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  1. Re:Convenience and Brand Allegiance on Ask Slashdot: Why Would Anyone Want To Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    I bought a lenovo laptop for $500 bucks that can do 10x more than the iphone whatever. Ok, it does not have bunch of sensors in it, but who the fuc needs those anyway? For those things my $200 samsung s4 i bought second hand 3 years ago works just fine. I'm not a professional photographer, if there's an opportunity for a photo, the samsung S4 does a pretty good damn job. It has google maps, navigation.. and all apps that 'help' from day2day. Guitar string tuner, flashlight, voice record, mp3 player, and so on.

    So it's not that you spend $1 dollar a day or whatever, or even if it is, so what ? On any other phoen that does the job just as well you would spend 0.010 a day, so why waste money ? Unless of course you don't see $1000 usd as a lot of money, in which case... good on you.

    In the meantime, i'm playing cities skylines on it instead of those shitty phone games that are there just to milk you further, browsing the web, programming, watching movies, it has windows/linux dual boot, etc. etc. and it can be unplugged for 4 hours while i'm doing it.

    If you're middle class, paying $1000 for a fancy phone is stupid.

  2. Re:$100,000? That is a thing now? on Russia Reportedly Bought Thousands of Facebook Ads Sought To Stress Racial Divisions (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately you're comment will be buried under load of rubbish, evil Russian comments / It's Putin's fault, because it just is not fun otherwise.

  3. Re:This is the exact opposite of what they should on Microsoft Teams is Replacing Skype for Business To Put More Pressure on Slack (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    > Replacing a fully functional product that a company probably spent a lot of money hiring people to implement and integrate with the company network with another product just seems moronic.

    I don't know any decision that MS made that was not moronic.
    They're surviving by luck and circumstances (Windows and some of its products like Office) are already so prevalent that they cannot basically fail, at least not easily because all the apps are made for it.

    But their innovation and decisions are probably the stupidest, one can come up with.

    Let's hope they die off in this lifetime, and stop making everybody's life miserable.

  4. > This is why you're seeing the resurgence of neo-nazis and white supremacists. We're abandoning the working class.

    No, much simpler. It's happening because you label everybody that would like to preserve local values, culture and curb uncontrolled immigration as a nazi or white supremacist.
    The number of actual white supremacists and nazis, actual as in .. people that believe white people are worth more because they're white, is the same, if not lower.

  5. Re:No more business as usual on CEO Catches Stranger After Hours, Prompting Espionage Charges (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    > We cannot survive as a nation with the parasite of China continuously stealing our manufacturing, manipulating trade deficits and now stealing our technology. We either have to change or we are going to collapse.

    Your consumer, debt-based, buy shit i don't need with money i don't have economy cannot survive without China and it's DIRT cheap crap they export to you.
    China can survive without you considering how massive China, and Asia in general is, and how less they care for you.

    This is why the west will never punish China for anything.
    But you can go around thinking it's because your government is stupid and/or inefficient or whatever other excuse you have lined up... if that makes you feel better.

    > And to all you globalists out there rooting for the US to fail, I hope you like living under a jack booted dictatorship with zero freedom

    This shows just how little (western propaganda material) you know about the world. I bet you never even been to Russia, but you been spoon fed media bullshit about how horrible every country except US is.

    You are free to do and say whatever you want in Russia, unless you go to a church and start humping the Christ statue and screaming about your pussy.
    In which case, you should be put on a knee and spanked as a spoiled little brat you really are.

  6. Re:Plankton are conscious on Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    > So Tesla cars are conscious?

    Sure, if they are aware of itself and it's sensing deciding and reacting; making a decision.
    This reminded me of HGTTG:

    This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.

    Ah ! What’s happening? it thought.

    Er, excuse me, who am I?

    Hello?

    Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?

    What do I mean by who am I?

    Calm down, get a grip now oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of yawning, tingling sensation in my my well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.

    Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?

    No.

    Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation

    Or is it the wind?

    There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?

    And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ow ound round ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

    I wonder if it will be friends with me?

    And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

  7. Re:Praise for trying hard, not for success on Kids Praised for Being Smart are More Likely to Cheat (ucsd.edu) · · Score: 1

    You can lighten up, you are wrong.

    For example, your arguments:
    > Want to know how to be the best dancer in the room? Take one hour long class and hang out with people that haven't.
    > How to be the best educated in the room? Teach elementary school.

    So what ? Who would be satisfied with being surrounded by people that are totally incompetent ?
    People don't measure themselves like this. People care what their peers think, not somebody that had not had any dance classes.
    This is also how progress is made. Striving for more.. not hanging out with primary school kids, and being contempt that you're smarter than them.

    > When the Mayor is the most important person in the room, he wasn't invited to the Governor's Ball

    This is about numbers and percentages. Just because Governor is more important than Mayor, does not mean being a Mayor sucks or doesn't matter.
    Compare a guy that works at a car wash with your Mayor, or any joe average for that matter.

    > Winning isn't important. Trying your very best and demonstrating real skill is what's important.

    I hate this new age BS. Winning is important, as well as loosing.
    Winning and loosing makes you progress. It teaches you how to cope with emotions those two things involve, also teaches you what you good at and what not.

    Better to realize what you good at and bad at while you young, instead at your first job.
    To quote George Carlin:

    "In today's America, no child ever loses. There are no losers anymore. Everyone's a winner. No matter what the game or sport or competition, everybody wins. Everybody wins, everybody gets a trophy, no one is a loser. No child these days ever gets to hear those all-important, character building words: "You lost, Bobby!"

    "You lost, you're a loser, Bobby!" They miss out on that. You know what they tell a kid who lost these days? "You were the last winner." A lot of these kids never get to hear the truth about themselves until they're in their twenties. When their boss calls them in and says "Bobby, clean the shit out of your desk and get the fuck out of here, you're a loser."

  8. Re:even if no collusion on Facebook Shares Details Of Russia-Bought Ads With US Investigators (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    benjfowler, i don't mind you having opinions, or being brain washed... but what's terribly sad is that you got 2 +5 posts here.

    It either means there's a lot more sheep on slashdot than I previously thought, or you part of some pro-hillary organization that comments and then gives themselves + reviews through other accounts. I seriously hope it's the latter, because if it's the former... we all lost already.

  9. > When I type in a URL on my own LAN, I really *don't* to be feeding that URL into a search engine

    what does layout have to do with this ?

    you can have one input field for multiple things, and then discern among them in the code logic what needs to be done. Writing some.host.lan in the chrome address bar for eg, will not feed anything to the search engine. Writing "homemade pie recipe" will feed it into search engine.

    You what ?

  10. It's not electronics, It's YOU on How One Writer Is Battling Tech-Induced Attention Disorder (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    > "I blame electronics for my affliction,"

    This is the root of all problems. Blaming stuff around us. It's pizza, it's coca cola, it's the drugs, terrorists, electronic gadgets, alcohol, ..

    It's not the electronics, it's YOU. The same pattern can be seen with people that eat and drink a lot more than they should, drug addicts, etc.
    Meat, fat or carbs are not the problem.. sugar is fine, bread is fine, fat is fine, vodka is fine, beer is fine. Stuffing your face in it and abusing everything around you IS THE PROBLEM, why so difficult to understand this ?

    These people are addicted to consuming stuff... just constant desire for mental stimuli, lack of self control, twisted values. Blame yourself for that, and then do something about it.

  11. > If you're curious, I'm very politically left and not white. I'd hate to have you thinking I am a Nazi, or something.

    Well, you can be fascist or somewhere around there, if you were black, and on the left.
    Look at Antifa. I'm sure there are quite a few blacks there.

    But thanks for letting us know! Let's hope we don't see any white man carrying weapons!

  12. Re: Blade Runner - bad example? on What We Get Wrong About Technology (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    > was that they had PADDs not PADD.

    What if it was designed to hold only one particular data set at a time ?
    Like a book.

    Or maybe you could stuff a bunch of unrelated things on it, they just didn't do it because it was easier otherwise ?

    I mean, we could probably go on for 5 hours with these what ifs. Making a conclusion, why somebody hasn't done something, is not very productive.

  13. A saying on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    People made such a big deal out of this it's crazy. How much time and money gets spent on this topic.
    Everything in moderation.. is the saying.

    If you moderate and balance your intake of everything, you're good to go. Everything in life has balance, and stuffing yourself full of sugar, preservatives and various other crap (read: 0.5l can of coke and greasy pizza) every week is definitely not balance, why do we need science to tell us this ? Is this not common sense in the western world ?

    For eg. Eating a loaf of bread every day is not going to make you fat, or sick, if you have a balanced meal that consists of good quality meat, fat, vegetables and fruit + physical exercise. I'm mentioning this because people are vilifying carbs like they vilified fat before, and it's just dumb, it's not true at all.

    For example, South Eastern Europe. No meal goes in without eating bread, and i mean a lot of bread. Average 4 member family eats 2 kilo of bread per day. And not that sliced crap either people buy in the stores, that's loaded with all kind of preservatives to keep it fresh 'looking', but bread often homemade, or bought in bread stores 2 hours after it's made, 6 am in the morning, that you have to cut yourself. The crust keeps the air out so it keeps the freshness naturally, you cannot have it sliced unless you add ton of chemicals to it. If you want to see good looking people, go to SE Europe. One out of 50 people or less are fat, and obesity ? There's no even word for that.

    All I'm saying is, eat natural food (the closer to it's original form the better), eat balanced, eat a lot of vegetables and fruit after meals, and you'll be fine.
    Stuff yourself with fat, protein, sugar, bread, preservatives, or whatever, and you'll not be fine. Common, fucking, sense.

  14. Re:Officially Freaked Out on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they could identify texts from a pseudonym "Satoshi", who gives a fuck ? The point is not to link your "Satoshi" identity to your public profile, if you write normally using your public profile, but obfuscate a bit through your anonymous profile, this method would fail.

  15. Re:The great censoring has begun on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > And any valid potlical opinion 'people' might disagree with will be labeled 'extremist', 'alt-right', 'racist', 'inciting hatred', or simply 'nazi', and disappeared, no matter if it is actually true or not. And whoever controls the censors gets to decide what is true and what is not.

    It'll not work because every year more and more people are getting pissed off at those that label everything they disagree with as racist, alt right, nazi, etc, and there's already a number of them that you cannot ignore, and this number is growing.

    It grew to a point where these people elected president who's a bit of an idiot, out of spite. They say they believe in Trump, but in reality... they just really dislike political establishment, the left, CNN, Clinton's and their breed. More they call people nazis, more quasi anti-fascist groups like Antifa, or whiny racists like BLM that call everybody else racist (even black people that don't agree with them), more power they give to those they oppose.

    All attempts to quiet down, censor, and beat other people because their different opinions will eventually die.

  16. Re:None: I run my own home cloud server. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 2

    > For all of the reasons above, to my closest friends I recommend BOTH for data you would be really bummed out to lose. Keep the live copy, plus a backup at home on a hard drive, and a copy in Backblaze for when your house burns down. This is what I do, and it lets me sleep at night.

    I drink beer for that.

  17. Thank you, but no.

  18. Re:Black Lives Matter on No Cash For Hate, Say Mainstream Crowdfunding Firms (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    > In short growing up white you are allowed to make mistakes, if you are black the same mistake will affect you all your life.

    This is such bullshit it pisses me right off. It depends on the perspective and situation actually, and in some cases it's true and in some it's not, but just generalizing it like this "oh if you're black you're fucked" is stupid.
    I'm white, and compared to any Americans or western European I had it harder than you can even imagine, just by measuring opportunity factor, never mind 15 other things that I'm too lazy to mention. And what about Asians ?

    I'm pretty sure that black person coming from a reasonably well of family, surrounded by others who are also well of, are NOT randomly targeted by police. I'm pretty sure that black students on Harvard are not being targeted randomly and harassed by police, and I'm sure that black people in high income (read upper middle class) areas are not randomly targeted.

    The 2 black dudes that this all started with were thugs. Try being a police man if you don't know if a 12 year old kid has a gun in his underpants, and this is what you wake up to every morning. I'm not justifying killing innocent people, I'm saying nothing is 2 dimensional like it appears on the surface.. and saying "black people have less chance to screw up" is 2dimensional.

    I would give my left nut to be born and raised in country like US, a country that gave an opportunity to everybody. Educated black people will say the same thing, the punks and thugs and people that have no idea what the fuck they're doing are going to protest and whine and bitch about, in this case, skin color, because they're losers, not because they're black. #BLM

    You bitch and whine all you want, and in the meantime all those immigrants from all over the world will be coming over there, working hard and taking opportunities country like US gives to all, and make something out of their lives. What privileges do you think they have ?

    (South) Eastern Europeans are white too. You have no idea what kind of lives they had and what "privileges" they didn't have.

  19. > Mostly they didn't, so I sat at the computer and played games. You probably think that sounds fun, but believe me, it wasn't.

    Maybe not if you dislike games or by games you mean Minesweaper. I like games and disconnecting from reality... I would give my left nut away to be able to play games like that. There's so many things that one can do if he didn't need to sit in an office 9 to 5, or in my case, 8 to 5.

  20. Re:Comparison on A US Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > Feminism is the 'radical' idea that men and women should be treated equally.

    It was. Long time ago... now it mutated to something very rotten.

  21. Re:Training for poor visability in an urban center on A US Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as we're playing a guessing game, I say something like this:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Just wait 20 years for it to be added to the list.

  22. Re:What's what!? on UK Security Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Outbreak Arrested in US (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    > When agencies get this far out of control, it's time to shut them down.

    Right. They haven't even started yet.
    What you going to do, write a letter ?

  23. Re:Give us back Firefox then on Inside Mozilla's Fight To Make Firefox Relevant Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.palemoon.org/
    actually.

    Palemoon.com just shooted me back in time showing a webpage that looks like it's 1998, about robert plant and jimmy page.

    What was & What will be.

  24. Re: Wikileaks, the ultimate MASTER of leaked data on WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Tool For Hacking Webcams, Microphones (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Title is ironic.
    The parent post treats wikileaks as a ultimate, exclusive holders of all spy knowledge in the world, like it was given to them same god teleported stone plates to Moses while nobody was looking, or whatever.

    So wikileaks is now sitting on all that data given by god and other supernatural forces, and choosing not to publish FSB capabilities of hacking cameras and other crap.

    Are you fucking kidding me right now ?

    If there were documents floating around about FSB hacking cameras (as I'm sure they do), they would be published if not by wikileaks then by somebody else.
    What, is EVERYBODY on Putin's payroll trying to destroy America ? Are you that brainwashed ?

    In reality, nobody outside of US gives a fuck about US.. it's the US that's pushing their dick in everybody elses business all the time.. talk about meddling in other countries election.

  25. Seeing how all the latest reviews for skype are 1, there was even a news article about it .. can it be buried ?
    MS don't listen to its users, but maybe they might if they don't appear in search results anymore.

    Wishful thinking, i know