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Comment Re:Pay people better (Score 3, Informative) 161

More generally, there's a strong negative correlation between reliable contraceptive methods being available and birth rate. There's also a strong positive correlation between infant mortality and birth rate. Comparing the situation today with Victorian Britain as though the only thing which had changed is the working time directive overlooks those two significant differences (and surely many other relevant ones).

Comment Re:Offtopic (Score 1) 18

Also Birds. I prefer to have birds around than stupid drones delivering shit.

Dangerous words for an Australian. Do you want to be woken at 5am by a thousand squawking cockatoos in the big gumtree on your verge?

They're too busy eating all the kumquats off my fruit trees to make any noise. If you said Kookaburras then it might be a different story.

Comment Re:Offtopic (Score 1) 18

Is nobody concerned about the noise pollution from these things? Or is everyone so deaf now, with the constant noise from traffic, hvac systems, lawnmowers, leaf blowers, etc. that we no longer remember what silence is?

Also Birds. I prefer to have birds around than stupid drones delivering shit. The only consideration is if it uses less fuel energy than a driver with a truck full of parcels.

Eagles in Australia are known to attack and disable drones and are notoriously territorial, big, dangerous, fucking awesome and a protected species - meaning you are liable if your drone hurts one whilst it is attacking your drone.

Submission + - New RSA attack takes cryptographers by surprise (arstechnica.com)

phatrabt writes: There’s a new way to break RSA that’s faster than anything we’ve seen before Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.

“If this result holds up under peer review, it would indeed be a conceptual break-through,” Karsten Nohl, a cryptography expert and the head of innovation at Allurity, said in an interview. “RSA is as difficult to break as it is to factor large integers, at least so we thought. The researcher suggests that you can practically break RSA without cracking its key.”


Comment Re:The barrels were meant to leak (Score 2) 74

So yes, the ocean can dilute that, but it does impact the local ecology.

It bio-accumulates. Radio-isotopes mimic micro-nutrients and are used by the body of plants and animals until they are eaten by something else.

And it does violate the principle of "don't shit where you eat", in that some of the sites are beneath prime fishing areas for the US and EU.

Which is how people accumulate radio-isotopes in the body because it is humans on the top of the food chain. After that it takes about 6 years of internal radiation exposure for body tissues to gestate a tumor. Plutonium Chloride is really good at creating leukemia because it looks like iron to the body and readily absorbed by people.

When the animal (or human) dies the radio-isotope is returned to the environment to begin the cycle again until it goes through enough half-lives to decay energetically.

Comment Re: Technocracy is Democracy's evolution (Score 1) 87

It looks like it's the other way around. DP we've had some really good conversations over the years. Of late I've seen a lot of outrage from you which is odd because it seems like we agree on many, but not all, things. With all sincerity, I hope you are ok.

I'm trying to get people on to the bus. Running next to it for a block or two shouting about how complaining to you does nothing does nothing.

I've analyzed roughly 12-18 acts of law, some international agreements and written letter to politician on both sides of politics framed in language they understand. My work here raised awareness amongst politicians who didn't realize some of the things they were endorsing into law, like body cavity searches on minors. The politicians would often write back thanking me, or telling me the party line. Sometimes I see the effect in the media. I've read thousands of pages of legislation, then written formal submissions most in the 10-100 page range. I've lobbied extensively on Human Rights and Freedom of speech issues.

I think that tells you I'm a bus driver except no one pays or thanks me. Tell me about the work you have done.

Comment Re:Is it though? (Score 1) 286

Come on, stop projecting. You simply are the same as the orange shitgibbon and co - not considering them Iranians human. And no walls of pretext and excuses can change that. You are the extremist who wants to exterminate others. And a disgusting one at that. Go spew your poison elsewhere.

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