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  1. Re:Well duh on Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Possibly the power of the government to regulate trade with other nations?

  2. Re:Well duh on Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Lobbyists have to register, too. I don't know the constitutional justification, either, and that involves mostly domestic citizen speech.

  3. Re:You realize the U.S. is ~4.5% of the population on Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    And 50% or more of inventions. The world, which shares inventions, would be much better off being more l8ke us than the other way around.

    We can no more predict the state of tech in 2115 than 1915 could today's. Less so, more likely, especially with China and India opening up with more economic freedom (see second sentence above) adding 3 billion people driving via economic might and capacity, investment in R&D.

    I will happily take that angry red forecast picture, with that level 2115 tech, than a sweet green-blue picture (no doubt the colors that would be used) and, say, year 2080 tech.

    And no, you cannot have both. A century of hundreds of economic experiments involving billions of test subjects demonstrate otherwise. (See first two sentences.)

    This paper will no doubt minimize or skip this brute fact entirely.

  4. Re:The Klan Is Always Getting Bigger on Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Freakonomics, they delve into one man's 30 year war against the KKK, where he broadcasts things like their secret rituals and so on, on radio shows, effectively turning them from a serious organization to a laughingstock few people (relatively) wanted to join, in the early part of the century.

    The vast bulk of damage to them is already long done. The point of the article was mockery, rather than outlawing, seemed to be much more productive.

  5. Re:Ob on Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kkknock it off!

  6. Re: It'll be aired in todays conventional methods on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    I paid for it for the Big Brother live feeds. I cancel it at the end of the show. There are literally no other shows on CBS I would watch for free, much less $6/month.

    Oh, wait. Star Trek! Yeah I would.

    Oh, wait. Rebooted universe series.

    Consuela: No, no...noooooooooo...

  7. Re:CIA Sec's AOL account Hacked on Feds Looking Into Reports CIA Director's Email Was Hacked (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have an aol and a gmail account. These are the only constants as I bump around, changing work emails every 5 years or so.. The aol is from pre-aol-Internet days.

    I never felt a need to jump to some cool tech industry address.

  8. Re:Some poeple just love huge CoCs. on Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? · · Score: 1

    I am the bestest programmer in the universe, and shall now prove it by generating a social rule to solve this problem.


    For every email sent in this system
              Append " :) "

    You are all inferior. Admit it now and avoid future embarrassment. " :) "

  9. Re:A link between codes of conduct and autism? on Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? · · Score: 0

    He is one data point, to be sure. But you are a zero.

  10. > Since Go’s release nearly 6 years ago

    More like 6,000 years ago. Chinese checkers is pretty dammned old, man.

  11. Sense or? on Greenland Ice Sheet Not Covered In Soot · · Score: 1

    Picard: Are we sure the alien planet is gonna be poisoned by ass gas?

    Data: Sensors confirm.

    Riker: Run a level 5 diagnostic just to be sure.

    Data: Running...oh yes. Sensors are old pieces of crap. Correcting...ah, nothing wrong with the planet.

    Picard: Very good. I am beaming down for my vacation at Hedonism XVII. I heard they have androids in the form of ancient 21st century supermodels. Riker, you have the con. Cara, here I come!

  12. Halloween is over, there are no trolls on NASA Study Shows Net Gains For Antarctic Ice (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, this is a meta post.

    Can you mods modding down posts that disagree with your settled worldviews as "troll" fucking stop it? Both sides. kthxbie

  13. Netcraft confirms that slashdot is now an echo chamber.

    What the holy hell does that have to do with any...

    Oh, wait. I'm thinking of Nethack. n/m

  14. Re:Make a law, you numbnuts on EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Well, one would want a proper, justified warrant to search all this online data, anyway. It's a struggle to get even that.

    Without it, imagine what a guy like Putin would do observing political enemies. It's bad enough where warrants even exist, there is no technological barrier, or even recording system, stop or even note the abuses.

  15. Now you won't need migrant farmers, and the associated leftists to defend them.

    Yay capitalism!

  16. I've never been hit by one of these, but I realize it can cost people a lot of money due to some shitheads. I'm really glad a lot of these keys have been found and made public. I'm sure this won't be the end of ransomware...people will just use new keys, but hopefully this will help some of those who have clicked on a not-a-flash upgrade or bad e-mail attachment.

    I hope they recovered the keys from the shitheads using this technique.

  17. Thank god. You collect trash and invent iPhones! on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    I could survive on 800 Euros a month. I am outta here!

  18. Re:What happened to SXSW on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The priest isn't asking you if the bride is a lying bitch; he's asking if the bride's dad secretly fucked the groom's mom one drunken night and so the dude is marrying his sister.

    While this moment has been used for many things in movies, it's really for a previous spouse to stand up and state they are still married to one of the two. Even then its use as more than a formality (a marriage is a public statement of committment before God.. and witnesses) is long over.

  19. It is about showboating. We won't do anything until China starts a serious Mars program (if they ever do) or a permanent Moonbase program, for that matter.

    When that happens, politicians will miraculously find hundreds of billions to get a corresponding program in gear.

  20. Re:Brits love to complain on UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    More likely the NSA has many routing servers at strategic places in the Internet to scan traffic, and record specific content, source, or destination IP addresses.

    That includes stuff sitting around, network-wise, places like Google, facebook, etc.

  21. Re:The real issue on University Reprimands Professor For Assigning Cheaper Textbook (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    I took an intro anthro class from the guy who wrote the textbook. He didn't take profits from those sales for his own class. He was large in the field and it was widely used.

    The heads of the department should similarly decline profits from sales to students at their university.

  22. Re:Reasons things fail on Lessons From a Decade of IT Failures (ieee.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You neglected "massive government waste who cares it isn't really my money being spent."

  23. Re:There are alternative explanations on Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden · · Score: 1

    It's common for politicians to vote for something knowing it won't pass, because it gets them points without gaining rage from those against it. If it had a real chance of passing, they woulf quickly turn against it.

    Every now and then a bill comes up in the US where many of the co-sponsors of it vote against it because, holy shit, they didn't think it had an actual chance of passing! This is very embarrassing.

    Well, not really. They are politic8ans with no shame.

  24. not enough QA means regressions are common

    Regression testing is borrrrrrrrring! I wanna do the fun happy path stuff!

  25. Re:This needed proving? on Evolution Can Occur Much Faster Than Previously Thought (ox.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of software, the math undergirding the understanding of evolution, exploring the gradient descent space of organism fitness, shows a rapid descent into local minima areas (similar to the dent of the heavy ball in the rubber gridwork in gravity science shows). This would predict the fits and starts as slow changes finally detect another low area and the benefits of more adaptation slide it right in i.e. change at that point is rapid as many small changes polish off the adaptation.

    The angle of the local fitness space is basically the same as the actual real world fitness pressure (survival and reproduction).