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Troll for pointing out what happened to another critic of Putin?

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/...

Or are we to believe that Putin's ordering of a criminal investigation will really find the people who did it who were widely believed to be acting on Putin's orders?

So you think he committed perjury? Perhaps you should submit the proof you have, after all, lying to the election commission is a pretty serious offence.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
Minimum value is $1.35 b, up to $10 b
http://www.forbes.com/sites/er...
Forbes calls it at $4.1 b

I wish I could be so poor.

In what regards isn't Obama totalitarian? Universal healthcare, increased unemployment benefits, secret courts, countless military engagements, prosecution of whistle blowers, spying on citizens, signing unprecedented numbers of executive orders; everything this president has done is a step towards a larger more oppressive government. There is one exception. He reserved the right of the states to control marijuana distribution and regulation.

The US government itself is becoming a totalitarian oligarchy. The fault here rests on all three branches of government and not solely on the executive branch. This article equates us to an oligarchy: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-.... The totalitarian part is still a work in progress but we are making huge strides. Take a look at Camden New Jersey, or what happened after the Boston Marathon bombing.

They are in full damage control mode... top executives are writing pieces stating that they have never been asked to work on weekends... on Saturday?

I'm pretty sure those top executives have never been asked to work weekends. Their underlings on the other hand.....

They are in full damage control mode... top executives are writing pieces stating that they have never been asked to work on weekends... on Saturday?

Try Egypt, where it's just become a criminal offence to report news that doesn't agree with the government's version of events.

Just how many of his businesses has he bankrupted, again?

Not that many. But could you trust him not give his own businesses advantages? Is he going to be an American Berlusconi?

Um sorry, crime rates have gone down in the US. Nobody has pinpointed exactly why.

Lead in fuel was a significant part of the story.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

Lol, ignorance is bliss. Cubans can leave the country at will, all they need is a passport (virtually everybody can get it), a visa to enter the destination country (hard to get) and the money for the ticket (hard to get). What happens is that the US still applies the retarded Cuban Adjustment Act, in particular the Wet feet, dry feet policy that automatically grants refugee status to ANY Cuban citizen arriving to the US, government help and expedited track to permanent resident and citizenship status.

Want to bet what would happen if the Mexicans were under the same rules?

Lol, Captcha: sinning

You cannot teach creativity

Plenty of people disagree with you.

Most places? The UK doesn't for these type of crimes: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

As far as I remember, at first the international investigators couldn't begin the investigation because of the fighting near the crash site. So it wasn't "deep in the rebel controlled area". This picture from the BBC web site also proves it: http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news... (from this page: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... )

Care and concern for Ukraine is waning in the West

TBH I think it never existed. That is the problem with the Russian conspiracy theories (ie, that the US hired a sniper to start the whole thing, etc): the US doesn't care enough about Ukraine to hire a sniper.

Ukraine was specifically mentioned in Brzezinski, Zbigniew. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives. Basic Books. 1997:

Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasion chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. Russia without Ukraine can still strive for imperial status, but it would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who would then be resentful of the loss of their recent independence and would be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the South.

And just how much the USA actually cared about who is in power in the Ukraine we know from the phone call (commented transcript) between Victora Nuland and Geoffrey R. Pyatt .

Sorry about the pedantry. Trust me, nobody cares except for frij. Meanwhile, those of us who actually read know it's a freaking HELICOPTER GUNSHIP.

I budget to travel 25,000km per year and usually end up at between 22,000 & 24,000. The average commuter vehicle travels 14,900km per year where I live (Queensland) so I sit about 50% over the average but my job sees me driving quite a bit - http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats... . My work commute is 23km each way so just too and from the office I do 230km a week alone getting to and from the office.

You commented lower about my calculations. The vehicle is salary packaged taking advantage of some of the fringe benefit laws in Australia to allow me to pay for part of the running costs out of my pre-tax income. The figure I quoted is my out of pocket costs (actually I checked my paper work and the figure is actually $231.68 per week) so this may account for the differences between the IRS and my running costs. In addition though I drive a fuel efficient car and not one of the American gas guzzling cars, my car runs at 5.9l / 100km and I doubt the IRS figure is tailored to each individual car.

As for the capital costs the car is financed through-out it's life of ownership with a guaranteed buyback written into the contract. This means that the cost I quoted includes the financing costs and the capital loss costs. At the end of my three year contract I am given three choices, first is to renew for another period (costs will be lower), or sell the car myself, pay the balloon and pocket the difference, or allow them to take the car at the previously agreed price. To date I have always sold the car myself and pocketed the difference.

The biggest thing though, is I have kids. There are two considerations here. The first of which is both of them are in car seats. Fitting and removing a car seat is a MASSIVE pain in the arse and the last thing I would want to do is to have to hump a car seat around my destination. The only way that works is if I wait longer for a car with car seats fitted. The second is safety. I pay more for a safer car. I also ensure that it is always maintained. I have been involved in a couple of major car accidents, the worst of which was being hit by a semi-trailer on a highway. In that case the emergency services that attended said the only reason my kids were alive was because of the car I was driving. Self driving cars may potentially be safer than driven cars at some point in the future, but that is a massively long way off. I think I will always be the person that wears a seat belt no matter what.

Oh and the average weekly car travel in the UK is 244km in 2013 according to http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...

That's true, but the distribution of number of deaths from individual incidents is different. As you say, this may not be relevant for safety stats, but it could be relevant in other analyses. e.g. if you want to explore clusters of the events.

And if there were really that much of a business case for a US to China railway connection, the same case could be argued for a China to Europe railway connection,which already exists.

It's my understanding that while this exists, it's not really terribly useful, and that China is already building new tracks, going so far as as to finance the parts going through poor nations. It's not easy to find much online on this, but here are one discussion and another.

No doubt about it, Samsung is huge. It builds things as large as Prelude, a staggering 488m long vessels with an LNG processing plant on board - http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc... -, to nanoscale stuffs such as computer chips

It wants to be #1 in everything and it would do whatever it takes to get there

Samsung started relatively late in the microchip manufacturing business and now it is the world's 3rd largest foundry

But Samsung has a big problem - it thinks too highly about itself

You see, Samsung _never_ dare to engage in disruptive innovation - every single thing that Samsung makes, someone has made it earlier. All Samsung did was copy what others did, and then attempts to dislodge the leader by churning out humongous quantity of similar devices

Unlike Apple's Steve Jobs (RIP), there was never any visionary within the Samsung hierarchy, and for the foreseeable future, never will be

One question: Can this model of operation continue indefinitely?

The question I have on all that is where is the other 300k going because THAT appears to be going for "pictures and websites"... and that simply baffles me.

Besides restoration, the plan also includes documentation of the suit including photos, a 3D scan, online display of that 3D scan, climate controlled case, and special stand for the suit that will climate control the inside of the suit also so it can all be ready for the 50th anniversary in 2019.

Link to BBC

Another video that is a bit longer that states that the documentation will also include a research into the complete history of the suit and address the price question.

butterfly in fukushima, mutated. source : http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc... from google 'butterfly fukushima'

$2500 for a rural connection seems very cheap.

No, its usually about twice that, with the rest in subsidies from the EU. But, the power of a co-op should not be underestimated. Since they can both do work and grant land (cheaply).

And when I check speedtest net, they list an average of $3.52/MBps which would give a much higher cost for 100/100. This article from the BBC also lists much higher prices; $90 for speeds over 45 Mbps on average. (Granted it's two years old).

Now, that rural infrastructure is subsidised is no surprise. Everyone does that, even you. Only problem is you only do it for phone service, which used to be important. We've said that internet service is equally important, while you don't. That's the gist of the problem.

And that's where your regulatory capture comes in. There have been numerous stories here on slasdot on states that have explicitly forbidden local municipalities to be involved in fibre/broadband, instead legislating that that can only be done by corporations. Who then don't actually deliver any infrastructure. Municipalities or co-ops are in most of these cases banned by law from addressing the problem. If that's not regulatory capture, I don't know what is...

Good thing we don't use DAB in the US or we'd be in REAL trouble!

Then why does France have some of the lowest energy prices in the developed EU and why are they exporting energy to Britain?

because they haven't yet paid for the eventual disposal of the waste

It's underway though I don't know how much a full solution would affect cost. And realistically I think we overemphasize Nuclear waste because it's Nuclear, we generate lots of nasty industrial waste that we don't treat with the same paranoia.

Or this neo-nazi who discovered he was Jewish.

Apparently there was a near miss the other day at Chopin Airport in Warsaw/Poland, when a Lufthansa Embraer found itself face to face with a drone.

When I said what's different between the banks and Apple, it was about the process itself.

My bank keeps gets information on my credit card usage even though all the information is stored with VISA, Mastercard, AMEX, etc...

What is fundamentaly different from a patent perspective between what Apple pantented and what the banks do when it comes to targeted adds based on credit availability? I would say that the only differences would be that Apple would have external ads that are targeted based on a certain credit availability. Even then, I've see ads from afiliated 3rd parties from my bank for insurance companies whereas my son, who doesn't have a job and doesn't have a lot of money going into his account, does not see any of those ads. I would think that the targeted add has looked at our credit worthiness before showing specific ads.

But if you wanted to look at it from your perpective, Apple might become a bank in the future...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/...
http://thehill.com/policy/fina...
http://www.marketwatch.com/sto...

I am not sure if it could happen in the US, but in other jurisdictions, I could see it happening. It's already hapening with phone companies becoming banks in Africa:

http://qz.com/424535/in-south-...
http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

It has plenty to do with free speech, if you don't grasp that censorship exists at a government, business, publication, and personal level for whatever reason, you need to go spend more time out in the world. That means getting out of the country you live in.

You seem to have a problem understanding the difference between private and public. And I'm sure you're going to go ah-ha, but reddit is private. True reddit is private, reddit also bills itself as a bastion of free speech, or did...at one point. Reddit also claimed they're not banning ideas, they also claimed they're only banning actions. Which is of course why they've banned people for ideas, and treading on their 'safe space' policy, which is of course a feels based policy.

And you go ask the mod of Neofag who was shadowbanned* for asking for the sub to be unbanned because they never harassed anyone. So yes, that was a ban because of 'reasons.' And subs like SRS and Gamerghazi are already trying to get subs banned because of feelings, and things they don't like. There's no threat to them, or other people...it's all things contrary to their feelings. In their world, hurt feelings are "what is reasonable to protect themselves from."

*Neofag was a circle-jerk sub.

According to this article it made money every time it flew, about 30 millions British Pounds a year, but it never recouped the development costs.

Wow, thirty million pounds (i.e. about $50M), really? Compared to how much BA makes in a year on subsonic traffic? I can't imagine why Concorde didn't get more support.

Dear Samzenpus, how to you justify click-bait crap like this when you have the discovery of new sub-atomic articles being announced? I know that this will probably get 500+ comments, but do you realize that you are driving away the really interesting people that will make slashdot sustainable in the long run?

Nobody who matters cares about Brianna Wu or GamerGate. I come here to read opinions of people who matter. Do you care about readers like me?

Back in 1994, American negotiators promised a “good deal” with North Korea. Its nuclear plants were supposed to be frozen and dismantled. International inspectors would “carefully monitor” North Korea’s compliance with the agreement and ensure the country’s return to the “community of nations.” The world, we were told, would be a safer place. . . .

Iran is not North Korea. It’s far worse. Pyonyang’s dictators never plotted terrorist attacks across five continents and in thirty cities, including Washington, D.C. Tehran’s Ayatollahs did. North Korea is not actively undermining pro-Western governments in its region or planting agents in South America. Iran is.

So why, then, are only Israelis united in opposing this deal? The answer is that we have the most to lose, at least in the short run. We know that the deal allows Iran to break out and create nuclear bombs in as little as three months, too quickly for the world to react. We know that the Ayatollahs, who have secretly constructed fortified nuclear facilities that have no peaceful purpose and have violated all of their international commitments, will break this deal in steps too small to precipitate a powerful global response. And we know that the sanctions, once lifted, cannot be swiftly revived, and that hundreds of billions of dollars Iran will soon receive will not be spent on better roads and schools. That treasure will fund the shedding of blood – of Israelis but also of many others.

Israelis know that, while the world might weather its deception by North Korea, they cannot afford to be duped by Iran. But neither, in fact, can the United States. Just last week, Iran’s President attended a rally in Tehran where tens of thousands of protesters chanted “Death to America.” The deal will better enable them to carry out that attack – if not today, then against future generations. And Iran’s Supreme Leader has publicly pledged to do just that.

I literally feel nauseous about this Iran deal. I feel nauseous because my daughter’s future is being seriously jeopardized by a deal that lifts sanctions that have been well designed to stop a state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining nuclear weapons, in return for virtually nothing. Somehow, President Obama has convinced his fellow Democrats that infusing Iran with billions of dollars will make the world a safer place. But all it will do is exacerbate Iran’s aggression in the Middle East, and perversely enable western civilization to fund terrorism activities aimed at it.

We have given concessions to a country that has repeatedly lied, hidden, deceived, and repeatedly and boldly declared its intention to wipe out both Israel and the United States. Any member of Congress who votes for this deal must have a death wish. But of course Congress, in typical fashion, gave away its constitutional power to ratify this as a treaty (with 2/3 of Senate support) when it passed the Corker legislation. Assuming the Republican-controlled Congress votes down the Iran deal and the President vetoes it, I cannot imagine that there are enough Democrats (13 Democrats in the Senate and 43 in the House) to join the Republicans in overriding Obama’s inevitable veto.

There’s enough political cover and ambiguity in the agreement that the real risks to U.S. and Israel will become known only incrementally, after the passage of years, and most likely only after President Obama leaves office. By the time the western world realizes what a mistake the Obama Administration has made, it will be too late. I guess that, once again, we have to pass it to reallyfind out what’s in it.

According to this article it made money every time it flew, about 30 millions British Pounds a year, but it never recouped the development costs.

That's not what it means to make money.

According to this article it made money every time it flew, about 30 millions British Pounds a year, but it never recouped the development costs.

Depends on whether you consider cloud backups a thing, or indeed public-facing cloud backups as Google Photos appears to be.

Or, public-facing cloud backups tagged by slowly improving AI on the cusp of deciding whether you are man or ape? http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

I can see it is embarrassing to Google that its AI is deciding black people are gorillas. Tells you something about who's coding the low levels of this AI as it gathers itself together. It's growing from the bones of things like Google Photos, fed by the wittingly or unwittingly given visual data of the world, and you do have to have imagination to conclude something like Google Photos is a way to steal all your data, whether or not you delete 'the app' that set it transferring all your images to an apparently public-facing server. Hope your selfies aren't too naughty! Who do you think is going to steal them, other humans?

I'm pretty sure they aren't proposing to sell the fruits of this to humans.

Because to Google, "Le Singularity, c'est moi". The intelligence that directs all the self-driving cars, that takes over from all human foibles, is to be THEIRS and so the important thing is simply to get the data and to build the neural networks—so, they are "also working on longer-term fixes around both linguistics - words to be careful about in photos of people - and image recognition itself - eg better recognition of dark-skinned faces" quite literally. That's the purpose of Google Photos and why they'll spend money on cloud servers for the world, asking nothing. Le Singularity, c'est moi.

Whilst it is nice that Skynet will not begin herding black people to special zoos thanks to the timely intervention of the BBC, it is unsettling to get this glimpse of the Singularity forming through actions like these. Black people are gorillas, large dogs are horses, and the personality is being trained through collective input but initially formed by people who will set up an AI to consider some Homo Sapiens as people and others as presentient animals, and think nothing of it until caught at it.

Meet the new boss, I guess.

...to trigger a massive government witch-hunt. We have criminalized learning about chemistry and then we wonder why we need so many H1B visas to supply chemists.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyn...

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

http://www.telegram.com/articl...

Chemistry sets-one of the epic whirlpool nodes of government lunacy.

It's a stupid comparison.
If the submitter wanted to be honest, he'd compare this guy's conviction to others that comitted similar crimes, like David Ray Camez, who ran carder.su, or the LulzSec guy.

Aaron Swartz was a man-child that couldn't handle the fact the I'm famous on the interwebz defense wasn't going to fly, and his actions would have repercussions.
I'd say there's no comparison whatsoever.

Greece isn't fixable.
Here's why:
http://www.grreporter.info/en/...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...
http://www.themalaysianinsider...
http://panteres.com/2015/05/07...

Good luck with that.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Seems he's finally realised that everybody thinks he's a total twat.

I am tolerant

Tu le rant, en effet

... of alternate views but you sockpuppets really should just go somewhere else. your cover is blown ...

You like people to agree with you. When they do not: "sockpuppet!" I seldom agree with you, hence the outrage. Nothing has changed in 10 years.

yes - I am quite sure that there are many paid and unpaid (not directly) people who are doing all they can to discredit those who are the real heros.

On the contrary, I honour real heros ....

French Resistance heroes inducted into Pantheon in Paris
Veterans to receive French Legion of Honor for World War II service
'British Schindler' Sir Nicholas Winton dies aged 106

. . . and call others to justice ....

Julian Assange Demands Rape Case Files Before Sweden Questions Him

It is Independence Day in the United States. Do you celebrate, or mourn?

http://www.theguardian.com/com...

http://www.nature.com/news/why...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/18/...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/a...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://www.mysterypollster.com...

http://www.examiner.com/articl...

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/general...

http://www.outsidethebeltway.c...

http://nautil.us/blog/why-were...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07...

http://articles.economictimes....

First few links from the search engine typing in "why are election polls often wrong"...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-pol...

http://time.com/3558932/pollin...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/08/...

http://www.kansas.com/news/loc...

Shut up. Just close your stupid mouth. Sit down. And don't speak again until addressed. You're an idiot. It has been officially noticed.

Someone's hunch finally paid off. According to this BBC article from last year, the number of pedestrians in the U.K. is half that of the U.S.

However, the reason to not jaywalk is simply because the vast majority of people take the longest possible route to cross the street (i.e. diagonal) rather than straight across which exposes you to more traffic and thus a greater chance of being hit.

On the other hand, this article (7th from the top of the May 2015 list) makes no mention of anyone by name, so it may also be possible that the victim is able to request its removal, despite not being identified in the article.

Let's discuss this article that was the subject of a removal request: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-sco...

It's about a rape. The only people mentioned are the criminal, the police inspector in charge of the case and the criminal's friend. The criminal wouldn't have been able to make the request (it's relevant), and there is little reason for the inspector to want to, so it was almost certainly the friend. Or probably ex-friend now.

There is no suggestion that the friend did anything wrong. None at all. He was just caught up in someone else's crime, and the media decided to name him because they can. Is it reasonable to have reports of this incident immediately served up when any potential employer googles his name? It's not really relevant, but it is very embarrassing. It talks about his private sex life, and associates him with someone who committed a horrible crime. I'm sure a lot of employers would think twice about hiring someone like that, especially in a role where they deal with customers who might google their name. It sucks but it's also true.

Get your facts straight. He was not "dismissed." He resigned from the UCL. He resigned from the Royal Society. Just as importantly, neither of those positions are real jobs. He's not losing any money from the resignations.

Tim Hunt clarified his original comments in a BBC interview immediately after the conference in Korea. He backed up the original claims by Connie St. Louis and the other witnesses that heard his talk. He confirmed what they had witnessed and reported.

The catch is whether to trust Daily Mail's supposed digging. It doesn't exactly have the most stellar reputation for accuracy.

Bingo!

Hunt went on the BBC and did a non-apology (link to full 74 seconds audio at the end of that article) where he defended his remarks criticizing women for crying. Out of the 50+ paragraphs of the Heil's 'reporting' the only mention of that was: In it, he admitted making the fateful remark attributed to him by St Louis, and issued a forthright apologies for the 'very stupid' comment, saying he was 'really, really sorry' to have 'caused offence'. The fact that the Heil swept that under the rug undermines their entire article.

I was ready to the give the guy the benefit of the doubt until he doubled-down like that. It isn't like the case of that PR woman who made the ironic AIDS joke on twitter which lots of people didn't recognize as ironic - this guy had the chance to explain himself and the explanation was just as bad as the first go around.

..and he got terminated from all of his positions.

He resigned from an honorary position at University College London. His day job is Principal Scientist at Cancer Research UK. As far as I can find out, he still has that job.

Indeed. And he was given the chance to put his side of the story on June 10th. Unfortunately for him, he made a non-apology apology, saying:

"I did mean the part about having trouble with girls. It is true that people - I have fallen in love with people in the lab and people in the lab have fallen in love with me and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that in a lab people are on a level playing field. I found that these emotional entanglements made life very difficult."

and

"It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth. Science is about nothing but getting at the truth and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science."

As for the idea that he was taken out of context, the linked article which is supposed to support that idea quotes him as saying:

"Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them they cry. Perhaps we should make separate labs for boys and girls?”

So yeah. He was sexist in context, he was given the chance to put his side of the story, he doubled down and said he stood by his comments and made more sexist remarks, and only then did he lose his job on June 11th.

Submitter should probably spend less time reading Brietbart.

What's illegal about protesting illegal government actions?

Let's see... How about blocking the roadways? Very illegal. Even worse are the violent assaults.

And, unlike Uber's own illegality, the blockings and assaults are malum in se whereas Uber is guilty of merely malum prohibitum.

The idle rich like you

Welcome to Bill Maher show. Save your class warfare rhethoric until 2017, for the centennial celebrations of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

The "idle rich" don't care, whether a ride costs €20 or €40. It is the rest of us, for whom such trifle sums matter.

Here you go:

Sweden rejects Assange appeal to drop arrest warrant

A Swedish court has rejected an appeal by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against his arrest warrant for alleged sex offences.

The warrant was issued by Sweden in 2010 on two allegations of sexual assault.

Mr Assange denies the assault claims and has been living at the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June 2012.

Swedish investigators are now likely to proceed with plans to travel to London to question Mr Assange.

The Supreme Court said it saw "no reason to lift the arrest warrant", since moves to question Mr Assange in London were already in place. ......

He kind-of-sort-of recommended three children when he said that there was no need to breed like rabbits. I think three is larger than the average size of a Catholic family in the USA, but maybe it's smaller than the world-wide average? In any case, I agree that the pope is a smart guy. I've been pleasantly surprised by him.

> Thank you, pirates. You got your freebies, but you destroyed everything in the process and killed the music industry as a whole.

Gee, let's conveniently ignore the facts:

* http://www.bbc.com/news/techno... or http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...
* https://torrentfreak.com/bitto...
* http://business.time.com/2013/...

All the numbers relating piracy to lost sales are complete imaginary and bullshit. There has never been a financial statement listing the dollar amount of piracy.