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Comment Re:2fa / passkeys - mandate or suffer (Score 1, Troll) 93

There's something to be said about the assumption of carelessness without evidence by a poster on Slashdot. Namely get the fuck out of here and go back to Wired. There is a single incident that can be traced to one of his devices being hacked and no mention of how the device was hacked, whether from social engineering, a careless download, or a zero day that didn't require anything more than an internet connection.

Comment Re:What is the purpose of Government? (Score -1, Troll) 249

Now how much did costs increase due to more usage to get the same effect(Length of showers, multiple washes in dishwasher to clean dishes) and how much did they increase due to higher failure rates and lower lifespan? Energy Star certs destroyed dishwasher and washing machine capability and reliability.

Comment Re: In other news... (Score 1) 212

If by every historian, you mean Lockley and one japanese historian who even admits that he was never given a family name, which all individuals raised to samurai status were given but he is suuuper sure that Nobunaga would have gotten around to that any day now, then yes every historian. In reality prior to 2010 the idea that Yasuke was a samurai was entirely apocrypha.

Comment Re:Wikipedia on the story (Score 2, Informative) 212

That wiki page's primary, secondary, and tertiary cites all circle back to the two-faced bastard Lockley. As such, it is completely worthless.

Here is his scholarship presented to the media in english.

Yasuke was in the temple with Nobunaga when he performed seppuku. “There’s no record, but tradition holds it that [Yasuke] was the one who took Nobunaga’s head to save it from the enemy,” Lockley said. “If Akechi, the enemy, had gotten the head and he’d been able to hold up the head, he would have had a powerful symbol of legitimacy.” Lockley explained that an act like that would have given Akechi credibility as a ruler. After the attack on Nobunaga, Akechi did not get much support and was soon defeated in battle. “Yasuke, therefore, by escaping with the head, could have been seen and has been seen as changing Japanese history,” Lockley said.

Here is a translation of his scholarship as presented to the japanese media

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Translation:
According to the family claiming to be the descendants of the Oda family, Yasuke took Nobunaga’s head and sword out of Honno-ji to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. The anecdote about Nobunaga’s is based on the claim that a death mask, which is not a Japanese tradition, was made with Yasuke’s help(1).
There are several issues with this claim. First, no documents mention what happened to Nobunaga’s head (whether Yasuke was involved or not). The only document mentioning Yasuke’s participation in the battle is Frois’ letters, which do not mention Nobunaga’s head. If Yasuke had taken the head to the Nanban-ji, Frois would have mentioned it. Secondly, escaping from a burning temple surrounded by many enemy soldiers, —even without the additional task of carrying their own weapons along with something as astonishingly large and cumbersome as a human head—, would have been extremely difficult.

Notice how it goes from the generalized 'tradition holds' to 'this one family claims to be descendants of Nobunaga and has a mask which they say totes shows that Yasuke came back with the head and used it to make the mask but this is both highly unlikely given no such japanese tradition and the logistics of him doing so would be a bitch'.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjapanese-with-naoto.co...

Comment Re: In other news... (Score 2, Informative) 212

No, he was not a samurai. He was a court curiosity with zero evidence of blade training who Nobunaga had playing caddy with his swords because he found him funny. There are no contemporary sources showing otherwise. That you cite a wiki page which still cites that two-faced bastard Lockley is evident of this. When I say two faced, I am not in any way kidding.
Here is his scholarship presented to the media in english.

Yasuke was in the temple with Nobunaga when he performed seppuku. “There’s no record, but tradition holds it that [Yasuke] was the one who took Nobunaga’s head to save it from the enemy,” Lockley said. “If Akechi, the enemy, had gotten the head and he’d been able to hold up the head, he would have had a powerful symbol of legitimacy.” Lockley explained that an act like that would have given Akechi credibility as a ruler. After the attack on Nobunaga, Akechi did not get much support and was soon defeated in battle. “Yasuke, therefore, by escaping with the head, could have been seen and has been seen as changing Japanese history,” Lockley said.

Here is a translation of his scholarship as presented to the japanese media

(1)
————

Translation:
According to the family claiming to be the descendants of the Oda family, Yasuke took Nobunaga’s head and sword out of Honno-ji to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. The anecdote about Nobunaga’s is based on the claim that a death mask, which is not a Japanese tradition, was made with Yasuke’s help(1).
There are several issues with this claim. First, no documents mention what happened to Nobunaga’s head (whether Yasuke was involved or not). The only document mentioning Yasuke’s participation in the battle is Frois’ letters, which do not mention Nobunaga’s head. If Yasuke had taken the head to the Nanban-ji, Frois would have mentioned it. Secondly, escaping from a burning temple surrounded by many enemy soldiers, —even without the additional task of carrying their own weapons along with something as astonishingly large and cumbersome as a human head—, would have been extremely difficult.

Notice how it goes from the generalized 'tradition holds' to 'this one family claims to be descendants of Nobunaga and has a mask which they say totes shows that Yasuke came back with the head and used it to make the mask but this is both highly unlikely given no such japanese tradition and the logistics of him doing so would be a bitch'.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjapanese-with-naoto.co...

Comment Re:If headline asks a question then the answer is. (Score 2) 83

The first question is how many times did they have to try to successfully make a second transistor? The second question is, what is the density of the transistors they can make? The third question is, how easy is it to automate the process they're using? Depending on the answers to these questions, then even if we ignore cost of materials their transistor could be 100 times faster and ten times more efficient and still be completely useless.

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