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  1. Re:Slashdot - BigPharma Front Operation on 'It Took 10 Seconds For Instagram To Push Me Into an Anti-Vaxx Rabbit Hole' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The RESEARCH on your own means listening to other talking heads with their own financial interests, like books and web sites, in hopes you will put your child at risk so they can earn about the same money from you as evil BIG PHARMA.

  2. What if they asked you if you wanted a cherry red car because that morning you watched a porn video with a cherry red car in it?

  3. Re:Well, all the platforms are quick to do that. on 'It Took 10 Seconds For Instagram To Push Me Into an Anti-Vaxx Rabbit Hole' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "I didn't like this video" doesn't necessarily mean you don't want to see similar ones.

    "I watched this video because I want to keep track of enemies" does not mean "heave me into the same tracking bag as them with 'probably similar thoughts and proclivities' ".

  4. Well, who cares if government has more and more and more access to your "papers" as long as political factions aren't using it in violation of the 4th and 5th amendment to harm their political opponen...OH FUCK

  5. Re:The computer in Rollerball deserves mention on How Science Fiction Imagines Data Storage (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Fahrenheit 451

  6. Re:Minority Report on How Science Fiction Imagines Data Storage (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Tons of security to stop some yokel from off the street from using it. Very little security to stop those in power from misusing it.

    Very realistic.

  7. Re:garbage on How Science Fiction Imagines Data Storage (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    I blame insensate modern programmers who severed progress indicators from actual measurement of progress. So seeing a spinning wheel or emptying trash or constantly refilling bar leaves you guessing as to whether the process has actually stalled, which was why progress indicators were created in the first place.

  8. Re:Mommy lied to you on How Science Fiction Imagines Data Storage (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a note from the future of about 80 years from now. It read:

    "Can you believe those idiots long ago, who hated landfills? What a boon of resources they are for us to open and sort with our robots!"

  9. Re:Those who forget the past... on How Science Fiction Imagines Data Storage (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it won't be a slow, bumpy ride to the bottom unless government gets out of control.

    If anything, with more economic freedom in China, progress should accellerate even further.

    The counter-intuitive result of Simon's observations is that, given economic freedom, people solve problems faster than they become serious problems.

    Calm thy heart about the future, even with AGW.

  10. Re:The Colors of Space on How Science Fiction Imagines Data Storage (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    ...which was mentioned in passing in the article.

  11. Re:The Colors of Space on How Science Fiction Imagines Data Storage (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    If you mean inscribed on the wire, that's the same as the Outer Limits episode "Demon With a Glass Hand" by Harlan Ellison. They had encoded data on a wire, then wrapped it for use as a solenoid, presumably to hide it from his pursuers.

  12. Re:Rollerball bubble memory on How Science Fiction Imagines Data Storage (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    See the vid. It was a "memory pool", and the bubbles rising indicated increased thinking -- whatever a memory pool is, the thinking is the bubbles rising through the memory pool.

    The red was overheating, but clearly from the increased bubbling of increased thinking.

    No, none of that makes any sense. It is Hollywood.

  13. You guys buy their stupid shit. Is there no 3rd person repair center?

  14. Re:Feel sorry for hotweels on 8chan Criticized By Its Founder, Blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    But lets be real, 8chan was founded because 4chan wasn't "free" enough.
    I mean the only things banned on 4chan are doxing, specific threats and CP, so what exactly do you expect 8chan to attract?

    Two of those three are actually illegal. Doxxing, as long as you didn't participate in illegal activity to get the info, is not, though lousy behavior.

    So...doxxing?

  15. Re:When they tore down the wall... on 8chan Criticized By Its Founder, Blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    New Zealand just demonstrated that they have no 2nd Amendment and no 1st Amendment...in the same week.

    Don't worry, folks. Just because we have no historical proof an unrestricted legislative system can survive "emergency legislation" to restrict freedom in the long run doesn't mean we shouldn't try it yet again.

  16. Re:community expectations on 8chan Criticized By Its Founder, Blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    The creator of Photo DNA was on NPR bitching that facebook was lying when they said they couldn't automatically delete 300,000 of the 15 million shooting videos.

    This is what kneeling to those in power who want you to censor will get you -- good will, until you aren't useful anymore.

  17. Speaking out against Israel in an attempt to get them to change their ways is protected speech.

    Boycotting them is, by definition, going beyond speech in an attempt to do economic harm, to get them to change their ways. You might have an argument about freedom of association, but that is regulatable in the business realm to prevent discrimination. Women, minorities, or country of origin, these are all constitutionally acceptable reasons to ban business discrimination.

    These laws prevent businesses from discriminating over many things.

  18. Re:Here's what they're collecting on The Majority of Scooters in LA Are Going To Share Your Location With the City (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Btw because I posted the words Pampers and Depends, I can expect to see advertising for them on other web sites later today. Or even right now already.

  19. Re:Here's what they're collecting on The Majority of Scooters in LA Are Going To Share Your Location With the City (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually you aren't. Government tracking is misused in dictatorships to help those in power stay in power.

    Corporate tracking (beyond what is needed to make the system optimal) has two prongs:

    1. Selling targeted advertising
    2. Government getting access without a warrant

    The former is small potatoes compared to the latter. Google and Amazon are only interested in whether you are more interested in Pampers or Depends.

  20. Re:Got a few networked Fusion Centers waiting? on The Majority of Scooters in LA Are Going To Share Your Location With the City (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Posts like the gp seem to be AI bot experiments on responding.

    So the real question is how does the training feedback handle post responses? Mod level can work as reward or punishment, and so can number of replies...

    Oh shit, I'm helping it out.

  21. Re:This could make possible a new type of virus on Microsoft Boots Up the First 'DNA Drive' For Storing Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Kinda like the ending of Beetlejuice?

    As with ghosts, billions of entertainment dollars waiting to be picked up.

  22. Re: DNA viruses do exist on Microsoft Boots Up the First 'DNA Drive' For Storing Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    Then your computer becomes autistic.

    DNA or memes, it is inevitable.

  23. Re:This could make possible a new type of virus on Microsoft Boots Up the First 'DNA Drive' For Storing Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Reality of viruses and cellular fights against them is way deeper and more vicious than realized. Go listen to the Radiolab episode on CRISPR.

  24. Re:P-hacking on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It would be nice to see how accurate .005 is with longitudinal studies of papers and their ultimate truthiness down the road.

    Like weather predictions of 30% chance of rain at 2 pm, did it actually rain 30% of the time?

  25. Re: Subsidized drugging? on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So the deciding point is not a perfect situation, but rather a less sub-optimal one.

    Got it.

    Vaping should thus be legal.

    Hmmmm. Maybe it's all about the asinine memes that take hold in an us vs. them manner.