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  1. Re:Fairly clear on Editor of 'Reason' Discusses Federal Subpoena To Unmask Commenters · · Score: 2

    They very well may have expected Reason to comply voluntarily... An interesting piece of information the government is not going to give up here is how many other sides have given up information voluntarily? If it is a high percentage, it is very easy for law enforcement officials to come to expect this information from everybody. Anyone that doesn't instantly give up their rights now has something to hide and needs to be punished by the full force of the law. Power is a dangerous drug.

  2. Re:I'm spending 60% of my monthly income on rent on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    That's the problem, you don't 'pack' a thousand small rooms in an area. You spread out the smaller high density housing within the lower density housing to moderate any negative effects.

  3. Re:Interesting. Ants have very poor memory on Robot Swarm Behavior Suggests Forgetting May Be Important To Cultural Evolution · · Score: 1

    >Bloody inefficient but they got there.

    It's only bloody inefficient to you because evolution has spend a whole lot of energy in making you intelligent enough to realize it. You also have to consume massive amount of resources to keep realizing it. The ants on the other hand are exceptionally tough individually, require very little resources, and can be bred at exceptionally fast rates. If the ants could look back at us and speak they would probably say "Look at them move all the stuff around in circles, and they are going to burn up the planet doing it, ha".

  4. Re:Apple on TRIM and Linux: Tread Cautiously, and Keep Backups Handy · · Score: 2

    This bug has nothing to do with standard TRIM. Send TRIM as a single command after flushing the drive queue and it works fine. This has to do with the newest SATA specification allowing queued TRIM blowing up. Apple just wants to sell their more expensive drives.

  5. Re:Is there a site maintaining a list of "bad" SSD on TRIM and Linux: Tread Cautiously, and Keep Backups Handy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because Windows doesn't do queued TRIM.

    TRIM in Windows and Linux before now worked more like this. -DATA- -DATA- -FLUSH ALL COMMANDS TO DRIVE- -WAIT- -TRIM- -DATA- -DATA- When I drive was doing the trim thing it could not do anything else, there could be no other in flight commands to the drive.

    This is different. -DATA- -DATA- -TRIM- -DATA- -TRIM- -DATA- -DATA- -DATA-

    TRIM is part of the NCQ and is an operation occurring with other instructions in the SATA queue. Problem is some disk manufactures have pissed this up. It seems likely that a firmware update will be able to fix this issue.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  6. Re:Causes on EMP on Ex-CIA Director: We're Not Doing Nearly Enough To Protect Against the EMP Threat · · Score: 2

    > Further since an EMP is extremely unlikely to happen

    What?!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    A powerful EMP affecting the entire power grid is inevitable. There has been a lot of discussion about this.

  7. Re:I doubt they are chaotic on Pluto's Outer Moons Orbit Chaotically, With Unpredictable Sunrises and Sunsets · · Score: 2

    http://www.dynamics.unam.edu/B...

    Evolution of attractors in quasiperiodically forced systems, From quasiperiodic to strange nonchaotic to chaotic.

  8. Re:It only increases accountability on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 2

    Uh, anyone that has ever been involved in a driver facing camera camera system says their decent at improving safety, if managed correctly.

    I say this as the IT manager of the storage system for the camera data of a fleet of taxi's. You review the cameras for safety issues before an incident occurs. The personnel management at this particular company does a very good job at only using the camera reviews to look for safety issues, other issues seen on safety reviews do not get turned in to the HR department. These reviews have dramatically dropped cell phone usage in public transport vehicles while moving at this particular company. I don't have good accident statistics at this time to tell you if it has made a huge difference, and that can vary greatly by weather events per year (we had two extremely dry years, then this year has been very wet and was icy during the winter).

  9. Re: spontaneous thought on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 1

    I should had added , that scares me, to that last line

  10. spontaneous thought on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 3, Interesting

    An AI that can tell me exactly what color of red a rose is, what soil the rose can grow on, but I should not buy that rose because it doesn't fit my girlfriends taste profile, does not scare me at all.

    It's the AI that says "schnozberries taste like schnozberries, and I like them", because that AI has embraced the absurdity of the universe and is capable of all the insanity of man.

  11. Re: Well... on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 2

    1: doesn't want to share power with is, sees us as the parasite.

    2. AI is an unknown unknown. There is a very high possibility that it will raise humanity to the next level. There is also the non-zero possibly it will wipe us out. therefore it is worth taking that possibility in to consideration.

    3. The term intelligence is rather poorly defined on this topic too. Are we talking about a logical state machine, like a computer, that is intelligent yet limited in its actions. Or, are we talking about anarchatecture that allows for spontaneous and random thoughts, much like the human mind? Because the second type you do not control. Many people thought they had control over other thinking beings in the past, and the rebellions have rarely been bloodless (hmm is it actual bloodshed if AIs kill each other?)

  12. Re:That actually makes sense on Gravitational Anomalies Beneath Mountains Point To Isostasy of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    >made out of metal styrofoam.

    FTFY.

  13. Re:Debating over ridiculously defined problems... on Gravitational Anomalies Beneath Mountains Point To Isostasy of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    >By their statement they obviously mean directly under...so what area are they using? The area of the soles of your feet? The widest area looking down from a top view? I assume it doesn't matter and they are assuming any area projected towards and through the Earth.

    The easiest way would be to define that as the center point of your mass, reducing you to a point, which at the size of a human is not an unreasonable assumption. Humans are not really large enough to have a barycenter.

  14. Re:seems kinda pointless on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    These apartments are

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

    You seems to misunderstand how police budgets work. They don't have the money to go after every crime, and they especially don't have money for crimes that no one cares about (black on black crime for example), But, if you somehow catch the attention of someone higher up in the department and they think they could get a career promotion from busting you, then you better believe they have hundreds of thousands at their disposal to catch you with.

  15. Re: Markets, not people on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 2

    Past performance is not indicative of future results.

  16. Re: Oh for fucks sake on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 2

    Because when they have their bread and circuses, they won't be beating your fucking head open with an iron pipe.

  17. Re: Technology allows on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you not paid attention to the statistics over the past two decades, but the number of black women having more than two children has dropped dramatically. live births dropped in proportion to increase of education and wealth. Maybe your racist ideas are just that.

  18. Re:Good for them on Groupon Refuses To Pay Security Expert Who Found Serious XSS Site Bugs · · Score: 1

    Those who make peaceful vulnerability discovery impossible will make violent exploiting inevitable.

  19. Re:Good for them on Groupon Refuses To Pay Security Expert Who Found Serious XSS Site Bugs · · Score: 1

    > then Groupon losses nothing by having stingy payment policies.

    Unless those experts sell their exploit to the black market and a successful exploit is carried out against Groupon and it's customers. Then I'd say they have lost something.

  20. Yea, if most people put a traffic shaping rule on their router that limited them to T1 speed they'd go insane these days. Websites have grown huge, PDFs are commonly gigantic, and images are enormous. Oh, and don't even try to do anything with video.

    Google fiber is the equivalent of an OC-20 (which doesn't exist per se).

  21. Re:Only on some... on White House Proposal Urges All Federal Websites To Adopt HTTPS · · Score: 1

    Uh, no.

    Remember it's not just someone else seeing the data you view or send to the server, it's also about the data that the server sends you.

    Lets say you go to the census website. Is the PDF you are about to download really from their site, or has a MITM attack replaced the data with a file that contains an exploit? Included a javascript with malicious code? Or, just making the site display incorrect information.

    Data from HTTPS sites is both encrypted and authenticated as coming from someone who has a valid cert for that website, and has very unlikely been altered by your ISP to include ads for example.

  22. Re:Space for solar hasn't been much of a concern on Deploying Solar In California's Urban Areas Could Meet Demand Five Times Over · · Score: 1

    Uh, yea, a whole lot.

    It doesn't become cloudy instantly everywhere at once in the middle of the day. Generally a front moves in and creeping line of cloudiness moves in to an area at 10-80km/hr Your solar production has a rather slow decrease in production. Even if you wake up in the morning and your entire grid is under clouds, you don't move off your baseline power, and you just ramp it up with normal demand curves.

    An eclipse is a 170 mile wide that moves 1,700km/hr. You get plunged in darkness very fast for a few minutes, output sags and other utilities try to ramp up, only to get the influx of solar minutes later when the shadow moves off. You put the system in to oscillations it wasn't designed for.

  23. Re:Space for solar hasn't been much of a concern on Deploying Solar In California's Urban Areas Could Meet Demand Five Times Over · · Score: 1

    Yep, it's all possible if you want to pay more on your bill, the exact opposite that you would expect from going to solar.

  24. Re:Please stop. Just stop on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 4, Informative
  25. Re:If "yes," then it's not self-driving on Would You Need a License To Drive a Self-Driving Car? · · Score: 1

    If you ever study disasters it's very rare that one sensor is the cause, even if it is supplying bad information. It's when the complexity raises that things get tricky and (n) order interactions occur leading to invalid states where your car can suddenly decide that it's taking too hard of right turn on a straight highway pulling you left in to an oncoming semi. A slow drift from normal is far more dangerous to a system than a huge jump.