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  1. Re:I think I should create a macro on Australian Officials Want Encryption Laws To Fight 'Terrorist Messaging' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless some company built a huge database of all the books...

  2. Re:Makes sense now on What Happens When Geoengineers 'Hack The Planet'? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a well-written troll and we can see that you have put the effort in. But you are trying a little bit too hard and it shows. Throw some spelling mistakes in their, or a grammatical error to attract a nazi. This will spark the confrontation that you seek and provide that rich and tasty dopamine reward. Tone down the crazy a notch or two until you hook someone properly then crank it up. Keep some of your powder dry and you'll be rewarded for it. This effort is only worth 5/10 but it is good to see the young trying to learn the old ways. I wish you the best in your future trolling endeavours.

  3. Re:2045! Just in time... on Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    No really, why do you think people care about your opinions? You seem like an only child.

  4. Re:2045! Just in time... on Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Hello. Why do you think people care about your opinion?

  5. Re:2045! Just in time... on Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing is causing the downfall of Swedish culture. Are you stupid enough to believe an article on the daily wire, or are you cynical enough to use any old bullshit to try to justify your claims?

  6. Re:2045! Just in time... on Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Apples are not oranges.

  7. Re:2045! Just in time... on Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com) · · Score: 2

    Bit of a stretch for you to call it thinking. Racism is more of a reflex.

  8. Re:The law should really be titled: Except... on Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Data used to generate that page looks wrong. In addition to refined petroleum it also claims a large export of raw unrefined petroleum, but Sweden has no oil deposits. Looks like the database behind the site has some incorrect facts.

  9. Re:Simple question on Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody pretenious enough to use "virii" really should know better.

  10. Re:Simple question on Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    Anti-viri, eh? Gosh that sounds almost as clever as "television" and other frankenstein words. Did you know that anti- is derived from Greek?

  11. Re: first p05t on Apple Mac Computers Are Being Targeted By Ransomware, Spyware (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What is this, a horrifically bad attempt to troll the numerate and literate amongst the slashdot readership? You know it's a 1.25 second clock-cycle and you should not pretend otherwise. Serious triggerings are occuring.

  12. Re:Just ban cryptocurrencies on GPU and Motherboard OEMs Readying Components Optimized For Cryptocurrency Mining (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    That has no relation to the truth at all.

    Most cryptocurrency mining happens in China.

  13. Re:Wait in line on Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you ever been to Estonia? It might not be safe to assume that they won't all leave at once...

  14. Re:By far not the first time on 'Rime' Developer Keeps Promise, Removes Denuvo DRM After Game Gets Cracked (cinemablend.com) · · Score: 1

    Well... he does play for the red team.

  15. Re:By far not the first time on 'Rime' Developer Keeps Promise, Removes Denuvo DRM After Game Gets Cracked (cinemablend.com) · · Score: 1

    Clarification for 200: would santa put you on the nice or the naughty list?

  16. Re:no need for AI on Startup Uses AI To Create Programs From Simple Screenshots (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The output from a layout editor is a structured description of the components and their layout. This is inferring that description from a .png - the LSTM is building a description of the structural relationship between the widgets from the input image.

    It looks pretty cool, although quite simple. The intermediate token stream that it is inferring may be more interesting as a design tool than the neural network on the front-end that is building it.

  17. And if you are physically stimulated while you are restrained? Oddly enough most men don't learn to shut off that particular autonomic response at 14yrs old. Maybe you grew up a little strange.

  18. How weak are the weakest men / strong are the strongest women?

    Do you have conscious control over your boner? Interesting trick, maybe you could share it with the rest of the world who have certainly experienced a non-controlled boner at some point.

    Remember: not *full* retard.

  19. Re:Phrasing is the key on UploadVR Had a 'Kink Room,' Pressured Female Employees To 'Microdose,' Alleges Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Otherwise, I can't see any heterosexual sexual assault, I mean, a chick can't rape a man.

    Reading this remind me of some invaluable advice that I once heard : never go full retard. Maybe it is useful to you too?

  20. Re:I don't think you know what that word means. on Intel's Remote Hijacking Flaw Was 'Worse Than Anyone Thought' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not always the bios. We have a problem at the moment with a lab full of Skylake machines. Originally it was supposed to run debian, but uploading the microcode binary blob didn't work properly. There are only two options: grab the raw updates from Intel and overwrite the init system to insert shortly after boot, or run Ubuntu which has the binary blobs already installed. For now we have to run with Ubuntu because nobody had time to sit and go through the Intel raw update to package it for the lab.

    It's a shitty situation, and it will probably get worse. The microcode patch mechanism destroys any chance of building a reproducible environemnt in the lab, knowing that there is a whole other black-box sitting on the chipset makes the situation even worse...

  21. Re:I don't think you know what that word means. on Intel's Remote Hijacking Flaw Was 'Worse Than Anyone Thought' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You know that Intel processors without AMT still have the capability but it is disabled in software...

  22. The simplest sounding answer works sometimes, sure. But evaluating "what is the simplest solution" is no way to investigate. You have to look at MO, patterns, evidence...

    But there is a single really key concept; only one thing that absolutely must be understood: arguing on slashdot is not, in fact, a form of "investigation" at all. It is just another layer of bullshit.

    You have to look at MO, patterns, evidence...

    None of which are accessible as secondary sources on the internet to armchair "investigators".

  23. But we have always been at war with Russia. Oceania have always been our sworn ally.

    If the security level around Macron's campaign was of a high level then it would lend some evidence to a "state backed super hacker". Then, sure, why not the keyboard is probably a plant. Or, like in the real world, Macron's campaign might have had the shittest security available (like the dude from the DNC) and the "hack" could have been some spotty teenager for shits and giggles.

    Sometimes the simplest answer works... (probably worth pointing out that this doesn't weaken your argument against the shrill sounding GP).

  24. Re:This thread makes me think on First Evidence For Higher State of Consciousness Found (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 2

    The primary effect of LSD is that it breaks down the brains ability to perceive and evaluate those perceptions. This is not experienced as a loss of ability (internally) as many of the processes involved in perception are inhibitory in nature. If you switch off the negative signals about possible perceptions that do not match the incoming data from the environment then suddenly the brain sees a lots more hits, and there is a massive spike in reinforcement - everything feels cool as fuck and makes perfect sense because your brain is awash in the neurotransmitters that reward observing patterns. Of course the brains spends a lot of time observing and evaluating itself in relation to its observations of the world, and so the same rush of positive associations will occur about "deep personal development".

    What is really happening? Hard to say: my guess is that our brains are constantly searching for equilibrium and taking a psychedelic causes a massive batch of noise in the search process. It does seem to cause to long-term changes in people's attitudes towards themselves, and the people around them. I've not seen any evidence that those changes are consistent across people - the only consistent pattern is that it changes their relationship to the world. I would speculate that it is just random noise, kicking a vast chunk of their learned behaviour into a different equilibrium. The perception that the change is accessing "a higher state of consciousness" is just another form of buying into some bullshit.

    My take on it is that LSD provides access to a type of experience that is unavailable to most people: psychosis. The experience of un-evaluated perception of reality. Whether or not that experience has any value does not seem to have a universal answer, and depends largely on where people are in their lives, what they take into that experience, and what they hope to gain from it. Interpreting a measurement of one property of a brain that may correlate with a level of consciousness in some forms of test is simply reckless.

  25. Re:move on on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    The world that we live in is made of alternative facts. Borges wrote extensively on the hyper-reality that we live within, long before it became fashionable. We deal so infrequently with actual facts that as a species we look at second-hand analyses and inferences and convince ourselves that we are dealing with the real thing. On the subject of which, crime statistics:

    Split a population into three categories:
    A: natives
    B: integrated immigrants
    C: non integrated immigrants

    Assume it takes 10+ years to move from group C to group B (if ever). Assume that the three groups are hetrogeneous in most statistics that we can measure. Any measurement is a sample at a point in time, it does not take into account drift between these categories.

    Where are the raw "facts" now? Do they still exist?

    If the crime rate in (B+C) is 100x larger than in A, what does that tell us about A vs B, or about B vs C? If the measurement lag is 10 years so that it is on the order of magnitude as drift then does it tell us anything at all?