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  1. I don't see on 'Pushback': Resisting the Life of Constant Connectivity · · Score: 1

    How some people get anything done, I know several people I can't have a 5 minute conversation with them with out there phone chirping, and that chirp, it's like Pavlov's bell, or perhaps a Pavlovian Gong be cause *nothing* is more important than the phone.

    The worst part of this is when my phone chirps in the car I have this immediate desire to answer right then, really took me a while to learn how to just relax and wait.
    It's odd but sometimes people that are always on their phones seem like the phones bitch.

  2. All the danger on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    1/2 the fun.

  3. Re:How to get banned from the Internet: on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    The entire thread is ridiculous, you can't "ban" someone from the Internet, yes you can put them in jail, but that isn't "banning" from the Internet that's "going to jail" of which a possible side effect would be "not able to access the internet" but still not "banned from the Internet".

    So the answer is "no" you can't ban an individual from the Internet, it's still far to open of a system for that.

    Conjuring up asshat answers like "prison" tells me that someone might need to spend less time on /. and more time re-evaluating what they are doing that "prison" comes to mind so easily.

  4. Sure on Teachers Get 1 Week To Test Tech Giants' Hour of Code · · Score: 1

    If all the kids can code you can get away with paying them minimum wage.

  5. Re:How to get banned from the Internet: on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Internet democracy on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    "someone is being killing just for their race"

    Do you honestly think that slaughter was derived solely based on their race?
    Do you actual believe there were no other causative factors that were outstanding and drew attention?

    That's the one thing you never here discussed in open, the why of it.

  7. Re:Used to think it was a scam, not so sure now on D-Wave Quantum Computing Solution Raises More Questions · · Score: 1

    This stuff is a bit dense for me (or me for it) but wouldn't this be considered a biological neural net:
    http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/brain-dish-flies-plane-041022.htm

    Or did I completely misinterpret what you were saying in your comparison.

  8. Why on D-Wave Quantum Computing Solution Raises More Questions · · Score: 0

    Would anyone in their sane state want this:

    "Integer factorization is believed to be computationally infeasible with an ordinary computer for large integers if they are the product of few prime numbers (e.g., products of two 300-digit primes).[13] By comparison, a quantum computer could efficiently solve this problem using Shor's algorithm to find its factors. This ability would allow a quantum computer to decrypt many of the cryptographic systems in use today, in the sense that there would be a polynomial time (in the number of digits of the integer) algorithm for solving the problem. In particular, most of the popular public key ciphers are based on the difficulty of factoring integers (or the related discrete logarithm problem, which can also be solved by Shor's algorithm), including forms of RSA. These are used to protect secure Web pages, encrypted email, and many other types of data. Breaking these would have significant ramifications for electronic privacy and security."

  9. Re:Surprise! on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    LOL Pretty good, though i am reminded of the time in history when the French got a little carried away with their executions.

  10. Re:How to get banned from the Internet: on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    Explain to me how anyone will keep me (a individual) from using the Internet *today*, because it is *literally* impossible.

  11. Re:Internet democracy on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why when I got exactly what I was after =)

  12. readable on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-09/News_and_notes

    As one disgruntled Wiki-PR employee is reported as writing: "The warning flag was when I was told not to mention Elance or work for hire." Those who work for Wiki-PR have indeed gone to extensive lengths to hide their activities on Wikipedia. This has included altering their habitual behavioral patterns, frequently changing their IP addresses (apparently to avoid being caught by the "checkuser" tool), and bypassing the normal gatekeeping process by which editors police new submissions to the English Wikipedia. One practice appears to exploit a loophole by creating a new page as a user subpage before moving it into the mainspace, where Wikipedia's regular articles are located. This "bug" was actually first reported in 2007 with the prescient warning: "creating articles in userspace before moving them into mainspace seems to me a sneaky way of avoiding scrutiny from newpage patrollers." Checkuser has also been sidestepped through the company's use of remote and freelance employees, who can operate from a large number of IP ranges.

  13. Re:Surprise! on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 0

    How does what the US suffers from apply to the rest of the World?

  14. Re:Same as it ever was on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Matthew 10:34

  15. Re:Surprise! on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Put guillotine in there somewhere and Ill go along.

  16. Re:So how exactly is that bad? on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    How do you get rid of the scum and still keep it an open system?

    In my opinion Wikipedia should be moved to a bunker in Iceland (yes it should also have multiple data stores around the World but edit-ably subservient to the one in Iceland) and only Wiki librarians of the highest order will be allowed to manipulate the pages.

    Kind of like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault trying to save all the seeds from the likes of Monsanto.

  17. Re:Internet democracy on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Informative

    And why is it you only hear about the Jews hmmm?

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  18. Re:Internet democracy on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do you get banned from the Internet? It's literally impossible at this point in time.
    Of course if you have a Facebook account (and I wager you do) you're helping "them" to create exactly what you just said, a bannable Internet.

    So STFU.

  19. Re:Internet democracy on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    I will blame anyone obscuring the truth.

  20. Laugh on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki-PR
    "this article may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion"

    Lets all make an effort to not only keep the Wiki-PR article, but to include any *FACTS* we find that show what Adam is up to.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-of-interest_editing_on_Wikipedia
    You really need to see who it is trying to get the articles changed, some of the biggest criminals around.

    Adam "anything for a dollar" Masonbrink
    “We write it. We manage it. You never worry about Wikipedia again.“
    Really?
    What were they worried about the truth?

    So Adam wants to cash in on subverting one of greatest assets on the Inet.
    Show him how you feel about that.

  21. Re:Finding the antidote on DNA Sequence Withheld From New Botulism Paper · · Score: 0

    "a new type of the extremely dangerous botulinum toxin, lurking in the feces of a child who displayed the symptoms of botulism"

    Out of a kids turd, your cluelessness is now revealed to themWorld of /.

  22. Re:Please don't die!! on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The worst of the worst will take office in 2016, Hillary Clinton.

    Hence the never ending "pro female" rhetoric and propaganda oozing out of the usual outlets.

  23. Re:Cheney's clueless, it's not that easy on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1
  24. That they were actually concerned about this tells you everything you need to know about Dick and American politics.

    They know they are criminals so they live in fear.

  25. Crap drives on OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs · · Score: 1, Funny

    End of discussion.