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  1. Re:Hmmm ... on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 1

    I see what you did there.

  2. Re:How about paying taxes first. on Judge Approves $450M Settlement For Apple's Ebook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    I know exactly what I'm talking about, you seem to have some wires crossed.

  3. Re: Predatory? on Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal · · Score: 1

    oh, update: Gloria and Chiwar have been deported.

  4. Good news for HST and others in LEO on NASA To Deploy Four Spacecraft To Study Magnetic Reconnection · · Score: 1

    ...this means further study can be carried out on the South Atlantic Anomaly which is a continuing risk to pretty much anything which crosses its boundaries (which Hubble and the ISS do an average of 3 times a day each)

  5. Re: Predatory? on Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal · · Score: 1

    the family had moved to England for the children to go to school, the parents are both church Ministers (Gloria and Chiwar Musa). LBH, as pretty standard these days, viewed two adults entering the country with six children on shared passports as not normal (I'm thinking why?? Usually when they abduct children they put them down as unaccompanied asylum seeking children - which means THEY DO NOT HAVE PASSPORTS. How easy would it be then to make a child in that situation disappear? Answer: VERY). They fabricated evidence, including claims that the mother was administering drugs to the younger children, in the face of hair test evidence from St. Thomas' *and* Great Ormond Street that showed the contrary (ignored by the judge as was the DNA evidence from GOSH), they then (LBH and GOSH) fabricated psychological reports (none of the family were seen by psychologists yet the parents were labeled as MSbP/FII (a long debunked shot of pseudoscientific bullshit)), and to top that off the entire case was closed-door, in camera and sealed under a D Notice. Including the juryless criminal tribunal that saw Gloria and Chiwar imprisoned on trumped up charges not of sex trafficking but of drugging their children (which had already been proven to be completely and utterly untrue) with the extra bit at sentencing that on release they were to be immediately deported (as in put on the first aircraft out of the country, no arguments).

    Fuck public interest immunity, this shitty behaviour by the judiciary and by local authorities needs to be exposed.

  6. Re:How about paying taxes first. on Judge Approves $450M Settlement For Apple's Ebook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    not unless you're claiming that Uruguay is a Member of the Federated States of America.

  7. Re:This issue makes smart people go dumb. on Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting · · Score: 1

    mod up. I'm a Gen Xer and have felt the same way for years. I just can't relate to people in general because my priorities transcend the trivial whereas they're already busy shopping for next eksmas and raving/bitching about the latest iCrap.

    Fuck 'em all.

  8. Re:Flip Argument on Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting · · Score: 1

    tell that to someone with a femoral injury.

  9. Re:Flip Argument on Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting · · Score: 3, Interesting

    12 shots, 12 hits to the torso.

    A thoroughy justifiable shoot.

    Not.

  10. war were declared on Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting · · Score: -1, Troll

    which is why America now burns.

    You sowed the seeds of death, now reap the whirlwind.

  11. Re: Predatory? on Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal · · Score: 1

    I live in England, you twat.

  12. Re: Predatory? on Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal · · Score: 1

    there are 114 countries affected by the research. All 114 Embassies have been made aware of the situation. To date 27 have gotten back to me through personal communications, and so far a grand total of three have stated their intent to bring a case against the British Government through their spokesperson (who will be whoever occupies the centre seat) in the ICC. Those three being Italy, Slovakia and Nigeria.

    Incidentally, London Borough of Haringey have refused to answer the FOI even now, though they have publicly denied having abducted any children, I have first hand witness (me) who can tell you that that is exactly what they have done to the seven children of one family after fraudulently claiming that the parents weren't the biological parents and that they had entered the UK with the intent to sell the children to the sex trade - which was accepted by the judge even in the face of conclusive DNA marker evidence which proved with practically zero margin for error that all seven children were not only biologically the woman's, they were also all biologically the man's. Three of those children have disappeared, one of whom has actually disappeared without trace within hours of her birth, for four years (on the British mainland and last seen in the company of four social workers and six armed police officers in a hospital maternity unit) and counting.

    By the way, AC: the information is a matter of public record since the raw data was gathered by way of Freedom of Information enquiries (which would have been made clear to you had you actually bothered to read the report instead of picking grammatical errors, you probably wouldn't even realise that Mr. Randle-Jolliffe is dyslexic had I not just told you) via the whatdotheyknow website as specified in the report.

  13. Re:I mean this respectfully on Samsung Seeking To Block Nvidia Chips From US Market · · Score: 1

    is theft from a thief still theft?

    Sharp stole LCD technology from a chemistry professor at Hull University and beat them to the patent office claiming it as their own - AFTER he published papers describing the technology. http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science...

  14. Re:How about paying taxes first. on Judge Approves $450M Settlement For Apple's Ebook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    or make a simple rule: if you have ANY commercial presence in a country, YOU PAY TAXES. PERIOD. If you sell an mp3 player with a warranty card and ship it direct from Sweatshop China to an address in Hackensack NJ, you pay US corporation tax on your gross profit, asshole.

  15. ObFry on Eizo Debuts Monitor With 1:1 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Shut up and take my money!

    I do my DTP on a Pentium IV with a 4:3 screen because the simple fact is it's far more comfortable looking at a document on a 4:3 screen than it is a 16:9 or a 16:10. Pisses me off that personal computing has gone the way it has, that being steered to moving media consumption - if I wanted to watch movies 24/7 I'd've bought a fucking £60 portable DVD player not a £500 laptop! This TV comes with a keyboard so I can fucking TYPE on it! I want my squarer screen back!

  16. Re:So good that the proxy battle is over on Judge Approves $450M Settlement For Apple's Ebook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    nothing illegal about running a loss leader - after all, that's what Microsoft did with the XBox. Every console they sold was at a loss. Break even point was about the sixth game purchase at retail, which is why the games were upwards of £60 a pop.

  17. Re:How about paying taxes first. on Judge Approves $450M Settlement For Apple's Ebook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    Apple avoided paying up to $2.4billion in taxes in 2011 through a complex strategy that funnels money to low tax states and foreign countries such as Ireland and the Netherlands. Through using havens in Asia, Apple have also avoided 1.1Bn Euro tax bill in 2013, and between 2010-2014 they managed to shave an estimated total of $44Bn worth of tax billing worldwide by incorporating offshore.

    Apple Inc are incorporated in Ireland and operate and trade in the USA: they pay NO TAX in either country.
    iTunes funnels two thirds of their revenue outside the US through a holding company in Luxembourg. They pay NO TAX on this.

    Source: three minutes on Google, five minutes on the Wall Street Journal and five on Pinsent Mason LLP.

  18. talk about kick in the teeth for consumers on Judge Approves $450M Settlement For Apple's Ebook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    this equates to a $17 Dollar mail-in rebate, which most people won't bother with (it's only $17), but given previous performances from Microsoft who have been handed down similar class compensation orders, the court will accept this form of payment offered.

    They committed fraud. SOMEONE SHOULD GO TO FUCKING JAIL OVER IT.

  19. Re:Predatory? on Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal · · Score: 1

    The current trend is through adclicks. The content is a side dish, like GMail, G+, Google Search, OK Google and Facebook Newsfeed. The real content as far as the likes of Zuckerberg and Google's shareholders are concerned, is the ad space. The actual user data, however it is used or not by the respective companies, is merely a means to a targetted end.

    For THE definitive demonstration of this in action, check Million Dollar Script. This was a social experiment, covered on Slashdot in September 2005, to sell a million pixels for advertising space for a Dollar each. It made Alex Tew VERY rich literally overnight.

  20. Re:There must be a way to get revenge... on Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal · · Score: 1

    I think it unlikely that they'll simply ditch papers that don't get paid for (maybe they keep hold of them and wait till one hits the big time and file a vexatious copyright claim or something equally as likely but equally as improbable), which means that they have to be a. stored on a database and b. referred to in an abstract form somewhere, like an academic website or a nerds newsboard, to lend weight to whatever claim they think they might have.

  21. Re:Predatory? on Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal · · Score: 1

    it's very much a current issue: https://www.academia.edu/57099... (I'm listed as report drafting, I basically did the analysis) [PDF].

  22. Re:There must be a way to get revenge... on Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal · · Score: 1

    poison their databases with crapfloods of bogus documents much as the submitter did. One the pollution reaches a certain threshold, mentality will reach the dizzying heights of the anti-Torrent crowd who claim that Torrents are only used for pirating movies and the journal will make the list of "avoid this shithole, it's full of literal nonsense" sites.

  23. Re:Predatory? on Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal · · Score: 1

    Those who write the documents, clearly as indicated in TFS.

    I have been approached myself by several journals, all of which I have rejected because they ALL wanted ME to pay THEM to publish my work. I would sooner give it away than pay(!?) to have it published, particularly given the subject matter of my most important research into the trafficking of foreign children by the British State.

  24. Re:are you sure? on Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Patch For Windows · · Score: 1

    no, it will affect any system which runs Kerberos. From 2K to ~.

    The only difference is which OSen are in support cycle. Xp isn't one of them, and neither, clearly, is 2K. 2K3 is, but that's down to MS' decision to extend it, not, I think, due to any technical pressures or original scheduling.

  25. Re:XP Killer? on Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Patch For Windows · · Score: 1

    Kerberos V5 does run on xp. In fact it'll run on 2000.