Exactly, thank you. I'm tired of this mantra that we need to vote just for the sake of voting. It's stupid and it's the entire reason why we're stuck in a two party system.

I mean shit, during the early days of the everyday Joe's being able to vote in the US they had to take exams to determine whether or not they were informed, and even then everyday Joe's weren't permitted to vote for federal elections (the people they elected for their state government would themselves elect congressmen, senators, and the electors who voted for the president.)

Now, I'm NOT saying we should go back to that. Being required to take exams would mean that the voters would have to e.g. accept your particular version of history, which is decidedly not democratic. Not only that but only permitting special people to vote isn't either.

However what I am saying is that we need to stop encouraging people to vote just for the sake of it. THAT is the reason there's money in politics.

Pretty much the worst complaining I do about the outcome is when somebody says that their guy is only doing something bad because the opposite party forced his hand into doing it. It's such a bullshit response that I can't help but call people out on it, exactly like I did in response to an AC comment above.

I don't think it will even be that. In my experience, most people just vote for somebody based on very meaningless reasons. E.g. vote for who their friends voted for, or in the case of the last president, my sister voted for him just because she felt it was time we had a black president...seriously no other reason than that. I've personally made it a point to stop registering to vote and not vote at all just because of how pointless I feel the whole thing has become due to the signal to noise being really bad. Even going out of my way to not register, somehow I still keep getting voter ID cards and mail in ballots every election, which during the 2014 election I literally threw in the trash.

That said, the president thinks this will take money out of politics...sorry but that has to be among the dumbest things I've heard him say. If anything, it will make it worse. Another thing people tend to do is stick to branding impressions. For example people who live in Dallas are more likely to vote for the Cowboys as the best sports team because that is the branding that they are the most exposed to. People likewise tend to pick a political party, and then will bend their views to whatever they think their party is most in favor of...Republicans and Democrats both do this, so don't think your party doesn't (another symptom of branding.)

Likewise, if we have compulsory voting, politicians are probably more likely to be elected solely based on how their brand image is promoted through advertising, so there's going to be a LOT more money in politics.

In other words "don't blame me, I voted for Kodos". Obama had all of the same opinions now that he had before he was president, just most people chose to ignore his political history and only listen to his campaign promises.

Finding hidden malware is considerably harder than finding pedestrians out in the open. If pedestrians were hiding themselves from traffic the way malware distributors hide their code, then Darwin would have claimed them long before a Google car does.

I didn't know what SJW meant so I found this urbandictionary definition to be helpful:

Well if European justice worked like US justice even had at this time, they not only would have arrested Hitler, but they would have put the whole Nazi party under check for being a terrorist organization and probably arrested most of their ringleaders for conspiracy and had it forcibly disbanded.

Which if you want a precedent for this, look at the first KKK which was hunted down by the federal government and was completely obliterated by 1882. (The current KKK is a different organization.) The first KKK would routinely try to influence elections and had popular support in many areas, just like the Nazi party. It took martial law in many areas to get rid of them.

Stalin himself (or rather, the Communist Party) probably wouldn't have gained power if the Germans hadn't invaded.

Something Hitler learned was that you need an enemy in order to rally your population to war, giving you power in the process. The enemy Hitler created was the Jews. Russia however had a real enemy, the Germans. Before Germany invaded Russia, Russia's army was rather pathetic.

Even after WWII, Russia had most of its population convinced that Fascism was still the biggest threat, and they also had them convinced that the west was trying to continue Fascism (keep in mind that Fascism IS a western concept, born in Italy and was very popular throughout most of Europe in several governments for quite a while even after WWII.) In fact the "official" reason Russia used for creating the Berlin wall was to keep Fascist influence out (though the real reason was because they needed to keep people from leaving the soviet bloc because it was a serious drain on their population of skilled workers who wanted to go to capitalist countries where they knew they could live better.)

The first time Hitler tried to seize power in Germany via a coup, he was arrested and used his trial to gain publicity, and rallied a lot of people towards his cause while he was in prison.

Which by the way, 20 people died in his coup attempt, something that would probably have made him eligible for the death penalty in the US (felony-murder doctrine) which had he been executed, it would have averted his eventual reign which itself lead to WWII.

I suspect they'd change that policy in a hurry if people started using this for hypervisor escapes.

I'll second that, and add that I suspect this could also be used for hypervisor/sandbox escapes on practically *any* platform that doesn't use ECC memory.

LEO satellites have the potential of lower latency than some landline broadband connections. Some ISPs (Cox is one I can name off the top of my head) have their first hop border router up to a 1.5k miles from your geographical location. LEO satellites can operate comfortably at a quarter of that distance.

Microsoft didn't invent those patents. They bought them from Nortel who really was using them defensively and never sued any Android OEMs.

Well his brother sure told a big whopper. On some several million beer cans, he wrote that Billy Beer was the best he ever tasted, but in reality he preferred Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Have you even seen the Dell XPS 13? Not only does it manage to get a bigger screen in a slightly smaller form factor (albeit slightly thicker,) but the build materials are VERY good as well, and it features a much more powerful processor.

Lenovo has a 13" laptop that weighs in at 1.7lbs (lighter than the new macbook, again with a more powerful CPU and bigger screen.) They also have a 2-in-1 version (where the hinge is 360 degree rotatable) that will be 2lbs.

Asus has something similar in the pipe but I don't recall the details.