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  1. Re:I'm as tinfoil ready as the next nutter. But: on Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Either that or the FBI got a warrant or you were a foreigner or they did PAY for the information, like everyone else ;).

  2. Re:I'm highly skeptical on IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Not matter what the leopard chooses, if the meal is not accessible it will starve and in this case the simple government expedient of forcing all government funded contracts to be carried out by US citizens within the US, will force companies to comply, whether they want to or not. Sure some will bitch, the insanely greedy but the rest will accept it as long as it is an equal playing field (in the end they will be economically better off, ignoring insane short term destructive psychopathic greed).

  3. Re:How strange on Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Still when it comes to luring employees, countries are competing. So not whether it is reasonable in China but how well it competes against other employment centres. So for China, logically relocating tech companies seeking to bring in foreign employees to Hainan https://www.lonelyplanet.com/c... makes sense. Employment conditions and wages will not drive recruitment, lifestyle when not at work will. At the end of the day, sticking to this list makes the most sense for employers and employees http://www.economist.com/blogs..., word of mouth and reasonable work conditions and wages will drive successfully long lasting recruitment, although admittedly if you attempt to transfer staff from those locations once they have settled, chances are really high they will quit and seek local employment along with permanent immigration. I know quite a few foreign staff who left companies rather than leave Adelaide Australia, especially cold climate foreigners, one year and it often becomes permanent.

    Unless you can get in that top 10 to 20 you will always struggle against other locations, that are in the top 10. Keep in mind it has an economic advantage because you can pay less and still more readily retain staff, especially if employment conditions beyond your own company for their skill sets are pretty slim.

  4. Re:But it's not "his" if they're not following ord on Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Reality check. Some egoistic fuckwit corporate executive decided on some stupid stunt (an idiot silver spoon type, never having to take responsibility for their actions), decided to get a Trump pick to get that information and that fool complied without thinking. Now it looks really stupidly bad. Easy solution find the idiot who did it and get rid of them, with a public explanation. Now if it was Trump himself, well, this will have really, really bad outcomes for the rest of his administration. Trump really should consider the consequences to forcing a work to rule situation that would last his entire period in office. Work to rule can have really have really disruptive outcomes and are totally legal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

  5. Re: Enormous breech of security on Uber Defends Privacy Practices After Allegations It Spies On Riders (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Normal people always forget, yep, you can not be rich without being greedy. They are cheap asses and will always spend as little as possible, unless and only unless, that spending is for bullshit poseur status ie watch me spend a thousand dollars on a bottle of wine (often crap but the coarse idiots can not tell the difference) and then piss it out, really sicking childish moronic stuff but reality. The richer the greedier and that's a fact of life no matter how they try to hide it with (spend big) public relations for false poseur status.

  6. Re:They can't dynamically figure this out? on Apple Removes the 'Time Remaining' Battery Indicator In New macOS Update (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone should be able to figure this one out. The pressure was put on Apple to produce a totally accurate battery meter, including life left. Now problems arise is that it will remind people they have a dying battery ie a battery at 80% of it's life will become 20% inaccurate in measurement, the older the worse, with fixed batteries designed to drive unit replacement, this becomes ever more problematic. So they simply allow download and install of free, supplied by others battery meters and deny any accuracy on conclusions to be drawn from that.

    You know eventually the public will force the supply of generic user replaceable batteries because the current system is a gross psychopathic abuse of planetary resources, to feed nothing but insane greed.

  7. Re:Alterterior Motives... on Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other (thehill.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Two words is no where near enough in this case. The whole idea is icredibly dangerously insane stupid, it's like what the fuck, Which shit head lobbyist managed to get this idea pushed through so their pet caimpagn contributor could believe they would make billions upon billions of dollars, fucking morons. This system is one hundred percent hackable right from the get go, seriously, it's design function is inherently hackable, it is designed to be hacked, at it's core. How, so fucking easy, just put those communications devices in all sorts of places with set transmissions, indicate of false current state for imaginary vehicle to induce dangerous evasive action in other vehicle which will trigger a real accident based up avoided the greater imaginary risk and there is nothing what so ever you can do to stop it. Absolutely fucking nuts.

  8. Re:Judge fucked up. on Florida Court Says Suspected Voyeur Must Reveal His iPhone Passcode To Police (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real problem is it places a legal status on your memory, that you are now committing a criminal act if you can not remember something. This is not a key or any other object it is an act of memory and not something that can be legally forced. Really with proper understanding of cerebral functionality and the provable plasticity of memory, how it can be changed by external and internal factors and as such only be considered some what reliable, even challenged false statements becomes questionable, letting alone demanding recollection as if the person is a machine with those memories permanently accurately engraved in space for all time, well, at least up until the time of death, well, at least for current legal practice.

  9. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course the other big woosh in this is the excuse. We have all made mistakes but I never remember adding extras letters and reversing the definition. Of course normal response in IT circles when phishing email is questioned, is fuck no, do not touch it, I will be right there to check it, this because phishing attacks are normally picked up by filters and any suspect ones that get through become an immediate concern because they represent a greater threat. Of course if you set up your insecure email server in a bathroom with intend to destroy all records if you do not have time to edit out the ones you do not want, meh who gives a fuck, arrogant criminals in government who can completely distort the application of justice as far as their criminally corrupt arse is concerned, well, security that a problems for the plebs. You just know some extremely bad file attachments will leaked out and that's what all the real fuss is about, you could imagine splashed all over Russian media and they after some time censored versions on grudgingly put on western media. When they start to arrogantly ignoring network security, they always go nuts become idiots and starting pushing the limits, no matter where they work government or private, right up until they are brought crashing down to earth. Nobody tolerates fuck ups in the end and they readily toss them out as sacrifices to the appearance of justice.

  10. Re:It's about Crushing the Agricultural Associatio on Why Did Japan Just Ratify The TPP? (businesstimes.com.sg) · · Score: 1

    How many Japanese products are made in China and just branded. Really the only reason they signed off is pure empty politics. No country with an even slightly honest government will sign off sovereignty to a secret corporate court. So with the US out, Japan can try to dominate weak partners because Australia and New Zealand are out. There is already agreement the deal will not be renegotiated so the Japanese government is just attempting to keep the existing one alive. It is pretty obvious is being a sock puppet to many Machiavellian schemes to force political stances upon the new government, including scams 'er' schemes designed to collapse, forcing more conflict in various regions, scandalous dumping of arms and munitions into conflict zones, desperate attempts to minimise the outcomes of pizzagate et al.

  11. Re:Fuck Twitter appeasement on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The text because apparently you have trouble reading "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." See nothing what so ever about only applying to the government, the congress shall make NO LAW and that includes the writing and application of contract law. I know you corrupt asshats have your own colourfull corrupt interpretation of English but how much simpler does it need to be for you idiots.

  12. Re:It makes sense on Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The corporate executes who appointed Obama and his administration (facts exposed in the DNC emails https://www.wsws.org/en/articl...) are still president. Uncle Tom Obama the choom gang coward is nothing but a empty talking head, speaking words written by his handlers, under threat of exposure for who he really is. This makes Michael Corbat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... actual US president in reality. After all the US president chooses the US cabinet and as such the CEO of citibank is the president and the other ass clown is just an sock puppet with someone else's shoved up where the sun don't shine. It's all Russia's fault of course.

  13. Re:Build your own on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? · · Score: 1

    How about some lateral thinking. Better gift for geeky children. How about some family MMO play time, parents spending some real time with their children, getting them started on an MMO and playing with them. Not just once but for many hours over many days. Plenty of MMOs to choose from and caring and sharing time is worth more than an crappy nick nack no matter how temporarily educational. So http://store.steampowered.com/..., LOTRO seems to play well for families and graphically is still hanging in there but there are many to choose from. So best gift quality parent time, caring and sharing and family fun.

  14. Re:Cue the hipocrisy... on NSA's Best Are 'Leaving In Big Numbers,' Insiders Say (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even worse, horror of horrors they exposed how much the NSA spies on their own. Those with the most privacy at the NSA, fucking worthless political appointees, those with the least privacy, everyone else. From the earliest youth every child is taught that those others children who spies on others, who tattle on them in the most exaggerated fashion for the least infringement, those who say one thing to the face whilst saying another behind their back, those who spread lies, are truly awful and are best to be avoided at all times. Even as children they know, that those kids will grow up to be perverts, sick people never to be trusted.

    I am sure many leave not just for the money but to feel clean again, all their efforts tainted by the corrupt worthless political appointees. They know their real job is not securing the nation for the majority, but the suppression of the majority by an insane psychopathic minority.

    Uphold justice, uphold democracy, uphold freedom and you are a hero, do the opposite of that and you are nothing but a slimy quisling minion, trusted by none, including those who employ them and spy on them like no other. They also toss them aside and destroy them based upon the slightest accusation whilst political appointees get away with murder, actual murder, with a pat of the back for a job well done.

    We will know we those left are true heroes, when they refuse to obey illegal orders and haul the corrupt political appointees before the courts, as well as the corrupt politicians passing on instructions and never to forget those corrupt corporate executives feeding the psychopathic egos and lust driving all this insanity.

  15. Re:its a white dragon. on Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    That flipside is a marketing fantasy. They would sell shit on a stick and call it premium quality, if they could get away with it and they already do with so many products. Trusting corporations based around nothing but greed is truly foolish.

    Automation, never forget how earth moving equipment replaced the truly hard labour of millions. The problem lies in the false claims of 'ownership' of all the resources of a country that are actually shared. Only insane greed, corruption of laws, allows extremes of violence to enforce a completely artificial economic construct, that has killed millions and will kill millions more.

  16. Re:Fuck Twitter appeasement on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: -1

    Technically speaking it is not their right. Under the constitution, no law, I repeat NO LAW, can be written which conflicts with freedom of speech and contract law, the law around which contracts is based, is a law and it can not be written in such a way as to infringe upon freedom of speech. To claim corporation have the right of censorship under contract law, is a lie, NO LAW, shall be written that infringes upon freedom of speech and that fucking includes contract law.

    The lesson here, fuck the corporate censors the gate keepers of advertising friendly news and information or in real speak censoring based upon wealth, rich say what you want, poor shut the fuck up. Any corporation products that actively censor with court proven cases of criminal action, should be avoided like the plague. In foolishly using them, all you do is empower their ability to control and distort every element of human society in order to feed the mindless greed of a tiny minority, those who must own everything to the point that the majority own nothing and live an empty life of servitude. Fuck em, you don't need them, those arse holes need you, remember exactly where they came from, nowhere and that is where they will end up.

  17. Re:Hillary Lost Because of Her on President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they? Clinton was the war queen, she loved it, laughed and clapped to see a person sodomised and tortured and then executed. They cheated on the primaries and got rid of the better candidate because they were in on the get rich quick scheme from cheating disaster victims to a money laundering charity, basically the entirety of the US government for sale, including war deployments.

    The are not there to look for evidence and expose those people to justice, they are far more likely there to destroy evidence of cheating the elections to keep the Libertarians and the Greens out of the next election.

  18. Well, now you do get to make a choice, whether you sue Samsung or Verizon when you note 7 burns your house down. The older the battery and the hotter operating conditions, the sooner it will go up in flames and when it comes to replacing that battery in some years times when it finally dies, well, you are shit out of luck. Keep in mind that people will be able to sue 'YOU' should your phone start a fire as you were being wilfully negligent in keeping a product that has been recalled for safety reasons. Someone dies in that fire and you are going to jail, most deservedly so. Verizon is just stupidly making themselves criminally liable for any harm those phones cause.

  19. Re:Says a man or woman on Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Utter bullshit, proof right here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and of course the infamous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Complete total utter bullshit to claim supply and demand. Workers in demand threatening increase in wages, oh no fuck that says the man, bring in temporary immigrants and crush the unions. So uber will just say they can not find trained workers to drive for them and they need temporary immigrant labour and they pay the lobbyists to pay the politician to get the laws they want to cripple the wage claims of their workers, it's the bullshit American way.

  20. Want proper ratings, than it needs to be a 10 x 10 system to give a score out of one hundred. a Score out of 10 for each of the most significant features of video content, often contradictory values perfect score, delete the review. When it comes to the reviewers, simply allow end users to block their reviews and that can do that by evaluating that reviewers ratings to their own, sufficient mismatch in ratings and simply ignore all their reviews, done and finished. They will not do this off course, just like the scum at Google choose to cook election searches in favour of their corporate pick, so they will want to cook reviews to favour the highest bidder. Basically since the election, nothing can be trusted from Google at all, nothing. Cheat on democracy, they you are totally willing to cheat on everything else, any review system by Google is simply worthless, they choose that bed of manure, now they can lie (heh heh) in it.

  21. It is easy, if you don't want to lose one of the buds, glue a plastic cord to them and tie the cord together and then tie that cord to your mobile phone, never lose a ear bud again see, all too easy ;DDD.

  22. Well, what I don't mind going to the cinema for a good movie. What I hate is all the mountains of bullshit piled onto shit movies to trick people to pay good money for a bad movie. Now that's what killed the cinema for me, too many shit movies with great reviews from shit main stream media reviewers, a bunch of bullshit hype, really insane idiotic pseudo celebrity worship where the can do no wrong and it really, really does piss you off when you are sitting in the cinema part way through a shit movie and the only thing keeping you there is the price of the ticket, the movie itself, crap. Now that's exactly what stopped me going to the cinema, over priced tickets and shit movies. Streaming I just kill the stream and play a computer game instead.

    So seeing movies at home rather than in a cinema is all about stopping watching them, rather than watching them to the end. Nepotism is killing the industry, formulaic, no creativity, no story telling ability, lack of knowledge in story telling, the prime typical example of the lot Jar Jar Abrams, not the worst but definitely the leading low light. It's not the environment it is the content.

  23. Re:Google, Motorola, Intel . . . on Every US Taxpayer Has Effectively Paid Apple At Least $6 in Recent Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you should make it easier for the US government to steal other countries taxes, is that what you are saying. Those offshore profits were earned offshore, so the taxes should always be paid where the revenue is generated. Not the US being and continuing to be a global economic and resource parasite.

  24. Tracking religion is not so much evil as stupid, unless they push religion into a compulsory family generational requirement. You can not be any other religion other than the one you were born into by your parents, this as a legal requirement. Without this of course, with freedom of religion, you can change your religion from moment to moment, even quite legally make up a new one for any reason. The whole messy business of once you are tagged with a religion for what ever reason, parents forcing it on you, other individuals claiming you are or random reason what so ever, once tagged you are branded for life.

    Sure you can control the literature, if religious works promote criminal activity, they should be banned or at the very least be made illegal to distribute to minors. Tough it causes at least three existing major religious works to be controlled until they are fixed in line with current laws, there is no excuse for their content, they could have been fixed decades even centuries ago but their crazed adherents refuse to adhere to modern laws, preferring barbarous primitivism and the dominate and control of sexuality, forcing themselves on others under the guise of religion. Religious work that promote criminal activity should not be allowed to be distributed to minors nor taught or approved of in any schools for minors.

  25. Re:They never learn on Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So exactly how does one force a back door into FOSS software, ban it?