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  1. Re:Associated study on pricing pressure on Pirate Bay 'Promotion' Increases Post-Release Box Office Revenue, Study Shows (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    The most popular will be the most pirated, for exactly the same reason but what are really the fair rules of expressive content, why should any of my work need to protect yours, your content, your problem. Want to protect it, well, fuckers, keep it secret why would I care. Hey, you provide food, you provide service, your provide life, sure your content has real worth, you provide pretend worth, what value does your content really have but well, pretend worth.

    Piracy and brigandage, what could not be more piratical or brigandage like but the predations of the pigopolists, why is your content worth protecting at my expense, seriously why, fuck their content, why is copying their content my fucking problem.

  2. Hey, hey, hey, it's like make believe money, should not the criminal in questions spend make believe time in prison, it's only fair, like a good behaviour bond, certainly still better behaviour that the cryptocurrency ponzi schemes.

  3. Re:Oh sure they will on Windows Setup Error Messages Will Soon Actually Help Fix Problems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Why is it all I read was, Windows will help you more with installing applications, instead of just presenting a meaningless message it will un-install the application for you, problem solved - wait what, how is a problem application installation solved by uninstalling the application, the problem hasn't been solved at all, you have just made it disappear, how does that solve anything.

    Ohh I get it, M$ will be calling all competing applications problematic and uninstall them for you, not windows fault, your fault for buying that application that windows wont run.

    Windows anal probe 10, NEW FEATURE, automatically blame all other companies software when they fail to run in windows, always their fault, yep uh huh, even when it was working before a 'Probe' update but now fails, application fault, Windows anal probe 10 is perfect.

  4. Re: So Rei is our official Tesla investment liason on Tesla Reports Second-Consecutive Profit; CFO Retires Again · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Checked the REI track definitely an Tesla fan big time but even a broken clock can be right twice a day. The Tesla short was all about buying Tesla on the cheap after financially crushing the company, a nasty plot schemed up by a car company and hedge fund managers, it failed and people should have been prosecuted including at the SEC because what they did to back the shorters against company investors, umm.

    Yet still cars will be the smaller part of Tesla revenue versus power systems. Suburban distributed power system, solar and battery, with Tesla buying the sparkage after selling the kit and then onselling that sparkage to major buyers at far better rate than the power grid incumbents who are always pretty shite and way to greedy, well the corruptly privatised ones who are typically very bad.

  5. Re:My issue with this on Second China-Bound Apple Car Worker Charged With Data Theft (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The underlying problem is not solved though, professional Chinese workers are looking to leave the USA and return to China, that is a real problem for the US, it seems they a loosing skilled workers. Obviously this guy was looking to feather his nest on the way out and gain some information to sell.

    Make no mistake though this is a corrupt corporate law, it should only be a civil matter because virtually anything under that law could be claimed as a crime with a ten year prison sentence.

    (a) Whoever, with intent to convert a trade secret, that is related to or included in a product that is produced for or placed in interstate or foreign commerce, to the economic benefit of anyone other than the owner thereof, and intending or knowing that the offense will, injure any owner of that trade secret, knowingly-- ``(1) steals, or without authorization appropriates, takes, carries away, or conceals, or by fraud, artifice, or deception obtains such information; ``(2) without authorization copies, duplicates, sketches, draws, photographs, downloads, uploads, alters, destroys, photocopies, replicates, transmits, delivers, sends, mails, communicates, or conveys such information; ``(3) receives, buys, or possesses such information, knowing the same to have been stolen or appropriated, obtained, or converted without authorization; ``(4) attempts to commit any offense described in paragraphs (1) through (3); or ``(5) conspires with one or more other persons to commit any offense described in paragraphs (1) through (3), and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy,

    This shit is wildly dangerous, any corporation could make a claim about any employee altering anything without written authorisation. A law written by corporations, for corporations and against the people. Pretty much any US corporation could prosecute any of it's employees at any time under this act for nearly anything related to anything claimed to be a secret that the employee does not have written authorisation to touch. Pretty much every US employee, should demand every instruction be in writing and only carry out those acts as specified in writing.

  6. Re:Why would it need to change? on Giving the Humble Stethoscope an AI Upgrade Could Save Millions of Kids (ieee.org) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If you are sending a child to an unskilled worker in a noisy medical clinic, chance that a better far more expensive stethoscope will fix the problem, well, fucking less than zero. See problem right fucking there, 'UNSKILLED WORKER', a bloody witch doctor would be better than sending them to an unskilled worker, who can diagnose one thing and one thing only with a better stethoscope, any other condition and you are fucked.

  7. Cough, cough, they already do hijack personalised windows updates with a security letter, seriously you are not that gullible to not realise that is eactly why they personalised operating system updates. Your windows anal probe 10 update is personalised to you and your computers, and when the US government wants software added to it, including firmware changes, M$ the pieces of shit do it and against the law, globally.

    Windows anal probe 10 update, breaks windows update, finally a windows update worthy of the name, one that blocks all future windows updates, I am sure a lot of people are interested in that update and how to replicate it.

  8. Re:The sooner they leave the better on Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan For Wisconsin Factory (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Quite correct the Terrorist in charge of the US deep state and Shadow government, the despots you obviously speak of, then waged economic war on Venezuala to try to force a coup, so they could steal the oil for US corporations who would pay the American despots huge payements. They fail at this though, just turns into shit. This time around, it seems they just want civil war to cut of Venezualan oil to push up the price because fracking is litterly burning money to burn oil, the biggest bankruptcy in US history and Venezualan shenanigans simply will not save them, that rapid drop in production after the first year, when share value is based on first years productions, is death for fracking and the clock is ticking down fast, real fast, so, so, many wells with massively falling production, they simply can not drill new ones fast enough to cover up dropping production and funding is drying up.

    The US after all the Russiagate nonsense it not even trying to pretend it is not conducting a purposefully coup in Venezuela to steal the oil resources off the people or shut it down, not even a pretence and threats to nation around the world who do not agree. What is it with the current administration totally and utterly incompetent. I am guessing, the next bunch will be at core the same, just better at pretending and the USA deep state and Shadow government will claim reform because the fucking bullshit speeches are better.

  9. Re:Working on the wrong problem. on Fake News Sites Are Changing Their Domain Name To Get Around Facebook Fact-Checkers (mashable.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No such thing as fake news, until it is proven to be fake in the courts. Snopes is a fake as the rest, with their own political ideological interpretation of what they believe to be true and what they believe to be false.

    US corporate main stream media is the fakest of the lot, not news some real some false, a fake news organisation when in reality they are nothing but corporate America propagandists, along with Google and Facebook and M$, pack of lying shit stains.

  10. Re:masters, even doctorate, means nothing on H-1B Visa Lottery Will Now Favor Masters, Doctorate Degree Holders (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The US is kind of stuck, the ability to recruit better is pretty rapidly falling off. I mean who really wants to be shot an random by some trigger happy junk yard dog law enforcer. How about being a frenemy like the Russia girl, from liberal friend of the USA to Russian whore overnight because it suited some freak fuck wits strategy. Then there is growing hate and racism. A heavily polluted environment and getting worse by the day. Growing violent crime. Not to forget fired at a moments notice for what ever whim. Harassed by secret services for potentially being a spy. Don't want to be placed in a low lying underwaterfront locale but that is a global problem but financially, only tropical Island will fair worse that mainland USA and they always blame the immigrants.

    Smart money is on office relocation to places where high end employees want to go and not where really good marketing and public relations used and I mean past tense, to convince they wanted to go. US companies want the best from around the world and not just the greediest because they will back stab you, the best most productive people, you are going to have to relocate to places where you can recruit them more easily and far more cheaply, better quality of life, lower salary and you want to avoid the greediest at all cost, because they will cost you a lot more than you bargained for in the end.

  11. PS can't resist, for any unemployed journalists, looking to 'learn to code' (heh, heh), Ruby is the language for you, easy to learn, easy to code and quite popular, so unemployed SJW journos, "Learn To Code Ruby" ;D.

  12. Java is a clutzy, cumbersome, overly verbose language annoying to use, only gained life through marketing and whole bunch of subroutines you could run from Java libraries, pre done algorithms, that if you had to write from scratch, you would scrap Java, the only thing that kept Java going was the Java libraries. Ruby writes much nicer, far more compact code and is far superior to Java, just lacks the massive libraries of pre-done code, which is not that necessary for Ruby because it is faster to code with, https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ (I put the link in because it was the language I enjoyed the most).

  13. The US government collects lost causes. You know failed regime change operations, that it is now tied to but can not govern, that eats money and people. No one is a bigger collector than the US, heading into the double digits territory, the forever wars.

  14. Re:Be ready to pay over $1K for a disposable devic on System76 Unveils 'Darter Pro' Linux Laptop With Choice of Ubuntu or Pop!_OS (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not true at all, in fact one great big fat lie. For a computer to be efficient, it has to be efficient in the environment it is used. Just doing internet, and some spread sheeting and word processing, the majority of the market, than Linux is factually the most efficient OS. Want to play computer games, well, technically, "The operating system is Orbis OS, based on FreeBSD 9." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., is the most efficient. In a business environment it depends upon the main packages you use in that environment. In the server environment Linux absolutely craps all over Windows. How about TVs, the smart TV, well there again, Linux with an Android TV layer absolutely wipes out windows, windows does not even appear. How about phones, well, M$ has rolled over and is playing dead ants, so zero efficiency there. Down to tablets, well, that is Apple and Android, windows is nowheresville in that environment. So down to laptops, well, Chrome is eating into Windows as is Apple so, a battlefield and a toss up which one to go with. All that is left, they tiny shrinking ever getting limper, desktop market (excluding smart terminals), M$ desperately clinging on to a shrinking market because it can not expand because that are a pack of privacy invasive anal retentive control freaks and their customers hate them.

    Windows is dying because M$ are a pack of dicks, how is MSN doing M$, how small is that market share, and it is all down to your dickish attitude.

  15. Re:What no global warming article? on System76 Unveils 'Darter Pro' Linux Laptop With Choice of Ubuntu or Pop!_OS (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you have ten years left to live, I have heard of no one who can make those guarantees. Climate change or not, you could be dead tomorrow or a week from now. How ever, if you do own a low lying seafront home, yeah, it will probably be dead, 'er', wave washed rubble within ten years, underwater front, it's a thing, get used to it. Definitely sell and do not buy, let some other sucker let their investment drown and 'DIE'. There is always stilt homes and amphibious vehicles, drive one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?... to you home from the shore and back (it's Russia and that makes it much funnier). This is not a pro-climate change comment, it is an ATV comment ;D (it's a /. thing).

  16. Re:Just pay taxes on Amazon To Fund CS Classes in Over 130 NYC High Schools (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon are a shite employer, this is basically the computer drone burn out program. Get as many recruits as early as possible, use them up and toss them out. The only worse employer would have to be US defence forces, talk about treated like a slave, do something wrong and get stripped naked and abused. Google is going real nasty, all lip service and back stabbing.

    They are preparing to continually hire, burn out and dump, employees, only the biggest arseholes survive in that environment, where they make sure anyone smarter than them is fired and anyone stupider is blamer for everything. They are creating a toxic work environment, which will only get worse and worse.

  17. Re:Good for them! on China Will Attempt 30-Plus Launches in 2019, Including Crucial Long March 5 Missions (spacenews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's called peace numb nuts, working together instead of one trying to dominate the other, which leads inevitably to war and that means MAD mutually assured destruction. Peace is not just a symbol, peace is working together upon a basis of trust, integrity and honesty, it is the only way it works, there is no other way, apart from peace by death and extinction.

  18. Re:Bricks and Mortar Game Shops Would Sell More Go on Game Retailer GameStop Says It Can't Sell Itself, Sees Stock Drive 27 Percent (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a prime example of why Gamestop is failing. Think about the stupidity of Gamestop to allow, here let me sell you a game and then go to my major competitor to actually get it, how bloody stupid can they be.

    Obviously due to the nature of the company, those stores would be cheated of sales if they direct distribute online but they still needed to do the restructuring, to compete head on with steam, without killing their stores but failure to compete with steam, means those stores take gamestop down with them.

    Here is how you do it, like the old milk companies, milkman got their routes and whether or not they sold on those routes was bound to sales efforts of the milk producer. So for Gamestop, online direct sales, go to the store catchment, and that store is prompted to promote Gamestop on a click and mortar basis, so they get a credit for all gamesales, whether direct or indirect in their catchment.

    This allows Gamestop to kick Steam where it hurts, offering an extra service Steam do not, the pick up, not just for games but also for hardware. If they were really smart, that memory stick is not that bad an idea, sell a memory stick, pay for the memory stick and pay for the game, they are not that expensive now and you are not throwing it away, hell after you use it, you could go back to the store and download the game at the store of the servers in the back right to the memory stick you already OWN, ta dah, crap all over steams offering. Buy on line, go to store with memory stick and pick up the game off the stores servers.

    Whilst there, they can try to sell hardware. Gamestop are failing because they did not work to compete with steam, just sort of hoped for the best. The need to work click and mortar properly and that means creating catchments for the stores for online direct game sales. Not when ever their clients have a problem they can go to the local stores, rather than being indifferently fobbed off like steam does. They are turning to shit, so now is the time for Gamestop to expand their offering.

  19. Re:Doomed on Apple Says Profits Were Flat, Citing Slump In China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Well they were, it seems they have pulled their thumb out and are developing new products and properly evaluating existing ones and obviously looking to expand muchly in the OS space as in iOS vs M$ vs Android.

  20. Ban all facial recognition in public places, only legally allowed within private spaces and to be only used by the company at that private space and not across others, shared or sold and to be deleted once the identity process has been completed.

  21. Re:New? on Online Piracy Can Be Good For Business, Researchers Find (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Steam really screwed the pooch on forced gaming upgrades, which broke games, was only to sell DLC, added in advertising, the user can not block them, at all. Basically gave up on Steam after Paradox screwed around with forced updates, compulsory invasions of privacy else the game would not run, altering a game completely to sell DLC they planned. Until steam drop forced upgrades that are bad for people but suit idiotically greedy publishers and developers, they are shite and should be avoided. I wont be going back to that store. Shifted all MMOs away from steam and just leave it shut down until except to run steam specific games, which I most definitely will not be adding to and then offline.

    Steam has turned to shit and should be avoided.

  22. Re:Seems dubious to me on Apple Plans Netflix-Like Gaming Subscription Services, Report Says (cheddar.com) · · Score: 1

    For the Apple market, the digital country club market. Likely the only subscription for gaming should be various MMO games linked togethor. Create a toon and run it across various game, pay a sunscription not for one MMO but all MMOs that are part of the library. Different MMOs for different play styles but still linked togethor. So you a paying a subscription not for one MMO but many, something like 10 or more. Need to be creative though. The Apple audience is a creative audience, it needs to be done properly, to not only supply the Apple country club set with games but bring in gamers, not just to the software but also the hardware.

    This is a far more complex and expansive issue than Apple probably realise, with some pitfalls but a chance to cause a major shift in consumer computing, come at M$ from a different direction, to cripple Windows anal probe 10 and push forward iOS.

  23. Re:FAILURE TO COMPETE on US Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Stolen, what a crock of shite. It was given away by US corporations who wanted to break the backs of US Unions by purposefully shifting out all jobs, impoverishing US workers and leaving them desperate and willing to accept crumbs. China stole it, fuck off, the US gave it away because they were short term thinking psychopathic cunts and they were warned of this outcome years ago, I should now, I participated in the warnings but short term insane psychopathic thinking, could not see beyond destroying American unions, with corporate executives having all the power to dominate the globe, insane shite from the insane. The outcome well you killed the unions but killed your industry at the same time, big fucking win, you idiotic morons.

    All that is happening now, it that it is making the US, look like insanely corrupt psychopaths for whom the rule of law means nothing and bullshit is everything, they just lie, all of the fucking time, lie, lie, lie, it never stops and the world is just responding back with lip service now, nobody trust the US government at all and especially not Americans. Look at the fucking spectacle you are making of yourselves, only overweening absurd arrogance is hiding the reality from Americans. Still think they are winning, whilst actually losing all over the place.

  24. Well time for a bit of reality. Why is tweeting, 'learn to code to Journalists mean', well, it wasn't that long back I was in Uni and was forced to do computing 101, talk about a gimme subject, well, for some. For the computer literate and plus 125 crowd easy for the rest, well, they were Liberal arts students and struggled and that was it for computer coding for them, oh they wanted too alright, just that they couldn't. Seriously the fake social justice journos, were not journalists at all, just screaming social justice fakers, waffling divide and conquer propagandistic shite, really low class, writers. Those individuals are incapable of learning how to code, just they way it is, they have already tried and failed, hence taking up those fake journo roles, paid to bullshit, that they could do.

    Being a good journalists is hard work, they are incapable of it, coding is intellectual beyond them, don't be mean and do what they did to blue collar workers, those fake journos were dicks when they told blue colour workers to learn to code and this is the real reason, they are now being told to learn to code because they were being dicks when they did and now they don't like it.

    There was a moment in history, when those fake news rags, were a thing, pretend to be left, run all the left meaningless fluff pieces, identity shite and the rest and when it came to real polices, economic, foreign etc. all far right, backing the corporations all the way, either by censoring negative information or straight up lying.

    So the charade failed over time, people realised only fluff pieces came from the left and they hard right backed the corporations on real issues every single time and people abandoned them because they were fake, lying, scummy cunts who purposefully set up those media sites as shams, appear left as camouflage whilst being far right corporatists in reality, all done for profit and fuck the rest of humanity.

    Fuck those fake arse, lying quisling stooges, they were not journalists, they were divide and conquer quislings for the shadow government and they didn't work that well, they did not shift public opinion enough for the public to wish to enslave itself to the corporations and they are being fired. My message to them, not learn to code, learn to eat the bullshit you tried to feed to us.

  25. Re:Calm down and think on The Robot Revolution Will Be Worse For Men · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The argument is a lie. The dominant male jobs are the trades, plumber, electrician, carpenter, brick layer et al automation in that regard requires full robotics and AI. Labourers will lose jobs but it depends on the labour, some rural industries more than others and that affects women equally, low end labour also counts the food services industry and so the impact will be equally felt by women, more so in fact because low end labour will feature major competition for places between men and women and men being stronger means women forced out ie low end labour will shift from rural to metro and with it job pressures will rise.

    Of course for the psychopaths at the top, they want the labour camps, they want hold and cold minors on tap to abuse, they want war games with the peasants, they are sick fuckers. The automation discussion in the current context, is psychopathically insane, the rich buy robots and the poor die, that is the discussion in reality.

    Where is reduced working hours, sharing the labour and the reward, gone with the dominance of psychopaths, the normies are just there to be used, abused, sexually exploited and killed at a whim by the rich and powerful. Don't get rid of them and the killing will start, just the way it is.