MacOS has very little malware or viruses because only the rubes buy anti-virus software.
The market for malware is driven by a large network of freelancers who find viruses and malware and give the profiles to the anti-virus companies. And how best to get it first? Make the damn virus.
I have no real proof of this, but it can't really be disproved either. And the market incentive is strong to NOT run out of virus and malware threats.
By bundling virus solutions with their OS, Microsoft put a good dent in viruses. Now the big growth area is malware.
In regards to the US citizen and any action by the US government -- the Constitution applies everywhere.
But when the Bush administration came up with the weasel word; "Enemy non-combatant" to get around military code and Geneva Conventions by placing rights in a no-man's land.
So that's not to say that rights will stop it, just to point out that they will re-interpet the rules and ignore the spirit of it. Fourth amendment DOES apply at the border. Unless the Mexican government is doing it to you, in which case the US government SHOULD intervene.
The tiny threat of terrorism is just an excuse now and pales to the threat of our government security state. If they were any good at this, we wouldn't have elected a Russian agent.
I'd read somewhere that the Eastern Seabord was a few meters lower than other areas and North America due to prevalent trade winds.
If the trade winds suddenly stop or reverse course, that's going to, in the short term, have a more meaningful effect than just an increase of melt water.
Well, the simple wrinkle is that we don't know how much time the super-universe takes. Any computation could take a nano-second or a billion years and we would recognize that as the smallest division of time.
If the simulation means that a bus running into you ends your life - it doesn't matter if it's not real.
I think it's flawed logic to assume that the lowest energy state in a universes so fluid and in motion would be absolute stillness.
Perhaps it's oscillations due to the quantum foam, or space/time itself moves, and thus a lower energy particle would vibrate at some frequency rather than not.
Clearly the rising wages, the accelerating GDP and business optimism in 2017 will be the result of the Donald.
I know this just as much as I know that in 2018 the budget shortfalls, the eco disasters, the alienated allies and the failing economy will be the fault of Obama
I'm going to have to read Breitbart or Infowars to learn about all these Soros plans. Me and all my other Liberal comrades don't have a clue what are diabolical plans are. I'm afraid to admit I don't even know what Soros looks like.
Replace the term "Country" with "Trump" everywhere it appears. They aren't destroying the country by leaking, they are affecting the POTUS -- in no way are those the same thing.
Now, if they think that the POTUS is a huge security risk, they might actually be acting on conscience rather than just "having a beef" with the administration.
The current behavior has turned them into enemies of the Democratic party.
Do you feel the same about the Tea Party? I'm not a fan of them, but I admire their conviction and willingness to stand up and be heard.
What I like here, is that Democrats are finally realizing that they are liberals and that they have to fight for their principles. Maybe people are shocked and expect Democrats to sit back and sip tea and crumpets, rather than getting dirty in the trenches.
Leaks at the NSA might not be lawful, but not everything right is legal. The POTUS seems to have no problem pushing the envelope -- but we have Jeff Sessions to make sure he behaves.
Nothing is going to happen to Trump, because the Republicans have the power but lack the ethics. It doesn't matter what is leaked and foreign adversaries can just buy all our sensitive data from contractors (as was exposed on Wikileaks). So you needn't worry.
I started on Slashdot many years go, back when I was making $100,000 a year and my IQ was 165. Now I make less and have started blogging on Reddit. Junk food and the stress of poverty have reduced me to taking fashion tips from Paula Dean, and cooking from Honey Boo Boo's mom.
By leaving Slashdot, I suppose I've lowered the quality on both websites. Until I make more money, I should probably stay away.
I could think of a number of mechanical means to destroy a chip; a Poseidon vise, cables that you wind until they tighten, perhaps creating the substrate on a chip that has a layered meta-material that expands at different rates when a current is applied, forcing the chip to shatter as it curved.
I don't get how this is about "the left". Harassment is wrong. But someone may have created their own attacks. What one person does, isn't representative of any group. And 11 links to the same reddit thread -- I thought this was slashdot; "news for Nerds" remember? Besides, It's redundant. I have to say; "I don't give a shit" 11 times.
And as for Progressives and the Left -- I concede the culture wars. Have your pyrrhic victories but brush your teeth before bed because marshmallows cause cavities.
Hoover did implement tariffs and some protections -- but they were too late to steer the economy. It's not an all and or all good thing with tariffs -- it's more like the brakes on your car -- none is bad, too much and you can't go anywhere.
Stock speculations on land derivatives was listed as the main cause. Public works projects and infrastructure projects really helped pull us out. The war did cause lag (no, it did NOT help the economy. blowig up bridges does not trump building them).
Besides, trade was only about 5% of the economy at the time. Tariffs or none wouldn't have made a difference.
Oil, Gas and Coal have substantial infrastructure to support them, and the subsidies for alternative are hit and miss. Regardless, alternative energy is growing.
However, California or the United States being the premiere provider of alternative energy is going to depend a lot on Washington for trade policies and/or subsidies. We lost a great chance to be number one on climate and alternative energies during the Bush administration -- at least Obama didn't get in the way.
Bankrupting Texas' dirty energy and not whining sounds like a good plan.
Nobody intends to stop "faminazis" from exercising their First Amendment rights. We are just pointing out, their rants are wrong.
It's so big of you to allow them to have the first amendment. I wouldn't -- probably because I've got doubts about my penis.
To back a man up; you are wrong feminazis, WRONG! Someone needs to repeat it while a feminazi is debating or something. Who is a feminazi? Is it merely a woman who is saying something we disagree with -- sure. But picture Rosie O'Donnel. Or some other opinionated lesbian that plays softball.
I'm a man. A man's man. What is that? Picture Chuck Norris, or Donald Rump in a suite. or Nick Offerman when he's in character -- Cool, right?
We shouldn't let the first warning of the Feminazi blitz kreig be the burning of Rush Limbaugh's shorts -- then it would be too late. Let them have 1st amendment rights? As long as they don't take our 2nd amendment rights. Guns deserve freedom./sarcasm
Need some context here. Don't know about the college professor, but Donald Rump is a womanizer and serial groper. When someone like that says; "pregnancy is an inconvenience for employers" -- a statement I can actually agree with. There's a lot more subtext.
The "and so we should forget about paid maternal leave" is the subtext. THAT is what people are criticizing him about.
If we waited for the Alt-Right to be honest, we'd have Kellyanne Conway explaining how that flat hand raised at an angle in the air is not a "siege heil meine fuhrer" solute.
In context, I'm not sure where Mussolini would stand on paid maternal leave or if it would change my feelings about him.
Only if ghost cities count as economic growth. They planned them well and then filled them with many thousands of potential ghosts.
It's all bullshit. Outside of some tech companies that are actual capitalist successes, it's all the world's biggest bubble. You have to add the restaurants that feed over a billion people -- that's something.
Consumers know what they want and need better than any central planner. Thus is ever was, and thus it shall ever be. I remember the Pet Rock. I remember Truck Nuts. Oxycontin seems to sell pretty well. Also, people buy software that everyone else uses -- not so much based on quality or trying it out.
I'm not sure if you are promoting Democracy or Capitalism. I do know that China has grown by using the opposite approach of recommendations by people in the US who promote Globalization. They have tariffs, protectionism of industries, public work projects and a command economy. Not that I'm promoting all of that -- just that this "markets are smart" notion is demonstrably nonsense.
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So 90 of the 5,067 were outlier-like data and this is concluding results on these outliers.
I knew that publish or perish was ruining science, but this is actually the most heartening news I've heard of its credibility.
I've learned that less than 1.8% of these studies used non-extreme crazy data. My faith in science is restored!
MacOS has very little malware or viruses because only the rubes buy anti-virus software.
The market for malware is driven by a large network of freelancers who find viruses and malware and give the profiles to the anti-virus companies. And how best to get it first? Make the damn virus.
I have no real proof of this, but it can't really be disproved either. And the market incentive is strong to NOT run out of virus and malware threats.
By bundling virus solutions with their OS, Microsoft put a good dent in viruses. Now the big growth area is malware.
In regards to the US citizen and any action by the US government -- the Constitution applies everywhere.
But when the Bush administration came up with the weasel word; "Enemy non-combatant" to get around military code and Geneva Conventions by placing rights in a no-man's land.
So that's not to say that rights will stop it, just to point out that they will re-interpet the rules and ignore the spirit of it. Fourth amendment DOES apply at the border. Unless the Mexican government is doing it to you, in which case the US government SHOULD intervene.
The tiny threat of terrorism is just an excuse now and pales to the threat of our government security state. If they were any good at this, we wouldn't have elected a Russian agent.
I'd read somewhere that the Eastern Seabord was a few meters lower than other areas and North America due to prevalent trade winds.
If the trade winds suddenly stop or reverse course, that's going to, in the short term, have a more meaningful effect than just an increase of melt water.
Well, the simple wrinkle is that we don't know how much time the super-universe takes. Any computation could take a nano-second or a billion years and we would recognize that as the smallest division of time.
If the simulation means that a bus running into you ends your life - it doesn't matter if it's not real.
I think it's flawed logic to assume that the lowest energy state in a universes so fluid and in motion would be absolute stillness.
Perhaps it's oscillations due to the quantum foam, or space/time itself moves, and thus a lower energy particle would vibrate at some frequency rather than not.
Clearly the rising wages, the accelerating GDP and business optimism in 2017 will be the result of the Donald.
I know this just as much as I know that in 2018 the budget shortfalls, the eco disasters, the alienated allies and the failing economy will be the fault of Obama
I'm going to have to read Breitbart or Infowars to learn about all these Soros plans. Me and all my other Liberal comrades don't have a clue what are diabolical plans are. I'm afraid to admit I don't even know what Soros looks like.
I should google him, since I'm doing his bidding.
Replace the term "Country" with "Trump" everywhere it appears. They aren't destroying the country by leaking, they are affecting the POTUS -- in no way are those the same thing.
Now, if they think that the POTUS is a huge security risk, they might actually be acting on conscience rather than just "having a beef" with the administration.
The current behavior has turned them into enemies of the Democratic party.
Do you feel the same about the Tea Party? I'm not a fan of them, but I admire their conviction and willingness to stand up and be heard.
What I like here, is that Democrats are finally realizing that they are liberals and that they have to fight for their principles. Maybe people are shocked and expect Democrats to sit back and sip tea and crumpets, rather than getting dirty in the trenches.
Leaks at the NSA might not be lawful, but not everything right is legal. The POTUS seems to have no problem pushing the envelope -- but we have Jeff Sessions to make sure he behaves.
Nothing is going to happen to Trump, because the Republicans have the power but lack the ethics. It doesn't matter what is leaked and foreign adversaries can just buy all our sensitive data from contractors (as was exposed on Wikileaks). So you needn't worry.
You used 466 Characters. You probably could have used just two sentences and slipped under the quota.
I started on Slashdot many years go, back when I was making $100,000 a year and my IQ was 165. Now I make less and have started blogging on Reddit. Junk food and the stress of poverty have reduced me to taking fashion tips from Paula Dean, and cooking from Honey Boo Boo's mom.
By leaving Slashdot, I suppose I've lowered the quality on both websites. Until I make more money, I should probably stay away.
My sincerest apologies
That Guy
I could think of a number of mechanical means to destroy a chip; a Poseidon vise, cables that you wind until they tighten, perhaps creating the substrate on a chip that has a layered meta-material that expands at different rates when a current is applied, forcing the chip to shatter as it curved.
This is Slashdot, nothing is impossible.
Do you think they wanted to create a 10-year backlog on reviewing potential immigrant social media accounts on purpose?
I mean, how many people are they going to hire to speak Yemeni or Syrian or what-not to read thousands of blog posts?
We already have good vetting, but this is deep, deep, penetrating vetting. Like a good relationship.
Sadly, most applicants pets will die of old age before the vetting finishes; "Is this your cat! Where is your cat? Where?!"
It's better to agree by using a 2nd social medial handle that shows how super happy you are about Trump-America yeah!
We want only the best deceptive people to come to America.
Well it does kind of work in a way, every business that has a few jobs to keep in USA will show up at his door; "See, this is for you!"
It will create the impression that his influence is working. The number of jobs be damned.
But 2017 will of course be an economic boom year, and we can thank Trump for that.
2018 however, the economy will tank, and we can blame Obama for that.
All successes in jobs in this country will be hailed as due to fear of tweet.
All jobs that move offshore will be 'pfft' -- stink jobs, that leave bad taste in my mouth.
It is best if you read this message as if Russian politburo babushka who has seen it all and is no longer impressed.
I don't get how this is about "the left". Harassment is wrong. But someone may have created their own attacks. What one person does, isn't representative of any group. And 11 links to the same reddit thread -- I thought this was slashdot; "news for Nerds" remember? Besides, It's redundant. I have to say; "I don't give a shit" 11 times.
And as for Progressives and the Left -- I concede the culture wars. Have your pyrrhic victories but brush your teeth before bed because marshmallows cause cavities.
Hoover did implement tariffs and some protections -- but they were too late to steer the economy. It's not an all and or all good thing with tariffs -- it's more like the brakes on your car -- none is bad, too much and you can't go anywhere.
Stock speculations on land derivatives was listed as the main cause. Public works projects and infrastructure projects really helped pull us out. The war did cause lag (no, it did NOT help the economy. blowig up bridges does not trump building them).
Besides, trade was only about 5% of the economy at the time. Tariffs or none wouldn't have made a difference.
Only Apple doesn't force updates unless you select that option. The same with iOS.
I've even made Flash updates manual only.
Amazing. You'd think asking users to update was standard behavior.
We had the Paris Climate Conference; http://ec.europa.eu/clima/poli...
Oil, Gas and Coal have substantial infrastructure to support them, and the subsidies for alternative are hit and miss. Regardless, alternative energy is growing.
However, California or the United States being the premiere provider of alternative energy is going to depend a lot on Washington for trade policies and/or subsidies. We lost a great chance to be number one on climate and alternative energies during the Bush administration -- at least Obama didn't get in the way.
Bankrupting Texas' dirty energy and not whining sounds like a good plan.
Nobody intends to stop "faminazis" from exercising their First Amendment rights. We are just pointing out, their rants are wrong.
It's so big of you to allow them to have the first amendment. I wouldn't -- probably because I've got doubts about my penis.
To back a man up; you are wrong feminazis, WRONG! Someone needs to repeat it while a feminazi is debating or something. Who is a feminazi? Is it merely a woman who is saying something we disagree with -- sure. But picture Rosie O'Donnel. Or some other opinionated lesbian that plays softball.
I'm a man. A man's man. What is that? Picture Chuck Norris, or Donald Rump in a suite. or Nick Offerman when he's in character -- Cool, right?
We shouldn't let the first warning of the Feminazi blitz kreig be the burning of Rush Limbaugh's shorts -- then it would be too late. Let them have 1st amendment rights? As long as they don't take our 2nd amendment rights. Guns deserve freedom. /sarcasm
Need some context here. Don't know about the college professor, but Donald Rump is a womanizer and serial groper. When someone like that says; "pregnancy is an inconvenience for employers" -- a statement I can actually agree with. There's a lot more subtext.
The "and so we should forget about paid maternal leave" is the subtext. THAT is what people are criticizing him about.
If we waited for the Alt-Right to be honest, we'd have Kellyanne Conway explaining how that flat hand raised at an angle in the air is not a "siege heil meine fuhrer" solute.
In context, I'm not sure where Mussolini would stand on paid maternal leave or if it would change my feelings about him.
Henceforth, I want to racially identify myself as "off-white" to allow others to separate me from the "alt-right."
Power to the beige people!
Only if ghost cities count as economic growth.
They planned them well and then filled them with many thousands of potential ghosts.
It's all bullshit. Outside of some tech companies that are actual capitalist successes, it's all the world's biggest bubble.
You have to add the restaurants that feed over a billion people -- that's something.
Consumers know what they want and need better than any central planner. Thus is ever was, and thus it shall ever be.
I remember the Pet Rock. I remember Truck Nuts. Oxycontin seems to sell pretty well. Also, people buy software that everyone else uses -- not so much based on quality or trying it out.
I'm not sure if you are promoting Democracy or Capitalism. I do know that China has grown by using the opposite approach of recommendations by people in the US who promote Globalization. They have tariffs, protectionism of industries, public work projects and a command economy. Not that I'm promoting all of that -- just that this "markets are smart" notion is demonstrably nonsense.
It's true that US authoritarianism isn't as bad as China -- but it's not for lack of trying.