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  1. This is a mostly US plateform everybody will jump on the gun and accuse EU of authoritarianism, dictature, compare to china and north korea. This is the standard fare here, look at past article.

  2. We never had anything blasting into space on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Our initial signals were mostly omnidirectional , so what we blasted went into 1/r^2 in intensity. Needless to say it did not go beyond a few dozen au before being lower in intensity than random galatic/solar noise in the same frequence. If you were on alpha centauri 4 light years away you would not detect us with a SETI programs. All those "alien caught our tv signal and found us" stories/films are bullshit. The truth is that SETI can only detect intentional signal. And how many such intentional signal have we made ? If I recall correctly at most in the last 40 years about 2 hours directed at M2 or M10 of directional highly powered radio signal. that's it. And that is the only signal somebody elsewhere could detect (and it was highly directional).

    "How many years have we been detectable by other races" : Not year, not month, not days : we have sent detectable signal for a few hours about.. The fermi paradox is more that we cannot detect anything but there is a solution to that paradox : we cannot detect anything because it is frigging hard to detect signals or send some. And nobody bothers sending "I am here" due to the cost and the very low probability of getting any answer.

  3. Ocean has additional challenge on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    In atmosphere you can generate easily exothermic reactions and thus have tools. In ocean you cannot easily maybe some rare hot vent but even those do not go very high in temperature, and without protection I am guessing such a specie would find the contact very painful. So you have a problem of kickstarting the tools. That's why ocean intelligent specie getting out are more like idea ->????->profit : it waves over some intractable problems. In any likelyhood such a specie would have to evolve amphibian or into an oxydant atmosphere (be it oxygen or something else) before even starting with tools.

  4. The car do not phone home to transmit that data to Tesla. It is only saved locally in the car and looked at only in case of accident.

  5. 50-60 years ago on BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
    He was a FORMER member of KK and profusely apologized for it. Read your own link !

    It's also true that Robert Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and helped establish the hate group's chapter in Sophia, West Virginia. However, in 1952 Byrd avowed that "After about a year, I became disinterested [in the KKK], quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization," and throughout his long political career (he served for 57 years in the United States Congress) he repeatedly apologized for his involvement with the KKK

    Only people which are extreme right wing and disinterested into fact would use that photo and "kiss" against Clinton or Byrd. I am sorry but everybody makes error while young, and since he apologized along his long carrier of 50+year , I am seeing painting him as having KKK tie as either chicaneries or plain old lies. Either way it does not paint a good picture about people which uses this against Clinton. Disclaimer : I do not like Clinton I just don't like fact distortion.

  6. Maybe not from uber on Uber Denies Access To Harvard Startup That Compared Ride-Hailing Prices (boston.com) · · Score: 1

    But all those guy on slashdot and other forum railing against "ordinary" taxi anti competitiveness system... Well how is that crow tasting ?

  7. Depends on criticality on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    my email or financial stuff : relatively long password with combo of what I think is non sensical Vuh;Kal-Poh23. If it is some forum stuff : password01. I don't care about foren.

  8. There is a law about foreign exchange on Bitcoin Sting Operation Nabs Egyptian Dentist (themerkle.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    If he had exchanged his bitcoins for egyptian pounds he would have been fine. But he exchanged against a foreign currency for which there a re law regulating and only allowing banks, exchanged among other. You cannot setup a street corner egyptian pound to dollar or euro exchange. That is the law he broke. This is not about bitcoins being legal or not this is about exchanging for foreign currency , laws which many of the country of the world I went to had.

  9. We are far away from it now on We Need To Build Industrial Zones In Space In Order To Save Earth, Says Jeff Bezos (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Firstly to get those asteroid, assuming we do not wait for a NEO, we'll need a lot of energy to go get one in the outer system or possibly at some supposed to be at the lagrange points.The other possibility is to wait for one coming by and delta-v it into a stable orbit. The last one which does not allow you to chose, you have to catch what's passing by. That was the easiest part. Now you gotta mine it, and we have for all practical purpose no experience in it. It isn't as easy as scooping it even for asteroid thought to be a collection of lose rocks : remember newton's law , they don't disturb mining on earth but on an asteroid it is something else, you mining stuff need to be anchored and what it mines needs to get caught. Not the biggest obstacle but it is another one. And then there is the problem that it is not easy to have people living up (look at all the health problem we have with LEO astronaut), so it means automation a LOT of it, and possibly wait for days or weeks if something break. Finally while it is true there are a lot of CHON, we still need to process it which means energy and even solar panel need replacements.

    What i am saying is : while it is on the technical horizon , barring stark penury on earth, there is no incentive to all the cost associated with mining in space. Maybe in 100 years when global warming seriously starts eroding our coast, and maybe if energy gets harder to get (oil/coal) and some raw material harder to get e.g. copper, maybe it gets expansive enough to start thinking about it. In all seriousness I am betting on never , e.g. by the time we need it we don't have anymore the energy or technical capability or opportunity of doing it ever.

  10. But not by the definition of crime impacting us on California Mayors Demand Surveillance Cams On Crime-Ridden Highways (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You are intentionally misconstruing the argument or intentionally misstating the difference between the criminal those statistic tracks and illegally being in the US, whichever you should never have been modded insightful. They are illegal and criminal for immigration laws. But looking at violent and petty crime, theft, murder, rape, drug trafficking, prostitution and all that jazz which really count when speaking of a tract of land with too many shooting they have lower rate than the average American. You may not LIKE that fact , and it is certainly an inconvenient fact for many people especially those liking trumps, but it stays a statistical verifiable fact.

  11. Illegals have a lower crime rate on California Mayors Demand Surveillance Cams On Crime-Ridden Highways (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Look it put. All statistic point out that illegals have a lower crime rate than naturally born American. So what would really effectively lowering funding for sanctuary cities do ? If anything if illegals are replaced by naturally born American in those cities, then crime rate would rise. The sad truth is that if you want to lower crime rate, then you better look at program which will help reintegration of ex-con and programs which helps the local find better paid job above minimum wage.

  12. rat don't fly on Possible Cellphone Link To Cancer Found In Rat Study (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    But I agree with your post. The study only shows spurious statistic. they are taking 90 pup and out of those find 2 or 3 males and 1 female with brain cancer per group power/kg. And funnily they find a difference between GSM and CMDA. Want to see why I think it is spurious ? Look at the glial hyperplasia statistic table 1. If it was really correlated and related to power, then it would not explain why 3 W.Kg rat per Kg got zero incidence but 1.5 and 6 w.Kg got 2. Once you realize then it spreads from 0 to 2 alone even when you change the power, then you realize that the results are just statistical anomalies. Furthermore the "sick" rat lived longer than the control, so the probability of brain cancer rising with age it could again just be a spurious effect. I am not seeing part of the article explaining how they removed both those confounding effects or explain the discrepancy or even when the diagnose was made (only at autopsy? The age confounding factor is important) but to be honest I skimmed as the typography is horrible to read (compared to what I am used in physic journals - spacing between lines for example).

  13. Re:Stop using Java on Android Is 'Fair Use' As Google Beats Oracle In $9 Billion Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And how do you do that ? No seriously converting code base to another language is not trivial, then retraining programmers, and so forth. What do you suggest is akin to java ? Seriously ? Because you realize that what you suggest also cost a lot of money, and really the risk of continuying using java by now is near nil.

  14. Silver poisonning on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Not life threatening but the quantity of silver required to effectivelky treat such bacterial infection may lead easily to agyria, localized or generalized. On the other hand we may get better avatar porn, so there is a, hehe , silver lining. (and now I'll slap myself silly for the easy joke).

  15. It is additional hardware on Tor To Use Distributed RNG To Generate Truly Random Numbers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    That alone warrant that it will never be a consumer product, unless provided ad-hoc on main boards. Remember tor is used by normal average consumer (with respect of using such specialized hardware).

  16. The same apply to the microsfot guy on Billionaire Technologist Accuses NASA Asteroid Mission of Bad Statistics (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He has not published his alogorithm source code or calculation so the same apply to that guy. On the other hand result in agreement with other telescope and experiment give some more surety. So we have 3 results similar and 1 guy which makes some calculation and tell us they are all 3 wrong in effect and riddled of error " Yet Myhrvold says that the WISE and NEOWISE teams' papers are riddled with statistical missteps" "fundemental mistake" so excuse me if I pardon the "he made bad software".

  17. "modern planes don't just break up mid flight" on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    While it is the most probable for a mid air disintegration, the reality is that there were airplane which disintegrated fully or partially lost parts mid air. See airplane china lost in Taiwan in 2002. Usually those are due to metal fatigue or improper repair.

  18. gee... Why don#t we do all that ? on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I will tell you. Every time I see the people telling we should move to another OS... Well tell us first where there is an OS where steam is with all the most recent games without exception. Even steamsOS at the moment is not there.

    "If you're in IT and you choose to use Windows as your personal OS, you have no one to blame for your troubles." blame the victim ? We have NO CHOICE. 3D vendor have only crappy or closed driver which don't work well on linux. If I want to play , say, doom with the best acceleration then I have only windows. Point.

  19. Let me explain you something. on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    "do you know how to earn 1 million dollar ? Invest 1 billion in the airline industry".

    The airline industry is unfortunately under attack by low cost, and there has been a few incidents which hit it very hard. it is the very first industry to suffer in case of crisis. The low cost carrier are putting price traditional airline can only follow to the bottom of service. You want cheap flights ? well this is the result : a race to the bottom in quality. Nobody buys a 1000$ comfortable flight when they can get away with a 120$ uncomfortable one. Except that afterward they keep yapping and complaining about it. You want a meal service no overbooking and good seat pitch ? Take business and first. The service is still good there. But I am betting like 99+% of the complainer that you fly eco like most of the people. Well you get what you pay for. Compare the price of a boston-new york flight of today with one of 30 or 40 years ago : price have fallen not risen with inflation, there has been a lot of bankruptcy. Yes airline try to get back at rising cost and lowering airfare with amenities. You want to see the responsible ? Look in a frigging mirror. People want cheap airfare but first class quality. Good luck with that.

  20. In the US maybe you can put a lot of stuff in some state like enforcing arbitration and giving up rights, but in europe we take a deem view of this, you cannot waive your fundemental rights, and, depending on the juridiction, either be those clause are waived , and can in some cases up to nullify a contract. In this case data protection comes in, and I am guessing that kiip.me will find itself in very hot water rapidly.

  21. "Because the next day, your boss is screaming at you for not answering his "emergency" email the night before."

    If the boss want you to be available at certain hour for emergency then he better give you a pager or a phone and the compensation for it (e.g. being on call in germany where I am is compensated 1/8 of the time , e.g. 80 minutes is counted 10 minutes if you are not called, and normal (day) or overtime (20h-6h & week end& bank holiday) if you are called to do something. But let me guess the boss want a slave which do it bidding without paying a just compensation, and be at the ready at any time ? Having labor law must be really a pain in the ass for him...

  22. Why do you think it is slashvertissment ? on Tesla's Inherent Safety Saves Five Joyriding Teenagers In Germany (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is news for nerd, at least me as a nerd, interested into security things like crumple zone , doing finite element analyzis etc... And if Tesla is using a different method with better effect then yeah that's highly interesting.

  23. The cost is not the cost of the call on Prisons Moving To All-Video Visitation (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    I was told , and it stands to reason, that the cost of the call , however horrendous we see it, is because all call have to be listened to/looked over, and the additional cost is simply passed over the prisoner.

  24. In fact I pity millenials because they do not have it as easy as I am getting it, and again I have not gotten it as easy as boomers. They are cominc at the end tail of estate boom, and therre has been not enough re-adjustement toward lower estate prices in many area booming with jobs. Hello rental until the end of your life.

  25. http://www.bls.gov/dolfaq/bls_...

    No really, aside real estate, and maybe internet or phone, I am seeing actually a quite wide slice of items. So can you precise exactly what you mean is missing ?