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New comment by UniversalBlue in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

UniversalBlue — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:16:01 +0000

Sorry but SpaceX has done absulutely nothing for space other than take billions in GOV funding and never delivering what they promised years ago. Hell the only cargo they ever shipped was a banana...

New comment by UniversalBlue in "More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan"

UniversalBlue — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 10:31:40 +0000

Yeah, poor rich people, being taxed to death. How can they afford their gold iPhones now?

New comment by UniversalBlue in "When oil is no longer in demand"

UniversalBlue — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:18:18 +0000

Yeah, because we need more "refugees". As if the ones we already got haven't caused enough damage.

New comment by UniversalBlue in "UK's new Snoopers Charter just passed an encryption backdoor law by the backdoor"

UniversalBlue — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:05:59 +0000

This article [1] is so stupid I want my seconds back.

The matter in question is: who do you trust more? Your ISP or the VPN provider? The default should be that you don't trust your ISP, especially if you are in the UK. Hence, trusting a VPN provider is the lesser of two evils.

Will that protect your child-pornography-viewing? If you use Qubes OS, where you have a VPN on the host, then you use Whonix in a VM, where you use tor, then you are probably safe.

Are you a terrorist planning to destroy America? You are probably our of luck, but for the truly paranoid it could be achieved.

My advice: it is better to trust VPN providers in other countries than your own, just select decently (aka, not Hide my Ass). NEVER trust your ISP!

[1] https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

New comment by UniversalBlue in "UK's new Snoopers Charter just passed an encryption backdoor law by the backdoor"

UniversalBlue — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:55:51 +0000

Cryptostorm or VikingVPN.

New comment by UniversalBlue in "Address to the American Psychological Association on Men (2007)"

UniversalBlue — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:32:21 +0000

Could we say that a women's anatomy is some form of intelligence? It's undeniable that women, due to their biological nature, have a higher "appeal" and they don't really need to do all the "dirty work" a man has to do to be on the same level (get more money, get more power, always be improving...)

New comment by UniversalBlue in "Address to the American Psychological Association on Men (2007)"

UniversalBlue — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:29:01 +0000

I completely agree. I am not saying women are "complete idiots" or that men are "all geniuses". I am a firm believer that women and men have a higher intelligence in different "fields" (for lack of a better term). It's us, as a society, that define what kind of intelligence is more "useful". Apparently being very good at logic, reasoning, science, tech and anything STEM is "a sign of intelligence" that is considered useful and that can bring our society forward.

In 100 years society might decide that some other kind of intelligence is more important and men and women will reverse their roles in terms of "intelligence".

New comment by UniversalBlue in "Address to the American Psychological Association on Men (2007)"

UniversalBlue — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:49:20 +0000

I am not sure why the debate on whether or not men and women have the same level of intelligence is still ongoing. It is obvious that men are more intelligent than women and the few studies that dared experiment on this proved this right. Women have an advantage up until a certain age (I think 12 or 14 y/o). Afterwards men crush them.

Men also have a higher deviation. There are a lot of geniuses and a lot of idiots among men. But in either case, as long as we live in today's society filled with "feel-good" and "political correctness" ideas, you won't see any definitive study being conducted because people in reality don't want to know the results. Because the moment it's recognized that blacks are dumber than whites or that women are dumber than men, this will change the society profoundly and people are just not ready to accept "the ugly truth".

This is really keeping back all of us. Science should be above all this PC bullshit... and yet, here we are...