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  1. Probably what will ultimately happen is the parties will figure out a way to rebalance their platforms and still win about half the votes, the way they have always done.

  2. Spoken like a typically ignorant American who has never been outside the US. You got yours, so everything is right with the world...

    I've been to more countries than you, spent more time outside the US than you, and speak more languages than you. Unfortunately, you are an ignoramus.

  3. What's mindblowing to me is that it's only for very, very short-term gain. Long-term, the republican party is dead demographically

    I hear that, but it discounts how quickly parties can pivot.
    Furthermore, it discounts how religious and conservative a lot of latino immigrants actually are. If repubs ever manage to convince them that they aren't racist, they easily could become repub voters.

  4. A lot of people are jealous, yes.

  5. A more natural way would be to hack into a computer in China then from there hack into the US. If you are hacking serious targets, go through multiple proxies. Never hack directly from your own computer.

  6. Lesson #1: If you're not so bloody stupid, then nobody else is likely to become moronic.

    Really? What if someone else is stupid first? Isn't it kind of a high bar to expect no one in the world to be stupid?

  7. It's clear that Trump has no decency, but shouldn't some other republicans stand up?

    They have. Some rather vocally, too. Paul Ryan is retiring, for example, rather than deal with the shit storm. McCain was dying to get away from Trump. The problem is a lot of Republicans who opposed Trump felt it in the election: Ted Cruz literally hugged Trump to enable him to squeak by in a red state.

  8. Re:Dumb move. on Popular Dark Web Hosting Provider Got Hacked, 6,500 Sites Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They might or might not, but if I were a customer with a bill about to come due, I sure wouldn't volunteer that information.

  9. I'm about to eat a turkey and lots of good pie to celebrate my heritage, before heading out on a passport that is trusted and accepted in most of the world. What is there to be embarrassed about? It's a good country, as countries go. Even the complaints people have are mostly minor.....the vast, vast majority of us have healthcare, and most of us aren't racist. Working here is great, I have plenty of vacation, and can either work in a big city or afford a humongous house in a suburb (so big that some people get jealous of them and call them McMansions). I have my own preferences, but these are all options.

    Just like I don't expect most Russians to be like Putin, most people in the world are accepting of Americans. America is not the only good country, maybe it's not even the best country (that depends how you measure, of course), but it's a good one. Sorry you feel embarrassed about your nationality, maybe you should see a psychologist about that, because you have issues (by definition).

  10. Well I don't want Donald Trump as a role model, either. That's irrelevant as to whether I'm embarrassed to be an American or not......all-in-all I'm really happy to be an American.

    The president is never a good representation of America. At any given time, half the country thinks he's trying to become Hitler (or an anti-christ), and a good third of the rest of the population thinks he's a nice guy but a bit misguided.

  11. Re:Web servers at home? on Popular Dark Web Hosting Provider Got Hacked, 6,500 Sites Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    It's100% free, and if you're doing something sketchy, you've got 100% control of your own files and your own backups.

    People with technical knowledge who are doing sketchy things like to host their stuff on other people's home servers, often on their router (which has firmware that hasn't been updated in years).

  12. Re:Dumb move. on Popular Dark Web Hosting Provider Got Hacked, 6,500 Sites Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Since they don't do backups, it would seem logical that their customers keep their own to re-upload.

    I think his problem is that now he doesn't know who his customers are......or how much they owe.

  13. It must be so embarrassing to be American right now

    It's really not.

  14. Re:If The DNC were so concerned on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are completely right, but I don't see what difference it makes. The FBI has serious issues and if both parties are mad at the FBI, something can be done, like reducing funding or changing its mission.

  15. Re:If The DNC were so concerned on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    At one time in history, Democrats didn't trust the FBI. And for good reasons.

    When Trump got elected, I thought maybe we would have a chance of bi-partisan dislike of the FBI. But that turned out to not be the case.

  16. garage-built nukes,

    Is this a credible problem? Is there a way an average person could get sufficient plutonium, or that they could any time in the next 50 years?

  17. "Grand Master of AI" is a title I have no filed along side "Technology Futurist." An extremely useful title, it tells you they will just babble mindlessly.

  18. Re:It helps our customers. Maybe from testing on AWS Rolls Out New Security Feature To Prevent Accidental S3 Data Leaks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In the past it was a lot easier to accidentally get the settings wrong. I expect it will be less and less of a problem as things move forward and the default settings become more secure.

  19. Re: gratuitous insult on Bill Nye: We Are Not Going To Live on Mars, Let Alone Turn It Into Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not that we can't live permanently on Antarctica, we have the technology, but no one cares enough to deploy it.

  20. Re: "now"? on Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    People are upset because now they think Facebook helped the *other* party. Both parties think that. There is no great awakening here, Facebook has sucked on ethics from the very beginning. Worse, it was written in php.

  21. Javascript isn't popular because "any code monkey can use them." It's popular because people are forced to use it. That is all.

    PHP has a good paradigm: when people criticize it, they always criticize the details of the implementation, not the overall concept. Admittedly there are enough implementation mistakes to ruin the cake.

  22. Of course, the real mystery for any theory that has him surviving is how the heck he planned to land safely and be recovered in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Northwest in November. H

    Apparently he boarded a train like a hobo. I'm just saying that based on the summary.

  23. Re:Market it to people on Windows 7 on Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu 18.04 Will Get a 10-Year Support Lifespan (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    10 years ago I would agree with you, but now with smartphones and "Agile" development processes, users are used to changing interfaces. The interfaces change frequently, and often for no reason. You either have to adapt, or not use your device.

    Not only that, Windows recently insisted their users all learn a completely different interface type.

  24. Re:Siri is pretty much useless on Apple's Siri May Soon Process Voice Locally On a Device, No Cloud Required (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The best way to think of Siri is as hot-key shortcuts for mobile devices. "Siri, call Mom" is a shortcut to scrolling through the contact list. Siri isn't particularly smart, but it does have solid use cases.

  25. That's a good point. In fact they do have all the data they need.

    But if they simply process the text of books to characterize them,

    It's not simple, though. Those kinds of AI algorithms, presumably that actually understand the text, don't exist yet.