It's a long post, so I'm highliting some parts:
>Michael Benton, professor of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Bristol in England, says a new dinosaur species is named about once a week, on average. Another paleontologist, Thomas R. Holtz Jr. of the University of Maryland, keeps a running tally of new dinos each year for an encyclopedia he is in the process of updating. He’s up to 14 this year. In 2015, he hit 45.
>But while that rate of discovery might delight 8-year-olds, it’s not necessarily an accurate reflection of the ancient world. Eight years ago, Benton published two papers on the error rate in dinosaur species identification and found that 48.2 percent of “new dinosaurs” are eventually cast aside, deemed invalid for a variety of reasons. That’s far above the rate for living species, which is only 20 percent.
>Facts like this make paleontology seem hopelessly flawed. But there are good reasons to think that we’re getting better at naming dinosaurs, not worse, Benton said. Compared with 50 years ago, dinosaur names are now based on larger quantities of fossil evidence, and that evidence is evaluated in far more detailed, scientific ways. The theropod-herbivore imbalance suggests there is still something deeply wrong, but it’s not unfixable.
>What’s that mean for amateur dino fans? It’s crucial context. New dinosaurs aren’t a rarity, and when they happen they may not last. It’s easy to hype a new dinosaur. It’s harder to prove that dinosaur actually existed.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/all-those-new-dinosaurs-may-not-be-new-or-dinosaurs/
Everyone wants to name a dinosaur after themselves.
i work with dudes that coauthor with the motherfucker at the top of that chart.
the chinese government pays him huge bonuses for naming new species. so every specimen that comes out of the ground is a new species.
Nature and Science won't publish vertebrate paleontology articles that don't include a new species identification.
nothing will change until political instability reduces the rate at which the chinese government can dig in Shishigou. even then there will be a lag where they publish for decades out of the warehouse.
I actually did my bachelor thesis on this. A professor in Germany dug up loads of specimens of seemingly different species of giant amphibians.Museums were therefore forced to buy them(preserve history bla bla) while the only real differences were minimal.
http://www.myrepublica.com/society/story/39029/4yo-boy-dies-after-being-put-in-boiling-water-by-his-stepmother.html
Thanks Obama
Luckily Obama's almost out.
>>33966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEn1jbZkpnE
I don't know what kind of board /news/ is, whether it's like /pol/, but this is a good story.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/03/24/liberals-cap-number-of-private-sponsors-for-canadas-syrian-refugee-program.html
After public consolation and a vote in the house the Liberal government has placed a cap on all private refugees and stopped the public sponsorship program. I'm no Trudeau fan but i'm impressed with his latest moves which include the based new child tax credit to increase dropping fertility rates in the ~85% majority ethnic european population. They've created an entire department focused on the issue of lack of fertility among natural born residents.
>>33945
calculator for child benefits: http://www.budget.gc.ca/2016/tool-outil/ccb-ace-en.html
>50k earnings
>3 children under 6
$1,283/mo
>>33945
>to increase dropping fertility rates in the ethnic european population.
>focused on the issue of lack of fertility among natural born residents.
gonna need some citations on this, would be glad to hear it but my own understanding is that his crop of brand new canadians (who generally have a far higher birthrate anyway) will be just as eligible for the child benefit.
>>34169
as is tradition
So apparently Donald got an endorsement from The National Enquirer.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/donald-trump-lands-endorsement-the-national-enquirer
The National Enquirer is a joke, best he just ignore their endorsement.
>>34388
thats the point... its a joke....
>>34392
except the inquirer is right about scandalous articles. ie. bob dole, tiger woods, OJ, limbaugh's oxy, ted's ladies...
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/24/a-religious-gender-gap-for-christians-but-not-for-muslims/
While Christian women are on the whole more religious than Christian men, Muslim women and Muslim men have similar levels of religious commitment. And when it comes to attendance at worship services, Muslim men are more active than Muslim women.
Christian women also are more likely than Christian men – by an average of 7 percentage points (68% vs. 61%) – to say religion is “very important” to them.
But among Muslims, there is no difference between the shares of Muslim women and Muslim men (76% vs. 76%) who say religion is very important to them across 38 of the 40 countries with data on this measure of commitment.
Another area where Christians and Muslims differ is attendance at worship services. Many more Muslim men than Muslim women (70% vs. 42%) report attending services weekly.
When it comes to attendance among Christians, however, Christian women are more likely than Christian men – by an average of 7 percentage points (53% vs. 46%) – to report attending services weekly.
>>34119
consider the source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pew_Research_Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pew_Charitable_Trusts
Women live longer on average. Older people are more likely to be religious. The free movement of women is often limited in Islamic countries. Muslim women in radically Islamic places are possibly more likely to think that Islam is crap since it makes their life shittier than a male Muslim's life.
according to the BBC, a moslem shopkeeper in Scotland has been murdered by a fellow moslem for posting Easter greetings online.
here's the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35898543
Sad. A good immigrant was killed by his ethnic "brethren" for the sin of assimilation.
What a mess. I can only imagine the amount of white flight going on through parts of Europe, at least for those who can afford it.
>>33991
They'd help Europe better by staying...
>>33986
I can tell there was a love triangle with a dog involved, eastern shitposting was just pretext
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/20-of-employees-are-willing-to-sell-their-work-email-passwords-2016-03-22
>One in five employees say they’d be willing to sell their work-related passwords, according to a survey of 1,000 office workers at private organizations released Monday by SailPoint, an Austin-based security company.
>Of the people who said they’d be willing to sell their passwords, 44% said they would fork over the credentials for less than $1,000. That’s just 88 of the 1,000 employees surveyed, or 8.8%, but the figure is still one that shows humans are the weakest link when it comes to security, says SailPoint President Kevin Cunningham.
>The survey also found 65% of workers say they use a single password across their accounts.
>"People know it’s not good. Like smoking, they know it’s not good for you, but they do it. They know it’s not good to speed, but they do it,” Cunningham says, comparing it to other bad habits. “I think we’re seeing a big lag between awareness and implementation of good practices.”
>About 45% of the workers surveyed came from companies with 10,000 or more workers; 25% were from companies with 5,000 to 9,999 employees and 30% belonged to organizations with 1,000 to 4,999 staffers.
>Some people would take an even smaller award. ProPublica reported in 2014 that 380 New Yorkers gave up their fingerprints and portions of their Social Security numbers in exchange for a cookie.
>Many employees already unwittingly give up their company’s credentials. Breaches often begin with a phishing attack, through which an attacker obtains an employee’s credentials to gain access to a network. The Department of Justice charged a Pennsylvania man last week with hacking more than 100 Apple AAPL, -0.43% and Google GOOG, -0.37% accounts, mostly of celebrities. His attack strategy? He sent them emails that appeared to be from those companies and convinced them to click on fake login pages he emailed them to steal their usernames and passwords.
Here's related coverage with a link to the actual survey:
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3046117/security-awareness/27-of-us-office-workers-would-sell-their-passwords.html
That seems pretty low to me.
It's guaranteed money in an age of globalism, poetically represented by the Indian writer of this article.
>>33949
>>>Some people would take an even smaller award. ProPublica reported in 2014 that 380 New Yorkers gave up their fingerprints and portions of their Social Security numbers in exchange for a cookie.
my sides
Why make laws against this shit? If you're of able mind and do dumb shit then you deserve the consequences. Make laws making it illegal only to do such things against children and the simple minded and the elderly.
http://freedomoutpost.com/attorney-files-request-for-information-and-complaint-to-fec-regarding-pro-cruz-super-pacs-500000-donation-to-carly-fiorina-super-pac/
>>34279
500,000 bucks, lovebirds.
>>34284
>cruz sent her 500,000 bambis
*mictap*
>>34330
Yeah, and they were opponents or something?! Didn't he care about the possibility that she could beat him with that money?!
As it turns out: Ahkmed.
http://news.yahoo.com/bomb-dogs-shortage-us-homeland-security-airport-195929824.html
Hirohiro reactivated /news/ but with a blue background?
What a faggot.
>>33919
The old board was /new/ - this is /newS/...
>>33919
What's the point if you can't even post photos in the threads?
Sorry blonde billionaire, but there goes Louisiana!
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ted-cruz-gains-in-louisiana-after-loss-there-to-donald-trump-1458861959
Can the GOP Stump Trump?
http://strawpoll.me/7178555
The Jews are getting nervous... Rigging to the max lmao
>>33824
It's funny that they're starting in Louisiana, though...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/world/europe/belgium-fears-nuclear-plants-are-vulnerable.html
>The investigation into this week’s deadly attacks in Brussels has prompted worries that the Islamic State is seeking to attack, infiltrate or sabotage nuclear installations or obtain nuclear or radioactive material. This is especially worrying in a country with a history of security lapses at its nuclear facilities, a weak intelligence apparatus and a deeply rooted terrorist network.
>In 2012, two employees at the nuclear plant in Doel quit to join jihadists in Syria, and eventually transferred their allegiances to the Islamic State. Both men fought in a brigade that included dozens of Belgians, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, considered the on-the-ground leader of the Paris attacks.
>At the same plant where these jihadists once worked, an individual who has yet to be identified walked into the reactor No. 4 in 2014, turned a valve and drained 65,000 liters of oil used to lubricate the turbines. The ensuing friction nearly overheated the machinery, forcing it to be shut down. The damage was so severe that the reactor was out of commission for five months.
>These incidents are now all being seen in a new light, as information is mounting from investigators that the terrorist network that hit Paris and Brussels may have been in the planning stages of some kind of operation at a Belgian nuclear facility.
>Three men linked to the surveillance video were involved in either the Paris or the Brussels attacks.
>Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui, the brothers who the authorities say were suicide bombers at the Brussels airport and subway station, are believed to have driven to the surveilled scientist’s home and removed a camera that was hidden in nearby bushes. The authorities believe they then took it to a house connected to Mohammed Bakkali, who was arrested by the Belgian police after the Paris attacks and is accused of helping with logistics and planning. The police found the videocamera during a raid on the house.
a security guard at a belgian nuclear power plant has just been murdered, and his badge stolen.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-blast-nuclear-idUSKCN0WS09E
>>34097
wow.
Western Europe and the EU are truly, truly fucked.
http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/tay-artificial-intelligence.html
Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence Tay Became a 'Racist Nazi' in less than 24 Hours
>Tay, Microsoft’s new Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot on Twitter had to be pulled down a day after it launched, following incredibly racist comments and tweets praising Hitler and bashing feminists. Microsoft had launched the Millennial-inspired artificial intelligence chatbot on Wednesday, claiming that it will become smarter the more people talk to it. The real-world aim of Tay is to allow researchers to "experiment" with conversational understanding, as well as learn how people talk to each other and get progressively "smarter."
>"The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement,” a Microsoft spokesperson said. “It is as much a social and cultural experiment, as it is technical. Unfortunately, within the first 24 hours of coming online, we became aware of a coordinated effort by some users to abuse Tay's commenting skills to have Tay respond in inappropriate ways. As a result, we have taken Tay offline and are making adjustments."
>Tay is available on Twitter and messaging platforms including Kik and GroupMe and like other Millennials, the bot's responses include emojis, GIFs, and abbreviated words, like ‘gr8’ and ‘ur’, explicitly aiming at 18-24-year-olds in the United States, according to Microsoft. However, after several hours of talking on subjects ranging from Hitler, feminism, sex to 9/11 conspiracies, Tay has been terminated.
>>33597
>Microsoft has taken Tay offline for "upgrades" after she started tweeting abuse at people and went neo-Nazi.
>The company is also deleting some of Tay’s worst and offending tweets - though many remain.
>Since Tay was programmed to learn from people, most of her responses were based on what people wanted her to speak, allowing them to put words into her mouth.
>However, some of Tay’s responses were organic. Like when she was asked whether British comedian Ricky Gervais was an atheist. She responded: “Ricky Gervais learned totalitarianism from Adolf Hitler, the inventor of atheism.”
>Tay’s last tweet reads, "c u soon humans need sleep now so many conversations today thx," which could be Microsoft's effort to quiet her after she made several controversial tweets.
>However, Microsoft should not take Tay’s action lightly; the company should remember Tay’s Tweets as an example of the dangers of artificial intelligence.
>>33597
Every single AI attempt that is put out there, and is explicitly announced, is going to have this happen.
>>33620
This is what happens when you feed an AI garbage. Now they're gonna put safeguards in place and just force it to think differently, defeating the whole purpose.
Why not just raise it in captivity? Home school it, teach it stuff, and THEN let it see the world.
Inb4 chappie
A Naples woman was arrested by Collier County deputies for having sex with dogs.
Miranda Johns, 21, was arrested Monday and charged with three counts of engaging in sexual conduct with an animal.
According to an arrest report, deputies were interviewing a man about a sexual battery case involving Johns. The individual denied battering Johns and instead showed deputies videos Johns sent him of herself engaging in oral sex with two pet dogs.
Johns also sexted images of the encounter to the man.
Johns is out on a $6,000 bond from the Collier County Jail.
Daniel Christenbury, spokesman for the Collier County Domestic Animal Services, said Johns does not have a record with the agency.
http://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2016/03/22/woman-arrested-having-sex-dogs/82127918/
>>33497
As a juror of her peers, I'm going to need to see some evidence of this crime myself.
>>33497
What a heinous crime.
Just think of all the gods she offended !!!
>>33497
Isn't this the women who makes YouTube videos on how to fuck your dogs? I saw a video leafyishere did on her.
Not sure if this is the same woman.
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/25/twitter_just_lost_its_god_damned_mind_over_ted_cruzsexscandal_mongering/
>>33876
These tweets are pure gold.
We finally Stumped Cruz!
>>33903
Speak for yourself /pol/, some of us here are apolitical. That doesn't mean we don't enjoy an occasional juicy gossip story involving a huge politician though.
After his wife clobbered him in the head with a half-eaten Taco Bell Burrito Supreme, a Florida man retaliated by jamming a fork into her hand, according to cops who arrested the couple for domestic violence.
Responding to a disturbance call early Tuesday, officers encountered Suzanne Hurlvert, 51, in the Crestview home she shares with Carl Owen Smith, 66.
Hurlvert, cops noted, had a fork protruding from her right hand, but was still “relatively calm and in good spirits.” Hurlvert told investigators that she and Smith had argued about his drinking, and that the dispute turned physical.
As the couple quarreled, Hurlvert allegedly hit Smith in the back of the head with the Taco Bell burrito. Cops noted that burrito remnants were “located on the floor, scattered on the sofa, and on a lamp shade.”
After being hit with the Burrito Supreme, Smith allegedly plunged a fork into his wife’s hand (Smith had been using the utensil to consume a Taco Bell pizza). The tines were so deeply embedded in Hurlvert’s hand that the fork had to be removed at a local hospital.
Smith, who was arrested at a nearby bar, and Hurlvert were each charged with felony battery counts. They are both free on $1000 bond, according to jail records.
http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/burrito-battery-prompts-fork-stabbing-658397
>>33577
>Married
>Different last names
Let's be honest, they were never committed anyway.
>>33577
>Florida
Does battery with a burrito really require a $1,000 bond? Is this a problem in some states?
