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  1. Automatic Activation on Ask Slashdot: Panic Button a Very Young Child Can Use · · Score: 1

    It really depends upon the nature of the seizures. Rigidly locked in space or extreme spasms. So a motion detector that your wife can wear that can detect say laying on the ground rather than being vertical or detect rapid motions indicative of an attack. Greater care needs to be taken when holding the child or say cooking and how that is treated. These is also devices for detecting changes in blood pressure, breathing and pulse rate, so a more automated response is likely to be preferable, with a signal sent to you so that you can attempt contact to confirm conditions. Wiring up every room in your home with internet enable cameras might not be the safest choice in terms of security. If you really want the internet enabled video, an internet enabled bot would likely be the safest choice, aside from of course closed doors and internal versus yard access.

  2. Re:And the low tech on Ask Slashdot: What Will It Take To End Mass Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    It is actually far easier than most people can readily image. Reality is, normal people simply are very, very unlikely to behave in that extremely corrupt fashion. There are two genetic conditions that specifically lead to this kind of socially destructive behaviour, psychopathy and narcissism. We are as yet unable to cure those conditions, however at this time we do have the technology to infallibly test for these conditions. Prior to running for public office, people should be tested for those conditions and the results released to the public. For position of authority and required trust, those genetic conditions again should be tested for and upon detection those candidates barred from those positions.

    Now getting these laws passed will be an interesting problem. Funnily enough when it comes to those psychopaths and narcissists who have already enriched themselves at everyone else's expense, the people they can least trust and who are most likely to stealth their wealth and even kill them are other psychopaths and narcissists. So as it turns out, it is very much in the interests of the already wealthy psychopaths and narcissists to eliminate the threat of other psychopaths and narcissists seeking to become wealthy by any means possible, including killing and stealing from the already wealthy. Make no mistake the very last person a psychopath would trust is another psychopath, they quite simply know better ;D.

  3. Re:Audiophile market on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 1

    Well that is of course what they are really selling. Just like the junk wine scams, they are not selling quality, they are selling the poseur status of exclusivity. Egoistic psychopaths and narcissists who lack any semblance of taste will pay a fortune for that poseur status and they will kill anyone and everyone, either directly or indirectly through indifference to the outcomes of their actions, to earn the money to pay for that status. This so they can pose over their poor they create. It exist in every single market area of the psychopathic capitalist system, we just get much more opportunity to mock the idiots now thanks to the internet, whilst of course main stream media still pushes poseur exclusivity to the exclusion sic of logic or truth.

  4. Re:And the low tech on Ask Slashdot: What Will It Take To End Mass Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    None of the tech solutions bear any relationship to reality. What will it take to end mass surveillance, the elimination of corrupt politician because that is what mass surveillance is really all about. Getting dirt on every politician and potential politician as well as people of influence and this includes their families. The surveillance agencies and their controllers are all about gaining power for themselves via the control of corrupt individuals who wish to keep secret what mass surveillance has uncovered. It is the main tool by which the police state controls government and make no mistake that is exactly what is being done today. How many more high level crimes have to be exposed before people wake up to the fact that they are no longer being prosecuted, no matter how serious or how public and the only reason for that to happen is extortion of those who should ensure the prosecution of those high level crimes.

    Get honest politician and the mass surveillance police state collapses as it loses the power to exert control via extortion.

  5. Re:Can't eat what you don't grow on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 1

    Ahh yes democracy, tell that to Nazi Germany, democracy can quite readily fail and it is rather obviously failing in the US and has been doing so for quite some time and at every level of government from local, through state and into federal.

  6. Re:I've got this on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    The idea is that, yes, free speech has limits. Those limits are incitement to violence and lies. Everyone has a right to an opinion, no one has a right to false statements of fact, especially statements that are damaging to society as a whole. The other thing of course is that money is not speech, money is specifically used to increase the volume of one voice in order to drown out all other voices and inherently is a corruption of free speech and as such is paid not free speech.

  7. Re:Super idea! on Hobbyists Selling Tesla Coil Kits To Fund Drone Flight Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    In this case the warning is, there is a very high likelihood that they will send an artillery shell back in the direction the drone came from, pretty much guaranteed and then bluff it out with nukes. Do not play with other people's lives, it is seriously not nice. North Korea is run by psychopaths, totally out of control psychopaths versus our own somewhat constrained political and corporate psychopaths. Change will come only via the elimination of those psychopaths, want fast change, than just put your own life on the line, sneak across that border and well, make those psychopaths go away, good luck with that. Patience, attempting to communicate with North Koreans, not letting any North Korean leaders out of North Korea, ever for any reason, and cutting off all luxury exports to North Korea (psychopaths must have their ego driven luxuries) are the only way to go. Either North Koreans achieve their own freedom or they will just lose it again, much the same as the rest of us. Fortunately most of the rest of us do not need to resort to violence to achieve a social democracy instead of a psuedo democracy but actually a corporatocracy. For North Koreans the choice is either bite the bullet or eat the bullet.

  8. Re:But surely... on Samsung SmartTV Customers Warned Personal Conversations May Be Recorded · · Score: 2

    In two words, Star Trek. Reality is we are very used to communicating verbally, we are built for it genetically. Our brain is of course far more complex than any CPU and we have huge problems understanding each other, not just foreign languages but accents as well. So yeah, just like in Star Trek the majority want to communicate verbally with their devices, just like "Sudo Make Me Sandwich", yep, everyone does want that, especially women ;).

  9. Re:Hard To Imagine... on Microsoft Trademarks "Windows 365" · · Score: 1

    Think about this. Many people might consider paying the M$ tax in order to avoid the real cost of upgrades. Having to retrain staff, having to install upgrades, having hardware drivers fail and needing hardware to be replaced, having to convert data to make it compatible with upgrades, all of those cost more than the unit price of the upgrade, far, far more. So a protection racket, pay the rent or else face upgrade nightmares ;D.

  10. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    This only works upon the basis of using economic and military warfare to keep the majority of the planets population from using energy at the same rate as a minority of the planets population. Simple, hard, fact. Should the majority use energy and create pollution at the same level as the current military leading minority, then the global environment will collapse, no ifs, no buts and no maybes. So either the minority bomb the majority back into the stone age or we make some real changes in energy production and usage upon a fair and reasonable basis. Nuclear is the only choice, the only option on the table that goes anywhere near solving the real problem and the problem also includes the "I got my energy, fuck you and your needs" problem.

    Energy also has a resource use balance, you can minimise upon the use of other resource by using energy to substitute for those resource ie drain rivers dry or desalinate salt water and pump the fresh water produced to where it is needed (gravity is a huge energy burden when it comes to shifting water about, far bigger than most people realise).

  11. Re:A Bitcoin scam? Impossible! on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 0

    You left out the ponzi scheme element of bit coin. Where people who start the scheme get to print out their own money, like printing hundred thousand dollars bills at the start and as more people join the scheme the size of the bills being printed shrink enormously. So that suckers at the other end of the scheme are printing fractions of a cent but running around promoting the scheme to everyone in order to give value to the fractions of a cent that they are printing. Meanwhile the schemers at the other end who were printing hundred thousand dollar bills are laughing. Admittedly this is very much like the US Federal Reserve where corporate types print fake money, that the US government pretends is real and then owes it to those corporations who printed it.

    Hugely, dangerously, in the case of the US government is this leads to idiotic statements from the US like "WE MUST LEAD, we have the military and the economy and we MUST USE IT", the US must lead of course to protect the illusion of the US bitcoin 'er' dollar. Basically threatening other countries with it's military and economic sanctions to defend it's bitcoin 'er' dollar scam, so that it can continue to pretend the US GDP is not hugely parasitic off other countries economies. No fucking wonder bitcoin was so popular in the US it is pretty much exactly like the corporate Federal Reserve US dollar 'er' bitcoin. So in the same fashion bitcoin ultimately leads to the similar kinds of crime and abuse associated with the US Corporate Federal Reserve dollar.

  12. Re:I've got this on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    Free speech, according to the US government money is speech. So if I pay someone to kill someone else am I not exercising my right to free speech, after all I am not doing the killing, I am just exercising my right to free speech. So where exactly does the fucking slippery slope start?

  13. Re:I've got this on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    There is a world of difference between attempting to make content disappear and parking it elsewhere. Want to show murder porn, that park it on a murder porn site, clearly marked as such, not directly accessible via an external link just in case of douche link labellers and basically off the average beaten path. Most people of all ages do not like it and should they prefer not to be exposed to it, than that is their choice.

    Flip side of that are chicken hawks, those that cheer for war but don't want to be exposed to it either directly ie actually being forced to fight in the wars they cheer for or even see the real consequences of it. Of course sticking in on the web doesn't help as much as sticking a sign in the front yard showing the images of the real consequences of the war they cheer.

    Care needs to be taken with regard to promoting the idea that individuals can gain infamy that will last generations by creating those images, you seriously do not want to feed this when 1% of humanity are psychopathy and in a world of 7 billion odd humans that is 70 million psychopaths, how many of them do you want to be seeking infamy by creating those images.

  14. Re:Small change... on Replacing the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    The most obvious replacement for the Turing test is the politician test. How 'smart' does a computer need to be to pretend to be smart when speaking on behalf of others. So receiving 'er' contributor input and producing a speech that sounds really good based upon those 'er' contributions, which doesn't mean much and surreptitiously hides the real intent of the 'er' contributors in the speech behind sounds good messages. Sort of a Bush vs Obama measurement scale, both doing much the same thing but one sounds a whole lot better than the other whilst carrying out much the same scam, that includes being able to answer questions whilst maintaining the same spin, a bullshit-o-meter.

  15. Re:Can't eat what you don't grow on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The opposite is feudalism where a minority own everything and we are rapidly heading there. What kind of failure does that lead to, a rather lethal one be careful what you wish for.

  16. Re:what about skinny people? on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: 1

    Far more likely some people have bacteria flora within their digestive tract that is far more efficient and breaking down food ie releasing more nutrients while consuming less themselves. So when people continue to consume food at the same levels they start to put on weight. Likely the bacteria might be more effective at breaking down cellular walls of vegetable matter releasing those nutrients for consumption. Initial entry source might be from foods contaminated by ruminant faecal matter. So people that fill themselves up on vegetable matter in order to fill full without weight gain might find themselves now tricked into gaining weight.

  17. Re:Literally? on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 2

    Who gives a crap about ISIS. This has absolutely nothing to do with them, Fox not-News straight up showed murder porn in order to drive up viewer numbers so as to increase advertising revenue, all else is total bullshit. They also work to instigate violence thus creating news which they can sell. This is exactly what I think of when watching Fox not-News https://www.youtube.com/watch?... as run by the Malevolent Murdochs but instead of a screen door it is your television, what can I say but don't let the fuckers in your home and you will be far bloody better off. Now doesn't Kane look exactly like the asshat and don't the Fox not-News talking heads all pretend to be just as religious.

  18. Re:Robot for more hazardous firefighting on Students Demo Firefighting Humanoid Robot On US Navy Ship · · Score: 1

    Sounds good but the reality is, if you want to be safe when a warship is on fire, you had better not be on that warship. When magazine go boom, you go boom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... three survivors and most of those who died were no where near the fire. Person on the hose not only is meant to direct the hose on the source of the fire, but also unburnt gases produced by the fire to cool, wet down areas near the fire to prevent spreading of the fire, persons down near the fire and people going near the fire to clear debris and rescue people. A skilled fire fighter does far more than just squirt water in the general direction of the fire, they have to know exactly what they are doing and where the water/foam needs to be directed and when it is appropriate, a real skill.

  19. Re:The spin is strong in TFA. on Why It's Important That the New Ubuntu Phone Won't Rely On Apps · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Excuse me but when I buy a appliance style device I expect to buy zero apps to make it work or have it functional. For me the app library, unless it is free apps with no advertising or privacy invasive features is meaningless. I un-installed most apps after trying them especially those really bloody annoying ones that are continually updating (is that some sort of scam to run up data charges, those apps updating without actually updating). In fact I dislike Google's app library becuase it does not allow filtering for ad free apps.

    So for me a whole lot fewer developers and a whole lot fewer apps is great, as long as they are good apps and most of the neccesary apps already come with the appliance. So yeah, how revolutions per second are you doing?

  20. Re:Uncertainty on Verizon Sells Off Wireline Operations, Blames Net Neutrality Plans · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Talk of uncertainty is simply PR=B$ to hold up the sales price. They are simply selling the copper network which they have degraded to crap with poor maintenance, other bits are tacked on in order to protect that price. Incumbents all over the world are looking to dump their degraded copper networks with only idiots looking to buy or scams like in Australia where Toxic Tony and crew who strangled the national NBN project to death are going to dump billions of dollars of taxpayer money straight into the pockets of two corporations and their investors by buying a degraded copper network.

    Here's betting exactly what the incumbents will do once they dump the copper, install a new fibre to the premise network and burn the suckers who bought the copper with gold. I wonder how many countries governments will be corrupts enough to buy into the same deal being done in Australia.

  21. Smart Weapons. on The US Navy Wants More Railguns and Lasers, Less Gunpowder · · Score: 1

    We have yet to see some real advances in torpedo design. Weapons that could, hang around in a particular region and then select the target and seek to destroy it. Catch with a navy much like the airforce it can be subject to very effective area denial weapon systems. For example aircraft attacks can be readily disrupted by simply targeting them with attack radar, which has a significantly different signature to search radar. The pilot can either take evasive action foiling the attack or ignore the onboard warning of an incoming missile and pray his systems are just being spoofed and of course fake attack radar transmission could be very effectively combined with real ones and catch pilots out. Real area denial weapons have yet to be designed to target attacking warships beyond dumb mines. For countries with limited navies this makes much more sense.

  22. Re:No problem getting this merger passed on Staples To Buy Office Depot For $6.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    Monopoly or no monopoly, larger corporations have proven to be very unhealthy for society, democracy and the economy. There should really be a limit upon how large they get. Seriously, governments should be considering strangling wall street to death in favour of rebuilding main street.

  23. Re:Shocker on Canada, Japan Cave On Copyright Term Extension In TPP · · Score: 2

    Now but wait, according to constitutions all people within a society are meant to be equal. So according to US law if money equals speech than all people by law are required to have equal access, hence you should only be able to spend what the poorest can spend, otherwise you are publicly stating under law that all people are not equal and that some people are by law entitled to much, MUCH, greater speech than other people. So if money equals speech, then by constitutional law and people required to be equal with regard to elections the rich are not by the new interpretation of the law allowed to spend more than the poor on elections. As speech is required to be equal, one person one vote.

  24. Re:MOBILE broadband. Wheeler is Comcast's hero on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    Of course it could all be a very sneaky sly trick. Let's do mobile first and the suckers will accept those rules. Then of course a bit latter, but it's not fair if land line operators have to operate under different rules and yep 'SUCKED IN'. Make no mistake, there is a real reason why they did mobile first with a locked in last mile, excuse me but what the fuck, it's mobile there is no last mile. Oh I get it, 'last mile', you guys so funny, ha ha ha and the rest of us are just so stupid and gullible.

  25. Re:Adblock Edge on Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock · · Score: 1

    So the problem with NoScript is you get greater control but youch starting it afresh on a new computer requires configuring across many web sites as you target all the renamed advertising sites, they don't just have one name, they have many now. So play with stumbleupon for a day and you will pick most of them up and it's mainly for if you want to let some advertisers through if they and the hosting web site are well behaved. Of course each time you hit a new web site you have to decide what you will allow through if anything and some can have a huge number of scripts, generally they are poorly behaved sites, whilst others will only run a minimum. Some even appear completely blank until you allow them through.