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  1. Re:The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    From Hero to Zero, it's the internet and the meme already is Sanders the Sellout, done and finished.

    Really dumb political move that gained Clinton precisely zip beyond destroying Sander's ability to campaign for progressives in the Congress and Senate (the real goal in making a fool of Sanders). In fact Clinton is better distancing herself from Sanders as fast as possible. Clinton is hated enough without carrying around the baggage of Bernie the Betrayer.

    Politics is a mean game and Bernie was seriously stupid to not go neutral and focus on the liberal progressives in the Senate and Congress. Now his endorsement is more negative than positive as Sanders is everyone's enemy now, both the establishment and all those people fighting the establishment, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb.

    Smart political move, those idiots missed, too wrapped up in their own bullshit and greed. is that Sanders could have remained neutral on Clinton whilst actively opposing Trump, now the silly old incontinent fool can do nothing for no one, just retire and cash royalty cheques for the book the establishment will be sure publish for him.

  2. Re:Encryption != Integrity on FBI Agent: Decrypting Data 'Fundamentally Alters' Evidence (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically it does because from the human jurists point of view. Data goes into magic decryption box and data comes out of magic decryption box and the data is different, how different, hugely different, in fact so different one encrypted file could have gone and another completely different file could come out and not the decrypted other file, just a whole new file, one slipped into the magic decryption box. Likely to remain valid the encrypted file should be submitted and then decrypted with a open source decryption product on a clean box, so as to substantiate the source file was in fact decrypted and just not simply replaced with another file.

  3. Re:When will they learn? on NBC Universal Patents a Way To Detect BitTorrent Pirates In Real-Time (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    So lost sales in terms of exactly the opposite of this lie "These costs are typically passed along to the consuming public in terms of increased costs for legitimate purchased works and higher charges for increased deterrents to the piracy". So piracy does reduce the sold price of content and not increase it.

    So the lie is to claim, people will eat less, not buy clothes, live on the street instead of paying rent, have no furniture and instead give all their money to drunken drugged up minstrels and their publishers. Reality is people are already spending more than they have, any increase in spending is just a delusion.

    So much of the new content is such bad crap, the only way it gets viewed is via piracy. PR the most advertising is spent on crappy content selling itself before the real reviews kick in (piracy tends to short cut the bullshit review game).

  4. Re:Arguing over the subjective on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Linus has achieved Godhood status, Grump Old Dude, don't worry, we all go there, well, at least those of us who survive long enough. That's why the good die young, as you get old you get a bit crusty around the edges, just a fact of life ;D.

  5. It really depends on the type of eugenics. One type the type practised by the NAZIs simply involved them killing everyone they disliked for any reason they disliked them, with the claim of superiority, even though clearly by their actions they were just demonstrating their inferior violence and primitive from the gut thinking.

    The other type would be about making sound rational reproductive choices about the population that we could sustain based around people with a demonstrated capability of contributing to the society that would sustain them. So an effective social welfare net supported by sound, to make it blunt, breeding practices. Keeping in mind much current reproduction resolves around intoxication and people being to lazy to bother with birth and being too intoxicated to care. Should a licence be required to people to reproduce and be allowed the responsibility of the care of tiny new citizens who have the full rights of protection that all others citizens have, on balance, YES.

    The real question to be asked is when is from the gut guesses better then clearly set out and thought out solutions to problems based upon a track record or previous problems and solutions and well as logical extrapolations of past experiences that have been validated as actual realistic evaluations of those past experiences.

    Seriously WTF, Neil, that is science when it is applied to people. Not junk science made up and manipulated or bullshit from the gut thinking smeared over with a layer of bullshit from main stream media to look credulous. Becoming more scientific does not mean becoming more stupid, although it most certainly does become more confusing for those idiots who can not understand science as a result of haphazard intoxicated breeding program promoted by the main stream media propaganda.

  6. Re: The Taste must have been fired also on Hostess Saves Twinkies By Automating, Fires 94% Of Their Workforce (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Except that the research was proved to be a blatant public relations manipulation. The research was tied to the children only ever eating a safe amount of sugar based upon their dietary requirements and not the amount of sugar they could actually consume and normally would consumer when pigging out on candies, soft drinks and cookies. So yeah, kaboom sugar rush and sugar crash because they were consuming ten or more times the dietary requirement and not an extremely limited consumption of sugar in conjunction with the consumption of other foods that would slow down the digestion of that sugar (as purposefully main stream media public relations exercise designed by sick pathetic junk researchers paid to produce a result junk food corporations wanted). Liar, liar, pants on fire, blame that on sugar if it will make you feel better. Technically of course you can not actually do a sugar rush test because it would be illegal to poison children with excess sugar to measure the affect of the excess sugar, even though mad fucking Americans do it every Halloween. Why the fuck exactly do you send your kids out on the street to beg for candy, why, just why ?!?

  7. Re:Oh this is cute. on Telecoms Promise 5G Networks If EU Cripples Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    More fun to national the networks for token payments, fire all senior executives and directors and let them reapply for their jobs, with major pay cuts and hugely increased actually working hours. Is that not the normal strategy corporations have when they take over other corporations, why should not the people do that via the government they are meant to own and control.

  8. Re:apple will want 30% of ticket / court fees on Uber Investor Suggests Addressing Police Killings With an App (usatoday.com) · · Score: -1

    Want to know the real reason why the chaos in the USA. So sad and simple, lead water pipes, firing lots of lead bullets at the firing range and a history of lead in fuels (that lead still left over in the environment). I personally find the lead water pipes to be by far the most, well, I am at a loss for words, it just seems so fucking unbelievable stupid (not that they went in, in the first place but they are still being used ?!?). The lead bullets, well that most certainly goes a long way to explaining gun nuts, fire that lead bullet and the heat and friction release a lot of lead in the immediate vicinity of the shooter who then mainlines it in major concentrations (the more bullets they shoot the bigger gun nuts they become). Lead in fuels of course got so many of us, 10 to 20 points of IQ gone because of the greed driven stupidity of a minority (may the all speed an eternity in the hell of strangling beds). The lead triple play of course created it's own social political movement, a self destructive, amoral and unthoughtful one.

    So the millennials (less lead poisoning) are seeking to change things and you know what, the lead addled fuckwit generation is screaming at them for be entitled, when the millenials are just sticking up for what the lead addled fuckwit generation would have stuck up for if they had not become lead addled fuckwits.

  9. Re:old wisdom on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Time is arbitrary, it is nothing more than a relative measure of change, how long that change takes is only relative to itself, the time it takes is only ever going to be relative to other changes. That duration in and of itself is completely meaningless. There are at least three greater cosmos, the microverse, the universe and the macroverse. A inherent balance of motion and size, represented differently in different ways within each verse. What exactly is going on in the microverse and macroverse, well trapped in the universe, we can only guess and hint at and try to make use of it as we are both to big and too small to effectively relate to them in any meaningful way, beyond hypothesising on them and trying to make use of the product of those hypothesises in our universe. Beyond the microverse and the macroverse, there is also the chaosverse and we all are a temporary extrusion from the chaosverse, the universe and it's associated microverse and macroverse.

  10. Re:Wrong, evil and going to happen on EFF Delivers 210,000 Signatures Opposing Trans-Pacific Partnership (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind the leaked response from the Australia government representatives who actually signed the accord, "It was worse than swallowing dead rats". As to why they were swallowing dead rats in the first place, perhaps it was part of the Toilet Paper Protocol (for what it does to countries constitutions) initiation. It looks like they have zero chance of getting it through, they are just making themselves look worse and worse. I think they keep pushing it, even though they know they have lost because they believe they will have gained ground on pushing it through next time.

  11. Re:Why is hacking okay? on Kentucky Anonymous Member Indicted Three Years After FBI Raid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The real point here is not what was done but the mistakes that were made. Admit nothing, deny nothing, the only answer, we will discuss this in court, and to ensure you do not get refused to answer all over the place, answer questions with questions, never answer questions just seek clarification of the questions, the motives of the questioners and the basis for the questions (when they claim you are not answering the claims, state clearly that you legally are answering those questions). What is happening here is those who did not want to prosecute the original case because the rapists were protected and the victim was a nobody, now want revenge. Note they waited until after the real criminal were released so their penalties could not be reviewed whilst they pursued greater penalties against those that exposed the corruption.

    I actually think the prosecution is a scam, designed to bait individuals into playing 'Anonymous' and then targeting them, it's a trap. Otherwise why dredge it up three years later.

  12. Re:What went wrong, Nothing went wrong on Theranos Faces Congressional Inquiry Over Faulty Blood Tests (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    'ER', like, companies declare bankrupt because they can not pay their creditors, after they used their creditors to generate personal profits (usually exorbitantly inflated wages and golden parachutes) and then socialised those losses on their creditors but wait, it doesn't stop there. Their creditors are now facing those debts and have to pay their creditors with money they did not receive from their debtor, which sends them bankrupt and not being able to pay their debtors, which of course means those debtors, well, you get the idea. A major debt does not go out on it's own, it diffuses out through the economic chain associated with it, diffusing ie socialising out. Now that chain of bankruptcies also destroys the economic status of many employees, the bigger the debt, the more employees, across a range of companies are affected and as a result they draw on social welfare spending. See privatised profits and socialised losses and every company goes that way, eventually (a psychopath takes over, strip mines the investors assets to fill their own pockets and the company collapses, every single time).

  13. Re:Yeah, right on Fair Use Threatens Innovation, Copyright Holders Warn (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    What they are actually saying is they are being innovative, blocking innovation, by claiming an innovation will prevent 'er' innovation, sticking to the proper English definition of innovation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Translation, we want to threaten children with imprisonment for copyright infringement in order to grab thousands of dollars from their parents (this shit was written by lawyers and whilst they are a kind of content creators normally associated with larger herbivorous farm animals, they are not the content creators they are claiming to protect).

  14. Re:loyalty is a two-way street on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    Of course back to topic, should an employee give 'NO' notice ie a non-specific period of notice, then you would hope the employer would seek to discover why that employee, that particular person had disappeared. There is of course a bit of a difference between giving no notice and giving very short notice as in, 'hi, you suck, fuck you and your reference, I won't be back', is well, just a very brief notice period.

  15. Re:It's your turn, Mr Assange on FBI Director: Guccifer Admitted He Lied About Hacking Hillary Clinton's Email (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, lets see, got away with business going bankrupt four times and still quite rich. Wiped out all those other asshats in the run for the Republican nomination. The main stream media hatchet job has been really lame and no one is really listening any more. In fact the US main stream media hatchet job is so lame, they have been forced to plant the stories in international media to chase US readers who are now ignoring US news and preferring to get their news from overseas.

    Most definitely smart but his mouth shows real signs of arrogance that his cunning can not over come but he is guaranteed to make the best use of all of Clinton's mistakes, so, so many mistakes. From blatant corruption of the primaries, roles scrubbed of Sanders supporters after they gain access to the list of Sanders supporters, closed polling stations (the Republican establishment also likes to play that particular game), fictitious voice counts, made up polling rules to ensure opposing votes aren't counted, blatant lies being spread about any that oppose them and what everyone seems happy to forget about when it comes to the email server, the deleted personal emails (why personal because they were personal secret fiscal arrangements with others, perhaps).

    It will be an ugly contest guaranteeing no winners and only losers, with whom ever hold the office being hated and loathed by the majority and sure to be a target of protest through out their term, not mild protest but real economically disruptive protest. At the end of four years, you bet they will not run for re-election and will leave office as the most hated and loathed President in US history, no one will be more hated than whom ever takes office and either one will fuel a major liberal progressive backlash and a storming of the next election, quite chaotic.

    Keep up the slander contest, they will both lose and deservedly so, one just as bad as the other, both disgusting.

  16. Re:Hah! I can own as many labs as I want! on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I wanted to see what that kind of corrupt person would look like and I found this image, https://www.flickr.com/photos/.... So how's that backup plan going now ;D.

  17. Re:Sounds like a personal thing to me. on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like they are trying to copy what the NSA are doing but on the cheap. Rather that hacking all the internet infrastructure and simply stealing that data, the Russian government want the ISPs to do it all for them. However it seems the law as implemented (tricky no English translation to be readily found), need not necessarily be applied. So the authorities can pick and choose which ISPs will be forced to apply those laws and basically give up and shut down and which ISPs can ignore them and the associated costs. It seems like they might be actively looking to cut down on the number of ISPs and they will also be able to selectively punish uncooperative ISPs.

  18. The correct slashdot car analogy. Is anti virus software is like a really secure armoured truck that will protect you money but they armoured truck comes from an unsecure yard where anyone can take it over and then drive up and take your money. The antivirus software can still secure you hugely unreliable operating system, it just can not secure itself because they failed to pay attention to that part and because the security software stuck itself in with root access, hack the security software and you gain control of the operating system.

  19. Re:Cue the next law suit on Privacy Shield Data Pact Gets European Approval (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it comes off as a bit of a trap. It seems to be written to be broken, the exposed as bring broken and then far stricter rules being justified. It's like they fully expect the US government to break those rules in it's grab for total power and control and so the new shield is designed to fail. Stricter and stricter privacy rules as slowly but surely coming into being and corrupt government agencies and equally corrupt corporations are fighting them to the bitter end. It seems to have become a regular annual cycle, privacy laws are implemented, found to be insufficient and are tightened up, and this cycle is repeated again and again. M$ and windows 10 is directly threatened by these laws.

  20. Re:Not sure about the "as always" bit on Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Mobile Will Continue Past July 29 (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    The silly thing about that really low market share is M$ still refuse to accept the privacy invasiveness of Windows anal probe 10 and their desire to watch everyone masturbate has killed them on the mobile phone. The phone is seen as a more private space for most people, hence Apple push for greater privacy, which is why they are hanging in their, even in the face of much cheaper Chinese smart phones, whilst Samsung and M$ both lost market share.

    Privacy is a premium product that can be charged for. The invasive of someone's private life is seen as a perversion as it always has been, why M$ thought they would be able to get away with people having to fight the operating system for privacy is just mind boggling, the xbone will be the next product to suffer.

  21. They planned and conspired to commit a summary execution. To say they needed to use a jury rigged explosive device is insane. They were only guessing where the person was and that they were alone and did not have hostages. If they were not guessing and had eyes on and certainty, then they could have shot the individual. They did not give a crap, next step missile launchers, good luck with that. They accepted firing missiles from drones for law enforcing in foreign countries, it looks like they will actually be bringing that principle back to the US. Grenades work to, and the US military has them in hostages situation with the expected results, blown up hostages and police in the US routinely shoot hostages, to make sure they are safe. They were paid to ensure the safety of the public and ensure people are brought to trial not to be as safe as possible, to be as safe as possible, they have to kill everyone, seriously the public is in real trouble in the US.

  22. Re:I can see where this will go... on Skype Meetings Is Microsoft's New Free Video Conferencing Tool For Small Businesses · · Score: 1

    You have no idea of the value of insider content. So run skype passing through M$ servers on Windows anal probe 10 and M$ can sit in on and anal eyes (heh heh) everything you say or every document you share at every business meeting you have. The bigger your company, the greater the value of you information to M$ and their inside investors. The subscription fee will well and truly be paid in stolen commercial and industrial secrets and hugely advantaged insider share transactions.

  23. Re:DVD's? Hello? on 73% of Subscribers Would Download Netflix Content, Says Survey (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    Never to forget that the sneaker net is also far more bandwidth efficient. It takes only minutes to transfer over a whole terrabyte of content. As thumb drive capacity increases so the exchange of content over sneaker net will increase.

  24. Re:It's all fun and games on Japan Says Yes To Mirrorless Cars (carscoops.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have had my rear view camera routinely cut out on me. In fact nearly every single fucking day. Reversing down my driveway at certain times of day, means the sun will shine right onto that screen and I see nothing. I ain't quite so bad when it shines onto the camera, you can sort of still see what is happening. Night time with insufficient illumination behind the vehicles, reversing lights are simply not bright enough, is also difficult.

    Could be just becoming a grumpy old dude but I gotta be honest, over the years in the conflict between automated and manual, I have drifted to manual simply because it is far more reliable case in point, you beaut super automated coffee machines versus a French press, that French press has already way outlasted those three previous coffee machines. If manual works and is good enough, stick to it, automating for no advantage whilst it does generate profits for others will cost you more over the long run, far, far more (that French press was way cheaper than any one of the failed coffee machines, let alone all three combined and the coffee tasted better because I go create the exact kind of coffee I felt like at the time).

  25. Re:A likely story on Hyperloop One Says It Can Connect Helsinki To Stockholm In Under 30 Minutes (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What a waste, spending on infrastructure. That money should go into the private pockets as profits, so that more can be wasted 'er' used on, bigger mansion, more super cars, bigger yachts, larger private yachts. Consume and burn, the more you waste the better psychopathic capitalist you are. Consume the resources and generate the pollution of an entire town and do this individually, literally on you own consume like you and tens of thousands of people and you are a big winner and those tens of thousands of people, well, they have a whole lot less, screw em, they are nobodies and you are a somebody entitled to consume like thousands nobodies.

    If it can't go into private pockets, than at the very least, like NATO (North American Territorial Occupation farce) demands, 25% of income taxes needs to be spent on guns and bullets, more war, more power, more destruction. What a waste investing that money in infrastructure when instead can be spent on pretty explosions and all those lovely dismembered limbs and more human crushing war machines. Hey, I play war games on computers and they are fun. I will never understand why you sick fuckers demand to do that awful shit in real life.

    Let's kill that war budget and focus on infrastructure investment. Universal high speed broadband, high spend rail, zero emissions energy supply, arcologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... as major regional investments (well clear of future levels and able to accommodate displaced populations). Seriously how many more people need to die in for profit wars, engineered by the US military Industrial Complex.