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  1. Re:With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, he was genetically far better off, and this explains why he was able to spearhead a European domination of the Western Hemisphere. All that inherited resistance to crowd diseases from Eurasia - smallpox most significantly, but all the rest of them, too. In fact, the only areas Europeans didn't dominate in the Western Hemisphere were areas where indigenous diseases prevented their dominance, such as the Amazon basin.

  2. Re:Tor exit node = child sex offender on Cops Are Raiding Homes of Innocent People Based Only On IP Addresses (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    You make a better point than you perhaps think, though I have removed all the identifying information from this profile over the 15 years i've been here.

  3. Government not reflective of voters on Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Therefore, since no attempt at electing politicians who would do what the people wanted has worked, the decision was taken to elect someone who will just fuck things up royally. Trolling the oligarchy, as it were.

    That's it in a nutshell.

  4. I'd also point out that armies do the same thing - they attack at dawn because the enemy is at low ebb at that time. The counter-example is Kursk in 1943 - and the Nazi attacker lost, though not entirely because they launched their attack at 3pm.

    It's also why armies get their people up really early in the morning.

  5. Cops do this because people are usually home and aren't prepared to defend themselves at that time. Doing it at 9pm on a Friday would be a bad idea - you'd probably either be out, or alternatively already 3 or 4 beers in and more likely to fight back in some fashion.

  6. Re:This is just shit thrown at the wall on At Least 26 Claimed Galaxy Note 7 Fire Reports Were Untrue, Samsung Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    They're trying to discredit the suggestion that the Note 7 bursts into flames by providing counterexamples based on very thin logic "we couldn't get in touch with the people". I did insurance claims for several years. People who were legitimately owed money were hard to get a hold of in many cases. So that is a crap assumption.

    My point: of course this is PR because they know the same things that I do.

  7. Re:Tor exit node = child sex offender on Cops Are Raiding Homes of Innocent People Based Only On IP Addresses (fusion.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can't trust what the public will do with such a capability as an anonymizing onion router, so therefore running a Tor exit note is a ticket to having big legal problems, never mind the guns in your face. I wouldn't do it if my life depended on it. I have a wife and kids...

  8. This is just shit thrown at the wall on At Least 26 Claimed Galaxy Note 7 Fire Reports Were Untrue, Samsung Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...to see if it will stick. Kudos to their PR department, they're trying to minimize the problem. It's all bullshit though.

  9. The guy is a salesman. Go shop for a used car and you'll see what I mean.

  10. Re:Serious question about this on Yahoo Confirms Massive Data Breach, 500 Million Users Impacted [Updated] (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Every case is different, but someone was able to take possession of a bastion inside their network and was able to access the account data and arrange for exfiltration of the account data over the network, and probably some other things. It almost assuredly wasn't someone handing over a USB drive full of Yahoo account data in a smoke-filled cafe or back alley. It could have been in their public facing side that the vulnerability was found, but it is much more likely to be in a peripheral system, perhaps a third party vendor as in previous breaches.

  11. Re:In related news... on Yahoo Confirms Massive Data Breach, 500 Million Users Impacted [Updated] (recode.net) · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Does anyone care what Trump thinks? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The bookies are working off the same bad data set that Nate Silver is. So, yes.

  13. No, because she can't think very fast on her feet, and this is a negative.

  14. Re:Does anyone care what Trump thinks? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Had no choice to admit he was wrong because he was wrong. For the whole season. That "90%" number is based on how many primaries could be easily called via polls. Meaning anyone could have called a race where there's a 10-15% polling margin.

    Nate Silver's problem is that he's using bad data (ie, most polls that run close) to try to predict an outcome, and claiming scientific precision. He's full of shit. Therefore, not very smart, no.

    I'm not making predictions about the election because I have a real job. Yet another way where I am smarter than he.

  15. Re:Does anyone care what Trump thinks? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Nate Silver and his crew are smarter. Right...they called the primary season so well.

    Just look at all the crow he ate...

    So yeah, smarter people. Right.

  16. Re:The U.S. ain't perfect, but... on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    My experience yesterday with NK shills has convinced me that segmenting the net is preferable to allowing countries like that one have any measure of control.

  17. What makes you think he changes his mind. Perhaps he's just saying what he needs to get elected...just like everyone else in the mix, particularly Hillary.

  18. Re:Does anyone care what Trump thinks? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Obvious that you don't live here. He's very likely to win, and it probably won't even be close.

  19. Re:And to initiate progress, he shuts down Faceboo on Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Announce $3 Billion Initiative To 'Cure All Diseases' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the issue would be "which half of the day". ;-) Having it shut down while everyone is asleep would benefit only the other half of the world. No, no, he should shut it down completely.

  20. And to initiate progress, he shuts down Facebook.. on Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Announce $3 Billion Initiative To 'Cure All Diseases' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Since that's a disease at the heart of the body politic. No, he didn't say he would do this, but if he were serious, he would.

  21. Eventually, someone will figure out they are leaving money on the table with the insistence on streaming and always-on connections.

  22. Basically, you'd have to have a 10 or 15% speedup to notice a difference in anything. In the 90s, we got lots of those. It's gotten less and less frequent since then.

    In terms of resolution, a 4k screen has 4x the number of pixels, so you'd think that would make a big difference, but in practice I don't think the returns are all that high. It's like DVD vs Bluray. The improved resolution wasn't important enough to drive sales in comparison to upscaled DVDs. I don't think people are asking for more resolution very much, except at the high end where it is in fact mostly a dick measurement contest.

    More FPS, on the other hand...

  23. Just remember who has the money in this world. Not that we'll be spending much of it on games...I buy bargain bin on GOG and Steam and run everything in a nicely optimized 1920x1080, at most.

    The second-rate cards will support 4K in a shitty way but will do 1080p just grand. So keep on arguing about higher resolution graphics/wasting money on cutting edge stuff and in the old age home here, we can reap the benefits on our fixed incomes.

  24. Re:Computers and networks in cars are fine on Tesla Fixes Security Bugs After Claims of Model S Hack (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The computer thing is a red herring. There have been computers in cars since at least the early 1990s.

    The question, put more precisely here is: why does a car need to be on a packet switched network?

    I can come up with lots of reasons for cars to send packets out. Telemetry data comes to mind here, though why the owner would want this is less clear. I'm sure the car company is interested.

    But why does a car need to respond to incoming packets? I can only think of reasons that the owner would find either benign - or inimical. The benign reasons are receiving map updates and system updates. Remote shutdown of the vehicle is amongst the inimical reasons.

    The conclusion I come to is that as a convenience factor for the company, it's easier to have it on a network. However, it opens up a huge attack surface. Overall, it appears not to be much of a benefit to the owner of the car, as the owner could accomplish the noted updating tasks using a USB drive, and any required vehicle telemetry could be cached on-vehicle and retrieved manually as required.

  25. Re:get your numbers straight on North Korea Has Just 28 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Spout your propaganda as you will, you Communist stooge. I have been there. People aren't starving as much now as they were 15 years ago, but living as a NK civilian is very bad still and probably getting worse.