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by qb45 10y ago
Welfare states seem to depopulate recently so if it's true that they produce "unfit" people, they are harming more themselves than anybody else.
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by qb45 10y ago
Or higher social status being the result of having books and a good job.
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by qb45 10y ago
> You could also have eugenics designed to increase the number of 'quality' people. Say, for example, giving money to people with an IQ higher than 150 to make more children. Or those with amazing athletics skills, or amazing b
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by qb45 10y ago
> Are you implying here that curiosity and intellectual abilities are genetically inheritable ? And you think they aren't? Like there's no difference between humans and amoebas? > If so, what stops eugenics from being morall
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by qb45 10y ago
The big problem is building batteries that could absorb some buttload-Joules of energy in a fraction of a second. IIRC some researchers tried (just with metal rods instead of lasers) and all they got was expensive fireworks.
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by qb45 10y ago
Encrypt, hexdump, render in green font on black background, set as wallpaper. Nobody will ask :)
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by qb45 10y ago
Another lesson not to trust people/organizations ignorant enough to keep confidential data in plain text on anonymous FTP. It seems that the 21st century responsible disclosure procedure goes like that: 0. use tor for the research itse
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by qb45 10y ago
Tell those guys ;) https://git.kernel.org/cgit/
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by qb45 10y ago
Except that the center of mass of Solar System lies within or very close to the Sun, so in most practical reference frames it looks pretty much spot on heliocentric. OTOH the only reasonable frame producing geocentric view is the Earth.
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by qb45 10y ago
The high cost of random access to DRAM comes from jumping between rows (blocks of consecutive few -to- few tens of kB). If you read sequentially with gaps, you only have to open each row at most once. So it's like normal sequential rea
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by qb45 10y ago
I don't think they were exactly equally wrong. The Tychonic system doesn't quite predict stellar parallax, for example. I'd say it's the worse model of those two. And it looks less pretty on pictures, too. EDIT: Ironical
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by qb45 10y ago
> It's very likely nobody, since men walked the earth, who gave it a moment's thought ever believed the earth to be flat Ahem, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_earth
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by qb45 10y ago
> Greeks even estimated the circumference of the thing. That's not a problem, the story was that the Greeks knew but those European barbarians didn't believe them until Columbus claimed that he reached India.
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by qb45 10y ago
> But how is the teacher supposed to know that you are just that smart? For starters, notice that some kids are doing whole lesson's worth of material in the first 15 minutes and figure out that they have no reason to be at this les
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by qb45 10y ago
Chromium on Linux. Maybe they play some tricks with refreshing or redirecting to make the browser show this dialog again on the next attempt to close the tab, if the browser wouldn't normally do that. Unfortunately, I didn't inv
766.
by qb45 10y ago
sudo rm -rf /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ (no, don't run that at home)
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by qb45 10y ago
What absolutely annoys me about this feature is that there are shitty ads which throw this dialog in a loop, making it virtually impossible to close them.
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by qb45 10y ago
In Firefox, holding CTRL or SHIFT (don't remember which one) bypasses JS hooks and always displays the menu. I think it's even better solution :)
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by qb45 10y ago
People generally do what they want to do, but they base their decisions on incomplete information on what they are going to get. Lots of crap wouldn't get its clicks if it didn't appear to be something it isn't.
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by qb45 10y ago
Maybe now that he has been sentenced and everything seems settled, he should talk to some lawyers or NGOs and have them sued for negligence. Two years of not giving a damn is unacceptable.
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by qb45 10y ago
> Kid should have just sold his hack to the highest bidder Really? If the thing is used for anything important, just sell the intercepted data on darknet :) And it seems this was passive reception of radio traffic - it'd take them
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by qb45 10y ago
> we switched from Win98 to WinXP that night so that I could have a bit more control. That sucks, poor kid. I knew my Windows 98 activation key by heart in my early teens :)
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by qb45 10y ago
Or years if the OS crashes afterwards. I also wonder what happens if the file is deleted before the zeros are flushed. Is there some implicit flush, triggered by metadata changes, which saves the day? No idea.
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by qb45 10y ago
Maybe they switched it back at some time. I remember changing it from 1 or 2 to 0 on few installations.
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by qb45 10y ago
This is all irrelevant because there is no way to have a sector on SSD erased for sure. Overwriting relocates, TRIM marks for future deletion, Secure Erase has the unpleasant side-effect of nuking all data and, as typically implemented, als
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by qb45 10y ago
And what's next to override, the power button? I wholly agree with this WONTFIX.
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by qb45 10y ago
In Firefox, backspace has defaulted to "scroll up" for years now and yes, browser.backspace_action in about:config controls this.
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by qb45 10y ago
Your usability study methodologies are worthless if they conclude that "backspace back" is worthless. It's the first thing I'm always enabling on every new Firefox installation since they disabled it by default several y
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by qb45 10y ago
I read comments before clicking the link and thought you were kidding... At least it doesn't run in the cloud and require files to be uploaded there. Though, on second thought, this cloud service idea has some nice potential for evil :
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by qb45 10y ago
... while you might want to consult the section on minding your own business and not caring whether you convert anyone or whether anyone cares at all =) The only proselytizers that get on my nerves are those desperate to be agreed with. It

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