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  1. Re:Russian against free world by exposing facts? on Former FBI Director Predicts Russian Hackers Will Interfere With More Elections (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Only a fool treats carefully selected facts the same as if they were impartially selected,

    That isn't what happened here. The DNC looked bad on their own merits. The emails just corroborated things we already knew. Also they were entertaining.

  2. You might mention that Russia has been trying to influence the election, with little success, since the Soviet era.

  3. Re:No, He Can't Do That on Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    thanks

  4. Re:A whole lot of nothing in the leak on Edward Snowden On Trump Administration's Recent Arrest of an Alleged Journalistic Source (freedom.press) · · Score: 1

    The problem I was referring to was when he turned the attention to Iraq, before finishing up in Afghanistan. To Bush's credit, once things got really bad, he took the necessary steps to turn things around, but arguably he prolonged the conflict by a decade when he ignored it for Iraq.

    Another question is whether it was even necessary to conquer Afghanistan, or if we should have just focused on getting Bin Ladin.

    Then of course, it's a smaller issue but his diplomacy when he invaded Afghanistan sucked. A little better coordination would have kept our allies happy.

  5. Re:Not enought balls for a rematch? on Google Go-Playing A.I. Retires To Focus On Energy Conservation And Medicine (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    then you could then use that as a training data set for a neural net.

    No, this shows a lack of understanding of the capabilities of neural networks.

  6. I don't see anywhere that they sequenced the DNA of this jawbone. Did they?

  7. Re:To summarise every Apple article this week on Apple Announces Support For WebRTC in Safari 11 (webkit.org) · · Score: 1

    A minor Apple executive timidly mentioned that webRTC was an old standard by now. Tim Cook ordered his gelsacs removed.

  8. Re:No, He Can't Do That on Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, that's definitely a better analysis lol

  9. Furthermore, similar evolutions can happen multiple times. For example, a group of sparrows might grow longer beaks, then shorter beaks over time as their available diet changes. Indeed, we know such things have happened in the past to hominids.

  10. Re:Look outside of Africa, too. on Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco, Altering History of Our Species (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They found a jaw bone. Jaw bones aren't very complete evidence, especially given the number of fossils found actually within Africa.

  11. Re:A whole lot of nothing in the leak on Edward Snowden On Trump Administration's Recent Arrest of an Alleged Journalistic Source (freedom.press) · · Score: 1

    Hey, Bush II only fucked up Iraq.

    He messed up really bad in Afghanistan.

  12. Re:A whole lot of nothing in the leak on Edward Snowden On Trump Administration's Recent Arrest of an Alleged Journalistic Source (freedom.press) · · Score: 1

    The way I figure it, if Trump doesn't start a pre-emptive war, and badly botch a second war, then he's already ahead of the Bush administration. It doesn't take much to be ahead of the Bush administration, and you can be a loud-mouth and still do it. Trump still has time, though........

  13. Re:No, He Can't Do That on Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah that was about to happen. The money for a lawsuit defense wasn't coming out of their retirement fund.

    Anyway, that's a stupid way to determine the quality of a lawsuit. It's far more interesting to get into the facts of the case. Do you think by creating a Facebook page, they created a public forum? and if so, what type of public forum? Should the courts create a new type of 'forum' to deal with this situation, or should it be stuck into a category (of forum) they've already created?

  14. Re:The solution is to get money out of politics on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can't find loopholes in that, you're not very creative.

  15. Re:No, He Can't Do That on Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    In that particular case, I think it was more like the police station didn't want to spend millions on a legal fight they didn't really care about. Even if they ultimately won, that would mean they would get to delete comments off their Facebook page. What a victory.

  16. Re:Actual link to TFA on Police In Oklahoma Have Cracked Hundreds of People's Cell Phones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If they're doing it without a warrant, then maybe we have something to worry about.

  17. Re:Prison guards make around $150k a year in Calif on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 0

    When you have term limits, then politicians leave and lobbyists stay around. The lobbyists keep getting better at manipulating politicians, but just when the politicians learn to handle it, a new politician comes in.

  18. Re:Actual link to TFA on Police In Oklahoma Have Cracked Hundreds of People's Cell Phones (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Now that I've read the article, it looks like the phone searches either were done with consent or with a warrant, and in most cases, a warrant was used. Hard to feel outraged about that.

    It is eye-opening to see the nice tools the police have to search through phones, though. A pretty UI, it's more than just grep.

  19. Re:No, He Can't Do That on Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that analysis is correct. The case you linked to (in the indystar) never went to court. To consider it differently, if you are at a town-hall meeting, and CODEPINK runs in and starts shouting, they can be arrested.

    The real question is whether Donald Trump, by having a Twitter feed, has created a public forum or not. Obviously that isn't something the creators of the constitution had thought about when they wrote the amendment, and none of the prior judgements really address the point, so the Supreme Court ruling would be based entirely on the opinions of the members of the court.

  20. Re:Trump is pure genius! on Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    you clowns are going to elect Howard Stern as President next aren't you?

    Do you think he would be worse? I mean, really?

  21. Re:This wasn't the only way on How a Few Yellow Dots Burned the Intercept's NSA Leaker (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't know about her office, but some government offices don't allow USB drives or cell phones into the workplace, and such devices can be destroyed if they are brought in.

  22. Re:What happened... on Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Was Tech Capital (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Shockley had quite a personality. The reason the 'Traitorous Eight' left him was because he was annoying to work for. After his work in the computer world, he went around promoting eugenics. He largely lost credibility in the popular press when someone asked him, "So why aren't your children smart?" and he couldn't answer.

  23. hope the CEO is one of them on More Than 20 Employees Fired at Uber in Sexual Harassment Investigation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2
  24. You probably don't need antivirus on Windows, either. In many cases, it's been demonstrably worse than nothing at all.

  25. Re:Government should just drop the product. on Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe the parents should vote for a different school board.