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  1. Re:Oh Lord no, on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Older folk are more set in their ways and are far more likely to accept a story, that they have a built in bias and inclination for. Whether fake or not, is not as important as them wanting to believe it and thus forwarding it, even if they only profess belief without actually believing it. They can be quite stubborn critters and will push a story they want and claim it true even if they know it is false.

    Everyone was tricked by progressively more propagandistic corporate main stream media, that lied, misrepresented and censored the news, to align with the whims of their corporate advertisers. They are now dying the slow motion death they deserve, their audience ageing and dying. Buzzfeed is a of course the typical, oh we are so cool but actually straight up corporate propagandist with presentation as camouflage, better to call them Bullshitfeed. Want to prove true of false, do it in court, present the evidence. Buzzfeed's opinion counts for shite. So an analysis based upon false data.

  2. Re:Transistors and AI on Will the End of Moore's Law Halt AI Progress? (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 1

    Any living brain will also have vast redundancy built in, backups of backups of backups in every function and every memory. Not one series of cells carrying out a task but thousands carrying at the identical task and the more repeated the more become involved and made. Can not have one bump on the head, causing a death dealing lock up or substantively altering decision trees, process loops, high low focus tests, past outcome referencing repetitions and risks, long term projection outcomes versus short term outcomes and accurate measurement of current physiological state and current state tendencies. It could be said, that 90% of the brain is monkey see monkey do, whilst only 10% makes actual decisions (other cells just copy the function and action of adjoining cells but are ready in event of cellular failure).

    Smarter than an insect in AI is pointless, any analysis we would want made, would be narrowed in scale and the teaching of the AI would careful structured to produce desired accurate outcomes. Complex issues, simply use multiple AIs tackling the problem broken down to it's elements and accurate cross correlations. A lot of AIs working together on their own specialisations will in conjunction appear as one smart AI but it is not, nor should they attempt be made, as it would likely fail, simply go nuts, break down, never achieve desired functions.

  3. Re:I really don’t get it on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    They are protesting the size of their brains. They feel short changed, unfairly discriminated against, victims of tiny brain syndrome, being born a dumb loser, being human genetics bitch, fucked in the head, from conception to death, unfairly victimised by everyone in society smarter than them.

    Is it fair and reasonable for those born genetically, well, stupid, to be so victimised by society, at the very bottom of the pay scale, doesn't not matter, colour, creed or religion, born to a shitty minimum wage with no escape, well, unless they have a smarter parent (only needs one to be smart, to support the others) to sponsor well the dummy in a smarter world.

    It's not fair, they might well be annoying arseholes well deserving of being losers but being born that way doesn't mean they should be victimised for it, sure kept at arms distance but those well behaved enough deserve a living wage and to not be ruthlessly exploited. When they are, they play up and become a problem for the normies, stop being prejudiced against them in their chance at a reasonable life.

  4. Re:They don't have elections on Paul Whelan, American Accused of Spying, is Said to Be Charged in Russia (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    I think you are confusing Russian news media with entirely censored US corporate news Media. You can not just claim censorship, you kind of have to show examples. Navalny just looks to be a scammy con artists and that is all the US has managed to come up with, if the lame arse was actually any good, he would be all over US media, non stop, all the fucking time but well he sucks and that is the best US could manage, does worse than the communist party and they do not do well.

    I also find mind boggling the idea that you consider it illegal to change a countries constitution, have you ever heard of the bill of rights, well you ignorant troll it doesn't exist, it is just a collective term for a series of shock horror changes to the US constitution, that is collectively referred to as the bill of rights, my god the humanity, the US constitution has changed repeatedly. So bloody lame, as is President for life, oh nooess Australia, the UK, New Zealand and Canada all have prime ministers for life, unlimited terms in office (yet somehow some of them barely manage to last a couple of years).

  5. The biggest difference is highlighted by this story. As the market expanded and more people played computer games, the actual computer gamer, the one everyone actually thinks of, become the minority market and the rube noobs became the majority market. This hugely altered the nature of games. From games that had to win over players, to games that simply had to con players, where advertising counted more than game code ie rake in as much money as fast as you can until the rubes wise up and stop buying, then you release the next reskinned game.

    Really crappy stuff happens, like Paradox screwing with the base game of stellaris basically breaking as it conquest game on an update to force it into an economic game, in order to sell an overpriced poorly coded economic based DLC, really scummy stuff. Or shoving in mircotransations post release as in EA. Gamers wont put up with this shite but the rube noobs will and they will also pay to win, for them cheating is winning, they don't care.

    Gamers of course loathe pay to win because basically the companies make the game as grindingly boring as possible so that you will pay to not play it, insane as that is because of course you could simply not play the game at all for free, why pay to play and then pay more to not play, the idea is totally insane, ahh, the psychopaths in the gaming industry, they know their rube noob market well.

    By the why, when they talk about whales buying pay to win microtransactions, they are not talking about the size of their wallet but the size of their ego, their ego forces them to buy pay to win because they can not accept losing but are super comfortable with cheating, as long as they are doing the cheating and not being cheated. For gamers cheating to win is lame and pointless, as is being a target for legally licensed cheats and as for the insanity of buying a game and paying more to not play it, well that is plain fucking stupid and only for the rube noobs (beware psycho game execs the rubes will simply stop playing computer games or just buy very few games and boom there goes you market and they are firing your ass) and I do have a mobile phone but I never play games on it (I also play path of exile instead of diablo).

  6. Re:If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly by this story, that slim phone and bezel, all a marketing lie, the big rush is for redundancy and replacements and screw the customer just as hard as you can, just as often as you can. Now Apple's country club set, should just accept this, their market, replace the phone yearly, it's dirty, why clean it, when you can buy a new one, only for those who can afford it. The trade war also hurt but it looks like the ride is over, they had better come up with new products or else. Right now if they were smart, they could try another run at M$ but they seem to lack that spark, that willingness to step out from a business model that is dying.

  7. Re:Actions should have consequences on Google Shifted $23 Billion To Tax Haven Bermuda in 2017, Filing Shows (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    In this case Google should not be taxed because they should have no income because no one is paying them any more. Simply stop facilitating that pack of tax cheating animals, let them die, they are clearly just a loathsome pack of censoring liars who will cheat at every single opportunity and strive to cover it up with feel good research, whose only purpose is marketing and that somehow usually fails to achieve anything.

    How much of Google has to be exposed to see what kind of animals run it and for people to stop supporting them, I am ready to block all gmail addresses, you support Google, I don't want to hear from you.

  8. Re:WHY IS THIS DATA BEING GENERATED BY DEFAULT on Microsoft is Privately Testing 'Bali,' a Way To Give Users Control of Data Collected About Them (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not just stop spying but also no forced software installs, none, they can fuck right off with that shite. Forced installs of software, forced configuration changes, forced spyware and the unbelievably arrogant attitude. This B$ killed their phone business and is damaging the game console, killing their reputation, damaging their OS business and even having impact on their office suite, as jump finally jump that OS lock in, the office suite goes as well.

    Either that shite disappears or they are done and no layer of shiteware on top, that they can reconfigure at a moments notice to spy deep and fast and then reconfigure it again, hah, hah, sucker, it's in the fine print. Probably be easier for the filthy animals to just start selling windows 7 again.

  9. Re:Shows we worry about the wrong things on Earth is Missing a Huge Part of Its Crust. Now We May Know Why. (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    We are a technological society, what ever the climate our cities were estblished in, is the climate we want to maintain. Only a idiot could accept the majority of the worlds coastal cities wiped out by widespread flooding. You do have some understanding that sea levels were a couple of hundred metres lower in the last ice age, only a psychopath would accept that chaos as reasonable or claim some idiots benefit.

  10. Re:Good for him on Fortnite Star Ninja Says He Raked in Millions of Dollars Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's be real, they are only doing well as an advertisement for the game. Ohh golly gee really good a playing a computer game, who cares, only the company profiting by selling the game. Who paid the million dollars, other players of the game, better for them if they tell the dude to go screw themselves and demand the company put that money back into the game, rather than same lame arse carrot of yes, play what ever the name of the game is and you can become a millionaire, ohh yeah.

  11. Re:So bring it on on Hackers Threaten To Dump Insurance Files Related To 9/11 Attacks (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You only public threaten want you can not achieve privately, so a big bluff, the taste is all there is or to throw the trail off government hackers, set the media with the mind state that it is blackmail that failed or establish a precedent for mass censorship to prevent data protected by law from reaching the internet.

  12. Re:The best pushers are not users on Almost a Third of New Cars Sold In Norway Last Year Were Pure Electric (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah but it's bloody cold in Norway. If they had an American attitude, they would be burning fossil fuels like nobodies business to make their country more habitable and of course making Texas more uninhabitable, from flooded coast to burning lands. I don't think Norwegians know how rabid dog eat rabid dog capitalism works.

  13. Re:Complain to Google on Hackers Are Taking Over Chromecasts To Promote a YouTube Channel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    More likely a wide spread attack to gain media attention across a broad spectrum and used to force new corporate crack downs, mass censorship via the end of net neutrality. Corporations have the right to declare you a digital non-person, no internet access, no electronic payments of any form, no digital IDs, a non-person for all those who do not bend and scrape to corporate demands.

  14. I am sure the prison industrial complex will love it, installed by court order.

  15. Re:What is that, like 9 iPhones? on Apple Says It Could Miss $9 Billion In iPhone Sales Due To Weak Demand (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    More like keep the same horse galloping and it will eventually slow down and or collapse. Apple had become too stagnant with the iPhone and really did not work on the rest of their product range or develop new products. Eventually the iPhone was bound to hit a wall where people stopped upgrading and of course to keep revenue up, taking cheapy hardware shortcuts or not working on the software created problems. They can of course charge a premium if their product is the most reliable and the most repairable (repair ability affects second hand value and second hand value creates a perception of brand new worth). Smart move would be for Apple to introduce a user replaceable battery, now that everyone has gone the other way, tougher phones instead of svelte unreliable product. To charge a premium you differntiate yourself from all other product and creating the impression of the long term worth of an iPhone would now do that.

  16. Re:Real question is what effect it will have on The EU is Banning Almost All Coal Mining on Jan 1 (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    You just rework the plant to boil water with gas instead of coal. Also if they wanted, they could pump gas out of their sewer systems instead of venting city sewer systems to atmosphere, a worse green house gas than CO2 and of stupid waste of energy. Sewer systems the world over are full of free natural gas, all they need to do is redesign the venting system and start sucking the gas up, a whole lot cheaper than importing it and the mind boggles with regard to the huge volume of natural gas wasted across the planet.

  17. Re:Hello on Caltech Scientists Use DNA Tiles To Play Tic-Tac-Toe at the Nanoscale · · Score: 1

    I don't care, for me my algae strawberry steak, I grow in my own kitchen aquarium is getting closer day by day. Genetically engineering old world crops is just plain stupid and a waste of time. GMO algae, any food imaginable food product created and grown really fast (just designed texture, consistency, nutrients, flavours and trace element profile), is the only way to go.

  18. Re:Latest and greatest? on Windows 10 Passes Windows 7 in Market Share (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 has been the only OS I have never had to reinstall, admittedly that was a dual boot system and I have used Kubuntu to repair windows 7 on more than one occasion.

    If M$ was still selling windows 7 at the same time as Windows anal probe 10, which would be the best selling OS for M$ and we all know the answer for that.

    Next boxen likely to be Apple, my first one ever. I will never run Windows anal probe 10, NEVER.

  19. Re:Excellent on Trump's Tech Battle With China Roils Bill Gates Nuclear Venture (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Gees, wake up, those times are over. China has caught up and is now developing on it's own. Fuckwit Mao created chaos to feed his insane ego and crippled China, that was last century, the previous millennium, now they are caught up and continuing to develop. All the US can to is cripple China's trade with other countries and of course that would really hugely, extravagantly blow right up in the US governments faces, as allies tell them to go fuck themselves and continue to trade with China. Make no mistake though, there is a world of difference between doing business with China and doing business in China, the core of the problem, corruption in China.

    The big focus for China, developing Africa into being a better consumer of Chinese product and supplier or primary product to China. The US focus in Africa, probably spreading war, that conflict set up to attack Chinese infrastructure developments in China, probably Chinese business response, bounty on US service personnel. Probable multi-national corporate response how to cash in on those bounties, for and against (collect those bounties and of course stop the bounties from occurring, playing both sides for maximum profits, Africa the playground for the third world war, the corporate wars).

  20. Re:As much as I dislike meatspace tracking on Google Wins Dismissal of Suit Over Facial Recognition Software (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wear a facemask for you health, don't you know it's a fact, a lot of the dust in the atmosphere is animal and insect faeces and you will in probility terms extend you life and suffer less illness if you wear a facemask in the metro, want privacy, start getting everyone to do it.

  21. Re:Do the arithmetic on A Flexible Way To Convert Waste Heat To Electricity (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Waste heat isn't just heat, the reality is you are looking at an unused temperature difference. Getting energy out of waste heat means generating energy by cooling that heat. Depending upon how low a temperature you can achieve will affect how much energy you can extract out of that temperature difference. So using a very low boiling point liquid and low temperature water, you can create a low temperature steam turbine running on that low boiling point liquid. Low temperature climes can make much more effective use of waste heat. The most efficient is to use the heat directly, so a Gymnasium with pool and sauna near a power plant, waste heat used directly. High temperature cleaning services, steam cleaning et al, can use that heat, another interesting one in cool climes, use that heat in glass houses to warm the plants. You could exhaust it into a cooling tower with internal large turbine blades, that heat combing with atmosphere to generating rising air to spin those turbine blades, the cooling tower could be quite tall.

    Most of the waffle about the infernal combustion engine lasting, is just that waffle to keep the share price of fossil fuel companies up as insiders sell out. Don't believe none of it, the electric car is here to stay and will dominate, it will be banned in the metro, trying to force people to breathe vehicle pollution will be ruthlessly attacked, as the wealthy move back into the metro and want infernal combustion engines gone from the air they breathe. Oil is screwed outside of chemical uses.

  22. Funny you should bring up books but "Dianetics: The Modern 'non'Science of 'un'Mental Health" to be clear I added the non and the un, I could not leave those words in the referenced state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., eww.

    I think corporations are being pushed out of spiritual realms, too many voices too compete with and pretty much same with cultural, again too many voices to compete with. They focus on politics, controlling legislation and tilting in their favour and beyond to establishing long term extremely corrupt practices. The corporate focus to silence the people and using what ever methods they can get away with to establish and force that silence. They are losing on the internet, as is the propaganda arm, corporate main stream media, the idiot box, the squawk box and the daily rag, we knew those terms years ago but they conspired together to create a new image of themselves for decades, pretty much shut the fuck up only they know the truth, if you do not agree you are the only one, wow, did the internet prove them wrong.

    The public taking back politics is now the final frontier of the internet, ohh yeah and their last act of desperation, the killing of net neutrality, trying to make it too expensive for us to participate and the other excuse, all communications systems must be privately held, government should not compete and of course private corporations have the RIGHT to choose who may use their communications systems, when only private communications systems are ALLOWED ie mass corporate censorship is a godly given right. Which is exactly why core communications infrastructure by law should be government held because we have a right to freedom of speech and that right can only be expressed on a government controlled network where we can legally force freedom from censorship, a publicly accessible network must be publicly provided to be fully publicly accessible.

    You can pretty well interpret the US constitutional requirement for publicly accessible public communication network free from interference with public communications, with the internet now substituting for the public street, in this digital age. The same probably holds true for most countries with reasonable constitutions. Due to the extreme importance of being able to connect, for economic, social and especially political reasons, is such that the internet as the dominating public communications systems, must be publicly provided so as to be legally fully publicly accessible. Sure you can have an operators licence of various scales on that network, that requires publicly approved fees and which you can be subject to reduced access but that requires a public court hearing, a trial before you peers. Not some parasiteon dickbrain deciding you should be economically destroyed, or pay'not your pal just another parasite'pal (these fuckers need to be taught their fucking place, who is serving whom). Imagine no currency and only corporate digital payment system, oh yeah, they will have no problem making you a nonperson, just as they do on the internet.

  23. Who cares what Google executives care about, they should simply do their job on the international market and simply go with what ever the united nations goes with, what ever is their approved lines on a map and what ever are the undecided and in dispute ones and their extent. It is not up to Google to decide what the shape of the worlds countries are and present that to the public as reality, I mean really because of the consequences in disputes that kind of stuff should be illegal, depending upon how you present it ie as the truth or as your opinion or you opinion of the truth.

    The sound choice probably source reference the borders as indicate and walk away from the choice apart from the inherent choice of choosing what you deem to be the most appropriate source. Probably different maps for different IP addresses or self chosen country identity (where you are and where you want to be considered from ie just because you are a American in Australia does not mean you want a particular search biased to Australian preference of course sometimes you will, so a valid choice that should be easily picked up in the search bar and the outcome adjusted).

  24. Re:Business Model on Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the model, it is weird but true. They hire a flashy smooth talking psychopath and offer big bonuses for increased profit, not revenue, PROFIT, there is a difference. So the psychopath, does the psychopath thing, knows full well he can inflate profits for a period of time by selling trust, you of course sell trust by replacing good product, support and services for cheap product, not support and poor services, eliminating costs whilst sucking in your customers who are paying for what they used to get, and keep buying until they get sick of being lied to and sold shoddy product and stopped going. Well by then the psychopath has cashed in on huge bonuses, they are here today gone tomorrow people, they know it will kill the company, they do not care, more money now.

    The smart psychopath then bails just before the collapse, sell their stock options based upon inflated profit margins and moves onto the next company to sell it's trust. Happens all of the time, it is part of the core of capitalism, the psychopath expressing the core of capitalism, makes as much for yourself as fast as you core and legally get away with, consequences are for other people, those other people being those the capitalist preys upon.

  25. Re:You're a prick, Mark. on Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    To put it in a funnier fashion, he made mistakes with regards to lesson we were taught as children. Don't be a sticky beak, don't be a tattle tail, don't tell fibs and longer ones like, sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me, let the other children speak, don't be greedy. From childhood no lessons learnt, we know what kind of children they were and you could not trust them with anything. Clearly the only thing Facebook or the idiot that runs it understands is punishment, until that is forthcoming the poor childish behaviour will continue, behaving just like the worst kid in kindergarten, ohh that corporation and it's staff must be so proud.