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  1. Re:Subverted from the inside on Former Mozilla CTO: 'Chrome Won' (andreasgal.com) · · Score: 1

    Firefox on several windows pcs and laptops is great. NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere, Ghostery, Self Destructing Cookies, VideoDownloadHelper, Youtube Video and Audio Download Helper, User Agent Switcher, Colorful Tabs, Perspectives, Password Exporter, browser sync. There are 12 reasons why I cannot even be bothered to try Chrome or anything else other than Firefox. And all the anti-malware measures mean that I barely ever see advertising either which cannot be bad. Note that I download lectures from YouTube to watch off-grid and not for music by well known pop combos M'lord. The current version of Firefox seems as fast as any web browser has ever been except back in the day before CSS and all the other shit. Smartphones and tablets are for purchasing things and watching cat videos, not for browsing the internet for information; so who cares what browser they use.

  2. Re: In other news... on Manchester Attack Could Lead To Internet Crackdown (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Sadly the ability to monitor all of a persons communications would probably have caught this piece of shit if all of his communications had been monitored. What the Snoopers Charter is disliked for is its envisaged use by general policing and low level bureaucrats in a wide range of government departments. This will obviously lead to widespread criminalization of the population, we will need double the number of jails to hold all the people this will ensnare. Catching terrorists is already a fairly low priority given that we have 3000 people on the watch list - including this bomber and no one actually watching. The boundless opportunities for promotion by catching people who say rude things on chat forums will exceed the anti terror activities by several orders of magnitude. This government are indeed self interested and useless as the alt-right complain. The Snoopers Charter is unlikely to actually catch terrorists unless an appropriate many thousand increase in the number of spies is done. Or of course you could let the local cops fit up people they don't like as terrorists.

  3. Re:Bad reason on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 1

    I completely agree that RSS is great. If you hotness fans want to use JSON you'd best not break gPodder and the rest of the non Apple iTunes RSS podcast feed world or I will hunt you down and shove your keyboard up your nose. Thank you for your attention!

  4. Re:What does this have to do with science? on 'Science Must Clean Up Its Act' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Adults should also recognize that politics has changed. With the advent of the echo chamber of social media, politics has become religion. It used to be that you could look at a political party and from time to time switch allegiance to another on the basis of the policies seeming more appropriate to the time. This is no longer possible because political party's have become sports teams with a religion to follow. The policies of the competing parties are in any case almost indistinguishable except for details about identity politics. Science used to provide factual ammunition for political parties and their policies. But religion needs no facts, it needs only faith and science has become irrelevant to politics.

  5. Re: See slashdot he's not so bad... on Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That is the bit they will use to justify sending him off to the US for execution. They will say that he wasted millions of tax payers money and that is why he is being sent off to face the death sentence. The tabloid newspapers will publish anything you like if the owners agree and the people believe any old shit they are told.

  6. Re: See slashdot he's not so bad... on Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Who says that the UK are not going to extradite him to the USA? After all if he steps out of the embassy he will still be arrested for breaking bail and seeking refuge.

    It looks like Theresa May the coming UK Conservative Prime Minister will be the one to hand him over to Jeff Sessions for execution.

  7. Re:The independent is bollocks on UK Conservatives Pledge To Create Government-Controlled Internet (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Independent is doing it's job well. I often read two adjacent articles from both sides of the political spectrum which strongly disagree with each other. The fault I am afraid is in your psychology, you are a fanatic - just like ISIS or any other crackpot you cannot allow anyone to have a different viewpoint from you. So make your point that you think this is a trivial item in the manifesto but don't be an idiot and claim that an alternative view is fake news. That just makes you look stupid.

  8. Re:It's a JOB stupid! on UK Conservatives Pledge To Create Government-Controlled Internet (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The last time I looked the Democrats were still some way to the right of the Conservative party (who still say they support single payer healthcare). Bernie Sanders is where our old neo-liberal Labour party used to be under Tony Blair. Trump is a far right demagogue who threatens concentration camps for minorities, unregulated environmental disaster and tax cuts for the super rich.

  9. Re:Congratulations.. on UK Conservatives Pledge To Create Government-Controlled Internet (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Liberal Democrats?

  10. Re:UK - 1984 - a surveillance state's wet dream. on UK Conservatives Pledge To Create Government-Controlled Internet (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The European customs union is the only thing protecting you from baby formula with melamine in it pal. Enjoy your freedom to consume poison in future.

  11. Re:UK - 1984 - a surveillance state's wet dream. on UK Conservatives Pledge To Create Government-Controlled Internet (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Brexit is all about being fooled by alt-right propaganda about "Muslim pedophiles" "Unelected European bureaucrats making the laws about bendy bananas" "taking back control" "Health service tourism" "Immigrants on benefits". Basically pal you have been taken for a ride by overseas Billionaires like Robert Mercer who see a future for you as their wage slave in a deregulated economy. Push the right buttons and your ignorance and per-disposition to see the worst in people did the rest. Enjoy your slavery you fool.

  12. Re:isn't the internet Gov controlled now? on UK Conservatives Pledge To Create Government-Controlled Internet (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good points. Not only that but the right wing Conservative party have seen an opportunity through the Brexit process for a land grab of unimaginable proportions. The policies they have put in their manifesto will take them forward a quarter of a century on the path to oppression in a single election. This is a disaster of epic proportions because no party once in power has ever stepped away from the levers of power once acquired. So all this shit is here to stay even if they get voted out in the future. Given the strength of the position they are giving themselves on big data I doubt they will leave power for the next quarter century either. This is the biggest political disaster in my lifetime, the end of politics; total corruption.

    The UK will indeed be leading the world, leading the world with a right-wing big-government totalitarian hell hole.

  13. And so the end of the supremacy of the United States of America begins. Long live the USA!

    Fortunately for the history of the world the Chinese do not have a problem keeping scientific progress separate from politics and they will soon be bearing the standard forward.

  14. Re:sick if the nonsense on Did A Billionaire Harvest Big Data From Facebook To 'Hijack' Democracy? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    anybody else sick to the back teeth of listening to anonymous cowards claiming that there are these tinfoil hat conspiracy theories from people with far left views?

  15. Read my signature

  16. The issue is whether we support their application to allow the rules to be changed so that they can make loads of money from making new "pitchforks". The question is not whether making "pitchforks" is a good thing. The question is whether we approve of the ISP's using the "pitchforks" for pitchforking babies - which is their most likely use.

  17. Re: Isn't it obvious? on 'Weaponized' Twitter Bots Spread Info From French Campaign Hack (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the employee is often caught and fired as you say but the boss is not. The wealthy and the powerful often seem to operate above the laws the rest of us live under.

  18. Electronics 1981 Algol W, though I wish I had been taught C as well. Electronic Engineering learned Fortran. It was all done on punched cards at the time, though you could get hold of a terminal and play Colossal Cave if you hid from security at midnight.

  19. As of this posting I cannot find
    Globalist, Soros, NWO, MSM, Islam, Cuck, Antifa, MAGA, Zionist, Jews, ((())), kek, Pepe, gay frog, Bankster, WWIII, Feminazi
    I can find
    Elites, Trump, Obummer. Liberal, Policy, Banks

    On the basis of this information I conclude that there are more intelligent people on Slashdot than on most internet forums. Though if I had wanted a floating box docked to the top right of the screen obscuring what I was reading I would have fcuking asked for it.

  20. Re:You couldn't pay me on Microsoft's Rumored CloudBook Could Be Your Next Cheap Computer (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not use any kind of "App" currently and never will use one on any screen bigger than a mobile phone if I can help it. No I do not currently have a mobile. It is not just the oversharing of your personal data with corporations monetizing your ass off. The worst problem is that Apps are designed to transition to become services with a renewable rental fee. I remember when telephone exchanges and televisions were rented to their users and the fantastic profits it made for their vendors. I use software that is decades old and only paid once for it, I won't give that up lightly.

  21. Old School : Darkstar on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 2

    Has to be Darkstar, John Carpenters directorial debut, co written with O'Bannon. It is notable not least for the reuse of the alien beach ball as the star of Alien some six years later. Darkstar is possibly the best $60,000 ever spent on a movie. If you do not tell anyone else I can let on that it can be found on YouTube in a fairly low resolution. Absolute classic and funny as hell. Star Wars is of course Cowboys and Indians in space for twelve year olds.

  22. Micro-Professor MPF-I on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    In 1981 I bought a Micro-Professor MPF-I which was a development board designed to teach the fundamentals of machine code and assembly language on a Zilog Z80 microprocessor. About the most interesting thing ever done with it was to light a series of LED in sequence out of a parallel port interface. Wikipedia has a page on it, apparently it was still available in the early 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Later I bought an Atari ST 520M and got as far as opening a window using a C compiler. The ST did make a good Midi sequencer though having a built in port for it. After that it has been IBM PC's all the way.

  23. Re:People have been lying on the internet for 30 y on Facebook Targets 30,000 Fake France Accounts Before Election (go.com) · · Score: 0

    I hate to break it to you but the elites of which you speak own alternative media. Billionaires and their fellow travelers cannot buy the output of CNN but they can buy as many shill accounts and alt-right blogs as they like. It is pretty good money too I can tell you losers. Facebook is run by a vaguely leftist idealistic collage graduate and the sooner we kill off his network the sooner we can get that police state that keeps the scummy poor where they belong.

  24. Well you are certainly fucking up the global elites there big boy. I don't think Disney world Florida will be doing much business in future when the tourists can't get there anymore. Perhaps we should be vetting Americans - so many of them seem to be alt-right gun nuts it is hard to tell whether they are safe. Realistically the terrorists have won, a nationalist president has gone nuclear over fucking over foreigners for votes. The free world has started to look like that dystopian police state future that American movies have been previewing for years. Call yourselves the leaders of the free world, ha, more like an evil empire. Fortunately there is plenty going on in the rest of the world, this being the Far Eastern century for a start.

  25. Re:Yet another shitty April Fools Day. on Y Combinator-Funded Startup To Do Quantum Computing -- Only Better (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 1

    I am looking at the orange banner and thinking 'I have a virus infection'. Ha bloody ha. I expect my sense of humor will recover.