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  1. Re: That's pretty funny on Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware To Steal Pirates' Passwords (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Well no wonder you have to do it more than once. That's why I installed rocket launchers.

  2. Re:Never used them anyway on Pirates Crack Microsoft's UWP Protection, Five Layers of DRM Defeated (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's the thing, whether they're doing it yet or not, MELTDOWN makes all DRM bypassable. Sooner or later the cracking groups will be using MELTDOWN tools to locate and bypass all the DRM calls and encryption mechanisms. Which means that until Covfefe Lake processors can no longer run games on the lowest gimped settings, it's utterly useless.

  3. Re:Probably the sanest use of soldiers on China Reassigns 60,000 Soldiers To Plant Trees In Bid To Fight Pollution · · Score: 2

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...

    More than you might think, but China's problem is so bad that it's still like trying to empty a sandbox on a beach one grain at a time.

  4. Re:Trump isn't going far enough on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Each area has on average 15 weather forecasters assigned to it, not counting unfilled positions. Try again.

  5. Re:Adios, bureaucrats! There's an app for your job on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need supercomputers to run the models.

    You might want to read the article there numbnuts. They just passed an additional 100 million for supercomputers and related infrastructure for the NWS last week above and beyond their normal budget. The fact of the matter is with proper computer support the NWS no longer needs more than 2 people on the clock in a region at any given time.

  6. Re:Bitch, bitch, bitch on Trump's Infrastructure Plan Has No Dedicated Money For Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    You mean the economic collapse driven by Clinton's housing lending policies combined with the collapse of the dot-com bubble? *looks at current tech companies* A bubble that looks to be heading for another collapse in the near(2-3 years) future?

  7. The reality being that Trump wants more automation and less people overhead. Thus the 100 million supercomputing deal that was implemented last week per the Wapo.

  8. I initially read that as detonate and wondered why anyone would use explosive siding.

  9. Re:Cost and workability vs strength on A Chemical Bath and a Hot-press Can Transform Wood Into a Material That is Stronger Than Steel, Researchers Find (nature.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's a reason you should have read the fucking article.

    Hu says that his study’s main finding is that removing the right amount of lignin is key to maximizing performance. In his team’s experiments, removing too much of the polymer resulted in less-dense, brittle wood, suggesting that some leftover lignin is helpful in binding the cellulose fibres when they are hot-pressed. The wood was strongest when roughly 45% of the lignin was removed.

  10. Sorry, but that would seem to be belied by the fact that they are also not allowing said videos to be recommended.

  11. Re: It's really a Hillary For Prison Thing on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Mueller has fallen into his Hatfill rabbit hole again and assumes Trump is guilty without significant evidence. So, in order to 'turn' Flynn he charged him with a procedural crime, which since FBI interviews are not recorded is Flynn's word against the FBI, and offered to drop the charges against Flynn's kid that he was in trouble for. Unfortunately for Mueller, he got jack and shit from Flynn.

  12. Re: Electrical grid Energy - Will come from a mix. on New York's $6 Billion Plan For Offshore Wind Shows That Oil Drilling Really Is On the Way Out (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The Martian was not representative of weather on Mars. The atmosphere is wayyyyy too thin to provide useful amounts of impetus.

  13. It's cute how you think the so-called czars are elected.

  14. Re: The end is near! REBOOT! on 'No Drones or Driverless Trucks', Demands Teamsters Labor Union (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the repubs don't like police unions either, but every time one makes noises about doing something about them, the blue flu appears.

  15. Re: I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    His views on incest require multi-centennial lifespans to be applicable, preferably with some time travel thrown in.

  16. Re:Big difference between the movies on Netflix Executives Say 'Bright' Success Proves Film Critics Are 'Disconnected From Mass Appeal' (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    Except paying more for something that's not necessary is more likely to increase your enjoyment of it

  17. Re:I hope on Australian Birds of Prey Are Deliberately Setting Forests On Fire (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow you're a fucking idiot. Wildfires don't cause long term loss of habitat in grasslands. Hell, they don't cause long term loss of habitat in forests unless a bunch of complete fucking MORONS pass a bunch of legislation not allowing them to occur on a regular basis and let the brush build up to forest-destroying levels.

  18. Re:Regarding the right to not be offended on Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says He Does Not Regret Firing James Damore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You do realize all legal complaints start out like that?

  19. Re:Maybe... on Peter Thiel Is Now Bidding on Gawker.com (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yep, it was, and if Gawker weren't run by complete sociopathic morons who couldn't figure out how to keep their fucking traps shut in the middle of a courtroom the worst that would have happened is a 6-7 figure fine and having to take down and apologize for the Bollea sex tape. But when the people running Gawker do things like proudly declare they would publish child porn as newsworthy, well, they dug their own fucking grave.

  20. Re: Political tax on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The fires in California are from allowing detritus to build up and the fact that Cali looks to be going into one of it's geologically many century long droughts. The 20th century was for California exceedingly wet. The mudslides were a direct result of the fires. As for the hurricanes, Harvey was exceedingly large and slow, not powerful. Combine that with the extensive buildup in floodplain you have going on in the Huston area and the problem becomes readily apparent.

  21. There were three judges making that decision too.

  22. There is a LARGE difference between passing laws agaisnt gerrymandering and some asshole attempting to declare it unconstitutional.

  23. Which, again, would result in Dem heavy districts and more balanced Republican districts. The entire brouhaha is the Dems whining that they ignored the ground game in the states for at least a decade and arguably a bit longer and so lost all their previous gerrymandering advantage to the Republicans.

  24. Given that the same judge recently got slapped around like a bitch by SCOTUS 9-0 in an expedient opinion the probability this survives challenge is minuscule.

  25. Democrat voters tend to concentrate in high density areas. So, unless one wants the districts in a state to look like a bunch of ISBN numbers with the districts narrow and stretching wayyyyyyyy out into rural and suburban areas you're not going to be able to achieve a balance through district design. A truly neutral geometric setup would have much the same effect as the current setup except for the areas with black majority districts directly next to them. As for the majority black districts, the reason they look so fucking weird is because it is racial gerrymandering mandated by the Voting Rights Act in order to guarantee a certain amount of black politicians in the south and there have been a bunch of SCOTUS cases explicitly affirming its legality to assist in that endeavor.