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  1. Re:Nature finds a way on Australian Experiment Wipes Out Over 80% of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Immune to what? Females would have to know that the male is sterile and only select non-sterile males, that is pretty hard task to do with just random mutation during a couple of generations.

    If there is any distinguishable difference between sterile and non-sterile male species, then the females (even if there are few of them) that are able to pick up on that will be dominant within a few generations, as all the others die off.

  2. Re:Don't hardcode SQL queries in your application on Google Maps API Becomes 'More Difficult and Expensive' (govtech.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree with your post and architecture model, but migrating a live, large database with a lot of users is basically my nightmare project. I lay awake at night thinking about how to do it, even though it hasn't come up for me and probably won't (at least, not more than once in my career). Just getting the data out of the old database and into the new could take hours and hours and hours.

  3. Re:Streisand effect on Facebook Chooses To Demote Fake News Instead of Remove It (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The absolute failure of the MSM and various governments to control the narrative of any one issue has already proven the futility of trying to censor dissenting opinions and narratives. The more you try to shape opinion by forcing the more people will chose to find other sources of information

    This is a very good thing.

    And sadly if often drives people into falling into the trap of buying into narratives that may or may not be accurate at all. See just about any news story from Buzzfeed.

    This is a bad thing.

  4. Try a different ad blocker.

  5. Re:Compared to what? on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I really don't get the attitude of "we hate clinton so much we'll vote for [anyone else]!".

    I'm not sure very many people have that attitude. The Trump supporters I know actively like him (that's why they're supporters). Everyone I've talked to who voted for him can articulate some reason why they think he is better than Hillary. It's not always a fact-based reason, but they feel like they voted for the best candidate.

  6. Worth mentioning that Trump purposely says things that will engrage one side. Whether it's "I can shoot someone and people will still vote for me" or "Russia, please hack the DNC", these are careful phrases designed to act as a kind of reverse-dog whistle.

  7. There's still a lot more to come from this investigation. Don't think for a second that this is some sort of conclusion. That mistake has been made every time new indictments are brought: "Is that all Mueller has?" is the cry from the Trump camp every time one of these new indictments is announced.

    I kind of wish there would be less noise until the investigation finishes. But I guess noise is the new normal.

  8. For example, XOR. f(x) = 0 is provably secure, but non-reversible (and completely useless).

    Secure in theory, but you still have to be careful to not fall to sidechannel attacks.

  9. If I'm going to use a JS library, I'm going to choose it very carefully, and then place it inside my project. Even without the security considerations, just stuffing it into your project where the bleeding-edge version is automatically tracked, that's just asking to get hit early with every type of bug, not just the security ones and malfeatures from jerks and criminals. I don't want today's version; and if it is doing something critical where I need to care about updates, then using a third party project doesn't mean I can stop following the news about exploits; it actually means I have to follow it more closely than otherwise.

    I just want to point out that this is really hard to do these days (ie, a lot of effort). That is the #1 thing that frustrates me about web development these days.

  10. Re:"Kuang Grade Mark Eleven penetration program" on China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh.....I think I just failed the Turing Test. Or the Hollywood Screenwriter test. Maybe those are the same thing.

  11. Russia has been trying to manipulate elections for decades.

  12. Mainly because we don't consider them a threat. Of course, Russia could hurt America if they wanted to, but we consider that they will not do so for various reasons. Germany most likely doesn't consider Russia a threat either.

  13. Re:We must stay competitive! on China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles (popsci.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    We should implement Blockchain RADAR immediately as a response to this newfangled Quantum RADAR.

    I know your idea sounds ridiculous on the surface, but if you use deep learning, you can put it in a div with Javascript. You couldn't before, but WebAssembly makes it possible. That's the advantage of Chinese hypertext.

  14. Re:Comparatively... on Ireland Becomes World's First Country To Divest From Fossil Fuels (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    what they should be focusing on is how the fuck to dig themselves out of the debt

    Why? They got tons of good stuff from other people's money. In the worst case, they default and can't borrow money anymore. What exactly is the point of trying to get out of debt?

  15. Re: Surprise! on The First Real Boom in Virtual Reality? It's Pornography. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? What is the earliest art you consider pornography then?

  16. Re:More Rats In New York on Killing Rats Could Save Coral Reefs (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They have asked me to inform you that if you continue to associate them with the president, you will be hearing from their lawyers.

    That's exactly what a rat/Trump would do.

  17. That is unfortunate, but expected. It would b e really great if we had something that looked even remotely close to their demo.

  18. Re:good news for us on Killing Rats Could Save Coral Reefs (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    It might actually be easier to do something about global warming that to exterminate the rats.

  19. I was wondering that, too. Merely forking the code isn't enough, if your stored passwords get forked, too. I didn't wonder enough to read the source code, though.

  20. Re:Quick - Panic! on New Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2 CPU Flaws Disclosed (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of us run Javascript on our machines all the time, so in that sense, we're vulnerable.

    If you want to see how far exploiters will go to take advantage of these things, check out heap spraying. It took a few years to invent heap spraying, but now it's considered a basic technique. We don't see exploits in the wild yet because it's still new, but soon we will.

  21. Re: Good for you sir! on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    What? Do you have a link for that?

  22. Re: It's a foundation, not a competition. on 'RSS Has Already Won' (brianschrader.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mainly I don't mind missing stuff

  23. 10% memory usage increase, according to the article. Defends against spectre and meltdown somewhat.

  24. Re:the real problem on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    My personally preferred solution is to divide the ISPs from the infrastructure owners. Just like was done in the dialup days.

  25. Might it be time for a V2 rewrite as opposed to another patch release? Just a thought.

    That possibility is on the table, but the people who wrote the original constitution spent way more time thinking about the issues than our current crop of politicians. It's easy to read the declaration of independence and respect it's author. It's hard to find any writing of any politician today and respect it.

    If there were another constitution written today, it almost certainly would be a worse constitution, with all kinds of weird compromises based on the issues that will only matter for a few more weeks.