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  1. Citizens DO have the right to be heard by the government, that's in the 1st amendment. But they do not have the right to be heard through every single channel possible - for all their cases proper channels exist, and Twitter is not one of them.

  2. You' stop getting any automated updates on new tweets from the person who blocked you, but you can still just enter their page and read their tweets.

  3. All caps messages exceed the allowed noise level.

  4. So if someone thinks shouting his complaints into his backyard well is the correct channel to petition the Government for a redress of grievances, the Government is obligated to install a microphone in that well?

    There are correct channels for everything. Twitter is definitely not the correct channel to exercise your right petition the government.

  5. Wait, the troll messages were official statements?

    Outgoing messages from @RealDonaldTrump are still readable to everyone; meanwhile he's absolutely not obligated to listen to the trolls.

  6. Associated Press on Ask Slashdot: How Do News Organizations Keep Track of So Much Information? · · Score: 2

    Their editors scour the news agencies, like Associated Press for what they deem "news-worthy". These are standarized gateways, web api for importing purchased articles, which get pushed into local CMS, then manually, or half-automatically laid out. Duplicates are avoided through marking all purchases. If anything newsworthy is announced ahead of time, and the "higher ups" want something exclusive, reporters are send to provide own scoop - but great most of data comes from the agencies.

    Generally, a reporter working for a newspaper or media outlet directly is a much more rare sight than a reporter working for a news agency; news aggregated in the agencies and then distributed to news outlets.

    Source: worked at a news portal. The token reporter team existed only so that the portal would be still protected by press law, as mere "news aggregation" media can't get that around here.

  7. Yes. It's a good heuristic to point out suspects for more thorough tests (which may be too expensive to conduct on the whole statistic base) but it isn't a proof by itself.

  8. Re:"90 of the 5,067" on Dozens of Recent Clinical Trials May Contain Wrong or Falsified Data, Claims Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seems like artifact of randomness - Prosecutor's Fallacy.

    Yes, some will be genuine falsifications. But some WILL be genuine results.

    You write a paper on a list of 1000 tosses of a coin, noting each result. The chance for the coin to land on edge in one toss is around 1 in 100,000.

    Then your paper is reviewed along with 100,000 others. If you have the coin land on edge more than once in your dataset, it's flagged as a falsified dataset.

    Roughly 10 papers in the 100,000 tested flagged as falsified will be false positives.

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    Statistical results are subject to the same randomness as single tests contributing to these results. The scale of the randomness is reduced by a factor related to the number of tests, but still exist. And take enough correctly obtained statistical results, and you WILL find outliers.

  9. Re: So... on Denmark Is Killing Tesla and Other Electric Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:4 years and its still early access on Take-Two Acquires Kerbal Space Program · · Score: 3, Informative

    KSP Version 1.0 was released on April 27th , 2015.

    It's 2 years since official release, so cut the crap.

  11. Re:Saving KSP on Take-Two Acquires Kerbal Space Program · · Score: 4, Informative

    Will work. KSP doesn't care about its location - all paths are relative, nor does it leave any registry junk. You'll just need to launch it through a shortcut to KSP_x64.exe

    That's also how you can keep many versions of the game in parallel - or even instances of same version with different mod sets. (though you can't get two KSP instances/windows to run simultaneously in a stable manner at the same time.)

  12. Re:This will make the game better on Take-Two Acquires Kerbal Space Program · · Score: 1

    It uses Minecraft as a platform for development of MS Windows. Using [Redstone.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history#Version_1607_.28Anniversary_Update.29_2)

  13. Re:This will make the game better on Take-Two Acquires Kerbal Space Program · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Imagine how much more accessible to kids the cute Kerbals would become without all that pesky orbital mechanics!

  14. Re:And the first question that the board will ask. on Take-Two Acquires Kerbal Space Program · · Score: 2

    Rocket fuel purchasable through micropayments.

  15. Re:Who is right? on IBM Says Watson Health's AI Is Getting Really Good at Diagnosing Cancer (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cancer.

  16. Re:Corporations are people on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do we have bathrooms for men and women, but not for corporations? Each establishment should provide an extra Corporation Bathroom, where corporations could take care of their dirty interests.

  17. That's why shifting your goals is at least a decent PR move. The efficiency of the "multiple interceptors" solution against Russia is dubious at best.

    OTOH, against North Korea?

  18. No "laptop" or notebook PC forgoes a keyboard? on Get Real, Microsoft: If the New Surface Pro Is a Laptop, Bundle It With a Type Cover (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No "laptop" or notebook PC forgoes a keyboard, however, as the Surface Pro lacks one. Badly.

  19. Re:Magic Filenames in Unix? on In a Throwback To the '90s, NTFS Bug Lets Anyone Hang Or Crash Windows 7, 8.1 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you learn that after, or before encountering your first "*" file? :]

  20. Re:Magic Filenames in Unix? on In a Throwback To the '90s, NTFS Bug Lets Anyone Hang Or Crash Windows 7, 8.1 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Unix doesn't use magic fileNAMES. It uses magic files. Naming them is quite arbitrary and there are very few surprises that can result from that. (naming a file "*" is rally asking for trouble...) Now for assumptions programs make about what file contains what, and OS behavior as it accesses these special files... c'mon, rename sda1 to null...

  21. Re:In the Windows XP era... on In a Throwback To the '90s, NTFS Bug Lets Anyone Hang Or Crash Windows 7, 8.1 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hibernate,
    Put on a shelf for 45 days
    Dehibernate.

    Even win10 includes hibernation time in its uptime.

  22. This title... on Messenger App Kik Debuts Its Own Digital Currency (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    this title really begs for an ethnic slur/stereotype based pun.

    Do you know perchance if owners of that messenger are Jewish?

  23. Re:A Community Without Trolls on Imzy, the Kinder and Gentler Reddit By Ex Employee, Is Shutting Down (imzy.com) · · Score: 1

    What exactly should I listen to? The long-debunked myths still thrown around as facts inside the echo chambers? New definitions of common things? Bullshit thought up by people with no touch with life? I heard quite enough of this crap. Are you going to tell me I'm privileged because of my gender or race? Are you going to tell me I can't be discriminated against? Will you tell me that all injustices I suffer, I suffer deservedly because I'm part of the oppressive force and I deserve to suffer?

    Or are you finally going to tell me something worthwhile?

  24. Re:A Community Without Trolls on Imzy, the Kinder and Gentler Reddit By Ex Employee, Is Shutting Down (imzy.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you define 'racist' or 'mysogynist'? Because from what I've seen, that slope is so incredibly slippery, it pretty much covers everyone who doesn't agree with your opinions. Even if facts and commonly accepted definitions speak against you, e.g. you create an active discrimination based on race or gender. Suddenly pro-equality people are called racists or mysogynists, simply because they don't agree matriarchy is the way, that whites should be vilified and discriminated against, or that they think 'cishet scum' is a slur.

    The typical exchange is:

    "X"
    "You -ist scum, how dare you say X?"
    "Since when is X no longer acceptable?"
    "-ism was never acceptable, you bigoted nazi shit!"
    "But until very recently X wasn't -ism."
    "La la la can't hear you nazi asshole!"

  25. Match against questions! on Researchers Find Dozens of Genes Associated With Measures of Intelligence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    IQ test is an aggregate, a lot of questions testing different aspects of logical thinking and pattern spotting. Trying to find a single gene for IQ is a bit like trying to find which single screw makes a car engine work.

    Instead, try correlating the genes against results from distinct questions from the IQ test. That way you can get genes responsible for specific aspects of IQ. Otherwise... found any singular gene that makes people perform well at chess-boxing?