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  1. issue ads don't need to be covered on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1
    FEC says the court has already ruled that

    Despite the general prohibition on foreign national contributions and donations, foreign nationals may lawfully engage in political activity that is not connected with any election to political office at the federal, state, or local levels.

    It is pretty odd though that Google didn't require an id to place political ads for candidates up until now. I don't actually know if it's more odd or scary. Frankly, I am more worried about our policy being governed by ad buying by Middle Eastern oil money than by Russian money.

  2. probaby yes on Ask Slashdot: Is the World Better Or Worse Because of Security Tech? · · Score: 1

    It probably increases usability in the same way that car safety measures increase usability of cars. As someone already mentioned, it forces systems to be designed in such a way that they are also proofed against users "shooting themselves in the foot" at a moment of even a tiniest incompetence.

  3. Re:To the anthropology professor... on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would he come back? Have you not read the article? He would only come back after the books were cleaned off the floor. He wouldn't know that they were unless someone called him back.

  4. Re:You have to remember on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The guy telling us this is a professor of anthropology.

    So, he's doing his job.

    But what is the point of his job? "...staffing committees that discuss the problem of unnecessary committees?" Not to put too fine a point on it, but he could read through 1 book and fix the shelf himself. No one would know. And judging by how busy the carpenter is, no one would complain, either.

  5. he forgot to mention one job to the list on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    His own: anthropology professor.

  6. Re:...or a force for good on Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Warns of AI's Dark Side (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are one of those, ha? No mass murder has ever been committed by a corporation. Many mass murders have been committed by people who hate corporations.

  7. Re:Today's AI is not magic on Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Warns of AI's Dark Side (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If was just a DAG, it wouldn't need more than 2 layers... ever. A chain of a bunch of multiplies matrices is just a matrix. It's the back propagation that makes it mildly interesting. And back propagation makes a full graph (with cycles and all). But it's still missing something crucial that a brain does. So crucial, in fact, that you need larger and larger scale networks just to try to simulate it. Oh, and brains... well, most of them are not that intelligent, either.

  8. Re:Moscow Donald - Treason, Obstruction of Justice on US Government Weighing Sanctions Against Kaspersky Lab (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shut up, Hillary.

  9. why would the sanctions have to wait? on US Government Weighing Sanctions Against Kaspersky Lab (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 2

    Sanctions, as such, are political acts. They don't have to comport with independent legal proceedings.

  10. Re:Democrats are really to blame on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ok, then.

  11. Re:Democrats are really to blame on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you not see that to prove that Democrats are not the ones beating the drums of war against Russia you are using "Russian" as an insult to act out against someone accusing Democrats of something? You are proving what I claimed: that Democrats are driving the narrative that only a Russian would be against Democrats. This is a Big Lie about having just perpetrated a Big Lie. I hope you are just having fun with it. Because if you actually have enough IQ points to learn how to type and you still don't see the irony of what you are doing... if you actually believe what you are spewing... damn, that's just another proof of what I've been saying for along time. Eloquent (even mildly eloquent like you) idiots are more dangerous than in-eloquent enemies.

  12. Re:Democrats are really to blame on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    are you retarded? Well, get treated then. Or are you just a Democrat? Not sure if there is a cure for that. Get an education maybe? Oh, well, how about get a library card? That would be a good start.

  13. Re:Democrats are really to blame on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    at 1:50

  14. Re:Democrats are really to blame on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What the hell do you mean "nope"? here. Who should I believe? Your bullshit or my lying eyes?

  15. So, identifying Russia as a "problem" is pretty easy. Yet you take your marching orders from the Big Giant Head, and that means that autocrats are Perfectly A-OK! Nothing to see here, look away!

    I didn't say Russia was an ally. But it's less hostile to the US than, let's say, China. And yet it is Russia that every Democrats is trying to accuse of a war against the US.

  16. Democrats never "pushed the narrative that we are at war with Russia." That is a blatant lie; I've literally never heard anyone say that.

    Oh? I am not going to cut and past my comment above. Just link it. https://slashdot.org/comments....

  17. Re:Democrats are really to blame on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    During a committee hearing on 03/20/17, Congresswoman Speier, of California, stated that Russia "committed acts of war against the United States". She stated this as a premise of a question she asked of (then) FBI Director James B. Comey and Adm. Mike Rogers, director of the NSA. She didn't ask if Russia committed acts of war. She premised her question on this. Congress has the power to declare war. This wasn't a talk show question. She said this while sitting in her committee chair in a televised hearing. This was not the 1st of these types of accusations from her fellow Democrats and it wasn't the last.

  18. Re:Democrats are really to blame on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ronald Reagan was not anti-Russia. He was anti Soviet Block because he was anti-socialism (at home and abroad). USSR hasn't existed since 1991. Ronald Reagan was validated when it fell apart. Democrats are against Russia for the same reason they were against Reagan. They are against a right-leaning regime.

  19. I am not following on Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if majority of the programmers are white men, why would they use themselves as the training data for the bots? Wouldn't they use a demographic that is more likely to be interviewed for the jobs for which the interviewing bots are designated?

  20. Democrats are really to blame on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Democrats are the ones who pushed the narrative that we are at war with Russia. Russia is the largest exporter of fossil fuels in the world. The country most dependant on Russian gas, Germany, already built 5 coal-firing plants to hedge against a possible cut in Russian gas deliveries. If we are to take the threat of Russian war seriously, we have to hedge against a world-wide drop in fossil fuel deliveries resulting from Russia using gas cutbacks as a weapon.

  21. You are welcome, Hillary.

  22. Did you somehow miss the invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions on Russia?

    Invasion of Ukraine was a profoundly dumb decision on the part of RF. But it doesn't make RF a US adversary. Yes, we imposed sanctions on some financial institutions in Russia (not on Russia itself, btw).

    The Russians have a victim mentality, even when they're the aggressors.

    Why do I have to care about their mentality? Their actions is what concerns me. The claim that they are acting in an adversarial manner towards the US is dubious at best. And it's made loudest by the party which had a lot to cover up (the Criminal Democratic Party). So excuse me when I call "bull shit".

    Putin, his goons, the mafias and those who have plundered their country and now blame the west. Maybe they believe it. They complain about NATO on their borders because they want the freedom to invade their neighbours.

    Blah, blah, balh. Ok. You convinced me. They have historic gripes. They are really just using those for internal consumption in order to divert the public's attention from their invasions (aka propaganda) and then the English-speaking RF citizens are just spewing right back out on the Internet. But this has nothing to do with what Russia actually did with respect to the US on the Internet. It's just a hyperbole of the pro-crime Criminal Democratic Party trying to create a boogie man to divert attention from the fact that they nearly destroyed the country.

  23. Russia is 100% our adversary

    define "adversary". trolling is not an act of war. so even if every other spam message was from russia, that would not make it a war. when you apologists trying to justify russian occupation of georgia and ukraine, yeah, that's russian propaganda. but just mischief trying to amplify social problem? even if it is russia, they are just doing the muckraking that our own media isn't.

  24. Sure. I'll check. Links to the agency warnings, please? Not 3rd party accounts, but the actual links to the warnings. I'll go collect crickets while so I have something to listen to while you don't post.

  25. I don't know that there are Russian in this forum. I used to think there were a few too many apologists for Putin on the Internet until every Democrats decided to blame every one of their failures on some mysterious Russian trolls. Big Lie is not hard to spot. It's only hard to spot if you have a hard on for it.

    Fact: The Russians *are* out to get us.

    Maybe. I am not sure why, but there could be some historical gripes. But another fact is that every time a Democrat mentions it, they are talking out of their ass and it's very, very transparent.