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  1. Re:instead of space race on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race · · Score: 1

    A major space race provides many things. Amongst them a focus for national pride, a chance for individuals and organisations to excel, and access to a whole universe beyond the earth. Players in the race, the US, Europe, Russia, China and, India. This could of course expand. Better far more efficient launch systems are becoming accessible and their use will spread.

    The alternate to focusing on a space race, the continued Hollywood driven focus on our genitals and poseur wealth status required to gain access to other peoples genitals. So space race or genital race (lets not pretend the extreme wealth disparity of capitalism is about anything else, as leading example the US paedophile billionaire renting out children to members of the British monarchy).

  2. Re:Just wondering on Why Detecting Drones Is a Tough Gig · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Taking into account size, altitude, a simple sonar detection fence works the best. Sonar units firing vertically completely surrounding the facility to detect all incoming flying objects and then the use of suitable rapidly decomposing shot fired from a compressed air shotgun to bring it down, this to prevent excessive collateral damage of the human variety. Birds are another matter, they will end up killing all that cross the sonar detection fence. So that mess will need to be continuously cleaned up. High altitude drones require additional deployment of sonar detection equipment firing at an angle over the structure to be protected. Heavier drones of course means accepting collateral damage, screw the public save the rich and greedy and their political puppets.

  3. Re:Really, Guys? on Live Anthrax Shipped Accidentally To S Korea and US Labs · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of typical plausible deniability. Accidentally let out some undeniably US military weapons grade anthrax, so that some can disappear before the rest is recovered and then be used in a false flag event. So Jade Helm, the occupation of hostile cities with the active suppression and elimination of an opposed civilian population and now the wandering around of false flag fit material to prompt the US of Jade Helm training. So hmm, Ukraine, Iran or Venezuela, of course Jade Helm, (green as in jungle and helm as in control, tends to point to training to control a hostile Venezuelan population). They have made a huge mess in Europe, a major cock up in the middle east and so now it seems to be back to playing in South America because Brazil in BRICS (what is interesting about BRICS as a side note, is all the members are non English speakers yet the title is distinctly english).

  4. Re:What ./ doesnt want you to know on GoPro's Next Adventure: Virtual Reality and Drones · · Score: 1

    I would like to congratulate Slashdot for letting it happen rather than trying to stifle it. People have to remember in every organisation there will always be psychopaths attempting to subvert it for their own personal benefit under a masquerade of the greater good.

    Back to topic, Go Pro seems to be in a rush to grab profits fast before the ban they are accelerating kicks in. I wonder if this is not some subtle marketing move to accelerate the ban on drone because they have no money in it. So imply the threat of millions of drones in the sky spying on everyone all of the time and interfering with road and air traffic, accelerate the ban, so as to favour vehicle and person mounted Go Pro devices.

  5. Re:Threatens security on Do Russian Uranium Deals Threaten World Supply Security? · · Score: 1

    Numbnut, you can not control the world supply of Uranium by ignoring 31% of it, like duhh.

  6. Re:You know what would REALLY motivate kids? on Clinton Foundation: Kids' Lack of CS Savvy Threatens the US Economy · · Score: 1

    You have pretty much nailed it. The whole Clinton thing, a massive political scam, trying to make the corporate whore look better, funded and planned in advance to coordinate with the election and then be promptly forgotten about once the election is over. It is all so lame. Free higher education for those with the skills and let them decide what they will learn and what they will do for it and this for the rest of time not just for the next two years.

  7. Re:Sure... on Heat Wave Kills More Than 1,100 In India · · Score: 1

    Well, you are not looking for completely safe, you are looking for relatively safe. Let's be honest, it is completely naively nuts not to consider environmental and social safety when it comes to locating your family. So avoid high risk locations is simply makes sense because if you don't then one day, inevitably it places the whole of your family at that location of losing everything they have including their lives. So yeah, live in a high risk zone, move, it is the sensible thing to do, seriously what is so dumb about that. Yes, I do live in a particularly safe city, I was born there and choose not to leave and do take into account how much safety would be lost to move to other locations. Keep in mind that inherent feeling of safety is apparent and does lead to a particularly laid back easy going parochial population. When you hold the map of earth the right way up you can fully appreciate its safe location.

  8. Re:more govenrnment waste!! on Obama Asks Congress To Renew 'Patriot Act' Snooping · · Score: 1

    They just do not want to admit what it was successfully at. The effective gathering of intelligence of the general population is order to stifle political activism and dissent by the targeting of many, many individuals for investigatory harassment and escalating up to prosecution as punishment (no intent to convict simply to destroy their life via the prosecutorial process perhaps force an innocent guilty plea just to end the enduring prosecution as punishment process).

    Hope and Change, Uncle Tom Obama the Choom Gang Coward has been a stain on the progressive movement, No Hope and No Change.

  9. Re:All kudos to Uwe Koch-Gromus on A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years · · Score: 1

    So how far have we come in life that, now, further education is a crippling fiscal penalty and not something government strives to achieve in the whole population. You would think governments would be endeavouring to get people to keep learning all their lives but no, higher education is considered a burden that is frowned upon as being a waste unless it generates profits for use by others to stupid to gain it.

  10. Re:Love it on Adblock Plus Victorious Again In Court · · Score: 1

    The one thing I would really appreciate is Eyeo providing a list of all the web site serving companies that sued them along with their ad serving domain addresses. They are crying out for scripts and cookie blocking, lets defund that particular capital assault upon the rights of internet users.

  11. Re:I'm not the target audience apparently on Microsoft Edge To Support Dolby Audio · · Score: 1

    If there is one thing I truly can not tolerate is a web site screaming ads at me without asking first and especially being arrogant enough to make volume control awkward (even with a media keyboard and a mute button, that sheer arrogance of making volume control awkward infuriates me). Generally earns those sites and their advertising agencies, a script and cookie block, lasting about a year, possibly permanent. Want to show me ads (as in dominates the page), please may I is a prerequisite and be seen and not heard unless you I specifically allow it each and every time.

  12. We are suffering for generational nepotism of the worst sort. That period where the psychopaths of wall street were marrying the narcissists of Hollywood and producing a generation of, 'holy crap what a fiscal disaster'. The Paris Hilton (sorry to pick on some one in particular but hey, you want to make yourself famous for being it, then that is what you are going to be known for) generations.

  13. Re:Eventually - but the lies do real damage meanwh on Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? · · Score: 1

    Now that is tiny impact of bad science. Want major global impact, that affected the majority of the human population and created a generation or two of stupidity, how about lead in fuel as bad science.

    Bad science is idiotic lead head performance based science, science where idiots with money only want to pay for science that makes them more money and that insanely enough includes purposefully bad science.

    Want good science, then you pay for people to do science and monitor the effort put in and the results are simply what they are, a relatively accurate answer to the question that was asked, the measure is how long it took to answer the question, what ever it was and how much it cost. Important salient point how many other questions were answered along the way and how many other interesting question were asked.

    GREED is the most offensive word in the human language and fucks up everything it is associated with. Want a better world get rid of the high priests of greed, the ideological fundamentalist zealots who do far more harm than good in every human endeavour they corrupt and that especially includes science.

  14. Re:Shipping costs on Hot Topic To Buy ThinkGeek Parent Company Geeknet · · Score: 1

    Shipping fees are easy to get past, simply eliminate them when the customer spends enough, which is exactly what many companies do. The thing think geek is really selling, the idea that you can 'express yourself' by buying stuff. Oh well, no matter how distasteful some of that 'geek' stuff is, it is still better than 'designer' bullshit and the marketing that goes with it.

  15. Re:It's actually surprising... on Microsoft Bringing Cortana To iOS, Android · · Score: 0

    There are two parts to M$. The recognised M$ part and of course MSN. MSN wasn't all that bad as portals go, M$ styled management did it a lot of harm by strangling the chicken when it came to selling advertising dominating worthwhile content as far as the end user is concerned and management principles that crippled creativity in favour of dog eat dog staff competition, creativity thrives on cooperation not competition. It is a shame to watch MSN slowly but surely die as a result of mismanagement and a lack of creativity.

  16. Re:Corruption? In Russia? on Russian Space Agency Misused $1.8 Billion, May Be Replaced · · Score: 2

    Here is how it works. What Germany was versus what Germany is now. What Japan was versus what Japan is now. What Russia was versus what Russia is now. I don't need to tell you what the 'was' was or the self evident reality of what the 'is now' is. Unfortunately what the USA was versus what the USA is now, tells the opposite story of how things can sour and go bad.

    Government private partnerships are more often about blatant corruption than anything to do with serving the public PS that Roscosmos partnership was crafted by Western Financiers in association with corrupt Russians. I think there is going to be a cleaning out of Russian oligarchs, something that puts real fear in all the other oligarchs around the world, that visible demonstration of how exposed and vulnerable they are in reality.

  17. Re:Nothing changed because I already did what I co on Privacy Behaviors Changed Little After Snowden · · Score: 1

    Why privacy because a citizen has it and a slave does not. The freedom to keep yourself to yourself versus being slavishly continuously exposed to the inspection and judgement of others. Privacy is about the choice to be private, loss of privacy is the loss of that choice, that choice being denied and even worse the association with public humiliation and degradation that comes with that loss of choice.

    Now, strangely enough challenge those with power enough and you have to abandon privacy otherwise they will forcefully invade it with the claims that your attempt to maintain privacy is an attempt to hide conspiracy and seek to expose you supposed conspiratorial secrets with a life threatening armed assault. So requiring you to abandon privacy to a degree to enable them to spy. This as a personal defence, as they then no longer have an excuse for a physical raid, something they will be looking for in order to punish you via corrupt prosecution as punishment, not conviction, just the abuse of the prosecutorial procedure.

  18. Re:They're your damned kids, your damned problem . on Leaked Document Shows Europe Would Fight UK Plans To Block Porn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The porn filter and protect the children thing is a straight up lie. It is all about censorship about blocking any ideas that compete with the false ideology of the rich and greedy, that ideology being they want more, more, more. It is all about accidental block sites, union sites, opposition (real opposition) political sites, real news sites, blogs basically anything at all. All so very accidental, then it takes months to unblock and costs thousands of dollars and then it gets accidentally blocked again.

    Reality is, if they are serious about porn, they should simply strip sic it of copyright protection, cripple the ability of corporations to generate a profit from it and with out the profit there is no money to make more. Done and finished.

    Of course it all has nothing what so ever to do with porn, that is a lie. All about blocking the majority from publishing anything and putting the power of publishing content back in the hand of a psychopathically greedy minority.

  19. Tech Replace Mines on Tech Bubble? What Tech Bubble? · · Score: 2

    Basically all that has happened is tech companies have replaced mining companies in pump and dump schemes because of course tech companies require much smaller capital investment.

    So tech just like mines, the initial investors working in collusion with their financiers who get a cut, work to create an illusion of a massive pot of gold at the end of a deep capital hole in the ground, which they sell to others and often pension funds are the targets.

    So why do investment analysts for pension funds make so many bad investments, quite simply they are paid to do so with the money deposited in off shore tax havens. So paying a hundred million in bribes works when you are selling a billion dollar cough cough investment when you only invested a couple of hundred million in it. To put the cheery on top for themselves, they also run up huge debts paying themselves grossly inflated salaries.

    It is not the front people doing it, it is the financiers doing it all in the background lending them the money to do it, advising them how to do it, cashing in on it being done and the culprits earning the sales commission selling the rubbish investments whilst they pay purchasing commissions to corrupt pension fund managers.

    Crack open those tax havens and wow, will a whole bunch of the rich and greedy end up in jail, as well as corrupt politicians. The pressure is mounting for justice and it will come.

  20. Re:Translation on Google and Gates-Backed Khan Academy Introduces "Grit"-Based Classroom Funding · · Score: 1

    This story of two minds variety. Whilst it might seem very much like corporations driving competition between minors by throwing them at each other, there is also a flip side. Basically the sport side, where this is already happening and promoted every where.

    So this competition pushes learning to the fore and emphasises the geek/nerd ahead of the jock strap douche bag (you can easily tell where my biases lay). So a good thing possibly done in a harmful way?

    Possible improvements, focus upon cooperation not just competition. Expand the learning parameters beyond just a focus on maths. A more interesting fun competition might be languages, not only English but multiple languages. Let's also not forget Physics and Chemistry. For the sake of controversy and really tweaking the noses of the conservative conspiracy theorists, socio-political sciences and their application.

    It is good to see learning and education being publicly promoted and those most successful at it recognised, yes. Should competition be the focus no. Why, more harm then good, you are actively demoralising those students who were not born as skilled and teaching them to give up and become jealous jock strap douche bags. Reality is now matter how much you exercise that grey matter born with a genetic IQ disadvantage you will always be left behind and never able to compete. The majority can always work and practice to push ahead jock strap skills only a tiny minority could ever compete in the education olympics.

  21. Re:Twenty five years of science destruction... on India Ends Russian Space Partnership and Will Land On the Moon Alone · · Score: 1

    The space race is back on, which is really cool. India pulling away from Russia has very little to do with Russia and everything to do with India wanting it's place in the world or in the solar system. A lot of countries are catching up and wanting their presence in the space. So they will tend to go it alone some what, whilst working together with others in larger projects. Obviously if you do not have your own distinct space program, you will end up being treated like a poor orphan when it comes to participating in other countries space programs no matter how much you contribute to them. You must make your own independent contributions to the space race before you efforts will be genuinely recognised in shared programs and to ensure you are not treated like a beggar at the bottom of a gravity well.

  22. Re:There is something to it, people are missing on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 0

    What happened to Greece's finance. It got involved with US banks that crafted corrupt loans that get be kept off the books for years accumulating interests debt and this to fund tax cuts for the richest Greek and also hugely corrupt corporate subsidise. This then blew up, the corrupt Americans wander off with the profits from this blatant corruption after dumping the bad debts back on the EU via the IMF.

    So a complete in depth investigation into the corruption going back a decade and so as too get by statutes limitations upgrade the crimes to treason and corporate espionage. The US government was in back of this with the purposeful intent of weakening the EU and to keep the funny money US dollar alive.

  23. Re:Threatens security on Do Russian Uranium Deals Threaten World Supply Security? · · Score: 1

    Again total crock of shit. Australian Uranium export laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.... Not only is mining totally and strictly regulated (no matter who the hell owns the mine, they can not even stick a shovel into the ground until approval is gained from local, state and federal government), it can only be sold to countries the Australian government has specific agreements with and is restricted to energy use only http://www.world-nuclear.org/i.... It is the US government that is seeking to directly control the mining and export of 'AUSTRALIAN' Uranium because 31% of worlds resource and Australia already exports Uranium to China and the US. There are a whole bunch of Uranium resources yet to be touched.

  24. Re:To be more precise, Amazon will collect on taxe on Amazon Decides To Start Paying Tax In the UK · · Score: 1

    What a load of crap. Not once did you mention the return on investment, so total bullshit or the profitability being generated. Just the nett income. So moron invest $50 and generate $1 million profit and if you had to pay 50% tax on that you would not invest the $50 what a fucking liar.

  25. Re:Prior Art? on Cute Or Creepy? Google's Plan For a Sci-Fi Teddy Bear · · Score: 2

    Seriously what the fuck is the matter with the USPTO, they just allowed Google to patent a Furby https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Is the USPTO going to allow any US corporation to patent anything at all as part of some crazed extortion scheme targeted at the rest of the world, pay patent fees or face economic and or military sanctions.