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  1. Re: And so, what is wrong with this? on Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged In Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda · · Score: 1

    Have you not being paying attention? Why twenty five years, because some countries have been getting worse, USA, much worse and some countries have been getting better Russia and China. Yet main stream media claims the exact opposite of reality because of course they are part of that corporate empire, that psychopathic empire and all so vulnerable because it is only a few troubled pathetic individuals in their crazed delusions orchestrating things. No grand conspiracy of course, no course to the future, just self serving egoistic chaos. A few individuals who inherited more power than they should have and who have exposed themselves and now placed themselves under great risk. For a bunch of countries, they are a great threat, one that can pretty readily and safely be eliminated and as a result pretty much stall the western military industrial complex.

  2. Re:That's no domestic surveillance on New Snowden Leaks Show NSA Attacked Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    More importantly once a virus is targeted at someone, anyone, that virus is released into the wild, where it will be captured, decoded, recoded and sent back out to commit crimes. Basically you have organised crime going on in security organisation meant to be upholding the law and as a result supplying those viral tools to criminals to be used against the citizens those security organisations are meant to be protecting.

    Quite simply a global mass extortion campaign targeted at all sitting and potential politicians the world over, so no matter what their citizens want, those corrupted politicians will support the demands of the US military industrial complex and fascist capitalism. How many politicians are enacting the most perverse laws against the wishes of the citizens but align with US corporate demands.

  3. Re:I'm surprised this made the front page on Mayday PAC's Benjamin Singer Explains How You can Help Reform American Politics (Video) · · Score: 1

    How about less focus on the idiot box and much more focus on direct active involvement in politics. Numbers are on the side of social democracy, it is just up to the people to become politicially active.

    Main stream media pumps political advertising because it hugely profits by it, generating billions in revenue every election season and this number growing.

    The idiot box must be abandoned and people actually talking to people promoted. Does not even have to be in person, localised socio political forums should be the way forward for political discussion.

  4. Re:XP? OK. But, Office? on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Now if the government is paying for the full cost of patching and bug fixes, why the fuck haven't they negotiated to release what citizens taxes have already paid for to the citizens that paid for it. Why does M$ get a role out a big ole fuck you to the citizens that paid for that work to be done.

  5. Re: And so, what is wrong with this? on Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged In Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda · · Score: 1

    Yep, the US via NATO doesn't want to end it's occupation of Europe but the pressure is on to remove US troops from more influential likely to become ex-NATO countries. NATO of course pumps war because the military industrial complex demands it and it drives fear because the dominant country does not ever want its military to leave Europe. Which country has murdered more people than the rest of the world combined in the last 25 years, in fact the only way other countries come close to catching up is joining the Imperialist US wars. Plenty of marketing and propaganda but the reality is, most of the world's countries are totally sick of the US military as controlled by the US military industrial complex and want to end it's scattered occupation of the entire planet.

  6. Re:question on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 1

    The real question is, whether the problem with artificial ingredients, is just a problem with regard to specific artificial ingredients that are just selected to mimic a specific characteristic of a natural ingredients (flavour, odour, texture, anti-biotic activity) with little regard to the other characteristics of that artificial ingredient and those other characteristics causing problems.

    Would a completely artificial food, properly engineering for safe consumption and low allergen characteristics with an indigestible fibre added for digestive function be a suitable goal. Logically it could prove far safer than genetic manipulation and ever increasing levels of toxins in the environment. Rather than fake food pretending to be natural food how about actual completely engineered artificial foods. Taste is important though, as it allows active dietary control via flavour profiles, a preference for particular minerals via varying flavour preferences.

  7. Re:Capital of bad drivers on "Vision Zero" Aims To Eliminate Traffic Fatalities In San Diego · · Score: 1

    Is that the greater city area or just the centre portion zoned as being the local government district. I have noticed more and more fudging going on, where positive propaganda calls up greater city statistics and negative reports are down played by only calling up the specific city centre local government.

    Want safer cities with regards to cars, have less cars and that means substantively bigger buildings, where people can work, live and play within the one structure and receive services support from directly adjoining major structures. Arcologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... would have to become the norm else, cities will choke to death with traffic problems and making traffic flow worse will certainly no solve problems just lead to permanent traffic jams and economic avoidance of problem traffic areas.

  8. Re: And so, what is wrong with this? on Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged In Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda · · Score: 0

    Of course the fundamentalist capitalists are the real concern. The zealot high priests of capitalism have of course actively corrupted UK intelligence organisation to turn them into anti-activism and anti-union organisation with a distinct Tory flavour, this after the active corruption of the Labour Party leadership by the same corrupt organisations.

    All sorts of strange crap going on. First anti-EU and the pro-Eu, next joining in the push to move NATO forces eastward or is that just trying to kick as many US soldiers out of western Europe and force them on the Eastern Europeans, they can no put up with that drunken rapey bunch. Eastern Europe of course under pressure to take them because of their economies being hit by trade problems with Russia caused by the US and EU sanctions (sanctions to be dropped once the shift of US occupation forces from western Europe to Eastern Europe - suckers). All on internet censorship, anti hacking except when they do it, even against there on citizens upon a massive scale (that of course is anti-political activism and nothing to do with terrorism).

    Right now Europe is far more scared of the US going out of control than they are of Russia and the UK seems to be hopping from one foot to the other, language seeming to be insufficient to keep five eyes 'er' ole one eye and four blind mice together (ole one eye just tells way too many lies, way to often, especially to it's so called allies).

  9. Re:How about on Ask Slashdot: Making Donations Count · · Score: 1

    Just pay taxes and demand a rise in taxes for the 1million plus range, a huge rise. Face it so many scammy charities and they often end up getting corrupted because of a short term flood of donations only to be ignored the rest of time but the scam artists get the taste from donations floods and then bleed the charities dry during lean times.

    Why the government, because of least they will prosecute scam artists when they get caught cheating government welfare (not so much corporate welfare but certainly individual and organisation welfare). Also the welfare contributions tend to be more uniform, more organised and checked more often and the steady income tends to produce much more sound spending habits, rather than the flavour of the month boom and then bust. Not to forget the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on advertising for charities to generate donations all that money spent on the richest and greediest media organisations.

  10. Re:No it is just grandstanding on Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program · · Score: 1

    I was talking about the US government press officers at press conferences acting in complete denial of what 'their' elected government representatives are saying in public. They all count, they are the government, when they pump war they are inciting mass murder, when the speak corruptly in favour of corporations that is the US government doing that. Yet the press officers at government organised press conferences routinely act in denial of that actual representative influence on government policy, they in effect deny the democratic functioning of government. Elected representatives of the US government are going to have to start taking global responsibility and that is in a bad way to be clear, for the public announcements that they make, every time they speak in public.

  11. Re:Is this important? on Video Games Can Improve Terror Attack Preparedness, Even If You Don't Play Them · · Score: 1

    Hows this for click bait http://www.amazon.com/Amanda-R.... Pay careful attention to the nature of both books by that author, what the titles seem to claim and what most knowledgeable people really understand about both of those situations.

    "The smartest kids in the world and how they got that way" - one simple paragraph, they were born with the right genes into the right socio economic environment (buying the book will in, no way, shape or form alters this). "The unthinkable who survives when disaster strikes' - one simple paragraph again, either you are lucky or not as random situations over which you have little or no control play out. What are the books selling, pretty much scammy false hope that buying the books will turn you children into geniuses and make you meteor proof.

    Reality in a terrorist situation, you are just as likely to get killed charging the terrorist as running away, depending upon which direction the terrorist faces when and depending where random chance places you when the terrorist event starts and the method chosen. Blocked at an exit with everyone else trying to do exactly the same thing, shot in in back or trampled in the panic, those nearest the exit get away and those furthest tend to die or Charging the terrorist because you are close enough. Well, the more that do it the fewer that die, simple hard up fact, you might not survive but then it is you choice how you die and the way you will be remembered and there is a chance you will end the attack and survive with you genitals intact (nothing wrong with female heroes and the whole idea of feminine cowering in fear, kind of last millennium).

    The narcissist lie, how we can only survive as an individual looking out for no one but ourselves, the hard reality, the only way we survive is by doing so together, through thick or thin. The more we work together and the more we cooperate, the more we succeed and ensure 'OUR' survival.

  12. Re:The downside is taxpayers... on FCC Votes To Subsidize Broadband Connections For Low-Income Households · · Score: 1

    The internet is a "Digital Highway" and just like roads should be made readily publicly accessible. It is an essential element of modern democracy and, it provides essential access to the digital economy.

    It provides access to all that is humanity to the whole of humanity.

  13. Re:Feinstein as usual on Near Misses Lead To More Consumer Drone Legislation · · Score: 1

    A glaring example of a logical regulation to apply to drones, no exposed blades because this http://www.theguardian.com/mus.... Simple legal requirement that will substantially reduce the potential for harm. Then there is flying over other people's properties without their permission.

    The more drones in the hands of idiots the more accidents that will happen, Reasonable regulations are required to limit drones and strictly regulate their use. Want to play with one, keep it within the bounds of your own property, end of story.

  14. Re:No it is just grandstanding on Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program · · Score: 1

    I guess you mean the corporate dictatorship of a derailed democracy in the US but then those leaders try to keep well hidden but in the era of the internet that attempt to hide is failing. Which is exactly why the US choose most foolishly to align with the KhoKhols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in what is basically redneckistan because it achieved the perceived objective of gaining control of Ukraine to discomfort Russia only to lose control to the KhoKhols, resulting in chaos and dead Australians and Europeans and the chaos has just started.

  15. Re:Wait a friggin minute... on Russian Troops Traced To Ukrainian Battlefields Through Social Media · · Score: 1

    Really lame western propaganda. The regions in contention were part of Russia and as to be expected many Russians lived there. In particular that region was part of the Don Cossack region of Russia. Now a large chunk of the Ukraine is substantively Zaporozhian Cossacks and the conflict is really between those two groups. Now as you can or at least should be able to imagine those Russians living in the area that used to be part of Russia have many, many relatives in the rest of Don Cossack Russia and oh yeah some are in the Russian army or were in the Russian army. To think they would not volunteer and cross the border when their relatives are being killed is so damned stupid. To think the Russian government would seek to make itself look really bad by trying to stop them, is even more stupid.

    I have seen a photo a self declared military volunteer from Abkhazia of all places, not there because he is defending Russian but to be kill puppets of the US (for the obvious George McCain reason, had to shoot his mouth off with "I am Georgian"). Volunteers are coming from all over Russia to fight the US and the Russian government has zero intention of suffering major political damage by trying to stop them. The Don Cossacks would be furious if the Russian government tried to stop them.

    So the whole escapade was a fucked idea from the get go, run by self serving psychopaths. Bunch of US corporations thought they could clean up and OKed the idea. Russia let it happen because they knew they would be able to recover the Crimea as a result (the US comically thought they were outsmarting Russian intelligence). Europe was totally sucked but now no longer trusts the US in the least and the move is on to free itself from occupation by US forces. The US won a 100 billion dollar debt and climbing (investing 5 billion to do so), the Ukraine is a basket case that no sane person wants anything to do with (Russia was happy to get rid of it, at least the Zaporozhian part and now they are Europe's problem).

    Russia is huge and that bit of the Ukraine historically part of Russia and populated by Russians is tiny. The government cares not one whit whether that area being contested becomes part of Russia again or not (it seems inevitable now as those people will never ever choose to be ruled by a government that used artillery on them and that has declared that people living in that region would lose their properties and be compulsory relocated to other parts of the Ukraine to live in government controlled poverty without assets.)

    Shit dude, you want to die, just go to that part of the world and declare who you are and what you support, don't expect much from people who have been shelled by artillery. People are dying, it is now some fucking stupid American game, oh sorry, that's right, it is some stupid American game.

  16. Re:You mean NEOs like Russia? on Should Nuclear Devices Be Kept On Hand To Protect Against Near Earth Objects? · · Score: 1

    Radiation and mutational evolution go really well together. So a global war will pretty much guarantee those at the simplest end of the evolutionary path, bacteria and viruses will tend to leap ahead (numbers are on their side, seriously on their side) means that a major planetary extinct will soccer and only the simplest organism will survive as they are evolutionary able to keep up with short life cycles and high numbers. There is simply huge mass of vary toxic materials in cities that simply should not be burnt and released into the atmosphere.

    So a real extinction race, nuclear winter, nuclear radiation, released pollution toxins and bacterial and virus evolution ahead of much more slowly evolving complex species. Yeah, we would be fucked.

    Back to meteors, if you need to do it in a desperate hurry it might be better to do nothing, because one meteor whilst still hugely destructive might be better than a radio active dust cloud on the same course. Still with proper planning and preparation, there is something very worthwhile about a astronomical impact defence, like our continued survival as a society and as a species.

  17. Re:Ban Memories on Privacy Advocates Leave In Protest Over U.S. Facial Recognition Code of Conduct · · Score: 1

    This is about total corporate control of government. This is about every corporation knowing the political alignment of individuals and their being able to turn citizens into non-persons, no jobs, no access to services, no access to travel, no credit, basically to enable corporations to economically destroy people if they don't vote right and they do not support corporate control of the country.

  18. Re:No it is just grandstanding on Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From the Russian point of view the only reason the US government investigated it and sough prosecution was because Russian is the next country to get the World Cup. The side show venting about the moon is because he didn't think about the corruption involved in the US getting the Olympics. So the Russians government does not care about the various US moon missions (at least in the past everything is changing now as the push is on to get back there, obviously this is secret that has just subconsciously leaked out), just empty bitching and a possible security blunder.

    Look at all the stupid shit American politicians say, seriously stupid shit that doesn't even hint of benign as the FIFA investigation. Every time any Russian says anything it is Putin's fault or the whole Russian governments fault. Yet the endless stream of bullshit spouting out from the whackddoodles that infest the US congress and senate is considered as not being from the US government at all this by the US government.

  19. Re:I'm working on apps without passwords on The Internet of Things Is the Password Killer We've Been Waiting For · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The big shift should be away from passwords and to passkeys. So you install the same passkey generating app on multiple devices and when you enter the same password on multiple devices, the app generates a different rotating different passkey for each separate site that device access. So you password never passes beyond your device and the app sets up a procedurally generated passkey that varies with ever access and the passkey accepting app handshakes to ensure that the passkey changes align, the server app also requires different keys from different devices, again changing upon every access.

    So from an end user point of view, one passphrase accessing everything they connect to (likely at least one more passphrase for more secure banking services), with the app generating keys to access services with the client server app having established the pattern for future procedurally generated keys, so they match as the continually change upon each access. You would then need to be able to sync clients devices, so they can access the same site from multiple devices, this just tends to be more of accepting different keys from different devices for the same access, so the server just becomes aware of them and likely checks with the orginating device where possible for establishing new device access. When that fails normal extended authentication is required to re-establish a passkey pattern ie confirmation of personal details, email confirmation et al this to re-establish access between passkey client and passkey server.

    So it requires an agreed standard and protocol to be used by all.

  20. Re:Other reasons on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    The market value of the labour of a slave is a whip. Seriously you are devoid of humanity.

  21. Re:speaking as an engineer, it happens. on Linus Torvalds Says Linux Can Move On Without Him · · Score: 1

    It is like people completely totally and utterly miss the point of FOSS. Linus Torvalds is most definitely not the gatekeeper of Linux (as far as M$ is concerned I should mutter a genuflection when I utter that name in order to be the zealot they consider me). Linus Torvalds manages one Linux repository, just one of many. As the spirit of all those who have touched Linux and promoted it (hate to sound preachy but it is in keeping with mocking of Tiny Limp the beast of Redmond) remains and remains in plurality, so that no matter what happens, the most popular kernel at any time or distribution in terms of application of that kernel, will be what ever the majority choose it to be.

    That majority includes corporations, governments and individuals. All get to choose what goes in the flavour of Linux they want, that choice unfortunately being limited by knowledge and understanding, only the high priests of FOSS actually get to choose code (yeah mocking the softies again, adding humour to the rather dreary topic of death).

  22. Re:Say Good By to the Rainforests .... on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    There are many oils to choose from, each with it's taste. Good examples are peanut oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and sunflower seed oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., both with specific tastes and high temperature use characteristics. Of course for lower temperatures butter simply tastes best.

    Vegetable oil is a mix of the cheapest junk available at the time and you should definitely avoid it. Lard of course will suffer from limited availability, so only used to achieve specific tastes. Not to forget of course olive oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but that tends to suffer from lower temperature limits before burning.

  23. Re:Hmmm ... on Google Expands Security Rewards To Bugs In Android Devices · · Score: 1

    A computer bug can be a vary poor investment. To use it means exposing it to discovery and that could mean serious consequences. In fact others might well be fully aware of the bug and simply be actively monitoring it's activity, this as bugs often remain unfixed and secret for quite some time after discovery. Accessory before the fact crimes can have quite severe penalties and the claim of being unaware of intent is likely to fail.

    Obviously the biggest benefit in detecting and fixing bugs is not the immediate remuneration but in gaining reputation and the increases in remuneration that would likely bring. So more of a bonus, as long as Google publishes and details the efforts of those companies and individuals.

  24. Re:Fair use case on Sunday Times Issues DMCA Takedown Notice To the Intercept Over Snowden Article · · Score: 1

    If the whole page was published along with it's ads then Sunday Time received free publication and access to customers it would otherwise have not reached, so not loss in fact they got free benefit.

    The real problem is the reality that News Corporation is the first media empire in history that is actively not trusted and in fact loathed by a substantial portion of humanity. It it's core markets it is hated. Seriously https://www.google.com/search?... that search "Fox reporter attacked" 27,100 results, just that exact phrase.

    We are talking a media empire in serious trouble of imploding as it loses the majority of it's audience to old age and they will not be replacing them because they are a very peculiar audience in deed. The majority also suffering from the mental disablement of lead poisoning, hence the gullibility and poor social and moral balance. Which means the next generation to age will not be going to News Corporation as they are not suffering from lead poisoning to the same degree.

    In all likelihood News Corporation will never recover from this taint and in order to recover some investor value it will need to be broken up and the pieces sold off to other media empires.

  25. Re:Good thing Slashdot isn't in the EU on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Still comments need to be separated in the three distinct classes of comment, threats, intent to deceive for gain and opinions.

    The claim that forums can monitor all comments is intent by that court in the most corrupt fashion imaginable to silence all forums that can not 'AFFORD' full time comment regulators to read and evaluate every comment, this with the express intent of purposefully creating a price barrier for commenting.

    This to shut down all public forums in favour of empty propaganada forums that just pretend to be public as they are fully funded with the express intent of censoring all comments that do not adhere to corporate message. The European court Human Rights actively working to deny the right of 'FREE' speech and ensure only 'PAID' speech is allowed on public media channels, because factually it needs to be 'PAID' in order to be professionally moderated.