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  1. Android phones?, I certainly hope that Oracle's silly lawyers are not going to claim these a pocket devices https://www.sony.com.au/bravia..., unless they can show proof of giants with big enough pockets and Android TVs have been around for a while and most definitely are all in one desktop computers. For the majority of the consumer market, the combination of big screen all in one computer and tablet will replace the desktop computer (so technically Linux, Android is a Linux distribution, will beat out M$ on the desktop by replacing the desktop for consumers with the big screen tablet combination plus android notebooks or chrome books or good ole Ubuntu et al for schoolwork the major driver for most consumer desktop purchases).

  2. Donations post free download count for nothing, as it is legally up to the donator what the donation was for. Nintendo in this case is really dumb, basically they were going to get a ton of free advertising for their pay to play games, the better the free version ( as long as it is not as good as the paid version) just promote the brand, way cheaper than any other form of advertisement (free versus millions of dollars) of course, hmm, if the change their mind after the Streisand affect and become all nice and friendly with the free version, much, much, more free publicity, with tech news all over the world jumping in on the story, hmmm, I wonder.

  3. Re:Free Speech Must Be Stopped!!! on Former Twitter Employees: 'Abuse Problem' Comes From Their Culture Of Free Speech (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    It ties into the whole money is speech thing, just the same strange belief system, where the God of Capitalism is the US dollar and that is the only reason that statement appears there, it is weird and is written as such. Money as speech where one person can pay to drown out and silence millions of others.

  4. Re:Its a continuation on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The two big energy storage targets are the car and home, strictly domestic. The big problem with battery engineering is the commitment to a major plant, there is real fear of attempting to go to production and market with a battery that turns out to be far inferior to the newest one on the market and your plant going bankrupt before it can pay for itself. Major storage facilities is nothing but corporate greed, wanting to keep a strangle hold on that inherent monopoly market, simply wont happen.

    For domestic energy use, the typical family will create and store their own electricity using their energy infrastructure and only use the mains for backup. Now that represents real problems for high density residential, commercial and industrial because under normal rich sticking it to the poor rules, the domestic market, out of the pockets of the poorest hugely subsidises the energy delivery costs to the richest users. There is a good chance people with more reliable energy creation and storage systems will cut themselves off from mains power to save money, unless they get paid sufficiently to put their surplus back into the grid.

  5. Re:RTFA this time on Can We Avoid Government Surveillance By Leaving The Grid? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    7 Billion people chopping wood, well, the entire planets trees will last a few weeks, what happens next, I know, use those axes on each. Community keeps you safe now and it is the only thing that will keep you safe in the future. Fuck the axe et al, work with local people to rebuild the community, the one and only priority.

    When it comes to surveillance, misinformation is always going to be the number one tool for privacy, tainting information makes it unreliable and worthless. Lying on the internet, the norm it seems, makes much of the information from social media worthless, simply so much of it is not true. So join in the fun with social media illusions of yourself, consider it an extended massively multi player online role playing game, where the roles you play and illusions for the government to chase it own tail over. When it comes to corporate version simply refuse to buy any product target marketed at you.

  6. Re:The Force was not with them. on Internal 'Set Of Blunders' Crashed Australia's Census Site (cso.com.au) · · Score: 1

    I don't get what the fuss is about. To be honest, as I don't watch free to air or listen to it, I missed the whole must fill it in on the night scare tactic, I was expecting the book to come and as it didn't, missed the whole thing, until it all fell over. They asked bugger all questions and let's be real about this, if you make a mistake filling it in, they can not fine you and yes, I am still a Jedi and will be for as long as they ask that particular question in a secular state.

  7. Re:Free Speech Must Be Stopped!!! on Former Twitter Employees: 'Abuse Problem' Comes From Their Culture Of Free Speech (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 0

    According to the US government money is speech. So unlimited free speech makes it legal to pay someone to kill someone else. Only the person who kills commits a crime, the person who pays is just exercising their right to free speech ie paying for it to happen with 'In God We Trust', only US currency would have to gall to claim their money is blesses by God and can talk. So yeah you are freely entitled to express your opinion, have at it but you are not freely entitled to claim false facts or incite criminal acts. So there is that stretch between being free to express your opinion and intending to present untruths as truths or an intention to incite violence (in US 'In God We Trust' terms, money talks).

  8. Uncle Tom Obama is far, far worse than the Shrub, the Shrub had no idea what he was doing and it was Darth Cheney that was the real president. Uncle Tom Obama knows exactly what he is doing and the real negative outcomes of those actions. So that actions are taken with full intent, with knowledge and understanding of how severe those outcomes really are, which makes him far, far worse than the Shrub. You are comparing an idiot drug addict to a constitutional professor, the greater your awareness of the outcomes the greater the responsibility for your actions, that is a recognised fact.

    So Twitter the home of censored bird brains, no loss. Now if Twitter can censor by resident Lorikeets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., it's sugar rush fun party time when my fig tree is full of fruit but when it gets down to the last few, the morning screeching wars start, now if Twitter could censor that, it would be appreciated. Not that I hate birds, I let Rosellas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... dig a hole in my fascia to make a home, they are much more polite pilferers of fruit.

  9. Re: Just like trying to ban guns on France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Gees dude why make it so complicated, you are sending encrypted messages not the encyclopaedia Britannica. Simply code the message using computer to send it in clear. Type in your message and have your computer convert that message into normal empty chatter, however the arrangement of words and sentences is the code, it can be stupendously complex, adding in spelling errors, grammatical faults, names et al, but that empty message can be descrambled into a real message, quite a complex program but it can work. When it comes to distributing larger amounts of data, simply attach the web location for that data download and access that data via an alternate device.

    Next up just to create chaos for fun, target foreign governments agents, authorities and politicians with suspect messaging and communications, you know questionable sources, questionable content, links to offshore bank accounts they can almost access. You really do want them to waste much more time spying upon themselves then they do spying upon you and computer networks are really, really, good at generating tons of data, keep in mind you don't have to keep a copy of the data you send but they have to and you can really, really, flood out their systems.

    The whole thing stinks of lazy investigations, the computers will do their work for them but you can bet the terrorists will not cooperate and simply as they already do, rely on direct person to person communications and memory card transfers and more investigatory officers turn into donut munching lard arses unwilling to leave their air-conditioned offices, the ability to investigate that will collapse.

  10. Re:Right after the end of the free Win10 upgrade on Microsoft Extends Again Support For Windows 7, 8.1 Skylake-based Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The question then is can you trust M$ to not change the rules after they sell it to you for double the price behind a bunch of wishy washy marketing terms. So windows SE secure edition for the first year on the upgrade becomes windows anal probe+ with deeper penetrations, more power cycle pumping and bigger bandwidth flows and endless marketing ejaculations, just when you thought the experience could not become more unpleasant they make it worse and this all with the backing of the US government because they are also getting a piece of your ass via specifically personally targeted non-patches don't remove bug, they insert them, even into your hardware firmware. Will they change the rules after sufficient people force them to put them in place, of course.

  11. Re:try this on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Unreasonable Companies? · · Score: 1

    First thing I do and it has nothing to do with unreasonable companies is calculate the looses and how much time and effort I am willing to expend in recovering those losses. There is also the psychological impact, of how much satisfaction would be gained by forcing a reasonable outcome after the unreasonable interaction, even if the cost is higher than the return, sometimes you just have to, else you become a victim again. Then there is the fiscal suffering you can cause the unreasonable company and how much that exceeds the cost and effort you put into it. Keeping in mind if you need to deal with that company again or not and also whether it was the company or just the particular person or persons at that company that you were interacting with and whether resolution can be achieved by dealing with others at the company. Never forget if you have customers and unreasonable actions by others cause you to have undesirable outcomes with you customers, that also has to be taken into account. If unreasonable actions by others cause you to lose customer than very empathic counter actions need to be taken, a lost customers can by quite expensive and justifies quite high expenditures to force reasonable outcomes (often as proof to your customers that any negative outcomes were not your intent).

  12. The US Department of Defence investigated the rise of ISIS, oh the dry whit. Perhaps those captured American weapons and munitions, plus videos of ISIS using American weapons and munitions, plus actual journalist investigatory efforts, plus the reports from other countries investigatory agencies, plus actual battles between DOD terrorists and CIA terrorist, would have been a big enough hint as to who was responsible for the rise of ISIS and not by bloody accident. Well, I guess that will be one really easy investigation (look up the own record of actions) and will involve the use of a shit ton digital black marker pens when a freedom of information civil suit results in the report being made public. We all know exactly who they should be suing in equal measures. Number one on the hit parade, Saudi Arabia, followed closely by the NATO and then the US government (actually separate from NATO, really shonky stuff is going on between NATO and the US/UK/EU war industries from which the US government is actually excluded although they well and truly are footing the bill in every way imaginable), followed closely by Turkey and to round out the pack Israel. Suing Twitter for this mess was about as stupid as it could get, where as, fronting the court with much evidence of US arms and munitions, stuff you can not just go out and buy on the internet, would be quite effective and likely to draw assistance from various other countries governments, especially if the corrupt Democrat nominee is targeted (by someone with a bullet proof vest).

  13. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hint, hint, kind of stupid to professional suicide someone if you don't get away with. Sure plenty of amateurs get caught and most certainly the Clinton Clowns would have got caught if they attempted to do is personally, hence insider professionals were likely involved and using the government trained skills, quite simply got away with it as you would expect professionals to do (the reason why it was investigated 'to death' is it made no sense, except as the individual being suicided). Now a crushed throat training accident and two bullets in the back suicide 'er' robbery, in short order, added to the rest of the list, real organised crime stuff.

  14. Re:Russians really hate Hillary on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now for a slice of reality, the Russian government does not care which one is elected, Trump or Clinton, as they are empty figure heads and the power is with those that control major US multinational corporations, political plants in the CIA/NSA/DOD as well as other government agencies. You really think the Russian intelligence services are as stupid as the typical American voter and believes the elections in America have any real input into the purposeful mismanagement of the country (seriously they are purposefully bankrupting it so they can pillage it in the process, first cities, then states and finally the entire country, mass greed driven idiocy). Seriously this fucked up McCarthyist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism) troll of those opposed to Hillary Clinton must be paid Russian agents, is sickening. So they purged the democrat rolls of Bernie Sanders supporters, what's next purging the country of those opposed to Hillary Clinton because they must be agents of foreign countries (technically I am bwa ha ha), you can really, really see the goldwater gal in these tactics. (admittedly the American voter did get close to controlling their elections with Bernie Sanders and could even nail it, if they can get a Libertarian or Green candidate to wrest control of their politics from the corporations).

    The HRC campaign now looks exactly like a Republican campaign, absolutely no difference from previous Republican campaigns, seriously, looks nothing at all like a Democrat campaign from the seventies, prior to the corruption of the Clintons and their corporate supporters, a steaming pile of bullshit. One truly laughable complaint by Clinton against Trump, critiquing Trump for inciting violence, seriously WTF?, is she jealous, the person who purposefully incited violence across the globe killing tens of thousands, concerned Trump is cutting in on her territory with his amateur attempts at inciting violence, when she is a true professional at mass incitement of violence enough to trigger actual wars (yep a true progressive Liberal warrior, uh huh, just like Uncle Tom Obama). HRC now going after international what communist Russian paid agents, what the fuck next, how can they twist Bernie Bros to attack Dr Jill Stein.

  15. So as it is public software for public money, then the US Library of Congress should be expanded to incorporate a FOSS software repository. Which would be made available for people to deposit, maintain and download FOSS software, this as a matter or public record to apply some security principles for that software so that it is safe to use by government departments. A copy of the source code of all government software projects should reside there.

  16. Re:Dear all patents and patent holders. on UK Copyright Extension On Designed Objects Is 'Direct Assault' On 3D Printing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This change in law has nothing what so ever to do with 3D printing. This law is done to nothing but 100% corruption. The law is insanely unworkable and that is it's intent, a law corruptly written by douche bag psychopaths lawyers to create a mountain of litigation as corporations starting suing each other over knobs, switches, rounded corners, GUI arrangements, electronic forms any and everything that can be claimed to be designed and thus cripple each others new product releases with civil suits to block sales.

    Who prospers, no one but the dickhead lawyers buddies of the dickhead lawyers who purposefully and insanely corruptly wrote unworkable laws to drive profits for those who wrote the laws. Those lawyers actually scammed those people who paid them to stick in those laws, they will drive a chaotic mess.

  17. Re:By Hack it, they mean work for 2 bucks an hour. on Immigration Attorneys: Industry Pushes Foreign Labor, Claiming 'US Students Can't Hack It In Tech' (breitbart.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They want you to believe illogical bullshit. So the claim is that education in the US can not prepare students to become employees in tech industries, that already exist and we built using students trained in that US education system, that was (the one disparaged and being torn apart to create for profit charter schools). Can no one see the illogical bullshit, if the claim was in any way or shape or form true, the would be no fucking tech industries looking to employee those improperly educated students but as those industries exist and are pretty much fully staffed with educated students, then the claim must logically be bullshit.

    Basically they are loosing the lie, what they are saying is they do not want to pay one cent to train people, the want the government to do if for them for free (absolutely for free as they keep their money in offshore tax havens and do not want to pay one cent for taxes to pay for that education) and even when the government pays for all that training those corporations want to pay those trained people less, much less.

    Before the psychopaths took over, corporations trained people, tried to employ them for life and continued to train them, corporations were loyal to their staff and staff were loyal to their corporations. Now the psychopaths have turned it all on it's head, loyalty to no one or nothing, lying, cheating and stealing is acceptable as you get away with it or when you get caught the penalty is lessor than the benefit and the investors, well, their assets are there to be strip mined, at the first opportunity, taking into account the rules about net getting caught or the penalty being much less than the crime.

  18. When it comes to thinking, is it not always going to be thinking about what you are doing, whether that is physical activity or mental activity. Thought is required to move, it is just the extent of thought and the type of movement, the reward for the desired thoughts, will always be the responding flow of rewarding brain chemicals, that zone of pleasurable thought. So that zone can be achieved either by focusing on low level thought physical activity or high levels of thought with limited complexity of physical activity (going for a stroll is active but deep thought is also possible during that activity and due to our physiological nature that kind of activity can improve circulation and respiration and promote digestion, thus providing the nutritional resources to improve brain activity).

    For some deep thought quite simply hurts as desirable brain chemical taper off, leaving the individual to feel things they could normally ignored with the right flow of brain chemicals for others, disrupting their deep thoughts cuts off that flow of desirable brain chemicals and will often produce quite a negative response.

    So which do we value most as a species, to be able to life 100 pounds or to be able to spell it, are we animals or thinkers, which do we value more and so who are actually the fucking lazy 'people', the shallow thinkers who like to sweat or the deep thinkers who will spend hours, days, weeks, years pondering solutions to everything interesting.

  19. Re:NASA should shut down on NASA Celebrates Curiosity's Fourth Year On Mars With a Game (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called marketing. For NASA to release games is about helping recruit new employees, children who plan their future around joining NASA. Promoting public interests also reassures citizens of value for their investment into a future in space.

    This game however is not very good in that regard as it is not very sciency, NASA shoul endeavour to ensure the games they release to promote interest, promote interest in science, in space exploration and space settlement.

    So say, managing a space station, supplies and people up and refuse down etc or space travel in terms of plotting trajectories based upon take off points and desired target destination or designing a moon base. The games should not just be gains but should engage those who will be the future of NASA.

  20. Re:Good luck on This Company Has Built a Profile On Every American Adult (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So you know exactly what you do, you become an internet actor, 'it's not lying, it's creating many false profiles'. Basically poison their databases by creating abstract false information about yourself all over the internet. Run stuff like this http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmen.... It creates chaos in their databases. Computers are really great a tracking information and keeping records, they are even better at creating false information to flood relational databases with false connections that generate even more bad data. Rather than going nuts protecting your privacy, have fun creating a world of marketing illusion around yourself. Politically be a democrat/republican/libertarian/green independent. Simultaneously like and hate every imaginable product. Run multiple interconnected identities, with different background stories for each.

  21. Now to truly mock the end user, they expect you to pay for that probe, seriously. Invade your privacy at your cost, not just the software but also computer processing time and network bandwidth, charging you to invade your privacy.

  22. Re:Daily winspam on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Anniversary Update (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Meh, just buy a playstation (Sony might wake up one day and allow licence free FOSS software to run), use an Android phone instead of losephone (it would be a lie to call it a win phone and android is moving to big screens) and for servers, you are nuts if you don't go with Linux (huge savings and more secure , especially infinitely more secure from M$, they can't stick their anal probe in as the back hole does not exist).

    So major applications need to make the shift or the customers will leave them behind, just the way it is. M$ might be able to keep application and date lock on going in business but in retail they are doomed.

  23. There would be, it would all tie back the charters for forming that party and it's rules as well as the electoral rules in place state and federal. So it would require a proper investigation and of course based upon how corrupt the current uncle tom administration is, that will never occur even though people had to resign and a cheater publicly claimed victory with the aid of those cheaters. Really publicly embarrassing stuff that the rest of the world will be able to mock for decades. Just watch the US government try to claim, freedom (GITMO), democracy (Hillary Clinton primary cheating), and peace (to long a list of mass murdering conflicts to list them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., dude that is one major bloody long list).

  24. Dude you have no idea, poor people do nothing but fuck, it is all they can afford to do. Young people are put off by disease as they are much more aware of them, specifically of course AIDS (why gamble with your life), free pron has taken the mystique out of sex and turned it into the shallow rutting of animals with the exchange of bodily fluids, (lots of bodily fluids, every imaginable kind of bodily fluid, ugh), the only productive output of sex is children and in today's capitalist society they are hugely expensive (and are best as somebody else's problem) and of course everyone is more aware of violence in relationships (again why gamble with your life).

  25. Re:But the internet is for porn on Donald Trump Signs Pledge To Crack Down On Internet Porn (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is kidding who. If Trump has half a brain he can make everyone happy except the tiny minority who profit from porn. Simply adhere to the constitution and require that all copyright content, specifically porn, must pass the test demanded by the constitution, that the work furthers the arts and sciences (not make money but an actual social contribution), fail to pass that test and no copyright and so free pron for everyone (not a free test either but a pay to play test, and that content must be approved by a public board based upon the general consensus of the public as to what works further the arts and sciences and what works are just 'er' smut ;D (so the Libertarians get more freedom from copyright laws, the wowsers get to demand what content gets no protection (tee hee) and makes no profit and every else get free pron (of course the big whine but no one will make any more and the response of course is Jesus fucking Christ, don't we have enough already ;D).