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  1. Re:Fuckers! on World's First Lagoon Power Plants Unveiled In UK · · Score: 1

    But all too sadly a really rather accurate portrayal, of the Fox not-News fossil fuelers.

    Of course the nuclear mobs are raising the heads and they are the natural enemy of the fossil fuelers. Kill fossil fuel and nuclear investments will basically go 'nuclear' sic. (mining and energy generation). Not to forget certain countries will gain hugely whilst other countries will suffer enormously and for a very few it is a swap from one revenue source to another ie the US would become energy independent, Canada and Australia would make a killing and Russia would swap from one to the other. A whole bunch of fossil fuel export dependent countries would of course go straight down the fiscal gurgler http://dictionary.cambridge.or....

  2. Re:5% Gross is a terrible deal on Unreal Engine 4 Is Now Free · · Score: 1

    Problem with your silly theory is, making the engine readily available for free means all the developers will end up eating each other's lunch when it comes to revenue. Not only will the majority fail to recover their development cost but they will slide ride into the bankruptcy hole trying to pay for the engine out of what is left. The scam here, is release it enough and a few will get most of the money whilst the rest lose and the sneaky gain here is driving all of the other gaming engines out of the market or similarly bankrupting their developers.

    The smart gaming model is, create content first. Comics, books, movies, TV and then follow up with games. Internally developed else it fails as a result of having to pay too much for the content licence, for the engine licence, for publishing charges and for retail costs. Add all of those together and that is a whole lot of percentages with bugger all left to pay for development. Succeed with each step and you will likely succeed with each following step.

    To make that work of course, story, story, story, without the story to engage the market you get no follow up. Prime example Jerk Jerk A and Star Trek, the reboot that was a kick in the face for the franchise because it killed interest in the franchise due to really poor story telling and it's failure to engage it's market.

  3. Re:Brain drain on Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo · · Score: 1

    However if you have no idea about what you are doing and were previously able to hide your incompetence behind others, getting everyone back in the office is the best way to steal their ideas and claim them as your own. All they managed to do was lose a lot of their most expensive staff, so with lower revenues there are still better returns, OK, in the short run but in the long, a sure route to collapse.

    Jumping into mobile and claiming it as a significant improvement is really stupidly lame ie it is obvious software to hardware adoption, ow wow, differently formatted web pages, what will they think of next.

    Lets be honest they hired someone who they thought would bring a lot of google inside information to them, to give them a competitive advantage, only to find a peripheral type who just simply claimed other peoples efforts as their own.

  4. Re:FEO on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    The easiest way to control user ranked web searches is to simply register the users and pay them. The reason for the token payment for each rated search because of course it creates a far more accurate registered user base, those payments need to go somewhere to someone, hence a full validation system ends up in place. Payments can be of the credit against Google services variety, rather than cash payments ie build up credit to purchase Google services or even devices. Ratings to cover quality of page and accuracy relevant to the services and most importantly of all randomly audited quality of the rating itself ie three strikes and you are out.

    Catch with this is it is slow to react to new sites and new content on existing sites, benefit is it can supplement other automated methods.

    Same old, same old, many hands make light work and Google can draw from tens of millions of user, it just needs to provide more 'retail' user services to exchange for gredits. Catch with really quality search as far as google greed is concerned, the more accurate the less sites you visit, the less time you spend on the search engineer and the less endlessly annoying and shit product adds you see. Google seems pretty much not to give one crap about the quality of the products it promotes or the accuracy in advertising they present, yes, they are Google's responsibility, you present lies, then you are the liar, even when you didn't write the lies.

  5. Re:Inproper influence on Oracle Sues 5 Oregon Officials For 'Improper Influence' · · Score: 1

    The statistic is hardly representative of anything because the bulk of Republican are just poor gullible minimum wage idiots sucked in by 1% rich Republicans, those poor Republicans don't earn enough to pay tax worth cheating on, now that is known the world over.

  6. Re:Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More R on Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots · · Score: 1

    You mean all those people we don't need to do the work yet we need them to buy the product, else we don't have any need to make the product and thus have no need of robots.

    So we need to restructure out of wasteful mass consumption and shift to more sustainable with a focus on quality, durability and fit for life (products that last your lifetime, rather than fad or disposable products). So with robotics the model needs to change, from greed based to need based. With robotics who do we get rid of the employers or the employees. It makes far more logical sense to eliminate the employers, rather than the employees. The employees employ the robots thus eliminating the need for employers.

  7. Re:Is that really a lot? on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 1

    NSA (and they denied it all to the point of perjury), Stingray, data confiscation at borders, Investigative Data Warehouse, police radar to secretly scan inside houses, naked screening at airports, body searches, internal border patrols etc. Sorry but the US government routinely, absolutely routinely lies about all this but yes you are true through clumsy arrogance they always end up being caught out even if it does take a few years. Do any of those idiots spend time masturbating over naked women sunbathing in their own backyards, you know, you just know, that it will be stupidly inevitable that some douche with a badge will end up doing it.

  8. Re: Bloatware?! on Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware · · Score: 1

    Stumbleupon sends you all over the place without much choice and like, duh, hint, hint when you run script blockers that kills most websites functionality and as such there is no logical reason to be there, some even appear totally rather than just partially blank (you're not blonde by any chance). So no right for ads not even by route of stumbleupon or any other scammy marketing links, plenty, literally hundreds of millions of other site to choose from ;D.

  9. Re: Bloatware?! on Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware · · Score: 1

    By the same token, falsely promoting products is fraud. Whether or not websites fail to vet the ads they show, they are still totally responsible for the fraudulent misrepresentation of products. So here is how it works, play nice and you ads survive, be naughty and no advertising scripts or cookies for your website, for the advertising agents and for the marketed products. So fraud is worse than cheating, one is criminal the other is purely moral. Also watch out for poorly behaved advertising agencies, no point working with them, if they are blocked all over the place.

  10. Re:Just damn on Leonard Nimoy Dies At 83 · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget who really creates the characters people love, the writers and who ensure they are portrayed effectively, the directors, also those that create the environments they play in or record the events. Keep in mind Leonard Nimoy's book "I am not Spock", actors are not the people they pretend to be in front of the camera. Want to remember Leonard Nimony, the remember him for his acting or his other public roles and not for one character he pretended to be in front of a camera.

  11. Re:Is that really a lot? on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 1

    Flip side of that. Those drones 5,486.4 metres (crazy Americans) up can see a whole lot more than just the border and I am sure that is the real reason they are up there, the surveillance state prying into everyone backyard, within hundreds of miles of the border.

  12. Re:Follow the money on Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation? · · Score: 1

    Basically it is a different market. Face it people that buy Apple do not really buy all that wisely, if they did, Apple would have a whole lot smaller profit margin. So they target that Apple market where people will pay more for the same thing because 'er' 'umm' it feeds their ego that they can spend more, they are 'hmmm' 'special' consumers ;D.

  13. Re:Semantic games on OPSEC For Activists, Because Encryption Is No Guarantee · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Problem with your analysis, damned if you do, damned if you do not. Many of the activities of the three letter US agencies have become largely criminal with gross and purposeful misinterpretations of the law and this not in pursuit of justice but in the pursuit of the psychopathic ego of many out of control 'agents' or upon the direct orders of political or corporate appointees. So doing nothing is no more or less effective at getting you door kicked in, being threatened with real and impending death for any reason imaginable including not obeying orders fast enough, a barking dog, happening to have some item in your hand at the time, any item. Then you and all other people in residence at the time being physically assaulted, really assaulted, not grab you hands put them behind your back and being handcuffed but thrown to the ground kicked and jumped on, a bought of "stop resisting' with more blows to the head and then of course your home trashed and your stuff stolen. Then if they hate you ludicrous bail conditions the ensure you remain in jail for years during an hugely purposefully extended trial and the inevitably had sucker you have been in jail for years, plead guilty and you will released with time server ha ha ha.

    Basically you are attempting to defend yourself against really lazy and self serving types who in reality wont be bothered with the real leg work, the real reports or any real effort.

    Besides it can be hugely fun. Be overtly covert, make a big show of analogue person to person communications. Don't be lazy yourself, do everything you can person to person, the more the merrier and the more wasted spy vs spy efforts. In the whole spy vs spy vs the rest of us, being overt, exposing your efforts, being more public about your activities, serves to protect you and will inevitably expose their spy vs spy efforts to the ridicule and derision it so often rightly deserves.

  14. Re:#1 slashdot article submitters on 5 White Collar Jobs Robots Already Have Taken · · Score: 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Sorry couldn't resist but you dog eat dog ideas of economics just beg for that response.

    Employment has largely gone into minimum wage service industries because a bunch of douche wankers want to order people about, you know, all those clinical narcissists and psychopaths that everyone would normally be better of ignoring but of course psychopathic and narcissistic mainstream media has pushed out those ideas of somehow being of value in their world of selfishness, greed and poseur status. So the big scream is on eliminating or reducing minimum wage so that ass hats can have as many service types at their beck and call, bowing and scrapping.

    Reality is, a lot of people balk when service industries is the only choice and well eating the rich (and not in the fun way for the rich), becomes far preferable. Watch out for those unemployed white collar types, they are really into plotting and scheming and when they become economically disadvantage, watch them rouse the mob in order to start introducing the rich who made them unemployed and demand their fawning service to https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

  15. Re:Fad Ahead? on Inventors Revolutionize Beekeeping · · Score: 1

    No you do not want to set up a honey making business, you want to sell a gadget. If you just want the delusion of having a bee hive and them printing money for you in your backyard with you never having to do anything, erm yeah, OK and if that were the case you would not even have bothered with attacking comments. Of course if your marketing, selling and promoting a gadget, then your comments seem far more in alignment with your intent. It seems the people who actually in reality do tend bees, don't hate harvesting the honey, but they actually enjoy it. So yeah, it seems to be a solution to a problem that only existed in the mind of the inventors. You would be the dude that handed out the eggs to the children at an Easter egg hunt because it was easier for everyone all round doing it that way.

  16. Re:Don't complain about 'the Intenet' on Google Now Automatically Converts Flash Ads To HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Don't complain about those sites, script and cookie block them and never return, also if you have a free moment, target the advertising agency and their scripts and cookie block them and if you have a moment more to spare, go to the product or service site and script and cookie block them. You know sending out a passive aggressive email to all in those in the firing line probably would not hurt either, the web site, the advertising agency and the seller, let them all know that you loathe them and will be doing everything reasonably possible to deny them any income not only coming from you but also those you associate with.

    So it their ads are pissing you off, let them know how much they are pissing you off and let them know you will be actively marketing against them from now on, not only in personal expenditure but in broader social exchanges with others and avoiding the out of control corporations in question.

    It is up to people to set limits upon abuses by basically economically abusing the abusers.

  17. Re:Breaking news! on Artificial Intelligence Bests Humans At Classic Arcade Games · · Score: 1

    Hate to break it to you but that was done, years and years ago, it is really easy for computers to do that stuff. The really hard bit it to analyse the environment and from that analysis create an internal virtual environment that you can base your calculations and optimum decisions on. It really is difficult for computers to analyse the visual environment, understand what is within that view and how the various elements will behave as changes occur. So virtual computer robotics is pretty easy because you skip that whole extraordinarily difficult area of actual real time environmental analysis. Fast track robotics development means you would skip that area whilst developing appropriate robotic responses in virtual environments, you could cunningly fund this by creating animation content using those robots.

  18. Re:Thanks on 3 Million Strong RAMNIT Botnet Taken Down · · Score: 1

    It's internet janitorial work. No fame, no money and no promotions, so basically everyone does not much at all about it. Consider the NSA hacking all over the place, noticing all of this stuff, doing basically nothing about it (basically who gives a fuck it's a defensive security issue) except of course seeking to exploit it. So how come various governments are not going to their security agencies and saying why you do bloody nothing, why you bloody ignore it, why you pretend it doesn't exist, why you so busy hacking all politicians, activists and journalists communications that you basically ignore in your face criminal activity, apart from the odd effort and only at the behest of a major corporation, all other citizens can basically fuck off with the computer security problems.

  19. Re:Turns out agencies don't really work like that on Attention, Rockstar Developers: Get a Talent Agent · · Score: 1

    I thought in the performance arts segment, most work was obtained based upon their 'performance' on the casting couch with agents just subtly confirming their clients 'er' flexibility and such, prior to 'er' direct contact (let's all forget that ego bullshit and marketing crap, so they can sell product they attach their names, faces and bodies to, all a for profit delusion) . Keep in mind a lot of the best 'er' performing performance artists are so bad at actually performing (not the casting couch performance) that animators now have to fix the work of dead faces, plastic faces and simply can't act faces. Somehow I think most coders aren't going to really fit that market and those that are, well, the reason they are will be for the same reason performance artists do it, they are crap at their claimed profession.

  20. Re:Surely they meant on Can Tracking Employees Improve Business? · · Score: 1

    Basically this will lead to two distinct classes of employment, the tracked serfs and the untracked freemen. Freeman will quite simply tell their employers to go jolly well fuck themselves and make a point of inclement violence if any attempt is made to force use of the devices. 'UNIONS', looks like there is a real and urgent need for them after all.

    As for the cheeto munching gutless serfs, what is it the exploitative 1% say, "slaves are slaves because they want to be slaves" (freeman of course fought for the freedom to obtain and keep it). So choose you children's future, brave of free or gutless serfs.

  21. Re:Good grief... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    So yeah, it's basically an arts degree and not a science degree.

  22. Greece needs to grow up and stop the tax holiday for the rich rort. They simply need to balance out the revenue side of the taxation so they cay pay for social services. So lock down the wealth of the rich and the tax the hell out of it, basically something like 20 odd years worth.

  23. Re:Good grief... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Let's be clear here a computer science or masters degree teaches you not one whit about how a computer works in terms of physics or chemistry. subjects aren't even really touched unless you decide to pick them up. Other sciencey topics not touched include biology, geology, meteorology for a start. So yeah, computer science degrees are pretty light on when it comes to science and heavy on programming which is of course language learning, so technically more of an arts degree than a science degree and when it comes to producing code for people, many of the other arts subjects are actually of more value than science subjects. People who do science degrees of course pick up quite a few computer subjects.

  24. Re:I'd suggest to recommend uninstalling windows t on Homeland Security Urges Lenovo Customers To Remove Superfish · · Score: 1

    That 90% OS's is of course, one great big fat lie. Let's try and count mobile devices in that and as they greatly outnumber desktops and that doesn't include servers either. So yeah, windows, they are well below 50% and falling fast with regard to OS installations. When it comes to Lenovo and superfish and their intent was to 'supplement the shopping experience', seriously piss of you public relations shit heads, that makes them a dead product manufacturer for at least a decade, simply not to be trusted, redirecting searches, hidden and hard to remove, simply totally and grossly unacceptable, anybody who buys any of the products even from a bargain bin is foolish.

  25. Re:My two cents... on Ask Slashdot: How Can Technology Improve the Judicial System? · · Score: 1

    Catch with a rehabilitative system versus a punitive punishment system is, what do you do with people who do not rehabilitate. So minimum length sentences with extensions for those who fail to rehabilitate and for those who will never rehabilitate, life extensions. Logical but a little harsh, well, for the person in question not so harsh for potential future victims. It is really horrible when a person is released after punitive punishment only to be further radicalised and then goes on to commit worse crimes until they are caught and prosecuted again. Fines should of course became percentages of annual income to ensure equal impact of the penalty and incarceration should be about approximate rehabilitation time for the offence and for the individual as well as mitigating risk implied by the individual repeating those actions or worse.

    High court judges should be appointed with their qualifications reviewed as well as questionable paid associations and they should be a one time thing for a set term, definitely not more than a decade.