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  1. Re:If the nsa is smart... on The NSA's Delightfully D&D-inspired Guide To the Internet (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    The message, hmm, "come work for the NSA and get to browse the internet all day long, every day, we will pay you to, troll, hack and peak into people's private lives, whoot".

    The message they don't want you to see "We will also do it to you, more than everyone else, what you do to others, we will be doing to you". Apparently they now spy more on each other than they do the rest of us and that is now extending country to country spy vs spy style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Hacking into each others lives and with computers tracking everyone, it becomes easier to spot the agents, they represent distortions in digital space, absences in digital space with a physical presence and data mismatch. They'll be so busy spying on themselves and each other that, well, professional paranoia does no make for a healthy mind set. They will know better than anyone else how little privacy they have, especially them.

  2. Really, really bad idea to put all your eggs in one basket in terms of a business. Absolutely do not make you only public online face Facebook because many people will block it. I do not run any invasive scripts all allow excessively undesirable cookies, Facebook is basically dead for me, nothing to see, no scripts and no cookies. Facebook might seem OK but it will cut you off from many customers and like all social media sites, become stale and people move on (not so much what the company does but what people do when interacting with each other poorly, it expand and kills the site, and efforts to control it make it worse).

  3. Re:How is this news for nerds stuff that matters? on California Mayors Demand Surveillance Cams On Crime-Ridden Highways (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason it is on, is all about extent. So some cameras at a few critical traffic locations versus entire stretches of road covered and the extension of that, all public roads covered with cameras and microphones. So from a tech standpoint, how do you manage and maintain that, installation, servicing and replacement. Now add in monitoring it all, so live monitoring from a safety standpoint or recording simply to arrest people after the fact or variant combination, the panopticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., in all public places. Perhaps speakers and projectors so that a control officer can issue directions and warnings to those being controlled and monitored. Real rich versus poor stuff, one monitored for their safety and the other monitored to control them. I will make things very interesting for say, police officers, always being monitored and recorded on public streets but the street surveillance system. The the question, as a public utility, do the public have a right to access it (say live camera view to a mobile phone, don't naysay that though, some good example, availability of parking, hazard at intended location, weather at the beach). So some real interesting tech problems and uses beyond total control by the state.

  4. Re:Read less, code more. on Ask Slashdot: What Books Should An Aspiring Coder Read? · · Score: 1

    An effective cheap solution would be to install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... and set it to bring up random tech related sites. So random breaks of varying tech content, often when people need a break it's because they are stuck, so this activity can expose you to random new ideas, only problem is it might be to distracting, just one more click.

  5. Re:Oh for fuck's sake on Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The correct answer to the statement "every child should start learning code during the 4th grade", sure not a problem, where is the one coding language that follows on as a sound extrapolation of English and Maths formula - one language. That is the crux of the problem, what is being said is that child should learn a second langauge but just for fun, that langauge will not follow the rules of the primary and will not follow the rules of maths forumales and to top that all up, they will learn one of many possible incompatible variants or just to be bloody fair, they will not learn one second language but maybe a half dozen second language and of courts as a final screw you to the children, no alphabetically order because of lazy stupid adults not willing to make a change from QWERTY.

    Watch to teach computer program at a early age, it's about time adults in the tech industry got their own shit together first before forcing a pretty shitty hodge podge mess to future generations.

  6. Would that be the same life time of the typical unfit gamer geek/nerd running around with a back pack playing a very active game, and those batteries lasting those players the rest of their lives ;D.

  7. Re:A more accurate headline on Possible Cellphone Link To Cancer Found In Rat Study (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Pretty obvious what is shitty about the study, it threatens cell phone manufacturers and network infrastructure profits. Industries who have routinely lied about the risks of their products and not just a little but a whole damn lot, fossil fuel companies and greenhouse affect, tobacco companies and cancer, junk food companies and obesity, pharmaceutical companies and the safety and efficacy of the drugs they sell, media companies and the propaganda they sell and news, banks and the fiscal quality of the investments they sell, car manufacturers and the safety, reliability and fuel efficiency of the vehicles they sell and the list goes on and on and one. So will phone manufacturers and network companies lie about the safety of the phone, abso-fucking-lutely and not just a little but a whole fucking lot. It is just the norm for modern corporations to lie and fight off the truth with lawyers and corrupt politicians, no just some of the time but nearly all the fucking time.

  8. Re:Buprenorphine is a partial opioid receptor agon on FDA Approves First Implant Treatment For Opioid Addiction (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Just out of curiosity driven by this story and apart from getting to this very very suspicious site http://www.naabt.org/buprenorp... compared to this more realistic site http://www.streetinsider.com/C..., it seems like the drug and treatment might not be all it is cracked up to be. I'll bet before to long we will see lobbyists demanding it be compulsory for all opioid drug offenders, profit, profit, profit, you can really see it coming.

  9. Re:Hydogen is just a way to store energy on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Cough, cough, if you are producing hydrogen you are getting it from some where, it is not being automagically created, you are getting it from water and leaving behind two oxygen atoms, so decidedly abnormal oxygen levels ie nominally 2/3 of the atmosphere at the point of generation. Reality is with electric vehicles it is not charging at home that will kill current petrol stations, it is being able to charge at work and at parking stations and shopping centres ie free parking if you buy a set amount of electricity or even free charge with the purchase of certain products. So the revenue for selling energy to electric vehicles becomes far more wide spread (parking stations could generate quite a chunk of revenue and even expand into service stations, park, go to cinema whilst they service and charge your vehicle).

  10. Re:Locksmith, four seconds to unlock your house/ca on Google Plans To Bring Password-Free Logins To Android Apps By Year-End (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a way to bypass password security and remain secure. This can be done via localised password applications and an accepted password protocol. Basically you use a local application with one password to create the password required to access the remote site. So in future that site sends a request for your password and you either allow to block your local password app from sending the password (which can of course be extremely long and complex and even rotate from access to access by handshaking with the password request site). You can automate that local permission or use a simple pin or for the slightly fussier your favourite 'threewordpassphrase' with no spaces. Each and every web site you connect to, from each individual appliance (multiple password access, with the originating appliance allowing, new appliances), with a unique complex rotating password. Just needs an agreed protocol to make it possible.

  11. Re:You mean Windows phones are rare as unicorns? on Windows Phone Market Share Sinks Below 1 Percent (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Problem is Windows watching you masturbate 10, has put off a lot of people, the message buried in the back of you mind and then carrying it around in your pocket, ugh. There is no way hipsters in general or anyone else it seems willing to accept that. Really stupid timing by M$, huge mistake not to release the Secure Edition that you pay for at the same time as the anal probe version ie 'in' people can afford to pay and the nobodies get the ugh free version (at least prostitutes get paid when they get probed and they are not getting probed 24/7/365, they at least get some time off and some privacy).

  12. Cheeky, just because they did does not mean you should call Jar Jar an ass clown https://www.google.com.au/sear...

  13. Re: oh snap! on FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act (onthewire.io) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Three fools in a row. For a start, just because you know about it does not mean anyone else does, so informing everyone of a petition, informs them about the problem and gets them started on political activity regarding that action and as they have committed to opposing that, come election time, they are more likely to vote against politicians who cause that problem. Next up, just because you do that one action does not mean it is the only action you will do, gaining that information about that problem, gives you the opportunity to do more and many will, depending upon how important they deem that problem to be. Numbers at election time count and how you get those numbers is all down to communicating issues and getting people to support those issues and everyone tracks those numbers because they do make a difference.

    All political activism counts, no matter how little, and when main stream media pushes the corporate line 24/7/365, then every single possible alternate method of informing the public and seeking to gain their support is important and presenting them with petitions and getting the to read them and getting them to think about them and make a decision about them is very important, especially considering the alternate message is empty main stream media pseudo celebrity worshipping bullshit and the lie that you should never discuss politics because it hurts people feelings, pretty scummy lie that one.

    To be clear, families should discuss political policy at the dinner table because political policy affects all of them (see promoting that whilst it does not seem like much will make a major change, as long as they do it). Note, only political policy should be discussed and most definitely no rah rah barrack for your side, because that is stupid, politicians have time and time again have proven they can not be trusted, so do not barrack for them or the parties that prop them up, only support those policies that you share.

  14. Re:Good on Apple Sued Over iPhones Making Calls, Sending Email (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    One teeny tiny problem with the idea of patent law reform bound to patent abuses, lawyers. Lawyers make the most money with patents, filing them and attacking with them and defending from them and oh wait, the fuckers write those laws that make them a shit bucket ton of money, filing them and attacking with them and defending from them. Seems like we have to change the way laws are written first and how they are 'interpreted' in the courts and to prevent abuses by the legal system that it drives on purpose in order to profit.

  15. Re:Here's a simple fix... on How Copyright Law Is Being Misused To Remove Material From the Internet (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, suing someone takes time, years in fact, so suing them, especially building companies which are notorious for being shell company. You sue them and win only for them to go purposefully bankrupt, well, at least the debt ridden separate and tiny portion, in capital terms, that you actually signed the contract, and not the rest of the company or technically separate companies with the capital, never wonder why so many rich people, declare bankrupt, yet remain rich, yep, you guessed multiple indecently liable companies, dozens even hundreds, which can individual let their assets be stripped ready for roll over. I know of one particularly notorious domestic builder who routinely turned over the company every few years, and restarted it at the same location, with the same people, and just changed the spelling of the company name, to purposefully escape liabilities for it's shoddy work. Suing those bastards and make no mistake, the worse they are, the harder they are to sue and not by accident, is a complete waste of time. So yeah the best bet is to let everyone know what a sack of turds they are and suck up the loss, although you can spend some money on a expert to do an evaluation to see whether they can be prosecuted under the law for criminal actions (building regulations do have real penalties associated with them), no money but sweet revenge (crappy builders aren't fussy, they rip off the rich and the poor, hence more effective laws targeting them).

  16. Re:Here's a simple fix... on How Copyright Law Is Being Misused To Remove Material From the Internet (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    If you ceiling is on the floor in a wet soggy mess, proof is going to be really easy to provide. Which is why they never went straight for the civil suit but instead chose to scam their way around shutting down that forum.

  17. Re:Sanity reigns??? on Abrams Says Paramount Will Drop Star Trek/Axenar Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Jar Jar's take on science is just straight up juvenile, like red matter (seriously the best he can come up with), or the silliness with a weapon sucking up the power of a sun, or a expelled cadet as commander of the fleet flagship, just dumb stuff, written by a child. Jar Jars work just comes off exactly like a Saturday afternoon cartoons, that same rushed science absent feel, all science fantasy and no science fiction (they had an excuse limited budgets, weekly episodes and children with a very limited understanding of science). That how all his work comes off unless he is working with more skilled story tellers, pretty much shows he is doing the best he is capable of, as for that religion bit, the comment was will and not has, yes I expect him to go there as well, sort of the lame simple plot thing to throw in.

  18. If Apple want to continue selling privacy as a premium product, then yes, their searches will be more private and they will strive to prove it in their marketing. The real question is whether or not you can sell privacy as a premium product, whether or not people will pay for privacy. Let's look around the home, hmm, curtains, people pay thousands for them, nah nothing to do with privacy, they just moronically like the look and opening and closing them. Restriction on nudity, nah, nothing to do with privacy, just temperature control, except in summer than, sunburn control. Peeping tom laws, nah, nothing to do with privacy, just needed to protect garden beds near windows. All those computer laws for hacking peoples data, nah, not about privacy just about copyright.

    Can you sell privacy as a premium product when all the other companies demand to be able watch you masturbate, well, based upon all those other laws and purchasing choices based around people protecting their privacy, yes. It is harder when everyone sells it but much easier when only one major company sells it and Apple due to it's marketing style will effectively be able to promote privacy as cool and the invasion of it as perverted and uncool (not only do they get to sell privacy but also they get to attack their competitors for being uncool perverts).

  19. Re:Here's a simple fix... on How Copyright Law Is Being Misused To Remove Material From the Internet (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Loser pays laws. You do not take on a civil suit unless you can win or at least your lawyers can convince you, you can win or you access the financial information of the opposition and figure out you can bankrupt them with legal costs before the case can conclude. In the interim, details of the case are published and what you are trying to hide is exposed any how. So as typical for this kind of incident all bluff and lies, they can not target the individual so they move their attack onto the forum. The best response for the individual produce their own documented web site, email a link to the company and let them fret over how many people will see it.

  20. Re: Limits on Attackers Steal $12.7M In Massive ATM Heist (mainichi.jp) · · Score: 1

    You have a large number of transaction targeted at a foreign country from a questionable country with low income, where the majority of credit card holders will simply not be able do maximum withdrawals. So those credit cards details were filtered for success. So long term planning and analysis of account details. Statistically speaking based upon the country of origin most of those card numbers should have failed a maximum withdrawal and quite a few should have trigged alarms for out of country, irregular transactions and that does not include the random statistic of credit cards already at or near their limit. That upon the basis that every attempt succeeded. Percentages and statistics indicate a high level inside job.

  21. Re:I hate bad journalism like this... on The World's Largest Cruise Ship and Its Supersized Pollution Problem (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The Liquid natural gas would only be a supplement to the methane gas being generated on board and perhaps you don't get it but, fuck off with the polluting effects or burning bunker fuel and they should be made to pay a significant penalty for the extremely toxic pollution being generated. Don't forget natural gas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., is largely the result of tacking a fracking dump and simple collecting the gas produce by various microbes feeding on that matter produced. So luxury liners should become floating sewerage farms to reflect the often questionable behaviour of their passengers http://www.smh.com.au/national...

  22. In which case money buys the required legal infrastructure to pursue and prosecute the corrupt. Unfortunately what is happening in those cases is money is buying the means of corruption and that money is being provided by western corporations who reap the lions or is that the vultures share of that corruption and this often backed by the corrupt western governments that are the source of those corrupt corporations. Do not expect western governments to solve the corruption that they facilitate at the behest of corrupt western corporations and they are doing it all over the world and oh look, surprise, surprise, surprise, they blame the victims.

  23. Re:Limits on Attackers Steal $12.7M In Massive ATM Heist (mainichi.jp) · · Score: 1

    The whole operations positively screams inside job. That many transactions without failure in that short time, it means all those accounts were specifically chosen. No alarms, means those account were specifically chosen, and chosen well in advance. There will be a hack left in the system to hide the hackers and not expose those who had full access. Simply over the top operation, they might have trouble legally proving who did it but they will be able to work out who did it in short order and those on foot will be caught up in security camera footage, too many locations to escape repeated detection.

  24. Re:Interesting technology... meh... on Segway Inventor To Build Powerful Wheelchair With Toyota (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That is the real catch with the mobility for the disabled program, generating sufficient sales. So a new look at it from the perspective of mobility of the lazy and joy riders. Creating a mobility vehicle for the lazy and joy riders but that can be adapted for use by the disabled at low cost. Increasing sales potential to reduce per unit cost. In work environment making people more productive, than they could otherwise be whilst one foot ie postman, stock pickers and stackers, security. Used indoors and out and that can climb stairs and kerbs. Ideally it should also be capable of manual operation for exercise and breakdown protection. Still be expensive but that per unit cost could be driven way down.

  25. Re:Who will watch the watchers? on How the Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I am into patience and traps. Tweaking and adjusting the system, leading the establishment by it's nose until it drives itself into traps. Piece by piece, no rush, a lot of bad steps to get here and a lot of good steps required to get back. Look at the US democrat campaign, forcing the establishment into error after, error exposing more and more corruption, enabling each piece of it to be tackled and eliminated one by one. So it goes for the rest, forcing errors, exposing crime, working together, providing support, not trying to win everything yesterday but working, grinding away at the corruption so as to create a better future for the next generation rather than the worse one that was handed to our generation by lead addled - 'Fuckwits'. No riots, no mobs, no wars, just a piece by dirty stinking rotten piece dismantled ending the corruption, an effort that will take the rest of our lives and that will be needed to be continued by future generations. Not trying to win for ourselves now but trying to create a better future for all future generations. Of course having fun along the way, fucking up the plans of the corrupt and exposing them to public justice in a public court and an extended rehabilitory custodial sentences, is also really cool. We can not rely on government to protect whistle blowers, that is something we must unite on and do ourselves when ever we are in a position to do so. Protecting whistle blowers has always been a collective effort, not reliant upon government but in opposition to government. Uncle Tom Obama the choom gang coward, talked big about whistle blowers but his action demonstrated the exact opposite, an ugly desire to public persecute and destroy whistle blowers, including extreme violence, sexual humiliation and emphatic public denial of a fair trial, what a douche.