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  1. Re:Just give the option to turn it off... on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    I really have to wonder about bikers who like a throbbing object beneath their nether regions, those motor bikes shake object hundreds of feet away, why do bikers desperately need those objects between their legs, are they missing something? Obviously the sound is unnecessary, as such vehicle noise laws should be reduced. Desperate for loud throbbing objects get the appropriate tool insert it and wear headphones with the volume cranked up. There is no sane reason why you should be allowed to force you hobby upon tens of thousands of other people as you drive down roads. Want to have fun, fine have fun but consider others and the ramifications of noise pollution in a crowded world. Not really picking on you as you very likely are not driving down my road, I am of course aggrieved by moronic Harley Davidson riders who are riding down my road and it seems there is no sound reason behind that sound.

  2. Re:Censorship? on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 1

    Sorry dude I know you wish it wasn't so but IQ statistics prove the Left is way, way ahead of the right. Don't worry new statistic will start coming out that when it comes to narcissism and psychopathy the right is way, way ahead of the left. The left are about caring and sharing and the right are about selfishness and greed, suck it on up, that is the reality. When selfishness and greed are your motivation you concern for other people becomes very limited and this will impact you actions. Sure there are a bunch of conservative right wingers who believes they will profit by pretending to be left wingers but that does not make the left wing. Reality is the left are enamoured of the truth and the right accepts lies as long as it gains them what they want.

  3. Re:Just give the option to turn it off... on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your the exact kind of asshat the proves why new laws should be implemented to reduce the sounds vehicles make at their exhaust. Why should manufacturers being feeding the egos of dicks to annoy everyone who lives alongside the roads the egotistical shites drive down. Time once again to crack down on noise pollution as it should be obvious that it is necessary by this very story.

  4. Re:What an idiot on Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much" · · Score: 1

    Who is kidding who. When a whole bunch of skilled people are specifically focused on getting evidence of criminal actions you have committed they will get you, if they do not make any mistakes and there is nothing you can do to prevent it. The idea is not to make so many mistakes that a whole bunch of skilled people become specifically focused upon you because by then it is way too late already. Of course once you get neck deep in criminal activity and when greed becomes you sole guiding motivation. The ego driven stupidity that comes with that ensures once they have you scent they will track you down and get the evidence they need to prosecute.

  5. Re:Yeah! on Senator Who Calls STEM Shortage a Hoax Appointed To Head Immigration · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The carrot works best when the donkey doesn't eat it, just as it held in front of it's muzzle and this in conjunction with the fear of the stick keeps the donkey ie the masses in check. Don't fall for the promises only congratulate actions. The reality is for decades the general public has only been getting promises whilst the corporations got all the action and that is regardless of which party was in charge and working in collusion with the other party whilst pretending not to.

  6. Re:Microsoft's 14 Year Xbox Fiasco on Hands On With Microsoft's Holographic Goggles · · Score: 1

    The fastest selling gaming device of all time is most definitely not the xbox and why is M$ lying because of course the fastest selling gaming device of all time is not theirs. Just because it also does other things does not mean it is no longer a gaming device. So the smart phone is number one, just because the Losephone (a lot funnier than calling it a Winphone) is one of the worst sellers. The biggest reason why the smart phone wins, is their are a lot more choices than there are for game consoles. Of course these kind of glasses really will have their greatest impact when plugged into a smart phone and not when plugged into a game console. Then on the fly wireless lan gaming potential will most definitely be one of the high lights if they get it to work well and is physiologically comfortable with regard to extended use.

    Why does M$ always seem to head off in the wrong direction, game consoles no, absolutely not, smart phones yes, the only logical direction for the device. Especially as the smart phone can so readily hook into more high powered hardware and act as the link between that and the glasses. Can they turn the Losephone into a Winphone, that would depend upon how far beyond gaming they can extend the use of the glasses. Of course they will not be on their own, ultimately, 3D glasses of what ever description are the most effective way to significantly extend the usability of smart phones. Stick a bunch of rfid tags on your fingernails so that the glasses can track the relative orientation of your fingers and you are done, apart from of course coming up with a range of usability gestures, like thumbs up.

  7. VOIP? on Calls For European ISPs To Filter Content Could Be Illegal · · Score: 2

    Voice over internet protocol, basically private phone calls via the internet. So filtering content, censoring person to person phone calls and deleting speech the corporations disagree with. Exactly where does the limit on internet censorship reach, apparently right in your home. Hey, why stop at deleting people's speech, why not replace the deleted speech with approved speech, the US government already does it with seized web sites. Why stop there, why replace person to person speech upon a individual basis, computers can do it quite readily.

  8. Re:Google Plus Defined Itself As a Hazard on Tracking Down How Many (Or How Few) People Actively Use Google+ · · Score: 1

    If you want comments about what Facebook does, go to the story about Facebook. This is about 'G-' (that is far more appropriate). I went through all the rigmarole to delete and clear my Facebook profile many years ago and had to do so because even a never used one complains and demands to be monitored. So yeah, Facebook sucks big time for many reasons, now what exactly does that to do with 'G-' and the changes it needs to make to become more usable and popular and actually be 'G+' rather than 'G-' ;P.

  9. Re:I'm not an expert on arithmetic, but... on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    I offer proof that 5 is bigger than 15, after all is not one fifth bigger than one fifteenth, see the intellectuals always trying to twist stuff around ;P.

    Now that is the exact equal of the argument between weather when it snows and global climate and they have repeatedly, seriously argued it. I know it would have been funnier if I just did the first paragraph but I just couldn't bring myself to do it ;(.

  10. Re:Homeland Security? Everyone is a terrorist on Silk Road 2.0 Deputy Arrested · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No plea bargain, we want the trial every single time. Don't care how much it costs, we want the evidence submitted for public review, we want investigatory procedure to be shown as valid, we want the accused to have their day in court, we want a fair trial where the government proves it's case. Not once but every single time because that is justice being seen to be observed. We do not want justice based upon extortion, we do not want justice based upon accusation and torture until you confess, we do not want guilty please with small sentences under threat of huge sentences that is not justice, that is a blatant corruption, why because greedy shit heads want cheaper injustice for the majority poor (guilty until you can spend enough to prove you are innocent) whilst they themselves get their own version of injustice for the rich (they are guilty of nothing just suffering from affluenza and that apparently is also our fault for letting the get so rich in the first place).

  11. Re:Another use of Crypto-coin - as gift cards on Jim Blasko Explains 'Unbreakable Coin' (Video 2 of 2) · · Score: 0

    Who cares about the crypto behind the currency, the only thing I care about with regard to a currency are what primary resources back that currency. The value of the land, the value of agriculture, the value of mines, the value of aquatic resources, the value of the economy backing the currency, the stability of the government that defines the value of that currency and their ability to protect the value of that currency. Those things will define how stable that currency is and whether or not you should bet you life on it because make no mistake that is exactly what you are doing you are betting your life upon the value of a currency. You life made up of food you need to buy, a place to live, the clothes you wear and of course payment for medical and dental services, lose the ability to pay for those and like as not you will die miserably and that is the gamble you are choosing to make. This is of course the reason why ponzi currencies should be banned because they are an unreasonable gamble for the public to take and like as not they will being taken by the first rank of currency grinders, those ripping off the gullible late comers, just like your typical ponzi scheme.

  12. Re:Google Plus Defined Itself As a Hazard on Tracking Down How Many (Or How Few) People Actively Use Google+ · · Score: 1

    Well if Google finally manages to smarten up they will create a two level profile and public profile and a private profile. They can even go the popular Linux route where from the user perspective the private profile looks substantially different like the typical Linux root layout and the public profile with it's anonymising user name looks more social and interactive. Instead they made this idea as purposefully awkward as possible. So two linked but completely separate profiles a private and a public profile (you should log out from one to log into and access the other), with clear distinctions between them and limits of activities that each can carry out to limit mistakes made by people. The Googlites of course are renown for having developed an echo chamber for discussing ideas, where they only listen to themselves.

  13. Re:WHO forced them? on Iran Forced To Cancel Its Space Program · · Score: 1

    Not least of which is climate change and a growing global movement to cut fossil fuel burning. Catch with fossil fuel corporations is the value is not just derived from how much money they make each year but the value of the assets they hold underground that were to used to produce the product they sell for decades to come. So not just this years value but value going forward decades ahead. When the likelihood of being able to sell that product 10 to 50 years from now diminishes so does the value of the product in the ground and it pretty much drops to zero. So sell as much as you can, for as long as you can and drive all other competitors out of the market because you are only ever going to be able to sell a portion of what you have and how big a portion will depend upon how many players are left in the market (please ignore the US fossil fuel investment black hole, does not exist, please go back to sleep, baa baa baa). So not so much Iran and Russia but very much fracking and tar sands. So how is that pipeline going, perhaps instead of oil you can pump something that is likely to become far more valuable, fresh potable water.

    Besides independent space programs are always tough, Iran would be far better off contributing to and sharing a space program with another country, like Russia or China or both.

    Let's not ignore of course the propaganda elements of the story, Iran has nuclear weapons and intends to use them, uh huh, this story brought to you by your friends in the military industrial complex, that help themselves to your wallet and your children, it's future canon fodder in the wars it starts. Never forget Iraq has proven the best way to prop up oil prices is to declare war on countries producing oil and stop them producing or selling it.

  14. Re: betteridge's law of headlines on Windows 10: Can Microsoft Get It Right This Time? · · Score: 1

    So tell us, when we 'can' get updates for Android how much does it cost. Due they do major alterations to the graphical user interface, no jut tweaks of appearance and content but how they actually function. Do they break user conventions for search, file management, user application control or do they keep those relatively uniform. Do they provide easy choice in layout and interfaces or do they force one on everyone and actively block old preferred methods because they have idiotic ulterior motives and screw the customer. M$ always big on promises but very poor on delivery. Isn't high time for M$ to offer free upgrades for crappy versions, ME VISTA and 8 or should it just sit back and say sucker when it comes to selling the fix to their blunders.

  15. Re:Holy Carp! on Drug Company CEO Blames Drug Industry For Increased Drug Resistance · · Score: 1

    The is a logical conclusion for the the information given. However you are still creating a localised, open air, bacterial laboratory, not a small one but relatively large consider the length of the water way until it reaches a river and discharges the antibiotics to be diluted along with the rest of the bacteriological experiment. So still an extraordinarily bad idea. So a waning that all pharmaceutical corporations should recycle all manufacturing use water and not discharge any at all to the environment.

  16. Re:I'm surprised we aren't hearing more from the b on Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications · · Score: 1

    You don't get it, not my problem and they are attempting to force it to become my problem, just like the clothing issues, just like the leg irons and 'hmm' just like forcing people to strip and groping them because maybe might be. You get the warrant and you resolve the issues, that what you are paid to do. You do not attempt to force everyone else to make life easier for you. Seriously, email counts post incident or is this all about turning our society into a panopticon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... where the fear of being under observation is used by government to control the population. Tough, do it the hard way, get a warrant, wait for the target to leave and make adjustments to their hardware. Mobile phones, well, we already know exactly how you can tweak the configuration of those device to ensure information is only pretended to be encrypted. So no, this is another power grab over the whole of society which will be used to disrupt the proper functioning of the democratic process, the ability of the majority of the people to communicate in privacy, whether it be about crappy employers or crappy government or crappy investigatory agencies free of threat of ramifications for doing so. What is your organisation's name the Stasi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... because that is exactly what you are turning it into, all to make you life easier, that is not what you are paid for.

  17. Re: Did Congress pass a law? on Cuba's Pending Tech Revolution · · Score: 0

    Hmm, I seem to remember one US capital that is outside that legal requirement and when they wanted to legalise MJ the Republican led congress and senate sought to block it. It is pretty obvious Uncle Tom Obama the Choom gang coward only seeks to do many things when he is sure the Republicans will be able to block it, so nothing more than PR=B$ to try to keep gullible voters on side. So lets push net neutrality when they are sure that Republicans can block it. Next up it will be universal health care, whoops, the Republicans will block that too. The maverick Mcain was infamous for that only voting against legislation that he knew would win because he wanted to play at being the maverick for his gullible electorate. Even Fox not-News attacks are so laughable that it should be obvious by now they are just a masquerade that Obama can hide his corporate controlled conservatism behind. As for Guantanamo Bay exactly how big a bag of dicks does the US have to be to continue to force that upon the Cubans under threat of annihilation.

  18. Re:Glad were stopping the evil socialists on Republican Bill Aims To Thwart the FCC's Leaning Towards Title II · · Score: 1

    Dude don't be a lying Republican, right there in the fucking story you linked to "He won re-election Tuesday as an independent" in bold yet, yeah I sure you fucking missed it by accident. Just like the daily mail did itself when they left the browser tab description a "Virginia Democrat Joseph Morrison". which is owned by the Yattendon Group run by the Iliffe Family, staunch pseudo conservatives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... (so even worse royalists). Should he be prosecuted, of course, especially as it also an abuse of labour, why was he still able to run, well that is a broken US political system, so fix it. Why did people vote for him when he has emphatically proven he can not be trusted, what can the rest of the world say but Americans pay far to much attention to PR=B$ commercials and have become as ignorant as the commercials they obey. The rest of the democratic world looks on stunned at the public behaviour of American politicians, from hanging with Arabs like Saudi Arabia that are attacking them to partying with paedophiles and royalty to publicly supporting other countries like Israel ahead of their own country. Thanks to American exceptionalism, America is the double speak capital of the world.

  19. Re:Leak-value is worthless on NSA Prepares For Future Techno-Battles By Plotting Network Takedowns · · Score: 1

    Sorry but it crossed the line. Everyone with half a brain about computer and network security knows that is order to prepare to break another countries network system security you must prepare for it before had by specifically breaking a countries network and system security, an act of war. As for the five eyes, why they fuck would they trust each other based upon they way they behave. Based upon those repeated patterns of behaviour the last people you would trust would be the other members of the five eyes. Try and leave and everyone knows exactly what will happen, their democracy will be ruthlessly attacked and brought back into line. Five eyes, hmm, bullshit, more like one Cyclops and four blind mice with canes not seeing the reality of how they are selling out their countries to be nothing more than owned, controlled and exploited vassal states with their citizens being 2nd class humans still better than the rest of the world but worse off than the Cyclops own abused population (one eyed, oh so appropriate).

  20. Re:Sometimes, I don't understand you guys on Elon Musk's Proposed Internet-by-Satellite System Could Link With Mars Colonies · · Score: 1

    To use the infamous slashdot car analogy, that is like saying we need another set of roads in case the roads fail or as happens now in the US bridges collapse. Fibre optic is more that one route, just like roads so it can work around failures, it just slows down as concentrated traffic clogs remaining routes. Better to make a solid investment in fibre optic and build high performance, high reliability network, rather than fitter away capital on multiple poorly executed solutions. Those satellites will be taken out by a major solar flare one day, it is just a matter of when and not just once but repeatedly. So not only is space big but it is pretty harsh. I did not mention impacts because of course they are likely only to take out a few at a time rather than everything on that side of the world at that time in the case of a major solar flare. A well designed, high reliability global fibre optic solution is the only sensible choice at this time.

  21. Re:2nd/3rd generation of immigrants are IMMIGRANTS on European Countries Seek Sweeping New Powers To Curb Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Kicked out to where exactly? It could be said that your abusive system turned them into criminals so why should other countries be forced to receive them. You created them, your problem, especially 2nd generation on. Once you accept them, they are yours and they become within your society is what you turned them into to, they are you.

    Let's just focus upon how you let them in in the first place and learn to accept the consequences of that. Why not just include psychological testing as part of the immigrant or refugee process but once you accept them, they are yours and just as much you as you are. I can understand countries barring those diagnosed as psychopaths and narcissists and that includes tourists, it just makes sense.

    Keep in mind you can not just kick them out, unless you mean by that execute them. You must actually send them somewhere and they must be willing to accept them. What do you do when the intended recipient country just says no, you got them, your problem, deal with it.

  22. Re:Time to abandon normal phones? on FCC May Permit Robocalls To Cell Phones -- If They Are Calling a Wrong Number · · Score: 2

    I seriously had no idea that was going on it the US. The idea that the recipient should pay for a communication initiated by someone else is ludicrous and any attempt by any organisation that allows others to involuntarily force costs upon you is horrendous. I would not touch a mobile phone upon that basis or at the very least turn off network connection when I am specifically not using the phone to initiate calls. So I gather that in the US there is an Android app that blocks all incoming calls and texts that are not on a user defined white list, you do not want the call so why the hell should you pay for it. Seriously there just has to be, else you guys are really suckers and what the FCC is intending, is plainly a criminal conspiracy with corporations to rip off the public. I'll bet the corporate discounts for their calls means they pay less when initiating a call than you in the US do when receiving it, damn.

  23. Re:Riiiiight. on Analysis Suggests Solar System Contains Massive Trans-Neptunian Objects · · Score: 2

    You left out solar wind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which from the moment of stellar ignition creates a wave which concentrates the dust cloud promoting coalescence into gravitational masses and those masses create turbulence within that dust cloud promoting the formation of comets. So the inner model is planets cores have formed prior to stellar ignition and upon ignition those cores get their final coat. Planets that do not fit that model are shaped by catastrophic impact of one form or another, a very socially uncomfortable viewpoint.

  24. Re:The RIver of Myths on What Africa Really Needs To Fight Ebola · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Humanity is bound to two types of evolution individual and social evolution. Social evolution allows all those individuals to achieve far more as a group than they could ever achieve individually. So what really does happen when you attempt to force social evolution upon people who have not adapted to it. Individually a process of selection must occur that allows adaptation to social evolution a conjoined process. So the harshest question of all must be asked, should regions be required to solve some of the problems they create themselves in order to allow effective social evolution.

    Taking a more detached perspective, how would say aliens view aiding humanity as it resolves the problems that humanity itself creates. Would they isolate them and allow them to resolve those issue and only prevent it from spreading. So what is the correct answer, do nothing or just provide the knowledge and let them do it and isolate them until they do (succeed or fail) or attempt to do it for them and force solutions on them (treat whole societies like children).

    Attempting to force solutions upon societies that have not adapted to them often creates nothing but conflict. Are we helping or just foolishly fuelling conflict and war. Is foreign aid just something to ease the conscious of the public as we steal the resources off the people we are pretending to aid? Isolationism, who do we isolate ourselves or those regions that fail to develop? Should we force development? Should we allow, wild zones where people can remain 'wild' but are isolated from civilised zones? How much does help end up crippling development rather than supporting it.

    As countries, do we only help because those regions have something we want (suspiciously, it is starting to look very much like that and no amount of PR=B$ will keep it hidden) ?

  25. Re:I'm surprised we aren't hearing more from the b on Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is all down to matters of principle. So lets extend out the argument that encryption obstructs police activity and should be banned. Clothing allows people to hide dangerous items that could threaten the life of police, so let's ban it and require people to be naked at all times so they can not hide dangerous items on their person. People can run from the police and get away, so lets require that everyone must wear leg irons so that they can not run away. It's a great meme, let's add to it.

    It is not the job of the citizen to surrender their liberty and privacy to make it easier for the people they employ to assist those citizens in the upholding of the law. I will not be naked and in chains because it makes it easier for law enforcement to control and abuse me, neither would I accept a leash around my neck or that I require permission from law enforcement before I do anything at all.

    So fuck the autocrats, we 'EMPLOY' them to make out lives better not so they can fucking control them, be that politicians or police officers. Seriously 'What The Fuck' is going on?