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

    Even more interesting they are already trying to rebrand a United Nations political meeting (of only selected countries with ties to the US government) as an International legal tribunal (implying neutrality). I also liked the German rocket scientists trying to prove that is was a Russian BUK missile system by doing calculations to prove and medium range ground to air missile system is a medium range ground to air missile system. Of course I am not really all that interested so here is something from someone who put more investigative effort into it http://pierre-lamble.eu/the-cr..., far more than the political fluff piece by the BBC (it sure ain't what it used to be).

  2. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    The puppeteer pulls on the string, from audience perspective the puppet raises it's hand. The idea the puppet raised it's hand is false, the puppet's appendage attached to the string rose as a result of the puppeteer pulling the string. So actions by puppet presidents are the result of, highly placed corporate sourced officials, lobbyists, entrenched corruption in major government agencies and of course those behind the scenes making the actual decisions based upon self serving psychopathic greed and ego. I mean seriously did you not pay any attention at all to the same people going moving from one administration to the next or the business government 'partnerships' going on at the highest level or security agencies actively intercepting and recording the communications of all politicians at all locations even during meetings investigating the actions of those agencies. The reason so many decisions by US government fail so often, those making the decisions behind the scenes operate in competition to each other and as a result contradictory decisions end up being made and chaos result as actions are taken that disrupt the activity of each other ie working at cross purposes http://www.thefreedictionary.c....

  3. Re:No problems for me on Broken Windows 10 Update Causes Reboot Loops For Some Users · · Score: 1

    So it would seem to me you agree that inexperienced users who experience a failed compulsory upgrade are screwed as a result of M$'s actions and as such M$ should pay the cost for fixing any failures that result from a poorly executed compulsory upgrade, not the inexperienced users choice or actions, hmm, class action law suit time ;).

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

    Fine try this. The Ukrainian government first claimed that a Buk missile system had been stolen by the rebels and provided photographic proof of the stolen system. This was considered problematic because they did not inform civilian aviation authorities of the missing system and so they later denied that it was stolen. The US government also claimed to be aware of the medium range ground to air missile in the region but also did not inform civilian aviation authorities. No one saw a 10 kilometre long missile trail that should have been visible from 20 kilometres away (that is approximately 1,250 square kilometres in a highly contested zone), it occurred during daylight hours. It is fine to claim it was brought down by a missile, it is not fine to ignore air to air missiles, especially in light of any evidence of weapon deployment or firing (this tends to favour an air to air missile and not a ground to air missile).

  5. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    The whole ludicrous notion that politicians bought with offshore tax haven contributions and campaign donations run anything. The puppet is the dead weight at the end of the strings that just appears to perform, the real performance artists are the people behind the scenes pulling the strings. Since Carter no US president has run anything, not the Teleprompter nor the contents of it, they just read the script provided.

    Not happy, then start churning them over, try, try, try again, get new people to run, vote the old ones out of office, stop protesting corrupt politicians and start trying and trying and trying to replace them with honest ones. Just keep electing actors and you'll get exactly what you deserve.

  6. Re:No problems for me on Broken Windows 10 Update Causes Reboot Loops For Some Users · · Score: 2

    The problem here is mandatory updates and inexperienced users. So what you are basically saying is screw you some inexperienced users, you can pay a professional more than the cost of the operating system to fix a problem caused by a failure in the updating of that operating system. Your response is akin to screw you jack it works fine for me. The general slashdot response is hold on a second there partner if you are going to do compulsory upgrades, then you had better make sure they work 100% of the time, else pay the consumers cost of fixing any problems caused by compulsory upgrades, this includes the cost of more skilled users fixing the problem themselves.

  7. Re:Already propagating on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    How about this, diet sodas are not about losing wait they are about reducing blood sugar levels and helping to reduce weight gain. Do not expect to lose weight with diet drinks, habituation means that you body will crave that real sugar hit and you will substitute alternative sugary items to replace the missing sugar in the soda. The diet soda is just giving you some dietary pleasure, bubbles and taught desire for sweetness whilst no promoting weight gain.

    Of course never ever seek health advice from junk food companies if those individuals were in any way shape or form concerned about our health they would not be in the junk food industry in the first place. They do not care, so as we survive just long enough to feed this quarters bonus, after than we can all die in pain and agony for all they care. They know it is bad for you, they knowingly add addictive chemicals to the mix, they fully intend to distort your choices with manipulative marketing target at you from the earliest possible age and repeated hundreds of times a day, day in and day out.

    Should they be sued out of existence with class action law suits for the harm they have caused, probably. Their only acceptable defence would be to stop marketing their products all together and along those lines, the marketing of all harmful products like alcohol et all, should be banned.

  8. Re:It's the base assumption that its invalid on Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice · · Score: 1

    Well, technically in this case they are not trying to break the encryption, they are just trying to access the phone because the user password is the encryption key. So with knowledge of the OS and lock screen application and where encryption starts and where it stops. Obviously parts of the disc must be read sans encryption to load the all necessary software to get to the loading of the encryption decryption software and the lock screen pass code. So with the phones in their possession there should be no reason they can not a pass code cracker to get the password and hence the encryption key.

    So the whole story is bullshit by privacy invasive control freaks and shit heads. They want a back door, so at a particular data control point, they can copy people's data, all people's data and then decrypt that copy via the back door. The control point, international airports and customs stations. This also includes remote hacks into people's phones.

    Back doors are for invading everyone's privacy, having access to a device to decrypt takes time and only aligns with normal search warrant practices and not across the board control of people's information and via that information controlling them.

  9. Re:Cheapskates... on The NSA's Philosopher · · Score: 1

    A lot of the intel gathering falls into it might be useful in the future variety ie young person tracked buying drugs is the child of a politician, they require a corrupt favour from that politician and they threaten them with the prosecution of their child. This then extends out into private government partnerships, so private enterprise via government contacts extends that corruption into the private sphere. This now represents the bulk of government espionage. Those corrupt favours include legislation against the interests of citizens governed by the legislation, corporate espionage, insider trading, industrial espionage and of course attacking the opposing teams. This activity then hugely corrupts and weakens all security activities as gaining illegal access takes precedence over preventing illegal access, this perversely enough means that foreign break ins are allowed where blocking them would also block 'approved' security intrusions.

    As for working for places like the NSA, you must first make that choice work for them before the choices you pretend they make for you when you are their employee. In the current climate, that tends to indicate at core being a privacy invasive control freak, meaning those that choose to work for the NSA are likely those whom the majority would consider psychologically unfit to work for the NSA.

  10. Re:How to stop the losses on Tesla Suffering Cash Flow Issues; Every Model S Means a $4,000 Loss · · Score: 1

    Stop the losses for by far the majority of modern corporations are a lot simpler than that. Stop fudging the books to cheat on taxes ie how many Movies regardless of box office revenues or the self apparent wealth of those conspiring to cheat on tax, are 'losing' money.

    It is normal for a modern business to 'lose' money for the first few years via conspired tax laws and when the initial investment can no longer by fudged to continue to not pay tax, additional 'losing' investments are made. This also includes offshore elements of companies where some costs are located offshore with hugely inflated profit margins hidden from local taxation.

  11. Re:No Privacy Policy on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    Sharing the end users bandwidth and data limits without specifically obtaining the end users permission and warning them of costs would in fact be piracy and a crime for which M$ should be prosecuted. Invasion of privacy can also be considered copyright infringement, as you have created the content they are illegally copying and stealing and via bandwidth and caps they are also pirating. Really some extreme stuff going on for which they should be prosecuted.

  12. Re:Opportunity on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Everyone misses the real intent, kill the competition. People can watch only so much so the pigopolists actively try to drive competing content off the internet when ever they can. Obviously the counter claim against a DMCA should not be civil but criminal because it involves fraud and the attempt to maliciously destroy another persons business by devaluing their content. The DMCA should be constitutionally challenge because it is being used to deny owners the copyright to their own content.

  13. Re:Yay! on Cortana Can Now Replace Google Now On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Actually that would be fraud. What M$ is actually doing is pumping up bing hits by an order of magnitude in order to sell it too advertisers. So how many Bing searches are fake, a fraud to pump up Bing market rates, how active is Bing in reality once of the faked searches have been eliminated, what market share does it really have.

  14. Re:dry ink on Epson Is Trying To Kill the Printer Ink Cartridge · · Score: 1

    The only reason to get an inkjet is large paper size A3 and up. Otherwise why pass up on a colour laser printer that also works as a scanner, photocopier and fax. Large format laser printers are 10 times the price of small format laser printers.

  15. Re:Oblicatory on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    Taste is Soylent's biggest mistake. You really do need multiple compositions with varying flavours, as you need to be able to adjust you consumption to your current dietary needs ie sweeter in you need more energy, saltier for recovery. They should also steer clear of soy as the amount of chemical processing in that product is extreme and contaminants become a huge risk.

  16. Re:They'll do it wrong. Let's buy the rights. on Dungeons & Dragons Is Getting a Film Franchise · · Score: 1

    There is no problem turning D&D into a movie. So they pass the D&D universe rules onto some professionals writers and get them to write novels and see which ones the public likes and then movie and game them. Warner brothers likely is on the right track much like Disney and rather than licensing off bits, producing the complete content suite out of various studios.

    Aiming the Star Trek movies at the cheetos crowd, no story all action, was a stupid mistake because it killed off other opportunities.

  17. Re:Does anyone remember... on Why Bill Gates Is Dumping Another $1 Billion Into Clean Energy · · Score: 2

    Careful there partner, ignorance of the law is no excuse, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... About the dumbest thing you can do is experiment with what is illegal and what is legal upon a trial and error basis. Best way to find out if something is forbidden, do some research or pay a lawyer to do it for you.

    The Evil in relation to M$ was a relative evil based upon technological and social uses, so not to be confused with the serious evil of the military industrial complex or the corrupt pharmaceutical corporations (they actually run around killing people for fun a profits) and for example, not as evil as Monsanto (they earn a category of evil unique to them).

    The most evil thing they did was to attack customers who were looking into and recommending Linux is a business sense and try to slander them as supporting terror groups and organised crime, along with labelling them a cancerous viral communists (that was done at the highest level in M$ and spread into every media outlet that would let them). Then there was the attempt to corrupt international standards and turn it into standards for the highest bidder, that was also pretty evil. The Windows 10 invasion of privacy, seriously the contents of local storage, that's pretty evil too.

  18. Re:Troll on Sociologist: Job Insecurity Is the New Normal · · Score: 1

    Not really. The reality is that by far the greatest threat to rich old psychopaths is poor young psychopaths and as such, the rich old ones will be pushing it, in order to protect themselves and their ill gotten gains and they will be quite ruthless about it as they become more aware of it. It is always all about them, each to themselves upon an individual basis.

  19. Re:quickly to be followed by self-driving cars on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 1

    The crazy argument is you are better off leasing or renting a car then buying one because of course the business that buy cars and rent or lease them are all insane and do so at a loss. What, that isn't true, so that in addition to paying the full price of the vehicle in rent, you will also be paying interest on their capital investment and their profit margins and their management costs. Specious is the fool who thinks you can save money by renting when those who rent it to them generate returns by borrowing capital, investing in the depreciating asset and then renting it out at a profit.

  20. Re:Interesting argument on ISPs Claim Title II Regulations Don't Apply To the Internet Because "Computers" · · Score: 1

    Waaaaaaahhhhhh, it's not fair people are always making fun of americans (not all Americans of course not those North and South of the particularly cranking bit in the top middle half), their ignorance, spelling and their feets and inches, also their politicians, so many ass clowns on parade. Have you not never consider it is fun to make fun of American Exceptionlism, the ego, it's just so ripe for pricking. From my perspective it is more, bwah hah hah, then Waaaaahhh, obviously you look upon life through more of a Waaahhhh perspective, you should consider that not everyone does and American Exceptionlism is particularly USAians or http://www.urbandictionary.com... (note I did not right that definition)

  21. Re:RTFA? on Ask Slashdot: Can You Disable Windows 10's Privacy-Invading Features? · · Score: 1

    Until of course the EU sanctions kick it and some of the worst stuff is taken out, it is only a matter of time.

  22. Re:Troll on Sociologist: Job Insecurity Is the New Normal · · Score: 1

    Psychopaths are most definitely not normal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., nor by any stretch of the imagination could their behaviour be considered normal. As more testing is being done in correctional institutions so the statistics are becoming worse now 1% general population, 15% prison population (some are showing it up to 25%) and 50% of crimes of violence. Distinct genetic traits are being discovered, they could be considered a sub-species of humanity, a parasitic sub-species. A good thing the FBI doesn't agree with your defence of the traits you likely know well https://www.fbi.gov/stats-serv.... Also http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm... "These results indicate that different psychopathic traits as measured by the MPQ show distinct genetically based relations with broad dimensions of DSM psychopathology". So suck it up and make no mistake, they all definitely have psychopaths on the radar and it is a growing global trend, so we definitely are looking to a better future, well, not all of use, psychopaths definitely will be losing the ability to hide amongst us to be able to prey upon the rest of us.

    A market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., can mean lots of things, note the only one they didn't list was free market. Separate entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., so basically a caveat emptor market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Basically in reality the closest we get to a free market would be a 'Fence' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., interesting in that the products do enter that market upon an actual 'Free' basis and it is unregulated until of course the psychopaths who run it get caught and they regulate right out of existence.

  23. Re: Really? on New Telemetry Suggests Shot-Down Drone Was Higher Than Alleged · · Score: 1

    For reference sake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... So "28g per cartridge", " 50â"55 yards from the traphouse". So minimum range 50 times 3 equals 150 feet, for more details on cartridges http://www.shotgun-insight.com.... So the claim of the operator seems pretty reasonable after all. Problem is where is the video of the flight or is there a problematic zoom they did not want to show. So very likely both in the wrong. It all seems strange from other countries perspective where rules are much stricter http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.... So typically you can not fly it any where except above your own property or at specifically designated public recreational areas.

  24. Re:Why build one on Epic Mega Bridge To Connect America With Russia Gets Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    A ferry also does not not tend to promote development along it's route. So no ferry stations along the way, no diners, no transport hubs, no manufacturing shifted to gain better access to the route. Looking at it of course, hmm make it all look better by including the US but if they are missing so what, a major transport corridor from Bejing through Russia, France and Germany and on into England. That could really work quite well, shipping would take a huge hit of course and the US could always try a north south transport corridor Argentina to Alaska but the South Americans are not all that impressed with the idea of working to closely with the US because it tends to become very socially and economically disruptive.

  25. So China seems to be putting together all of the elements to provide for Government implemented trade sanctions. As many global markets develops and China becomes less dependent upon US trade and can survive upon expanding trade with South America, Africa and Russia, so the threat of trade sanctions applied by China against the US, can start to be considered. Laugh it up fuzz ball but a lot of US corporations can be driven into bankruptcy by the simply action of trade sanctions being applied by China against the US.

    What you are seeing is the development of the ability to meaningfully and purposefully target the US with trade sanctions. Keep in mind China would be content to abuse the crap out of the worker class in order to completely disrupt US society, in fact they are doing it right now, ruthlessly exploiting their labour in order to disrupt US society via their growing ranks of unemployed.

    So how great a threat is it, basically the longer the Wallmart psychopaths et al run the US government the greater the risk and the greater the likelihood of the application of a full trade sanctions against US in order to completely disrupt US commerce (with growing dependence comes growing threat of very disruptive withdrawals).