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  1. Yea!!!

    Humanity is incapable of designing for wind and we should immediately abandon any attempt.

  2. Allowing their DNS to be poisoned indicates a lack on Hacking Group 'OurMine' Temporarily Redirected WikiLeaks DNS Service (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Allowing their DNS to be poisoned indicates a lack of technical proficiency regardless of whether the breach was their own. There are several easy to implement technologies to prevent this.

  3. Re:YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP on Linux Desktop Market Share Crosses 3% (netmarketshare.com) · · Score: 1

    You are severely overly optimistic. This is probably because you have no real business experience and/or no ability to see beyond your own circumstance. Want to know how?

    Explain how to use CADD design software on a smartphone where the standard use case is TWO 24" or 27" monitors. Or explain how you perform accounting analysis using a spreadsheet with 8000000 rows and 15000 columns on a smartphone. Or how you model or design pretty much anything with a smartphone. Or how you do any graphical design on a smartphone. Or explain how a programmer can reliably program, debug and compile code on a smartphone. Anyone doing any real business outside sales does it on real computers and that's not going to change.

    In the real world most people who aren't sales need real computers with big monitors and keyboards and mice. The smartphone docking concept is a bunch of horseshit that people like you raved over but in actual use turned out to be garbage. It's not going to get there for the same reason you can't design a unified smarthphone/ and desktop interface, they have two completely different usage patterns and human interfaces. Hell the surface line is the best tech in this world and of the tasks above I listed you might be able to do one of them with a surface. Maybe in 20 years your average smartphone will have the computing horsepower to tackle a few of these tasks but it isn't even close. Smartphones are barely capable of rendering modern websites let alone trying to run autocadd or compile software. I expect I'll be long dead before that ever happens, particularly given that we've only got a couple more transister shrinks before we hit physical quantum limits thats likely to halt all advancements in silicon processor manufacturing.

  4. Re:Still the same? on DC Judge Approves Government Warrant For Data From Anti-Trump Website (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because you didn't see the opposition to these breaches of privacy and 4th amendment protections doesn't mean it didn't happen and you're an idiot if you think that.

    This massive breach in privacy is an attempt to sustain prosecutions of hundereds of innocent people that the Police rounded up and charged with Rioting just because they were in the area including journalists. The prosecution angle that Federal justice is taking in this case is that if you were within the vicinity of the protest that involved the destruction of property you are guilty of rioting. Now after arresting and charging these 200 people the Prosecution is fishing for evidence and attempting to convict people for the actions of others simply because they were present.

    This whole case is a vast overreach by the DC police and federal prosecutors. Everyone involved should be fired, particularly the chief of the DC police.

  5. George Washington waged war against the Kingdom of England, not the United States. George Washington is a Traitor of King George. They shouldn't have any monuments to George Washington in the UK because he was a traitor to that Kingdom.

    Unlike of course General Lee, who waged war against the United States on US soil. He's a traitor of the United States.

    Traitors don't deserve statues in the nation they Betrayed.

  6. Re:Be careful of that calculation on Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost all these studies are gamed, it wouldn't be statistical evaluation if the authors aren't gaming the numbers by careful selection of data to eliminate data that doesn't go with the already written conclusion. The recent study on Washington eliminated 40% of minimum wage jobs by failing to count multi-location businesses for exactly this purpose.

    How these studies are prepared is the author writes the conclusion, then goes to find supporting data. This is the antithesis of science where authors try to eliminate their own bias and duplicatable and verifiable results are a requirement. What you get out of these social science studies is what the author wanted, nothing more, nothing less. This is because social science isn't science regardless if it tries to call it such. Economics is the high anti-science of social science where studies involve more voodoo than science.

  7. Equating your local internet company like wordpress removing a site with the government of china and their broad based government censorship is where your entire argument falls apart. That you don't understand that difference is precisely why you are so wrong.

  8. Re: Time to start... on WordPress Bans Fascist Website Linked To Charlottesville Killer (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Forcing other people to carry your message, to provide the property, resources and megaphone you use is anti-free speech. These companies are private companies, responsible to shareholders and with public reputations. Google, Facebook and all the others cannot be required to carry your message. That is the very definition of anti-speech. One of the consequences of free speech is that people aren't going to like it and will react against it, that IS the natural order of free speech, what the gp poster wants is for those social repercussions to be removed, this damages free speech heavily. Our laws specifically prevent ONLY the government from reacting to that speech, not the rest of society. Calls for these types of restrictions are no different than calls by others to limit hate speech.

    You want to buy your own business fiber connection, servers and such or find like minded people that are willing to pool resources to do so then more power to you, currently that is protected because the business internet connection would be protected under common carrier rules. Unfortunately those rules are about to be removed by the party in charge which will allow the communication provider to refuse to provide service because it's a data service and not a phone line.

  9. General Lee waged war against the US. He is the very definition of a traitor.

    Traitors don't deserve statues.

  10. Re:Social responsibility or a PR pre-emptive strik on WordPress Bans Fascist Website Linked To Charlottesville Killer (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    And the original regulations, which prevented this situation, were repealed by the Newt Gingrich Congress with veto proof margins.

    Guess what, the same stupid investments of breaking up mortgages and chopping them up into AAA rated investments have already started up again, and sub-prime lending is back. We'll be lucky if there isn't another collapse in 10 years and the Republicans want to roll back Dodd-Frank the only law requiring that the banks carry enough assets to prevent such a collapse from taking them down.

    Welcome to republican Fiscal management, you take a bunch of tax payer money and give it to rich people to bail them out for the mistakes they made.

  11. Re:Offensive speech is the type that needs protect on Cloudflare is the One Tech Company Still Sticking By Neo-Nazi Websites (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to be protected from government, not from private companies. One of the social consequences of speech is that people won't help you spread it. You're arguing that one of the roles of government should be to force companies to provide the platform and voice to speakers.

    That's wrong.

  12. Re:More complicated that ignorance or "psychology" on Study Finds Vaccine Science Outreach Only Reinforced Myths (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No one makes money on Vaccines. They are subsidized by the government because drug companies can't produce them at a cost high enough to make a profit. Almost every vaccine sold is subsidized by the government. So your argument about profit kinds falls on it's face in such a scenario, after all the drug companies would much prefer to give you a pill to treat the symptoms of the disease than a shot that prevents it.

    Why wouldn't you want to get a vaccine for a disease that could kill you? Even if it is rare in your current age group? I've yet to encounter a vaccine for something that doesn't kill people, and even the ones that rarely kill can often do significant damage even if you survive it. And most of the ones that are rare in the US are rare because people are vaccinated.

  13. Re:Some people *need* to believe. on Study Finds Vaccine Science Outreach Only Reinforced Myths (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem with any complex science is that understanding the mechanism behind it is complex and requires a significant amount of time and learning. It's easier to dismiss the science in these cases, particularly where someone is protected by herd immunity or the global changes in climate are just beginning to be noticeable at a broad level.

    So the vaccine and climate science deniers take the easy path. Until the 10 years of record temperatures (each year sets the record for highest temperature) or a Measles outbreak kills someone they love.

    The problem becomes when that person's denial directly threatens the lives of others. Unlike climate science, Vaccines and herd immunity provide protection for that 3-4% of people who cannot be vaccinated due to severe allergies. When that parent doesn't get their kid vaccinated and their kid is part of a pandemic that takes lives they should be prosecuted for negligent homicide. And yes I absolutely mean it, the people who's family members died in the Disneyland outbreak should be suing every single person that got the virus and wasn't vaccinated. They should take them for every dime they've got. Only when there are real penalties for those who choose to risk everyone else's lives by failing to get vaccines will people take vaccines seriously as a public health initiative.

    You don't want to vaccinate? Go live somewhere where vaccines aren't given. Discover the panacea of living where you can die any time from completely preventable disease.

  14. Re:I can only guess who'll get fired next... on Salesforce Fires Red Team Staffers Who Gave Defcon Talk (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They have these people called locksmiths. Apparently they are really good at picking locks or making keys to get through locks.

    Crazy I know. Much easier to physically break a door down.

  15. Re:Unrealistic expectations on Salesforce Fires Red Team Staffers Who Gave Defcon Talk (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    I think the Executives name should be released so the market and effectively punish a moron.

  16. It's called Alt-Right conservativsim on Wisconsin Won't Break Even On Foxconn Plant Deal For Over Two Decades (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's called Alt-Right Conservativism, you give a ton of Tax Payer money to a foreign company to open a factory, they open the factory for a few years then automate the jobs away and walk away with all the Billions of tax payer money. The tax payers are fucked over and rich people get richer, what's not to like?

  17. Re:Would be nice on Watch Out Ticketmaster: Amazon In Talks To Offer Event Ticketing In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can't think of any company more deserving of being fucked in the ass by Amazon.

  18. Re:180 watts on AMD Ryzen Threadripper Launched: Performance Benchmarks Vs Intel Skylake-X (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    TDP is calculated differently by both companies, it's essentially a worthless metric when comparing between manufacturers because it doesn't give you any real information. Wait for the power consumption tests.

  19. Re:I tried raising my daughter to be an engineer on In Response To Anti-diversity Memo, YouTube CEO Says Sexism in Tech is 'Pervasive' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You cannot separate your daughter from the culture you both live in. From the day she was born she's been bombarded with the stereotypes that she's expected to comply with. Everything your daughter encounters every day conditions her to believe that she should avoid math and sciences. You go along with this, both unconsciously or consciously. Think for a minute, if you had an eleven year old son would you take his career choice at 11 as a statement about any of his capabilities or even a valid predictor of his final occupation? Why are doing it with your daughter?

    Every single time in history people have tried to use genetics or body types or differences between people to predict those people's capabilities they've been wrong and they were using those "findings" as reinforcement to their own bigotry and cultural predilections.

    There is no difference in the capabilities of women and men in intellectual pursuits. If you daughter seeks certain careers you should be asking yourself what part of culture taught her that the other things you've shown her aren't interesting. But above all you should realize that no 11 year old knows anything about what they want to be when they grow up.

  20. Re:Progress of the Arts and Sciences on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They will add advertising, the primary reason Netflix subscribers give for subscribing is the lack of advertising.

  21. Re:Progress of the Arts and Sciences on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is Hulu 2.0.

    Every couple years the distributors try to setup their own streaming company. And every few years said new streaming company goes under because the rights holders make stupid decisions and the streaming doesn't work. Expect it to fail just like all the things before it.

  22. Don't expect much, it's a rework on the same process. Intel has literally stalled out making it to 10nm, they've now redesigned the same cpu on the same process 4 times. The entire Intel advantage of being several process steps ahead of everyone else has evaporated over the course of the last 2 years. Coffee lake will likely be no faster than the generation before it or the 2 more before that.

    They will claim it's 30% faster because it has some new instruction that allows it to perform a single task that much faster, but only if you have the CPU and only if your code supports the instruction. Usually it takes a decade before new instructions a prevalent in software.

  23. Re:The Rainbow Scare on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Baloney that was his point.

  24. Re:The Rainbow Scare on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone having a degree in science doesn't make their opinion worth more than the consensus of all the scientists in the field. There's crackpots in every field, including science and it's not trivial to find said crackpot and give him a megaphone to support your wrong conclusions.

  25. Re:The Rainbow Scare on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 0

    Nothing is offensive? Nothing except for his assumption about the abilities of people being defined by their gender. That's not even scientifically supported let alone without examples within the world right now. He demonstrated inherit sexism without being derogatory, but that doesn't mean it wasn't offensive.

    How would you feel if someone told you that you couldn't do something like programming because of your gender? That men are not as good at math as women and as a result their employment in math related professions should be discouraged.