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  1. Why is Pence so hot to get to the moon asap? What could possibly be scheduled for 2024 that the vice president would want some great publicity for?

  2. Re:Not to mention Cloudflare has exactly on Security Researchers Express Concerns Over Mozilla's New DNS Resolution For Firefox (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 1

    zero visibility to internal DNS resolution for corporate networks

    Ham handed is the kindest thing I can say about this.

    If this actually causes a problem, your corporate IT department just plain sucks.

  3. Re:A load of crap. Cloudflare is secure on Security Researchers Express Concerns Over Mozilla's New DNS Resolution For Firefox (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 2

    I already set my DNS servers to cloudflare (1.1.1.1) when they launched their service. Now I can use it over https so no one along the network path can snoop my dns queries. If there is a faster or more private dns service, I'd like to know about it so I can switch to it.

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

  4. Re:Only conservative Republicans affected on Twitter Is Limiting the Visibility of Prominent Republicans In Search Results (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's a shift that diminishes their reach on the platform -- and it's the same one being deployed against prominent racists to limit their visibility

    Considering the leader of the party (the president) is a prominent racist, and racism is a problem endemic almost exclusively to the party and its followers, I expect it's working as designed.

  5. Re:Not a Surprise on ADHD Drugs Aren't Doing What You Think, Scientists Warn (inverse.com) · · Score: 1
    People with ADD do have atypical reactions to stimulants... it calms them down. I had serious ADHD as a kid, and taking amphetamine (dexedrine) controlled it. I mostly outgrew it, but as an adult decades later, I can drink a bunch of caffeine at night and have no trouble sleeping.

    There is, however, one thing about this that's surprising--and that's that you get the same kind of effects in normal people. One of the old methods for confirming an ADD diagnosis is that you had an atypical reaction to stimulants...which Adderall and Ritalin are. To be specific, they're amphetamines...

  6. MEGA!!!!!!!!!

    (Make Exclamation points Great Again)

  7. Re:Probably not confidential under California law on Did Google's Duplex Testing Break the Law? (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Secondly, California laws says it's not protected when the parties "may reasonably expect that the communication may be overheard or recorded". (Note the word "may", may be overheard, not "will be overheard".

    I can reasonably expect that the NSA or another agency may be listening. So I'm free to record any call then?

  8. Re:Here's why: on FCC To Loosen TV, Newspaper Ownership Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe not... Tribune Media spun off the newspapers into a seperate company 3 years ago, Tribune Publishing.

  9. Re:Here's why: on FCC To Loosen TV, Newspaper Ownership Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Among the newspapers it is about to buy are the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times

  10. Re:Braess' paradox Another possible reason on Getting Rid of Carpool Lanes Could Double Travel Times (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Informative
    I RTFA and it does say it wasn't carpool lanes that were removed... 3 passengers were required to use the road at all.

    So if you remove the 3-passenger requirement, capacity will not change but usage will increase, so of course it will slow down. If you change a carpool lane into a regular lane, capacity will increase, and depending on how much usage increases traffic can speed up or slow down.

    Read the summary again, it's not a carpool lane, it's ALL traffic.

    Whoever wrote the article needs a kick in the crotch.

  11. being a simulation is depressing on US Suicide Rate Surges To Highest Level In Almost Three Decades, Says Report (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People are starting to realize they are just a simulation and nothing really matters

  12. Re:The silver lining around every (mushroom) cloud on Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No they wouldn't. Because even though there are plenty of gun toting crazies in the US you do not fire ICBMs anywhere near a nuclear power. NK shares a border with China. China would not sit still with missiles coming in or stand off bombers in bound.

    So NK is free to nuke anyone because they share a border with a nuclear power? No. Nuking the US would get an automatic response of getting nuked back, that's not a gun-toting crazy response. That's the response if they don't want others thinking they could get away with nuking them too. And it wouldn't be an ICBM, it would be SLBMs from a nearby submarine. China would stay out of it and watch the firework show, they're not stupid

  13. Re:The silver lining around every (mushroom) cloud on Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Realistically even if NK nuked an American city America would not nuke back. Conventional forces would be shredding NK in a matter of hours. More likely nukes would be detonated in NK by NK during that time.

    The US would nuke back, without hesitation. If they didn't, they would be inviting others to try it too. That's MAD.

  14. Re:Trump vote on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Um. If there is a tie, then they will work it out. The superdelegates are the way it's worked out. Frankly, in a tie, I would think it would be appropriate for the party to have a say in picking Clinton. I like Sanders, but he's really not a Democat anyway.

    He's really more of a Democrat than Hillary is.

  15. Re:Windows 64bit stable on Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators · · Score: 1

    I just used Help/About to update Firefox on this 64-bit Windows 10 machine, and can verify it works.

    If you updated from the 32-bit version, you are still running the 32-bit version

    To switch to 64-bit, you need to uninstall 32-bit then install 64-bit. get it here:

    https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/fi...

  16. Re:Windows 64bit stable on Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators · · Score: 1
    I read it won't be on the download page until version 43. For now you can get it here:

    https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/fi...

  17. Diet soda could be just as bad for you on The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? · · Score: 1
    Interesting study from a year ago on artificial sweeteners and gut bacteria

    http://www.nature.com/news/sug...

  18. Re: Amazing on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    I read it, you're the illiterate one.

    So I repeat, the first article YOU linked says "California in 2013 received less rain than in any year since it became a state in 1850." Like I said, you're contradicting yourself. I think I found what you missed though, the 1924 stat was for "water year", which is different from a calendar year.

    That was a strawman against the 3-year period stat in my original post anyway. You can't even get your strawman attack right.

  19. Re: Amazing on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    Wrong

    Not even the driest year in the last 120 http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/

    1924 for the win

    Not wrong. Nice straw man argument by you though. The article specifically said "there is no three-year period when California's rainfall has been as low and its temperatures as hot as they have been from 2012 to 2014, the researchers found". Three year period, not one.

    But even in the article you posted it says "California in 2013 received less rain than in any year since it became a state in 1850." So now you're being contradicted by your own post.

  20. Re: Amazing on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    And a much newer article from the same site with data that this is the worst drought in at least 1200 years:

    http://www.mercurynews.com/dro...

  21. Re:Backup won't help you on Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week · · Score: 1

    From the Intel data sheet on their series 530 SSD: "Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate (UBER): 1 sector per 10^16 bits read". So it's extremely unlikely a rotted bit will go unnoticed. This is even better than most HDDs, which are 1 per 10^15 on enterprise drives and 10^14 on consumer drives

  22. Re:Backup won't help you on Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week · · Score: 1

    The SSD will detect bit rot the same way a HDD does, they use ECC

  23. Re:This will solve one problem of security... on Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week · · Score: 1

    A microwave oven for just a few seconds will do it

  24. Re:danger vs taste on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    The shitty test you're talking about didn't even *test* aspartame, it tested saccharine, which hasn't been in a diet drink for several decades. More shitty "science" that shitty newspapers can't bother to actually do 2.5 seconds of research on.

    It tested aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose. And it was well done and published in Nature, not somewhere you often find "shitty tests". Both these facts are in the linked article.