn't match the search at all or only when "correcting" 50%+ of the search terms. Even when adding terms related to e.g. computers, computer architecture etc. that the wanted document covers the results are hit and miss often with the highest ranking results being completely irrelevant and badly matching. Don't understand it at all.

    Google is still the best search engine sadly.

  16. Re:For Trump, socialism==bad... on Trump Bans Venezuela's New National Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    So for you socialism is only the end-stage of Marxism? Hilarious!

  17. Re:For Trump, socialism==bad... on Trump Bans Venezuela's New National Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    For some it's part of a magical incantation... Others use other "strong words" without knowing the meaning of them, fascist is a popular one.

  18. Re:For Trump, socialism==bad... on Trump Bans Venezuela's New National Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Fascist regimes can also be corrupt. Socialism in itself (whether that word really applies to Venezuela or not) isn't the problem.

    The main problem is an authoritarian regime intent to keep control by any means, illegally enriching supporters and punishing others.

  19. Re: Suspicious? on Hacker Adrian Lamo Dies At 37 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you care so much?

    Some of us don't like sick twisted people.

    Most of us don't. Most of us limit that dislike to actually twisted sick people.

    Some of us are god damned tired of seeing the people who do NOT keep society going asking for special treatment and asking
    for tolerance when their lifestyle makes many in the majority want to vomit.

    You should seek medical help for that, seems like a big problem for you.

    You CANNOT FORCE PEOPLE TO LIKE STUFF THEY FIND SICKENING. And the sooner you quit trying to force your twisted lifestyle
    on others, the better for you.

    But it's fine when you do it Mr. Hypocrite?

  20. Re:suspicious on Hacker Adrian Lamo Dies At 37 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would it be honorable? And why don't you do it if it is?

  21. Re:This country is NOT passing out pills like cand on Hacker Adrian Lamo Dies At 37 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Spoken as an entitled whining idiot that can't even stand for his opinion.

    If you aren't lying and actually was given opioids without becoming dependent it still doesn't say anything about the general case.

    We can say anything about the general case by reading up on the research and statistics about the problem and can see:
    . Opioids are overprescribed in cases where other drugs would be better.
    . Opioids are prescribed in high doses than necessary.
    . Opioids are prescribed for longer duration than necessary.
    . Opioids causes dependencies and different people have different chances of developing such.
    . Opioids are prescribed in cases where they obviously shouldn't be (people prone of developing dependencies++).

    But you and your know-it-all friends like to claim everything is easy. It isn't. Your claims doesn't correspond to research. It doesn't apply to the real world with real people.

    But I agree with your first line of text. I'd like your to grow up and be responsible. But people like you never do.

  22. Like every other security researcher have in the past you mean?

    (/s if required)

  23. Re:PayPal not such a concern on The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With (schneier.com) · · Score: 2

    That's not an argument - it's fantasy.

    Nobody forces you to buy food.
    Nobody forces you to seek medical treatments.

    So you aren't forced to use money. You will not live but then nobody forces you to stay alive.

    Nobody forces you not to kill or do other illegal actions, it will have consequences but the choice isn't forced upon you.

    (Skipped some steps in the reductio ad absurdum (sp?) argument, the rest is left as homework for the reader)

  24. HTML + CSS have AFAIK been demonstrated to be Turing complete, did I get that wrong?

    Any way of having execution changing later execution flow makes a mechanism Turing complete - as one can assume infinitely long programs going through every possible case of execution flow. The Zuse V3/Z3 have been demonstrated to be Turing complete under such assumptions but it was of course not in practice.

  25. Re: Donald trump is a RUSSIAN! on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So you don't see a difference between off topic trolls and actual discussion?

    You were even given an example: someone posting claims Hillary Clinton is a member of the KKK in a thread about something else.