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Comment Re:Not correct (Score 1) 286

In everything else, yes. In the case of libel, if you make a statement about someone, you had better make sure you have proof first. You could argue that it stifles free speech, but on the other hand, it does at least prevent people in the media from saying things like "He's a communist Muslim from Kenya"....

Comment Re:Another marginal perf iteration of Core (Score 1) 180

AVX v.s. SSE4.2 : 8 x floats per instruction v.s. 4 floats per instruction. (Nehalem v.s. Sandy Bridge)
AVX2 v.s. AVX : 8 x 32 integers per instruction v.s. 4 x 32 bit integers per instruction. (Ivy Bridge v.s. Haswell)

The performance gains certainly are there. As per usual, meaningless benchmarks are meaningless.

Comment Re:Knowledge and the ocean. (Score 2) 104

Sooooooo...., the climate didn't change on earth before man appeared here. REALLY?

Sooooooo......, you're a climate scientist who has spent a substantial part of their life studying the effects that man made atmospheric pollution have on the Earth's climate? No? Then forgive me if I ignore everything you say, and instead listen to people who are qualified to talk on this subject.

Comment Re:It's A Start (Score 3, Interesting) 362

How do they sleep at night?

Can't speak for those at the NSA, but I grew up next to GCHQ, and knew a few people who worked there. Whenever the topic of GCHQ came up in conversation, it was pretty apparent that no one actually knew what they were doing. They are given small tasks from those higher up, but they have no idea what it's for, or why they're doing it. Someone might be writing speech regonition software, someone else might be processing some telephone numbers into a database, someone else might be writing some GPS software. No one is allowed to talk about their work to anyone else, and so no one gets the big picture as to what's actually happening. Individually the component libraries are innocent enough, but they turn positively orwellian when they are merged into a single tool (which is something the IT serfs will never see)

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