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  1. Re:Still can't be anonymous AND verifiable. on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it could be anonymous, but then anybody could vote. Kind of how blockchains work.

  2. Re:Taking on the impossible on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Harder than secure online banking? Come off your high horse buddy.

  3. Re:Socialist Voting Machines? on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We already let every non-citizen vote and now there is a move to make it official. Even though the marxists over at snopes rate it as false, the text of the explanation proves it's true. They rejected the motion by Crenshaw to call out illegal immigrants voting. https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...

  4. Re:Open Source Software cannot be secure!!! on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like put it in a vault like an ATM? I don't know how people survive in the real world without trusting electronic funds transfers. Money is a little more important to most people than a single vote in a single election and yet nobody is putting on their tinfoil hat about that.

  5. Re:Desiderata verus Requirements on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    We already have a system in Orange County California that proves that your vote was counted. This isn't a new requirement. There is literally no way you can make it so people would not be able to prove how they voted. Unless of course, they scam the system, records their vote once one way, record it, and then invalidate it and submit a corrected vote.

  6. Ahem, Facebook was down, not Slashdot.

  7. Re: I guess the incredibly obvious question is... on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess he never heard of stamps.com

  8. I could care less. Most people photographed also do not care. I can honestly say that if you get offended by a machine learning algorithm looking at your photo, you might have deep psychological issues. It's not a human. No judgement was made.

  9. Re:ONE?? on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, this reminds me of that one time the maintenance guy was helping an employee plug in their computer and plugged the switch into itself. Literally nothing worked until we removed the loop.

  10. Re: I guess the incredibly obvious question is... on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a way to disable the systems but the procedure to do so is incredibly complicated. It's also hard to do anything when an emergency happens seconds after takeoff and the plane isn't even far off the ground yet.

  11. *The cameras are focused far out in front of the car.

  12. Actually the Subaru Eyesight system relies entirely on cameras and does active cruise control today. I own one so I know. It's mostly good at classifying what things are obstacles. It still gets confused every once in a while by a tennis ball I hung in my garage to tell me how far forward to pull in. Mostly it ignores is but sometime it has a conniption fit. Also, since I have the 2016 version, its generally terrible at pedestrian detection because the cameras are focused far out in front of the camera. In later models, they added a wide view camera to detect pedestrians.

  13. Re: I too like to live dangerously on Teen Who Defied Anti-Vax Mom Says She Got False Information From One Source: Facebook (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Repeat after me: "Alex Jones is a comedian".

  14. Re:I too like to live dangerously on Teen Who Defied Anti-Vax Mom Says She Got False Information From One Source: Facebook (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So you know the importance of eating ALL the eggs then?

  15. How is this substantially different from Duolingo? That application improves reading, writing and spoken language comprehension and has speech recognition. It also teaches way more languages.

  16. Re:No manual review? on Thousands in London Face Incorrect Benefit Cuts From Automated Fraud Detector (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I agree mostly. However, banks do actually implement action on things they only suspect all the time. Case in point. My credit card gets frozen because the terminal at the gas station I used it on was sending a different zip code than the one I was typing. Sure, it was suspicious to them but I don't think it warranted freezing my credit until I replied to them. BTW, I think the zip code sent differed because the keypad wasn't aligned with the labels.

  17. Re:To any effect? No. on Is The Attention Economy Dying? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't a case of a law that CAN'T be enforced. It's a case of competition for which law to enforce. Plus, all things equal, they will enforce the easiest law. The easiest to enforce is speeding even though like 2-4% of accidents are found to be primarily caused by excess speed over the limit.

  18. Re:I think this is true on Is The Attention Economy Dying? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Most laws exist at the state and not the federal level. Federal laws are struck down as unconstitutional all the time simply because they should be left to the states to decide. In fact even more federal laws should be struck down for being unconstitutional. Just because there are unconstitutional laws doesn't argue for their continued existence nor does it argue for more of them.

  19. Re:Since always! on Is The Attention Economy Dying? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you never watched or listened to an episode of the Ben Shapiro show. He will stop mid-sentence to deliver an ad.

  20. Re:'The Attention Economy' on Is The Attention Economy Dying? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why the phrase "suggesting that the attention economy has peaked" makes zero sense. Attention was always scarce. People who were making money were doing so for mostly two reasons. Those are that people were naive and easily tricked, and the medium was novel. People are catching on though and the used car salesmen of the Entertainment industry are eventually being seen for what they are and hence attention is shifting. They could fix this by adapting, but they are a bunch of useless crybabies and so they'll just have a fit and pound the dark earth instead.

  21. Re:The "majority" on Renewable Energy Policies Actually Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: Price is a great motivator. If the total cost of delivering renewables including covering baseload, implementing energy storage and installing the actual renewable generation capability is lower than traditional sources, people and corporations will install them. It's simple math. The US isn't going to be locked into expensive energy. That claim is absurd.

  22. Re:The Elephant in the U.S. room on Renewable Energy Policies Actually Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you get this "Minority" datapoint from? Is that from Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote? Because if it is, your data is suspect. For one thing, almost all states are "Winner Take All" states. If the state is extremely Democrat leaning, most Republicans or even Independents will not even vote due to their vote meaning absolutely nothing. If you want to find out who is the actual minority, you would need to run a new election without the existence of the electoral college. In other words, you can't know.

  23. I'm asking you to watch Dave because of one very specific reason; he has liberal guests on and because of biases, you will take them more seriously than if I just tell you this stuff myself. The main takeaway is this; the radical left doesn't argue in good faith. They pigeon hole huge swaths of the population, make up things that didn't happen and control the narrative. This is from liberals saying this stuff. There is also a huge attack on free speech. Again, if you don't believe me, watch the videos.

  24. Re:Good potential - TO ID NAZI COWARDS FOR LATER on Gab Wants To Add a Comments Section To Everything On the Internet (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree with you. I'm simply stating that not all user on Gab fall into that category.

  25. Re:Good potential - TO ID NAZI COWARDS FOR LATER on Gab Wants To Add a Comments Section To Everything On the Internet (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    >Everyone I don't like is a Nazi and has violent tendencies >If you disagree "Insert threat" Pick one