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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dinosaurs

« on: November 25, 2014, 12:39:39 AM »

I will already be watching the 49ers crush the Seahawks on Thanksgiving evening on NBC, so this will be a nice bonus.

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Technology & Information / Re: Is your government spying on you.

« on: November 24, 2014, 05:12:26 AM »

The title does not match the content of this thread at all.

Does it ever by page 3?

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: On the notion of FES reunification

« on: November 23, 2014, 03:54:23 PM »

Our logo is better but it isn't a deal breaker not to use it.

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Technology & Information / Re: Getting a new smartphone

« on: November 23, 2014, 01:27:33 AM »

Thork is right. Most of the tech in my house was provided by work. I don't pay for my phone which is a 6 Plus, and have a 150Mb business internet circuit I also don't pay for. Full benefits with no premiums (which is very uncommon in the US), and good pay.

I can also buy anything from Newegg I want basically anytime I want.

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Technology & Information / Re: OpenBSD

« on: November 21, 2014, 10:38:47 PM »

I installed OpenBSD in a VM. It works.

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Technology & Information / Re: Getting a new smartphone

« on: November 21, 2014, 10:37:59 PM »

Switch to T-Mo, the uncarrier...

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Status Notices / Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20

« on: November 21, 2014, 12:07:45 AM »

Absolutely unacceptable. This outage makes the total down time, planned and unplanned, about 8 hours for the site's first year of operation. That only correlates to a 99.999% uptime. Just terrible.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US election results

« on: November 14, 2014, 11:08:24 PM »

Except you believe the earth is flat. that makes you a fucktard. and you can't spell. so yes, you are a fucktard. I have to go. but have a good night being, as you always are, a fucktard.

This is literally the same thing you have been warned about and twice banned for as Yaakov. Have a couple weeks off.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: You can go to jail for trolling!

« on: November 13, 2014, 12:10:15 AM »

Tormenting teenagers for years and demanding that they cough up half a million bucks if they'd like to stop being oppressed is a hilariously good example of this, hence my use of rainbow colours.

On the plus side, in America you typically only need 10% of your bail amount to get a bail bond and get out of jail. It is basically Saudi Arabia here in terms of wealth so teens can regularly come up with 50 grand on their own. Not that I have any experience with it or anything.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: You can go to jail for trolling!

« on: November 11, 2014, 05:00:01 PM »

Thork, why don't you tell us about how you can be arrested for saying mean things on the internet as a citizen of the UK.

Fuck you faggot.

So arrest me.

Still the upper. Take it downstairs. Warned.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Official Sports Thread

« on: November 04, 2014, 06:35:29 PM »

Home field advantage will be huge, especially for the patriots. Their odds drastically increase. But yes, obviously they must win in playoffs.

They'd still get home field with another loss. I am pulling for the Pats this year, and I am telling you they need to lose. Either this week at IND or at GB would be good losses. Then, go on a tear before the playoffs and be the hottest team going in.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Official Sports Thread

« on: November 04, 2014, 06:14:11 PM »

This is where the Patriots do not lose another regular season game

They need to lose a regular season game to get any setbacks out of the way. They need to not lose another post-season game. I am sure you would have rather had them lose a week 12 game in 2007 instead of waiting until the Super Bowl to biff it.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Secure Connections

« on: October 23, 2014, 05:33:30 PM »

The heart isn't even bleeding. Thanks, Parsifal.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: On the notion of nuclear power

« on: October 16, 2014, 03:22:30 PM »

Otherwise, the matter of whether or not nuclear power is "bad for the environment" (it's not, and I've already said this)

Right, the 20-40 tons of radioactive waste generated annually per reactor is great for the environment. Especially when that waste has a 10,000 year half life and will ultimately corrode any container it is stored in.

I am a proponent of nuclear energy, though. It is cleaner for our immediate needs, and more efficient. It is also what the cool kids use.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Pandemic Alert!

« on: October 15, 2014, 10:27:17 PM »

No, Rushy misunderstood. I did start by saying this would be a waste of my time as most people on this forum don't have degree level mathematics. Rushy, being one of them.

I am not even sure where this conversation is going anymore. But, okay, whatever you say.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Pandemic Alert!

« on: October 15, 2014, 10:16:54 PM »

Oh, please. Explain the mathematics of virus populations for me. Be my guest. Let us all benefit from your magnificent education.

Where did I mention anything about the mathematics of virus populations? I am talking about general statistics and your misuse of them. It was so bad that Rushy accurately pointed out the flaw.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Pandemic Alert!

« on: October 15, 2014, 09:54:06 PM »

I'm pretty sure I have clarified so as even Excelsior John knows what I mean. How much clearer would you like me to be?

Something like this, maybe?

I don't know how statistics work. I use terminology that is literally worthless in what I am trying to explain. I need to learn more about normal data sets, standard normals, hypothesis testing, p-values, etc.

That would suffice.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Pandemic Alert!

« on: October 15, 2014, 09:44:54 PM »

I already showed how virus populations work, explained background populations and how a spike is easily explained using biurification graphs. There is nothing non-mathematical about how viruses work. They are little machines that do exactly what they are programmed to do.

Right, and you non-applicable statistical terminology in your explanation. If you didn't intend to mean it that way, that's fine. Just clarify and move on.

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Technology & Information / The great (well, not so great) storage upgrade

« on: October 15, 2014, 08:51:08 PM »

...but if I was a forensic scientist who wears a suit, a lab coat (simultaneously) and sunglasses, and if I had a budget of tens of thousands of dollars, it would no longer be good enough.

Citation please.

Daniel Feenberg, an economist at the private National Bureau of Economic Research, claims that the chances of overwritten data being recovered from a modern hard drive amount to "urban legend".[3] He also points to the "18½ minute gap" Rose Mary Woods created on a tape of Richard Nixon discussing the Watergate break-in. Erased information in the gap has not been recovered, and Feenberg claims doing so would be an easy task compared to recovery of a modern high density digital signal.

Ontrack makes a living doing this. They can easily recover data from a single pass. I've had to recover data form a drive wiped for HIPAA compliance, and it wasn't any trouble at all for them. They can also recover data from RAID sets using proprietary striping algorithms in 3rd party storage solutions (EMC, Netapp, etc.).

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Pandemic Alert!

« on: October 15, 2014, 04:00:22 PM »

1. Wrong.
2. Wrong.
3. Wrong.
4. Wrong.

At least you are consistent.

Would yo you care to go into more detail on at least point 1? From a statistical standpoint, he is certainly right.