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  1. Re:Proof that China is sexist on China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI 'Killer Bots' (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    A socially acceptable guy who willingly blinds himself to the truth is still willingly blind to the truth.

    (The trick is to be an asshole about the actual truth instead of your delusions of truth.)

  2. Re:sounds a little like the hitler youth is war co on China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI 'Killer Bots' (scmp.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Selective abortion.

  3. Re:What the hell? on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    And don't forget that the skyrocketing cost of housing is driving people out, and down.

  4. Re:What the hell? on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you agree that California is being drained (by excessive taxes)

    Push up taxes too high, and earners eventually decide to move. Especially when CalPERS has to eventually make good on it's underfunded liabilities.

    and that we provide goods and services in exchange for y'alls moneys?

    The economic equivalent of empty calories.

  5. Proof that China is sexist on China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI 'Killer Bots' (scmp.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    A total of 27 boys and four girls all under the age of 18 were chosen

    In 2018 America, they'd find 27 boys and four girls, drop all the boys, find 27 under-qualified girls, and then drop half of them because they're all Asian instead of black and Latina.

    We're doomed.

  6. Re:What the hell? on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Selling fruits and vegetables (and -- back when it was a manufacturing powerhouse -- planes, automobiles, etc) is one thing, but selling overpriced bits of voltage and magnetism, and a fodder for the boob tube (movies, TV, advertising/b) is... less than productive.

  7. Not where I live. on Gates Foundation Spent $200 Million Funding Toilet Research (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The initial demand for the reinvented toilet will be in places like schools, apartment buildings, and community bathroom facilities.

    In the public schools, they'd be broken with a week.

    BTW, what's a community bathroom facility? I know what each word means, but can't put them all together. Is it the shared bathroom like in locker rooms and dormitories?

  8. Re:What the hell? on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    California earners are going to keep earning

    Maybe you're right (by draining the money from other states, leaving them with less ability to pay taxes for single payer health).

    OTOH, according to https://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/compare_state_spending_2017bH0a CA's per capita state debt is pretty high. (Not as high as that of DC and NY, though.)

  9. Re:What the hell? on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    You're living off growth initiated during a less socialist era, and the good fortune of being in a region with sun, deep water ports and land you can fertilize with other people's water.

    Eventually, "other people's money" (in this case the earners in California) is going to run out.

  10. Re:OR and WA to follow suit on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    The deaths that occur on the Monday after Spring Forward would have happened in the next 4-5 days anyway, and the lives saved during Fall Back were spared for another 4-5 days.

    Bottom line: there's change in the number of deaths for the week of DST. It's just shifted around some.

  11. Re:OR and WA to follow suit on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course either approach is better than the two days of carnage that we get under the current scheme.

    That's a myth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re:What the hell? on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just get up and hour earlier and go to work an hour earlier

    Unless you need to work with people who work 8AM-5PM, not 6AM-3PM.

  13. Re:What the hell? on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    where as permanent abandonment of DST is smarter

    You say that until you wonder why the sun is rising at 4:40AM in the summer (in June in Los Angeles, it rises on June 23 at 5:40AM DST), and there's an hour less light in the evening.

  14. For anything in the last decade or so, the presence of an ftp server indicates intentional set up of ftp.

    You don't know government (or Big Business) very well. I wouldn't be surprised if that server is actually a 15 year old SCO server, not patched in 12 years, and the hardware out of support for 10 years.

  15. The much more important question is, "What directories were exposed, and what was in them?"

    If -- and I mean if -- it's only /pub, and there's nothing in /pub then what's to worry about?

  16. Re: Not a perfect solution on To Deter Foreign Hackers, Some States May Also Be Deterring Voters (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    There's no other reason why you want .com websites to think you're in the US?

  17. Re:Won't hackers just use a VPN? on To Deter Foreign Hackers, Some States May Also Be Deterring Voters (npr.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How did these brave and heroic deployed Baby Killers vote before the internet?

  18. Re: Not a perfect solution on To Deter Foreign Hackers, Some States May Also Be Deterring Voters (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you use a VPN?

  19. Re:A mouse corpse is a bio weapon on US Military Program Could Be Seen As a Bioweapon, Scientists Warn (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Life's a bitch, and then you overachieve!

  20. Re:A mouse corpse is a bio weapon on US Military Program Could Be Seen As a Bioweapon, Scientists Warn (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Think of it this way: quick cure for overpopulation.

  21. Re:"only one milligram per milliliter of sweetener on Artificial Sweeteners Are Toxic To Digestive Gut Bacteria, Study Finds (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case, at a concentration of 1mg : 1mL, as an aqueous solution.

    Granted, that is pretty damn concentrated. But still.

    That scales to 1g/L, doesn't it? To me, that doesn't seem anywhere near as concentrated as the absurdly high dosages used in cancer tests.

  22. In any town of substantial size, there's always an on-call judge for this kind of thing.

  23. Even easier: obtain a search warrant signed by a judge.

  24. Re:Can they do that? on FBI Forced Suspect To Unlock His iPhone X Through Face ID (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yet another FUD headline.

    The FBI did not force the suspect to do anything. The search warrant signed by a judge forced the suspect to unlock the phone.

  25. If Bill Gates were dead... on Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    he'd be rolling over in his grave.