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  1. Re:Exactly! on Microsoft Urged to Open Source Classic Visual Basic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Such is life, if you keep wanting to produce buggy whips when there no horses on the streets expect to fail. If you took on computers early, you ended up having to make a lot of changes over the years, that's just the way it is. Basis is just so done, accept it, if changing causes you to fail, then accept failure, there is no escape.

  2. Re:Biometric Analysis is Inadequate on Code Quality Predicted Using Biometrics (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It can not be forced. If the coder is producing happy fun brain chemicals when producing code it's because they a genetic tilt to that kind of mental activity, they get in the zone and the work is fluid. Sure they can head off in the wrong direction but they can change course and still produce the final quality outcome. So all in the brain chemicals, not that you can produce similar output by feeding those brain chemicals into another individual, those brain chemicals are a result of the happy fun thought cycles triggering events that produce those brain chemicals and not the other way round. You could introduce those happy fun brain chemicals into another individual but that would induce alternate activity dependent upon what kind of activity that person normally associates with those happy fun brain chemicals. Of course they could be nothing but a narcissistic misery guts in which case having no real association with happy fun brain chemicals, they simply become addicted to oxycontin when exposed to it for the first time in their lives and remain as useless as misery's guts types normally are (yeah happy fun brain chemicals make people more productive as long as they are genetically aligned to that productive outcome).

    Ahh, the choices we think we make ;D.

  3. Re:illegal money laundering... obviously on New Clues About Why Mt. Gox Failed (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    One can only conclude that a certain level of protection is being provided in exchange for inside information and back up files, perhaps even that Mt Gox was set up to collect information then collapse when it was no longer needed and provide a mountain of bitcoin for espionage purposes. This considering whose money was lost and how vengeful those types are, they basically live for ego and revenge, they are being kept quite effectively at bay.

  4. Re:well intentioned? on Civil Liberties Expert Argues Snowden Was Wrong (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Intentions are utterly arbitrary. The core requirement of democracy is truth. Any action taken by government that would impact the vote of a citizens, should not be kept secret from that citizen, any action what so ever. It is the right of every citizen to decide at election whether or not the actions of their government where acceptable and the current representatives elected or were deemed to be unacceptable and those representatives replaced. That is the core of democracy, the right of citizens to know the actions of their government and to approve or reject those actions, anything else is a lie. Snowden exposed criminal actions that many citizens oppose and those citizens will vote against those political representatives that approved them, as is the right of those citizens. When the government keeps those actions secret, when the government spends tax payer dollars to keep those secrets, when those elected representatives use tax payer dollars to hide from citizens the actions that would lose the votes of those citizens, they commit crimes against democracy, they commit straight up electoral crimes, using tax payer dollars to win elections by keeping secret the unacceptable decisions of representatives. Any citizen who expose those secrets, exposes that betrayal of a core element of democracy is a hero to all, a champion of democracy and the right of citizens to know what will affect their vote. Keep in mind it is not just the vote, as has been proven by Bernie Sanders and Dr Jill Stein, but the support of the electorate through out the election campaign. We are not interested in electing leaders any more, fuck that, we just people who will represent us honestly, champions of democracy, champions of truth and champions of the people.

  5. Re:Employer Haiku on 'Eat, Sleep, Code, Repeat' Approach Is Such Bullshit (signalvnoise.com) · · Score: 1

    It works like this, when I am in the zone, I am by far the most productive, super productive and that can not be forced. It doesn't matter what work you do, for me it was CADD, could really zone out on that and produce a lot of good work really fast, felt great. The same for the best coders, if they are not zoning out producing code, then they can never be fast and good, it is just the way of things, the way the brain is wired. So achieving that must be arranged around each employee and their own genetic makeup and how their brain works. Forcing everyone into the same corporate mode, means pretty much no one will be zoning out to the work and productivity dies.

  6. Re:Open source Windows in 5 years? on Linux Advocate Suggests Using More Closed-Source Software (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    The reality is there is room for both open source software and closed source software in the market. For overall socio-economic cost efficiency as a whole, the core software should be free open source software, the software the majority of people, corporations and governments use on a day to day basis, this managed by a consortium of governments and universities, with inputs from the rest of society, individuals and companies. It just makes sound economic sense to do it this way as it provides by far the most cost efficient solution ie making it by far cheaper for the majority.

    Beyond the core applications there are a whole range of software solutions that can be closed source and work within that overall framework of free open source software (in terms of compatibility rather than sharing code).

    So should Apple or M$ open source their OSs, only if they no longer support them, beyond that it would be smart for them both to do both, a Linux version and their own in house version, it makes sense to do both. So the more business/education/government is free open source ie Linux and the private use, the operating system as an appliance more for content consumption and gaming and social interaction is closed source but remains data compatible with open source and some applications are also compatible with various operating systems (applications used in education and government interaction).

  7. Re:Did Americans visit the moon? on Did A German Nuclear Plant Intentionally Leak Radioactive Waste? (thelocal.de) · · Score: 2

    All the means is nuclear is not the problems, private for profit corporations in charge of nuclear is the problem. That lowest tender mentality and the hunt for this quarters bonus with total disregard for the future and executives never ever being prosecuted, means corporations can simply not be trusted with nuclear power. All government owned and audited by the public, is the only sound way to go.

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

    So why the hell did they not take it one step further and go with liquid natural gas. Once you are using that a fuel, then you can start processing other wastes to create methane (the main component of natural gas) and burn that. Making the vessel a whole lot more environmentally sound. So bigger cruise ships are viable as long as they start looking at more efficient and cleaner energy systems. The amount of sewerage the produce when handled properly good generate a lot of free energy for them and then be topped with liquid natural gas at ports, either burnt in turbines or converted diesel engines. Turbines are more effective for producing usable heat, the exhaust gases to produce steam (for cooking etc) and cooling jacket for boiling water (bathing etc). Likely the way forward for all shipping not just passenger ships but also cargo vessels.

  9. Re:Sanity reigns??? on Abrams Says Paramount Will Drop Star Trek/Axenar Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It looks bad, straight off the get go. Jar Jar A can not afford any worse of a reputation with sci fi fans, his dumbed down (for us not for him, I really think he is doing the smartest possible off which he is capable) content, is really annoying those for whom the science and story is the most important part of science fiction and not empty action scenes which suit the cheetos crowd. The star trek series teaser is pretty bad, wrong music, really wrong voice for the narrator, all cheetos action and no science, all indicates Saturday afternoon cartoon fare shown on a week night. The law suit was doing even more damage and reality is that content in the fan made pick is more science and story and does not really compete with Jar Jar's which is targeted at a completely different audience, all science 'from the gut' action and you just know they will being tossing more Christianity into star trek to appeal to their target audience.

  10. Re:Strong enough for a man, made for a woman on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean shit, dude or dudette, it's all in the averages. Yeah, statistic produce results exactly like this. Yeah like, surprise, fucking surprise, surprise, content targeted at men is down rated by the average women and content targeted at women is down rated by the average man. You know what this story is really all about, at this specific time, not by fucking accident, not at all. It's those bloody main stream media Hillary Rodham Clinton trolls fucking playing again - for fuck sake 'Bernie Bros'.

    O fucking look, men liking stuff that men like is a fucking conspiracy by men. Of course women liking the stuff women like is not (well in reality it actually is, call it a marketing reality). Seriously what the fuck and NO, abso-fucking-lutely not, will you get me to shave my fucking legs or armpits or genitals (truth be told wont even shave my face and pity the poor women who has to, thanks to advertising), fuck off and that ain't no conspiracy. That women have to, well, then they are bloody idiots for getting sucked into that by advertising. Nor will I wear a pretty sun dress or a frilly floppy hat, nor will I spend thousands on makeup and try to put that shit on every morning, nor will I tolerate being considered undesirable just because I am no longer youthful (although I admit I might possibly be wrong about the sun dress, perhaps it is comfortable).

    If women get sucked in by that bullshit and content that promotes that bullshit, well, 'SUCKED IN'. Ain't up to men to change, it is up to women to fight back against that manipulative money grubbing advertising in what ever format it turns up in, whether advertisements or an entire TV fucking series.

  11. Seriously countries should get together to create a supervised children only internet, linking together children, education facilities and licensed adults who supervise. The whole of idea of children on an adult internet exposed in an uncontrolled manner to adult content and adult advertising and in fact any manipulative advertising that could psychological harm children.

    A complete separate range of encrypted protocols to which unlicensed adults are legally denied access and which is meant to promote the health and well being of children, provide a sound venue for education as well as broader community accepted forms of entertainment and approved advertisements.

    Right now the only thing blocking it is, extraordinarily corrupt politicians and the corrupt corporations (junk food and junk content and junk products), that back them. So yes, the solution is children should not use an internet designed for adults, it's just fucking common sense.

  12. Re:Give the option on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The backspace key, is used as back in browsers, I am stunned. In the decades of using computer today was the very first time I did it, seriously, did not even know, just seems so odd a concept it never occurred to me.

  13. Re:People can combust too... should we ban them? on US Bans Electronic Cigarettes From Checked Baggage Over Fire Risks (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I seriously think you really do not get the concept of being a human being, a social species for whom empathy is a requirement for social cohesion. If just one blows up in some ones face it is a serious problem, eyes, ears, taste, appearance, let alone repeated examples. The manufacturer of a defective device in this context considering the nature of the harm, deserves a custodial sentences, anyone profiting by blowing up someone face, deserve a custodial sentence, regardless of context. If a particular gun blew up in people's faces it would be banned (they would require a redesign to ensure it as near as possible to never blowing up in any ones face, gun and munitions).

  14. Re:So much progress on Google Announces New Virtual Reality Platform 'Daydream' (androidandme.com) · · Score: 1

    A virtual reality room, whilst interesting in and off itself, is not a virtual reality headset. There is a difference, although it would likely be as awkward if changes in that environment did not reflect normal changes with regards to the movements of the players.

  15. Re:Let me be the first to say on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    Just to be certain, nuke them from orbit.

  16. Both is also really cool and in reality you sought of need to do them separately and bring them back together in a compromise solution to achieve the greatest cost efficiency. Of course someone often makes a break through and some else adds to that and wham everyone else;'s production facility goes tit's up. New industries take quite a while to settle and solar energy and storage seem to be on the verge of those best solutions. The very old can become very new, like nickel iron batteries and carbon nano tubes. So the definitely are to be congratulated and those structures could be achieved with advances in printing technology. The fossil fuellers definitely look doomed (shift your investments now, especially coal).

  17. Re:H [Re:I know!] on Spy Chief: Foreign Hackers May Be Targeting Presidential Candidates (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Generally, but not always the evidence is presented during the trial and not beforehand as it tends to taint the prosecution. Some is presented during the indictment but not all. All that is going on now is straight up corruption, where the corporate chosen Dear Leader is being protected by the current corporate chosen Dear Leader, nothing more and nothing less. A corrupt US government on display to the world and other countries will expose information over time to exacerbate the visibility of that corruption. Not only will this be the ugliest election in US history (from very public voter purges to blatant main stream media bias to false flag attacks of every description etc), the period post the election will also be the worst for unrest, protests and as a result of violent clamp downs, riots. Yeah, keep up the bullshit and PR it will serve you well, NOT!!!

  18. Re:So much progress on Google Announces New Virtual Reality Platform 'Daydream' (androidandme.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet, we still have to see, 8 people on one side of the room, challenge 8 people on the other side of the room, in an extended first person shooter challenge. Who last the longest (how many minutes), what are the scores. Next 8 VR contests versus 8 desktop contestants in a first person shooter (pick 16 and then random team draws). Cough, cough, I think the naysayers still have good arguments because they have had months to do exactly this and 'SILENCE'. They could have done this months ago, and likely quite did but kept it quiet because it did not turn out all that well, a headache and puke athon ?!?, I don't know. The test seems obvious and the challenge should be fun and yet it hasn't happened nor is there any hint of it happening.

  19. Re:FM radio's last gasp? on Campaign Demands Telecoms Unlock the FM Radio Found in Many Smartphones (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Pop music is only popular because psychopathic executives, with degrees in psychology, target children with manipulative marketing, not regular marketing but 'saturation' marketing (targeting those children from every possible venue, as often as possible), to drive the popularity of purely manufactured drugged up drunken minstrels, with the lion share of the profits going to the publisher and hopefully, according to the wishes of those psychopathic executives, those drunken drugged up minstrel choking to death on their own puke or over dosing (which many of the children exposed to message that music as well as the marketing also do), just as they come off their prime, so the publisher can retain ownership and hawk the profits off the dead carcases of the drunken drugged up minstrel. So it is shit music with psychopathic manipulative marketing targeted at children and fuck the consequences of the psychological harm those children suffer. There is no dressing up that bullshit except with more bullshit, that governments and politicians back that is even fucking worse.

  20. Re:They were Johns charged as pimps on Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude they can always masturbate, no your genitals wont fall off, no you palms will not get hairy, nor will you go blind and hint, hint, it is the prudes oppose masturbation. Once or one hundred times, you put a company at risk because what, you are too lazy to play with your own genitals, then yes, you should be burned by the company, most emphatically so.

  21. Re:Very Interesting Legally Speaking on Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the idea of interesting versus desirable. To help with context I present you this Chinese Proverb "May you live in interesting times" with explanation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., hmm, doesn't even seem to be Chinese, how 'interesting'.

  22. Re:The Societal Value of Works on EFF Confronts World Copyright Committee (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    How about a simpler solution something everyone can readily understand. A referendum to decide whether or not say 'pornography' should be protected by copyright laws at tax payer expense or not. Now everyone knows exactly what that result would be, would not even be a close challenge regardless of how much propaganda main stream media produced. Based upon that my claim is far more reasonable in a Democracy, I know the way the majority would vote, keep in mind you are not barring it's production, limiting free speech, you are just denying it protection at tax payer expense, limiting it's production by reducing the profit motivation.

  23. Re:Very Interesting Legally Speaking on Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    In a US context that difference between audio and video is very complex, as it varies hugely from location to location and also with regards to federal law. Then there is the context of old laws written prior to effective video recording, hence the continual reference to wire taps. So it makes no sense what so ever and is even more out of date when recording occurs so much more easily now, due to technological changes. Likely a complete rehash of privacy laws and investigatory warrants and public space versus private space and even worse, how technology is advancing to the level where it can be all faked. So just another example of the mess the current laws are.

  24. Re:Is there anything here for Foxconn? on Microsoft To License Nokia Brand To Foxconn, Says Report (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be the disastrous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... move, now he is going to Australia and Telstra, meh, company sucks balls, so they deserve him. Although based upon past evidence it would seem likely that M$ is now demonstrating a clear interest in Telsta, likely they want to grab the NBN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to keep Google out.

  25. Re:Wow, they really are stuck in the past on Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a vast difference between protecting someone from an assassin who is trying to get away with murder and one that does not care whether or not they get caught or even remain intact. It seems odd that they opt for random rich people to target an economy, rather than the effective decision makers in those industries driving foreign policy decision making, all those unmentioned executives and directors. Sounds pretty scammy, like those unmentioned military industrial complex executives and board members are looking to turn other wealthy people into targets for purposes of propaganda and to drive further military industrial spending.

    So say, setting up someone like Trump up for assassination even though he logically favours infrastructure spending over military industrial complex spending (simply favouring areas where he financially benefits over other areas), upon that basis Al Qaeda should logically favour him over someone like Phebe Novakovic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ie someone who opposes war over those who clearly favour it. Also normally, the expectation would be logically, they would seek to assassinate a few before making the announcement, kind of makes it a whole lot easier and far more effective. The pre-notice is deeply disturbing as likely are few unaffiliated wealthy people, especially those who oppose the military industrial complex will become targets.

    Economically speaking, churning over those at the top, also tends to do more good than harm, their decision making often becoming bogged down in ego and doing more harm than good and of course it generates wealth churn, money changing hands, news sales, investments and purchases. Perhaps they are even looking to blame commentators on the side lines ie why are terrorist blowing up poor people that make no decisions instead of the rich people making all of the decision, even targeting corrupt politicians (unless they are autocrats) is pretty useless as they are only talking heads and can be readily replaced (so does writing that logical statement make me a target for investigation, past, present or future).