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  1. This is why ADBlock exists... on Ad Networks Using Inaudible Sound To Link Phones, Tablets and Other Devices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    People who design, build and profit from things like this do not deserve to eat, pay rent and taxes or... erm... breathe.

    And neither do the sites that advertise this way.

  2. SONY Removal SW borked my PC on Revisiting the Infamous Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal 10 Years Later (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Brand new Beastie Boys CD rookits my system.

    Removal SW breaks IDE CDROM driver - inconvenient reinstall

    Beastie Boys CD ripped to MP3 (the old fashioned way) CD made safe.

    Never bought another SONY product (and very few CDS)

    SONY deserves what they get for ever after. (no sympathy)

  3. Re:No China? Well, then, enjoy your BS session. on Technology's Role In a Climate Solution (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    While being far from perfect, the Chinese have made actual effort and sacrifice to reduce pollution of all types. American corporate lobbyists are still trying to convince us that there simply is no problem (while seeking to exploit the receding glaciers).

  4. Monsatgo lobbying to poison us all some more. on The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? · · Score: 1

    Sugar tax and associated propaganda is all about a few mega-corps trying to tie up the food industry. Beteen sugar aspartame and sacharin, natural sugars are the lesser (and tastier) evil.

  5. Epson Professional Printer? on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 1

    Is that like as Lego brand nuclear reactor?

  6. Re:Video = Fake: Jordanian Pilot Was Not Burned Al on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a contrived horrorshow designed to anger Americans into accepting yet another war in Iraq.

  7. I bet Murdoch wont be showing this one... on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=21WqaDzztGk

    WARNING - SNUFF (Like TFA but from Texas)

  8. Israeli Security and Intelligence Service on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 1

    =ISIS

  9. The Armageddon Rag... on George R. R. Martin's "The Winds of Winter" Wiill Not Be Published In 2015 · · Score: 1

    R.Rs' contemporary(ish) novel is the best thing he wrote. Evr!

  10. Dont ask - Dont tell on US Navy Authorizes Use of Laser In Combat · · Score: 1

    nm

  11. Cameras wont make a difference.. on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: 1

    until it becomes illegal to switch them off.

  12. Market forces don't work on essential utilities. on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You already pay for it - so how is it in their interests to invest in improvement? Nobody is going to build a better grid to compete on price or quality.

  13. Note to IT recruiters. on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A MS cert does not trump a computing degree.

  14. Perhaps if.. on Ubisoft Points Finger At AMD For Assassin's Creed Unity Poor Performance · · Score: 1

    ...Ubisoft spent as much time and money on testing as they do on DRM they would be less of a joke.

  15. Ready when its ready. on Trouble In Branson-Land, As Would-Be Space Tourists Get Antsy Over Delays · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You would think prospective human cargo would appreciate this.

  16. Re:sure, everybody can on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Energy and Motor industries get far more in subsidies, tax breaks and bailouts.

    So much so that dwindling fossil fuels can still compete economically with kinetic energy that costs nothing.

  17. I dont know how - but dousing works on Drought Inspires a Boom In Pseudoscience, From Rain Machines To 'Water Witches' · · Score: 1

    I tried it as a skeptic, but its hard to deny what happens in your own hands. It was demonstrated by someone who works in archeology and is highly respected in her field with a track record of finding buried structures (roman villas, neolithic burials etc).

    Ignoring or ridiculing an observable phenomenon because you have no explanation. Even though that ridicule has precluded any sort of mainstream scientific study. Is pretty unscientific IMO.

    Superposition or the simultaneous wave/particle properties of light sound pretty batshit to the layman. But im glad they are being investigated enough to at least present hypotheses to test.

  18. Re:As a former employee... on UK Prisons Ministry Fined For Lack of Encryption At Prisons · · Score: 1

    Gotta love it when life imitates satire.

  19. Re:So... outsource ALL OF IT on UK Prisons Ministry Fined For Lack of Encryption At Prisons · · Score: 0

    It already has been. Thats the problem. The civil service service is run by pension farming bureaucrats who pushed a lifetime of paper to get to the middle. For example vanloads of paper docs are secure couriered around the country because nobody knows enough about encryption to ask ATOS to make it so.

  20. As a former employee... on UK Prisons Ministry Fined For Lack of Encryption At Prisons · · Score: 1

    I can attest that the British MoJ is a Gilliamesque farce. It was as if an overzealous technocrat saw 'Brazil' and rebuilt the Civil Service in its image.

    I was an temp admin-monkey for 6 months after things went to shit in 2008/9, in what we called the 'Ministry of Paperwork'. The HR offices for the MoJ. Holders of 60k+ complete records of everyone who ever applied to work in the UK courts. Right up to the top judges and bigwigs.

    At this point we were using WinNT on boxes with XP CoAs and paying meeeelions for the privilege. All to run a bespoke Oracle client that topped out NTs user profile limits with excessive caching and borkt the windows session. All built and supported by one of the most predatory firms in the UK, affectionately known as Twatos.

    The decision-makers were in another city and were clueless about the day to day running of a computerised office. Let alone data protection.

    This sort of incompetence runs to the core of the Civil Service and they get fleeced at every turn. Including by the recruitment agency supplying staff to the HR department.

    The idea of the government fining itself is preposterous. Terry Gilliam must be laughing in his grave.

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  21. Advertisers dont want to be associated with... on News Corp Australia Doesn't Want You To Look Closely At Their Financials · · Score: 4, Informative

    Journos that would hack the voicemail of a child murder victim.

  22. Re:Bio-accumulation - MOD Parent UP on Fukushima's Biological Legacy · · Score: 1

    The short term death-toll is less of an issue than the long term dietary exposure.

    Ironically it is the American denialists that are most likely to exposed via Pacific seafood.

    The risk is not one of average exposures but a crapshoot of who gets to be the offspring of the person who ate the fish that ate the wrong mollusk which ate the wrong particle of the wrong isotope.

    Americans could limit you exposure by choosing seafood from the west coast. oh wait.

  23. Re:Recycle the Oceans? on Man-Made "Dead Zone" In Gulf of Mexico the Size of Connecticut · · Score: 1

    Actually recycling mixed plastic particles for re-use is impossible. but brealing the long polymer chains can produce refinery feedstock of similar quality to light-sweet-crude.

    Hydrothermal Depolymerisation.can turn mixed plastic particles back into crude.

    Same for Plasma Gasification and potentially Hydrokinetic Cavitation.

  24. Those goddamn stinkin hippies... on Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected · · Score: 1

    were right again.

  25. ...Includes DRM that bricks the tablet. on Ubisoft Hands Out Nexus 7 Tablets At a Game's Press Event · · Score: 1

    nm