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Comment And (Score 1) 170

So will Google, Apple, and Microsoft's encryption schemes.

It's really just a sucker deal when they tell you they care and are going to implement encryption, how else do you settle the cattle after all Snowden showed us.

Tell them it's encrypted, put them at ease and make them complacent again, then provide the "agencies" with a master key/backdoor.

Comment And (Score 5, Interesting) 330

New drought maps show groundwater levels across the U.S. Southwest are in the lowest two to 10 percent since 1949.

The remaining bits, in certain areas, will be poisoned by fracking

Suddenly this article makes sense.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

The Bush family buys 100,000 acres over one of the World's largest fresh water aquifers.

Comment Huh (Score 1) 280

The poster suggest his time in the "liberal arts" taught him critical thinking, and yet states that the jobs available were "not up his alley" and now wants back into STEM.
What makes you think your decision making ability is any better now? Why STEM when you changed over to LA earlier?

Because you think you would get a job easier with a STEM oriented degree?

Would it be wiser for me to go deeper into debt and get a second undergrad degree?

When is it "wiser" to get into debt, much less get into debt deeper?
Go into the military?
For what reason finances?
There is something cognitively wrong with the person that wrote this, my suggestion is you talk to someone that is much older than you and understands the system, you seem to be making "unwise" choices and I would say you aren't capable of critical thinking currently.

Or you wouldn't be here asking what you're asking, talk to someone older and wiser in "real life".

Comment Attention (Score 2) 302

but people should be wary of scams.

This is a warning worth noting, as previous "pirate" domains have been taken over it becomes difficult to know who is running what.
That's means the MPAA (or other entity) could run a pirate site and easily gather more than enough evidence in the process.

Comment Re:Silly (Score 1) 222

As for the author:

The Finkbeiner test is a checklist proposed by journalist Christie Aschwanden to help journalists avoid gender bias in articles about women in science. To pass the test, an article about a female scientist must not mention:

        The fact that she’s a woman

While I agree it should be about the science, it's amusing to see that some people feel the mention of gender invalidates the science.

Comment Silly (Score 1) 222

A "particular drought" is a data point, a detail, climate change is a large scale event made up of millions of data points.

What they should be looking (and some are in fact looking for) is trends.

Nate Silver's name seems to be taken as the data gold standard now.

When FiveThirtyEight was relaunched under ESPN's ownership on March 17, 2014,

Washington Post journalist Ezra Klein wrote: "There are good criticisms to make of Silver's model, not the least of which is that, while Silver is almost tediously detailed about what's going on in the model, he won’t give out the code, and without the code, we can't say with certainty how the model works."[179] Colby Cosh wrote that the model "is proprietary and irreproducible. That last feature makes it unwise to use Silver's model as a straw stand-in for "science", as if the model had been fully specified in a peer-reviewed journal".[180]

I'll let you do your own footwork on who owns and controls ESPN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Laugh (Score 1) 281

Google's services are the safest place to store your sensitive data.

-Eric Schmidt

God himself could not sink this ship!

-Unknown Titanic crew member

  When asked during an interview for CNBC's recent "Inside the Mind of Google" special about whether users should be sharing information with Google as if it were a "trusted friend," Schmidt responded,

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

The attitude, people here should do their due diligence and look at who Mr Schmidt hangs out with, that will answer all your questions.

Comment Re:Again I ask... (Score 1) 50

By definition "new tech" can not be lagging, and no I just use gmail's "Inbox" although I own a domain name and could easily set up my own server why bother?

I guess a simpler way to say it is "What does Yahoo offer anyone they can't get somewhere else", and better at that.

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