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Comment Re:Tor (Score 2) 376

If the ISP is redirecting every port coming from your IP, it doesn't matter what protocol you use. Instead of getting the "hotel" like page, you get nothing.

If the ISP is redirecting/blocking everything, there will be hell (and a lot of its lawyers) to pay the moment someone with VOIP tries to dial 911 after they were blocked.

If data of any form can get out of the pipe to a host not controlled by the ISP, then the blocking can be circumvented.

Comment Re: Amost sounds like a good deal ... (Score 1, Flamebait) 376

You cannot prove a negative.

Sure you fucking can. Anything defined in such a way as to exclude other possible definitions can have the latter definitions be proven in the negative just as surely as the former definition can be in the positive.

3 != 4.
A triangle is not a square.
Red is not blue.
Hydrogen is not helium.
A dog is not a cat.
If the coin landed heads-up, the coin did not land tails-up.
If someone was in location A at time T, they could not have been in location B at time T committing crime C.
You are not smart.

Comment Re:A lot of assumptions... (Score 1) 98

They're making wild assumptions about the genders of the backers and trying to drawn conclusions about that

No, they have a hypothesis that may one day be tested on the entire population in question, they formed their hypothesis on the basis of laboratory tests, Extrapolation is a perfectly valid method of making a prediction (and quite possibly the only useful method), corporations and political organisations all over the planet spend gazillions on the results of such "focus group" tests.

Of course nature is what it is and "the future" always reserves the right to to ignore our most confident predictions. In other words science is in the business of disproving its best answers by replacing them with better ones, it can never prove anything no matter how high you stack the data. If nobody has bothered with the question before then obviously the answer these people have is currently the best answer anyone has.

I was a teenager in the 70's, the social and behavioural sciences have come along way since Feynman pointed out their fundamental problem, the findings from the "Stanford prison experiments" during the same decade is an important, uncomfortable, and sadly underrated example of an early "law of human behaviour".

Uh, no. You can't extrapolate your lab setting to the real model when you don't have any info on the real model to base your lab setting on.
Even if they knew the gender distribution of backers, AND of all visitors who ended up not backing, they still wouldn't be representing the Kickstarter model of people coming upon a Kickstarter of their own volition and deciding to support it or not.

The ONLY way to get this data is for Kickstarter to provide it. The ONLY way to accurately approximate it is to replicate the conditions under which people visit and decide to support (or not support) a Kickstarter. Their scenario doesn't do that in the slightest. You can't even get accurate data on how often people fart in a lab scenario.

Comment Re:A lot of assumptions... (Score 1) 98

As I read the article, the researchers couldn't determine the sex of the contributors to the Kickstarter projects. But they did notice that tech projects started by women had more success getting funding. Their laboratory experiment indicated some women are more likely to support other women. So they conclude that the Kickstarter projects have the same causation.

I kind of wonder about that conclusion though. The type of person who would fund a Kickstarter project comes from a much different population than the (I assume) students they used in their lab. That said, it is a reasonable hypothesis. Obama certainly gets virtually all of the black vote, Hillary gets a lot of her support from women.

Yup.
They're making wild assumptions about the genders of the backers and trying to drawn conclusions about that. They simply do not have that information and cannot approximate it, especially when they're claiming that gender plays a role in funding.

Comment Re:It's not going to work (Score 1) 136

That's a roller-coaster chart. Two incidents of being propped up... then a solid downhill with a few bumps for the rest of the time. Wasn't this near a zero three years ago? Guess where it's headed back to...

It was near zero when it started out, it slowly but surely climbed, and then it sky rocketed once the frenzy started.
There's a lot of motion if you're a speculator looking to day trade, but if you're actually using Bitcoin then it's been comparable to about $500 for several months.
The current period is actually the longest, most stable one it's ever had since the masses learned of it.

Comment Re:$200MM (Score 1) 107

It may not be completely logical to have kilo as one of only 3 multiples of ten that does not use a capital letter, but there is no ambiguity in the standard for which symbol stands for kilo.

There's no ambiguity for "k", sure. But there's plenty of ambiguity when you go ahead and USE k, or m, or g, or u, or anything, in any field.
It's absurd to say "kb" is confusing because people might think it means 1000 bits, yet to go ahead and use m for meter and milli, G for Giga and the gravitational constant, about a dozen stylings of u for half a dozen different things, k for kilo and the spring constant, etc.

Comment Re:$200MM (Score 1) 107

I keep seeing that K is for 1000, but as far as I know that's simply not true.
It's just people using some broken version of metric prefixes.
k = kilo and K is Kelvin specifically to avoid confusion if you are using the metric system.
Having m for mili and meter is bad enough.

No no no. Metric and SI are totally logical and have no ambiguity!
I'd explain why but it's currently 17.85 and I only have 1.2 decaminutes to get to my next meeting.

Comment Re:Web 2.0 (Score 1) 199

We're well-past Web 2.0. We're in Apps.0 now.
Snapchat is the king of this shit. They release a video of new features and push it out to all users. There is no description of how to use the features, or when they will be added, etc. You basically have to try touching, swiping, pinching, groping, and otherwise molesting every element of the application in order to find the features.

The same goes with Google. They insist on hiding shit behind swipes. If you see something you now have to try touching it, long touching it, swiping it up, swiping it down, swiping it left, and swiping it right in order to figure out what you can do with it. For example, a recent update to Google + Locations added the ability to start a hangout with someone from the map, You find the person on the map, touch their icon/pin and then...? Swipe their name (at the bottom) to the side. There is zero indication that this is possible. You just have to know it.

And don't even get me started on that shitty menu icon Google uses (and everyone else copies). Three horizontal lines does not mean "Menu".

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