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Comment Re:this will last until the democrats return (Score 1) 147

I'd be happy with YouTube, for a start, to relax the mods on gun content...these days they cannot even show a video of disassembling a gun to show how it works or how to clean it...

They ban videos showing someone screwing on/off a silencer these days.....it didn't used to be this strict....

Comment Hopefully this applies to the comment section too. (Score 1) 147

I'm not hoping for more trash talk and hate speech in the comments, but the censorship in the comment section has gotten ridiculous. Perfectly reasonably and polite comments get nixed, and some people (including myself) have noticed an odd personal ban on using certain (fairly innocent) words. When those people include that word, the post is consistently removed, while other people are allowed to use it. All in all very strange.

Comment Re:A new crisis (Score 4, Interesting) 118

Actually, the warning was first sounded the warning was Svante Arrhenius in 1896, when he determined the UV absorption properties of CO2 and came to the pretty fucking obvious conclusion, based on chemistry and thermodynamics, that if you increase CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, you will inevitably, as a basic function of physics, increase energy absorption.

Comment Re:Frenetic churn (Score 2) 158

If I had a rubber for slashdot I could fix this.

In American slang, "rubber" commonly refers to a condom. It's an informal term for a contraceptive device.

Yup...I was confused at him replying he wanted to fuck it safely.....

At this point, I still have no idea what he's trying to say here.....

Comment Re:Failure of their payment structure (Score 1) 69

Look at what recently occured both in Spain and in Louisiana, despite certainly some healthy effort (and planning one would hope) to keep the grid in those areas running fine under difficult conditions.

Not sure what you mean about Louisiana...?

I mean, we've not nothing like Spain hit us....

A few years ago, I believe it was Hurricane Ida that hit and knocked down all transmission lines into the greater New Orleans area....power was out there about a month, but that's Hurricane damage....catastrophic damage to an area which you expect to lose power for a bit.

Are you referring to that or something else which I don't know about.....we've not had anything hit similar to Spain.

Comment Re:"Respecting copyright" != "Ethically" (Score 1) 99

True, but "Gandalf vs Predator" doesn't fall under Fair Use. Copyright does not just protect the work but also the ideas in it. Personally I think that's going too far. Does that mean that others can profit off your creativity? Yes... and it's been like that since the dawn of time. That's how culture has always worked.

Submission + - Caffeine Has a Weird Effect on Your Brain While You're Asleep (sciencealert.com) 1

alternative_right writes: Caffeine was shown to increase brain signal complexity, and shift the brain closer to a state of 'criticality', in tests run by researchers from the University of Montreal in Canada. This criticality refers to the brain being balanced between structure and flexibility, thought to be the most efficient state for processing information, learning, and making decisions.

Comment Re:"Respecting copyright" != "Ethically" (Score 3) 99

I’ve no illusions about which side the AI companies are on. But what I’m afraid of is that the issue of AI training will be misused by “Big Content” (for lack of a better word) to further restrict fair use, and to raise the barrier to entry for new commercial content creators. That’s what they have always done.

Personally I am not a fan of copyright allowing creators to retain control over the use of their work, whether they are commercial creators, or creators releasing under a license like the GPL. Especially the point on derivative works and moral rights: I think that copyright should be limited to just that: the right to copy or forbid it. The author controls when and how his work may be copied, so that he can derive an income from selling copies if he so desires, but for no other purpose. But derivative works should be allowed if the derivative is enough of an original work in its own right, inspired by the original rather than copying large parts of it verbatim. Anyone wants to write “Harry Potter and the Temple of Doom” or film “Gandalf vs Predator”, fine by me. Where that leaves AI, I’m not sure. The results from AI prompts sometimes seem to be inspired original works, at other times with recognisable snippets from someone else’s work.

Comment Re:FUD (Score 2) 32

I confess, AC, I don't even know who voted their comment up.

I did note the 'increasingly' bit in the summary. That's because, as you know, this isn't new. Malicious actors have been doing this for a long time. They use these IPs for things like spamming, DDoS attacks, hiding traditional hacking at scale, and things like that.

They're just doing this more often because finding reliable hosts to provide them with compromised addresses. Then again, those hosts were already using hacked residential IP addresses.

And, yes, it's more difficult these days. I've been trying to find a reputable company (at a reasonable price) to just do a simple DDoS for me.

No, not for anything illegal. I just want to test some of my own infrastructure. It has gone through a DDoS attack a couple of times and has been just fine. But, those were short-lived (under an hour) and not very impressive as far as the numbers go. I'd like to find the breaking point so that I can work on that.

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