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  1. profits before the environment on Google Raises Campaign Funds For Climate Change Denier · · Score: 1

    What google means is this republican gets a hard-on for big business and will help their bottom line so they're willing to put their supposed beliefs to the side because what good is a clean environment if they're sitting on an even bigger pile of cash.

  2. Re: Whatever on PC Sales See 'Longest Decline' In History · · Score: 1

    They're not and not because of tablets but because there's no reason to upgrade. For what most people do even 6 year old machines are fine. PC manufacturers for the most part are offering the same thing they've been offering for decades minus the CPU upgrade. If they'd at least go the apple route and find new features then maybe people would find a reason to update their PC. Tablets are still new so most people don't have one so naturally they'll have stronger sales with less effort.

  3. I'm sticking with discs on How DRM Won · · Score: 1

    With CDs and DVDs / blu-ray discs I can rip my own formats, I get to keep it and between UV and amazon I can get "free" streaming versions of most of my films and music anyway.

    It shouldn't be a case that the new way is worse than the old way of doing things but that's the case, imo.

  4. Re:Version numbering on Google Updates Maps, Makes First Stable Chrome Release Using WebKit Fork · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google fanboys populate this place. Or as they're known elsewhere, NSA agents.

  5. Re:Hello from my iPhone... on Google Updates Maps, Makes First Stable Chrome Release Using WebKit Fork · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How quaint, someone still think Google maps is good. I use Here Maps. It's less likely all my usage is being sent to the NSA that way.

  6. Re: Who you gonna call? on Ask Slashdot: Node.js vs. JEE/C/C++/.NET In the Enterprise? · · Score: 2

    You're talking shit. Java beats node in all the testing I've seen and yes the package repo for node has tons of libs and a lot of them are grade-a shit. JS is very popular with newbs so it suffers the same problem as jQuery plugins or PHP in that quality varies a lot.

  7. Re: Britain's information watchdog?? on European Watchdogs Challenge Google Over Its Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    While GCHQ's spying isn't good at all they are part of the government and not a corporation which means they generally get to do more just as they can start a war and Google cannot. I know fanboys think the world of their favourite brands but they need to be punished when they do wrong.

  8. Re: It's not age discrimination on Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 · · Score: 1

    But the guy 2 years from retirement might say screw it and take the lower pay. If he's not sorted his life out yet 2 years won't make a difference so why be fussy?

  9. Re:NEWS FLASH on The Price of Amazon · · Score: 2

    Keep telling yourself that but that's not true. No one has a better life by being unemployed or even under-employed and given that the country's ratings in education, quality of life, health, etc says that shafting the working class isn't benefiting them.

    Also, Amazon doesn't simply have one warehouse nor do they deliver just to you door. They too distribute goods through hundreds if not thousands of locations by having numerous warehouses and taking deliveries to Amazon Lockers Collect+ stores. Why? It turns out that not everyone lives in their mom's basement and online only delivery isn't the be all and end all method of delivery and it happens that distributing goods through many locations works better for a lot of people. The only difference is by having only one company from end-to-end, helps drives wages down and there's no way around it, you simply can't buy as many things when you have less money. It doesn't really help that plastic buckets and other cheap tat are dirt cheap thanks to Chinese labor.

  10. Re:My opinion shifted also on According To YouGov Poll, Snowden Support Declining Among Americans · · Score: 1
    Even if you want to accept that it's acceptable to spy on you allies, the US has used in in the past for an economic advantage. http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm and that's quite likely why Germany is so high up on the list of places to spy on. That's the same sort of thing the US cries about China doing and have declared that it's an act of war.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/31/hacking_as_act_of_war/

    According to NBC News, not every attack would lead to military retaliation. To qualify, hacks would have to be carry the same kinds of threats to American lives, commerce, or infrastructure as traditional military attacks. And even then, because it's often impossible to detect the true origins of so-called cyber attacks, commanders would have to present indisputable evidence that a particular country was behind a specific incident.

    So whether or not the US was spying in the Revolutionary War era or not (which I'm not denying btw) they've made it clear that damaging their economy with computer activity is an act of war while at the same time most likely doing the same thing. if anything the EU should hold such things to the same high standard as the US and thoroughly investigate it and if they are, yet again, stealing industrial secrets then punish the US. Perhaps not in the same aggressive way the US punishes countries (drone bombing their children) but something. That's what happens when you get caught doing something wrong. This also covers US companies who most definitely operating in the EU and must follow our laws. If they haven't then they too need to be punished.

  11. Re:NEWS FLASH on The Price of Amazon · · Score: 1

    Wal-Mart driving prices way down worked out really well for the US. I'm sure Amazon doing it on a larger scale will fix that. The growing wealth gap and growing unemployment in the US will just disappear.

  12. Re:My opinion shifted also on According To YouGov Poll, Snowden Support Declining Among Americans · · Score: 1

    I think what you mean is you don't want to hear that your government has become something evil that it used to fight against.

  13. Re:A Hero on According To YouGov Poll, Snowden Support Declining Among Americans · · Score: 1

    But you might get a free trip to gitmo.

  14. Two problems on According To YouGov Poll, Snowden Support Declining Among Americans · · Score: 2

    The media is a PR machine for the government and big business so Snowden can't get a fair shake in the news (at least in the US). A lot of Americans can't grasp the idea that someone might want to live outside of the US. Hearing this guy might end up living in places like Russia, Venezuela and Nicaragua will make people think he must be evil because those are evil places full of evil people.

    Too many Americans are nationalistic and not patriotic. They love the shit the government shovels them.

  15. Re:le sigh on Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 · · Score: 1

    It is for the most part but Silicon Valley wants you to think no one else does programming or hardware.

    Apparently they're the best but they can't afford to pay people good wages or get their work on in an 8 hour day. Despite their awesome intelligence even poor white boys are getting too expensive and they're begging the government to let them import more indentured servants.

    I think generally people outside of Silicon Valley do a better job. Silicon Valley just has all the hype which means they have more money.

  16. Re:29 year olds with 15 years experience on Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 · · Score: 1

    That sounds like very junior role.

  17. Re:It's not age discrimination on Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 · · Score: 1

    That would be age discrimination.

  18. Re:29 years old on Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 · · Score: 1

    It's not even half way through you life so yes it is.

  19. Re:look at the Guardian photo on NSA Recruitment Drive Goes Horribly Wrong · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand what he's getting at. If you think he's implying Dubya 2.0 is on the same as Snowden then you're wrong.

  20. Re: If a King rules a Kingdom, on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 1

    You missed the joke.

  21. The EU must punish the US on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 2

    Seems to me with the amount of spying that they're doing with Germany they're doing just what they claimed the Chinese do and that's steal secrets to give their economy an advantage. The US thinks the Chinese doing it is an act of war so surely this is and the US should abide by their own standards so the trade deal should be called off, they should boot US troops out of Europe and make Obama apologise publicly for America's nazi-like spying regine.

    The European economy isn't strong enough to be having Americans cheat in business.

    It's not like this wouldn't be the first time the US has done this: http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm (section 10.7) and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enercon#Industriespionage:_Der_Fall_Kenetech_Windpower_Inc.

    Oh and this was entertaining: https://soundcloud.com/madiha-1/students-question-the-nsa-at

  22. Re:Let me get this right on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 2

    You act as if the UK wants to be part of the EU. They're too busy trying to suck up to US which is why it turns out it was the UK that was helping the US run a spying scheme that would make the nazis jizz their pants with jealousy.

  23. android, lol on Anti-Government Hackers Hit Jay-Z's Android App · · Score: 0

    Seems like it's about every week now we're hearing about Android vulnerabilities. Google shouldn't make open systems if they're incapable of securing them. That or they're trying to making something more busted than Windows.

  24. Re:Pre-4Q 2012 iPT won't get gamepads on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 1

    I don't know but it can't be that bad given indies are doing it. Go ahead and ask this guy: http://devbertil.blogspot.co.uk/ and I would suggest getting his game Gunman Clive. It'll control better on the 3DS than iOS so I'd suggest that version.

  25. Re:Pre-4Q 2012 iPT won't get gamepads on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 1

    Yeah because carrying an ipad / ipod and a game controller around is less awkward than having a nice compact 3DS.