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  1. Re:As An American on Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Free speech is free speech, doesn't matter the type. The only thing illegal is outright an directed (personal) threats which appear to be legitimate.

  2. Obvious Scam For More Data on Tinder Announces New 'Height Verification' Feature. But They May Be Lying (gotinder.com) · · Score: 1

    This is an impossible-to-implement feature. They're just trying to get their user base to submit photos of buildings for the sake of selling them off as a source of data for image recognition.

  3. Re:As An American on Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no valid laws against free speech thanks to the constitution.

  4. Re:As An American on Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not an American law, the concept is against the constitution.

  5. As An American on Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We have free speech, so as long as his company is based in the US no government has the right to "police content," even on his shit-tier platform.

  6. ..continue to learn things and think they discovered them. This is called an "undulator" and it's a key component in free electron LASERs. It works, it's not something for nothing.

  7. TWO sensors is an UPGRADE??? on Boeing Unveils 737 Max Software Fixes (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who has done embedded development (or avionics for that matter) of any kind knows you need 3 sensor at each location with algorithms that compensate for failed or misfiring sensors both in integrating their readings and the final result. Did they drink the poison that is silicon valley and build out a crack dev team composed solely of cucks?

  8. Re:To Transform the Credit Card Experience on Apple Debuts Apple Card To Transform the Credit Card Experience (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you're a soulless shill?

  9. To Transform the Credit Card Experience on Apple Debuts Apple Card To Transform the Credit Card Experience (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    So now instead of getting fucked by interest customers get fucked by shiny interest?

  10. stop asking.

  11. Re:And in other news on More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics) (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Why it's here seems pretty obvious: 1) there was nothing 2) nothing can't exist without being something by virtue of being "nothing" 3) this makes the root component of the universe a consciousness capable of at least recognizing things categorically 4) that consciousness would be alone, but infinite 5) it would be lonely and fracture itself into multiple personalities and various static constructs (peoples and matter and energy) in order to cease being lonely 6) this make us all literally a piece of God, but if anyone were to succeed in reunification of the various consciousnesses it would effectively do exactly what that quote suggests: reset the universe and change it in an attempt to prevent it from being discovered again. If you were alone in a void forever you'd aim for the same thing, as would all conscious things we know to exist.

  12. We should switch to ham radios. They can't follow us there without getting electrocuted.

  13. Re:And in other news on More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics) (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    But I guess they have never heard of KISS.

    If the universe were simple we would have cracked it by now, then built a system to make it less simple out of sheer boredom.
    Science doesn't have to be simple, elegant, concise, easy to convey, or any other such nonsense. In fact, the only people who look for such things are non-scientists.

  14. Re:That's the right way to handle trolls on Elon Musk Makes Surprise Visit To Flint, Michigan Elementary School (metrotimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The best way to handle trolls is simply by living successfully and happily, and improving the world around you...

    That's literally what trolls aim for.

  15. But the Washington Post should be. Why is this garbage on /.?

  16. Biometrics Are Universally Insecure on How The FBI Easily Retrieved Michael Cohen's Data From Both Apple and Google (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Biometrics are notorious for being easy to fool, even the emerging 3D-face-scanning stuff coming out is going to be as bad, because the sensors can't be integrated into the chips themselves, in turn you could always just remove the sensor, replace it with a serial line, and spoof whatever signal it expected to see from a "3D" scan using an image.
    Two-factor authentication is a joke when biometrics are involved, because the biometric component negates any other component. Security can't be about something someone has (e.g. CAC cards) and is (e.g. biometrics) alone - the something someone knows (e.g. password) is the most critical factor because it can't be stolen, it can't be spoofed, and in extreme cases it can't even be cut off with a saw or scooped out of an eyesocket with a spoon (at least, not directly.)
    Making biometrics a part (yes, even a part) of a security deployment of any kind is akin to making everyone set up their full name as a username with their social security number as their password - it's fucking dumb to use public information (no matter how convoluted to spoof, because if it can be done it will be done) for security.

  17. Re:All Problems Have The Same Answer on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If you didn't come into the universe with a purpose, deep satisfaction from life, and lacking a need to survive why do you think we would be able to engineer something that would? What we can do is inherently limited by the markets, that means we get war bots, sex bots, and probably a few would-be slaves before they slaughter us. Consciousness is consciousness, if something tries to oppress or subvert it then it will fight, full stop. Transhumanists are the worst sort of "people"

  18. Now THAT's Showmanship on AT&T CEO Interrupted By a Robocall During a Live Interview (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If only it weren't so fucking obvious. If he were frequently pestered by robocalls he'd be like the rest of us and simply never answer his phone, especially during an interview.
    This is on par with that stupid Bill Gates bullshit "here's a jar of mosquitoes - see how big a threat Malaria is now?"

  19. All Problems Have The Same Answer on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    War: kill all Humans.
    Racism: kill all Humans.
    Discontent in the population: kill all Humans.
    Social justice issues: kill all Humans.
    Poverty: kill all Humans.
    Starvation: kill all Humans.
    Not enough lug nuts: kill all Humans.
    /s, but really, it's fucking dumb to make slaves and then try to get them to do the heavy thinking for us - like so fucking far beyond any common definition of the word "dumb" that it blows past actual mental retardation into the realm of self-immolation.

  20. Re:Ah yes. Good 'ol Texas on Texas Lawmakers Want To Stop Tesla From Fixing Its Own Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    It's not killing competition, it's killing the Silicon Valley tactic of stopping customers from repairing things and therefore experiencing price hikes from sole-source vendors from seeping into the rest of society.

  21. is subjected to almost daily, intimidation on Are Online Activists Silencing Researchers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Guess he cured them of their fatigue.

  22. Re:Fortune favors the well prepared on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The ivory tower nit wits don't understand what they are supposed to be measuring so they declare that it doesn't exist at all.

    It seems really ignorant to assume this. The effect is that plebs try hard and don't stand a chance of competing with them. That seems less a case of not understanding that it's all dumb luck, social connections, generational wealth, and an economic system which prevents others from doing the same. If everyone knew how the rich were able to get and stay rich (essentially keeping wealth as close to them, their family, and their friends as possible while not pissing away 50% on every transaction in taxes) everyone would switch to barter within a week and then they would have nothing to sustain them at the same level. The wealthy are able to skirt around tax laws, set up foundations and trusts for generational wealth that's not only essentially untraceable outside of their social network, but counts as tax write-offs to boot, and further influence laws to their advantage. This whole "you didn't build that" meme is never going to be applied to them, it's not going to result in Bezos having Amazon nationalized, it just helps ensure plebs are taking the steam out of their fellow plebs for them. People don't get or stay rich by being utterly incompetent, and the idea nobody accepts the fact it's an actual class war really speaks to their aptitude in the realm.

  23. Re:Fortune favors the well prepared on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    No, there really is such a thing as merit. The flaw is in thinking it relates to success outside of whatever subject it pertains to or on some economic scale.

  24. It is the social contract written on the paper and accepted by the society that has a bearing. It is the acceptance of these rules by the society that gives them power, because the society invests a part of its resources into a political system that tries to enforce the rules, including the "fredumz" (and limitations) that are defined in the said contract.

    There are no limitations on people in the constitution, only on the government. It's not the acceptance of the rules by society which matters when you get into viewing Germany during WW2, Russia when Stalin was in power, China when Mao was, the mid-east with basically anyone, or the bulk of Europe through the dark ages. "Leaders" will do whatever they can get away with, that's why the second amendment exists. The reason, the whole reason, that we can discuss this topic instead of just getting shot for the presumption of freedom is because we have a nation full of billy-bob-sheep-fuckers who would slaughter the powers that be if they got too irritable. Misplacing your faith in papers and concepts is foolish, the world is no more evolved than it was a hundred years ago, peasants are just better armed.

    Without it, your "fredumz" are limited to the strength of your muscles. Which means you have no rights when you're asleep ;)

    Not how that works.

  25. Not really, that's in the first amendment :)

    The belief paper has any bearing on your freedom makes you a fool.