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  1. PTSD is a "disease" that people under stress find within themselves because they've been taught the symptoms. In the Civil War soldiers would clutch their chests and fall to the ground in pain. In WW1 soldiers would have spasmodic body movements that would incapacitate them for months, (videos available on YouTube). People in non western countries during natural disasters show none of the western PTSD symptoms. Drug companies don't just provide the treatment, they manufacture the disease.

  2. Re:Audacious on What Happened To Winamp? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Audacious can use any of the skins from the sites that offer Winamp skins, and also skins generated by Skinamp.exe under Wine. Audacious also has an installer for those using windows.

  3. Most medical studies are critically flawed because drug companies pay for the research. Researchers who provide results favorable to the sponsor's needs may get further research underwritten, be appointed to prestigious positions, be invited to all expenses paid conferences, be wined and dined and offered the attentions of beautiful women. Those who report unfavorable results get nothing.

  4. Dreams aren't generated in one place. Your brain is blind and contructs your reality for you from incoming data. For everything that passes there are multiple possible interpretations, and most of the time it gets things right. When you're asleep and dreaming your brain constructs a reality without the sensory inputs to reference. "Healthy" brains construct a model that works well with the outside world. For each situation a range of choices is offered and your frontal lobes choose the most likely. That "best match" is what you experience as reality. Schizophrenics have real problems constructing a good match... Highly creative people carry the schizotypal gene and are more likely to find novel ways to order the data.

  5. Re:AI has improved a lot on Artificially Intelligent Painters Invent New Styles of Art (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Computer art... Pareidolia, also called patternicity, is the tendency to find meaning in meaningless data. Most people can easily find patterns in clouds, or oil slicks, or craters on the moon etc. Add to that the expectations keyed by context and you have art placebos.

  6. Re:This opinion isn't new and is still wrong. on 'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows vs Linux... In Win 10 you can get an Ubuntu linux subsystem through Settings, Update and Security, For Developers, Use Developer Features, Developer mode. Apparently you can even install X and run Gui apps. Says a lot when Windows developers prefer to do their work from within a hosted linux environment.

  7. Arch on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    With Arch you're expected to figure things out for yourself, and yes, that can be a pain, but its the best way to learn... Also odd to read about all the security tools in Parrot OS. Last time I looked they had somewhere around 100 tools. Blackarch currently has 1312 tools and you can easily install any or all of them on any Arch dist of your choice.

  8. PTSD... In the US Civil war affected soldiers would suddenly clasp their chests in pain and fall to the ground, unable to move. In WW1 some soldiers would develop dramatic spasmodic ticks and jerks that would persist for months, (videos of such patients on YouTube). Everyone is familiar with the modern symptoms... What we have is energy looking for expression and patients express according to their expectations. The energy is real, the expression is learned. PTSD is a psychosomatic illness.

  9. Re:Lead? on US Dementia Rates Drop 24%, New Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "believed to be caused by a buildup of plaques and tangles in the brain", but on autopsy the brains of lots of people who had dementia show no such plaque, while lots who had no sign of dementia did have plaque. The focus on a physical cause suits the disease biases of doctors and the financial interests of big drug companies. But there are other models. Seniors are excluded from their families and stripped of any productive activity. They then lose track because keeping track no longer matters.

  10. Re:put staff out of work on Internet of Things Set To Change the Face of Dementia Care (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The result will be less human interaction, which means faster decline.

  11. Re:How dare they hack NY Times reporters! on FBI Investigating Russian Hack Of New York Times Reporters, Others (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Reds under the bed! Who gains from this story? Can't see why the Russians would waste their time on the NYT, but the NSA, DHS etc would. Blaming the Russians for what they themselves are doing is very much their kind of thing. We'll see if the story morphs in other directions that help with their agenda, like blaming encryption.

  12. Re:"Sexual mistreatment"? on Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The firing and the release of damaging information are two separate issues. The firing is likely a genuine attempt to deal with allegations of wrongdoing, but the release of information appears to serve no other purpose than to destroy Appelbaum's reputation.

  13. Re:Radicalized through Islam on FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Jonestown 1978, 978 people killed, including US Congressman Ryan. Mothers gave their babies poison to drink. Yet nobody blamed Christianity.

  14. Re:An easier sollution on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    "Outlawing religion seems a better bet"... No religion necessary for Sandy Hook, Columbine, Washington Navy Yard, Virginia Tech, Aurora Colorado. etc, etc. The common element is guns, although guns aren't the cause of the behaviour. Mass shootings trigger a huge emotional convulsion in society and I think that's what the killers really want to trigger... the Oprah effect.

  15. Re:example of his "sophisticated political views"? on Hacker Phineas Fisher is Trying To Start a 'Hack Back' Political Movement (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    My understanding of the political views of Hacking Team and FinFisher is that they have none. They appear to be motivated purely by profit. The people identified by their software are often tortured and murdered, but we're to believe that's OK because for these guys its only business? Not without precedent, of course, IBM reportedly provided early computer systems to the Nazis before and during WW2 that was used to organize the holocaust.

  16. Re:Polygraphs... on How the Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Polygraphs tests are built on junk science and their use should be prohibited. There are various other common tools in forensics that are in the same boat, incuding fingerprint analysis, police lineups, bite mark analysis, etc, etc. Many people have been wrongly convicted based on these thanks to the false belief the public holds that they are infallible.

  17. Re:The so-called 'community standards' on The Guardian Publishes Comment Abuse Stats, Invites Debate On Moderation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In an article on the middle east I got into trouble for posts which referred to the shared linguistic roots of Arabs and Jews as well as the fact that the biblical story of Noah and the Ark was plagiarized from the Epic of Gilgamesh. My opponent was a Jewish gentleman and the whole exchange was deleted. From that I learned that in the Guardian it's abusive to contradict the Talmud.

  18. Re:luck on Global Majority Backs a Ban On 'Dark Net,' Poll Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's evidence that governments are winning the PR war against TOR and privacy. They're throwing a lot of money and effort at this and there's hardly any push back. I expect Tor will be outlawed within three years....Given enough time PR firms could convince the public that kittens are the world's most dangerous security risk and must all be exterminated.

  19. Re: It is not a justification for more surveillanc on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Unmentioned is ETA, the Basque terror organization active between 1968 and 2002 that committed 3,300 terror attacks killing 952 people and injuring 3,300. That's 34 years of murders and bombings... Anarchists are still sending letter bombs in Europe, as they did in the United States in the early 1900s. In 1919 they sent 36 dynamite letter bombs to prominent americans and the next year carried out the Wall Street bombing which killed 30 people. Bin Laden and al Qaeda undoubtedly got the idea for attacking the twin towers from Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing. Lots more examples... So no, Islamic radicals did not invent terrorism.

  20. For secure deletion I set apg to create a 10,000 character password and feed it into ccrypt. The results could easily be added to emails, the first 10,000 as the text, the second as the password to encrypt it, causing spies to spend huge effort decrypting to only to get gibberish.

  21. Re:Crypto? on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ETA, a separatist Basque separatist organization in NATO ally Spain active 1961 to 2011 committed hundreds of bomb and assassination attacks. Nelson Mandela's group dynamited hydro towers. Still active, Italian anarchists in the early 1900s carried out a series of mail bombings in the US and set off a huge bomb on Wall Street. There was Timothy McVeigh, etc, etc.

  22. It's very old news. In the 1890s criminologist Count Franz von Liszt, (cousin of the composer), made a practice of staging disruptions at his lectures involving actors fighting, sometimes firing a gun. Even forewarned, students gave wildly differing accounts of events in summaries they wrote afterwards. Many experiments since have demonstrated the same results. What is stored in memory is the gist of events. Details are supplied on the fly during recall. We still place a high value on eye witness testimony at trials, which has led to the imprisonment and execution of many innocent people.

  23. Re:The first step is the hardest. on How To Talk About Mental Illness Online? · · Score: 1

    First step is to stop letting the media and drug companies define mental illness. People learn the role of depression through TV, movies and articles and find the symptoms within themselves. Once they get caught up in that role their expectations drive their behaviour. The placebo effect is enormously powerful.

  24. Re:We're fucked on Librarians As the First Line of Privacy Defense · · Score: 2

    My library enables third parties to access users' computers by piggy backing on the library connection, and the search string is included in the url of accessed pages. One of those sharing the connection is google analytics, which can then link the search terms with the IP. At the same time Google drops tracking cookies. The library sees nothing wrong with this arrangement.

  25. Re:A useful link for all of ya ... on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    "useful link"... Lots of similar stuff on the Ku Klux Klan website and the sites of related groups. If a couple of black guys attacked a KKK rally would that prove that all Blacks are murderers?