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  1. Re:75% of intelligence is inherited on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Far more likely, the poor in the US live in high density highly polluted environments ie inner suburbs where loaded up with lead from traffic jams and those environments remain polluted. This in conjunction with poor diets, dominated by cheap junk food, results in double the impact. This added to cut backs in planned parent hood and you have the recipe for failure.

    Theoretical intelligence is theoretical outcome and when it comes to reality, the environment in which people live will dramatically subvert genetics. America, stop blaming the victims, of pollution and junk food, they are what you have turned them into.

  2. Re:Short term: change title from programmer to dev on US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Programmer Jobs Will Decline 8% (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Kids learning, http://www.vox.com/2015/12/15/..., seriously, there is a world of delusion going on out their and there is a whole US town, where children will be learning bugger all and become criminals through no fault of their own. The biggest hit will be the huge fall off of code, finalised programs being exported to other countries. Basically no country can trust any other countries code any more, so a lot more restructuring will be occurring as countries start pushing no importing of code. A lot more jobs will end up diminishing, as the forced upgrade era also starts to wind down. There are not that many new jobs and it is all just about squeezing down salaries at the bottom to raise them at the top and coders are at the bottom in the tech world. Likely the biggest employment area is security, with no one trusting no one, there is a huge amount of security work to be done in computer systems.

  3. Re:Wait, are you telling me ... on DHS's Ongoing Drone Boondoggle (defenseone.com) · · Score: -1

    Who lied, the government or the contractors and their lobbyists. The government neither lied nor told the truth, they simply said what they were paid to say, nothing more and nothing less. The corporations involved created the whole scam, promoted, spread the lies, made the pay offs and covered it all over for as long as possible and regardless of being exposed are keeping the scam going. When you government is full of puppets, you can not really claim it does anything any more, it is the corporate players controlling government who are conspiring and various investigatory agencies just pretend it is not happening as the stare into video screens spying on us and pretending to do stuff.

  4. Re:It's wrong because... on Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    The ?news (I think a question mark belongs in front of some words because they have become so meaningless), has been hugely distorted by corporate interests. Truth in ?news has largely become non-existant, made up stories, advertising planted as news, competitors attacking competitors, concerted political manipulation, concerted social manipulation, corrupt espionage activities, cheap lazy journalists and of course click bait. Basically the whole concept of ?news is dead until such time as there is concerted government interest in forcing ?news to become truthful and factual news, this via legislation and the courts. Don't hold you breath, we are talking decades more of corruption with the trigger for reform being the economic collapse of the US.

  5. Re:"Soup is Good Food" campaign by Campbells. on Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Simple manufacturing logic. The would require a sufficient number of batteries to power their entire production capacity and it makes economic sense to produce the bulk of them themselves to ensure reliability of supply and maintain a known price. The battery is a core component of electric vehicles, what are you left with. Not that they will succeed, electric vehicles will likely result in some manufacturers falling by the way side and new ones, ones out of the electronics industry taking over. So they might never get around to producing batteries because they could go under before that, however it is logical that they should if they last long enough.

  6. Re:What did they expect? on Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    All the tax haven countries are parasites feeding on the blood of the citizens of other countries. Insufficient tax revenues, means austerity cuts to services and more citizens suffer and die needlessly due to reduced social services. That economies that actively parasites on other economies, basically waging economic piracy, should be targeted and eliminated, actively and with all forces available including military blockade. This economic warfare where countries steal other countries social services but enabling money laundering, tax evasion, illegal arms trade financing, mass bribery, needs to come to an end and those countries prosecuted and economically disrupted.

  7. Re:I can answer that question. on UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, the pigopolists are trying to push through a very twisted interpretation. So, copying a book, an actual hard copy, was is a commericial number 1 no, how about just 10, hard to claim 10 hard copies of a book as not being commercial. So push that into the digital world and 10 copies is easy. Basically this is the insane psychopathic greed push coming out of the US. They want to confiscate real assets for the minorist of infringement. Your child's computer was in your house, then your house was used in the commercial scale copyright and should be seized and sold to pay the pigopolists. Seriously these people know no limits and that is what they are pushing for.

    But, then you cry, no one would be safe and could not use an open internet - exactly the end goal.

  8. Re:I highly doubt it. on Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a real legal problem in gaining and using, a user name and password because the claimed evidence can now be readily tainted by those involved in it's collection. Something the courts will have to start dealing with, basically this sort of device renders all digital evidence purely circumstantial, as it proves all those devices can be readily hacked and false evidence planted. They are no selling anything to police, they are selling stuff to be used by defence attorneys all over the world. There is a reason this kind of stuff is kept secret by those in authority, it hides the fact that they can and do plant any digital evidence they want on any device they want, a real legal problem, as it becomes more evident. So who is guilty for what is on a Windows anal probe 10 computer, M$ or the end user or anyone who hacks that connection.

  9. Re:Ads are not acceptable. on AdBlock Plus Updates Acceptable Ads Policy · · Score: 1

    'Honest' being the keyword in advertisement control. So advertisements honestly suitable for minors, that should be build in, so that a parent can activate that and only advertisements that have passed a review board as being suitable for minors are seen by minors, factual ads for safe products and services free of manipulative pressures. For adults, 'honest' ads are again the proviso, breaks those rules and quite simply fuck your ads, fuck the advertising agency, fuck the website that promotes them and fuck the advertiser. So bad agencies that allow bad ads are blocked uniformly, never have to see them again. Bad advertisers are blocked no matter which agency they go to. Websites that routinely advertise bad products are also blocked.

    No one has any right to show dishonest advertising, that is fraud and a lot more should be done to punish all those involved, the web site that promotes them, the advertising agency, the advertising content creator and the advertiser, all should face penalties for the greed driven choices.

  10. Re:Adults offering candy to children. hmm on Games Involving Candy Stimulate Kids' Appetites (www.ru.nl) · · Score: 1

    This research is required because it substantiates the manipulation of minors by major corporations to enhance their profits at the expense of the health of those minors. You require empirical research in order to apply legislative penalties to kerb and block this activity and in order to ensure the user, or as in this case, the abuser pays. Likely smart move large tax on candy, this because candy is already priced as high as it can be and any increase in price reduces profits while reducing demand, so the abuser of minors pays.

    Without empirical evidence the PR=B$ machine goes into full bullshit mode deny the self evident because there is no proof. Of course this includes generating bullshit research, like the crap about no sugar rush. The lie the researches pushed, no sugar rush, this facilitated by hugely limiting the actual sugar and candy intake to daily recommended nutritional levels (spread over the entire day) and absolutely did not let the children eat as much candy as the wanted to or could, real fucking scum research.

    We are winning, on a really hot day in Adelaide http://www.abc.net.au/news/201... (thanks America), all the diet drinks in a smaller market were gone and the fructose crap largely remained on the shelves.

  11. Re:"Soup is Good Food" campaign by Campbells. on Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Volkswagen would not buy batteries they would make them. About the only thing on the offing would be a buyout of Tesla by Volkswagen to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and the ban of the infernal combustion engine. A sound and logical move for Volkswagen. They have stuck themselves in a really deep shit pit and the only way out is to make a big move, a really big move and going all electric for future car development, for a car manufacturer would be the biggest move they could make. First in will win, as long as they do not go in too early, current battery technology is getting closer and closer all of the time and due to development time you actually do want to be just ahead of the most suitable battery entering the market (you can make a manufacturing adaptation to extend range of existing production whilst giving a few years jump on other manufacturers, a huge economic jump).

  12. Re:Sure Jan on Degradation of Lithium Batteries Shown In Real-time (ucl.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you are going to be so fussy, keep in mind, all captured images are time lapse done in real time, no matter how short the duration of the image capture. To claim otherwise is to claim the capture of an image of a single photon, the very first photon to interact with the image capture device.

  13. Re:Another day, another future battery tech story on Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 0

    Piece of the action, do not put in, do not get out. Basically by opening it up you accelerate development by combining ideas that would otherwise be blocked in patent disputes, so either existing players participate or new players join the party. So is energy storage and the more viable use of renewables worth the effort or not, at this stage, obviously not. Once you have a good design you out it out and charge a patent fee which is put into trust and let the corporate lawyers fight over it for decades but in the interim you have better batteries out there.

  14. So you would run 2 million campaign donations manually, hmm, based purely upon memory. 2 million names, 2 million homes and addresses, 2 million telephone numbers, OK, sure fine, I believe you.

    The reality is you are seeing a typical right wing political tactic. Do something, like hack the competitors data, find it is of no use because when directly targeted you find that none of those 2 million will switch to the corporate pick Hillary Clinton. So instead turn around and create another incident, properly timed in the most slimey corporate PR fashion to attack the opposition for what you have done.

    So was the peek accidental or proof of anything or a Clinton insider in the Bernie campaign, to ensure the plan to attack the Sanders campaign at the most critical time (coincidence? the universe is rarely so lazy), to block data access and to run a PR campaign in main stream media to attack Bernie Sanders in favour of the corporate pick. Consider this, does Bernie Sanders gain anything by contacting the corporate backers of Hillary Clinton, seriously a thousands of campaign contributions versus millions of campaign contribution, so who is really feeling the Bern in this campaign.

  15. Australia did not 'Ban' guns, they properly regulated their use based upon a sound basis. A firearm for home defence is not accepted, that is what the police are for in a properly managed society, the public pay taxes so that their government will employ exemplary citizens, train them properly and get them to protect and serve the public. So guns for target shooting or hunting only. Hunting does not require an assault rifle, nor large magazines, not even semi automatic weapons, so manual action and small magazine, is all that is logically required for hunting. There is more scope in target shooting but if that is the real claim, then those weapons can be stored at the target range in a safe. Also a gun lience is required, as expensive as a car licence and similarly regulated with restriction for various types of fire arms ie rifle versus pistol and as pistol has no real hunting purpose, it's use restricted to range shooting or accredited security guards. Some weapons are banned ie https://www.police.sa.gov.au/s... (to be clear I am no insider, just that the South Australian police force is hugely different to US law enforcement, no comparison at all and even when they do recruit from overseas, they do not recruit from the US for obvious reasons, although it would be likely FBI agents would be reviewed differently).

  16. Re:Another day, another future battery tech story on Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Most of those announcements covered incremental improvements. The reality is if government were serious and not themselves governed by corporate greed, they would do what they have done in war time, suspend all patents and force corporations to work together with universities and the government in order to achieve the best possible battery in the shortest possible time and then sort out the patents. Nope, greed first, last and everything in between because most democratic governments are no longer in reality democratic and actual public interests take last place.

  17. Tax havens a net importers, hugely net importers, zero their currency and they starve to death, straight up. They can not buy anything, if their currency has to recognised value in the countries they wish to import from. You zero a currency by making it illegal to trade in it.

  18. In dictatorships, money is nothing more than an exchange medium for resources, it has no power, access to resources is the power. In a dictatorship, the cost of expenditure of assets is meaningless, it is simply a selected measure, don't like the capital measure, disagree and in a dictatorship they kill you. Stuff is worth what they tell you it is worth, disagree and die, so wait in queue or smuggle, either way you are likely to die. So all about access to and expenditure of resources. So in space, a galactic empire auto mines dust clouds, light years worth of dust clouds, suck in everything that constitutes planets from a general even pretty much pre mined smear, keep what you want and blow the rest out the back. Pretty much infinite raw materials, add droids to that and well, kill everyone but the emperor them self and that society continues to function. Economists as just full of shit, empty shallow thinkers the high priest of capitalism who think money is worth something. It is a lie, an illusion, the value is in access to resources, who controls it and who is excluded from it. People are also a resource.

  19. Re:Karma! It IS a bitch! on "Most Hated Man In America" Martin Shkreli Arrested On Suspicion of Fraud (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Of course, rather than a pursuit of justice, for what seems like the majority of CEOs do. Nothing at all new, pretty much the expected norm of behaviour (the banskters stole 1000s of times as much) and what they generally get away with in a compliant regulatory framework, full of rich lawyers and lobbyists. Then of course this douche, compared to all the others, is new to the scene and has no family worth speaking of and hence, he must suffer for bringing to the public's attention of the abuses in the pharmaceutical industry. Nothing new here, normal practice but he was still a nobody and had to be made to publicly pay. They did hold it off for a while, don't want to set bad examples, you know, like how corporate executives should be held legally accountable for their decisions but the idiot just wouldn't shut up, so he had to be shut up sic. So how come those who stole just so much more were ignored.

  20. Re:commentsubjecthere on 'Do Not Track' Bill Aims To Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Should be pretty fucking obvious, this is the first push for anti-Windows anal probe 10 technology. Blocking browsers data mining without blocking operating system data mining will be impossible. So basically the first legal shot across M$'s extraordinarily hugely offensive privacy invasive bow, more sure to follow.

  21. Re:What is it? on Universal Remote Desktop Coming To Windows 10 Soon · · Score: 1

    Come on give us a break, Windows 'Continence' (who could resist) is the biggest load of public relations waffle crap for 'er' user application choice switching between full screen and normal view. I smell the stench of overly broad patents in that 'overview' description of Windows 'Continence' on the article linked site. I went one bit deeper for this juicy bit in Windows 'Continence',"Secure boot Helps ensure the user is running verified, authorized code", no why does that make me feel deeply suspicious about M$'s plans. Things like "Encrypts the full volume", why is it when M$ does it, it brings to mind the idea of ransomware, seriously (stop paying rent, install stuff they don't like, all your contents belong to them?). If M$ does not come across as particularly trustworthy, they only have themselves to blame for many past actions and for Windows anal probe 10 and 'Continence'.

  22. Re:Toyota has always had this problem on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    Dude it's called the news, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and http://justiceforbabyboubou.co... (I suppose a flashbang is a baby grenade meant for babies), but hey if it makes you feel better, like what ever.

  23. Re:Toyota has always had this problem on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 0

    So goading the bogans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... into racist attacks will become the new swatting? (sadly the mind boggles at to which is the most dangerous, drug fuelled trigger happy rednecks or not the police). Why is it nowadays, in hostage situations the police are more dangerous to you as the victim than the terrorists (something to do with ensuring safety of law enforcers first, so tossing in a grenade first is OK).

  24. Re:Marissa must be a prepper on Hedge Fund Manager Criticizes Yahoo for Wasting $3 Billion On Poor Acquisitions (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hundreds of millions of dollars are not a solid, they are however a pretty profound hint of corruption and purchasing commissions. Offshore tax havens wreak havoc upon governments and even more upon corporations. You could imagine the chaos if those countries that funded offshore tax havens at enormous cost to those countries, demanded full details or threatened to cut off the tax havens by zeroing their currency, youch, a lot of very surprising people would end up in crowbar hotels and not friendly ones funded by offshore tax havens ;D. It could be the demotion at Google was for very good reasons, this prior to being 'er' politely retired.

  25. Re:Low opinion of ESA? on European Space Agency Records Leaked For Amusement, Attackers Say (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    As 'Anonymous' can be anyone who chooses to act in an activist sense, anonymously, in the name of 'Anonymous'. It could just be a pissed off security BOFH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., always having to work extended hours due to crappy passwords. Seriously, how hard are three word passwords, no spaces and minimum word length of four characters and with varying length words, as a nonsense string preferable eg 'crankyBOFHgoesnuts' is good. When anyone can be 'Anonymous', all sorts of interesting and often very worthwhile shenanigans will occur ie a very public reminder on security that could not be otherwise carried out.