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I certainly wouldn't vote you as a spammer. That's far from what I meant.
I'm not talking about bacteria, I'm far from "woke", and I don't believe in equality of outcomes.
Fortunately, psychopaths and sociopaths are a minority, and self-defense is still legal, though many jurisdictions are idiotic enough to ban various weapons suitable for that purpose. I don't advocate being meek, but aggression only works until the aggressor meets someone capable of defending themselves. A criminal mind is a sign of stunted thinking, which is a serious disadvantage in civil society where transactions (unless you're the government) are voluntary.
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Greg Utas wrote: A criminal mind is a sign of stunted thinking
My upbringing agrees with you. My parents agree with you.
Evolution does not. It does not care about nobility. It cares not about intentions. It gives not an elephant about your devout ideas about good or wrong. Evolution will win, regardless of the noble ideas of my parents.
A criminal mind, is an evolutionary superiour one. We are a competing species. And the foul player wins, simple as that.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Aggression is the only way to winning; the peacefull bacteria are extinct. The bacteria left are the conquerors, not the peacemakers.
The extremely aggressive bacteria kill their host, and die shortly after. The successful bacteria are those that either don't harm the host, or are beneficial. Think gut flora vs. Ebola.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I question whether either totally peaceful or totally violent society would be able to progress enough technologically to communicate.
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Quote: We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have, and writing this up in a scientific journal paper
I can't wait to see that.The first draught of the paper: We dain't done find nuthin'.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or because no one uses screen savers anymore?
The BOINC platform has long since embraced multi-core systems ability to run computationally intensive work without the computer grinding to a halt and defaults to running 24/7 with idle CPU resources. Projects can, but AFAIK aren't required to, have a screen saver module; but since the visualization wastes CPU most users just turn it off.
SETI has 92k active users according to BoincStats.com. IIRC active means having done at least one work unit in the last 30 days.
Their shutting down's going to have a major cascading effect on all the other projects running on the network; temporary outages by seti and a few other large projects have caused others to suffer server overloads as large numbers of users run out of work and fail over to their designated backup projects. Most of those are fairly short outages and users who chose to keep a lot of work on hand can ride them out. Seti's currently #6 in terms of how many Fake Internet Points(tm) it reports awarding; but because it's relatively stingy in how many it awards that greatly understates the number of users it has. None of the other top6 projects show more than a few thousand users; but some of them have decided that GDPR requires opt in consent to export stats and are only reporting a small fraction of their users as result.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Shows how long it's been since I looked at SETI@Home. Is this the same network being used for Folding@Home?
TTFN - Kent
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No. Folding is one of the few distributed projects running its own platform. The only other one I'm aware of is Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search[^]; which predates SETI.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That will free up an old Win-95 box to mine me some bitcoins
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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How do you know if your testing team is doing a good job? These five guidelines are a good start. Who will test the testers?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Who will test the testers?
Quis spectat ipsos testicles?
Something like that.
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The people who choose the next pope do. There's a chair for that.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Well, you'll never know if they're normal or all shrivelled up, until you open the box. That's science, that, but it applies to some religious stuff, too.
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Schrödinger's Testes?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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A bizarre bug could affect some Windows 10 users that try to install the latest Windows release on computers where the BIOS date is set to January 19, 3001, or later on AMD or Intel motherboards. This will have a huge affect on my life style
It is nice that someone is planning ahead though.
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Pic or it didn't will happen later.
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Myriad class action suits against Apple's battery OS update that could have resulted in a device with a depleted battery performing tasks slower may be coming to an end. Throttle Different
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appleinsider said: Attorneys working on the case are seeking up to $93 million —30% of the $310 million payout pool. They are also seeking $1.5 million in expenses above and beyond the 30%.
At present, Apple has no comment on the matter.
Ooh! Me! Me! I've got a comment!
I f***ing hate lawyers!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I f***ing hate lawyers!
And the people who hired the lawyers to begin with. And the judge (if they rule in favor of idiocy.)
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Turns out that the most important aptitude for coders is not math or engineering but . . . the ability to learn languages. Voulez-vous coder avec moi ce soir?
With apologies to any French speakers if I goofed on that translation. I'm a bad programmer.
n=36, so you know it's true!
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I just wish a few more of the native-English-speaking coders would spend an hour or three on learning English.
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Yeah, both grammer and speling!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Especially those who use the incorrect term "math", instead of the correct version, "maths". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Especially those who use the incorrect term "math", instead of the correct version, "maths"
{cough} It's "Maths" {cough}
Skitt cannot be denied
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