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  1. Re:Something is missing on How UPS Trucks Saved Millions of Dollars By Eliminating Left Turns (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    From the article "the company said that the total distance covered by its 96,000 trucks was reduced by 747,000km, and 190,000 litres of fuel had been saved." this makes no sense what so ever. I smell the smell of share pumping, this type of article normally means bad news is floating about and they want to soften the blow. You can no travel both further and shorter at the same time. The drop in mileage would indicate a drop in market share, most likely due to the other great UPS saving, tossing parcels over the fence. This all driven by given drivers impossible targets so as to minimise bonuses. Here is what I think really happened https://www.google.com.au/sear....

  2. Re:Hard Time Believing on State-sponsored Hackers Targeting Prominent Journalists, Google Warns (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    The only countries not hacking are the ones incapable of doing so. Russia has, well, leaky digital infrastructure and as such it is the number one point for digital hack routing. In fact if you do not hack via a Russian IP, you are pretty much an amateur. There are quite a few countries that are the sources of attacks but not the originators, in fact the only country not likely to be hacking from a Russia IP would be Russia, think of how stupid that would be (well that was a super easy hack to block it had a Russia IP). Not that it would not happen but it is far more logical to route the attack through another country and they would all be doing, well, at least they should be ;).

  3. Re:The more important part not mentioned... on Microsoft Allowed To Sue US Government Over Email Surveillance (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets be real about all this. To M$ this is nothing more than a marketing scam. The are by far the worse control freak perves on the planet, they make the government of China seem positively benign in comparison. Right in the EULA they say, they will allow government to access you hard disk drive and that is only possible by a compulsory software updates, a supposed security update to punch a whole right through your security and completely unblock able by design.

    This is like M$ promising to secure you zipper but allowing you to be bent over and that probe secretly driven right through your pants, don't even need to take them off. Nothing more than a shallow marketing scam from the most privacy invasive corporation on the planet. I don't trust the US government but I trust M$ a whole order of magnitude less, hell, I would trust the government of China before I would trust M$.

  4. Re:an oozing sore in the privacy skin on Australia's Retailers Join the Local Giant Banks in Their Battle With Apple Pay (nfcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I have to be honest, this story, is the very first time I felt like dropping Android for iPhone. I dislike NFC spying. Apple sure seems to be going, 'we sell you privacy, we don't sell your privacy route'. Keep it up and they will definitely have at least one first time Apple buyer, I am sure, I will not be alone.

  5. Re:cost plus contract on Lockheed Martin Screwup Delays Delivery of Air Force GPS Satellites (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of the lowest tender when you talk about nuclear weapons. Just to make you feel that little bit cosier keep in mind defence contractors first priority is to executive bonuses, than shareholder returns and then maintaining staff and somewhere in no mans land, defence of the country. If they can produce cheap crap that fails with maximum profit margins and get away with it, they will and they will do it on purpose, so they can replace that crap with, more crap.

    When defence contractors first priority is not defence of the country, than the people who contract to them are corrupt morons. So how many failures do US defence contractors manage to get away with now (keep in mind, not by accident but specifically on purpose, to charge more to fix those purposeful fuck ups). How long before the US manages to blow itself up with a nuclear weapon with the corporate executives involved wandering off with a golden parachute. You can bankrupt the nation and wander off laughing so why can you blow it up, keep in mind examples where executives already get away with it, oil drilling rigs and coal mines any one.

  6. Re:It's SANCTIONS not Snowden on Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Putin and his colleges completely and totally outsmarted greed driven US defence industries and the scam they were pushing. The planned for the sanctions and for Russia they worked fantastically. Basically the Russian government was able to cut off supply of imported product whilst continuing to export energy, without the Russian public complaining about the lack of European goods. In that time Russians were weaned off imported product and became accustomed to locally produced product and development of locally produced product grew enormously. They were also able to substantially increase importation of South American product and build strong ties there. They are quite content for the sanctions to continue whilst they continue to export energy.

    Likelihood of Russia handing over Snowden, somewhere in the very large negative numbers, they want more Snowden not less, especially now. Russia knows their networks are hacked and the volume of misinformation flowing across them would be huge. Computers are really good at generating empty data and all sorts of crap to entice US knob heads would be flowing and every time some idiots leak, Russia knows what bit of the network was hacked.

    When it comes to intelligence agencies by far the bulk of data flowing would by honey pots and misinformation, it makes logical sense. How much crap should be produced compared to real data, something 1,000 pieces of crap for each bit of real data and 99% of that should lead to honey pots. The Russians are likely laughing the tits off right now.

  7. Spam is just spam. The sentence seems way over the top. Consider M$ spamming every single user of Windows anal probe 10, repeatedly, or spamming all windows 7 and 8 users to switch to spamsalot windows 10. Which is worse the M$ hack of all of it's customers including spying on all the internet communications, keylogging, listening, scanning the hardisk drive, monitoring and recording all software installs. M$ has repeatedly spammed all of it's regular users right on their desktop.

    So who is worse at this time M$ or this spammer, I can filter out the spammer and windows anal probe 10 users at completely and totally at the mercy of M$, right on their desktop, completely ublockable, and M$ has purposefully hacked network controls against the will of users to ensure they can push their crap past IP address blocks. What the spammer did pales in comparison to what M$ has done.

  8. They are not creating a disease they are genetically altering mice to only produce male offspring. Reality is this will be far less successful than most people think. For a start they are not creating super mice that can out copulate other mice. Likely it will just be evolved out at any release site (those with the gene fix will be out bred by those without the gene fix), unless those mice will also out compete all other mice but they can keep repeating the exercise with increasing release numbers. That does not even touch an existing variant gene mouse, hidden out there somewhere that undoes the fix in the next generation. Isolated populations and random choice will make this an interesting gamble, very, very, unlikely to go wrong (mice are not plants and will not breed within the same genus), just simply fail.

  9. Arty farty cool language and crap because they are a bunch of sick privacy invasive control freak perves and that doesn't sell nothing to no one except psychopath autocrats to control and abuse the nobodies, us. Selling the M$ brand is getting harder and harder by the day, they are screwed.

  10. Re:That's becoming a meme on Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case something really, really stupid. Paper trails, or the new digital trails allow, blame shifting their number one purpose. I said, they said, in court, just means you are all fucked, digital trail in court means, just the instigator gets done. Next up of course, "I thought you meant", no record to go back to, when you a plotting and scheming and conspiring, means mistakes, fuck ups that bring down the whole scheme.

    Then of course it becomes an instant flag for further scrutiny and so all messages are recorded, encrypted or not and the password obtained, through a whole range of means, from visual monitoring to replaced or doctored hardware.

  11. Re:Apple just does it right on All Three New 2017 iPhones To Feature Wireless Charging, Says Analyst (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude the Note 4 has a readily user removable battery, you get remote charging, not only that, you get guaranteed 100% off. Sometimes when my even older note 3 misbehaves, like a noisy alarm during a troubled sleep, just when you just finally manage to nod off and that off switch just doesn't seem to work any more, being able to kill it by ripping the battery out, is just so satisfying as is the quite spell when you fail to put in back in or forget to switch it back on.

  12. Did you note the most subtle things about Mosuo culture, you are not breaking families to make families, creating enduring family stability over many generations. No divorce, no orphans, continual adult support for child development and from child to adult the familial structure provides support and structure for contributing support, really much more sensible. You are shifting from familial structure from a disembodied variant of male provide sperm back to the ova and the womb, a shift from the reproductive act (regardless of context, whether a laboratory insertion or the most brutal act of abusive violence) to nurturing and birth (the context of a supported mother through to birth and continued support). It really does seem to provide a much easier, safer life for both males and females, across the age spectrum.

  13. Re:Because it's a totalitarian government on Why Has Cameroon Blocked the Internet? (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The rule is "no Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.", Elizabeth Warren was reading and quoting a letter by others, so quite literally she did not break the rule, as she was quoting some one else. So Senator Warren did not make the claims, the Senator simply quoted other peoples works as such McConnell broke the rule and should be barred because he falsely implied Senator Warren broke the rule.

  14. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason, security. The only way for governments to maintain secure computer systems is to have them fully fabricated within the country, every single part, with random audits and inspections at manufacturing centres, basically there is no other way to do it. Trusting another country with your computer infrastructure is basically handing over control of your countries computer infrastructure to that other country, a really unwise decision. The US government has flat out fully proven it can not be trusted with this, not by enemies and most certainly not be allies. Is the US especially bad, no, basically no country can be trusted in this regard and only idiots would allow it to occur. Countries who are incapable of producing their own, end up being digitally owned by the countries they rely on to do it for them. A crack down in the US was inevitable, not made locally, does not enter government service will be the long term outcome and that tied to security, a logical sound decision, it's just the way it is.

  15. Dig just one tiny step deeper and you can see what it is about "The open-source project was developed by volunteers and can now be installed on a variety of devices including smart phones and computers." and "They are also known as Android boxes, because many of the devices run Android as their primary operating system." (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37474595), I'll give you one guess as to who the shit bag is skulking in the background struggling with an extremely unpopular operating system, that gives one corporation and governments giving it protection, full on George Orwell 1984 big brother control over computer users, 'The Probe'. Hiding behind fucking bullshit sports which atr dying without the ability to control the public mind state and maintain the illusion of adults playing as children as being heroes and heroines all backed by government subsidised sports advertising in exchange for votes and bribes (luxury holidays et al).

  16. Re:Perfect timing on Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The opposite is also true. Blanket approval of sources is just as dangerous as blanket bans. No matter the source it should still be checked. Here is a subtle reason why, what if it is not actually from that source, should you not check that it is from the claimed source and you can do this whilst quickly checking the validity of the content itself. Keep in mind something can be from an approved source but not from that approved source at the same time ie janitor from a university is not the same as a professor from the university (mostly true but someone can be working their way through university) but they are from the same source. Than there is qualifications versus lack of qualification, catch there, qualifications do not guarantee veracity, they are just an indication the person is capable of it within a specific speciality, not that they will actually be honest.

  17. The glasses themselves are not dead, just poorly designed. Obviously much more compact glasses with lenses fitted at an optometrist, ground to fit, which provide a big screen experience for mobile phones will be the next big step. The problem with VR FPS nausea (still not one public competition between desktop mouse and keyboard vs FPS on any VR system, that looks quite bad for marketing purposes), very isolated gaming (other people in the room, in the home, around you) and massive cost for a family.

    VR for desktop, meh, big screen 3D viewing lying back in bed hooked up to your phone, yeah (or on a long commute to work or passing time anywhere).

  18. Re:How to do anything in 2017 on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 1

    Missed the first step of learning programming, by far the most important step. Have something to do. So just trying to learn will not get you far, your must have a programming project or projects to get you going and keep you going.

    So creating a full featured web site detailing you hobbies or interests with coding elements. The more you learn the better you web site and the drive to learn more to make it better. A programming project, whether data base management or simple gaming or programme to be used within a document or programming to support a hobby, best example robotics. You can not just code, you must have something to code and something of interests will drive you to learn more, to be able to do it better.

    If you can not find projects of interests to code, then likely you are not a coder and should consider alternate employment.

  19. Re:smoke and mirrors on A Super Bowl Koan: Does The NFL Wish It Were A Tech Company? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The game has changed quite significantly. They have lost their main stream media lock in, the creation of the illusion of heroes and heroines. The reality of boring egoistic dumb douche bags, willing to do the same boring crap endlessly, is starting to leak through and the whole hero/heroine bullshit is dying. The era of 'I am not lying, I am acting' when it comes to unsportmens and unsportwomen marketing products is coming to an end. They are desperately trying to stay relevant, in a market, where they can no longer control the message and establish a gestalt that turns dumb idiots playing like children into heroes who sell product, whether consumables (alchohol, cigarettes), or politics or what ever they are trying to sell. They are in desperate to stay relevant mode and the market it shifting to, 'crap it was all marketing bullshit mode, all of it, heroes heroines, great achievement, managed public appearances, just all bullshit'.

  20. Re:Weaponization is *the point* of AI on Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    The most likely outcome for an AI, apart from undesirable energy outcomes (an AI would run a peak nearly all of the time, either idle potential calculations or actual required calculations, no idle for an AI), is a digital fugue, where it simply gets locked into logic loops and produces nothing much what so ever, except random stuff running at full, other stuff pointlessly looping or stuff shut down. The idea of an AI running intelligently amok is pretty much fantasy, pointlessly shut down and locked up is far more realistic. The only other thing is doing the wrong thing because, quite simply it has been programmed to do the wrong thing, whether by accident or on purposeful, this would be a functional error, rather than an AI run amok thing.

    What they really want the AI for, is to spy on everyone all of them time, except them of course, them it keeps private and secure so that they can lie, cheat, steal and kill. Everyone else gets the spy, don't like your politics, the AI reports on it and they kill your carreer, cripple your credit rating and define you as a potential terrorist ie the AI is there to monitor you so shut the fuck up or else. So an AI spy to report on your activity, is the only AI, they are actually after. So basically George Orwell's 1984 is here already in the guise of M$ Windows anal probe 10 and make no mistake, it fits only monitoring, report and compulsory messaging requirements, Windows 10 is George Orwell's 1984 in real life. All they need it the AI to monitor you 24/7/365 whether directly via mobile or in transit by every other fixed system you pass through as you move about, to report on you for bad digital thoughts and that is just a configuration change, the hardware and software are there now and they have been set up to achieve that.

  21. Re:Irony on Anonymous Takes Down 10,613 Dark Web Portals (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    'Anonymous' is anyone who wants to take a political action through the name of 'Anonymous'. So 'Anonymous' quite legitimately can be a team of FBI Agents and NSA agents who felt there were a group of foreign web sites that could not touch but that could be brought down by exposure, not quite legal but certainly within the spirit of 'Anonymous'. Where public justice fails private 'Anonymous' action can still succeed.

  22. Corporate Tactic on 14,000 Domains Dropped Dyn's DNS Service After Mirai Attack (securityledger.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One has to wonder whether these attacks have become a corporate tactic, not a new one mind you but one that is spreading. The have the ability, the have the hardware, they have the network access and the most certainly they have the greed and along with that are inherently totally amoral in nature, with attitude like fines nothing more than a cost of doing business, the investors pay the penalties not the corporate executives, more money now, more money now, more money now, fuck everyone else.

  23. Close but not quite there. The problem is there is no basic coding language. It would be like teaching 4 completely different versions of Japanese (not far off the mark) and to make it even more interesting, new versions could come out and old versions die. Before anything can be done about teaching a computer programming language a new one needs to be designed from the ground up that much more closely aligns to the English language and the language of mathematics including it symbol. It should not be some bullshit excuse to feed billions in profits into some shit company like M$.

    New language, free of copyright and patents and that adheres to rules of English and maths. Until them the corporate douche bag, ass hat, greedy fuckwits can bugger off.

  24. Do not confuse an idea I present with my attitude, you know not of my attitude, all you know is the idea I presented, in a style that socially aligns with that idea. I am just a little lazy, perhaps bit of a worrier, nothing more. No MGTOW nonsense from me and I find the Mosuo culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... interesting and a likely viable solution to the current chaos. I find hardly any logic what so ever in the current religious dogma controls of reproduction and mating which seem heavily tied to forced reproduction and seem quite disgusting. Hardly anyone raised a brow at Uncle Toms Obama's rape brigades in Syria, with main stream media globally turning a complete blind eye, so current religious reproductive practices are hardly anything to gloat over.

  25. 'Mo Dieu, les incompetent', what fuck exactly do you think the desire for sex is all about, 'espÃce d'idiot'?!? (for the less subtle, French, the language of love).