Slashdot Mirror


User: rtb61

rtb61's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
12,589
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 12,589

  1. Seriously, don't be such a bullshitting wanker. By far the majority got rich by the parents giving them the money prior to their parents dying and thus trying to avoid inheritance tax. How many completely and utterly fucking useless spawn of the rich end up in management positions where they manage nothing. A two for one position, where a competent person is hired to actually do the job whilst the incompetent spawn take credit for the work being done. Forbes the capitalist propaganda rag, just did the normal paid for PR spiel and twisted it around.

  2. Re:I feel for them... on US Asks Vietnam To Stop Russian Bomber Refueling Flights From Cam Ranh Air Base · · Score: 1

    A nuclear powered bomber, hmm, I remember those, they never got off the drawing board. So US navy, a navy that refuses to declare whether they have nuclear weapons on board or not, so all US ships by your definition are nuclear, well, ain't that just nuclear. Word of the day for you NUCLEAR ;). Apparently if it is Russian it is Nuclear and if it is US then it is what? a flower petal carrier, come to sprinkle flower petals over you land to win you over and has a record of visiting many lands and sprinkling many flower petals over many people ;D.

  3. Re:Your justice system is flawed, too. on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, the US is busily privatising the US prison system and of course recidivism is their number one major profit centre. In point of fact wasting money on rehabilitation is not only a wasted cost but actively disrupts a core profit centre, so it is against the interests of investors. Kind of tough luck that those investors will become the target of the crimes that they expect prison management to 'PROMOTE'. America, STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES.

  4. Re:I feel for them... on US Asks Vietnam To Stop Russian Bomber Refueling Flights From Cam Ranh Air Base · · Score: 1

    Seriously bugger off. You can stick a nuke in anything, any ship, any plane, any rubber dingy. OHHHHHH look it's propeller bomber, that has only been used for long range reconnaissance for years. ICBM, long range cruise missiles and submarines are all the deployment methods of choice. So why is the US carrying on like a great big ole bag of dicks, hmm, possibly because they are a great big ole bag of wrinkly white pseudo Christian dicks. How about the armoured convoy through Europe, what's the message there, once you are in NATO there is no leaving NATO and NATO is the US Army not your local token armies, so obey or else. Yep, the empire is collapsing so now the US military dick waving must occur across the globe because stupid, just because stupid will always expose it self more and more as failure becomes more apparent, just like the typical flasher.

  5. Re:I feel for them... on US Asks Vietnam To Stop Russian Bomber Refueling Flights From Cam Ranh Air Base · · Score: 1

    Much more simply they can be more diplomatically effective. Ignore and rebuke the stupid stuff like this and ridicule the individual responsible for the stupid demand ie Russia wants to refuel planes, it flies in international territories, SO FUCKING WHAT, morons, it is not a time of war so piss off. Perhaps not in those words but certainly you want to find out who was the individually responsible for the request and front them directly. Where real contention arises simply invite affected parties to discuss the issue directly between themselves at a venue to host and chair. Keep the status quo going, whilst the discussion continue. The will not be able to refuse a public request to attend the conference and whilst it goes on and on and on, you don't have to do a single thing about the requests being made.

    Being diplomatic is often more about saying neither yes nor nor but maintaining communications in order to delay undesirable outcomes whilst tensions difuse and the need for the undesirable outcomes evaporates. In this case blatant toddler behaviour, where the child is lashing out making demands as a result of global frustration from failures in other regions, really just needs to be ignored or a public meeting where Russian and US government representatives can discus the issues directly in a location within Vietnam and the Vietnam government will chair the meeting.

  6. Re:Which explains the ATV. on Steve Jobs's Big Miss: TV · · Score: 1

    Think of a big screen all in one computer with multiple remote tablets. Each participant gets their own networked tablet which they can view their own particular output whilst controlling the outcomes on the big screen in a multi-user environment. We are maturing into a computerised environment and the push is already occurring into making it an inclusive, shared with those around you environment, rather than an exclusive, disconnecting from those around you environment. You are looking at more digitised board gaming , easy to learn, short play times and high re-playability, more interactive and more visual, taking into account the outputs on the individual tablet, rather than the big screen. Obviously tying this back to internet play, for when not all players are in the room.

    So it is not a TV, it is simply a big screen 50 inch or greater all in one computer with tablets 10 inch or greater as the remotes (plural, more than one can play at a time with a user name - password master tablet ie sudo stop changing the fucking channel ;D). Dumbly consuming content would be the least of it's roles.

  7. Re:Trackbakk first then look deeper. on Ask Slashdot: Mouse/Pointer For a Person With Poor Motor Control · · Score: 1

    A little more expensive but likely more effective would be remoting a tablet to the larger screen. So everything done on the tablet occurs on the larger screen, a more accessible touch interface. With the likely speed of input the tablet replace the keyboard and you call up a keyboard function on it without disturbing the main screen view, this also provides the audio and visual signalling interface on the tablet.

  8. Re:Your justice system is flawed, too. on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is the failure of a criminal justice system based upon punishment and not rehabilitation. With a system based purely on rehabilitation, with specific crimes where risk of server consequence is high, no rehabilitation, no release. That becomes much more feasible where detention conditions are much more humane and the concern is protecting the public, whilst still endeavouring to achieve rehabilitation.

  9. Re:The quality of a lot of that feedback is suspec on Microsoft Has Received 1 Million Pieces of Feedback For Windows 10 · · Score: 0

    Well, it certainly seems like M$ spent most of the last decade doing the exact opposite. Start menu - gone, working file manager - gone, busted arse copyright system - forced in and kept regardless, idiot ribbon - no choice for old system, phone gui on desktop - no choice basically a big old fuck you to the customers, again and again and again and well it's the M$ way. Critique them and expect abuse not a fix.

  10. Re:NYPD on Wikipedia Entries On NYPD Violence Get Some Edits From Headquarters · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry but it is illegal for government employees to participate in politics whilst on the taxpayer dime, during working hours. Whilst not at work, using you private equipment and connection, fine, have at it but when at work, electoral laws kick in and tax payer dollars can not be used for political purposes, well, at least they are not meant to be. These laws are being criminally flouted so often at every level in a corrupt marriage between government and news organisations, at the demand of their owners, the major multinational corporations, it all seems rather quaint to expect any of them to obey any laws at all any more with regard to elections.

  11. Re:culture trap on Swedish Authorities Offer To Question Assange In London · · Score: 1

    In this case the facts here have nothing to do with Assange or rape, the fact here is the United States government after recent rather lethal shenanigans in Europe ie the Ukraine, in now on the out and Sweden just wants to make this particular political eye sore disappear and move on, along with creating a bit of political distance between itself and the bas ole US of A.

  12. Re:Problem is... on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Science Appear To Be Getting Things Increasingly Wrong? · · Score: 2

    It is the prime example of the problem. Australia, did much the same with all research being required to generate a profit and Conservative political parties. As such all research that was for the public good but that could only be given away free was cut off. The problem is corporate psychopathic greed entering into science as other areas have already been exploited and there is a massive drive to do to universities and science, to match what was done to news organisations and pharmaceutical corporations, 'LIES FOR PROFIT'. When lies and token fines generate the highest profit than that is exactly what US led corporations will do, it does not matter the field or what associated fields also need to be corrupted or the possibly human life consequences, 'MORE PROFITS NOW'.

    The problem is psychopathy, we have let them get in charge of government and corporations and they are doing exactly what they are genetically predisposition to doing, lying, cheating, stealing and killing, with a complete absence of conscience. From police, to schools, to hospitals to any area you can imagine, they are causing chaos in their mad rush for power and to feed their greed.

  13. Re:"line up in sacramento first" on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin is doomed, not so much because of the many crooked things people associated with it do but because every con man and their dog want to start their own easy to mine at start currency and build up imaginary stockpiles of hundred of millions of dollars before releasing it to the suckers. Basically, they all end up eating each lunch and the fraudulent of impact forces legislation and because you can not legislate to include one or two crypto-ponzi-currencies whilst banning the rest, by law it is all or nothing and hence all will inevitably be banned.

  14. Re:"line up in sacramento first" on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 2

    Vested interest opinions rarely make any sense, generally being based on desires and propaganda, rather than facts. It is hardly surprising that governments would ban ponzi currencies. Every time some crazy new scam comes to and end, those who thought they were going to end up get rich quick millionaires run around screaming about, freedom and the right to lie, cheat and steal and fraud is protected free speech and, and, and, what ever else they can scream about in the childish rage about being cheated from cheating.

  15. Re:This ex-Swatch guy doesn't have a clue on Swatch Co-Inventor Predicts Apple Will Bring an 'Ice Age' To Swiss Watch Market · · Score: 0

    The real threat is not direct, it is all indirect, in the delusional world, of mass marketing, advertising, exclusivity and fads. Watch makers where already suffering in the, "why bother I have a clock in my phone and it also reminds me of the weather or anything else that might crop up and it provides me with usable screen space" market. So apple jumping in with pseudo pumped margins and marketing exclusivity will toxify the market and kill that faddish statement of wearing an exclusive time piece because 'er' 'um' you want to show off wearing a exclusive time piece because you are special because 'er' 'um' you can afford to buy one. That market collapses when it gets exposed for what it is, suckers trying to buy an image.

  16. What a load of PR crap. It is more akin to, I think I heard a gunshot, time to drop a nuke from orbit it's the only way to be certain.

    This incessant US bullshit that all forms of policing should be allowed to act as law en-FORCE-ment outside the purview of the courts is crazy and the direct reason so many of you are being killed by steroid rage junkies.

    There is only one answer to idiotic requests like this, NO, sorry, fuck off, go through the courts, we don't trust you, which is, DUH, why fucking courts in the first place, WE DO NOT TRUST YOU. Courts are about forcing the government to prove the validity of any action it takes against citizens.

  17. Re:You don't say... on YouTube Video of Racist Chant Results In Fraternity Closure · · Score: 1

    So how about this for a chant "I will pay a bounty of $10,000 for each ? person you kill", it's just words after all and words don't kill do they. Declaration of war, meh, just a piece of paper. Words can do great harm and must be used carefully and must be subject to the law, else fraud, bribery, incitement to violence, threats run riot and the physical actions they promote go out of control.

  18. Re:RTFA on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    Let me fix this "authoritarians who see no problem with removal of privacy", with authoritarians who see no problem with removal of other people's privacy but are hugely resistance with even the slightest hint of the slightest infringement of their own privacy and are forever demanding more secrecy in their own actions.

  19. Re:if that were true on Obama Administration Claims There Are 545,000 IT Job Openings · · Score: 1

    Easy, calculate the number of position in the area where employers want to pay 50% of their current salaries and they know those existing employees will refuse the massive pay cut. So there are 545,000 positions available that pay 50% of salary of the positions currently filled. There are also a range of military and law enforcement positions, where they pay totally shit wages and conditions are absolutely crap and where they can send you to prison for the minor infractions and failed jock strap douche bags out of jealous hate will treat you in the most appalling contemptuous ways imaginable. Problem being they can not stick foreigners in those positions, so it is necessary to, free up the employment market, by managing salary and conditions expectations, by altering the employment base, by promoting the influx of more flexible non citizen individuals.

  20. Re: Well, then I guess on UK Gov't Asks: Is 10 Years In Jail the Answer To Online Pirates? · · Score: 1

    Because Boob, no one id denying you access to that property. You are just making an unsubstantiated claim that they are copying it, they are not stealing the content from you. Although routinely pigopolists do exactly that steal other people's content, claim it as their own and then sue them for it.

    This obviously is pursuing the idea of declaring war on countries that infringe copyright, like as if those countries were forging a currency and seeking to bankrupt a country. So Hollywood studios declare war on a country, seek to kill 10% of the population and seize the assets of the rest because they systematically copied stuff.

    Copying is not stealing, copying is not rape, copying is not murder, and copying is not piracy on the high seas. Got a civil dispute over who is the owner of the content solve it in the civil courts and don't expect the rest of us to pay for it.

    Want to launch into a mass extortion scheme where the parents of children a subject to massive fiscal penalties, ten of thousands of dollars or their children's futures are destroyed in the courts, well, seriously fuck off, you are a sick fuck and we are not stupid.

  21. Re: Well, then I guess on UK Gov't Asks: Is 10 Years In Jail the Answer To Online Pirates? · · Score: 1

    So you are saying if I copy your clothes I should go to jail for ten years, hmm OK, 'er', FUCK YOU.

  22. Re:The auto pilot on A Year On, What Flight Simulators Can't Prove About Flight MH370 · · Score: 2

    There is always the political statement route. Simply fly the plane to Diego Garcia and let the cowardly US military shoot it down. The pilot did have that map on his at home flight simulator and was practising on it (which would tend to indicate an intent to land rather than crash) and regardless of what anyone says, some one had to have cleaned up the wreckage and the Australian government made a really, really rather surprising amount of noise about searching for the plane as far away from Diego Garcia as possible, all the while pretending the Jidalee over the horizon radar system doesn't exist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.... It is also not like the US military has a history of shooting down civilian aircraft under hugely questionable circumstance. The Sherlock Holmes idea springs to mind "Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."

  23. Re:No. on In the Age of Free AAA Game Engines, Where Does Our Open Source Engine Stand? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh No, the shock, the horror, the pain and suffering of millions of slash dot users. 'ER' you know, you just could have skipped this story. I do it quite often myself, skip whole days even.

    A developer of a free open source game engineer sought some feedback from the slash dot community and you take personal offence, hmm, do you have a vested interest in alternate products by any chance.

    Personally the open source game engine market might do best by targeting a specific market that is not well served by 'AAA' game engines. Perhaps low violence networked board gaming simulations and taking them more in visually interactive directions. They do not take a huge amount of visual and audio development time and the focus is heavily on game play, gaming concepts and new ideas. A market that well suits indie development.

  24. Logically, I would have though it would be unsustainable to bar the word sustainable but they ideological asshats motivated by nothing but greed always do unsustainable seek to sustain the unsustainable, things like infinite wealth and infinite resources and infinite greed, well, that last one is true, greed is infinite but it really is unsustainable. No wonder they want to bar the word sustainable. As for science being political, no, science is science, what people choose to do with the science or how the choose to ignore science is political, not the science itself. I can think of only one issue when science is political and that is a grants time when funding of new science is put under review.

    It's not something like say policing where it can be political distorted into law enforcement and what should be an exemplary citizens service instead becomes a guard dog service putting the bite on the poorest citizens least able to legally defend themselves. So policing as a political lie becomes law enforcement, a abusive low IQ citizens as guard dogs service that attacks vulnerable citizens rather than protecting them and where it's members become steroid junkies who sexually get off on the abuse of power (the lowest of the low, people who betray their whole society). The same can not be said of science, science is facts to the best of peoples ability to replicate that science, to prove the validity of theories and to test out new hypothesis's, so that new theories are created and old one's revised.

  25. Re:It's not censorship on Chinese Government Takes Down Anti-Pollution Documentary "Under The Dome" · · Score: 1

    Tricky thing though. How can you censor information about pollution from people who wear masks daily because of pollution. So likely it is more about repackaging and delivery at a more controllable pace to prevent mob reaction as they have quite a large mob to deal with. What is interesting in the documentary is the denial, they know the problem, they can not really pretend that it is not happening. However they live in denial preferring a comfortable lie, rather than an uncomfortable truth. How will they react, when the truth is forced on them, in the typical mob way? Seek a culprit or group of culprits to blame for everything, persecute them and then, once sufficient time has passed, months, go back to denial and the comfortable lie. That is the self evident truth of people who run around everyday needing to wear masks to breath without coughing because of pollution wanting to pretend the pollution is not that bad. You can not censor what people already know, just refuse to admit it because it might economically disadvantage them even when the reality is failing to act is going to not only hugely shorten the life but inevitably will hugely economically disadvantage them. The real problem is greed driven stupidity, most of the pollution is because they are too cheap to spend the extra money to reduce the level of pollution being generated and they all know it and participate in it and there is now way anyone could even try to censor that from them, their own individual greed lets them self censor and that is the real problem. Oh Look, America and climate change, there is a whole lot of that exact same greed driven stupidity and self censorship going on. You do censor information from those who choose to be ignorant, they do it to themselves and often scream at you and attack you if you try to expose them to the uncomfortable truth.