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  1. Re:Looks promising on Non-Invasive Spinal Cord Stimulation Gets Paralyzed Legs Moving Again · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind their legs still have a connection to their spinal cord and hence limited reflex actions are still in place. That bundle of nerves in the spinal cord, seeds specific kinds of signals from specific locations, so forget some connections being able to be used for other thing. So like when people suffer spinal damage and lose strength. They loose strength because they are only communicating with some of the muscles fibres in some muscle clusters and they are doing all the work whilst the rest do nothing. They gain strength over time not so much because of nerve cell regrowth but because muscles fibres doing nothing shrink away and muscle fibres doing all the work, a huge amount of work are stimulated to grow, this of course takes quite some time.

  2. Re:Troll on Sociologist: Job Insecurity Is the New Normal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do not confuse Stalinism or Maoism with socialism, those first two where strictly police states with the masquerade of what ever political system they were pretending to be. This being no different to Nazism.

    So want to see socialism, first the psychopaths have to go, quite simply they will corrupt any ism they are a part of, attempt to turn it into an authoritarian state where they have control and can dominate and exploit the citizens of that society.

    Socialism is the system that the majority of people were born into, the family unit, a socialist government is basically about expanding the socialism of the family unit into the greater community to gain the all to obvious outcomes, a caring and sharing society of human beings and the extended family concept.

    The 'Free Market' is straight up marketing lie because it is wholly and totally dependent upon nothing in that market ever being Free, everything 'owned' and 'controlled', so that those with the most can control and exploit those with the least. With everything that can be owned being owned, including all of the essentials to life, so that denial of life becomes the tool of exploitation of the not free at all market place of human lives.

    Either we shift to socialism or die as a species, that is the choice, suck it up.

  3. Re:They're going to be charging money for the OS s on In Windows 10, Ad-Free Solitaire Will Cost You $10 -- Every Year · · Score: -1, Troll

    Liar, the upgrade is most definitely not free for life, your data has value M$ is taking and hence you are paying for it. As for permanently blocking updates what do you do about security and the inevitable slew of security bugs. Face it, this is turning out to be an even bigger fuck you from M$ to it's customer than windows 8 was. The very first time you do a security update they can and will hose all your settings, requiring a full check of all settings and some could well have been permanently removed as an option.

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

    I'll have to call bullshit on this comment because standard M$ practice is to turn stuff back on during upgrades even after you have specifically turned them off. So, compulsory upgrades means any settings you make are not fixed and are only temporary and according to the M$ non-warranty, anyone they want to allow into your computer is allowed in at any time no matter what your settings are, NSA, cough, cough. Basically it seems windows 10 is the NSA spy dream come true, do not install. If you must, pay the extra for the professional version which is exactly why M$ change pretty much a hundred dollars more for it because it knows full well, anyone who wants to at least pretend to secure their computer will be forced to pay that protection racket cost ie pay the hundred dollars or else everyone owns your information, your browsing history, you digital habits and that especially means for you nasty foreigners those who under US law you specifically can never trust (they are legally entitled to lie, cheat, steal and kill with regards to you and yours according to US law, no stinking courts required).

    You can expect an EU legal sanction in pretty short order.

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

    Look it up http://www.thefreedictionary.c..., English spelling as in how it is spelt in England the home of the English language. Not stupid American spelling because special spelling was required for them because it seems they are a bit thick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

    So yes it does apply to the magazine when it is sent electronically. No it does not apply to the magazine when it is printed and sent via a truck and then van and then motorbike. I mean exactly how thick can you be, I thought I could not be clearer. Look the people who are paying you, well, they should simply get someone better, you are quite simply not good enough and just make their arguments look worse. Keep pulling boners like this and you'll be out of work but PR=B$ is far worse than no PR=B$.

  6. Re:Interesting argument on ISPs Claim Title II Regulations Don't Apply To the Internet Because "Computers" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The communication is between humans and humans. A human at one end craft content and store in on a computer in a accessible format. The end user then crafts a request for that information and sends it via the internet and the stored communication from the content creator is then delivered to the end user.

    The ISP claim is a stupid as is possibly imaginable, easy proof, their claim basically is that an answer machine hooked into a phone service means that it is no longer a telecommunications service, or that a phone text message in not communications or that email is not communications or that forum posting in not communications or that chat is not communications or that instant messaging is not communications or a live video stream is not communications or that video chat is not communications. Their claim is so laughably stupid that the court should penalise them for making it.

  7. Re:Crooks are afraid of the dark, too on Britain Shuts Off 750,000 Streetlights With No Impact On Crime Or Crashes · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the bit about a 20% increase in car accidents, you are arguing the ability of old people to walk in the dark, seriously, really honestly seriously. Like who gives a fuck about that 20% increase car accidents and all the associated injuries and death 'er' 'um' old people can buy a torch, oh I get it sarcasm (somehow I don't think you know how to use it properly).

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

    I don't like to rent and to be clear it is factually a depreciating capital investment. So yes a car is a valid investment, investments do not need to gain value as much as provide value. So the depreciating value is meant to align with the value received in it's use, if the depreciation exceeds the value of it's use, then it is a bad investment, if the depreciating value remains higher than the value obtained via it's use, then it is a good investment (think of it like claiming money has now capital value because it is under a mattress vs in a bank vs in the hands of corrupt pension funds soon to disappear or in car terms a vehicle driven once on week to church on Sundays vs a taxi). Problem is as a depreciating asset, that depreciation will wildly exceed any value obtained from use, causing major problems in new car sales, unless manufacturer supplied conversion systems become available. So when talking about investments talk about investments do not make specious arguments. Yep, there are investment geeks out there who actually understand all the economist crap, some of it logical and accurate and some sheer utter crap with the full intent of deceiving people (to hear the good stuff you needs to listen to smart business people privately talking to other smart business people and not the crap spewed to ignorant punters, especially by politicians and main stream media).

  9. Re:Caps Lock used to power a huge lever. on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    So because you are lazy you want to force that confusion on all future generations. Why the fuck are computers intended for primary school not alphabetical, they will not be entering the work force for decades.

  10. Yep that windows 10 marketing hype and B$ reviews are certainly getting more than a little over the top. That don't seem to be doing that well though and they are running into a real problem. As they push more the windows 10 hype is starting to becoming more annoying and putting people off, so they try harder to promote hype and instead of winning converts they are just becoming more annoying. I think their key market is baulking and looks to be waiting more than a quarter for the B$ to die down so that reality can start to leak through prior to wasting the effort and frustration on yet another unwanted upgrade.

    DC makes sense with your own battery capacity and only using minimal AC from the mains as emergency charge up, if you solar capacity or battery capacity was too small. So likely houses will go all DC as it is much safer and reduces capital cost (all appliances without transformers), with AC only going to the battery outside. Mains power could of course become hugely expensive with so little current flowing to pay for that infrastructure. Interesting problem though of medium and high density dwellings with insufficient area for power generation, not to bad if they are all together but really bad when they are scattered amongst low density dwellings with sufficient area to generate their own electricity.

  11. Re:Crooks are afraid of the dark, too on Britain Shuts Off 750,000 Streetlights With No Impact On Crime Or Crashes · · Score: 1

    Well, but according to the grandparent article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... reffered to in this article, this article is bullshit "Research suggests that road accidents have risen by 20 per cent in areas where street lights were switched off." So a twenty percent increase in car accidents, so shit for brain austerity fuck wit has simply shifted the cost from the rich back to poorer tax payers driving back home from work in the dark or driving to work in the dark. Hey, 20% increase in car accidents, death, dismemberment and permanent disability, so the fuck what, as long as the rich pay less tax and he sleeps better. How well are those 20 percenters sleeping after their car accidents, how many as sleeping permanently. How much would sane countries spend to reduce car accidents by 20%?

  12. Re:quickly to be followed by self-driving cars on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 2

    Investment value is the real gnarly problem here. What do you think will be the future value of high priced exclusive infernal combustion vehicles, in the second hand market when gas stations start shutting down. How are new ones going to be sold, with a limited life span and perhaps no future second hand value. In fact those companies that start afresh without the burden of an infernal combustion past or capital loss in equipment, engineering, now empty patents, will have a huge advantage.

    As countries try to dump fossil fuels on a shrinking market, so the price will temporarily drop until economies of scale collapse and regulations ban the pollution. The switch from infernal combustion to electric will be a whole lot messier than most people think unless cheap conversions become possible.

  13. Re:Some mods worth paying for on Sprked Tries To Solve Valve's Paid Mods Scandal · · Score: 2

    The biggest problem of paying for mods is copyright. Modders often borrow from copyrighted content to bring life to other games, often making the game much better with borrowed content than it was without the addition. So the big legal battle would be guaranteed to ensue about what is fair use and what is not fair use. All done for free tends to skirt that issue.

  14. Re:Caps Lock used to power a huge lever. on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    The secretaries were also the reason for QWERTY. I've worked with a bunch of businesses and it was always suprising how many decisions the bosses secrety made, often the pretty the secretary the more power she had. Still why has QWERTY lingered on and for fuck sake why are we teaching to children whilst teaching them alphabetical order at the same time.

  15. Re:spying: good when we do it, bad when they do it on What Federal Employees Really Need To Worry About After the Chinese Hack · · Score: 1

    Well then, let's hope those hackers do not use the information to fly drones around the place firing off missiles seemingly at random. That or spends billions of dollars to take over countries only to generate civil wars. Then there is the whole idea of blackmailing all the worlds political leaders to ensure they obey the dictates of US corporations, no matter how many of those countries citizens are harmed by those dictates.

    Bucket loads of people do DIE as a result of those things, you mean it could be worse than that or do you mean those other things might happen less as a result. So which generates the greater number of casualties a few dead American spies or the hundreds of thousands who die as a result of the actions of those American spies. Especially when those spies were not serving justice or freedom but to serving corporate greed and slavery. I think you view about American spies is wildly exorbitantly biased, yeah those honourable people who believed in freedom and justice from decades are long, long, gone. Now they are amongst the worst criminals of the lot, some worse then third world dictator varieties, well, toss up there, after all America propped up a lot of those third world dictators.

  16. Re:Um... on Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: the Browser That Will Finally Kill IE · · Score: 1

    Now would that be Chrome on Android vs FireFox on Android or Chrome on Windows vs FireFox on Windows or Chrome on Linux vs FireFox on Linux or just all jammed together. A lot of Chrome numbers come from Android and FireFox not being the default loses out in a big way on the mobile phone platform, especially when a lot of the default actions on a mobile phone reach out to the internet to do local use stuff.

  17. Re:Likely a new gift for the NSA on Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Artificial intelligence to flood the internet with pro American Corporate propaganda upon a massive scale, unfortunately that is not a joke but a serious intent.

  18. Re:Cycle of life on How Developers Can Fight Creeping Mediocrity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For companies is it not quite the same. Reliable older company treats it's staff and customers well. Along comes the psychopath vulture capitalist who works out they can buy the company for more than it is worth and the dress it up for sale by trading on trust while delivering cheap crap, getting rid of expensive stuff, wiping out after sales service and support and voila big profits for a few quarters until it all goes boom but then it has been sold by then.

    Reality is companies pretty much keep going until the slick psychopaths take over all full of charm and bullshit and try to fill their own pockets for as long as possible until the company goes belly up as a result of their total incompetence beyond their skill and getting employed. They of course focus all their efforts on blaming everyone else for the problems created by the psychopaths.

    Want to keep companies going longer, really easy answer, start testing for psychopathy before letting new executives in the door.

  19. Re:Whistle blower on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh a comedian, US corporations are pretty malevolent, from pharmaceuticals lying and killing people to generate extra profits, to oil companies taking cheap ass short cuts and killing people to the US military industrial complex actively promoting war for it's own sake and killing people. These psychopaths run the US government and that pretty much makes the US government as malevolent as it gets.

    What the US government press really wanted to say in the press release "We were breaking laws all over the world in collusion with US corporations and mostly getting away with it, so fuck Snowden and as a warning to others who believe in honesty and justice, we will kill him and any other traitors to Psychopaths Incorporated 'er' the US Government". This is not about justice, this is about promoting the take over of the whole world by US corporations and enslavement of the worlds population. Of course psychopaths being psychopaths, it really is all about promoting global chaos because psychopaths thrive in chaos, it is quite simply who they are.

  20. Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    How about bring them back and crowd fund a slashdot commentators buyout. We know the goal is to get maximum value by pretending the purchaser will be able to control commentating and moderation to turn it into a propaganda channel but we also know that fails every single time they try it.

  21. Re: Now I won't feel guilty about using Adblock on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Choosing whose ads you allow to run and whose you block is the reason why I use https://noscript.net/ in preference to adblock, a bit more work but it lets me choose who ads to run and whose to block. So blocks for intrusive ads (Content first then ad), blocks for just hinting at blocking volume control (seriously how big an asshat are you), blocks for auto running videos (my choice not yours whether or not to watch the video), blocks for shitty product advertisements (be selective in whose products and services you will promote) and, blocks for supporting nasty web sites (don't support bad web sites with advertising revenue). Some of this stuff should be regulated and bad ads and ad agencies should be prosecuted.

  22. Re:Swift on Ask Slashdot: Everyone Building Software -- Is This the Future We Need? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A lot of the complexity is driven by programming languages themselves. The conflict between compact code bulky self explanatory code, not having to rewrite functions creating large algorithm libraries, coding conventions as they differ from normal language and maths use, language logic being simply the arbitrary decisions of the people who coded the coding language amongst other issues. What to know how bad coding languages really are, give code without any documentation at all and get another coder to figure out what is going one and how to fix problems. Why is this inherently bad, it is like handing a text book to someone, and they requiring a second one in order to be able to read the first one, even when they know the language used in the first one.

    So what is this really all about, cheap greedy psychopath business types who have no idea at all about how to code but who want cheaper and cheaper and cheaper programmers (minimum wage cheap). So they want to flood the market with coders, whether by internal training as long as those coders pay for it themselves or by bringing in cheap temporary immigrant coders.

  23. Re:I've had issues with the Win10 NVIDIA drivers.. on Windows 10's Automatic Updates For NVidia Drivers Causing Trouble · · Score: 1

    Obviously the push is on to sell more copies of the professional version rather than the home version. Either get to play crash test dummy for M$ or pay the extra $99, bwa hah hah, suckers.

  24. Re:Didn't some Japanese researchers find this out? on Scientists Identify Sixth Taste: Fat · · Score: -1

    That and of course the funny claim that a neuro stimulant is a flavour. Unami the only known flavour that has exactly ONE molecule as it's sole cause. All the other flavours of course have a whole range of molecules that trigger activity. Hmm, one molecule can not be described as a flavour, sounds more like a PR scam to me, you suckers will believe anything.

  25. Re: First, they came for the assassins... on Secret Service Agents Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet · · Score: 0

    That strange I did a search on Obama and every reasonable synonym of the word assassinate as well as the word itself and I got a whole lot more about Obama ordering the same of a whole bunch of people. Are they saying they secret service will be arresting Obama any day now?