Today's fad is to try and come up with the "perfect" human. Always happy, 200 IQ, and the personality of a turnip as to not be offensive to anyone at any time. Of course they must be orange skinned, no hair, and no gender features (I hope you saw the South Park episode) because if anything visible marked one of them as "different" the project would be a failure. Perfect is quoted, because this perfection is severely subjective and the person who's ideal you are going to meet probably does not match your own.

As you point out, there is no way to know what these apparently unused genes do until we start making modifications. These are pretty dangerous times we live in for many reasons. People believing they are smarter than billions of years of evolution gives me no assurance that these people have a clue, let alone care about modifying people.

Does it make you uncomfortable the idea that we are creating reality through our very consciousness? That sounds like woo-woo new-age shit, but one can interpret quantum mechanics in that way. The past and future do not exist except in our minds. The only time that truly exists is Now. Everything that has ever happened and ever will happen is happening now. We are choosing, through our consciousness, which part of that to experience.

Woo Woo! ;-)

No, it was the subsequent post that skipped QA.

Self sterilization and removal from the gene pool?

you asked....

probably a snark tag needed...

Yup yup, I wrote something contrary to my original post quite unintentionally. Memory is always faster than Disk, unless you write shit tests that behave abnormally to make a bogus claim.

Bah, I wrote the wrong thing...

read their code, you will see the problems.

Not to Karma whore, but I already see two problems with their testing by reading their code samples. Lets see who else finds them. The simple answer is no, disk is not slower than memory. The long answer is yes, programmers can make it look that way.

'll have to dig through their testing and methods, but this seems pretty fishy given the summary.

Seek/Read/Write time of a disk is always slower than memory. No exceptions to the rule exist given current commodity hardware. Bus length to a disk is also much longer than to memory. Again, there are no exceptions given commodity hardware.

Won't be the first time someone reported that the laws of physics don't exist for something, and I'm sure it won't be the last. Maybe someone with free mornings in the US can break it down better than the summary.

Client Server technology has always had a problem where the client must trust the server. Adobe could have done better with Flash, but compromised security for flexibility. Exactly what every Bank I know of has done, and insurance company, and government agency, and department store, etc.. etc... etc...

If you are worried, don't download content you don't trust. It's not an absolute fix, because malicious files could still be uploaded to Facebook and Youtube. That said, I doubt your world will end when you don't watch the latest meme or crazy Russian's video. Plenty of other things to do for entertainment, most in my opinion are healthier than sitting on your ass watching videos.

I don't see this as a big deal. If you are ignorant to the dangers of the Internet today, you are intentionally ignorant. Too much information is available for you to read on the "do's and dont's" of content and usage. Sorry, but the world will never be the safe place certain people fantasize about. Human nature will prevent this from happening, ever!

Sending an image is communicating. Sending a specific type of image is using that method of communication. Without failed logic can you prove my statement wrong regarding communication? Call me a skeptic, but you already failed at basic logic so I believe the answer is "NO".

Taxi apps are a method of communications. ALL methods of communication can be used for bad things as easy as they can be used for good things. Blaming a "taxi" application is idiotic, because the same claim could be made of Facebook, Twitter, email, cell phones, or even a goddamn piece of paper and pen if that is the only method of communication handy.

People collude and plot. This is not some brand new revelation, it goes back thousands of years in historical writing. Read Homer, Plato, Aristotle, all of the diaries from the dark ages. More recently, watch just about any reality TV show which is always full of people plotting and scheming. Someone is always a victim, and someone always benefits. Losing your life savings on paper may be deemed "not as bad" as an assault, but the long reaching impact is worse in my opinion.

We can't teach history, and we can't talk about reality. We half to talk about invented dramas which have no bearing on reality except to maintain the status quo.

It's really too bad that people refuse to look at why people get paid big bucks to argue and publish these positions. Remember, Gamergate was an issue about sexism, not about corrupt journalists colluding to influence public opinion. (hint: One of those things is reality, the other is an invented scenario)

You consider the local police something other than a third party? This has been done with bullying as well as suicide, and Facebook admits that they do so. No, I'm not going to do all of the work for you. I provided enough information for you to find the facts. It does appear that you are content to sit in denial however.

You have to read the next link and follow the trail. Yes, they do. In fact there was a report on a few news stations a short time back where Facebook was showing off it's capabilities to do so Internationally and openly admitted to having people dedicated to the task of monitoring posts and reporting people to Government agencies. The focus of that news report was on bullying, so there is no limitation of just "suicide" risks.