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  1. Re:4/5 in favor on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have heard poor people say that would rather starve to death or freeze to death or be punched in that face over and over again, rather than eat or sleep in a warm bed or not be punched in the face. Well, poor, crazy people at least or rich people claiming to be poor people on the internet, yeah, those buggers do it all of the time ;D.

    Easiest way to subsistence payments (this to replace the theft of the right to a subsistence existence, starve or work or kill) to all is nationalise financial services, so the profits become tax paid. So kick out all private banks and insurance schemes and all the government can ensure safety in the event of loss or can lend money with force of law, both very reasonable propositions if you really think about it.

  2. Re:Targeting? WTF? on HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Targeting Kids · · Score: 1

    Well basically "They're not advertising. HBO, Amazon and Netflix don't carry ads during programming", is a lie as a substantial amount of content is in fact product advertising masquerading as content (it's called merchandising).

  3. Re:Half the story on Ask Slashdot: How To "Prove" a Work Is Public Domain? · · Score: 1

    To prove anything at all with regard to copyright or trademarks means going to court, forget anything else. So the number one priority in proving public domain is shifting the court case to a loser pays country (as copyright et al get caught up in international treaties. Moving it to a loser pays all court costs countries means that when you win, you basically break even, with those making a false claim to copyright et all having to pay your court costs, this means of course they are very likely to drop their legal bluff in short order. No more is it, I am willing to spend more than you to keep the scam going but If I lose I will pay your legal costs and my legal costs and lose control of that content. So basically as a priority shift the case out of the US.

  4. Re:Price point? on Intel Promises 'Optane' SSDs Based On Technology Faster Than Flash In 2016 · · Score: 1

    That pricing curve does not remain consistent. Sometimes in consolidating markets it is much better to exploit a technological lead by coming it at a low price in order to cripple your competitors. So push SSD drives to completely wipe out H/Disk drives and hurt the manufacturers bound to H/Disk drives.

  5. Re:Amazed on Bitcoin Fork Divides Community · · Score: 1

    You can go to nearly all sites and spend money that is recognised via major credit agencies, why take a chance on a do nothing vapour ware middle person, just why. Unless of course you intent is to break various countries laws which is why you choose to launder and hide transactions. So trust criminals if you want to be one?

  6. Re:Fine vs profit? on FCC Fines Smart City $750K For Blocking Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Imagine how well behaved corporations would be if shareholders were imprisoned for the actions of the corporations by which they generate profits. What do you think share value would be for ill behaved corporations that break laws and their share holders are punished. You might think that sounds awful but consider this, what is the punishment for citizens of a country that goes to war, summary random public execution. So if every citizen comes under threat when countries do bad things why shouldn't every share holder come under threat when corporations do bad things?

  7. Re:Can the enemy actually shoot down the F35? on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    Not a problem, those obviously 'pretend' allies would have just bought another countries fighters and have then sitting unused in an airfield collecting dust or playing games and pretending to fight wares. Of course do that and exactly how does the US demand that vassal states buy US arms in order to subsidise the cost of the US military. You solution to this, have all those pretend 'allies' buy Russian or Chinese (by the way it is pretty obvious it is the US that pretends to have allies, when they are just countries waiting to be more ruthlessly exploited). Most of the citizens of those pretend allied countries would be quite content for their countries to stop subsidising the US military industrial complex and to evict all US military bases.

  8. What Rights on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    That US government statement reads more like this "The government of the United States of America, declares all it's citizens terrorists and they have no right to know how they are being judged by the government of the United States of America prior to the administrative branch of the government of United States of America applying penalties and curtailing their rights". You people are in deep trouble.

  9. Re:Have they fixed non-secure FAT32 access yet? on Android M's Official Name Is Marshmallow · · Score: 1

    Next version, hell, the manufacturers are getting worse and worse on upgrading the OS in phones. Still waiting to see kitkat on a note 3 in Australia (never pay premium for a pseudo premium phone because you are just paying for premium advertising). Android start doing elemental updates, update elements of the Android OS rather than 'claiming' updating the whole OS so that people can get them without breaking warranty of lame manufacturers. That way you can get some elements of the phone OS upgraded even if you can not get them all. I'll keep the phone till it dies even if screen brightness is problematic and unpredictable, the stylus sort of mostly works and the GPS is not sure which country it is some times (not so premium at all).

    So allow for part upgrades of the OS, like screen interface, or security updates or functionality, whilst leaving the hardware interface intact(the stuff the user does not see or interact with) until a full upgrade. There is no need for full upgrades to change stuff like the GUI.

  10. Re:It's a union thing on Police Training Lacks Scientific Input · · Score: 1

    The problem in the US is, far too many training facilities, far to many management systems, far too many sets of policy. This all generates a huge lack of consistency and possibility of corruption. The US desperately needs to drop county based police forces and just go with a state based police force. This way the local cities and counties and far more receptive and supportive of complaints because the state pays the cost, also corrupt counties who want to turn police into law enforcement revenue generating junk yard dogs, simply will lack the opportunity to do so. County policing can go from good, to bad, to good, to 100% corrupt from election cycle to election but with much larger state based policing it is far harder enable corruption.

  11. Re:65 VW Bug on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Car That's Safe From Hackers? · · Score: 1

    It's called computer on a chip. There is no reason at all that you breaking chip needs to talk to your radio or your sat nav or blue tooth. You can have one board but each isolated chip doing it's own thing, so no single hack point is possible. Need the chip for that particular function reprogrammed, pop the chip off the board and put in a reprogrammed one. need to check all chips have one polling chip that ask and gets back and supplies the info, that is all nothing else, completely incapable of sending a programming signal back. Cheap ass dump it all into one is just lazily, greedily, begging for problems. So think of maintenance, breaks no working right, no problem no need to replace a whole computer, just pop the breaking chip and put in a new one.

  12. Re:Meet the new guy on Virginia Ditches 'America's Worst Voting Machines' · · Score: 1

    You do not really need a compulsory ID, because the fraud rate would be low. For each vote that name must be marked off, so a simple audit (which are already done with a view to investigation and prosecution) would pick up Joe Bloggs from a specific address voting many more times than just once. If you want to make the investigation and prosecution easier simply take a photo of everyone as they get their name marked off the voter list for having voted that day. Seriously, honestly seriously, exactly how many voting booths do you think you are capable of visiting in one day or do you think electoral office are all Sgt Shultz https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and would not notice the same person lining up a few hundred or even thousand times to vote under the same name or many different names. The much simpler route is the track and prosecute (might not need to spend anything at all) versus spending hundreds of millions of dollars on compulsory internal passports (which can then be readily abused by out of control law enforcement ie show me your ID, show your ID and they grab in and through it down the drain, show me your ID, no, you are under arrest, prove I threw your ID away because I can already prove you do not have it).

    One of the core principles of compulsory voting is that in making it compulsory and associating a fine with failing to vote, the government is legally bound to make voting much more accessible. So weekend votes, lots of voting booths so queue kept minimals.

    When it comes to security why be so fussed. Take banks in Australia on the phone they ask for you account number and mind bogglingly you password all unencrypted, all in the clear and with people using cordless phones. So are banks in the US different with unencrypted communications wanting full details.

  13. Re:Headline is stupid on Lawsuit Over Two-Word Tweet Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    Technically not a false claim. If he asked the question and then answered it, than the context is his, just an answer alone is not enough and for the idea of a claim to exist it would require the claim to be made. What was written was "actually yes", nothing more, so it means nothing, not even a sentence. Asking and then answering that question would be making a claim, just answering is on the borderline. You see it all the time, that response is generally followed up be a request to confirm the statement as an actual accusation to put it over the line. Police chief likely a lard arse idiot, principle likely an ignorant egoistic fool but a good ole drinking buddy of the police chief. Normal legal accepted repose for charge of defamation, I misunderstood the question, done and finished. Just to cap off the argument, a question to the accused, "how did you make out with the civil court case?"(now do you get it?).

  14. Re:People have to be careful on Can Cuba Skip Cell Phone Connectivity? · · Score: 1

    That's a laugh the US was finding itself isolated in it's own local sphere. South America et al wanted Cuba treated properly and were massing against the US diplomatically. See those sanction against Russia from the US and Europe, South America loved them and the Russian government will keep them going after Europe drops them and long after the US drops them. US quite simply did not have a choice, to much warmongering and not enough diplomacy plus being recognised for putting Comical Ali to shame when it comes to bullshit. Just like the Ukraine, the US was pushed right out of the negotiations but is now trying to force it's way back in. US exceptionalism only exists within the US, in the rest of the world it is just seen as bullshit.

  15. Re: How to make a $50 phone on The Realities of a $50 Smartphone · · Score: 1

    The real value, "Power To The People". All people chatting all over the world, the less people will be dying as a result of exploitation, whether war, terrorism, labour abuses, suppression of democracy or of course, racism and prejudice. A healthy, happier more stable global society makes for much better opportunities for good business. Sure it is more insanely profitable to ruthlessly exploit people and feed you ego in doing so but that psychopathic idea unlimited greed is just a sickness that is destroying our world. Yeah, you might die on top but why should we end up all dying out a generation or two latter to feed your ego.

  16. Re:What a colossal waste of time and resources! on Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Is Now Chairing Lessig's Presidential Bid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It would make much more sense to focus on the Senate and the Congress. Then once dominant in their strip all powers of the President and turn them into a figure head and administrator only. One thing for sure and certain and series of very bad President have proven that they can not be trusted with that much power and bad things will result. Also likely a major change to the Supreme Court, same method of appointment, but term and age limits. There is absolutely no reason anybody should sit on the supreme court for more than a decade and likely you need few more at least 12 total (the more there it the more it costs to corrupt them). The biggest problem with the US far to few people hold far to much power.

  17. Re:Groklaw Needed More Than Ever on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 1

    Oracle does not need to kill off Java, that is exactly what this court case is all about, Oracle can see the writing on the wall for Java. Java had it's moment in the sun and now it is on the wain and other languages are starting to dominate. Oracle can see this and is attempting to make a two way bet, either a big grab for cash to make up for the lost investment in Java or disrupt Android and try to force Java back on top. Problem for Oracle even when weird crap can happen in corrupt US courts it will all be blocked in the rest of the world (the parts that count), leaving the corruption in the US visibly apparent and blocking it. So basically a pretty lame desperation move, likely pumped up by Oracle lawyers as a self serving grab for cash, for themselves from Oracles own cash hoard (don't trust lawyers, the best person to keep an eye on a lawyer is another lawyer, catch with that, endless loop). The US simply needs loser pays laws, quite simply this puts enormous pressure on lawyers to perform properly, else they can find themselves on the receiving end of a law suit from the ex-client for bad advice.

  18. Re:Guessing at a partial explanation on Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings · · Score: 1

    Windows 10 is clearly not a single user computer but straight up a part of a marketing botnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... on every computer which has it installed. You watch MS brag about growth in Bing hits and demand more money from advertisers, every Google search on windows 10 looks to trigger a corresponding Bing search without the user knowing, watch M$'s search market share grow, without end users ever requesting it or seeing any of the results. Once a windows 10 computer is plugged into the internet M$ own it, their service, they own it and they only allow you to use it, until they kill your service. Refuse to pay for the next OS watch them kill the existing service, they own it, you do not, you do not even have a licence to it, you are borrowing their software only for as long as they allow you to. US government doesn't like your country any more, watch them kill every windows 10 computer as soon as it phones home.

    That is by far the most important question anyone should ask, can M$ selectively kill any windows 10 computer remotely, each and every time it phones home to check for permission if it is still able to run.

  19. Re: Anti-Virus Companies All Suck on Former Employees Accuse Kaspersky Lab of Faking Malware · · Score: 1

    Finding computer virii that others don't can also be pretty suspicious. That obvious have copies of each others software and they obviously are quite capable of coding computer virii, in fact they all claim to know more about them than anyone else. So crafting one to get past the competition and infect as many computers as possible would be one of the best possible marketing strategies.

    Not that I would suspect Kapersky Labs ahead of the others. I would honestly place all software security companies in the same category as inherently suspicious in their behaviour. They require crime and corruption to survive and grow in order for them to survive and grow, solve the security problem and they are right out of business, continue to treat the symptoms without curing the problem means profits forever. The only real solution to security has to come from FOSS because for FOSS it is nothing but a cost burden, solve security and they save money.

  20. Re:People have to be careful on Can Cuba Skip Cell Phone Connectivity? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Excuse but US trade embargo will have not much at all to do with Cuba. It is all about US tourist going to Cuba (legalising Cannabis will promote that faster than anything else) and some Cuban products going to the US. Why the hell would Cuba import anything from the US when the US imports it all from China. Let's be honest Cuba just wants US dollars (for as long as they last) to buy stuff from Russia and China.

  21. There in lies that absurd notion of a growth industry in gaming. Computer games are not like other products, there are real hard limits on number of games, number of users and free time. Think of it like a growth in sports being considered by an ever increasing number and variety of sports. Just because more people buy games does not mean you can produce and sell more games, you just sell copies of the successful ones. Success being a measure of the cost of development versus the income derived from the number of sales, this in fact crippled by the presence of more and more games. That idiot is just bullshitting beyond belief if he thinks computer programming or computer gaming design can replace manufacturing outsourced to cheap labour being paid cents per hour. There is a monumental difference between making a million cars and making 1, just fucking 1 game and copying it a million times and distributing it via download. If this seeming fuckwit thinks he can save British industry with computer games he is a complete and total moron.

  22. Re:Privacy is dead. on Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings · · Score: 1

    Now this http://store.steampowered.com/... makes a whole lot more sense. Obviously Steam paid attention to the most important thing about windows, the only binding power computer users to windows was high end games and power users will never ever accept privacy invasive practices on a desktop. Mobile phone invasiveness causes grumbles but hey you can always use you desktop or notebook instead for secure oh wait, FUCK YOU MICROSOFT ;D. So Linux for the internet and work and Steam for gaming, so how long before I can get both in the one box.

  23. Re:Targeting? WTF? on HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Targeting Kids · · Score: 2

    Targeting is the most appropriate word because they are not interested in helping children learn and develop, they are only interested in baiting them with content to target them with manipulative and psychological destructive ads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., "In the United Kingdom, Greece, Denmark, and Belgium advertising to children is restricted. In Quebec, Sweden and Norway advertising to children under the age of 12 is illegal." Will this ever happen in the United State of America, not bloody likely after all freedom of speech and greed takes precedence (perhaps USA should change to B$A to match the love of advertising and public relations).

  24. Re:Odd ... on Commodore Smartphone Hits Trademark Opposition · · Score: 1

    Brings about an interesting point, can you own a trademark without a product or service. So for something like $300 a word can you buy out the English language http://www.oxforddictionaries...., 7000 commonly used words only $2.1 million dollars what a bargain. Psychopathic capitalism, is it not a wonder (they did it on the internet via domain names so why not spread it out into to the rest of the world).

  25. Re:Say Russia did it for the purpose of argument.. on Russian Missile Parts Found At MH17 Crash Site · · Score: 1

    Two words, no explanation should be required, 'EXPLOSIVE RESIDUE'. Any plane close enough to an exploding missile to be shot down (not to forget unexpended missile fuel) will not just get punctured with fragmentation (designed to knock combat aircraft with armoured elements to increase durability) but also with the remains of burnt explosive material, paint will be blown off, some will be charred and fairly substantial amount of that plastic coating will be peppered and impregnated by high temperature particles from the burnt explosive material as well as residue from the explosion of missile fuel. In fact even the most incompetent crime scene investigator would not bother fucking around with looking for missile parts (what a fucking joke) but only for evidence of an explosion external to the aircraft and that would be sufficient, no proof of explosion sufficient to destroy the aircraft then no missile.