Slashdot Mirror

Your link doesn't provide any information on whether or not "Kill all white people" would be OK on Twitter, as that is not the statement made by either of the Twitter accounts quoted.

We would have to look at the past post history of both accounts to determine what went on here on Twitter.

The thing is that historically black people have been oppressed over the past several hundred years by white people through the process of colonisation, slavery, lack of human rights, and sadly this archaic attitude still seems to be in place.

"Kill all black people" was to some extent state policy for many countries until frighteningly recently - talking mid 20th century. My own country, Australia, is a horrible example here - Aboriginal Australians weren't even recognised as citizens until 1967.

All black people in the US only got the right to vote in 1965 with the Voting Rights Act signed by Lyndon Johnson.

An Australian politician, David Oldfield, this year said on a national TV broadcast talking about Australian Aboriginal culture "You just naturally let it die out. I mean frankly, it should have died out, like the Stone Age died out." http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/first-contact-review-thank-god-for-david-oldfield-20161115-gspkr0.html

It's not at all about making it OK to say "Kill all white people".

It's about recognising that "Kill all black people" is a very real fear for many people, and working to make that no longer the case.

Fuck off "mark-t" you won't be happy in Vancouver for long. It's a soul-destroying place.

But in terms of electronics payments, what, you think Interac is a guiding light to the future of a cashless society? Why exactly is that Wikipedia page only 289 words long?

Canada is the only country in the world where I opened a bank account, put a few tens of thousands of Canadian dollars in it, and then proceeded to go about my business. Only to discover a few weeks later that I was unable to *receive* any Interac payment over $100 in value because of my "limited relationship with the bank". Fuck you RBC, you're the most user-hostile banking institution that I have ever known, and that includes the Australian banks, who are absolutely a bunch of right cunts.

It looks like IBM won wrt to the QLD Health Dept. payroll debacle and there is talk about sacking the bureaucrats involved.

However, part of the point of hiring external contractors for this sort of thing is to take advantage of their expertise. If the government failed to 'properly spec' the system, then either IBM failed to provide knowledge, guidance or push-back on a poor design. They they chose to proceed with a design they knew wouldn't work (and if they didn't know, then they deserve even greater criticism). They chose dollars of reputation and deserve some of the blame for the failure and are, rightly I think, being excluded from future consideration.

Sure, they saved some money when they stiffed Russia for their gas bill, but not enough to be able to spend on frivolous things.

Considering how much money the Russian puppet Yanukovych stole from Ukraine before he fled into the arms of Russia, and how much Russia owes Ukraine for the damage it is causing by its invasion and support of the terrorists in East Ukraine, Russia is the one who is spending money on frivolous things it can't afford.

Since we now know how much money Russia is spending to support the terrorists in Ukraine, as well as its plans to try and destabilize Ukraine, it's no wonder you think Ukraine is poor for wanting to be out from under the thumb of Russian corruption.

Then again, with the continuing stream of dead Russian soldiers leaving Ukraine, Putin is having to dig deep to pay out death benefits to the families. Speaking of digging deep, how about all those unmarked graves of dead Russian soldiers sprinkled about Ukraine? How much to you think that's costing Putin?

How much would you bet that any work done to develop this is paid for by U.S. tax dollars so that it can all be funneled back to some big defense contractor?

Considering the theft Putin is perpetrating in Crimea by stealing people's property and businesses, perhaps you should be asking how many of your rubles are going into Putin's pockets and the pockets of his oligarch friends?

It'd be even better with a washing machine.

Well, in fact Samsung washing machines have been catching on fire. So make sure you return it if you own an affected model.

re "i think it's a matter of information gaps, not necessarily that the information isn't there but that it's not in a handy ready to transmit form and it hasn't all been collated into one spot outside of some NSA operation."
State and federal police globally are thinking of the same NSA level tasking per ip, or interesting person they find.
Police spy on web, phone usage with no warrants (Feb 18 2012)
http://www.smh.com.au/technolo...
"Access is authorised by senior police officers or officials rather than by judicial warrant."
Mapping the internet is easy if every provider has to help via logs or a per provider real time server for police access able to reverse any ip in use to an account national.

How is this deserving of a patent? It's blindingly obvious to use the sensors available on a device to do their job? And activating the sensors has been done before, like activating a camera remotely or the feature built-in to phones now to get the GPS remotely. As soon as I heard about them adding fingerprint sensors to phones I immediately about how useful it would be to get the fingerprints of thieves.

The US could apply to have the foreign citizen extradited to face trial. It would depend on the extradition treaty the two nations have in place.

e.g. Australian Silk Road employee Peter Nash was extradited from Queensland to face trial in the US.
Silk Road member Peter Nash avoids further US prison time

Russia's been hacking the DNC.

Trump's top campaign adviser is a literal agent of the Kremlin. As in, he had to register as an agent of a foreign government because he was working for one. And Ivanka Trump is partying in Croatia with Vladimir Putin's girlfriend, Wendy Murdoch.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/...

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyl...

Now with those two stories in mind, go back and look at the changes Trump made to the GOP platform back in July:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Now think about the fact that Russia's been hacking the DNC (see how I brought it back on-topic?)

Its often smaller sub sets of open or worked on data that gets pooled.
e.g. a cold call pretending to be a gov official with a limited list of personal information.
http://www.smh.com.au/business...

Corruption in the power industry has been driving up prices

http://www.smh.com.au/business...

Despite this Australians keep re-electing the corrupt Labor and Liberal parties anyway, so serves them right. You get what you vote for.

The Liquid natural gas would only be a supplement to the methane gas being generated on board

Uh no. You have that so backwards it's not even funny. You can't even make enough methane out of one person's shit to run a car. At least, not usefully. These cruise ships are pigs. They are not designed for efficiency, they are designed for capacity.

and perhaps you don't get it but, fuck off

No, fuck you, chump. Maybe you meant they should fuck off, but that's not what you said. Now tell me to fuck off again.

Don't forget natural gas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., is largely the result of tacking a fracking dump

Uh, yes, that's what I said. Natgas is shit because increasing natgas production means fracking. I don't think you get what you're advocating for, which is fracking.

So luxury liners should become floating sewerage farms to reflect the often questionable behaviour of their passengers http://www.smh.com.au/national...

The sewage dumped by cruise liners is literally their least offensive effluent. They pollute like mad and they dump trash at sea. But as stated above, they cannot possibly produce enough methane to move the ship based on human shit.

The Liquid natural gas would only be a supplement to the methane gas being generated on board and perhaps you don't get it but, fuck off with the polluting effects or burning bunker fuel and they should be made to pay a significant penalty for the extremely toxic pollution being generated. Don't forget natural gas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., is largely the result of tacking a fracking dump and simple collecting the gas produce by various microbes feeding on that matter produced. So luxury liners should become floating sewerage farms to reflect the often questionable behaviour of their passengers http://www.smh.com.au/national...

They're only required to burn low-sulfur fuel while docked, plus in the last hour before docking and the first hour after leaving (source: Sydney Morning Herald). And even then, their standards for "low" are nowhere near as strong as those in the U.S. (3.5% sulfur in Australia vs. 0.1% in the U.S., and .05% by 2020).

I'm about to blow your mind. Security at airports is significantly higher than at magazine offices and rock concerts.

I'm about to blow it right back!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Nat...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

And in a country currently overrun with Islamists, it's not hard to see this happening.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paris...

Get all that?
Probably not because you seem to be an SJW moron.

If you're not prepared to grow up then at least creep back into your little safe-space and stop posting on the big bad internet.

As per usual, the AC is the only one too utterly retarded to use Google for four seconds.

Not sure what good the link will do you since you probably aren't capable of digesting full paragraphs.

There have been drone incursions as well. http://m.smh.com.au/world/dron...

They're only worth trillions if the demand says so. And demand will not continue for ever - coal is already almost flat. Peak Oil will take longer, but the writing on the wall is already visible, with EVs predicted to make up one quarter of the global market in just 10 years.

China is also dumping coal. See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... and http://www.smh.com.au/business...

India is investing 1.2 billion in solar: http://cleantechnica.com/2014/...

The third world was the last hope for the coal industry.

Some citations (other than Huff Post):
http://www.smh.com.au/interact...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/busines...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/busines...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/busines...

So which phone manufacturer is making a profit from mining our data then? Considering that Android connects to Google's services (encrypted of course.), not Samsung or HTC or Huauwei.

Breakdowns of iPhone "R&D" costs and the internal hardware always show an enormous profit margin for them, 69% in the case of the iPhone 6.

That doesn't dilute the value of Tim Cook's arguments though.

It's been proven that deleting Facebook improves the performance of other apps. It's actually worse than it seems.

The good news is the whistleblowing material reached the public and press in full. Whistleblowing material and full public release.
https://cryptome.org/2013-info...

Long term what could happen?
The prospect of Sweden doing a "temporary surrender" to the US and its secret grand jury before returning to Sweden again.
"Julian Assange: where does he go from here?" (September 12, 2015)
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
"They admit that the grand jury is continuing. "
"Don't lose sight of why the US is out to get Julian Assange "
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
"There are specific risks in Sweden – for example, its fast-track "temporary surrender" extradition agreement it has with the US. "
Revealed: US plans to charge Assange
http://www.smh.com.au/technolo...
"... the existence of a ''temporary surrender'' mechanism that could allow Mr Assange to be extradited from Sweden to the US."

The other history is that of József Mindszenty
"...political asylum by the United States embassy in Budapest, where Mindszenty lived for the next fifteen years"
"Mindszenty lived there for the next 15 years, unable to leave the grounds"

Push to ban child marriages dubbed 'blasphemy' in Pakistan

Go ISLAM!

Although it can probably never be proven, occam's razor indicates that money changed hands. It's a more logical conclusion than this level of incompetence amongst the necessary number of employees.

If past experience is any indication, then yes, telcos are perfectly content to engage in the dodgiest of dodgy practices if it means making a buck or two.

Which is why the main control is interest rate, if you get high interest you save more and low interest you spend more.

Interest rate have little to do with spending - they are a tool to control borrowing (and inflationary investment). The economic function of interest rates nowadays is to drive credit creation - the ability for the financial sector to create wealth by loaning out the same dollar many times.

High interest rates remove the ability for people to borrow but attract external investment. This can be a useful technique to draw foreign investment into your country.

The quoted point does have value for people with variable rate mortgages. Since interest is a large part of their monthly payment and often people borrow up to 80% of the value of their home, movement in interest rates (not matched with movements in income) will cause - often significant - changes in movement in available cash which leads to the spend/save more scenario. However very little economic academic debate is focussed on the individual hardships of the poor. Economics in general is more focussed on the macro level as constantly demonstrated by the ineptness of the acts of politicians.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-needs-more-tax-lower-interest-rates-international-monetary-fund-20150930-gjyns8.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/imf-chief-christine-lagarde-predicts-disappointing-2016-after-us-interest-rate-hike-china-1535407

RE: The article:

In Australia we have a statistical unemployment issue as the many factors can stop you being counted as unemployed (for example not being able to arrange childcare or not being available for work because you are in a course)

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/products/FBE517ECA9B07F63CA257D0E001AC7D4?OpenDocument

In Australia there is a very very very large service industry that feeds on the bottom dwellers of the recruitment sector by getting people into government sponsored courses. They get payments from the government and from the training organisation (who also get payments from the course attendee).

So basically you have millions of government/taxation dollars to fund the apparatus around one aspect of welfare - with the statistical upshoot of showing lower unemployment rates to voters.

If a Dutch town is doing away with the machine that keeps the welfare recipients under the watchful eye of the government to justify their payments in the eyes of voters then I can't help thinking that there is more money being saved and more to go into useful things.

Personally I would want all education and healthcare to be free - an educated and well society will achieve far more than a unemployable one that is ill and most likely broke.

Not just the US. Commercial airlines are obliged to verify that all individuals boarding their flights have a valid visa for their destination, and face stiff penalties if somebody slips through without a visa. Case in point from Australia.

this isn't the first hobby to be ruined by inconsiderate jerks that didn't engage with the existing hobbyists, nor will it be the last

In news just in (announced today) cyclists in the state of New South Wales, Australia (where Sydney is located) will soon be required to carry photo id or face heavy penalties.

I love it when the assholes in government introduce unpopular laws during Christmas week, when many families are away on holiday. Assholes.

You're forgetting the FirefoxOS Panasonic Smart TV that was announced earlier this year that's going to leave Panasonic with egg on the face.

My theory is that Mozilla and Canonical were trying to copy each others tactics because they saw the media buzz that was being generated when one of them made an announcement. Phones, Tablets, and TVs were the "canonical" (pun intended) examples.

Day care is bad for babies:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/nat...

You don't get concrete proof of this sort of thing

Let's test that claim. No, it turns out you do get concrete proof of this sort of thing. And again. And again. Your claim is false.

It's too bad neither russotto nor ShanghaiBill nor you can offer anything to substantiate russotto's claim. It makes you all look foolish. And it's truly sad that these fictions get modded "interesting" and "insightful" when they are no such thing.

Lol, Turnbull was the communications minister who said that data retention was pointless!

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

https://newmatilda.com/2015/10...

https://newmatilda.com/2015/10...

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-...

But then again, he has done nothing to roll anything back now that he's in charge...

"With their exclusive rights protected by the Public Carriage Office, and their rivals held back, London black cabs behave like any cartel — they squeeze their advantages for all their worth." http://www.spectator.co.uk/fea...

Uber is cheaper and quicker than black cabs: http://www.independent.co.uk/v...

In the age of GPS "The Knowledge" is a needlessly hard test which keeps most people out. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

London drivers say "The Knowledge" is better than a GPS http://www.theguardian.com/wor... but even before the age of GPS, most cities on the planet regulated taxi without such a test. Doctors do something similar with entrance boards which decide how many new doctors can enter a field. http://wallstreetpit.com/5769-... Rudimentary economics: any profession which restricts their numbers can charge more. Imagine if nurses, paramedics, firemen and cops set up their own mandatory boards what it could do for them.

Most cities restrict taxi numbers usually by restricting the number of licenses issued.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6... FRANCE $270,000
http://globalnews.ca/news/1780... CANADA Was $360,000
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/cost... AUSTRALIA Was $425,000
http://www.scmp.com/business/m... HONG KONG $1M
http://www.washingtonpost.com/... USA $1.2M

Ashley Madison hack: hackers claim cheaters' details dumped online

So, I'm a bit baffled; where's all that "enormous price premium"?

Well first let's be clear that Samsung is not the only Android phone manufacturer so comparing just to one Samsung device is not representative of the wider market. Secondly pointing out that Apple has an enormous price premium on the iPhone does not in any way suggest that Samsung does not have an enormous price premium on the Galaxy S6. Thirdly Apple does have an enormous profit margin on the iPhone.

So I'm not sure why you are baffled. Except perhaps your inability to understand that a statement about Apple does not mean that it applies exclusively to Apple and no other company.

Cue rabid mud-slinging between fossil-fuel addicted Morlocks and nuclear-power fearing Eloi.

I weep for the future.

You insensitive sod. Don't expect an outdoor heater from me this Xmas.

Sincerely, Tony Abbott - I'm the Prime Minister of Australia - didn't you know?
Buy more coal - it's good.

Cue rabid mud-slinging between fossil-fuel addicted Morlocks and nuclear-power fearing Eloi.

I weep for the future.

You insensitive sod. Don't expect an outdoor heater from me this Xmas.

Sincerely, Tony Abbott - I'm the Prime Minister of Australia - didn't you know?
Buy more coal - it's good.

Cue rabid mud-slinging between fossil-fuel addicted Morlocks and nuclear-power fearing Eloi.

I weep for the future.

You insensitive sod. Don't expect an outdoor heater from me this Xmas.

Sincerely, Tony Abbott - I'm the Prime Minister of Australia - didn't you know?
Buy more coal - it's good.

We in Australia have just passed legislation requiring ISPs to retain users' "metadata" for 2 years. So there.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-...

Kind of ironic, considering that we're well behind the rest of the world in just about everything else internet-related. Our country is going to shit under the current conservative government, and that's not hyperbole. See asylum seekers, mining companies, Murdoch penetration, climate change denial; name the doo-doo, we're deep in it.

> "The bill creates a regime under which digital communications causing 'serious emotional distress' are subject to an escalating regime that starts as 'negotiation, mediation or persuasion' but reaches up to creating the offenses of not complying with an order, and 'causing harm by posting digital communication.'

Lawyers are infamous for using dirty tactics in 'negotiation, mediation or persuasion' in 'digital communications' that cause 'serious emotional distress.' It's their job to make the other side so miserable and stressed out they beg them to stop and agree to their terms. Taunt. Harass. Threaten. They're not supposed to, but they do anyway. Will the bill cover them? http://www.civiljustice.co.nz/... http://netk.net.au/whitton/ocl... http://www.smh.com.au/comment/... http://angiemedia.com/2009/01/... http://www.dri.org/DRI/course-... http://www.hg.org/article.asp?...

> The bill covers posts that are racist, sexist, or show religious intolerance, along with hassling people over disability or sexual orientation. There's also a new offense of incitement to suicide (three years' jail).

Ha ha. of course not!!!

Except it doesn't work. Have a look at the fightback campaign run by John Hewson in the 1993 Australian federal election. The 1993 election was considered un-losable for the LNP and yet they lost and Paul Keating won another term.

The reason they lost is he came to the election with the most comprehensive and thought out policies ever brought to an Australian election. He had all the policies laid out and costed. The problem was though that any balanced plans have give and take so the other side focussed all their noise making on the takes, said they wouldn't do any of those and that they would do all the positives.

Unfortunately that negative approach worked and they were re-elected. Since then Australian elections have been incredibly lacking in policy during the campaign. In order for a rational, thought out and calm campaign to work you need voters to be rational, calm and thinking.... I think you can probably see the problem with that.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-...

Well yes, because one thing a dictatorship can do is change course quickly. China have already signaled interest in this space , so it's not too much of a stretch to believe the command will come from the top and leave us all looking like dinosaurs.

• ref 1
• ref 2
• ref 3
• ref 4 related
• ref 5

Masculine pronouns can be used in the gender neutral sense in English

Exactly. Yet this is something the man-haters would like to redefine.

Some feminists are truly interested in equality.
However a large portion of them are man-haters who are using their platform to gain PRIVILEGE for women.

A campaign has re-strengthened in Australia to remove the 10% GST (Goods and Services Tax / VAT) from tampons. See here
They use emotional slogans such as "stop taxing my periods".

However, I'd like to know why the Australian government won't also consider removing the GST from men's grooming products (razors, shaving cream, etc). Facial hair growth is a natural bodily function for men. And at least one GOVERNMENT department sends men home if they turn-up to work unshaven ... even though facial hair has no bearing on their ability to perform their duties! (Imagine the uproar if they sent women home for not shaving their legs. And why is the Sex Discrimination Commissioner remaining silent in defending these male citizens?)

To say nothing about why there is a GST on toilet-paper ... isn't going to the loo a natural bodily function as well?

Masculine pronouns can be used in the gender neutral sense in English

Exactly. Yet this is something the man-haters would like to redefine.

Some feminists are truly interested in equality.
However a large portion of them are man-haters who are using their platform to gain PRIVILEGE for women.

A campaign has re-strengthened in Australia to remove the 10% GST (Goods and Services Tax / VAT) from tampons. See here
They use emotional slogans such as "stop taxing my periods".

However, I'd like to know why the Australian government won't also consider removing the GST from men's grooming products (razors, shaving cream, etc). Facial hair growth is a natural bodily function for men. And at least one GOVERNMENT department sends men home if they turn-up to work unshaven ... even though facial hair has no bearing on their ability to perform their duties! (Imagine the uproar if they sent women home for not shaving their legs. And why is the Sex Discrimination Commissioner remaining silent in defending these male citizens?)

To say nothing about why there is a GST on toilet-paper ... isn't going to the loo a natural bodily function as well?

If guns are so evil, then why do those in high office insist on being protected by people carrying guns?

Also, Abbott has bought for himself -- at taxpayer expense -- 9 bulletproof BMW's. That's 1 waiting for him upon arrival in each state & territory. (And a spare. Why not?)

Seems there's one set of rules for them, and another for the plebs.

Israeli propaganda war hits social media

Israeli propaganda war hits social media

Or this:

Israeli propaganda war hits social media

And in Sydney, a permanent taxi license has in recent years cost over $400K to transfer (though it's dropping as the govt releases more "annual" licenses to dilute the value of the permanent ones). When you have to effectively have a second mortgage to cover your right to run a taxi, there's something very unbalanced in the market.

Mind you, even the ANNUAL licenses go for $30K up. So each of those licensees starts the year of driving a taxi $30K in the hole, which means making enough money to live at the poverty line means taking in well over $1400 a week gross (~$600 for the license, $400 for expenses - laughably insufficient, $400 to be at the poverty line).