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  1. Oh on Xbox One Update Adds Cortana (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    how exiting, I am thoroughly thrilled...

  2. Re:Easy on Working at Facebook Sounds Like Joining a Cult (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Some run for President...

    Or become dictators, charlatans - but as always, it needs two to tangle, one cannot exist without the other.

    Monkeys get away with cheating within their community , all seems to be an old old habit.

  3. Easy on Working at Facebook Sounds Like Joining a Cult (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sociopaths manipulate in various ways:

    intimidation, anger, suppression, force, charming, acting emphatically.

    Many are admired or shunned and often failed to be recognized as such.

     

  4. Re:Thank God! on New Swiss Robot Assists Travelers with Luggage (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Perish the thought that we could not have the full "airport experience". I'm so glad that carrying my bags doesn't distract me anymore from being fondled and molested and standing in queue for 3+ hours, an "experience" like no others.

    I'm SO grateful that someone finally took care of the REAL problems we have at airports!

    Needs more work...

    If you watched the video: https://www.sita.aero/innovati...
    and imagine hundreds or thousands of those boxes "avoiding" = standing still when people are in front, how those boxes are progressing in an airport?environment.

    Security is definitely an issue - never leave your suitcase alone out of your control - hack this robot and fill it up....

    Avoiding lines is tempting, probably there will be a price tag on this service, yet another human class distinction...

  5. gotta take an umbrella, some stick or a fly swatter with you when you go there and the things are flirring around to hit them if they come too close.

    Also, how would they count tightly stacked small boxes in rows of 1' deep shelfs?

    Wmart saving even more on sub-living hourly wages using retirees on medicare shaving off some bucks and loading it on the general population.

    Yeah! Capitalism is better than Socialism (not my statement, but another guy's who was unable to define what those terms mean and where pure forms exist successfully)

  6. So on Linux Kernel 4.6.1 Released; Some Users Report Boot Issue · · Score: 1

    if your system is hosed, what do you do?
    Screenshot at Ubuntu is great proof, seen this stuff before, but does it help?

    Do you have a FS backup to go back before the upgrade and how long did it take you to do the FS backup + restore the IM backups you took?
    Honesty !
    Maybe you can to into Grub cl and do it, but if your system is under LiLo because your HW can't take grub - go RIP with disk and try it from there - figure out the cl...

    Good luck with it hope it does not take you 1/2 night or day to get it worked out.
    Yukk!

  7. and pollute the current globe even more by bringing the equipment up and down.
    Total fantasy, not sure what the guy is smoking, sure want nothing from it!
    Maybe he is loosing it...

  8. Re:That's a known issue on 'Huge Wake Up Call': Third of Central, Northern Great Barrier Reef Corals Dead (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    ... correctly diagnose/attribute causes.

    See how far you are behind the curve, not even close - go pray to your spaghetti-monster or whatever it is you have....

  9. Re:That's a known issue on 'Huge Wake Up Call': Third of Central, Northern Great Barrier Reef Corals Dead (smh.com.au) · · Score: 0

    Rushing off and blaming every adverse environmental outcome on climate change is in itself a religious belief system.

    All sorts of stressors on environment such as polluation from agricultural/catchment runoff. Land surface temp increase of around 0.7c over last 60 years or so + recent El Nino, may or many not be a contributor but no shortage of people falling over each other to lay blame principally at the feet of AGW

    Ah - AGW - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - take your pick.

    Everything is illusion since it's based on your "instrument" - body/mind system and there is always a "computational" delay by the time the sensory impulse goes through your filters and reaches your response circuits.

    Other than that, nothing in your post answers or solves the issues - just mind-fuck, it is.

  10. That's a known issue on 'Huge Wake Up Call': Third of Central, Northern Great Barrier Reef Corals Dead (smh.com.au) · · Score: 2, Informative

    So:

    - why is it happening?
    - why are the individuals/groups pulling the strings and the press allowing this to happen without yelling and screaming?
    (are the "protesters" considered lunatics?)
    Maybe dreamland: nothing happens to us, we can afford it... elysium-style
    Or - afraid of taking risks to go outside the "normal", loosing the comfort zone
    - does not concern me
    - too busy making ends meet ...

    It's really bad - one just can wonder what's causing it in human brains to let this happen.
    I recently met a guy: global warming does not exist and a huge waterfall of words arguing for why this is the case, impossible to even touch the subject - extremely determined.
    I just classify it as religious believe system - no real proof, continuous repetition burns the PROM and it runs forever, if you touch it, it may explode.

  11. Isn't this corporates attorney cool-aid barf she gets paid for?
    As I get this, API - application interface - like the front end, how to talk to an set of functionality of a software package, not the guts behind doing the actual work, such as in Unix/Xenix/Linux commandline/sh/ksh/csh, library definitions, awk,samba and what else there is on GPL goodies around for decades.
    And getting this Oracle case decided in Oracle's greedy bosses sick mind's favor, all this would be in jeopardy.
    Quite the opposite of this truth-talk barfing attorney lady.

    Unknown concept for those dorks:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

  12. Looks like on Facebook Begins Tracking Non-Users Around the Internet (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    we need an automatic cookie vacuum cleaner running every 30 seconds....

  13. Re:Come on... on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    >Interesting the timings of those - does no harm - reports coming out - Glyphosate is due for renewal in the EU in July (or so).

    This is completely missing the point. In March 2015 the IARC (Internation Agency for Research on Cancer) reclassified Glyphosate as "probably causes cancer in humans". Ever since then there has been a constant bombardment of pro-GMO and anti-anti-GMO articles popping up.

    You are not up-to-date on this, that's not just "an article" of "many" going for and against :

    https://translate.google.com/t...

    The 18-member working group called Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues, short JMPR had met from 9 to 13 on May WHO headquarters in Geneva. The experts took this no own experiments, but evaluated from available data.

    The results are in a six-page summary to find the meeting. They confirm the core an earlier assessment of the European Food Safety Authority food safety (EFSA). Here one came last November also concluded: A carcinogenic effect is unlikely if the agent is applied as intended. The decisive factor was an assessment of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, because Germany is the rapporteur responsible for Community inspection and evaluation of the plant protection product.

    States: No risk for consumers based not on their own research but by evaluating existing data. And that's pretty close to the cut-off date on end of June this year.

    Nightingale, ick hear you trapsen ...

    http://www.marketwatch.com/inv...

  14. Come on... on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Glyphosate, a consequence of GMO modified crops is in people's urine and mothers milk, worst of all in BEER!!!!
    And it has "probably" no effect on human's health, not even thinking about the whole soup of endocrine disruptors messing up our bodies or the compound effect of all the goodies additions feeding us so well taken together.

    Interesting the timings of those - does no harm - reports coming out - Glyphosate is due for renewal in the EU in July (or so).
    When was this trans-fat goodie discovered and put to use? 1800's, right and how long did it take to show adverse effects recognized and get it shut down?

    Building blocks of DNA (what they are using to spice the crop's DNA is probably a secret) are swapped between organisms and that process is far from fully researched.

    Round-Up-Ready DNA is taken in by weeds and yoii, are they putting it to use. Next is stronger and more complex poisons...

    The underlying issues - profit and growth the only criteria, unlimited population growth in a limited environment is too hot a potato to be touched by a politician dependent on "sponsors", if it's even recognized by those conditioned brains convinced that all is OK, gods will or things are just not true...

    All-together, just one big Yuck! Fish are dying - can't breath any more.... no more "thanks for all the fish"...

  15. "Free" service? No, sucking on you and making a buck on it, that what it boils down to.
    When they came out, I studied their terms of use, did not like it at all, skipped it and never looked back.
    Every now and then, there are news about this service that this is not right, that is fishy etc., so why bother at all?
    The essence of this is rotten, anyone else may enjoy it, not my game, got nicer things to do.....

  16. Aren't the venerable institutions of hospitals, insurances, lenders, CC companies, credit reporting serrvices, all asking for your crown jewel - SS# - or parts thereof and the bribed lawmakers allowing one unique key assigned to every person in the US used to index every fart one is doing the very cause of distrust? Try asking one of those mega $ corporations to please give me a dump of what personal data you store about me and see what respone you get - NIL! One needs to hire and pay a lawyer to make any impact at all.

  17. Guess you don't want to be in a room when this US energy transfer happens and your dog will cringe up and escape into the furthest corner in the room wishing to die.

  18. So what is the human labor doing without the 120-something $ Billions do and who gets it?

    I always like those numbers, it costs $ xxx amount or xxx $ wasted, xxx $ budget overrun etc., the other side, who benefits is never mentioned.

  19. Do I like Amazon? on Amazon Goes After YouTube With New Online Video Posting Service (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    NO

  20. more people come to their senses and won't buy the latest and greatest hyped up machinery when the current one still works or are ad-blockers the cause ;-)

  21. Won't help on Solar Planes Aren't the Green Future Of Air Travel (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    to increase efficiency of solar cells - Sun radiation is not increasing, pretty much constant, I would say. Probably need a football-field size surface constant to generate enough oompf to compare to kerosene-propelled turbines.

    Generating fuel from solar/wind/water and propel airplane traffic will probably show the discrepancy between necessity and actual use - no one will even touch restricting air traffic, so....

    Compared fuel efficiency/use per person from airplanes to cars, airplanes are winners, hands down, but looking at the distances traveled, it looks bad.

    Interesting though, how the consumption has gone down and the difference between domestic and international, but that's US carriers only, whole world would be interesting...

    http://www.transtats.bts.gov/f...

     

  22. Depending on your religious or whatever other believe-system-ROM, if you can switch that off for a couple of ms and estimate the number of known Super-Clusters, maybe 10 millions, multiply by the number of galaxies there, maybe 100 or so, then multiply by the number of suns/galaxy, couple of billions then you get probably a register overflow or crash.

    Anyway, the number is /void/, and chances that the conditions for organisms with DNA or some other mechanism can develop 100 %.

    So, who cares except the strictly on believe-system-ROM running machines around here... get an upgrade, will you!

  23. It's a democracy, right?
    The majority wins, even if they later on have to say autsch!, it hurts.
    That's how things work. There are many examples in history where the majority was all excited about a person and full of hope and the shining luminary ran the cart in the ditch big time.
    We'll see what happens.

    There was a saying, that the lower consciousness cannot recognize the higher, only the reverse works....
    Maybe democracy isn't fitting this scheme.

  24. Re:One thing seems to be true on Greenpeace Leaks Big Part Of Secret TTIP Documents (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It also keeps outside parties from manipulating the process, excluded parties from starting wars, and profiteers from engaging in insider trading.

    Wow, you are just great! Who do you think the "insiders" with the TIPP were and which interests they were pursuing?
    Sure the folks running after the democratic principle "by the people, for the people" and representing the interest of the majority of simple folks.

    The secrecy about this thing and the procedures implemented with it was and still is nauseating - nevertheless, your statements about this topic is very entertaining, causing amusement.

    Oh, and the so-called "Precautionary Principle" is utter nonsense rooted in a logical absurdity - proving non-existence.

    Another hogwash here, well known toxins and tests for it harming people and animals exist and if followed through, harmful agents can be detected, endocrine disruptors neonicotines, antibiotics to animals not to prevent disease but to make them grow faster etc.
    Looks to me that those "influences" raising sound arguments against practices causing harm are undesired in certain committees.

    "This causes harm" is an easily proven and verified statement. "This does not cause harm" is unprovable, and more often than not, un-verifiable.

    Well, mind-fuck here again... that's a total non-issue.

  25. One thing seems to be true on Greenpeace Leaks Big Part Of Secret TTIP Documents (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the US, questionable items, like GMO, fracking, meds, hormons of various kinds etc. are allowed until proven harmful by scientific methods. In EU, questionable items are generally not allowed unless proven harmless by scientific methods (probably not quite true looking at the radioactive waste disposal issue - surely harmful to some extent - has not been resolved there).

    So, who is the test animal?

    Can be gotten from there: https://www.ttip-leaks.org/

    Seems to be only a small part - couple of 100 pages of several thousand, as the whole secrete pile apparently is.
    Why is it secret? Because it is dirty!