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  1. Re:And still on No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I have a 4chan Gold account to offer back in trade.

  2. Re:Software? SOFTWARE? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' S on LA County Gets State Approval of New Vote-Counting System Using Open-Source Software (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It is possible to have a discussion without the ad hominem attacks, but it is beyond obvious that you don't want to discuss, you want to inflict abuse. Go die in a fire.

  3. Re:Software? SOFTWARE? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' S on LA County Gets State Approval of New Vote-Counting System Using Open-Source Software (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they talk, but by then it's too late to do anything but take down some bag men. How many elections have been negated due to tampering or fraud? None in the U.S. at least.

  4. Re:Software? SOFTWARE? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' S on LA County Gets State Approval of New Vote-Counting System Using Open-Source Software (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I trust a dumb machine that just counts and does nothing else over 50 people doing that same counting. Even if they're all honest, the 50 people are going to make more mistakes unless the machine is broken.

  5. Re:"Thank God for Dead Soldiers" on The Consequences of Indecency (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not without consequences -- they spend a lot of money doing this, expecting someone to get aggressive with them so they can sue to finance more such meatspace trolling. So either they run out of money or they induce someone to assault them. Neither one is without consequence.

  6. Re: correlation is not causation on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    When there is no clearly defined policy, things change with the prevailing winds in the Executive branch. That's what worries me.

    As for the Afghanis, the news reports called it "asylum". Maybe they oversimplified for the audience, but that's what they called it, and until right now I didn't know there was something in between that and a permanent resident visa.

  7. Re:Software? SOFTWARE? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' S on LA County Gets State Approval of New Vote-Counting System Using Open-Source Software (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I have seen, they scan them optically. Then if things don't check out, they might count the ballots (not the votes, just the actual physical papers) to make sure two didn't get stuck to each other or anything like that. Only if that fails to resolve the discrepancy do they actually count votes manually, and only that particular batch that the machine barfed on.

  8. Re: Verizon Lies and Throttles on Fire Department Rejects Verizon's 'Customer Support Mistake' Excuse For Throttling (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, but how does killing their data connection and making them Sneakernet their cameras in after their shift help with that? Because that's the scenario I was referring to -- where the only copy of the video is on their person. It's like burglars stealing the security camera recorder when they rob a place, except that they have to kill the cop just to get their hands on it. Also if they have the only copy, it opens an opportunity for the footage to be replaced.

  9. Re:Who is this Bruce Perens guy. on Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches With No Benchmarks Or Profiling Allowed (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I suppose it depends where you draw the line.

    If something that makes you say "oops" is a fuckup, then I'm sure he does it as much as anyone. What he doesn't do so much are things for which he has to publicly apologize, so if that's where you draw the line, then you are also right.

  10. Re:Software? SOFTWARE? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' S on LA County Gets State Approval of New Vote-Counting System Using Open-Source Software (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you pay off ONE counter in EACH precinct and hope some or most of them get through without an audit by making sure it's not close enough to trigger a recount. You wouldn't have to tilt all of them, and some you would just be making closer rather than in your favor (since all the votes are aggregated anyhow). Steal a hundred votes here, a hundred there, a thousand somewhere else. Keep the margins tight, so that one big victory elsewhere (also assisted by buying a vote counter) can cancel them all out.

  11. Re: correlation is not causation on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm speaking of various Afghanis who have been told they would receive asylum for their help in finding Osama... who were then stonewalled and left to their own devices. If they had thought they'd eventually get tossed back even after GETTING asylum (and I'm sorry they trusted the U.S., our government has a history of leaving foreign collaborators twisting in the wind), then it would have been a dicier prospect at face value. The "ground situation" refers to Afghanistan, not American soil!

  12. Re:Software? SOFTWARE? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' S on LA County Gets State Approval of New Vote-Counting System Using Open-Source Software (latimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Sure. Because none of those 50 people can be bought off, and 50 points of attack is so much safer than one.

  13. That's exactly how it's done in Los Angeles county too. The machines in question COUNT them.

  14. Re: correlation is not causation on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    On the reverse side, putting a time limit on asylum will make it much less likely the locals will pitch in with us in any ground situation, because they know they'll end up back home (and beheaded) eventually. Even if the political situation stabilizes, snitches still get stitches.

  15. Re: Verizon Lies and Throttles on Fire Department Rejects Verizon's 'Customer Support Mistake' Excuse For Throttling (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That would provide a perverse incentive to kill cops and take their recording hardware, since they possess the only copy. Also, it would make it difficult to impossible to prove if tampering had occurred, and provide time for that tampering to occur.

    Not only should the video be uploaded in real time (if that consumes bandwidth, so be it -- that's the cost of operating in modern society), but it should be hashed and saved in multiple places such that if one of them is tampered with, it will clearly not match the other copies.

  16. Re:Who is this Bruce Perens guy. on Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches With No Benchmarks Or Profiling Allowed (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't, he's probably just better at not committing his stupidity to the public record. We all fuck up.

  17. Not surprising, but good data to have. on Poor Sleep Alters Metabolism and Boosts Body's Ability To Store Fat, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sleep deprivation is a source of chronic stress at a basic level. It's not all that surprising that it causes neurological effects, but ALSO systemic stress-related effects.

  18. Re: correlation is not causation on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Whether or not to let them in at all has been the point of contention -- not how long they get to stay once admitted. Nobody is discussing the latter point on either side.

  19. Re: correlation is not causation on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    "My country" is the United States of America. One would imagine that if this policy was a point of contention on whether to admit someone or not, it would be a topic of discussion -- but it isn't. Nobody talks about it. I had to ask as a matter of fact checking for a story I am writing.

  20. For the tealdeer crowd, the relevant portion starts on line 71.

  21. Re: correlation is not causation on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Asylum is a permanent situation. I have consulted with immigration lawyers (casually, not professionally) to ask if asylum seekers have to go home when the crisis that caused them to leave is resolved -- and the answer is NO. Asylum is not revocable unless they do something to get deported.

  22. Yes. This is why "burner phones" are illegal in many countries -- because they have deemed it too dangerous to allow the populace to speak without identifying themselves first. And all it takes to keep a group from meeting is to declare them a criminal organization, at which point merely assembling is itself admitting to a crime (being part of the conspiracy).

  23. Re:Training for what? on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Fourier transforms don't blow my mind, and I use them quite frequently, but there's not much value to understanding them when working in an insurance agency.

    The gal with the math degree absolutely was intelligent and competent, and I wouldn't claim otherwise. But she definitely wasn't looking for ways to change the way things were done, she just followed the guidelines.

  24. Re:Nvidia sleeps well at night. on Nvidia Unveils Powerful New RTX 2070 and 2080 Graphics Cards (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    No, there is no provision to turn off the processing that causes the delay. It also only supports 30 Hz at 4K.

    Avoid the Changhong UD42YC5500UA for computer use, or even game console use.

  25. You don't need SLI, that was my point. You just need two cards working independently on two angles of the same scene. They don't have to communicate with each other other than to arrange their frame timing.