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  1. Heeyooooo! on Civilian Drone Crashes Into a US Army Helicopter (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm certain this was Chopper Dave.

  2. Alternative option: on Can We Reduce Cow Methane Emissions By Breeding Low-Emission Cattle? (popsci.com) · · Score: 0

    Tax foods based on how much damage making it does to the environment then use that money and undo the damage to the environment. Even if everyone pays out the nose for it, the environment still gets cleaned up and that's the important part.

  3. Re:This is the slippery slope on Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    And who decides what is a "intrinsically oppressive ideology"... Where is the line drawn..

    Judge things on a case-by-case basis. Neo-nazis by any name are fascists.

  4. Re:This is the slippery slope on Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    I find that it effectively becomes censorship when everyone decides to not host it.

    When everyone decides to not host it, it seems like that's a sign of how repugnant your content is. However, anyone can participate in the internet by hosting their own content. As for host names, hell, for $100K you can buy an entire TLD!

  5. Who are the idiots still holding onto Equifax stocks? Seriously, sell that shit and let Equifax burn.

  6. An entire $7500?! on Cloudflare Pays First $7,500 Bounties In War Against Patent Troll (cloudflare.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh please, there are many millions of dollars on the table here. What they are paying out in bounties isn't even scraps, it's crumbs at best.

  7. Re:This is the slippery slope on Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't play word games and call yourself anything other than an oppressor.

    Way to play the victim!

    It makes no difference whether censorship is carried out by government, or corporations.

    So, you are upset that a intrinsically oppressive ideology is being oppressed? Doesn't is seem like they are getting exactly what they want? Oh, they want to be the oppressors, right.

    That's some serious mental gymnastics you got going on there, buddy.

  8. Re:This is the slippery slope on Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you start condoning Internet censorship for political reasons (for example, what has been going on with the Daily Stormer), it will never stop where you think.

    The "Daily Stormer" was not censored, they just weren't supported by businesses. If they were censored, they wouldn't be back online and being hosted by some company in Iceland.

    Is it too much to ask of mods to grasp the truth of content before modding it? (mod me down, "-1 oww, my feels!")

  9. Allow to me clear things up. on Microsoft and Facebook Just Built a 4,000-Mile Cable Across the Pacfic Ocean (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    Microsoft and Facebook laid a giant cable across The Atlantic to keep them from posting any more mean things about them. This wasn't an accident, they did this pacifically because they heard bad things were going to be in the next issue.

    I'm not sure how you guys got all confused about something so simple. ;)

  10. You know, ReactOS runs the majority of the Win32 programs. So, who's ditching Win10 and heading to ReactOS?! ;)

  11. Re:Yes, but can't explain Cosmic Rays on Most Powerful Cosmic Rays Come From Galaxies Far, Far Away (space.com) · · Score: 1

    To get to the energies of cosmic rays you have to go back to before 10^-13 s after the Big Bang. Back then the Universe was incredibly small and incredibly dense. So dense and energetic that everything, even things like neutrinos, were colliding and interacting with everything around them. This meant that everything was roughly in thermal equilibrium and had comparable energies.

    The obvious explanation is that they bounced off the edge of the universe, God yelled "brick!" and the rays were flung back at us via blackhole. We're part of a REALLY big game of cosmic basketball. ;)

  12. I'm going to cut you a break and attribute this to miscommunication.

  13. Re:You're right on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    touche!

  14. Re:This guy has no idea how Face ID works on 'Dear Apple, The iPhone X and Face ID Are Orwellian and Creepy' (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    Iâ(TM)m not claiming youâ(TM)re wrong or anything but I canâ(TM)t help but get the feeling you âoecopypastaâd your post. ;)

  15. No they aren't. on Ford Is Using Microsoft's HoloLens To Design Cars In Augmented Reality (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What they are doing is using it to shape the exterior of a car model. There is a lot of engineering that goes into designing cars and this is used for exactly jack shit of that engineering. So no, they aren't designing any cars with it, they are just replacing real clay with virtual clay.

  16. is it a turtle binary or the turtle source code? ;)

  17. Yes, many of us know about David Wheeler and his idea.

    It's the first I've heard of him or his idea.

    Trying to get the same source code to compile under different versions of GCC is hard enough.

    I'm not talking about using multiple versions of the same compiler, I'm talking about compiling a single version of a compiler using cross-architecture compilation and completely different compilers. The result is getting similar binaries of the same compiler for the same platform and target. Despite being similar, the compilers will produce identical binaries if they are not infected. Writing a trojan that will embed itself regardless of platform, operating system or compiler is something only AI can hope to achieve.

  18. And we get plenty of energy from Sol, our star.

  19. You misunderstand. The point is to compile a compiler on using multiple platforms and compilers and use the resulting compilers to then build a program. If the compilers produce the same program binary same for each built version of the compiled compiler then it's unlikely to be compromised. This works because you are using the same compiler to build the program binary, just that the compiler was built using different methods.

  20. If you simply wish to verify you are not getting a trojan embedded into your binary by a compiler then you simply need to cross-compile a compiler from multiple compilers on multiple architectures and then compare the binaries each of the cross-compiled compilers produce. An example of this would be building GCC for x86 using itself and using Clang/LLVM on ARM (targetting x86). If the resulting builds of the GCC for x86 compiler produce identical binaries then it's extremely unlikely that either compiler is compromised. With each additional compiler and architecture used, it become exponentially less likely that the compile has been compromised.

    It would require a sophisticated AI to create a self-perpetuating trojan that would run on all modern platforms and embed itself in all modern compilers. However, if your "Hello World" program starts producing a 10MB binary, you may want to be concerned.

  21. Re:Holy shit, stop the insanity on Mathematical Formula Predicts Global Mass Extinction Event in 2100 (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What could possibly go wrong? :D

  22. Re:You're right on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    My point is simply that you were restating my argument. Since I'm obligated to be unagreeable (per EULA for internets), we'll just leave it at, you agree with me. ;)

  23. the first rule of thermodynamics is applicable to energy, not matter.

  24. Re:YOU JUST THOUGHT OF THIS NOW?!! on Democrats Ask FEC To Create New Rules To Keep Foreign Influence Off Social Media Ads (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck you all. Fuck. Go head, mod me down. Social media is a scourge on society. FUCK YOU!

    Please, there's no need to hold back on slashdot. Tell us how you really feel. ;)

  25. Irrelevant. on Bill Gates Says He's Sorry About Control-Alt-Delete (qz.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Where's the apology for BSODs? I don't mean, "oh that's a bad interface, we shouldn't have done that." I mean, "Oh God, our kernel code was so bad it just shit it's pants all the time and we really wish we could have been as good as Linux." I guess i'll have to keep waiting. -_-