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  1. Re:Socialism works on Was Venezuela's 5-Day Blackout Caused By Cyberattacks -- or Wildfires? (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If that’s true, why are socialist countries so prone to foreign interference making it fail. Why wasn’t/isn’t the USSR or China (larger powers by all metrics) able to interfere with the US to the point of it failing?

    Socialism has been tried from Nazi Germany to Venezuela and it has ALL failed, the US didn’t even interfere with National-Socialist Germany until Germany was well on its way to failure. The USSR failed while spending just a tenth of the US spending on the Cold War.

  2. Re:Netherlands called, says you're an uneducated f on Was Venezuela's 5-Day Blackout Caused By Cyberattacks -- or Wildfires? (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The Netherlands is a representative monarchy, not a socialist country.

  3. There is probably more to this story on Chicago To Shutdown Composting Business Because Regulations Don't Cover Worms (blockclubchicago.org) · · Score: 1

    The problem with composting is that it’s not commercially viable, hence why commercial com posters typically use heavy chemicals to ‘assist’ the process, they also concentrate a lot of the toxic waste like pesticides from the things they are composting and a commercial composting facility/process in a residential neighborhood will cause a lot of problems with odor or may even be outright dangerous.

  4. In Canada and the UK people are dying because they can’t get any timely treatment though. There is no reason anyone in the US is dying because they can’t get insulin, they can walk into any ER and get insulin free of charge, it costs ~$25/100 doses from any pharmacy and there are plenty of clinics around for low income people. What’s more, if you’re low income, the state will pay your medical bill.

  5. Re:Alternate approach on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is a huge portion of the population (IQ would suggest ~20%) that cannot manage money. Giving them money does not help them get food, hence why we don’t just have welfare programs that give money, but food stamps, housing assistance etc.

    Just because the cost of goods lowers in the future, which is why we’re comparatively a lot richer than ever before in history, doesn’t mean there will be no value to work. You get money-for-work because that’s an indication of your contribution to society and you accumulate wealth accordingly, if you take big risks and start your own enterprise, you have the potential for huge rewards; that’s not evil, that’s how capitalism works. If you take that balance away, you end up with USSR-style conditions where nobody wants to take the risk to invest in the growth of the economy or the production of new goods, nobody wants to take the risk to lower costs etc. so things never get lower cost but administrative accumulation keeps the costs rising.

  6. Re:Very Impressed - this woman has done her homewo on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Trust me, none of those countries are socialist. I grew up in some of them, I’ve lived for the majority of my life there, I emigrated to the US partially because growing socialist policies were making work-life unsustainable.

    Yes, they have plenty of socialist policies, partially due to the EU but they’re also some of the highest taxed countries and you still have to work a lot to pay taxes that support those that don’t.

    What they don’t have: guaranteed income (which is a basic tenet of socialism/communism), guaranteed jobs, guaranteed housing. They do have those for immigrants and professional victims but not for their own population. They have government funded healthcare, except they don’t pay for the majority of your healthcare costs and you still are required to get private insurance.

    However socialist movements in those countries have led to unstable economies and a growing tension over the last 2 decades between immigrants and natives to the point that the only reason local governments in Belgium, France and the Netherlands aren’t currently extreme-right (yes, Nazi-style parties) are huge coalitions between every other party to prevent them coming to power. Those coalitions however make the government, especially in Belgium and the Netherlands but also in France extremely volatile and unstable.

    But keep dreaming about your socialist countries.

  7. Re:10 Years == nonexistent security margin on Quantum Computer Not Ready To Break Public Key Encryption For At Least 10 Years, Some Experts Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    10 years to break today's encryption. We have more modern ciphers that will become used in the next few years that are resistant to the current theoretical models of quantum-computing based attacks.

    Also, quantum computing still has trouble of scale with larger keys, I assume that we'll see the next 10 years require 4096 or 8192 bit keys as scalable rental CPU and GPU becomes more powerful.

    And people really have to stop planning to have the same security model for the next 10 years in the future. Upgrades and long term support are becoming a necessity.

  8. Re:Wrongway Orangefuzz on Boeing 737 Max Jets Grounded By FAA Emergency Order (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently they don't need one to make decisions.

  9. In other news: Productivity skyrockets on Facebook is Down · · Score: 1

    For those of us not on some other website complaining about it at least.

  10. Pandora has Siri integration.

  11. That is pure bullshit from Spotify though. There are no technical restrictions on free or paid apps, I can write an app today that interfaces with the Watch or Health or whatever else Apple API's have available.

    What I'm NOT allowed to do and what Spotify wants to do is collect statistics and other tracking information, badger or spam their customers and make it appear as though I accept payments through the app but actually send them to a third party website. There are various consumer protection complaints both in EU and US with various laws being designed to protect people from being scammed through apps and Apple simply won't allow "consumer enhancing experiences" like "rate this product" or "give me your location".

    Apple Music plays by the same rules, they don't collect information, they don't sell the information, they are a freestanding service making somewhat of a profit, Spotify is failing because they are collecting and selling your information and keep spamming you to upgrade and people simply don't like it.

  12. So companies can't spam you to death for upgrading their 'free' service. Sounds great. Spoitfy could do the same as Pandora and Netflix, simply sell it through their own website, why do you want to spam/ad everyone to upgrade? If they see value in your premium service, people will sign up by themselves. If not, stop spamming me.

  13. Make it mandatory for SJWs on Alphabet's AI-Powered Chrome Extension Hides Toxic Comments (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    So this will end all false outrage right. There is no reason to still be reading whatever you don't agree with.

  14. The study is not replicated yet nor representative on Portland City Council May Ask FCC To Investigate Health Risks of 5G Networks (inverse.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The lowest exposure level used in the studies was equal to the maximum local tissue exposure currently allowed for cell phone users. This power level rarely occurs with typical cell phone use. The highest exposure level in the studies was four times higher than the maximum power level permitted for local tissues. They were full body exposed to these levels for 10 minutes every 10 minutes.

    If you artificially heat things up (10W/kg) they tend to get burnt and develop cancer. Also female rats didn't seem to have this effect, only male rats and they only deviated slightly from controls with the majority of male rats living longer due to not developing kidney problems later in life.

    The data is highly suggestive and methodology flawed to make any decisions.

  15. Politico has an article talking to Snopes about biased media websites, and are worried about the trend. Make sure HuffPo, Salon and CNN don't get wind of it, they may have a patent on the business model

  16. This is hollyweird, it doesn't matter as long as the narrative works. Plenty of box office records are artificial, if you have a poor movie but want to make a lot of money, buy your own movie's tickets out and have the media fawn at how good the movie must be. Seems to happen to a lot of Marvel movies, they're cookie cutter scripted movies that keep smashing box office records but have no long-term sales income and within less than 24m you'll see them at the $5 bin.

  17. IT security generally sucks on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In many cases security at an academic institute is a springboard to private as well as a wasteland of people without talent. On the other hand, a smart hacker would also find ways of altering access logs or create an alibi.

  18. If they're just burning it on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the problem? You're simply burning the plastics anyway. Find better things to do with it, make pellets out the stuff and melt it back together in useful forms. Pack it up and sell it, better yet, give it away as a cheap form of insulation.

    It's what China does anyway, they pack up our garbage and sells it back to us as "green recycled" furniture. If you have purchased cellulose insulation you'll find plenty of plastic worked into it.

  19. Re:What does that mean for humanity? on A Third Person May Have Been Cured of HIV (newscientist.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    For most organ transplants you need to kill or suppress the immune response. This is a very dangerous procedure, HIV suppressants exist and are arguably safer. This also includes a surgery for the marrow transplant, risks exist for both the donor and receiver.

    It's pretty costly and won't become the mainstream for curing HIV since you need a very specific set of donors and the pool of sick people is simply too large. These are happy accidents that come with curing something else (eg cancer) and give researchers a pathway to look down at but not a fix that will be on the market tomorrow.

  20. Not what this political net neutrality is about. It's not about censorship or equal access, the Dems want to put the Internet back under control of the FTC (which is what Obama NN was) rather than FCC where it has always been.

    If it's under the FTC mergers of media conglomerates is easier. The AT&T and Time Warner merger recently blocked by Trump's FCC is what Dems want to pass. Under Obama's rules we saw massive monopolization of news networks, media and information distribution channels, that's what Dems want.

  21. Re:Nuclear power = Socialism on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    How about you just burn the fuel completely instead of chucking it at 90% capacity worrying about someone potentially building a nuke with it, as North Korea and Iran shows, fuel ain't hard to get but a functioning rocket program is.

  22. Next iteration won't even need that on Microsoft Will Launch Disc-Less, 'All Digital' Xbox One S Next Month, Report Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    With "streaming games" they can keep the games at Microsoft and not worry about copies. Push down manufacturing even further, just give them an ARM chip that connects to a remote gaming sessions.

  23. Re:USB 4 will once again ... on USB 4 Will Support Thunderbolt and Double the Speed of USB 3.2 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The cables and controllers sure aren't compatible, you need a converter from USB-x to USB-2 which typically includes a full controller on-chip. Even USB-3 to USB-2, the controllers aren't backwards compatible and thus older software that talks to OHCI/EHCI won't talk to xHCI or beyond.

  24. Re:Another WaPo hoax on The Washington Post Decries 'Toxicity' in Videogames (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    And they published private phone numbers, IP addresses and a way of 'hacking into our tv' etc there too?

  25. Another WaPo hoax on The Washington Post Decries 'Toxicity' in Videogames (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No police report, no proof, flimsy backstory, it's another Smollett story. There is no way to get an IP and fully doxxed in a matter of minutes from playing Xbox. All traffic travels through the server, P2P traffic is minimal if at all existent so most likely you have to hack Microsoft servers; then you have to hack the ISP, cross reference the address with various (hacking into) cell phone providers databases before making an untraceable phone call all in under ~10 minutes for some lulz? And no adult thinks this is illegal and highly concerning.

    WaPo is getting played by their own side like a narrative fiddle in a desperate attempt to get a story out.