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  1. Re:I hope this trend continues. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    To go up some one else must go down, competitive capitalism requires losers in mass numbers. The rich create the poor, for the rich to have more, someone else must have less. The more the minority have, by design and through corruption of the democratic process and by the very nature of capitalism, the less the poor must have. This has reached a point of insanity, where the rich own nearly everything and the poor majority actually own less than nothing (factually in debt, so they own less than nothing). This corrupt system has been created on purpose by sick fucked up psychopaths because they are abusive by nature and want to abuse the entire population, men or women, young or old, not limits on the depravity of the rich.

    Capitalism is a competition driven creating losers, by winner take all insanity, by psychopathy, people who should not be celebrated but treated in custodial psychiatric institutions (a genetic anti-social condition which should factually be eliminated in order to preserve the future of humanity, lack of autonomic empathic response, a learning disability and a genetically shallow emotional base, they feel fewer emotions than normal people).

  2. Re:Blank check? on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Apparently you can create imaginary words. They were not idiots, if they wanted to limit citizens rights to government actions only, they would have written it in ie citizens rights are limited to actions by government only, rich citizens are fully entitled to fuck over poor citizens in any way imaginable. Now if it ain't in there, then you can't just fucking make it up. No restriction on the application of the bill of rights what so fucking ever. They can not right laws that allow rich citizens to fuck over poor citizens where protection for all citizens has been clearly and categorically stated. Claiming to be fucking psychic and reading the minds of the deceased it utter fucking bullshit, when it is in writing, it is in writing and no fanciful made up dictionaries either. Right there in fucking writing, a person letters (communications) are to be secure from every fucking one, without a proper search warrant. So they just wrote an illegal law and corporations infringing those rights are committing constitutional crimes.

  3. Re:Now it's like telco selling me to advertisers on 'Why The US Senate's Vote To Throw Out ISP Privacy Laws Isn't All Bad' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you been Enroned lately, well, apparently not. How about the bank bail out. How about the credit union crush. How about the dot bomb. Oh look, Wells Fargo. That not enough for you how about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

    Typical business plan. Good company, buy it out for more than it is worth, reduce expenditures no matter how destructive that reduction, cheat customers upon a mass scale, repackage with the aid of a corrupt financial institution, who sells it prior to the collapse, run off with profits in offshore tax haven, that financial institution now bets the company will collapse, company collapse, workers and customers screwed as well as the musical chair investors, those idiots who never get a seat at the profit party. Vulture capitalism at it's most typical.

  4. Eliminating the need for an engine or to control it are the benefit and of course you are sharing tracks, so more individual drivers becomes extremely dangerous. Keep in mind you would most likely get at least a daily schedule and the relocation is not that frequent, just really easy. You don't even have to leave you home. Towing stresses is not that bad, keeping in mind the weight will be considerably lower and number of carriages will never really be that high. The whole idea to make much better economic use of the tracks, substantially less idle times.

    The work commute would be obvious, with you home in a tracked camper yard adjacent to a station, catching the train into work is a no brainer. Would also be an interesting retirement option, no driving stress, no loading hassles, no leaving your home. Just book, shunt and away you go, to be dropped off at destination and shunted to your site, one hook up and done. Always keep in simple, the KISS principle.

    Big investment in the camper train wagon parks, the development would be owned by railroad company but they could sell camper sites, rather than just rent, to gain higher earlier returns and owner occupiers are on average far more stable. They are in a position to create new tourist destinations, where train track abuts quality leisure locations. Across the board development, working life, tourism and retirement.

  5. Re:Thanks, I'll pass on all of them on The Best and Worst Cities To Live in For Tech Workers, Based on Rent and Commute (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    What people are willing to put up with, makes no sense. Forget those silly measures. I want to be able to buy a home (salary sufficient to make comfortable payments), in close proximity to the place of employment, with some surety of long term employment and a carpark provide, with charge point. I want good grocery shopping within walking distance of the home and entertainment a short drive, again with parking. Infrastructure must be top notch, in good repair and of high quality. The police must be professional, not trigger happy freaks or corrupt as fuck. A clear safe environment, low in pollutants. Proper storm water and sewer services, with reliable energy supply and a fibre optic connection (now also a new requirement, a connection that guarantees privacy)

    Fail in any of those and quite simply, fuck off, no job is worth it. Fine when you a really young and don't really know what is going one but once you mature (and not driven by nothing but greed and lust), you want overall quality of life, a proper balance, between work, live and play. Some more personal things, a nice clean public beach close by, parks and gardens for strolls at work and at home. The only give away, a lower salary is fine but it still must be able to make house payments.

  6. What the fuck is the article even about. M$ is inside every single mug punter, nothing voluntary about it what so ever http://www.zdnet.com/article/w.... Yep, uh huh, people volunteer for the M$ probe, stick it in deeper, oh yeah, twist it about, on yeah, pump it harder. Volunteer to stick windows 10 on a box and M$ gives you no choice, routinely fucking over the semi, somewhat, sometimes pretend privacy settings.

    Those insiders and inside nothing, M$ is inside them, schmucks. Insider http://www.dictionary.com/brow..., so what special inside information do they get, none what so ever, so M$ double speak, when they say you are an insider, they actually mean they are the insider "a person belonging to a limited circle of persons who understand the actual facts in a situation or share private knowledge", that's you private knowledge they are digging into.

  7. Re:Blank check? on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Face it the entire US election system was pretty fucked up. In action, you could not tell the difference between Republicans and Democrats, sure they made different noises and ran different PR campaigns to scam the electors but there was no real difference in their profession, as corporate whores and every is for sale.

    This of course can be challenged in the court, as it breaks the constitution, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.", just to be clear for idiots, no where in that paragraph is that regulatory constraint limited to action by government. No fucking line in there about by the government, it is across the board. So the law infringes as passed by government as it denies the right of a person to be secure in the papers, papers being communications, that is the law and it is not limited to government ie government can not pass that law to allow some individuals to attack the security of other citizens and their communications.

  8. Re:Nervous testing department on The Galaxy S8 Will Be Samsung's Biggest Test Ever (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Tester: Phone doesn't work
    Boss:Take out the battery and put it back in.
    Tester:Can't do that
    Boss:Fuck.

    My favourite way of silencing a noisy phone, rip of the back and flick out the battery, it is faster than holding the stupid switch which refuses to function when the phone is ringing. Can be a few days before the battery goes in, meh, that's what messaging banks are for (if I need to use it, well, the battery goes back it).

  9. Re:Most coders on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    Better than the average programmer but still like warranties that guarantee nothing. It's like the warranties that programmers like, kind of prove how they are all equally bad.

  10. Re:If you want a one-line reply... on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: -1, Troll

    The best way for a Linux newbie to get started, does not point to any distribution what so ever. The best way for a newbie to start is desire. As a power user, either you want to start or let's be blunt, fuck off and don't waste people's time.

    For a typical user, who just wants to consume content, communicate with people via various applications and use the internet, take you pick of distributions here is a list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

    For power users, don't be a dick, look it up you fucking self and you know what, plenty of people will help you, have fun. Here is a great image https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... take your pick of Distributions who coloured line reaches 2016 bar. Also if you are already using Android, well guess what, you are already using an Android distribution.

    What to play games, well, there is always SteamOS, rather than asking silly questions.

  11. A wing glider will get you in the air cheaper than car. In the air is not the problem, supersonic speeds are the problem, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and be entertained by the problems that have not gone away, just because people already know about them. Just a reminder when supersonic jets failhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_wuykzfFzE they do so rather spectacularly.

    Want to travel to London for a meeting, do it faster http://www.pcmag.com/article2/... do it at the speed of light and don't forget to encrypt your transmissions.

  12. Re:Lock her up already on Theranos To Investors: Please Don't Sue! Here, Have Some More Shares (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Bleed the investors, you have to be joking. Those investors were scum insiders who were expecting to cash in on the IPO. They knew full well the whole thing was one giant fucking scam and were in on it from the beginning, it just all blew up before they could cash in on the multibillion dollar IPO. Now like rats abandoning a sinking ship, they want to take as much as they can and fuck the other investors. A scam from the get go planned and plotted by a psychopath and a bunch of other insider psychopaths joined in and funded the scam. Who created that fake multibillion dollar value, the banksters, doing exactly what they always do and the second they sold their shares in the IPO, you know, you fucking know, they would have bet the company was going down big and made even more money on that.

  13. Re: Machines replacing bank tellers? on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure their are us always someone people but people who are many orders of magnitude richer are far tastier, so they always brag. If it makes you feel happier, east the richest first, they are the tastiest.

  14. Re:Yeah, nah. on Is Australia Becoming A Cashless Society? (abc.net.au) · · Score: 2

    So how fast will economic collapse be when the electronic funds transfer system is purposefully shut down by a hostile force. What exactly would happen after the first day, the second day the third day and how long would recover take. Power goes down the entire economy shuts down. Two weeks and people would be starving to death, hospital would should down, patients would start dying, and it would take years to recover. Why cashless because finnacial corporations would have total economic power over the populace and the government. So what exactly would the government say when the banks so no, you can not have any money, we don't have to by law.

  15. Re:Yeah, nah. on Is Australia Becoming A Cashless Society? (abc.net.au) · · Score: 2

    In a capitalist system, no cash means being a slave to those who give you permission to access anything. So what exactly do you do moron, when the bank says no, where the fuck do you go, no lawyers, no transfers from anyone else, phone account shut, you can walk to nowhere. Either capitalism has to go or cash has to fucking stay and that is an or fucking else, I am no ones fucking slave, I will not ask for permission to fucking live.

  16. Steam powered road tractors. Brings to mind a new idea, camper railroad cars. Not conversions but actually light weight train wagons and railroad camper parks attached to major train stations as well as regional and tourist based train stations or city outskirts train stations. Rather than loading a caravan onto a train, simply use a tow vehicle to pull it on tracks to the station to hook up with railroad caravan trains. This for a more transient population. So normal location close to work but come holidays easily relocate your railroad home to a tourist location and load you compact car on the train. Travel in your home to the next location. Could be fun for retirees and better for transient workers. Filling empty train tracks and empty train yards, would be of a similar price to regular caravans, no registration required.

    To move just check route and timetables, disconnect power, water and sewer and a remote control tow unit drags your home to a siding ready to hook up to the next scheduled run. They drag you about and then drop you off.

    Automation similar to Uber taken from the roads and put on railroads. Book in and away you go, never ever leaving your own home and not having to drive it or tow it or do weird awkward crap to load it.

  17. Re:We need communism now! on Comcast Launches New 24/7 Workplace Surveillance Service (philly.com) · · Score: 2

    Democracy, the workers are the majority, the workers must rule. A government of the workers, by the workers and for the workers. I might not agree with everything real democracy produces but I do accept it because I do truly value the worth of Democracy. The workers must rule they are the majority, suck it up! My religion, Freedom, Democracy and Justice, more than just an empty belief or motto. Nobody expects the global democratic reformation https://www.youtube.com/watch?... that's what it will feel like for the rich and greedy and for the rest of us, the majority, it will be justice and rather humorous to boot.

  18. Re:It Doesn't Work That Way on 'Moore's Law' For Carbon Would Defeat Global Warming (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Just another empty stupid marketing meme, Moores law on climate change. I'll put forward a real and valid climate change law, "The Underwater Front Law". The stupid lead addled fuckwits will do bugger all, until we are all under a metre of water and then they will go nuts looking to blame people and start peddling crimes against humanity at targeted individuals and corporations (this from buildings falling over when they get crushed in the surf zone during peak tides and storms). Then we will see some real effort a likely peak a 2 metres above current sea levels before we see reductions. The only reason action will be taking because they rich and greedy exclusionary water front properties will be the ones wiped out economically and by the sea. The under water front law, the more multimillion dollar properties wipe out the sooner climate change action will occur.

    First scam, to push their insurance for those properties on people who they excluded from access to the waterfront, multi-millionaires ripping of the working poor yet again. Then billions of working poor taxes spent on vainly trying to protect those underwater front properties. Then scams to sell those underwater front properties to property investment funds which the banksters will sell to mug investors and corruptly paid off pension funds with ludicrous claims of high capital values and great rent returns (scam, the high rents will only be payable whilst the property is occupied, so inflate capital asset by high rent and long lease and abandon both with first storm leaving the investment fund to go bankrupt)

    Then they will blame scientist for not doing enough and the public for failing to take action but hey, tasty tasty, tanks, planes, aircraft carriers and submarines, learn to eat 'heavy metal' America because you will need to in order to survive.

  19. Re:Not all wrecks can be avoided on Uber Halts Self-Driving Car Tests in Arizona After Friday Night Collision (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Having gone through hell with one of the sickest insurance corporations Allianz, those cunts had not the slightest qualm in wanting to halve my claim by saying I failed to take evasive action when the other person turned through a red light right in front of me. Those arse holes at Allianz even put that shit in writing to halve the claim, so fuck off with you 'idiotic' claim. Always this bullshit with corporations, never their fault, always everyone else fault.

    PS avoid Allianz like the plague they will always be looking for excuses to avoid paying, no matter how disingenuous or ludicrous, the fucking filthy scum, simply don't give a damn. You will normally run into those dickheads with government quango styled insurance, they buy in on tender and then fuck every one over to generate maximum profits(privatisation bullshit) eg http://www.productreview.com.a...

  20. Re:Now it's like telco selling me to advertisers on 'Why The US Senate's Vote To Throw Out ISP Privacy Laws Isn't All Bad' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You are talking insane psychopaths driven by insensate greed and this quarters profits. They do not care one iota about consequences, destroy privacy, meh, destroy democracy, meh, destroy the corporations they work for men. They are sick fuckers who revel in the chaos they cause as long as it feeds their greed and ego. Just like this stupid shit, destroy privacy for everyone, meh, bigger bonus, power to spy on everyone, masturbating in the dark looking at others peoples pictures and video and communications, men, women, children. Then the double speak, we will provide more privacy by taking away what little protections are available because er um more privacy in the future, what a crock of shit by an extremely corrupt government.

  21. Re: Wait a minute... on YouTube Loses Major Advertisers Over Offensive Videos (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. What they will do is simply provide ad space within the video at the start or finish or part way between and for most, that is enough revenue. The only intelligent response from Google to advertisers, do want you ad dollars associated with certain videos, not a problem, review all google videos and decide which ones you will allow your ads to be associated with. The flip side of that is Google should also allow content producers to decide which advertisements they will allow to be associated with their content. Cost a little more but problem solved.

  22. Re:I don't have any you insensitive clod! on US Ordered 'Mandatory Social Media Check' For Visa Applicants Who Visited ISIS Territory (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So your assumption is that Facebook et al demand birth certificates, picture id, fingerprints and DNA prior to opening an account in any particular name. There is real insanity in using something like social media at borders where the validity of any social media account ie what is you name, John Smith, provide social media account details and passwords, I have none, liar John Smith is all over the place, prepare to be strip searched and anal probed and be held in custody until you provide details for all social media accounts tied to John Smith or variants of John Smith. So basically guilty for the entirety of social media until you can prove which accounts are not your account.

  23. Re:Plans for Planes on Plans For London-Paris Electric Flight in 'Next Decade' Unveiled (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You know what is the biggest cost for trains, not the trains it is the tracks. So a smart new business opportunity would be camper train wagon. The Rail companies opening camper parks adjacent to major train links, where people can live in rail campers, a wagon all of their own, one they never need tow, in fact the car can be carried by the same train that is towing their camper.

    New lifestyle for a transient population and it fills empty train tracks with more traffic. Need to shift you rail camper, just book it in, quick tow to junction and they hook you up, load up you compact car which no longer needs to pull a caravan and away you go to your new rail camp site, dropped off and away you go. You can travel in your camper, watching the country go by no muss, no fuss and depending on design it could go high speed.

    Filling empty train tracks with a major business opportunity. Likely though light weight carriages need to be design along with a lighter engine and they simply use the track between normal passenger and cargo trains.

  24. Re:and the Aliens Go Whaaaaaaaa? on 17,000 AT&T Workers Go On Strike In California and Nevada (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell it to the BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi... or http://www.abc.net.au/news/201... or https://www.forbes.com/sites/a... or https://cosmosmagazine.com/bio... or http://scholar.harvard.edu/fil... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Let me guess, you love firing lead bullets at firing ranges with your buddies, as much as possible.

  25. Re:Hahahahaha on Studios Flirt With Offering Movies Early in Home for $30 (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed an important bit of revenue, no commercials. The two reasons they want to charge so much, claims of more than one person watching at a time and of course no commercials to sell. The delay is about cinemas owned by the studios, there is marketing hype associated with going out to the dinner and the cinemas, part of the marketing bull, along with psuedo celebrities as stars (professional liars as somehow being super special in human society). Reality is their biggest competitor is rapidly becoming user created content, whether on YouTube or Facebook et al and they are starting to feel the pinch that and endless retreads produced by the spawn of endless nepotism.