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  1. Re:Science was a false god on Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Is 'Quietly Spreading Across the Globe' (msn.com) · · Score: 0

    haha, and you must one of the people that conflate science with the scientific method. Yes, the scientific method is the biggest and most important pillar of science, yet there is scientific work done without it - the business of categorizing and systemic study of reality are also a part of science (look it up). For example, this would include discovering new species or classifying and cataloging stars.

  2. Re:Outside of being the ultimate in cyberpunk.... on Continuing Progress On Babbage Analytical Engine (plan28.org) · · Score: 1

    We know much about it, the memory capacity, types of input cards and major operations of the machine were described as well as states of the machine solving certain specific problems. if you want to say modern projects are trying to make "A Babbage-type" engine, fine, but the point stands that can be done in software, pointless to waste the money to grind metal.

  3. ban the royalty on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    Royalty shouldn't be allowed. Where is the benefit of having it in your country? It's created to addict, an addiction to keep you subservient to another human for as long as possible. It's so irresponsible. It's like waiting for the damage to be done and kids turning up on your doorsteps and families being broken down. The stupid need to be ruled by a dynasty is more addictive than alcohol and drugs.

  4. Re:Here we go again on The End of the Desktop? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking the autonomous vehicles will be SUV shaped (even if not really SUV in power or weight) for fad reasons. SUV sales since 2000 have plummeted.

  5. Re:Here we go again on The End of the Desktop? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    minivans are dying out, actually.

  6. Re:slow adoption on The End of the Desktop? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    who stores porn locally, that's niche.

    Most people's email is "in the cloud", may as well have their docs there too.

    The very small percentage of us who care can make our own alternatives of course.

    I think corporate america will be all over this, and hasten the adoption.

  7. Pfft, you're already a basket case, it's too late if you need to see the approval of someone notable on the internet for your viewpoint and need that for support.

  8. It's a buggy piece of shit that bogs down PC compared to win 7

  9. Re:It ain't just digital. on Microsoft Stops Selling eBooks, Will Refund Customers For Previous Purchases (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    lolz, right when the company recalls your rights your paper book vanishes... oh wait no it doesn't and you can even sell or give it to someone else.

  10. Re:So what? on Windows 10 Makes Large Share Gains, While Windows 7 Declines Significantly (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    people forced to use Windows 10 care. People still doing everything they can at work to hang onto their Win 7 that isn't (relatively speaking) the buggy bloated mess Windows 10 care

  11. Re: Attention Deficit Disorder a Myth on In Massive Breach, Ex-NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty to Hoarding Highly Classified Secrets (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    so it's still not a disease then

  12. Re:Supply and Demand on Revisiting the Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Create (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    You are confused, defending oneself is not legally considered gun violence.

    Those scum did not spend hundreds of hours on the range, they can't hit a target 50 yards away with a handgun, like most beginners their group size is many human lengths in diameter at that distance.

  13. Attention Deficit Disorder a Myth on In Massive Breach, Ex-NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty to Hoarding Highly Classified Secrets (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    ADHD is an invented disease to excuse the behavior of hyperactive unruly kids, and now thieving NSA contractors

  14. Re:Supply and Demand on Revisiting the Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Create (mit.edu) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wrong. High percentage of gun ownership where I live, more than one per adult, yet zero violent crime. Strange, no? Yet this is near Chicago, a cesspool of crime and gun violence. Guess how we would handle those that try violent shit here?

  15. Re:Let the Red shitholes do what they want on New York Becomes America's Third State To Ban Plastic Bags (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    no, you just had low standards. I used some of those bulbs (and still have a couple saved), the output was awful.

    LED is the way, yes.

  16. Re:NOBODY believed in 'the Turk' on When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, yes electo-mechanical binary computer came first: Zuse in the late 1930s did build (with two students) one with all custom parts out of sheet metal. However, he still had the advantage of many kinds of technology that didn't exist in the early 19th century. Even standardized screws and bolts and a way to make them happened in the 1860s.

    https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.188...

  17. Re:Supply and Demand on Revisiting the Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Create (mit.edu) · · Score: 0

    lolz, UBI, healthcare and tube tying cost money.

    Cheaper solution, give parasites nothing, they'll either have to create wealth like the rest of us or starve. Problem solved.

  18. Re:Outside of being the ultimate in cyberpunk.... on Continuing Progress On Babbage Analytical Engine (plan28.org) · · Score: 1

    no there is no practical value whatsoever. They should just model the thing in software and call it a day.

  19. Re:NOBODY believed in 'the Turk' on When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Not in the 1820s when he first designed the difference engine, they really did not exist in a form useful for digital computing. In 1837 Davy invented a kind of relay that pulled a needle into mercury solution to close contact... for general purpose computing you'd need the kind of relay that would pass current from one contact through either of two contacts, one when opened and another closed. Railroads had the right stuff in 1860s and onwards... a bit late for old Babbage stuck in mechanical mode

  20. Re:Let the Red shitholes do what they want on New York Becomes America's Third State To Ban Plastic Bags (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    the florescent lightbulb alternatives at the time were low quality crap, not nonsense at all.

  21. I am much more concerned about the massive amount of bad design that is systemd being digested

  22. The axion was a particle postulated to answer the question of why strong interactions, those between quarks, conserve charge-parity. If it exists it would have detectable properties. The range of its mass, and the fact it could be changed into a photon by a strong enough magnetic field.

    Even without considering it a candidate for dark matter, it would be a huge experimental breakthrough for QCD (quantum chromodynamics, our most useful model of quarks and their interactions) theory to find the particle or to confirm it doesn't exist.

  23. Re: What other kind of trading could there be? on Most Bitcoin Trading Faked by Unregulated Exchanges, Study Finds (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    yes these human constructs work that way. But they don't exist in nature, math does not exist in nature. we have useful models, is all.

    we know all our models are incorrect and flawed. Some of them even contain "tricks" mathematicians know to be false and bad though useful (e.g. quantum electrodynamics, our best model of electromagnetic phenomenon)

  24. Re:Stability is important on Number of Workers in Jobs That Can Be Automated Falls (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't work for an IT manager who wasn't technically astute and couldn't ask in-depth questions. As for that job I came from, my accomplishments were verifiable. For example, could I restore from "bare metal" a CADD station (we had IRIX, Solaris and Windows) that had failed that the Vax cluster was making backup? Yes, I could and did. Did the custom template files and routines I made for the CADD system work and save hundreds of hours of engineer and designers time every year? Yes, they did and management knew it. Did I requisition, track and manage the assembly of CADD station components, servers and disk arrays, networking infrastructure (working with the IT division) across a 10 square mile site to our divisions four locations there? Yes I did.

  25. just a number for most here

    for common user the filesystem fixes for ext4 and xfs might be of interest... haven't had a problem with them myself and I admin 400 servers