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  1. Maybe it is the most secure, but no one will ever know.

  2. Re:I warn Vint Cerf on Vint Cert Warns IPv4 Users: 'Time To Get With the Program' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Vint Cerf followed up his Commodore 64 with the Commodore Plus/4. It's better because it has more bytes available for BASIC programs!

  3. Re:fear, lack of training, lack of compatability on Vint Cert Warns IPv4 Users: 'Time To Get With the Program' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    All IPv6 has ever done for me is make things not work until I disabled it.

  4. Re:Rebranding on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    ZuneHub.

  5. Totalitarian government + technology = joy on High School in China Installs Facial Recognition Cameras To Monitor Students' Attentiveness (theepochtimes.com) · · Score: 2

    At least in the west, Big Brother still pretends that he isn't actually watching you ever second of the day.

  6. Re:They aren't suing for climate change but for ly on Ask Slashdot: Can a City Really Sue an Oil Company For Climate Change? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The urban governments are suing because decades of mismanagement has made them bankrupt and now they want a new revenue stream.

  7. Anyone can sue anyone for anything. The relevant question is whether it will actually stick at the Supreme Court.

  8. The problem is that the government certifies it safe by endorsing it as being a legal product to sell and collecting huge gobs of taxes from it. As with cigarettes, only the government should be liable if it isn't actually safe for consumers.

  9. The bias of reverse bias on Microsoft Developing a Tool To Help Engineers Catch Bias in Algorithms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The main problem with this endeavor is that the "bias" they are trying to suppress is actually the opposite of bias. They seek to treat people differently on the basis of identity politics instead of on their actual behavior. The AIs will naturally be confused by being disallowed to latch onto the strongest signals in the data.

  10. Re:This is the right approach on Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the only thing more accurate than climate models are economic models!

  11. Re:All politians have no respect for security on Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 0

    Check my math here, but aren't Tweets generally intended to be made completely public, unlike emails?

  12. Re:One thing for sure. on Google Hasn't Stopped Reading Your Emails (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They just optimized it to "be evil".

  13. Re:Nobel while jailed on North Korea Announces Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, Hillary should be found guilty of treason for paying foreign national Christopher Steele to pay foreign nationals in Russia for fake information on Trump. While "Collusion" is not a crime in US law (and hence, Mueller's appointment is unconstitutional in that one way and several others, as the trial judges will soon be ruling), paying foreign nationals to help your campaign IS a crime that Hillary and DNC are guilty of.

  14. Re:I just hope we survive the Trump dark age on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Below are Trump's first-year accomplishments. If his second-year accomplishments include denuclearizing North Korea, how will you ever maintain your illusion that Trump is a clueless buffoon? Should be funny to watch the Nobel Peace Prize presenter crying tears of frustration while handing him the medal. But, I suppose you'll never be able to admit that you've been wrong about everything for the past two years. Easier to pretend that the fake shit like what you mind-read that foreigners think of America is more important than concrete, measurable accomplishments like a booming economy. * Jobs and the economy - Passage of the tax reform bill providing $5.5 billion in cuts and repealing the Obamacare mandate. - Increase of the GDP above 3 percent. - Creation of 1.7 million new jobs, cutting unemployment to 4.1 percent. - Saw the Dow Jones reach record highs. - A rebound in economic confidence to a 17-year high. - A new executive order to boost apprenticeships. - A move to boost computer sciences in Education Department programs. - Prioritizing women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans. * Killing job-stifling regulations - Signed an Executive Order demanding that two regulations be killed for every new one creates. He beat that big and cut 16 rules and regulations for every one created, saving $8.1 billion. - Signed 15 congressional regulatory cuts. - Withdrew from the Obama-era Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of environmental regulations. - Signed an Executive Order cutting the time for infrastructure permit approvals. - Eliminated an Obama rule on streams that Trump felt unfairly targeted the coal industry. * Fair trade - Made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. - Opened up the North American Free Trade Agreement for talks to better the deal for the U.S. - Worked to bring companies back to the U.S., and companies like Toyota, Mazda, Broadcom Limited, and Foxconn announced plans to open U.S. plants. - Worked to promote the sale of U.S products abroad. - Made enforcement of U.S. trade laws, especially those that involve national security, a priority. - Ended Obama’s deal with Cuba. * Boosting U.S. energy dominance - The Department of Interior, which has led the way in cutting regulations, opened plans to lease 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling. - Trump traveled the world to promote the sale and use of U.S. energy. - Expanded energy infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline snubbed by Obama. - Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to kill Obama’s Clean Power Plan. - EPA is reconsidering Obama rules on methane emissions. * Protecting the U.S. homeland - Laid out new principles for reforming immigration and announced plan to end "chain migration," which lets one legal immigrant to bring in dozens of family members. - Made progress to build the border wall with Mexico. - Ended the Obama-era “catch and release” of illegal immigrants. - Boosted the arrests of illegals inside the U.S. - Doubled the number of counties participating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with deporting illegals. - Removed 36 percent more criminal gang members than in fiscal 2016. - Started the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program. - Ditto for other amnesty programs like Deferred Action for Parents of Americans. - Cracking down on some 300 sanctuary cities that defy ICE but still get federal dollars. - Added some 100 new immigration judges. * Protecting communities - Justice announced grants of $98 million to fund 802 new cops. - Justice worked with Central American nations to arrest and charge 4,000 MS-13 members. - Homeland rounded up nearly 800 MS-13 members, an 83 percent one-year increase. - Signed three executive orders aimed at cracking down on international criminal organizations. - Attorney General Jeff Sessions created new National Public Safety Partnership, a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crimes. * Ac

  15. Re:Nice on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Saddam Hussein fooled the world's intelligence agencies into believing that Iraq had weapons of mass distruction despite Hussein secretly disposing of them. I guess he had the last laugh as he was being hanged.

  16. Re:2 spaces on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You one space kids

    And you missing-hyphen-in-compound-adjective kids can get off my lawn!

  17. To prevent this, the Quebec government doesn't teach young people English, which greatly limits their social mobility.

  18. Re:What happened 800,000+ years ago? on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously, the climate ran away and killed all life on Earth.

  19. Re:Come on, Editors on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How much of that extra weight is Dihydrogen Monoxide?

  20. How many thousands of political dissidents have Google and Amazon enabled totalitarian dictatorships to murder?

  21. Yeah, Kim is going to "trap" you while his economy goes to zero, he's completely cut off from the world including his former allies, and US battlegroups patrol his shores. No, Trump just applied actual sanctions for the first time including getting China to cooperate for the first time. After that, it was pretty clear to Kim that he'd be killed by his own people if he didn't stop the economic collapse. Plus, Trump's rhetoric actually gave Kim a better option -- if he gives up the nukes, he can become a globe-trotting elite player and oversee the strongest economic growth his people had ever seen. Which would you choose, certain death or global rock-stardom? Obama's and Bush's options were to keep the nukes and muddle through with cheating from China or join the world and muddle through as an isolated nobody.

  22. It's amazing how the media freaks out every time Trump uses the same few ploys from his book. It's like nobody has read it. Really, you could just download an illegal copy if you don't want to enrich him. Think of it as "opposition research".

  23. Who is to say there aren't women out there that could do a better job with a film than the male director

    Who is to say that female sci-fi directors don't just SUCK. What percentage of the sci-fi audience is female? In most STEM fields of study, the percentage of female professors matches the percentage of femalte Ph.D. students, female Master's students, female Bachelor's students, female high-school students, turtles all the way down. All affirmative action is racist, sexist bigotry and is also illegal.

  24. Re:Wow, that's a lot of water. on Foxconn Will Drain 7 Million Gallons of Water Per Day From Lake Michigan to Make LCD Screens (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    2.6e-5 km^3 water drained divided by the 58000 km^2 surface area = 4.5e-10 km of depth lost per day = 0.00045 mm/day, which is slightly less than your assumed 10 feet. Plus, this water will return to the lake pretty quickly. The water consumption is the stupidest thing to be worried about. It's not like they're sending it into a black hole for disposal. The contamination of the returning water is the main thing to be concerned about.

  25. Indeed it's pretty stupid to worry about the drop of water that is being removed. The main thing to be concerned about is what happens to the water. Obviously, it's going to find its way back into the wild pretty quickly and back into the lake eventually. The main question is how contaminated by the electronics-manufacturing process it will become.