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  1. Re:Do they really believe what they are saying on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Democrats believe it's possible given the huge margin that Trump lost the popular vote by. But the issue is less about the integrity of the presidential election vs up coming congressional elections which would be way easier to manipulate.

  2. Re:States can get serious on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a "National Election" if just a few stated decide not to implement security it affects the integrity for everyone. So no this isn't something States should deal with.

  3. None. It's a proof of concept. However, (as the article mentions) just as the Rowhammer attack on RAM seemed too slow to worry about when first found, the shear number of machines affected means security researchers are going to keep picking at this, and thus it seems inevitable that netSpectre will be a huge problem in the not too distant future.

  4. Re: Finally... on Wells Fargo's Scandals Finally Hurt Its Bottom Line (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    BofA look like saints next to Wells Fargo. We could replace the entire incarcerated population about to get out due to marijuana decriminalization with Wells Fargo scum.

  5. Re: Phrasing on Systemd-Free Artix Linux OS is Looking For Packagers (artixlinux.org) · · Score: 0

    I hear a lot of ad hominem attacks, and characterizations. I don't see a single example of a "bad" change.

    I usually recognize scientists and engineers by their use of evidence.

    ^^ THIS ^^

  6. Re:His VP is a well known Religious Zealot on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's because most of these people are part of a paid Russian attack. The idea being, if you post enough doubt about the other side, the non-paid actors get tired or replying to it, and by sheer mass, it appears that your side is correct. It worked, and you see how Trumps adopted it to be one of his current policies around calling any fact he doesn't like Fake News.

  7. This story is a Dupe from a month ago on Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
  8. There should be a law preventing such rulings. on Judge Backs Parents, Saying Their 30-Year-Old Son Must Move Out (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    If you decide to bring another life into this world, then fail to raise it not to be a dead beat, or give it the life skills necessary to get and keep a job (especially relevant as jobs get replaced by automation), they you should have to deal with the consequences of having a 34 y/o child living with you. You should not be allowed to evict them so that society has to deal with them being on the street or in a shelter, but should be allowed reduce their room to a closet in the garage, and bed down to a futon.

  9. The solution is simple: on 'Bird Scooters Are Ruining Venice' (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The solution is simple: No motorized vehicles on sidewalks. Worrying about getting hit by a car will keep people off their phones, or quickly weed out the bad apples Darwin style. Yes, this means that electric wheel chairs will have to travel in the street as well (and it's a bit freaky when you see it happen in Boston), but there's really no reason any motorized vehicle shouldn't be going the speed limit in city traffic other than it is under-powered.

  10. If the goal of your site is to generate only high quality questions and answers, most people who coming from sites with much more lax rule are going to be caught off guard and feel like the environment is hostel. I know I did. Once I learned that the rules were in place to prevent the site from turning into a bunch of unintelligible questions, and answers that were just comments, the system made sense.

    Yes, waiting to be build rep so that you can be 'trusted' enough to do certain things is tough, but again, when you want incentivize community building community, drive-by questioners are inherently going to feel left out.

    That's not to say a little AI / quick quiz to make sure first time visitors understand what the expectations are before posting wouldn't help (right now it's to easy to just click though the welcome/help).

  11. Sounds just like the now defunt TOYsMart.com on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sounds nearly identical to the working conditions of being a 'picker and packer' at toysmart.com. The only way to meet their quotas was to F-over everyone else / leave a mess / steal boxes from the people next to you so you wouldn't have to walk to the restocking station.

  12. Re:What happens when you can't read a page of text on Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    Which is the lesser evil:

    - Taking away power from US workers and giving it to international corporations to interlink our economy with S. Asian ones, there by ensuring our military presence in the region and the propagation of democracy

    OR

    - Protecting workers rights, but also not being able to defend those same workers against Chinese backed N. Korean assaults on our allies in the region, and on our own soil

    ?

    It's not an easy choice, but given how unpopular it was, and the the fact that he wasn't up for re-election at the time, I'd guess there was likely a non-financial reason Obama signed it.

  13. Re:Trump is a big sellout ! on Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    My intuition tells me the TPP is a military deal disguised as an economic one. Syria just started using chemical weapons and Trump wants to attack, but his military advisers advisers have convinced him not to until we have a stronger coalition in the S. Pacific so that we can worry less about N. Korea / China. I bet the minute we rejoin the TPP we launch strikes in Syria.

  14. Re:Business as usual on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    There is one horrible flaw in you premise: Putin is no Gorbachev. His intelligence background deludes him into believing all protests are sponsored by foreign actors, and thus democracy is a farce. He also believes that if he looses control as a dictator, he will be killed, and as such there is no limit to what he will do to stay in power.

    Source: http://www.pbs.org/video/putin...

  15. Re:Depends which technology... on Ask Slashdot: Were Developments In Technology More Exciting 30 Years Ago? · · Score: 1
    THIS

    The reason you don't feel 'wowed' is the current developments in the next fields of the revolution (much like computers back then), haven't really hit the main stream yet.

    As someone in the field, I'd argue that advent of CRISPR-CAS9 style gene editing, implementation of Darpa's NESD project to directly interface with the brain, and the incredible success of Gingo Bioworks at designing new life forms to solve world material shortages, makes that old tech you reminisce of seem boring.

  16. Re:Another nail in Google's coffin on Google To Kill Off 'View Image' Button In Search · · Score: 1

    I agree - I just lost a ton of respect for Google upon this news. This, if implemented, proves to me that they don't actually care about providing access to information as much as they do lining their wallets. Once implemented, I will start migrating away. Especially if AMP for gmail turns out to be the predictable mess it will be.

  17. Re:Is the code open sourced? on Researchers Create Simulation Of a Simple Worm's Neural Network (tuwien.ac.at) · · Score: 1
    LOL - changing the weights of a publicly available neural net consisting of only 300 nodes (openworm.org) is expensive research? Damn, I really have no hope of getting funding for that nanoCT connectome mapping experiment do I? Guess I just imagened that blue brain project.

    (where are those sarcasm tags again?)

  18. Re:How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The correct answer is: Méiyou zúgòu de xìnxi. (There is not enough information)

    No, the correct answer is today's date minus the captains date of birth.

    Wish I had mod points for this....

  19. Stop making drop off so easy / guilt free. on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    Stop making drop off so easy / guilt free. The store is suppose to be "Good Will" not "Guilt Washing".

    Partner with a tech company to set up a corner where donors place their items on something like a fit bot and to have it automatically barcoded, photograph, categorize (size, brand, style), and tagged if they want a tax deduction receipt (or try it sans robot first, but really you want to make it easier than it would be for them to just ebay the stuff themselves), and have a computer automatically generate the receipt (I've waiting more than 30 minutes just to have someone sign off on my receipt before - could of done that work while I was waiting). Moreover, those clothes that are bar-coded, and cataloged, and photographed, can be automatically placed for sale in an an online market that the entire country has access to. And imagine how much easier it would be to shop (and maintain) the store if all the clothing had an easily identifiable size tag on it.

    You can still let those that don't want receipts dump if you aren't getting enough people willing to chip in.

  20. Re:Because Apple is a follower, not a leader. on Why Apple's HomePod Is Three Years Behind Amazon's Echo (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    Because it costs more:

    I tried to beat the puck using a RasPi and a conventional USB mic - IT SUCKED. The mic isn't meant to pick up my voice while I'm playing music and even a RasPI 3 takes longer to process vocal cues using either the google now or alexa apis.

    A similarly priced microphone array, even with a kickstarter discount, is gonna cost you more than the dot than the dot: https://www.indiegogo.com/proj... If you are willing to sacrifice some features / reduce the number of mics, you are still gonna end up over budget when you factor in the price of the Raspberry Pi.

  21. Re:Make your own choices on Ads May Soon Stalk You on TV Like They Do on Your Facebook Feed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    WRONG: The problem that currently we have defined corporations as people and thus worthy of similar protections as 'other' citizens. However, corporations are by law required to be bound by the sole motivation of profits over anything, and consume far more resources than real people. Further, real people have other needs beyond profit that provides a social check and balance.

  22. Re:Still waiting for 8.0 on my Nexus 6P on Everything New In the Android 8.1 Oreo Developer Preview (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Stick with 7.1.2 - everything is super laggy on my Nexus 5x. It takes more than double the time to switch between already open apps. I tried to open email and a google doc at the same time the other day and was able get back to my desk (a 2 min walk) before both would open... horrible.

  23. This is HUGE on FDA Advisers Endorse Gene Therapy To Treat Form of Blindness (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Considering that what this drug is treating isn't a life-threatening condition, the vote to approve this drug shows just how confident regulators are that this form of direct gene modification is likely to prove to be safe in the long-term. Because of this, we can expect a flood of applications for new gene therapies in the next few years.

  24. Any good alternates? on Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I only like 20% of my friends taste in music anyway, just like I want a separate network for business stuff (LinkedIn) I'd rather have a separate social network for exchanging music. LastFM sort of filled this niche for a tiny bit but never focused on the network enough for me, I tried tastebuds.fm while single about 6 months ago and it was closer to what I was looking for interims of sharing music, but a little too heavily dating focused to be useful now.

  25. The solution is simple:
    Stop watching sports (preferred as it's not likely providing you much value in your life outside of entertainment), or spend a amount ($ value) of your time finding free streams of sports events until someone decides that the BS is too much and does what iTunes did for music for Sports.

    My guess, however is that a break-up of the sports monopoly by some outside party (even apple) won't happen because most people watching sports are doing so to distract them selves from reality and the feeling that they should do something real. Fun fact: the word sport means to literally "carry away" (the mind from serious matters), from des- "away" (see dis-) + porter "to carry," from Latin portare "to carry" - which likely explains why governments since the Romans have been building stadiums / subsidizing them.