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Re:FBI, ICE using state driver’s license photos for facial-recognition...
on Sunday July 07, 2019 @06:40PM (#20378446)
In my youth I spent thousands of hours I will never get back arguing about the merits of various social policies and I have never made a positive impact with my contributions.
Re:Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?
on Sunday July 07, 2019 @06:38PM (#20378438)
The reason people buy expensive houses in expensive areas is because of enhanced social networking and housing market stability. Strong communities tend to fare better in economic downturns. Moving to the countryside increases the probability of social isolation. This has far reaching consequences on mental and physical health.
Re:Automated scanners looking for vulnerabilities in Huawei firmware
on Sunday July 07, 2019 @06:24PM (#20378372)
Also it's laughable that they imply vulnerabilities are less common in "American" made software.
Re:FBI, ICE using state driver’s license photos for facial-recognition...
on Sunday July 07, 2019 @06:15PM (#20378319)
There is nothing you can do about it. You have no meaningful impact on any government policies. Why waste time writing about this stuff if legislative representatives do not care about your writings? Genuinely curious why people waste time complaining about things they have zero control over.
Re:YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infose...
on Saturday July 06, 2019 @08:41PM (#20372907)
Guns are loud even with a silencer. Knife crimes are easier to conceal in urban ambush situations.
Re:YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infose...
on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:04PM (#20356943)
YouTube needs to accelerate their banning process so they can become solely focused on mainstream psychological brainwashing clickbait. This way my favorite creators can actually move to other freer platforms and get paid without fascist payment processors and trying to abide by YouTube's insane terms and conditions. YouTube is going the way of cable TV channels dedicated to infomercials. The interesting stuff will be purged soon. The writing is on the wall. Backup and escape while you can. It will not get better.
Re:Apple iCloud Experiencing Issues
on Thursday July 04, 2019 @02:52PM (#20356868)
They have a #ailored #ccess #perations department. Look it up.
Re:Reset C by GE Light Bulbs [video]
on Sunday June 30, 2019 @10:35AM (#20318402)
From the comments it seems like smart bulbs are a good choice for people are not capable of or not willing to replace wall switches.
Good news is there are ways to integrate smart switches with open source home automation systems.
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/8apv64/hue_t...
Re:‘My mum didn’t vaccinate me – this is what happened next’
on Sunday June 30, 2019 @10:18AM (#20318304)
Aside from D3 most of the world that doesn't regularly eat lots of fermented foods regularly lacks in K2. This results in calcium building up in arterial walls rather than being shuttled into bones and tissues.
Re:Everything everywhere is securities fraud
on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:08PM (#20296355)
This is the best argument in favor of strong privacy laws I have heard so far
Re:India has the highest data usage per smartphone
on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:25PM (#20243935)
Woah woah. Do you have a professional license and liability insurance to practice that opinion in public near the presence of children?
Re:I left the ad industry because of data tracking
on Friday June 07, 2019 @08:53AM (#20124023)
The difference is those have the power to make dissidents vanish and make it seem like everything is perfect.
Re:I left the ad industry because of data tracking
on Friday June 07, 2019 @08:19AM (#20123795)
Hedge funds and intelligence agencies are fingerprinting all groups within our society by monitoring the responses of various target audiences to engineered stimuli. This comes in the form of observing the response to selective dissemination of content with a known effect on observers (you). A few years ago we heard about some outrage nobody did anything about when it became clear Facebook was manipulating reader emotional depression by showing some groups engineered posts. This has become a higher dimensional problem since then. It is no longer just "Facebook is making some groups of people sad." Now these orgs are reinforcing complex concepts in our minds subconsciously. One that comes to mind is a motif you will see in advertisements once you are more aware of it: strong healthy black man rescues white woman from a bumbling and pathetic white male. The whole point is to exploit fracture points in society and shift the overton window. Being able to establish behavioral patterns triggered by engineered information dissemination helps them control groups of people for their own benefit. It's a psychological intelligence operation on an unprecedented scale. Hedge funds stay ahead of new trends to invest in to maximize ROI. Intelligence agencies similarly identify threats to their power structures and steer the minds of the consumers of social media to further their agenda and steer the beliefs of any group in a controlled direction.
Re:US International Students Lose Internships Because of Outdated Work...
on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @07:51AM (#20103415)
Is it really ideal to ever welcome outsiders with nothing at stake to run your parade?
Not disagreeing with your post
Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently
on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @03:04PM (#20098159)
I build and fly flying wings that don't have computers
Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently
on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:11PM (#20096372)
This is patently false. In fact you should delete this post in its entirety because it's just wrong. Don't make these things up and post them as fact. Flying wings easily fly without any computers whatsoever. They are inherently aerodynamically stable. Only manual elevon inputs by humans are actually required and it is quite easy to control unless your center of gravity is too far back. The CG is usually around 70% of the way to the front from the back.
Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Desig...
on Saturday June 01, 2019 @06:29PM (#20072099)
Can a near-stall condition be detected solely with some combination of GPS, accelerometer, and barometer?
Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Desig...
on Saturday June 01, 2019 @06:17PM (#20072038)
I want to know why the Boeing flight computer needs pitot tube input at all. Modern ublox GPSes can easily obtain 3D lock on multiple satellite constellations within a minute of booting. Several of these in parallel for redundancy if you are paranoid. Flight controllers on fixed wings don't even need a magnetometer to stabilize. Just GPS path heading. If all else fails, solid state accelerometers are very reliable. Accelerometer only based dead reckoning works great. If all else fails, a single accelerometer should be sufficient to get the plane relatively stable. A barometer can help too, but doesn't seem necessary. These systems can be easily combined with fallback logic to keep the plane in the sky. I just don't understand what is so hard about this for Boeing. I understand airspeed is not the same as ground speed, but this should provide enough information to the flight computer to keep the plane in the air or at least stable.
Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Ri...
on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @07:30AM (#20038842)
Let it go to voice mail. Most callers won't leave one.
Re:Behind Grindr's Doomed Hookup in China
on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:57PM (#20011705)
The entire CIA network in China was recently brought down from stuff like this while the agents of Chinese military are masquerading as innocent Chinese graduate students and copying University hard drives as fast as possible. My coworker from Carnegie Mellon described the situation years ago and it seems pretty grim.
Re:U.S. military to analyze 350B social media posts to understand popu...
on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:45PM (#20011658)
Social media is at the very core of 4th generation warfare. Social media is more powerful than nukes because he who controls the discourse of the public is more powerful than he who destroys the public. He who controls the social network can make people believe whatever he wants them to believe to achieve his goals. Vastly more powerful, invisible, and humane than nuclear weapons, especially in terms of reach. What we are already witnessing online is an information war which hijacks and disrupts our social connections and thought processes to replace them with highly engineered stimuli which steer the people to think and act in a certain way. Neural networks are in development which will provide a positive feedback loop to continually evolve puppet account discourse in a way which maximally achieves the goals of a behavioral campaign. Phrases which maximize psychological impact for each campaign will be identified and automatically evolved based on replies and related discourse to always maintain maximum engagement as the overton windows shifts. These experiments are already well underway.
Re:U.S. military to analyze 350B social media posts to understand popu...
on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:41PM (#20011637)
Government aid is a proxy for soft power through population pacification, political subversion, intelligence gathering operations, and proselytization. They know exactly who they want to target at all times.
Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in C...
on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:59AM (#20001533)
Good job with the weight loss!
Re:NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024 moon land...
on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:56AM (#20001488)
America should reduce corn subsidies. Corn works its way into the American food ecosystem in many ways to the detriment of the Americans' health. It is highly inflammatory by itself and it is processed into compounds which also modulate inflammation in other ways. See high fructose corn syrup and its inflammatory pathways. Processed corn products are a multi pronged attack on Americans' health. End corn subsidies.
Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in C...
on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:51AM (#20001438)
A diverse diet consisting of low average insulin index foods is the ticket to a long health span. No need to watch macros as long as the diet meets this criteria.
Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in C...
on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:44AM (#20001345)
Despite being presented with some data (kcal info) you don't know how to interpret it. It is, in fact, irrelevant. Calorie data is not helpful in determining proper eating habits. The actually useful measure is average meal insulin index times food quantity. This is a better metric of obesification since insulin drives weight gain.
Re:Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:48PM (#19972650)
There is zero benefit to more powerful CPUs in MacBooks when the thermal profile of the CPU heatsink design leads to throttling very rapidly.
Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts
on Monday May 20, 2019 @06:14PM (#19965835)
Oversec might be able to help you
Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts
on Monday May 20, 2019 @06:09PM (#19965794)
Some sure fire ways to get your account actually deleted, and quickly: post large amounts of hardcore porn, extreme gore, and anything that puts Jews in a negative light like Nazi symbols combined with the prior two methods. The moderation team will nuke your accounts very efficiently.
Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:07PM (#19942069)
Worth noting that the UK never had a proper revolution