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Comment Re: Stop pretending POTUS is a helpless victim (Score 1) 254

All of your otherwise sound arguments, some of which I agree with, some of which I don't, are unfortunately made moot by the beginning of your post.

You imply, although do not explicitly state that the idea that the tech giants are exercising bias against conservatives is false. I can't even begin to understand how you could arrive at that determination.

It's clear as day that there is a bias against conservatives and conservative viewpoints. I'm not suggesting you have to agree with conservative viewpoints, but to not acknowledge the bias on Facebook/Twitter/youtube/reddit is some combination of insane, lying, and stupid.

Again, all of your other points can't even be addressed by a rational human if your premise involves there being no clear bias.

Comment Re: Whats the alternative? (Score 1) 524

I'm unaware of anyone, anywhere, with any credibility defending the actions of the criminals in blue. I personally hold the 3 who let it happen in higher disdain, but I can agree it's a very small shade off of the evil indifference we saw from that dipshit pinning Mr. Floyd.

That said, if the nation is overwhelmingly in support, who are the protesters protesting against? You? Me? Math? Are they angry that whites end up dead in far greater numbers than blacks per arrest? Are they angry at the media for only ever covering the dead blacks, and not the whites? Hell, look up Daniel Shaver in Arizona, watch the bodycam footage if you can stomach it, and tell me that isn't an execution.

So, assuming we care about math and reality over feelings, what do we do now?

Comment Re: the gov can shut social media down completely (Score 1) 237

Do you mean like an executive order granting defacto amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegals? That for some reason can't be undone with a different executive order?

I get that we're all busy sucking the coolaid out of various cocks, but can we maybe, just maybe remember the roots of this very platform? I seem to recall a time when we were all supportive of the anti-trust case against Micro$oft, and all they did was include a web browser.

What the socials have done is far, far worse. They cornered the market(s). Twitter on quick all-reaching posts, Facebook on longer, more "inner circle" type posts, YouTube on videos, and reddit on "topic" type posts. ALL of these monopolies were achieved by a general "open, free speech, say whatever, just don't harass!" type mindset.

Now that there is no "real" competition in any of those spaces (there exist alternatives, but the users aren't there), they've all essentially decided at roughly the same time to play judge over content? That CAN NOT possibly be a good thing as seem by even the withered husk of the once ubiquitous /.

Comment Re:Simple, the rich stole all the money (Score 1) 322

Define "well".

Ignoring homeless, which is strangely an issue separate from income (addiction/mental health), let's look at the poorest in america, the bottom 20%. The majority of them have 40+ inch televisions, 1 or more cars per family (if out of a major city), air conditioning, clean water (sorry flint, but that's a bureaucratic cock up), hot water, a working stove, a microwave, a washing machine, a cell phone (with all of it's sub categories, internet/music player/flashlight/etc), cheap food, the ability to eat out 4+ times a week, and the list goes on and on and on and on.

I readily admit there are exceptions to my statement, but as a general rule I believe it is safe to say that our poor generally live better than their 1970's/1980's/ and 1990's counterparts.

That said, let's say your statement is correct about one person supporting a family. How do you expect to put that genie back in the bottle? A quick, summarized history:
Pick any suburban street in the 60's/70's. Married couples, with one earning wages, the other staying home. Everyone on the street is making roughly the same. One day, the man at the end of the street comes home with a new cadillac. Neighbors inquire. Man explains his wife got a part time job. Neighbors aghast. But a few months later one of the neighbors comes home in a new cadillac. He and his wife decided to keep up with the jones's. So forth and so on until most of wives on street are working part time. Then, kids get a little older. First guy has a brilliant idea, why part time? Wife gets a full time job. Process repeats. Whole street now has 2 incomes per household.

But WAIT A MINUTE!!! There is economic rule that can not be ignored. Value of something decreases as supply increases past demand. Supply of work force has DOUBLED. Should employers pay bob 10 when they can hire suzie or ed for 6? After a while, whole street back to roughly where they started, except now 2 people working in household. No getting around this fact.

NEW PROBLEM: Everyone talks about automation reducing work force in near future. Same people allow mass unchecked illegal immigration. More people fighting over fewer jobs. Nostradamus is not needed to see cattle cars in future. Whatever precise nature of this conspiracy, Adrian Veidt responsible.

Media

YouTube Introduces 60fps Video Support 157

jones_supa (887896) writes Google's YouTube announced that it's adding two new features that will especially benefit people who enjoy watching gameplays and those who stream games live. Most excitingly, the site is rolling out 60 frames per second video playback. The company has a handful of videos from Battlefield Hardline and Titanfall (embedded in the article) that show what 60fps playback at high definition on YouTube looks like. As the another new feature, YouTube is also offering direct funding support for content creators — name-checking sites like Kickstarter and Patreon — and is allowing fans to 'contribute money to support your channel at any time, for any reason.' Adding the icing on the cake, the website has also a number of other random little features planned, including viewer-contributed subtitles, a library of sound effects and new interactive info cards.
Android

Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android 415

redletterdave (2493036) writes "When my best friend upgraded from an iPhone 4S to a Galaxy S4, I texted her hello. Unfortunately, she didn't get that text, nor any of the five I sent in the following three days. My iPhone didn't realize she was now an Android user and sent all my texts via iMessage. It wasn't until she called me about going to brunch that I realized she wasn't getting my text messages. What I thought was just a minor bug is actually a much larger problem. One that, apparently, Apple has no idea how to fix. Apple said the company is aware of the situation, but it's not sure how to solve it. One Apple support person said: 'This is a problem a lot of people are facing. The engineering team is working on it but is apparently clueless as to how to fix it. There are no reliable solutions right now — for some people the standard fixes work immediately; many others are in my boat.'"
Businesses

BlackBerry's CFO, CMO, and COO Leave Company 159

cagraham writes "In a pretty major executive shakeup, BlackBerry's Chief Financial Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, and Chief Operating Officer have all left the company. It's unclear whether the changes were brought about by new interim-CEO John Chen in order to facilitate company change, or represent an abandon-ship style exit after BlackBerry's failed bid to go private. The company announced that the CFO position would be filled by current SVP James Yersch, but gave no word on the other vacancies."
Bug

Bug In Samsung S3 Grabs Too Many Images, Ups Data Use 99

First time accepted submitter Emmanuel Cecchet writes "Researchers of the BenchLab project at UMass Amherst have discovered a bug in the browser of the Samsung S3. If you browse a Web page that has multiple versions of the same image (for mobile, tablet, desktop, etc...) like most Wikipedia pages for example, instead of downloading one image at the right resolution, the phone will download all versions of it. A page that should be less than 100K becomes multiple MB! It looks like a bug in the implementation of the srcset HTML tag, but all the details are in the paper to be presented at the IWQoS conference next week. So far Samsung didn't acknowledge the problem though it seems to affect all S3 phones. You'd better have an unlimited data plan if you browse Wikipedia on an S3!"
Bitcoin

Vast Bulk of BitCoins Are Hoarded, Not Used 438

another random user writes with this news from Ars Technica:"More than three-quarters of the digital coins in the Bitcoin digital currency scheme aren't circulating because they remain dormant in user accounts that have never participated in outgoing transactions, a recently published study has found. The figure translates to more than 7.019 million BTCs, the term used to denote a single coin under the digital currency, which uses strong cryptography and peer-to-peer networking to enable anonymous payments among parties who don't necessarily know or trust each other. Based on exchange rates listed on Mt.Gox — the most widely used Bitcoin exchange — the coins have a value of more than $82.87 million. On May 13, the date the researchers analyzed their data, there were slightly more than 9 million BTCs in existence."
Moon

Submission + - How the liberal critics of the Apollo program were proven wrong (examiner.com) 2

MarkWhittington writes: "A recent story in The Atlantic reminds us that the Apollo program, so fondly remembered in the 21st Century, was opposed by a great many people while it was ongoing, on the theory that the money spent going to the moon would have been better spent on poverty programs. The problem with this view was that spending for Lyndon Johnson's Great Society dwarfed the Apollo program, that the programs in the Great Society largely failed to address poverty and other social ills, and that the Apollo program actually had a stimulative effect on the economy that fostered economic growth and created jobs by driving the development of technology,"
Government

US Gov't Wants Megaupload Users To Pay For Their Data 203

angry tapir writes "U.S. federal prosecutors are fine with Megaupload users recovering their data — as long as they pay for it. The government's position was explained in a court filing on Friday concerning one of the many interesting side issues that has emerged from the shutdown of Megaupload, formerly one of the most highly trafficked file-sharing sites. Prosecutors were responding to a motion filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in late March on behalf of Kyle Goodwin, an Ohio-based sports reporter who used Megaupload legitimately for storing videos. The government argues that it only copied part of the Megaupload data and the physical servers were never seized. Megaupload's 1,103 servers — which hold upwards of 28 petabytes of data — are still held by Carpathia Hosting. Goodwin's options, prosecutors said, are either pay — or sue — Carpathia, or sue Megaupload."
Iphone

Why Verizon Doesn't Want You To Buy an iPhone 207

Hugh Pickens writes "Sascha Segan writes that although Verizon adamantly denies steering customers away from Apple's iPhones in favor of 4G LTE-enabled Android devices, he is convinced that Verizon has a strong reason to push buyers away from the iPhone. 'Here's the problem,' writes Segan. 'Verizon has spent millions of dollars rolling out its massive LTE network' but the carrier can't easily add capacity on its old 3G network. Since the iPhone isn't a 4G phone, sales of Verizon iPhones just crowd up their already busy 3G network while their 4G network has plenty of space. 'The iPhone is a great device. But it's making a crowded network more crowded. Until the LTE iPhone comes along, to rebalance its network, Verizon may quietly push Android phones.'"
AI

Testing AI Methods With FlightGear 66

mikejuk writes "The open source flight simulator Flight Gear is great fun but it can also be used for serious research. Suppose you want to develop a drone that can roam the seas and spot debris so that ships can be directed to it and pick it up. It's a good idea, but how do you test your methods? The obvious way is to take to the sea and fly a drone over real debris and see what happens. It uses a lot of fuel and generates a lot of sea sickness. Why not just fly a simulated drone over a simulated sea and save the sea sickness? This is what Curtis Olson, project manager at FlightGear and he explains how to get OpenCV to use the simulator as if it was a camera."

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