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  1. Re:So the bureaucrats have solved all the problems on Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You have all missed one the really important factors driving the ban. Inner City and Suburbs prices will jump, as those cities and inner suburbs become a lot cleaner without the infernal combustion engine polluting the crap out of them. At a quick punt, ignoring the counter impact of underwater front properties, those values good double and in the US where inner suburbs devalued, increases even further. Developers with inner city and suburb properties will be screaming for the ban. People fail to realise how much cleaner and more breathable cities will be and the impact that will have on property values and investment, people will be demanding healthier cities and that guarantees the end of the infernal combustion engine.

  2. Re:You would think science could help on Can We Really Stop Climate Change By 'Capturing' Carbon? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to destroy trees to frack if your fracking sites (plural, many times plural) if you frack in the desert. I you frack in a forest you have to tear down a whole bunch of trees. To create access roads, a bunch of trees gone, one to each fracking site. By the way those fracking sites, don't let the slime lie to youm make believe like it is one site, oh no, absolutely not one site. Fracking has very limited range and as such hundreds even thousands even ten of thousands are required to frack an entire field. Those bloody liars always make it sound like one well, so bloody wrong at minimum hundreds are required to tap a very small field. This is why the earthquakes, why the huge amount of water pollution, it is not one site affecting a particular environment zone but thousands. Each and every one with it's risk of an undiscovered fracture that releases the pollutant into the once potable water supply. They know full well, they are lying about the consequences of fracking, no better proof the the laws they wrote to exempt themselves from polluting the environment, they knew, they positively knew there would be major problems, hence they paid corrupt politicians for that law (otherwise why spend that money).

  3. Re:What's good for the goose on WikiLeaks Releases Paid Clinton Speech Excerpts, And Threatens To Expose Google (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So closed polling stations, defunct voice votes, purged voter rolls, actively campaigning against, hack supporters rolls, all of that is the rules of the game, yep uh huh. The rules of the current corrupt game, no prosecution for high crimes not matter how many die or how much is stolen. So apparently why the ex-Google big shite decided to go with alphabet as the name of the company because they are tied to the alphabet agencies, in a global scam. Steal fiscal data for an inside edge in investments, hack everyone's computers to steal potential patents, engage in mass political based extortion for political and economic advantage, establish global censorship and the worst scam of all, complete distort all democracies by prompting their politicians and attacking every other politician.

  4. Re:It just shows how arbitrary it is. on Appeals Court Reinstates Apple's $120 Million Slide-To-Unlock Patent Win Over Samsung (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    More accurately, they might as well flip corrupt judges to see whose off shore tax haven retirement bonuses those judges will accept. Has ever failed to be aware of how many poor politicans and government officials suddenly become rich overseas holiday jet setters when they retire, gotta travel to those tax havens to spend that money.

  5. Re:Removable batteries on Samsung Could Face Second Recall As US Probes Burnt Phone (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea of replaceable batteries is a legislative cause and while we are at it forcing a required battery shape and connection are also on the cards. Here's betting the replaceable battery crowd will win because the current design of forced resource wasting, unnecessary pollution generation, redundancy program is psychopathically insane and must be stopped.

    Contrary to any bullshit out there due to size and shape of phones making them waterproof is very difficult and there are none in the consumer market what so ever (just temporarily sort of water resistant). To make a light weight water proof phone with a removable battery is easy. Make phone internals, cast internals in solid resin (so basically the phone is one solid lump, care needs to be taken with compressible eletronics, where they are position in relation to the vary thicknesses of the solid case. Incorporate the battery in the backing reinforcement case ie the back panel is the battery, you toss the entire panel when you replace the battery and that panel is fully supported by the cast resin body of the phone and is not only the power supply but the heat sink. You could also have the viewing panel removable, as it would be fully supported by the cast resin case in terms of compression loads. That resin must conduct heat but of course not electricity.

  6. Re:Double standard on US Intel Officially Blames the Russian Government For Hacking DNC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope people all over the world are sick and tired or lying politicians and government officials making all sorts of claims, when it comes to seeking greater funding, or when they screw up and want to blame others or when they want to hide how much they are stealing or trying to cover over corruption. So what if Russian or Chinese or English or American or what ever agents hack other countries and publicly expose their corruption, not only so what but yeah, triple plus good, keep it up and never ever stop. As long as they are exposing corruption, than it is a good thing right, you are not trying to claim it is a bad thing when other governments expose your governments corruption are you. Seriously, you think it is wrong for other countries to expose your countries corruption, seriously, you would rather keep the crimes secret and those criminals in power continuing to commit crimes, rather than have them exposed by foreign countries agents. Well, I would rather have those foreign agents working double overtime to expose every possible corrupt politician in my country and I would quite happily thank them for it.

    Isn't all becoming rather pathetic when we now have to rely on other countries investigatory agencies to expose the corruption in our own governments because our own investigatory agencies have been crippled by corrupt political appointees. I do see a problem in that but it obviously is not the problem you see, I would have no qualm about helping a foreign government expose corruption in my own government, if my own countries investigatory agencies were failing to take reasonable and proper legal actions with regard to that corruption.

  7. You can leave Facebook, you can never leave Google, at least not yet, it would require new privacy legislation. Simple start, would be governments requiring all companies that retain information on citizins to notify each and every citizen about what information is being retained, not just nebulous types but the actual data and how that data is used and to reaffirm permission after that information is provided and this should be required to occur upon a yearly basis. It is most emphatically not meant to be cheap or easy but is there to force a real cost on invading people's privacy to ensure it becomes a significantly less profitable business area. Full, annual individualised privacy disclosures are required and should be legislated and if companies don't like it, they can simply delete the private data being held.

  8. Re:Terrorists on FBI Looks Into Unlocking Minnesota Mall Stabber's iPhone (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Every ?terrorist? killed has shown signs of mental health issues, looks like that moron actor Ronny Rayguns idea of crippling social mental health services to save on taxes has been blown up, shot, stabbed and run down, right in all the innocent victims faces. How many lives would have been saved if that idiot had not been allowed to cripple social mental health services and letting US law enforces shoot mentally ill persons at will is not a solution, neither is tying them down and torturing them to death with tazers and chemical weapons. Ronny Raygun and Bubba Clinton sure saved on their rich buddies taxes none of theirs died, so final count, was more money saved by crippling social mental health services or was more spent on the aftermath, the cost to victims, the damage to property, rising security costs, the cost of the problem being dumped on untrained law enforcers.

  9. Well technically it is free virtual foods stamps to buy free virtual food and specific virtual restaurants. Basically those on the bottom of the capitalist pile, those least able to compete and by that virtue deserving of being contemptuously exploited, those who can not afford internet services, can be plugged in and monitored 24/7 and manipulated and controlled at will by the corporations that would be using deep psychological profiling and targeted messaging to own and control them. Now what could go wrong with that?

    Now for those idiots, exactly what could go wrong with that? You are targeting individuals that lack social sophistication with psychological manipulation that takes no regard what so ever of the psychological health in order to manipulate their desire and consumption, no matter their inability to afford the lifestyles they are being sold or the psychological harm that does to vulnerable people. Consequence sociological collapse and a massive surge in crime.

  10. Re:Palmer Luckey on Zuckerberg Teases An 'Affordable' Standalone Oculus VR Headset (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Consider that main stream media attack and now consider the main stream media blatantly buying election, George Clueless, blatantly ugly hundreds of thousands of dollars blue plate special, the ultimate fuck you to us nobody voters and this arseholes launched an attack on a computer geek (oh look it's the empty head cheer leaders and jock strap douche bags on the attack against nerds and geeks thing all over again).

    So what the fuck was he doing that was so evil, taking the piss out of politicians that lie. Problem was they are the corruptly protected darlings of main stream media, what a crock of shite and hence the full on attack. The warning to all the other geeks and nerds, main stream media will hunt you down and publicly destroy you.

  11. Re:Maybe, maybe not on Upcoming Blade Runner Sequel Gets a Title: Blade Runner 2049 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Those shite cash in reboots are just getting worse and worse at least the king of crap reboots Jar Jar Abrams is no involved but that title is just so 'B' grade, ugh.

  12. Reporting Offshore Computer Crimes. on Two 19-Year-Olds Charged With Running Phone Harassment, Hack-For-Hire Sites (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    This multi-national prosecution tends to prove the value in reporting offshore computer crimes. You can report them locally but it can be far more beneficial to report crimes coming from overseas to overseas criminal investigation agencies. Now many would think there is no value in reporting those off shore crimes as nothing will happen but that is not true. Whilst those investigatory agencies might not do much to pursue the crimes against you, they will still likely kickoff an investigation to target the accused individual because the likely reality is, they will also be committing crimes in that region as well. So whilst you might not get direct justice, you can still get indirect justice, better some justice than none.

  13. Don't forget IPv6 address range is regional, so it is not like they can hand over billions of IPv6 addresses from one country to another. IPv4 will of course be squabbled over until it's final demise because of the huge values placed upon it with it's artificial induced scarcity. DNS nicknaming has gotten right out of control and does need to be redone, it is quite a greed driven mess.

  14. Re:Sometimes being first isn't the best plan. on Boeing CEO Vows To Beat Elon Musk To Mars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nope, this represent a major seismic shift in corporate ideology, a humanity saving shift. That shift is the change from a war industrial complex to a space industrial complex. Instead of turning in on ourselves in a egoistic orgy of self destruction through war for profit, that energy is finally starting to shift out into space. Instead of glorifying mass murder and the most brutal engines of destruction, that energy will be focused on better space craft, a full fledged Lunar City, colonies in space and even terra forming mars and that is just the start with hints already coming out about how to get past the FTL barrier. So a change that should be celebrated in every home, a shift from end of the species war to extinction to becoming a galactic species.

    Likely many are just way to shallow, self centred and narcissistic to appreciate things which benefit humanity as a whole, they quite simply can not see it because it is never reflected in the mirrors they stare at every day of their lives.

  15. Re:..and the rest on Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Make no mistake they all did fight to protect the privacy of users, which they consider they owned and thus the fight was not to keep that privacy, just not to give it away for free. The fight was for how much they could charge for selling your privacy, just like the sell it to everyone else, they own it, your privacy is their property and they demand that if government wants it, they will have to pay for it, just like everyone else. Now, that's the reality.

  16. The worst of it all, targeted political advertisements, now that is as evil as it gets. They are not happy with your political choices, which they get from poking you in your priavte places, no problems, send you a bunch of targeted advertisements, telling you that you support terrorism, that you support Russia, that you support China, that unless you vote for who they tell you to vote for, they will expose and destroy you https://techcrunch.com/2016/09... (the ugly reality in reality the main stream media attack on this individual, and that what is being prepared for us all - what did this guy do, he took the piss out of bullshitting politicians, oh the horror, the humanity and by far the majority do it). So the new targeted system, they do like the way you think, then they target you, attack you, expose you to others for attack.

  17. Re:I predicted this in 2012 on Google Fiber Is Now a Fiber and Wireless ISP (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically it will not be Google but Alphabet and Google fibre will do a brand shift, once they have gotten as much out of the Google branding they can, now not worth as much after the big shit and alphabet co were exposed using search to dick around in politics, the brand has lost a loft of shine as a result and those executives should be penalised for screwing around with company capital assets and worth to feed their own personal political egos. Could google or alphabet or what ever new marketing name they come up with be trusted as you sole communications provider, absolutely not, they have already been busted big time screwing around with democracy, so really super evil right off from the get go.

  18. VR versus portable immersion. The product that will sell is compact VR glasses that you get fitted at an optometrists (compact fixed custom lenses, rather than bulky adjustable ones), looking much more like old coke bottle glasses than goggles. People will want to see around them, so they can use them publicly. Want to obscure outside light, then slip on say a felt shroud the block light from external sources whilst maintaining comfort, around the glasses and cover the gap between the glasses and you face. The core requirement, they must fit in their case, in your top pocket and work with your mobile phone, similar to http://www.lg.com/us/lg-friend... but the missed the right design in a couple of key aspects (you really do need custom ground fitted lenses to make it work properly and that shroud does need to be a simple separate soft cloth et al piece).

  19. After Windows anal probe 10, M$ has the whole marketing stank thing going, it can't sell anything any more. Hence weird moves like this that serve no real purpose except marketing. So trying to associate with Ubuntu to recover some cool and loose a little bit of that stink. I don't think anyone is buying it though but they will still try. Expect of series of other similar PR=B$ stunts to try to improve their disgusting perve image, at least more government are starting to act against M$ and criminal prying into people's privacy.

  20. Re:Who Trusts Reviews? Who WRITES Reviews?? on Amazon Bans Incentivized Reviews Tied To Free Or Discounted Products (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, that's a great big ole lie and rates pretty low. By far the most common and frequent review is from pissed off customers. I have been to many a review site and pretty much the majority of reviews are pissed off customers. The other really popular review is the one off direct from advertising review, there are a huge number of them (interestingly enough many of those one off review will occur on the same day within minutes of each other). There are the paid pennies to review slime but there really aren't all that many of them, they lie for others and so they should not be surprised when they get lied to and do not get paid, super high churn. There are also paid negative views to attack competing products, they come off due to particular style a being actual employees of competing companies.

    The pissed off reviewers often go back to write further reviews, so a greater number of genuine reviews are floating around in the cess pool of fake reviews. Reviewing slowly but surely seem to becoming more popular, a hobby for consumers to indulge in for a few minutes at a time, brickbats and bouquets time, unhappy with a supplier and it's product let them know in the most painful way possible, happy instead, then reward them.

    Keep in mind genuine product reviews destroy billions of dollars worth of bullshit advertising and that alone is fun and worthwhile. Want to clean up reviews, easy allow people to block reviewers they do not like and eliminate them for personalised ratings.

  21. Re:Why would it matter? on FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say (foxnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am not aware of any circumstances under which evidence can be legally destroyed. Sure you can refuse to use it but I can not understand how it can legally be destroyed without being recorded and kept for future use, just in case, you know justice needs to be served. It all stinks of high heaven of the corrupt struggling to ensure another corrupt guaranteed not to prosecute high crimes criminal is elected. It seems everything after Carter was just a corrupt conspiracy to guarantee they could commit what ever crimes they wanted to and the next career criminal elected would not prosecute them. So Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Clinton all part of an extended long running con with guarantees of freedom from prosecution. Hidden for decades but now being exposed, that exposure a sure sign of it coming apart. If Trump were elected, you just know he would push for prosecutions against all those who attacked his family, it would all be quite amusing.

  22. Re:Anyone else on The Microsoft Band Is Dead (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That you could readily read the headline as "Microsoft brand is dead", is a pretty solid indication that it is dying and anything M$ is being seen as uncool, distasteful, perverted, and really quite off. Windows anal probe 10 is really putting the tiny limp in micro soft advertising. Even a relatively popular product ends up with a bad nickname XBone, now that just so tiny limp ;D.

  23. Re:Whoopty Doo on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A vote for Clinton is a vote for someone who enjoys killing people and thinks it's funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Face it the only thing that is happening is main stream media is making a fool of itself and very few people believe anything it has to say. The current US election has become one great steaming hot pile of cow manure. So many pseudo celebrities have turned their names to shite with moneyed poltical bias and blatant showing the nobodies how the rich buy elections.

    The bullshit of blaming Russia and China for the corrupt mess corporations and politicians have made of US elections is a joke. Who will they blame next 'Anonymous'. As their propaganda fails, so they spread more and look even worse and so they spread more and etc why, because they lie to each other as well. The paid propagandist lie about their propaganda effectiveness so they can sell even more. Main stream media makes a shit bucket ton of profit from the elections, hence they pump it up even further to sell even more. You have the US military spending 500 million dollars on terrorist propaganda, why, you even think they actually spent one tenth of that on productive propaganda or was it all profits and kicks and just barely enough spent on the propaganda to make it look like that money was spent on propaganda. The reason why it has all become such a mess, is they are stabbing each other in the back and undermining each others efforts, so they individually can get the snouts deeper into the trough. US government agencies in conflict with each other because of different political appointees working the causes of different competing corporations.

    Want more of the same bullshit, than keep right on voting the second worst candidate, this has been the game for decades and you morons are still lapping it up.

  24. Re:Headline features on Microsoft Could Bring Windows Hello To Android, iPhone (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    So if I bend over and point the phone at the other end of my digestive anatomy, will M$ recognise that as they insert digital the probe.

  25. Re:Is the implication that fresh water is bad? on Scientists Identify Another Source of Dangerous Greenhouse Gases: Reservoirs (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    POPSCI tends to be all about propaganda science, rather than good science (they use the science stories to sell corporate propaganda, advertising and right wing politics, definitely a site to be avoided). The reservoirs all allow the continuous irrigation of carbon dioxide absorbing plants in people's gardens, so availability of water for irrigation and plant growth, is far greater than the initial and fairly short lived high methane production, especially consider the claims about microscopic organisms that live in soil can some how shift to living under water. Sounds like another propaganda exercise to shift blame away from the fossil fuellers, one that the fossil fuelers are paying for, especially as they have been caught out lying and getting charged with crimes against humanity look to be in their future.