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  1. Re:This **is** a highly politicised post. on Australia Passes Site-Blocking Legislation · · Score: 1

    Yep it's politicised. Australia has banned sites primarily for illegal purposes for years. Now they are doing it as well for copyright. The argument that we have to pay more or have delays getting media is crazy.... why should we have a right to someone's content? Are they suggesting that the government should set prices and release dates for media? It's crazy.

  2. Re:We're in it together on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 2

    Destroying jobs through progress is economic expansion, not collapse. When a machine puts labor out of work, that machine produces for lower, consumers have more left over, they bid up some other scarce resource (like holidays) and new jobs are created in tourism industry for example. Net employment is not effected, but living standards have risen as we still got the result of the robot work, plus more holidays. We all know that 200 years ago 90%+ jobs were in agriculture. We didnt get unemployment and collapse of society when machinery destroyed 90% of those jobs.

  3. Re:Tim Cook full of it on Tech Jobs and Apple: Every Bit As "Fun" As Pleasure Island? · · Score: 1

    Yeah it would be much better if all the retail and factory workers were unemployed or worked for someone else, yet they line up to work at apple. People go on about the suicides at the factories, meanwhile the suicide rate for the workers is lower than those of the same socioeconomic background. People are lining up to work in the factories and take their place. It seems like the realities of the world are closed to most in tech industry, apple is any easy target as people are very polarised on apple. Let me tell you that apple does far more than anyone else I have ever seen. No other company would give a crap about working conditions. They just pay a contract and the rest is an internal legal matter for Chinese authorities. Apple have stores all over the world, yet very few countries have bag searches. Could it actually be that western workers feel they are owned more than the pay the agreed to because everyone is always telling them the corporation is evil?

  4. Re:Why not 2025? on G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 · · Score: 1

    Have you actually read it? It's pie in the sky wishful thinking stuff. There is no little substance here it's honestly border line joke report. Take this sentence: "the transformation of transport away from its present mode to the proposed ZCA2020 mode will be cost negative". The proof they provide of this is.... nothing. Just some ramblings about how car production grew after ww2 and that the same thing can happen again (presumably by forcing everyone to buy an electric car). Honestly the whole thing seems to be designed as a back slapping exercise. There is essentially nothing in it that can be used for a serious cost benefit analysis. At the start it says proven present day technology is all that's needed, but then it goes on to say that everyone needs electric cars with charges at home and at work that dynamically turn off and on with solar/wind and that thermal salt heat storage of a scale and design never tried before anywhere is also needed to for energy storage, again with prices that are made up and not based on an actual construction company estimates. Plus if something pays for itself in X number of years they consider it cost free, which is absurd. For example, they want 300,000 electric cars per year made, at a cost of $15b per year. Yet that doesn't get counted into their figure.... because the government can just force us to buy the cars. The number fudging is a joke, if you gave them $400b they couldn't do it, you would also need to force everyone in the country to buy certain things only consume power at certain times and basically take over control of the entire economy. Pie in the sky commie stuff.

  5. Re:Medium.com Alert! on Ways To Travel Faster Than Light Without Violating Relativity · · Score: 5, Informative

    Terrible click bait, doesn't mention a single way to go faster than light. Most nerds would already know all of this.

  6. Re:WRONG GUY! was captured on DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect · · Score: 1

    Does he have an identical twin brother?

  7. Re:Lots of filtering I suspect on DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect · · Score: 1

    It's because after grinding it goes into tumblers where it gets mixed with certain chemicals etc. probably 200 is low ball figure.

  8. Re:rigid body lighter than air on Hydrogen-Powered Drone Can Fly For 4 Hours at a Time · · Score: 1

    The stress divided by the strain decides if or not a rigid structure deforms. If you do the match there is no known material that can make a spherical vacuum balloon. However it might be theoretically possible to make hexagon shaped tubes of microscopic size and put millions of them together to make an overall lighter than air rigid object.

  9. Re:Moral on Hackers Using Starbucks Gift Cards To Access Credit Cards · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The post didn't even actually say exactly what is going on.... People link their credit card to some star bucks account with auto reload. Hackers just guess the users password or get it some other way. Once inside the you can transfer the money to another card. They then sell that other card to idiots below its account balance. Star bucks then honour it anyway?

  10. Re:"Social Justice" should be considered a religio on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I was surprised to see that all double blind tests are now showing liberals as more racist than conservatives. The average liberal now has a default "affirmative action" position and is racist against white people. This has been confirmed over and over again in studies, one even showed that liberals are far more likely to sacrifice a white person to save multiple black people than they are the other way around. So we gave truely crossed into delusional type unlogical thinking in politics as well.

  11. Re:How many lines of code in each language? on C Code On GitHub Has the Most "Ugly Hacks" · · Score: 1

    Exactly.... going on my gut of language popularity I'd say the worst is Text.

  12. Re:Sensitivity?? Seriously? on Yahoo Called Its Layoffs a "Remix." Don't Do That. · · Score: 0

    Exactly.. remember all people complaining when microsoft announced they would cut X number of jobs, but didn't say who yet. Every one went crazy and complained they should be told only when they knew. No one remembers last time they cut jobs they did the opposite - kept it secret until they knew who. The result? everyone went crazy. It doesn't matter what you call it or how you do it. At the end of the day SJW's are convincing large numbers of people that they are owed more than their pay check and contract conditions - that they are owed a permanent job for life.

  13. Re:Specced too low, weird form factor on Intel 'Compute Stick' PC-Over-HDMI Dongle Launched, Tested · · Score: 1

    Eaxactly... with it being this small, its basically something you can throw in your bag and have a spare PC. Heck I travel for business and hate taking a laptop and try to stay only on smart phone, but I can see this being useful with HDMI cable and just a mouse.

  14. Re:Whats Worse, Uber Drivers or Taxi Drivers? on Dutch Prosecutors Launch Criminal Investigation Against Uber For Flouting Ban · · Score: 1

    They won't be. The regulators will protect their jobs, just like they are being protected from uber.

  15. Re:Tax breaks? on 2K, Australia's Last AAA Studio, Closes Its Doors · · Score: 1

    Let me guess: public sector or o bliv sector cobtractor.

  16. Re:title is wrong on Chess Grandmaster Used iPhone To Cheat During Tournament · · Score: 1

    A setup is possible. You would have to be dumb not to lock the phone. So they found it unlocked and logged in as his name.... how dumb can you be?

  17. Re:Find a way to have internet access on Road To Mars: Solving the Isolation Problem · · Score: 2

    The Internet would be essentially unusable, it would take hours just to establish a tcp connection.

  18. Re:Encryption + (cloud or offsite) on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster) · · Score: 1

    Yep.... encrypt and put it in cloud, and/or encrypt and store a hdd at your moms/friends house.

  19. Re:Nerds care about politics too on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 0

    I had to laugh when Hillaries videos talk about how she wants people to get a head. Wealth comes from private innovation, investment, and productivity increases. All the policies so far are the complete opposite of that. As an outsider it going to be interesting to see if there is actually reform in America, or just more debt and socialism.

  20. Re:Check the data! on The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but it's not toxic. The ore is liquified to remove the rare earth elements them dumped. It's just liquid rock.

  21. Re:Meanwhile in NZ... on California Has Become the First State To Get Over 5% of Its Power From Solar · · Score: 1

    NZ's renewables are not a recent thing nor a result of political decision based on climate change. They have had about 75%+ in hydro since... well almost there entire history. Since at least back to 1930.

  22. Re:AND they stole Halo from the PC world.... on Microsoft Considered Giving Away Original Xbox · · Score: 1

    The point is they are making 0.3b after having sunk what appears to be $11b. ouch.

  23. Re:US ceiling is 400 ft. Is that enough? on Amazon Tests Delivery Drones At Secret Canada Site After US Frustration · · Score: 1

    It is standard practice for machinery safety, where live is at risk, for the system to be designed to both detect, and continue on to a safe stop, when a fault occurs. It's all based on probability of failure, frequency of exposure, consequence of failure. Also people are jumping to a lot of conclusions. I work in postal industry and we are waiting for self driving cars that launch drones to do the 'final metres' to the front door. That appears to be the ultimate minimum price (road cheaper than air and drone cheaper than robot).The idea of drones flying long distance doesn't seem to make any economic sense - they can only take one light parcel with them. A system with auto car and drone could get delivery of parcels cheaper than cost of current stamp for letters, easily.

  24. Not new on Australia Passes Mandatory Data Retention Law · · Score: 5, Informative

    I like bias... they don't mention that the labor party all voted it through as well. Greens only opposed it after they learned labor wouldn't, so they would get to claim moral high ground, while it sailed through with bi partisan support. The two year data retension has been in place since the first ISPs started as an industry code of practice decades ago. This law is just formalising and making it clearly mandatory. The meta data has been available and used for decades.

  25. Re:when I think "Australia" on Draconian Australian Research Law Hits Scientists · · Score: 2

    The law is expected to be passed by the left labor and green senate, it appears to have by partisan support.