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  1. Why should he present that info to you? on Climate Change Will Stir 'Unimaginable' Refugee Crisis, Says Military (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    All what he said was cited and cited over and over and over. Just go to real climate science FFS. But you guy keep repeating the same lie, and every time ask for the thankless job of citation. Just to ignore it again in the next story. Personally I stopped caring. I am old enough that the effect will be minimal on my life, and I have no children. So I egoistically don't care anymore. Go ahead continue pumping CO2 in the atmosphere, and go ahead continue ignoring the very fucking simple science about the greenhouse effect (heck that effect was long known, but apparentely for idiot like you climate change denier , having a higher CO2 ppm in the atmosphere does not warm it, go figure). I'll be long dead when the worst effect will start to be felt. And go all fuck yourself *bows*.

  2. probably not sympathy on Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Something in the use of "riot robot" suggest me it is a plain lack of empathy, and most probably a utter failure to see that it could happen to him too.

  3. That was not fake news again on Reuters Built An Algorithm That Can Identify Real News On Twitter (popsci.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fake news are hoax news made especially to lie to people. The rolling stone stories was not fake news it was somebody which lied about being raped. That is not the same thing. Again, if I pretend I was raped by a NFL quarterback, and give an interview to CNN, it isn't fake news, because they do the interview in good faith. That is the hinging point : the publisher publish in good faith - at worst you can say they are a crap journal because they did not check properly. But if CNN start publishing a news that republican have a special club where they fiddle kiddies, and manage to get it spread, while fully knowing it is wrong, it is fake news.

  4. There is only a small subset of people angry at this : the small subset of US folk which either see any censorship as extremely bad no matter which, and those from the right which had belief in pizzagate (my god I read what they consider evidence , and I think those folk are insane). The rest of the world ? Don't care will continue using reddit.

  5. Private property on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "If you don't agree you can go fuck yourself you stupid cunt." fuck off twitter private property if you don't want to respect their rules. Personally I see nothing lost, but I support 100& their right to censor everything they want. For years I have stated the danger of censorship was not anymore government in the west, but private company which overtake all communication channel and thus can censor far more effectively, without repercussion. I was pretty much ignored by everybody I know because their media cherie could do no wrong. Now I get to tell you all fuck off , and I told you so.

  6. Wealth had nothing to do with constituton on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The wealth of the USA came to be because 1) mostly they got free land for no cost with load and load of resources which were unexploited 2) they were isolated, so some stuff like world war, impacted the US far less than other country on which invasion and bombing was done (and thus needed reconstruction).

    Both those factors are what led to the US enormous wealth. Other countries, neither had those opportunities of resource, nor were spared by the war of 1870Ies, 1910ies, 1930ies.

  7. interresting very informative on Deutsche Telekom Says 900,000 Fixed-Line Customers Suffer Outages (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I was not aware of the product warning (well I did not leave it as default password, and i have one very long complicated alphanumeric one so i guess i am safer). Still the firmware update solved my problem... or was it unrelated and happenned at the same instant ? No idea but now it works. Thanks for the tip.

  8. Only their DNS was down on Deutsche Telekom Says 900,000 Fixed-Line Customers Suffer Outages (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    For the average customer it means no internet. Me I simply replaced the dns by 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 temporarily (I'll go back to their dns afterward).

  9. That is not fake news on Crowdsourced Volunteers Search For Solutions To Fake News (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Fake news is announcing intentionally something which never happened with the intent of hoaxing the reader. Do you confuse bad-quality-news which do not go for your narrative, with fake news. Fake news would be that the policeman killing brown was a KKK honcho for the region. That's fake with the intention of hoaxing the person.

  10. They lie on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    " Supporters however say rigid regulatory obligations protect incumbents and hinder the entry of digital startups which offer looser work arrangements to workers". I can't speak for all countries, but the requirement to be a taxi driver in germany is : 1) have a commercial insurance on the car 2) pass a governemental driving license exam 3) have "measured" counter for range counting to make sure the client is not ripped off 4) agree to have a minimum number of taxi at train station for people to easily get one and rule making so you can't refuse a course based on distance. Nothing in that protect incubent and hinder digital startup. They jsut do not want to respect the law because it cost money, whereas taking any joe blow from the street and pushing all risk on the client and driver cost nothing. They just want to cream up the thing without the cost.

  11. Historical Photography, glaciology, satellite on Finland Set To Become First Country To Ban Coal Use For Energy (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    All those 3 above shows that many mountain glacier were historically bigger, and the sea ice estimate on north poll dropped in surface and volume. But as denier want to deny, I am sure you will hand wave those.

  12. Are you naive ? on Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For all practical intent and purpose, all BBS and reddit like can be edtable by default. in fact you have to spend money to add security , encryption, and ensure non editability. Unless it is a selling point, you should always assume that everything is editable to match whatever goals political or not.

  13. Most plug allow both in and out on Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    At least for the cards I have had for the last 10 years you have a color for the plug and you can choose *at the moment* you plug in if it should act as headphone, as microphone, it is not set as "in" or "out" you can even switch them around and it sitll work properly. If the driver can chose, then the driver can be misused to switch around and amde believe headphone/loudpseaker are (poor) microphone

  14. But he is right on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I will explain you why. Most right wing party are what we call "conservative". Which means a tendency to not change the status quo, to ark back to position which static , "what was done before is good enough" etc... It is only a tendency so look at the average. By nature conservative stay on the habitual position we had. The problem is, science and the new technology we have had for the last 100 years and especially 20-30 years are disruptive. New knowledge is disruptive of the habits of the old one. For example science discovered that spanking is contra productive. Science pointed out at global warning. The problem is that that "new" fact , is disruptive of "old" fact. So they go AGAINST the current for conservative. That is why even it is said in jest, science and new stuff , as disruptive of old stuff as they are, have an anti-conservative bias by nature. New discovery by necessity disrupt old habits/old knowledge, and so by definition will be anti conservative. Some people say "liberal" bias but I would say "disruptive" as politically neutral, as some of the cow of "liberals" (I hate those term) are also slaughtered by disruptive new findings.

    So yes, even if said in jest, there is a base of truth in it.

  15. Those not learning from history.... on Study: Most Students Can't Spot Fake News (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are confusing propaganda with news. Trump saying something on twitter isn't news. Somebody posting an article on facebook isn't news. You have to have a vetting process, and a check/verification process, be it at the editor, but more rpeferably at the reading end too. And no matter what side of the political process you, both Democrate and republican are faulty of using hoax stories, let us call them by what they really are. You take trump as example, but even he fell down the trap with that so called "jihadist" video which was an hoax.

    During the hayday of journalism , say 1940 to 1970-80ish , this vetting and verification process was understood, and serious journalism rose above the yellow press. But starting 1980ies and strongly 1990ies, it declined because people are pretty damn cheap. So vetting and serious investigation dropped, dropped and dropped until the cost are so much cut that every damn idiot copy/paste one source be it a AFP , Reuter or a 3rd party rag, check it, they even don't bother changing the wording. Heck now people are considering the shit out of facebook news. It isn't. They are just stories, as likelies to be hoax, taken out of context, or even news, without vetting or fact checking you can't tell. Since there is no vetting process on either side (writing/reading), no double check , those hoax get spread. heck scam too. Steorn. Rossi eCat. And so forth. How often I tried to get people to spot the warning sign ? And get ignored because I am a "liberal" or a "rightwingnut" (depending on the slant of the story I try to point out has problem) or even a "close minded scientist" ?

    And frankly, I have been saying for years it is a problem, albeit in skeptical forums, not here. The problem is that critical thinking is a skill one need to learn because it is pretty damn easy to fall into one's bias as long as they go the way one politically think. Nobody Is teaching critical thinking. So for years we have been seeing hoaxes rise as stories and being handled seriously. Heck among skeptic group, what do you think we try to fight for ? Critical thinking is THE skill everybody should be getting. And yet again I predict that this will fall by the byside , being seen as propaganda from butthurt people.

    The only point where you are right, is that a lot of media are butthurt now and see that as a problem. But that does not mean the problem is not real. It is real, and I have seen the rise of hoax and scam being treated very seriously , far more than previously in spite of fact checking being so easy nowadays.

  16. Yes deeply ashamed on Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    But that's because I learned a lot in the last 12 month going from Fortran 77 to Java. That process is called "learning".

  17. Undoing my mods to respond you on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not coordianted propaganda unfortunately, that would mean ti would be at least a semi coordinated cleverness or whatnot. The very sad reality it is general cheapness and general lazyness together which lead to the situation. Many medium and small publication just simply copy verbatim press releases or even primary sources and don't bother to do any research. Heck sometime even major media do it too. Don't believe me ? Look for snippet of media which have a special wording not often used, or pieces of news. For example recently there was the news of that guy which had Daa3sh as his wifi SSID. Well guess what ? The news was reported verbatim without verification, word for word, as it was in the original article. NO thinking. No research. Not even paraphrasing. It was verbatim copy all over.

    Coordianted propaganda my ass. It is just plain uncoordinated cheapness and uncoordianted lazyness.

  18. "does not come at men's expense" on Dutch Science Academy Plans A Women-Only Election (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mathematically incorrect. A plan which foresee a woman only election, if the number of member is maintained constant, can only be at the expense of the men's number. Now the obvious goal is to put more women, whether one find that good or bad is up to one's ethic and socio political feeling. But to say it won't come at men's expense is a lie. If men are excluded no matter their capacities because forcefully the number of women is increased by artificially having women's election, then you are doing at their expense. Again I am not judging whether it is right or not to do that, just that the it will come at the expense of men which would have been elected otherwise.

    The problem I have with all that is simple , I think this is the wrong approach. What we should strive for , is equality of opportunity, not equality out of outcome. Equality out of outcome is artificial and forcefully place people with lesser capacities, take the place of people of better capacity , to have a certain goal non related to their work capacity. E.g. you want a 50/50 women/men no matter how good people are, you will most probably forgoe better hire just to have a quota filled. What we should strive for is an equality of opportunity, e.g. striving to make sure your gender or race do not matter, what is your work quality should. That is an equality of opportunity. Equality of outcome are never good, they have by definition enforce a sexist selection, to get that outcome.

  19. Not entirely true on France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    While I am for Nuclear and keep pointing out to people that the coal industry is allowed to emit more radioactive material in the atmosphere than nuclear industry, it is worth to point out that they usually try to catch as much fly ash as possible. This is not 1850 anymore where there was no filter, nowadays in most country the fly ash is caught (and reused as building material , e.g. for road IIRC) and there are filter for sulfure among others.

  20. There isd a simpler explanation on 2016 Will Be the Hottest Year On Record, UN Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Year of lies and propaganda by the GOP and the denialist finally hit the mark : people really DO think AGW is an hoax. Repeat a lie often enough and some people will start believe it. After all there is quite an incredible number of holocaist denialist, moon landing denialist and 9/11 "truther". It should not surprise you that there is now a lot of people which believe AGW is an hoax.

  21. Difficult to say possibly only vendor knows on Samsung Galaxy J5 Catches Fire and Explodes in France, Says AP (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    All I can say is that it isn't difficult to find article about iphone fire either : e.g. https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32...

  22. Pretty sure this would against EU privacy law on Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers (ghacks.net) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am 100% certain that they would only be able to collect only crash data from EU citizen, as anything else, including usage or even something as simple as the percentage of pink pixel would break privacy laws and the right of correction.

  23. They are (were) more perfect on Scientists at De Beers Fight the Growing Threat of Man-Made Diamonds (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    When i left a research lab making diamond 20 years ago, man men diamond were *better* than the natural one : they were perfect and more or less in which ever shape you wanted (want a Donald duck shaped diamond?). In fact the advance of the industry was to add imperfection to make them look more like natural one, so that they have them same light play as natural one. De Beer can't die soon enough for me.

  24. Because of logic on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    YOu either discard both his statement or take both his statement to heart. Choosing and picking which one you want to hear, is partisan politic at its worst : it means you are paying attention to only what fit your worldview/echo chamber and discard what rocks your boat. Note that it works both way : those who wanted to ignore comey last week and take him seriously today (probably pro Hilary) are as guilty as those who wanted to take comey seriously last week and not seriously today (probably pro trump).

    Anyway, if you are taking comey seriously all the way, or discarding him all the way , the same conclusion come : the email re-review is not relevant.

  25. That is because of VAC anti cheat I guess on Windows 10's Store Locks 'Call of Duty' Purchasers Into Windows-10-Only Battles (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Steam has it , windows 10 store does not (or refused it).