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  1. Re:PropOrNot on Are We Seeing Propaganda About Russian Propaganda? (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Black people aren't the only ones with camera's you racist shithead.

    The problem is indeed that the mainstream does very little to no original journalism, all the stuff about police abuses in the last few years have not been "reported" on by journalists but rather grew on social media into the news articles.

    Same goes for this election, neither side had any 'investigative journalists', just a lot of digging up dirt on both aisles but very little substance as far as policies that either candidate had. Pretty much all news sites were just copy-pasting the political promises from their respective web sites which were proclaimed to be an unbiased source of information.

  2. Re:Examples? on Are We Seeing Propaganda About Russian Propaganda? (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    How is that propaganda?
    A) A 13yo disappeared for a full day and got raped
    B) The police considers it consensual so it won't investigate
    C) Parents and neighbors are outraged and protest

    Unless you want to believe this:
    A) An adult having sex with a 13yo is rape, unless they're immigrants.
    B) The police is right in not investigating this and only considering this as an instance of child abuse
    C) If white people are protesting, they're neo-nazis.

  3. That's not how voting works. The US is divided into "electoral votes" which basically is divided up among states (and in some cases, counties). Trump got ~57% of the "country's" vote, you don't vote directly which is what many Dems are missing in these cases, popular votes don't matter, have never mattered.

  4. I said 60% of the country, not 60% of the people. That's how Trump won, he got 60% of the vote.

  5. FDR was a leftist and didn't want to go to war until his hand was practically forced, partially by The New Deal. The New Deal was very much leftist, tripled taxes mainly affecting the poor and causing the 1938's depression with unemployment at 19% in 1939, it wasn't until the US spent billions on the "war effort" that the mismanagement of The New Deal was undone even though FDR doubled the national debt.

  6. Nice try but the 40s were barely the hallmark of social justice and the left did not want to go to war. It wasn't until the US was threatened by Japanese and German forces near the US that some sensible decisions were made.

    These alt-left stories do nothing but galvanize the other 60% of the country that voted for Trump. IBM, Twitter, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have already helped the US government and part of the US government has already built and maintained a Muslim registry from Clinton to Obama and none of them cleaned it up, only expanded it.

  7. To get an immigrant visa it is often helpful to have had a non-immigrant visa. Immigration is very strict and hard in the USA, you are expected to have visited and know where abouts in the USA you want to live before you immigrate.

  8. Re: Those who something, something on Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bush and Clinton tried to build one before, part of it eventually was used to become what we now know as the no-fly list. Obama had the chance to get rid of it and didn't. But I guess it's okay if the establishment does it.

  9. Re:It's OVH on Taking a Stand Against Unofficial Ubuntu Images (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    How many other people are on those servers. I've tried plenty of instances but once you start using your actually assigned quota's (1 CPU and 512MB RAM) you will notice an intense slowdown. Or you're sitting on a server with some other people that are heavy users, same problem.

    I've tried a bunch of them, for home/dev use, perhaps, but for real work, not suitable. And whenever you ask how many other customers they have, they either don't tell or it's astronomically high.

    DigitalOcean: doesn't tell anything about their infrastructure and if you use too much resources they cut you off with a "TOS violation". From what I can measure, I estimate 50-100 hosts per 'real' server but don't use more than 20% of your CPU for a period of time because you'll be out.
    DreamHost: the oversell must be close to 200 hosts per server. Continuously 100-200ms ping rates, their 'shared MySQL' would take 500ms to even complete a simple query. The host got cut off several times per month for various technical reasons.
    1and1: Another over-seller, absolutely awful support, after a while they just tried to up-sell me packages that would have no impact on the performance - I'm not running out of storage dimwits.

  10. Re:Nothing to do with weapons or Trump on Destructive Hacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Posing Challenge to Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is, server farms and bonnets can be rented by the hour these days and are much larger than what any government agency feasibly can have under their control. Mirai is an example of this, they can take out 100Gbps+, it's still not a weapon, it doesn't do any permanent structural damage to the Internet or kill anyone.

    Sure there are state sponsored hackers but there are corporate (both criminal and regular types) hackers that are much bigger and better than what I've seen any government agency wield.

  11. The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a United States division of Swiss confectioner Lindt & Sprüngli.

    So it's a US version of the worst Swiss chocolate around.

  12. Re:It's OVH on Taking a Stand Against Unofficial Ubuntu Images (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not just OVH, any second rate hosting company does it. DreamHost does as well, 1and1. They're a pain in the neck to work with because any update breaks everything and you're stuck with old versions of Apache, nginx and PHP because of it. Sure it helps them because they can deduplicate the shit out of the memory and storage but it's broken.

    If you're paying less than $20/mo for a VPS, you're shafted.

  13. In the mean time "real" dark chocolate already has 14g or less sugar per serving. They do this by using real cocoa instead of sugar and wax as a filler.

    US chocolate brands are absolutely awful and sweet.

  14. Nothing to do with weapons or Trump on Destructive Hacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Posing Challenge to Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What the hell is a cyber weapon? Are they using some laptop that any other hacker can't use because it's so big or expensive only a government can afford it? And what does Trump have to do with this story, unless the Saudi's recently got annexed by the US without anyone knowing about it, last thing I knew they were the ones funding Bin Laden.

  15. Re: If??!?!?!! Really, now Twitter?!?!?! on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    What world are you living in where it did happen?

  16. Plenty of people saw it coming, the Dilbert guy called it the minute he was announcing his candidacy. The La times poll did call it consistently several months before the vote. Plenty of people on Fox "warned" us after the primaries (even though they kind of went along with the mainstream after Meghan Kelly and several establishment republicans jumped camp).

    The media and establishment politicians don't like they have no more control over the political process in the country, that's why we see this backlash. It would be worse if Gary or Jill got elected but if it weren't for Trump, I would bet they'd have a running chance against a Clinton and a Bush.

  17. Re:And in other news on EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Not sure how long you haven't looked for CC processors but these days there are plenty that neither charge monthly fees nor quota's, just a flat or percentage based fee. PayPal is actually on the higher end of the cost spectrum.

    Matter of fact, plenty of them have compatible API's with other providers so you don't even need to make custom modules for your site.

  18. Re:Also Kills WiFi on 'DroneGun' Can Take Down Aircraft From Over 1.2 Miles Away (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of those things aren't even Internet-connected, it just happens that those bands are freely available pretty much anywhere in the world without a license. Your microwave works in the same range.

  19. Re:I, for one, don't want this s@$t in my gasoline on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The main result is going to be reduced gas mileage and thus increased consumption of oil. This has nothing to do with environments, modern cars can handle suboptimal fuels, it's just very wasteful. Sure your wear and tear will be bigger but that would probably not be noticeable on a large scale.

  20. Re:And in other news on EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    His first mistake was using PayPal. Everyone knows by now PP will do anything to make a quick buck.

  21. Re:Also Kills WiFi on 'DroneGun' Can Take Down Aircraft From Over 1.2 Miles Away (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Not just WiFi but pretty much most wireless crap you have around the house. How about your alarm system, central smoke/fire detectors, modern thermostats, pacemakers, Bluetooth.

    It's not even innovative, it is well known that a jammer will cause a drone to stop responding. Putting a can antenna on it makes it somewhat directional. However a drone doesn't have to be remote controlled. You can easily program it to follow a path and this thing won't be effective at all.

  22. Interesting because both Politco (a heavy left leaning site) and Fox (a moderate right leaning site) has it at ~1.4M.

  23. Why would the Russians rent out their botnets? on You Can Now Rent A Mirai Botnet Of 400,000 Bots (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So a state-level actor rents out a botnet commercially? <Watches as cognitive dissonance explodes heads>

  24. Re:Owning stock in a bankrupt company != bankrupt on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 1

    That is what people fail to understand though, it's fine for a company to go bankrupt, that's WHY we have LLC's, otherwise nobody would be starting businesses. You want Trump to personally finance a random failed venture? Why?

    From another perspective: if banks would have to accept bankruptcies as total losses, again, they wouldn't fund ANYTHING. Bankruptcies are methods to get away from crushing debt and into a recovery, it's a mechanism to avoid banks from turning into loansharks. The alternative is that banks have full control over companies and their assets.

    If all businesses were run in this unicorn farts and rainbows feel-good world of yours where everyone would pay back what they owed even if they failed, nobody would have anything, we wouldn't have any businesses.

  25. Re:Electoral college does reflect the popular vote on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is California is spending more than it earns. It is facing a $4B deficit in 2020 and that is ignoring the $170B in pension liabilities the state has simply not included in it's budgets, just to balance the books.