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  1. Re:The campaign rhetoric was scary... on Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't help but think you missed the main point of my post.

  2. Re:Faster attack when you have physical access on Almost 'All Modern Computers' Affected By Cold Boot Attack, Researchers Warn (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it really that easy to decrypt a hard drive?

  3. Re:Was an interesting time capsule on Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    we live in a high-information world now, where all of the people can understand the political class as a whole are scum

    That's an interesting thought.

  4. worse character and morals is being promoted by the exact same people (led by hypocrite-in-chief Gingrich).

    We dodged a bullet when Gingrich didn't get elected.

  5. Re:The campaign rhetoric was scary... on Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bullshit. I know it was called fake news, but I watched the video of Trump saying that if Hillary was elected people should take the 2nd amendment option. Sure, he was probably joking, but you have to really be a right-wing nut job if you think that's like other Republicans.

    It's not that Trump is the same as Bush (so far, Bush was far worse). It's that a lot of left-wing people are reacting with the same sort of derangement, detached from reality. Even people here on Slashdot were in fact worried that Bush would cancel the election in 2007 and declare martial law, effectively becoming a dictator. There was no rational basis for this worry, but it was a real fear.

  6. (the oddball "master/peer" was recommended), as well as "cancelled, not aborted or killed" and "processed, not executed".

    These are oddly bad recommendations.

  7. Re:Islamophobic Python! on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the Epistle to Philemon. It's fairly short, you can read it.

  8. Re:Slavery is American! on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The US was simply the last superpower to abolish it locally.

    The US was not a superpower. At the time the US only survived because of the difficulty of transporting an army across the ocean. If the US had a superpower at that time, it would be isolation.

  9. Re:The classical states on Scientists Discover a 'Tuneable' Novel Quantum State of Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Quantum doesn't mean magical,

    Ironically, that may be the most commonly used meaning of the term. For example, we know that the earth is flat but quantum mechanics make it look round. I saw that in a video.

  10. I admit it is cool, but do you understand it?

  11. Re:Claim, schmaim on Apple, Huawei Both Claim First 7nm Smartphone Chips (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I've started comparing based on transistor density, rather than process size,

    Nice approach.

  12. Re:Let it all go through on The EU Can Still Be Saved From Its Internet-Wrecking Copyright Plan (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I want to see every popular website out there shut down in the EU because it's no longer worth the money

    And suddenly the Internet becomes a better place.

  13. What are these "benefits", and who are these countries?

    Better reflexes, better form factor, better awareness, cheaper. For a military, "benefits" mainly is measured with questions like "does it make us combat ready? Will it help us win in kinetic warfare?"

  14. Re:Donald TRUMP on Apple, Huawei Both Claim First 7nm Smartphone Chips (ieee.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Born in Jamaica. (true fact, look it up)

    I want to point out that you have never, ever seen Donald Trump's birth certificate. Maybe he hates immigrants the way Republican senators hate gays: by being one of them

  15. Re:Claim, schmaim on Apple, Huawei Both Claim First 7nm Smartphone Chips (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At this point, the measurement of a nanometer in chip manufacturing is so.......flexible.......that it's not really worth paying attention to, other than as an announcement of something new. It's too imprecise of a measurement. Let's look at the benchmarks, what the chip can actually do, that is what matters.

  16. I finally started getting treatment at 40 years old but honestly it's a bit late and there isn't anything that helps much.

    Find a zen temple to go meditate at. It might not help but it will make you feel better.

  17. Re:Let's lose the adjectives on Researchers Come Out With Yet Another Unnerving, New Deepfake Method (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't believe what happened next after you asked that.

  18. It is pumping up dissent and rivalry and anger, by foreign governments trolling myriad sites, that is the real problem.

    This is like a rounding error on the actual problems, it's so small.

    Tout racial friction? Attempt to portray right wing as synonymous with neo Nazis? Not point out some are, but touting they are the same, while posting simultaneously messages that are Nazi-like as if by a Trump supporter?

    There are so many actual American democrats saying those things that any Russian influence is completely drowned out. Formerly respectable newspapers are playing the stuff, it's beyond typical conspiracy theorists. To be fair, Americans also compared Bush to Hitler, and Obama to the antichrist. We just don't like our presidents.

    The real problem is not Russian meddling, it's the willingness of people to demonize the other side rather than try to understand.

  19. People Are Stressed, Depressed, Lonely, and Exhausted

    Headline shortened and generalized for clarity.

  20. Re:In other words... on Safe AI Requires Cultural Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    It's kind of fantastical to worry about ethical issues of a technology that doesn't even exist yet (it's talking about strong AI). It's almost like they've discovered a new genre. Maybe we can call it, science fiction.

  21. Re:I have a much better store of value on Cryptocurrency Wipeout Deepens To $640 Billion As Ether Leads Declines (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, I wouldn't think silver (or solder for that matter) would be strong enough for the typical use cases of a bladed mace.

  22. Re: “Wanting to be an astronaut” on NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at this way, if you survive 10-15 more years, you might actually be able to be an astronaut. Prove your childhood teacher wrong.

  23. Re:as the naysayers again crawl from the woodwork on Nearly Half of American Households Will Own a Smart Speaker by 2019, Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    they once swore "Computer mice are for sissies. What's wrong with command line?".

    Well, I still use the command-line.

  24. Re:Don't you mean corporation spy speaker? on Nearly Half of American Households Will Own a Smart Speaker by 2019, Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    "They are a hi-tech company and they say they wouldn't do anything to violate my privacy

    That's basically an oxymoron: privacy-protecting high-tech company.

  25. People mostly use them to play music.

    Alexa, play bye American Pie!