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  1. Laws, oversight and openness.

    The group is a quite arbitrary list of jobs but what's BLM doing there?

    Any population. I simply felt that references to the Free Masons, DARE, Boy Scouts, or Lions Club would fall on young deaf ears. When you see BLM on the news, you usually are confronted with the 15% I'm talking about. When you see cops on the news, you're usually seeing the 15%. When you see debt collectors on the news, you're seeing the 15%.

  2. Will try to find it. IIRC, It was released shortly after the "Stanford Prison Experiment" when everyone was cashing in on the fed funding for behavioral sciences. The crux was that 15% of humans will willingly abuse any power you give them, 15% will always do right, and 70% will go along with whatever their superiors and/or peers are doing.

  3. ~15% of all humans will willingly abuse their position, violate laws, break rules, etc, for their own benefit. Judges, cops, lawyers, BLM, fast food workers, auto workers, toll booth operators, priests, tax collectors... The group is quite arbitrary. Does anyone have suggestions on how to deal with this portion of the population that doesn't simply recreate the problem? For example, exterminating them will simply create a new ~15%.

  4. Re:We've heard this before on Zuckerberg Teases An 'Affordable' Standalone Oculus VR Headset (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Doing new things harder than expected! ... Don't even ask how much I spent on my first headset, IIRC it was '98

    Something that was being done in 98 is a new thing?

    FWIW, I had five of the Virtuality pods in my shop back in 96. 2 Dactyl, 2 Boxing, and one Zone Runner. the only new thing that Oculus did was....... Um... Nothing.... Nothing at all.

  5. Re:Remember how Microsoft Blah? on Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 0

    It must be very difficult for you dealing with the Mac's inflated price, non-upgradable components soldered to the motherboard, a software selection that is rather limited, and much more.

    No, it's not difficult, because I'm an employed Mac user.

  6. Remember how Microsoft Blah? on Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Re: Remember how Microsoft was pushing Windows 10 updates to your computers?

    No, I do not remember, because I'm a Mac user.

  7. Re:don't get your hope up on No Man's Sky Under Investigation For False Advertising (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone? Even people who put 100+ hours into the game? It shouldn't take that long to determine that the game doesn't live up to expectations.

    Ultimately, yes.
    The seller is already protected by a statute of limitations, and additional magical-made-up temporal barriers are unnecessary and will harm the industry. HG 'needs' to fail, and should fail, in order for the free market to thrive.

  8. Ya know, I made my comment as a funny demonstration of how someone can misuse stupid statistics to make stupid assumptions to push a stupid agenda.... Why the F it got modded +5 insightful is beyond me.

  9. State sponsored corporate spies on US Department of Labor Is Suing Peter Thiel's Startup 'Palantir' For Discriminating Against Asians (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Statistically, the vast majority of Chinese spies engaged in corporate espionage and trade secret acquisition are asian.

  10. New Illinois on New Illinois Law Limits Police Use Of Cellphone-Tracking Stingray (go.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a New Illinois now?

  11. It will be twice as fast as the current PS4... This means it will be exactly half as fast as it needs to be for 4K gaming.

  12. Misleading topic on 'Tor and Bitcoin Hinder Anti-Piracy Efforts' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought that actual pirates might be using Tor and Bitcoin. Turns out this is another story about copyright enforcement.

    If you're using Tor instead of something like Freenet, you deserve what's coming.

  13. Re:It's how you define the 'utility function' on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    It sure would be nice to have a universal utility function for all public policy. But in the meantime, what if we just said that any of those (lives saved, economic output, lower tax burden) are an acceptable foundation for you to base an argument on, but "because my ancient book of sacred texts says so" isn't?

    This wouldn't lead to 100% logical consistency in policy, but it would surely be an improvement over the current system, don't you think?

    It's like you're saying that science and mathematics are able to reconcile problems containing more than a single variable. Heretic! Burn the witch!

  14. Re:Quit it already! on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Now if 109 music, movie and sports stars came forward we may be talking some actual change in perception.

    A large number of the NLs that signed have exactly as much biology/nutritional experience as movie and sports stars.

    Understand that I do not have an issue with the proper and safe application of gene manipulation in the food chain or elsewhere. My issue rests entirely on NLs leveraging their social status to sway opinions in matters in which they are no better qualified than Bono or Mike Tyson. NLs should know better, and it diminishes the title when this happens.

    This does not apply to the NLs on the list with awards in biology or medicine for this instance.

  15. I'd consider watching ads on Netflix if I were paid to do so... For example, If Netflix payed me $14.99 a month, I'd be happy with that. Price hike? Canceled. Paying for the privilege of watching commercials? Canceled.

  16. Re:And he means it .. literally .. on The NSA Would Be Eliminated Under President Gary Johnson (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem was never about the NSA's very existence, it's about what it's been pushed into by the people in charge in recent years. Now, if you want to talk about an agency that's been horribly toxic to civil liberties, and really is not serving a positive purpose at all, to abolish, why don't we talk about the DEA?

    The libertarian argument isn't necessarily that we shouldn't have "an" NSA, it's that we should abolish "the" NSA in its current incarnation. I identify as a libertarian, but find value in many of our socialist institutions in principle (FDA, VA, Libraries, Post Office, USPTO, etc). I do believe that the current incarnation of these institutions is untenable, and are currently existing the the detriment of our society.

  17. Re:The problem is not the technology on The Web's Creator Thinks We Need a New One That Governments Can't Control (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is people.

    Indeed. One only needs to take a brief glance at Freenet to see what happens when people are given complete anonymity. There's good, bad, and holy crap uninstall!

  18. Re:daily mail reporting on Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You've made some excellent points, as have other posters in this thread.

    When I first saw the source, I immediately thought "Bullshit!"

    However, upon reading the TFS

    They're reporting that an electric vehicle, which breaks mainly through electromagnet resistance used to regenerate electrical power, produces more break dust than a gasoline powered vehicle that uses breaks.

    This doesn't even deserve the title of bullshit.

  19. Re:Paranoia strikes deep on Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Eh. I expect she didn't KNOW it was math and assumed it was Arabbic, because, you know, squiggly lines and the state of American education.

    Wait... Is algebra not of arabic origin? In arabic, algebra means "The system for reconciling disparate parts", and was brought to Italy in the ~12th century.

  20. Re:What about on Elon Musk: 'We Need a Revolt Against the Fossil Fuel Industry' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    -1000 Extra stupid for calling someone out when you are actualy wrong. http://www.frontierrareearths....

    The only 'stupid' I saw was a millionaire saying that the proper way to counter unfair subsidies is with new/more taxes.

  21. Re:What about non-"tobacco product" vapes? on FDA To Regulate E-Cigarettes Like Tobacco (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I was a committed smoker like you that flipped to vaping. I find the entire fuckbrah vape/hoverboard culture to be pretty amusing, kids who have never smoked before having cloud blowing contests... Haha! I personally welcome the FDA's regulatory entry into the eCig world. I agree that they should not be treated as a tobacco product though.

    I pay the FDA to make sure the food and drugs I consume are safe. I pay them to do periodic inspections on that "medical grade" nicotine, PG, VG and flavors to make certain I'm getting what I've paid for in the doses I've paid for. I'm paying them to prevent idiots from using popcorn butter-flavor or formaldehyde in their juice. I'm paying them to make certain that coils aren't releasing metals into the vapor or slowly burning the poly/cotton wick. I'm paying them to make certain that the battery that's an inch from my face doesn't explode. I'm a libertarian FFS and the FDA's one of the few social institutions that I believe is necessary.

    I'd ask what everyone's been smoking, but the honest truth is that they don't actually know.

  22. Re:Exaggerate Much? on Without Encryption, Everything Stops, Says Snowden (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    You think script kiddies have quantum computers powerful enough to break RSA?

    While the thread is referring the the LEA's backdoor legislation... Yes.. Script kiddies do have computers strong enough to break RSA. Their server is your AWS server farm.

  23. Re:The cycle continues... on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Given your explanation, who is the competitor filling the gap? Vimeo?

  24. Congratulations! on Kentucky Hospital Calls State of Emergency In Hack Attack (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want to congratulate Methodist Hospital, for digitizing and not investing in proper architecture (security, backups, partitioned infrastructure). They're lucky that the damage is limited to the loss of data and productivity. We can only hope that they go out of business, and that a hospital with a better IT administration takes their place.

  25. Re:This guy over here.... on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    Most of us realize he's speaking of the Hynix NAND flash chip.

    Someone with domain knowledge, please correct me:

    My understanding is that the NAND/Flash is protected by strong encryption and is not easily hackable. The PIN unlocks the key for the NAND device, and if the PIN is incorrect 10 times, the key is deleted (not the NAND contents).