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  1. Re:Gets worse near the end of the article on The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated · · Score: 2

    Who watches those TED talks? Most are boring as hell with people spouting off about ideas that are unrealistic.

    There was one held here in Edinburgh, Scotland where they had the former finance Minister from Greece(ie the one that landed them in the shit) attemtping to tell everyone what the cure was.
    I assume all he said was "do the opposite of what I did on office" and that was the shortest TED talk in history. /rollseyes

  2. Or imagine them running an updated Maemo (from the N900), or some similiar full-sized and well-designed operative system.

    I had an N900.. fucking great idea.. terrible execution of that idea.

  3. Re:Just like a call center on Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It will run like any other call center does. Where each team of client support representatives, has a supervisor to handle the difficult problems, military will have supervisor that will take control and shoot.

    erm.. no

    Civilians are not allowed to pinpoint targets with lasers or fire missiles. They operate only Reapers that provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,

  4. Re:Don't pirate software on Czech Judge Cuts Deal With Software Pirate: Get 200K YouTube Views Or Pay Huge Fine · · Score: -1

    Just don't use proprietary software. Simple as that, no legal risk.

    I don't want Windows or Office or that Adobe thingy, not even if its for free as in money.

    yawn

  5. Re: NUKEM!! NUKEM NOW!! on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    The original poster is not entirely right. Here is for example the data for Pakistan:

    Total strikes: 421 Obama strikes: 370 Total killed: 2,489-3,989 Civilians killed: 423-965 Children killed: 172-207 Injured: 1,158-1,738

    So yes, many civilians but not anywhere near 96%. In any case, there is still a huge difference to terrorism, because drone strikes are not intended to kill civilians, many civilian deaths are only accepted as a side-effect. It boils down how you interpret the "double effect doctrine". In my point of view, drone strikes are serious crimes just like terrorist attacks but the two things should be kept apart and not one can justify the other.

    hmm... interesting you just HAD to point out Obama did more!.. you think maybe it's a partisan thing? ..lol

  6. Re:Famous Bill Gates Quote on Hacking Jules Coaxes Android Wear To Run Nintendo 64 and PSP Emulators (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    âoeThe two most common elements in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity.â -- Bill Gates

    LOL you are paraphrasing Frank Zappa from his "Frank Zappa Book" with regards to the hydrogen and stupidity

  7. Re:Such ignorance on 15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Make companies legally liable for easily prevented hacks.

    That's what the Information commissioners Office does within the UK and often punishes data breaches with fines

  8. Where the hell else can I carry it? I've got jeans and a t-shirt. The phone fits in my jeans pocket so that's the only logical place to put it. I guess I could get a belt clip and have it catch on everything but I think not. How about they could just make it where I have to actually unlock the screen to make a call? Problem solved!

    fucking simple... I buy trousers (or pants to you yanks :P ) with my stuff in min... cargo trousers, the map pocket is great for yer phone when paired with bluetooth headset.
    I also buy shirts/tops at times with phone in mind.It's not rocket science
    But no... it always boils down to.. " WAAAAH... moan moan moan"
    So just for you..... have a gander at this

  9. Re: DEA declares running illegal on Endocannabinoids Contribute To Runner's High · · Score: 3, Informative

    Harmless? Marijuana is linked to higher chances of developing mental disorders and other psychiatric problems. Not to mention the smoke is harmful for our lungs.

    I'll give you that alcohol and tobacco are far worse, but to call it harmless is just as wrong as to call it as dangerous as heroin.

    CBD is a fantastic anti-psychotic and is going under further research. and anything can unlock a genetic predisposition ... alcohol, light... anything can trigger it.. not just cannabis

  10. Re:GOOD GRIEF! on The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? · · Score: 1

    high fructose corn syrup: 55% fructose, 45% glucode

    table sugar: 50% fructose, 50% glucose

    yep, huge difference there.

    sugar has a sweetness rating of 100 , HFCS has a rating of 180, do they use less due to the high sweetness rating?.. nope...

  11. Re: GOOD GRIEF! on The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you had bottled water, you'd drink it instead of coke and other nasty things. Despite popular belief, tap water, even with a Britta, is nothing like bottled water which is actually nice to drink.

    i refer you to this , which i am going to do to every stupid twat that say that very stupid thing you just said! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re:GOOD GRIEF! on The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention it's bottled by the same companies like Pepsico and Coke that make soda. So if people keep drinking water these companies have nothing to worry about.

    We should make them worry and stop buying bottled water. Not only are you flushing your money down the toilet, but getting all those empty bottles out of our waste stream would be a great benefit for all of us.

    I hear yah , just check out some vintage Penn and Teller to illustrate the point hilariously! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  13. Re: Liberals on US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital · · Score: 1

    That's like saying Catholics know Latin. Very few Afghans know Arabic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I guarantee you they'll know the call to prayer and the prayers themselves at the absolute minimum. along with the usual greetings etc

  14. Re: Liberals on US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital · · Score: 1

    In Afghanistan, there are nearly no Arabs. It's inhabited by Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazara, Aimaqs and other ethnic groups, none of them is Arab or speaks a semitic language.

    Maybe it's time to actually inform yourself about Afghanistan before making such bold statements?

    Erm.. I think you'll find that Muslims are more than adequate at speaking Arabic seeing as how it's the language of the religion itself...

  15. Re:Stand Down? on Google and Microsoft Agree To Stand Down In Patent Wars · · Score: 1

    Opposite of sit up? Or is that a double opposite and so the same? Fucking British never make much sense.

    No the opposite of "Stand Down" is "Stand To" , it's from military parlance.
    Stand down = rest
    Stand to = be ready for action

  16. Re:Circling the drain on Microsoft Killing Off Nokia's Windows Phone Apps · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is my opinion that Microsoft, as a consumer company, is circling the drain -- at least for IT people.

    - They missed the boat on mobile - Windows 10 telemetry makes Google look like privacy champions (This OS is invasive) - They are back porting Windows 10 telemetry to Windows 8 and Windows 7 to get even more info from those users - They are killing the Nokia apps, which are arguably better than anything Microsoft could write. Why? Microsoft suffers from NIH.

    I am taking steps to free my family of any Microsoft product. The invasiveness is just too much. Linux works just fine, as there are no IT people in my family save myself, so they need to browse and use Webmail.

    Microsoft will survive OK enough in the corporate space, but it won't be too terribly long before they are supplanted by better tech -- and it will be about time. I sill cannot believe, after all these years, that people though Active Directory was better than Novell's NDS. That still boggles the mind.

    I'm looking forward to a world where Microsoft is an also ran.

    yeah they did miss the boat on mobile... and are still not on it... so it doesn't matter one fuck if they drop nokia apps.. there's no-one waiting in the forest to hear that tree fall anyway
    back porting telemetry?..lol.. erm./. ok chump.. you do realise that you can turn OFF all that cemetery in settings right???
    as to the rest.. foam foam foam.. rant rant rant.... ..in fact.. where the fuck is lovely young chappie Bennett Haselton when you need him???.. you'd get more sense out of Bennett's anus than you :)

  17. Re:exhibit A: OK Cupid's famous essay on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Heck you can check it yourself: sign up for a paid for dating site, put the photos into Google image search, and see how long it takes before you get a fake. But sexual desperation is such that men will still go there,

    I'll do you even one better.. TINEYE plugin ... just right click and search the image on tineye.. saves a lot of hassle for many reasons.. dating only being one of them

  18. Re:They already have taxis... on How Uber Is Changing Life For Women In Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    so Uber is adding nothing. Nothing. All Uber is doing is trashing society by pushing their temporary contractors that aren't really employees and using them to put hard working people with jobs out of work. They are taking benefits from people that have jobs. They are killing jobs. Families are starving because of Uber's Republican-style hate of working people. The women in SA can already ride in a taxi and support society rather than riding in Uber and supporting our own destruction.

    ... not only that bud , but you can bet your last fucking penny their P.R dept will be pushing this shit everywhere to show what a "vital" service they supply..... but we all know you are spot on

  19. Re:Not me on WiFi Offloading is Skyrocketing · · Score: 2

    The way this works with British Telecom is that you have multiple SIDs on your router. There's one you connect to that you have control over, and there are also additional SIDs like "BTWifi-with-FON" and "BTWifi-X" with separate IP address and logging that you have no control over.
    I think that BT internet customers have a free access to these all over the country and if they opt-out of this they can then get it disabled on their own home router. This way BT claims they literally have millions of WIFI access points all over the country, yet the experience is terrible if actually the network is on residential ADSL (upstream capped to 448kb/s for instance).

    Incidentally I've wondered whether you could just replace their ADSL or VDSL (FTTC) router with something of your own without these additional access points and still been able to access their national network of access points for free.

    Not quite the way it works bud. You DO have control over the public hotspot.. in settings you can turn it on or off.
    /my advice would be to opt into the BT wifi scheme on the BT website, connect your router with it opted in. BT then gets a wee signal from it and you are then verified and allowed on the fon network and their partners worldwide. THEN.. turn the fucking public wifi off and you'll never have a problem.. it's only ever checked once

    Also it's a trivial matter to change router. I have this puppy which is future proof enough for me, can handle any isp/connection type(adsl,vdsl, cable) and when you run the Asuswrt-Merlin firmware . it gives you a lot more settings to tweat and explore and is a pretty fucking rock solid router and it looks sweet :P
    BTW your BT connection username and password is user = BT passie = user i shit you not.

    I left BT and moved to talktalk... I know. they are SHITE but at 26 quids all in for 80mb down and 20mb up including phone charges(just tell them you will go to sky.. they'll give you an offer) and i am 60 meters by wire from the cabinet. I am in the process of getting all the other flats on my stair to sign up to http://hyperoptic.com/ ... only one more place out the six to get to sign up and it's happy fucking days for me :P.

    also.. i can STILL use my BT-wifi/FON login anywhere in the world and it's been 6 months since i left BT and i've used it here in Scotland, in England,in Portugal, Denver,Houston, Amsterdam New Jersey and the Republic of Ireland. it's the gift that keeps on giving as the turds are too lazy to check status more than the initial one :P

  20. Re: Does it matter? on Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They put aceteminophen in Tylenol on purpose to kill you if you try to get high on Tylenol. They don't need junkies messing up their reputation.

    erm.. excuse me but Tylenol is but a trademarked name.. the generic name of it is...Acetaminophen....
    http://www.rxlist.com/tylenol-...
    so the fact that it's got Acetaminophen isn't surprising..... as that's what it is!

  21. Re:bunch of naggers on British Politicians Delete Negative Wikipedia Descriptions Before Election · · Score: 1

    The alternative being a weak Labour government with its balls firmly in the Nats hands.

    If there was ever an election that was a choice of the lesser evil, the 2015 UK general election was it.

    LOL.. said like a true daily fail reader!!!

  22. Re:bunch of naggers on British Politicians Delete Negative Wikipedia Descriptions Before Election · · Score: 1

    You assholes re-elected the torie menace David Cameron, and he is going to COMPLETELY destroy your country.

    Scotland didn't vote for them...yet we have to suffer them.. in fact we firmly rejected the westminster parties... 56 seats to the Scottish National Party.. 1 seat labour, liberal and tory.....

  23. Re:just what we all love on Amazon Decides To Start Paying Tax In the UK · · Score: 1

    well in the UK if you are VAT registered you ARE processing VAT charges tax on behalf of the tax man.br) Businesses should absolutely pay taxes... if they wanna be classed as a fucking person they can pay fucking taxes like one!

  24. Re:At least one report on UK Criminals Use Drones To Case Burglary Prospects · · Score: 4, Funny

    And calls to the "non-emergency number" would result in the police doing absolutely nothing

    Not true. Please save the New Emergency Services number, 0118 999 881 999 119 725.......3 for genuine emergencies only.

    FTFY

  25. Re:Thunderbolt on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 2

    Isn't Thunderbolt related to mini-Displayport?

    they use the same port geometry http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/co...