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  1. Re:cost / benefit on Google Sends State-Sponsored Hack Warnings To Journalists and Professors (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You have an interesting style of argument and a fresh uid. Rather than argue by providing a reason for why Google would do this in poor faith you simply smear them and insinuate some form of collusion. Whose sockpuppet are you?

  2. Re:You know, just saying they can't bend the inter on UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a blatant lie. By the time the conservative politicians are found MI5 has removed the plastic bag (and the orange) and packed the body into an intesting pose inside a zip-up bag.

  3. What kind of bandwidth / latency does that translate into?

  4. Re:Hmmm well on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    and isn't intent on conquering some Lebensraum for his master race to spread out into Canada.

    Although lets face it - that is a policy pledge that could have won the election for either side.

  5. That would be anybody who has ever played any version of Civ on difficulty higher than Prince, i.e. about 95% of the /. readership...

  6. Re:That is really good news for the animals. on Intel Wants To Replace Fireworks With Drones (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link, I've been busy enough over the past few weeks to miss that story. Interesting explanation of the decision. I wonder if FPV flying for fun / sport will end up with an exemption if it can be shown to be not for the purpose of surveillance? I was tempted to get a FPV to fly in the woods early this year, but this puts me off. I can't find anything about the fireworks ban but I will continue looking.

  7. Re:That is really good news for the animals. on Intel Wants To Replace Fireworks With Drones (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    [citations needed]

    Which cities in Sweden are banning fireworks?
    What attempt to ban drones with cameras?

  8. Re: 3 square meters? on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed, there is a good xkcd about it. But what you have stated does not imply further measurements: it is also a valid description of a fishing expedition. Dating mining for correlations does not imply causations. Your description covers both approaches rather than implying one of them.

  9. Re: 3 square meters? on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    You seemed to have missd the step in the middle where the hypothesis is tested by predicting fresh empirical results - you know, "the science bit".

  10. Re:Like fear of the brown people... on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I have not said that I do not care about brexit. You are not so good at reading.

  11. Re:that's pretty evil on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    It was deprecated about the time that they introduced the opt-out village: http://www.onionstudios.com/vi...

  12. Re:This is a good thing. on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't have elementary school in the UK, that's more of an American thing...

  13. Re:This is a good thing. on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    When you say that the doom and gloom has not materialised yet - do you understand that brexit has not yet happened?

  14. Re:Like fear of the brown people... on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    It's interesting that you feel able to pigeon-hole most people on this web site and explain what their views and motives are. Are you capable of seeing your error? Most people on this website are not from the UK, and could not give two shits about brexit.

  15. Re:This is a good thing. on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    You've proven his point quite well. Thank you.

  16. Re: I'm so envious on Pirate Party Gains Seats In Iceland's Election (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really think there has been no immigration to Sweden in that time?

  17. Re:I'm so envious on Pirate Party Gains Seats In Iceland's Election (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, so you are out and out racist. It is sad that you have such prejudice against others.

    USD is a fiat currency, so measuring Swedish GDP in USD does not produce a measurement that is more fixed. It simply highlights noise from currency fluctuations.

    Of course the race to devalue is negative for people with assets - it is being done to buy the votes of those in debt. They are the majority.

    Actually, supporting immigration does buy something for Swedes in the long term - diversity. Even if the 1st generation produce nothing of value, and the 2nd... integration across multiple generations supplies value to the host society. Homogeneous cultures die. Hetrogeneous cultures are more robust to external shocks.

  18. Re:I'm so envious on Pirate Party Gains Seats In Iceland's Election (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So that's what it looks like when a Swedish Democrats supporter enters full-on rant mode. Window dressing for your racist views.

    Why do you try to make your argument by measuring the size of the Swedish economy in USD? All currencies are currently in a race to devalue the fastest, given that there is too much slack production and debt in the world. http://www.scb.se/en_/Finding-... gives a view less distorted by currency manipulation.

  19. Re: fucking hell that's horrendous on Police Used Cell Tower Logs To Text 7,500 Possible Crime Witnesses (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Completely false reasoning. You assume that revealing the information to the police was the only way to get the desired effect: notifying everyone in the vicinity.

    The police could have made a request to the carrier to send the message on their behalf to every subscriber in the logs WITHOUT revealing any of the phone numbers. The loss of privacy was completely unnecessary.

  20. Re:Send him to gitmo on Teenager Accidentally Launches DDoS Attack On 911 Systems (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Good to see a realistic and moderate response for once - this was not a crime severe enough to warant making him use windows 10.

  21. Re:2016: Year of the Linux Desktop on Linux Marketshare is Above 2-Percent For Third Month in a Row (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Holy shit - user ids are over 4M now?!?

    I have no idea how long that implies your account has been here, but I'll reply as if you are fairly new so feel free to ignore this if it is obvious to you. The moderation system is not meant to be a robust measurement of the quality of a comment. It's meant to be a lightweight feedback that means we don't have to browse at +4 to avoid the GNAA trolls and other filth who lurk in the lower levels.

    There are two ways the moderation system is used:
    * drive-by moderation when people burn off their points quickly and express an opinion of your post. Hopefully this converges to reasonable average over time.
    * trolls with legions of sock-puppet accounts that attempt to harass particular users they've argued with.

    Beyond that, I wouldn't take it too seriously. Qubes sounds quite interesting, I'll take a look at it later so thanks for the pointer. My problem is somewhat different to the OP - I'm running an ubuntu desktop on a machine that I would prefer to be running debian. Sadly I can't make debian stable on the skylake it uses as the microcode update isn't working, hence the sledgehammer approach of sticking ubuntu on it.

  22. Science you say?

    Are the two samples (and statistics derived from them) comparable? (92% of the OkCupid userbase is straight, only 8% are gay).

    Are the samples drawn independently from the population? We don't know why people choose to sign up for OkCupid so we cannot say if they are representative of the general population. Possible bias skews in the sample (depending on the observer's prejudices) could include: only slutty people, only people who are not getting laid enough, etc etc.

    Is your primary source peer-reviewed, or is it a marketing piece?

  23. Re:If they'd actually keep up their computer lines on Apple's Annual Sales Fall For First Time Since 2001 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Details have already been leaked. No Esc key. Will have to switch to emacs :(

  24. Re: Nothing of significance on Apple's Annual Sales Fall For First Time Since 2001 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "released a more good iPad"

    No, I don't think that substitution is more performant than the original.

  25. I don't see any stylish manipulation of timestamps into a correct imperial format in your code.