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  1. Re:Can't wait for the aftermath. on Canadian Cable Company Shames Non-Paying Customers Publicly On Facebook (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Silly cow thinking, this whole story. Pretty much real genuine public opinion, corporations suck balls. Silly corporations puts up a web site where customers who hate them can go for publicity by not paying. Hell, I would open an account, never pay them, use someone else and send them a big ole fuck you, embarrassed shiiet, why, just why the fuck why would I be embarrassed, screw em.

  2. Are people still dumb enough believe they can force anyone to abandon nuclear weapons research or that's even what was agreed to. They can research all they can, just at this time by agreement, they can not attempt to manufacture. So no nationwide threat of death for thought crimes, nobody agreed to it, nor would it be allowed. Before the US can say much more, they should start reducing the number of their weapons of mass destruction, as well as the stationing of weapons of mass destruction in foreign countries, a real a serious threat for those countries. Nothing at all to do with the bullshit of being attacked by a foreign countries but the direct threat of a US nuclear attack on that hosting country should they ever demand the end of US military occupation be that under the guise of NATO or not. How many countries have managed to successfully remove all US bases from their country.

  3. Re: Missing a target with a laser weapon on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    To claim that, means claiming a plasma in slow motion, also not realistic. About the slowest thing you could fire which could delivery energy at the other end electrically, would be capacitors. Charged as they are accelerated and developing an energy field in transit to maintain a higher speed and even allow trajectory alternation.

    One thing they get immediately wrong of course is asteroid fields, sorry bubbala, to much flat earther thinking ie stagnant over time. Depending when, the asteroid field was created and how it was exactly created, it can be quite concentrated and raw in shape for quite some time, before it becomes a more scattered boring asteroid belt. So what is true for our solar system, now, today, was not true billions years ago. So logical way to attack behind an asteroid field is to blow something up, so the debris will head in the direction you want them to go, not a space station of course but say a small moon ;D.

    The craziest shibboleth is of course that somehow you can defend yourself on earth from an attack from space. In fact any planet that can not move will always be at risk. You could for example fire off weapons, with extremely long lead times (centuries) and then disable them if not attacked, if attacked, no matter how great the surprise, the attacker destroys themselves because only you know when those 'doomsday' weapons are where. Peace in a galaxy is the only possible result. Maybe just, maybe, some pirates and poachers, psychopaths will always be psychopaths, no matter the species (anti-social genetic throw backs to very primitive times) but they would come and go and never last.

  4. Re:Not the end of privacy on New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah, why get all that fussed. Quite simply make it 'administratively illegal' and apply a fine for each and every incidence where substantive data capture and storage has occurred. Do it a few times who cares, do it a few hundreds times, a warning, do it a few thousands times, final warning and do it tens of thousands of times, no way that can be accidental, pay a fine per incidence. Same with any sane and sound privacy law. Seek to much and keep to much and when you get caught pay a fine per incidence, require a payment to the affected individuals and for repeat offenders mandate a custodial sentence.

    Much like traffic offence you need to adjust punishments to real harm and according to the number of victims. So should M$ be prosecuted for Windows anal probe 10, especially when the forced elements of it into windows 7 without permission and forced upgrades to windows 10, of course, will corrupt governments do it, absolutely not because M$ is giving them a backdoor to allow it to continue to happen, not in every country.

    To say that as a free person I no longer own my private self, is to say slavery is back and in full force and when it comes to your private self others, the elite, own it, up to and including direct physical sexual assault as witnessed at every American airport on a daily basis. Those are not air line passengers any more, they are slaves who are having their position in society, that of a slave with no right to a private physical self, reinforced. Keep in mind private jet, no search, not a slave,a member of the elite. Public transport, now that's for slaves who have no right to a private self, none at all, at an airport or in their own home.

  5. Re:Logic versus programming on Programming Education: Selling People a Lie? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with programming is the lack of logic, that internal logic purely being bound to the creators of the programming laguage and differing from language to language. Biggest problem I with generating solutions was when presented with a problem I would come up with a range of solutions and unfortunately try to implement more than one style of solution at a time, making it real difficult to find the fault, as each part should work but of course just not together. No unifying structure and logics, like in physics, physics was cool, missing a formula, no problem as long as you understood it, your could reconstruct it from root forums. Coding not so much because lanuages are based to much on the individual choices of the language coders rather that strictly adhering to existing mathematical, and phsyics formula principles as well as grammatical english. Sure you can compact it, but verbose should hold to existing usage as taught from the earliest levels in schools. Of course what else would you expect from asshats who force QWE on generation after generation of children because as adults they are too lazy and stupid to switch back over to ABC (no wonder Americans as still have their feet stuck in place and inching along in their change to metric).

  6. Re:Another win for Apple on Samsung Agrees To Pay Apple $548 Million Over Smartphone Patents (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, the fine ain't big enough for Samsung, should be ten times that for them being dick douche bags and making what were meant to be premium products into deposible products that can not be sold effectively at trade in time or that you have to through away or spend something like five times the cost of the battery to replace the battery and as a bonus you have to pay about triple the cost of the memory to get a unit with more memory, real dick move Samsung. Never to forget their truly crappy software update schedules. Google's pick for it's gear is just as bad, so Google why the fuck the hate on people being able to readily replace their batteries or being able to upgrade their devices and keep them going, what the fuck the hate on waterproofing and increasing the durability of products, why the fuck the hate on selling used products because yeah you can not sell a phone with an embedded dead battery.

  7. Re:I support the telescope on Giant Telescope Project Stalled By Hawaiian Natives (khon2.com) · · Score: 0

    Dude, that's called freedom of religion and yeah, the fucking state protects freedom of fucking religion, so you have a fucking problem with that now?!? They were there fucking first and if that mountain is of religious and cultural significance, well then, suck it the fuck up.

  8. Super rich stay wealthy for ever, never happen fact is their own spawn, will kill them as they have done in many instances in the past. Easy resolution, extended life comes with a price, birth control and that comes prior to having children, make the right choice or perish.

  9. There is a slight difference between blackmail and extortion. Technically threatening to expose actual account holders who have been say, taking bribes or cheating on taxes, unless they paid would be blackmail but threatening the Bank is more extortion. Of course for criminal investigators it all now is legal evidence, who knows what shenanigans have no been exposed.

  10. Re:Not hoverboards on 15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom (nationaltradingstandards.uk) · · Score: 1

    The only good thing about these PR=B$ fad units is the limited weight capacity. So lard arses who want to use them, have to walk to burn off the fat before they can use them, in order to stop walking. This kind of makes America a very limited market ;).

  11. Re:Trade secrets on Why Legal Experts Are Up In Arms Over a Trade-Secrets Bill Microsoft Loves (cio.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How ever the sound limit on prosecution from breaching trade secrets is the actual theft and only the theft, beyond that nothing. You had a secret, it was exposed tough luck, you should have patented it and if it wasn't patentable then you have nothing. The problem is they simply can not claim it is impossible to come up with the same solution. It looks very much like M$ is shifting to a litigation and marketing engine and it wants to claim as criminal exposure of it's massive invasion of privacy Windows anal probe 10 as an infringement of it's trade secrets. How far it will go to steal your information and you intellectual property and how it will do it, apparently will become defined as a trade secret and any exposure of it a criminal offence. You can wrap all sorts of stuff around trade secrets eg a list of customers is a trade secret.

  12. Re:Number seems low on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason why this is happening, gun nuts are factually gun nuts. Whilst lead was cut from fuel in cars and they stopped poisoning the majority of us. The gun nuts continued to main line lead straight from the barrels of their weapons. Sucking that lead down at maximum dosage on firing ranges, the more of a gun nut they were, the more of a gun nut they become. This results in very similar behaviour patterns to psychopaths, where the most unpredictable frustration or series of frustrations will set them off, from murdering a random individual for a park space to a mass shooting resulting from an argument. There does seem to be an accelerating pattern going on as more frustration build in the US socio-economic structure so more individuals are going off. The US should consider requiring a blood test to gain a weapon permit, too much lead and you are only allowed a nerf gun. Brings up an interesting point, crazy ass right wingers demanded drug tests before the state would save people from the abuses of capitalism, now will they require drug tests for weapon licences.

  13. Re:Advertising advertising advertising on Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux · · Score: 1

    Amazon most accurately defined as a logistics company and as such handling digital services is an extension of that logistics ability. Google is not a marketing company as they do not market products, they provide services for the marketing of those products. So they are a publishing agency and they basically privately publish your private information, to various government and private organisation (making it easy for governments to peep means they get free ride to invade your privacy) and like any other publishers they publish ads and content to draw those people to those ads. The privacy invasiveness is new and should in all honestly be illegal.

  14. Re:The TSA does this every day on DHS Offering Free Vulnerability Scans, Penetration Tests (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    Nothing funny, legally it is a very bad idea as under law the DHS is allowed to lie to you, so the penetration tests have, under law, zero value. They are far more likely to not declare any holes they have found in case they can use them for investigatory purposes or put holes in place they can use for investigatory purposes. Basically under law you can not trust US investigatory agencies unless any those claims and declarations are made in a court of law, the only place they are legally required to tell the truth. Stupid people routinely write stupid laws and routinely allowing them to lie is as stupid as it gets.

  15. Re: Troubling? on Revealed: What Info the FBI Can Collect With a National Security Letter · · Score: 1

    That is the balance in law, the government has to be allowed to do something to do it and citizens have to be actually banned from doing something. It the government does not have permission from citizens to do something, than it is pretty illegal to do it and if citizens have not been banned from doing something it is pretty much legal to do it. So citizens have rights and governments do not, they have the set rules they must operated under us democratically defined by it's citizens. So we have agencies all over the globe under the influence of the US government breaking all sorts of rules, basically having pretty much committed hundreds of thousands of crimes and yet not one prosecution of the law breakers but repeated prosecution of whistle blowers. Eventually it will come to an end and it will results in lots of prosecutions and dismissals. Pretty obvious various odious agencies have taken it upon themselves to become politically dominant in their societies against electoral laws and should be rooted out and prosecuted.

  16. Re:This is not in the least surprising on The Brains of Men and Women Aren't Really That Different, Study Finds (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The differences in brains genetically will not be that different, the differences in brains developmentally ie how they change over time will be more significantly different. So differences in hormones produces changes in behaviour and thought and this results in different brain development, some bits get exercised more than other bits and hence develop further over time whilst less exercised bit tend to diminish over time. These tendencies will vary with social environmental conditions and hence further distortions in measurable differences will occur, for the same reason, some bits get exercised more than others bits based upon your interactions. That change does occur over one cycle but basically at the speed of thought over many years, so billions upon billions of thought cycles and that developmental difference is balanced between genetics and psychological environmental conditions and physiological condition (you are also in part what you consume, whether intentionally or not ie lead poisoning making you less moral, less caring and less thoughtful and hundreds of millions suffering from that to varying degrees). Of course if you brain is missing a bit, it will never develop ie psychopaths and a conscience, just can't happen and over time poor behaviour grows more pronounced due to lack of development. So it is the hormonal rewards which reinforces behaviours and causes different brain development over time.

  17. Re:"Failed" push for renewables? on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 1

    Multi storey aquaponic production facility, pest and weed control costs zero, delivery costs hugely reduced direct to retailers daily, production year round and full time labour force, you know not what you talk about. (energy is the only disruptive cost, keep in mind building life for this kind of facility fifty years). Land is never free and five or more layers on the same piece of land, hugely reduces land cost and in tax depreciation of capital investment in building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Cheap energy changes everything, make no mistake.

  18. Re:The treaty says no such thing. on Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    So the fine point on mining or colonisation is whether it is a territorial claim or a development claim. If you can get up there and colonise or mine, then pretty much you are entitled to claim what you are actually colonising or mining, as a developmental claim. As a territorial claim it should of course be banned, you can not point to the sky and claim to own it all because you have lots of nuclear war heads. It might seem odd compared to claims on earth but in all seriousness it will most likely suffice for the next hundred years or so and we should be doing all we can to promote the space race over stupendously destructive earth bound wars for profits and egos. There is a whole galaxy out there waiting to be explored, experienced and enjoyed.

  19. Re:Punishing people who get degrees we need the mo on Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans · · Score: 1

    You will also help to reintroduce bonded servants, wahoo, your college owns you for life, now what the fuck could go wrong with that. So for attractive females does that include serving the administration on your back and for males bent over. America you are fucking sick.

  20. Re:Violence! on Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos (middleeastmonitor.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It really is super double twisty speak to claim showing acts of violence being committed somehow incites violence, kind of fucking late you know, violence is already being committed. Reality is, showing those acts of violence being committed is putting enormous pressure on, to stop committing those acts of violence. So, question, is it an act of violence for a occupying force to drive around telling families they are going to gas them to death or not, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (rather ironic considering the source). Honestly it looks like many of the acts of violence committed by the Government controlling that region, are being done purposefully to incite violence in return, so that an excuse can be fabricated to carry genocidal policies, without ramifications from the rest of the world.

  21. Re:"Failed" push for renewables? on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 1

    The simple matter is renewables will never ever produce enough because energy is different to other resources. The more energy you have and he cheaper it is, the more you can conserve and recycle other resources. So buckets of energy means you can live lakes and rivers to run free to create a healthy environment and desalinate salt water instead. In agriculture, cheap plentiful energy means growing under lights in a multi storey structure very close to demand and allowing farm lands to return to bio diverse forest, that people can enjoy and will create a healthier planet for us. When it comes to recycling cheap energy means land fills can instead be high tech recycling centres to break down waste in required raw materials that can be delivered back to manufacturers (one off capital cost to build but does need very cheap energy to keep going).

    Ample energy also means a little more fairness in the world, I set in a fully air-conditioned home and do feel a sense of guilt for those who do not, cheaper and cheaper and cheaper energy all make that all the more accessible to many more. The cheaper and more plentiful energy is, the much better the quality of life will be for the bottom 50% and they don't have much of nothing at the moment.

  22. Re: so, open season on American civilians now? on Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind you analogy of the school bully and the bar drunk. So if you are at war with a school bully, the accepted US tactic blow up the school and adjoining properties are guilty by association. If you are a war with a bar drunk, target the bar with drone missiles and if it is a chain target all the rest of the chain because the drunk might be in one of them instead. Lets be clear on the reality of the terror wars, the fantasy Global War on Terror versus the real Global Terror War (where little or nor focus is given on separating the guilty from the innocent and hellfire missiles at $58,000 a pop are fired off like fireworks at Christmas because the investors at Lockheed and Boeing want a new yacht for Christmas).

  23. Re:Build one on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Option three is of course missing, the option I tend to lean to now and have done so in the past. Get to know your local store, and have one assembled out of the parts they stock eg http://www.itwarehouse.com.au/ (local to me, find a similar styled store near you).

    This gets you a reasonable set of parts, generally at a reasonable price (stocked items discounted rather than ordered in full price) and if you have any problems, well you can annoy the people who actually put you box together. I always prefer buying locally sourced, any problems and customer service a support is one easy short drive away, rather than a call to a foreign service centre there to fob you off, rather than provide a service.

  24. Re:If you're American on How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? · · Score: 0

    Don't forget they have spent the last four decades trying to steal back everything they can and damn the future. Note they had to stick in world wars to try to make the claim we are better off. It takes the fucking insanity world wars to try to make fucking unbridled capitalism look good, seriously what the fuck, a world war where millions die, to make unbridled capitalism look good in comparison. I suppose a bunch of small wars and the Global War on Terror (that's PR speak), The Global Terror War (the real war being waged against US by the insanely rich, emphasis on insane).

    The real message, 'go back to sleep sheep', baa baa.

  25. Technically it is possible to create a system for perfect judgement calls. This law is based around the concept of, 'what the general public feels reasonable', as such to be in affect perfect, it needs to be put to the general public for their opinion. So every right to be forgotten claim, should be put to the public to vote on and when sufficient votes are accrued to remove it, it disappears, this would also take into account contrary votes from members of the public who feel it should remain being deducted from that total. So a reasonably representative number as a percentage of the population, can view the content and the relevant search and vote. Done and finished ;D.