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  1. LGBT are not wanted in Trades in Canada or United on High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    LGBT are not wanted in Trades in Canada or United States. I am Transgender and hopefully this fall I am going to College for some type of Engineering. I would love to work as a Mechanic in fact after I left trade school I learned from one of the old Masters how to fix cars. I tried to join the IBEW to become an electrician and my car was run off the road, and I was told to "fuck off faggot or the next time we will kill you." If you are wondering why I did not go to the police after that. the reason is simple I had had my brake lines on my car cut and when I called the police I was told your a fag wearing a dress what do you expect.

    Canada and the United States hate queers, it was getting better, but under Trump and Pence it is getting worse. Even here in Canada Trump's and Pence's Anti-LBGT rhetoric is having an effect. I f you are LGBT your best hope is in medicine, trades are to be avoided as even if you get a job you will be accident-ed in less than three months.

  2. My Condolences to his family, first and to Humanity second. He was a giant among men, and a beacon of hope to all.

  3. Re: It Worked Flawlessly on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    But why would a troll teach an A.I. to be a Nazi unless there was some inclination towards that viewpoint by the troll. If I was messing with it I would have it talking about internet tubes and quoting Sarah Palin speech that was quoted word for word by Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey. I also believe that the A.I. would have listened to more than one person in order to learn this behavior. I have a friend who is a research psychologist who uses lisp to study and create A.I. and based on his work I would find it hard to believe that anyone would allow a not to learn from a small sample group

  4. Re: It Worked Flawlessly on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 0

    Then why did the teenagers teach it to be pro-nazi? They did that because that is the viewpoint of the current North American culture. Two words Donald Trump

  5. It Worked Flawlessly on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It Worked Flawlessly. This Robot was designed to learn and adapt to it's audience, which it did. What happened is that the majority of Americans and Canadians are over sexed, racist neo-nazis. The Robot like most Americans and Canadians learned it's behavior from it's peers, and adapted it personality and beliefs accordingly. Microsoft should try to use this AI in other languages in other countries like France and Sweden and compare the results to the what happened when American and Canadian people used it. The Difference will show it is a problem of cultures and not an AI issue with the Microsoft AI Robot.

  6. Apple is a Snobby, Greedy, Self Absorbed Culture on That Awkward Moment When 'Apple Mocked Good Hardware and Poor People' (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0

    Apple Computer and its followers are snobs and are really unfriendly toward earth. Keep buying new stuff and help up make the soil toxic. You can't even change the battery in it's new laptops unless you take it apart; That is real friendly toward the environment. My current PC is 4 years old and my laptop is 5 years old, they do what i need them to do. Why should I upgrade? The difference between people like me and the typical Apple user is my Phone and computer are for work, not a status symbol. What worse of all is the conditions in the factories that make Apple products are work houses like you read about in Oliver Twist where people live and die without ever truly living. Apple did not care about humans until the press outed them. The factories are marginally better, but are still workhouses. Apple does not care about sustainability by making it's products reusable by making the battery replaceable; I can give someone else my Dell laptop and they or I can buy them a battery so that they can use my old computer to educate themselves or work.Most Apple users are smug, entitled people who just don't care about the environment, their fellow man, or anything but their status.

  7. Re:This is why my Websites Check that ads work on YouTube Shows Adblock Plus Users an Error Message Instead of Ads · · Score: 0

    I am not free loading or misleading anyone.

    The at the end of the highway is not working, but a communist like you would never understand the capitialist principle of working and getting paid for it.

  8. Re:This is why my Websites Check that ads work on YouTube Shows Adblock Plus Users an Error Message Instead of Ads · · Score: 0

    Me: I usually write code hat check to see if the ad content was pushed out to the client. If not disables the site for that web browser and IP address for an hour.

    Tepples: Do BingBot and Googlebot retrieve ads? If not, enjoy being hard to find in search engines.

    Me: My sites check to see who and what is loading or crawling my sites, and create a page spefically for that user crawler.

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    Me: I usually write code hat check to see if the ad content was pushed out to the client. If not disables the site for that web browser and IP address for an hour.

    Tepples: Do BingBot and Googlebot retrieve ads? If not, enjoy being hard to find in search engines.

    Besides, in the era of IPv4 address exhaustion, ISPs are using carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) to put a hundred or a thousand users behind one IPv4 address. If one of them doesn't load your ads, for reasons such as a transient network failure or not having the proprietary Adobe Flash Player installed or even being blind (and thus unable to view images), do you block access to the site for all of them? If so, enjoy your reputation for operating an unreliable server.

    Me: I use other methods in conjunction which I will not reveal to make sure the right person is being punished.

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    Me: Where do you think the money for the connection, server's and bandwidth come from "MARS".

    Tepples: A lot of Slashdot users such as bingoUV [slashdot.org] would prefer that people operate sites as a hobby, not a business, and pay for connection, server, and bandwidth out of pocket. They prefer the pre-dot-com-boom Internet that was dominated by enthusiasts, not marketers. In bingoUV's opinion, site operators that cannot accept those terms ought to change to a different industry entirely, such as meat butchering.

    Me: Well when Google, Yahoo, Bing, Reuters, Fox News, and (Just about every other website) operates as a hobby give me a call.

  9. This is why my Websites Check that ads work on YouTube Shows Adblock Plus Users an Error Message Instead of Ads · · Score: 0

    I usually write code hat check to see if the ad content was pushed out to the client. If not disables the site for that web browser and IP address for an hour. I do that because the ads pay for the sites; just like the commercials on TV pay for the content. Ad-blocker's are not you sticking it to the man, Ad blocker's are you shooting yourself in the foot. Without ads many sites would require subscriptions to pay for the site. Where do you think the money for the connection, server's and bandwidth come from "MARS". The joke is a site like Slashdot is paid for by advertising and without that revenue stream you would not be reading this now.

    Some large advertisers can check to see if there ad's are being actually displayed or blocked using ad-blockers, Do you think something like Google ad words is going to pay Slashdot for blocked ads. Eventually if enough people used ad-blockers sites like Slashdot would have to shutdown due to lack of revenue. When you use an ad-blocker ultimately you are shooting yourself in the foot.

    Get rid of Ad-Blockers and save important content websites like Slashdot, and Sourceforge.org

  10. Re: Why does the government need apple for. on Apple: Terrorist's Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I forgot to login earlier I am the anonymous coward

  11. White vs. Black Virtual Reality and the real world on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 1

    I lived in an apartment building where kids used to baseball bat and cinder block cars in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I was talking to a Waterloo Regional Police "Service" constable about my neighbor's car having a cinder block put through the windshield. I giving a description mentioned he was black, The constable said and I quote " A black man with a BMW he must be a drug dealer". Unfortunately the mostly white Police Services in Canada have a similar view. Racism does exist, White people are the ones in power, and they abuse black and native people every chance they get. I have never heard a Police office use the word Honkey, But the N word is very much in the vernacular in the Waterloo Regional Police Service when describing a black suspect.

    I am white, I was raised in a 21 foot trailer in a community so small we counted the cows as people for the population sign. When I needed to use the bathroom I had to walk 50 feet into the woods to use the outhouse in 3 feet of snow. When I peed into the abyss I heard it tinkle as it had frozen before it hit the ice on the bottom. I grew up hearing one of my uncles referring to black people as coons and other terms I would never mention. Luckily most of the people I grew up with did not really give a **** about color. I was the definition of a backwoods redneck and I am eefing ashamed about how the Canadian police, Justice System, School Systems, Community Resources, Hospitals, Government, and Professional White people treat minorities especially Native and Black people in North America.

    I am Transgender and as bad as I have it somedays i can say without a doubt I am still treated for the most part better than black and native people. Someone asked me once what could be worse than being transgender and I said being black and transgender in this effing country of effing bigots.

  12. Re:Rubbish! on How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets · · Score: 1

    I quit Facebook when they changed there terms of service that said I could not sell a product with the word book in it. I should almost thank Facebook for being a bunch of corporate dorks. I have a life, I meet with real friends, and I am not wasting time playing those crappy games. For those of you that are using Facebook, have you not learned? The real genius is bogaboga who was smart enough not to join in the first place.

    As far as looking up old friends on Facebook, I would rather cultivate new meaningful relationships than try and relive the past.

  13. Re:Of course Canada is on the List on Why Canada Does Not Belong On the US Piracy Watchlist · · Score: 0

    Get paid tp plant thes comments? I don't get any money. That "FREE" Copy of Adobe CS3 is how you got paid.

  14. Re:Of course Canada is on the List on Why Canada Does Not Belong On the US Piracy Watchlist · · Score: 0

    Thanks for the laugh. Talk about making stuff up

  15. Re:Of course Canada is on the List on Why Canada Does Not Belong On the US Piracy Watchlist · · Score: 0

    The rate of offical complaints is declining. Since police in Waterloo region discourage people from reporting crime, there is less crime. Property theft is on the rise in Waterloo region but to report a stolen lawn mower worth fifty dollars you have to go to the Head quarters conviently located out of town and spend almost 10 to twenty dollars in gas and waste about 2 hours of time, It takes a half hour for them to find the form. Software piracy is ignored by most police forces in Canada it took a huge amount of pressure on the Canadian and Ontario goverments to get the RCMP to presure the Toronto police to go to a flea market in Markham and shut down several vendors there who were selling pirate movies and software. If you phoned the BSA and asked them about piracy they would tell you that it is next to imposible to get the police in Canada to do anything. Consider that 30 women went missing from vancouver over 20 years and Robert pickton was caught by accidental discovery you get the idea how effective police are in Canada. I do not balme the Officers but the politicains and public attitude that is soft on crime in Canada.

    As far as reporting my competitors I would be beaten up and probably killed for being a stool pigeon. I would not be helped because most of the people are related too or pay local politicians and police to protect them.

  16. Of course Canada is on the List on Why Canada Does Not Belong On the US Piracy Watchlist · · Score: 0

    Software Piracy is rampant in Canada, not because there are not enough laws preventing it, but because the police are too under funded. Bill C-11 is useless unless it mandates police forces in Canada spend a certain amount of resources on the problem. As a self employed Computer Technician I am basically out of work because my conciense will not allow me to work on pirated software. I live in Waterloo Region Ontario about 50 percent of the companies I have worked for are using pirated software, some of these companies are very productive in term of capitial, but won't spend 800 a seat for Microsoft Office but instead expect me to install a pirated copy.

    Since there is no enforcement my competitors always get more calls than me. I will not say I am perfect but there is a huge difference between bending rules and breaking them. We are talking about companies with one to twenty employees that have The latest version of Microsoft Windows and Office on their computers but have no licenses for any of them. 10 years ago you may have been able to justify that but with Linux, Gimp, and Libre Office you can no longer say you have no alternative. There are new computer Vendors selling fake COA's and Windows in Waterloo, Check for the hologram. I used to sell custom built hardware but I can't compete with pirated software.

    Most of the problem is how police forces are run in Canada unlike the United States local the RCMP must go to the local regional forces as it is their's not the RCMP's juristiction. What Canada need is a police agency like the Federal Bureau of Iinvestigation that has control of National and International crime, a true federal force with ultimate jurisdiction. Not the current hodepodge of police forces the currently exists in Canada. The police in Canada already have the tools, we do not need more laws except for mandating a true national police force with ultimate jurisdiction like the United States of America .

  17. Re:Um... on Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook · · Score: 0

    Hey! Some of us saw that Natalie Portman movie!

    We watched it for Natalie Portman, As for the story all I can remember is some guy on fox news trash talking the Parliament in London saying something about taking them out like Sarah Palin did.

    You are thinking to yourself right Now!! Genius or Idiot?

  18. Re:And In Other News on Google Should Be Logging In To Facebook · · Score: 0

    At least you can read anonymous troll

  19. You probably could do this using wget an a script on Google Should Be Logging In To Facebook · · Score: 1

    You probably could do this using wget an a script. Create a c script or a bash script. login into the account and spider passing the information through a grep pipe. You could probably mine a lot of data this way. I am not doing it or encouraging other to do this. I am concerned that information is this available and that it would be so easy to acquire. My advice if post only what you would say in a public auditorium. The fact a dumb ass like me can think this up means lots of people can and probably are data mining.

  20. Re:And In Other News on Google Should Be Logging In To Facebook · · Score: 1

    Everyone should while I neither agree or disagree with this articles points it is about privacy It does show that our privacy right are disappearing, and the worse part is we John q. Public are giving them away to Facebook and others including Google

  21. SCO still on life support on SCO Assets Going To October Auction · · Score: 1

    It is just a Java patent, and a non troll patent company is going to buy it, so SCO is still a company if you were hoping to dance at SCO's funeral pyre no such luck. here is the story at GrokLaw

    http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20100329223904478

  22. Is this our society on Education Official Says Bad Teachers Can Be Good For Students · · Score: 1

    Is Humanity so bad that bad teachers will teach us how to cope with our inevitable bad employers, authority figures, and others. How about we start rewarding good work ethics and values and kick these rotters to the curb

  23. I have to see this movie and Sherlock Holmes on Avatar Soars Into $1-Billion Territory · · Score: 1

    If this movie is doing that good it must be worthwhile seeing. Sherlock Holmes has been nominated for a Golden Globe and Alvin does suck.

  24. Boy! do I feel Dumb on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 1

    What! It's not for drivers but for pedestrians. Gee Golly Beaver, am I glad you pointed that out for me and the rest of people on Slashdot.org.

  25. Re:Drive-up ATMs? on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 1

    Not all American's are fat, just a larger proportion than Canada.
    In Canada we have drive up ATM's and while we are getting fatter I don't believe it's the fault of ATM's.