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  1. Sure be his bogeyman I'm sure he can use you fools on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    When will you knuckle heads stop playing with your dicks and wake up to how Trump operates? Conflict makes him stronger, and giving him yet another bogeyman to talk about just empowers him and expands his audience.

    I bet he paints anonymous as a threat to democracy and all the patriots will go "Booyah!" in support.

  2. The occurrence of digits is linked to the base on Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Last time I looked at primes in binary I noticed a 100% chance that the next one ended in 1. No I am not trolling you I'm just making a point, go look at the primes in different bases and see what you notice.

  3. So they implemented an optical "tee" function. on German Scientists Successfully Teleport Classical Information (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Information in on one beam, information out on two beams. That is about it right? This breaks quantum encryption on fibre optic links does it not, because you can duplicate a state without interfering with the original in a detectable manner?

    However if you were dreaming of faster pizza deliveries this is not what the work is all about.

  4. Re:This is interesting on Go Champion Lee Se-dol Beats Google's DeepMind AI For First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But then the human will learn to disguise a genuine move as an apparent distraction and the AI will fail to account for that having learned that other players should be ignored when they appear to do illogical things. The human win was triggered by a key insight about the weakness of the current AI design, a weakness that it may not be able to learn itself out of without being upgraded by it's human creators. i.e. The AI may not be able to adapt to this human strategy, without the help of other humans. We shall see, that is the point of the whole exercise after all.

  5. More triggers means less magnitude for each event. on Report: Science Can Now Link Climate Change To (Some) Extreme Weather (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Obviously everything can influence events, this is what chaos theory show us very clearly, but it is another matter to say that we can predict what any given action will ultimately cause nor can we say what the polarity of the influence will be as the number of relevant interactions are so great that we cannot account for them all.

    The magnitude of events is a different matter, sure a patterned system with more energy in it can see more extreme gradients, it is like boosting the contrast on a photo, but what is the true magnitude of the influence? Who knows, the report uses terms such as "may" and "could" often enough to indicate clearly that the authors really can't be sure enough to quantify it accurately yet. It is also possible that the mixing of atmosphere and ocean thermoclines may only rise significantly in a localised manner, making some events more energetic, while actually moderating the energy fluxes across the entire globe better than they are now.

  6. You could spend more on mental heath programs on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the USA does come across as a little insane when it's people turn on each other so viciously. How about a free box of antipsychotics with every box of bullets? The abuse of stimulants seems to be driving similar trends in other countries too, again fundamentally a mental health rather than a legal issue.

  7. Re:Who was it? on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    Some metaphorist who has never heard of handloading? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re:Who else things that these names and addresses. on Leaked Islamic State Documents Identify Thousands of Jihadis (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    Because reality is never that much fun/interesting?

  9. Re:media double standard on dangerous leaks on Leaked Islamic State Documents Identify Thousands of Jihadis (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    They act according to the rules of those they fear most, as do most humans, and not according to some abstract and pure principle that you espouse as if was something real.

  10. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... on Leaked Islamic State Documents Identify Thousands of Jihadis (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    All strict ideologies are bigoted and therefore a source of conflict rather than peace.

  11. The lists of people who recommended the people to the terrorist network may still be immensely valuable and help to flush out the recruiters and financial supporters living amongst us in the safety of the societies they seek to destroy. Those people are far more dangerous than the fools that they manipulated into become cannon fodder.

  12. Re:A solution in search of a problem.. on Hotel Experience With Android Lightswitches (dreamwidth.org) · · Score: 1

    Unless you wish to turn the entire building into a digital disco ball.

  13. Re:It could be worse.... on US Says North Korean Submarine Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't kid yourself, it isn't about any of that, it is about a small gang of psychopaths that have gained control of a larger group of very naive people and those psychopaths know that there can never be peace until they are dead because they have committed so many crimes against humanity that the world will hold them to account if they are captured. They can only travel in relative safety to China, otherwise the NK regime are trapped in a prison of their own making and the walls are only growing higher as they actively work on being able to pose a greater and greater threat to the innocent humans in the countries surrounding them. Do you know who is indirectly most threatened by the NK nuclear program? Over a billion Chinese who will be exposed to the nuclear fallout from any conflict initiated by NK.

  14. Except now the bad guys will know what not to do. on Surprise Nuclear Strike? Here's How We'll Figure Out Who Did It (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Announcing how you will detect something is a good way of educating your enemy as to the best ways to avoid detection.

  15. Re:Seemed like a good idea at the time.... on DARPA Wants Ideas On Weaponizing Off-the-Shelf Tech (ieee.org) · · Score: 1
  16. Reboot isn't a solution, that is a work around. on Software Bug in F-35 Radar Causes Mid-Flight System Reboot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A solution would be new code. It sounds like the test pilots are doing a great job of you know, testing.

  17. You forgot their new product to stop back dooring. on Apple Announces 'Let Us Loop You In' Event For March 21st (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Apple Butt Plug.

  18. Re:Could there be... on Laser System Set To Revolutionize Future Aircraft, Satellite Data Links (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    SKYNET was taken. But yeah who would want to name a project after "a child of Uranus"?

  19. It isn't soil if it is only inorganic. on Dutch Researchers Grow Crops In Simulated Lunar and Martian Soil (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    There is no such thing as soil on Mars or the Moon, soil contains humic acids (and their salts) plus glomalin and the numerous fungi that produce it. Not only do these clowns not know what soil is, they don't even seem to realise that you don't need to use soil to grow plants. What they need is the ability to inoculate a substrate with an ecosystem and keep it in balance, then the rest just happens naturally. What they should be looking at is how to use a solar furnace to convert extraterran regoliths into the equivalent of expanded clay beads or vermiculite etc. which can then be inoculated with an aquaponics ecosystem.

  20. And that grass was grown without soil.

  21. Re:but but but on Cautious Steps Toward Seabed Mining (maritime-executive.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, somebody got around to doing the maths and found that there wasn't really much of a market for 1:1 scale, 3D printed, asteroids.

  22. 1 km under the seabed would be safer. on Cautious Steps Toward Seabed Mining (maritime-executive.com) · · Score: 2

    But I can's see how "hoovering" huge swaths of ocean floor would not be extremely destructive to ecosystems unless they just did thin stripes that never touched areas where there was significant diversity or complexity in the distribution of that diversity. These larger more monotonous areas could be revisited on a time scale that allowed the complete recolonisation of the mined areas from the untouched areas, then another strip of the untouched area could be mined. The problem is that you can't trust the mining companies to decide where and when to mine and when to wait or stay away permanently. If they find an area is particularly rich in resources they will bias their research to allow it to be mined at the expense of protecting the biological diversity in the area.

    However they could bore a vast network of tunnels 1 km or more below the ocean floor without having much impact on the biosphere. However they are not interested in that because of the costs, and the fact that they are really just after the rich nodules on the surface of the ocean floor, nodules that may have formed in part due to biological processes.

  23. Re:How did they do it? on Human Go Champion 'Speechless' After 2nd Loss To Machine (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    You don't need to map the entire landscape if you combine knowledge of the major maxima and minima with axioms for searching for local detail. It is this combination, a map of rule parameters rather than a complete map of the territory that makes the difference.

  24. Re:Any AFRICAN Go champions? on Human Go Champion 'Speechless' After 2nd Loss To Machine (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    There is as much genetic diversity on the African continent as there is across the rest of humanity. The population of just Asia is about 4.5 times larger than that of all of Africa. Think about those two facts for a while. They may help you to make more sophisticated and relevant observations in the future.

  25. It isn't bullshit, it is a matter of semantics. on Snowden: FBI's Claim It Can't Unlock The San Bernardino iPhone Is 'Bullshit' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple can do it now, but the FBI can't do it, yet, however enough time and money would change that.

    If you listen to just Snowden you will not learn the whole truth because he does filter the facts available to him in order to paint a picture that suits his political views, because he is an activist, and nobody should be surprised by that because all activists and lobbyists behave that way.