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  1. Re:How is that supposed to work? on Is It Time For Zero-Trust Corporate Networks? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case, the only thing that unauthenticated devices would be allowed to talk to would be the authentication servers. Anything else would require being authenticated in order to connect to. All traffic would be tunneled from point to point and only devices with a need to talk with each other would be allowed to do so.

    That smells like "jump servers". Blech!!! As a DBA who must log into dozens of servers, they're the bane of my existence...

  2. Re:Montana & States' Rights on Montana To FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as it is to their liking they push it as the only answer.

    Especially since Montana and NYS used executive orders instead of the democratic process.

    I'm as much in favor of NN as most of the nerds on /., but executive orders and judicial rulings on political issues are always a bad thing, since they sow dissension that could be averted with a little more time in the legislature.

  3. Re:Diet dependent ; Changes on Microbes May Help Astronauts Transform Human Waste Into Food (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    And the world population is not forecasted to indefinitely grow, either. "10 billion" is the typical max, due to urbanization and the education of women.

    Thus... no need for eternal green revolutions (or the forced starvation of countries, which Ehrlich thought was a great idea).

  4. Re:Diet dependent ; Changes on Microbes May Help Astronauts Transform Human Waste Into Food (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    No. That's more to do that those predictions (which also serves as inspirations for movies such as Soylent Green) are based on what would happen if the then tendencies were kept as is

    Denying the truth will not set you free.

    Early editions of the book wrote, The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.

    The world's death rate has dropped by 23% since 1970.

    He and his wife also completely missed the agricultural Green Revolution which had been happening for 40 years by 1968.

    if everybody kept reproducing like rabbits, today's world might look a bit like the over-populated slum

    Ehrlich's solution? Human sterilants added to food. The option isn't even open to us, thanks to the criminal inadequacy of biomedical research in this area.

    that the science fiction back then predicted.

    Science Fiction loves drama and spectacle, while denying reality, just as much as every other genre.

  5. Re:Growing microbes in vats for food on Microbes May Help Astronauts Transform Human Waste Into Food (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    You're right. One of the regions grew yeast, and -- in the decades since I read it -- must have forgotten one and magnified the other.

  6. Growing microbes in vats for food on Microbes May Help Astronauts Transform Human Waste Into Food (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    reminds me of Trantor in Asimov's Federation Series, where they grew microbes (yeast in the story) in huge vats to feed 40 billion people.

  7. Re:World Food Problem Solved on Microbes May Help Astronauts Transform Human Waste Into Food (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    There's already more than enough food for everyone. It's why Paul Ehrlich's 1960s neo-Malthusian predictions of mass starvation in the 1970s never happened.

  8. Re:this is dumb, and gay on Facebook Announces That It Has Invented a New Unit of Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's practical, but it sure the hell isn't "the the smallest time unit which is LARGER than a nanosecond".

    (The smallest "1 over" time unit larger than a ns would be 1/999,999,999.)

  9. Re:Nothing on the seismometers? on We All Nearly Missed the Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Recorded (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 0

    Not the explosion, you ninny, but the tremors caused by the eruption. They travel a *long* distance.

  10. Re:No, it cannot on Can Machine Learning Guess True Emotions From Facial Microexpressions? (cmu.edu) · · Score: 0

    From the press, I gather

    The same press that regularly hires "reporters" who commit plagiarism, make up stories from whole cloth to fit their political biases, use "confidential sources" which have their own obvious agendas, and accuse people of rape without a hint of evidence because, you know, All Men Rape?

    That press?

  11. Re:Lie Detectors on Can Machine Learning Guess True Emotions From Facial Microexpressions? (cmu.edu) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just wait until SJWs use this micro-expression detector to prosecute white heterosexual men for micro-aggressions.

  12. Nothing on the seismometers? on We All Nearly Missed the Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Recorded (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You'd think an explosion that size would be noticed all over the Pacific Rim.

  13. Re:The thirty fourth rule. on Google Has Made It Simple For Anyone To Tap Into Its Image Recognition AI (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Mine pics are of 20 different gorillas.

  14. Re: Processor speeds stuck at 3.5 GHz on PC Market Still Showing Few Signs of Life (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    A PC is as much of a black box as a car is. Stupid people deserve what they get.

  15. Re:Processor speeds stuck at 3.5 GHz on PC Market Still Showing Few Signs of Life (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Dead (or soon to be dying) drives can be replaced, and RAM and CPU upgraded. That's why I haven't bought a new mobo in 5 years (Feb 2013).

  16. Re:What's so revenge-like about... on Top US Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The Soviet Union collapsed because people weren't allowed to say how bad Communism sucked.

  17. Re:What's so revenge-like about... on Top US Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0

    Or maybe she just had a relationship with him and trusted him too much, or maybe she made a mistake because you know young people and flattery...

    Women and girls constantly whine about guys bragging about their sexual conquests. Sharing nude selfies comes from the same mindset.

    If the matriarchy is truly to arrive, women have to stop being so stupid.

    Nothing about this seems to warrant blaming the victim.

    I'd blame you if your car was stolen and you left the door unlocked and the keys in the car.

    The thief should still be arrested, and I'd be glad he (because, honestly, how many female car thieves are there?) was, yet I'd still blame you for gross stupidity.

  18. Re:What's so revenge-like about... on Top US Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Since I'm not excusing guys who do it (and not many others either -- refer to Anthony Weiner if you don't believe me), your accusation of hypocrisy is completely bogus.

  19. Re:What's so revenge-like about... on Top US Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Why isn't it just as bad sons are sending dick pics?

    Trying to pull a Tu quoque... but no: this article is about women sending nude photos of themselves. When there's an article about guys sending dick pics to women, I'll duly criticize the guys.

  20. Re:What's so revenge-like about... on Top US Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    You keep on living in Utopia, buddy, where no one their doors. The rest of us will keep on locking our doors and keep telling our daughters not to do stupid shit like this.

  21. Re:What's so revenge-like about... on Top US Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Women (and men) have known for millennia that men are amoral pigs, most of whom will say anything to fuck any female he thinks is slightly attractive and vaguely willing, and then brag about it. The others are too chicken.

    For women to expect that men won't do this is stupidity of the highest magnitude.

  22. What's so revenge-like about... on Top US Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0

    "She used to send nudes to my friend all of the time"?

    Looks like women trying to attract powerful men.

  23. Re:Good. Because the rule was bullshit. on AT&T and Comcast Finalize Court Victory Over Nashville and Google Fiber (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    #1 I beat you to it: ultra vires is a direct quotation from the ruling. Just re-read the summary.

    #2 I'm not the one asking why. You are.

  24. Re:Good. Because the rule was bullshit. on AT&T and Comcast Finalize Court Victory Over Nashville and Google Fiber (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the court ruling is a public document. If so, there's nothing to stop you from reading it and finding out for yourself, instead of complaining to a non-lawyer who lives nowhere near TN, much less Nashville.

  25. Re:Good. Because the rule was bullshit. on AT&T and Comcast Finalize Court Victory Over Nashville and Google Fiber (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    While I agree with your reasoning... ultra vires. Government is constrained by charters, constitutions, etc from making any old law it wishes, no matter how beneficial it may seem.