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  1. Re:I try to do the right thing on Agbogbloshie: The World's Largest e-Waste Dump · · Score: 4, Informative

    The United States International Trade Commission, "the agency determines the impact of imports on U.S. industries", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U..., when they asked companies for what they thought for marketing purpose how much waste they dump in foreign markets, those companies replied we do not dump waste, we buy waste disposal services at world competitive rates and what those waste disposal services according to the paper work they receive, they dispose of it according to law in the countries where it is dumped 'er' recycled.

    When you sell it to a disposal company and they dump it in foreign markets you are dumping it in foreign market forget the PR=B$ especially from a government department that is just chock a block full of political appointees and is lead around by the nose by US corporate political campaign donors. From them you will get the "truth" but most definitely not the truth.

  2. Re:Actually it won't help. on Google Ordered To Remove Anti-Islamic Film From YouTube · · Score: 0

    More important the death threats rarely have much to do with what they claim to be about and every thing to do with the power of the group issuing those threats. The threats are meaningless unless there is belief in extreme violence of the group and the ability to carry out those threats. As for being a quisling and cowering to those threats, well, that just places the rest of us a risk. The Muhammed as portrayed in the religious fantasy that is the Koran was a sick paedophile goes without question, so screw them and screw their threats. A religion of the sword will die by the sword and perhaps more than just a bit of fire, want to use the Koran at your next barbecue than go ahead and do so just make sure you but that copy and do not steal it from someone else.

  3. Re:Hmmm... on IE Vulnerability Exposing Banking Logins, Spreading Rapidly · · Score: 1

    I would expect that an in the wild browser exploit that targets login credentials, including financial institution credentials would be pretty damn high public notification list of all news sources not just slashdot. In fact I am damn surprised that this information is not being presented on mass media sources. Isn't it disgusting how advertising dollars can put people at risk because PR=B$ experts (drips under pressure) well don't give a fuck about anything but their own profits regards of the harm caused by their companies actions.

  4. Re:Sure on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What people are ignoring here is what actually constitutes a search and what the police are allowed to do in conducting the search. There should be a huge difference between a consent search and a warrant against consent search.

    With regard to a consent search, the property own at all times should be allowed to limit and control the extent of the search and the manner in which it is conducted and that consent can be withdrawn at any time by the property owner. Also in regards to a consent search the police can not direct the property owner to behave in any particular matter, nor remain in any particular location nor can they restrain them. With regard to a consent search the property owner should be in complete control of the search at all times.

  5. Re:This is about pay - again. on Will Peggy the Programmer Be the New Rosie the Riveter? · · Score: 1

    How about if you discriminate based upon psychological preference. It seems the only measures are capability to do the job and the minimum amount of remuneration required to achieve the necessary numbers. The only human values being measured seems to be intellect and greed, no wonder programs are put on market so full of bugs and missing features.

    How about defining the appropriate intellectual and psychological profile and testing for those and selecting those who will be the happiest in the job and capable of performing it in a reasonable manner and not necessarily for the lowest possible remuneration but reasonable remuneration based upon say a reasonable proportion of the maximum salary paid at a company and the profits generated by those efforts.

  6. Re: Vive le Galt! on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    Well, how about we use modern technology and brain wave measuring techniques to create psychopath and narcissist free zones and genetics to ensure no more are produced and see what happens. Perhaps utopia is just as simple as that, eliminate those who would parasite and disrupt any society they are a part of, regardless of the 'ism'.

  7. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    It is also a contractual thing. You advertise your business, people divert from the course to attend you business in preference to other locations, a contractual obligation has been established based upon the advertisement and the cost inherent with visiting the business. When you get there business is refused the contact abrogated with no recompense for the attending customer upon arbitrary 'religous' reason ie the state is attempting to claim arbitrary indefinite religious beliefs of no definable duration take precedence over contract law and constitutional rights of all people being equal.

    Consider the time duration of being a homosexual, is a person homosexual all the time or factually only homosexual when they are committing a homosexual sexual act that does not necessarily result in orgasm but does involve mutual interaction with their same sex genitalia. Are people when not engaged in sexual activity for that time (by far the majority of time) definitively asexual as they are not engaging in sexual activity. The limit must of course be actual activity involved in direct genital contact, else a grandfather kissing and hugging their grandson becomes a homosexual act, an Aunt hugging her niece becomes a homosexual act because their breasts are pressed together.

    That does not even touch attempt to prove a belief in court because their in no time limit to define an extent of that belief and attempting to bring it into contract laws means, "I believe", "I don't believe", "Changed my mind again I believe", "Just kidding, I don't believe", "Believe don't belief fuck you my contractual obligation is meaningless because I believe it to be so" now becomes contractually legal in that state. The smallest nobody can now challenge the largest corporations contract based upon the claimed religious belief in being able to break a contract because the corporation was conducting an activity that it did not advertise and the person was unaware of and has a religious opposition to it ie contract void.

  8. Re:If Comcast were Exxon on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    Reality is a sound moral sane society should focus on 'COSTS' for the majority not 'PROFITS' for the minority. The psychopathic viewpoint is how much proft can be extorted out of broadband, the sane viewpoint is how cost efficient it can be for the majority so as to benefit the whole of society. They will not target downloaders they will target uploaders, basically unlimited download but with severe caps on uploading and major costs to increase upload capacity, this silencing the majority and gaining control of broadband.

    They of course need monopolies to force all the cost on uploaders but their intent is to force bills of tens even hundreds of thousands of dollars on uploaders. It will be cheaper to personally deliver content than to use broadband to achieve the same. Of course psychopathic mentality means not all will pay the same rate, put up a message they don't like and expect you rates to skyrocket. Insatiable greed means of course they will still target downloaders but uploaders are the first target as their wish is to turn the internet into a 24/7/365 compulsory propaganda machine.

  9. Re:How can the situation be improved? on Why Is US Broadband So Slow? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It wont stop the incumbents from plotting and scheming to fuck it up. Look at Australia's experience, designed and underway and national NBN fibre to the home network. A change of government blatantly sponsored by the News Corporation the owners of Fox not-News and it gets scrapped with nothing but bullshit and PR=B$ left over about vague promises and a scam to sell the taxpayers the worthless rotting copper left in the ground for billions of dollars. Now matter what get's done, they will plot and scheme and lobby to undo it. They want their 1980s media model back where they had total control and you had to pay to be heard.

  10. Re:This is true on Internet Shutdown Adds To Venezuela's Woes · · Score: 1

    Do you not realise this is exactly what the rich do to gain control over everything. What good are full shelves in only a minority can afford them. What should a country be something that only serves the minority driven by economics or something that serves the majority. Don't ever think that psychopathic minority will ever stop plotting scheming or manipulating to gain total control the ability to lord it over the minority. That is exactly what they are paying the US government to do. They pay those campaign contributions to create a government that will do their destructive bidding across the globe not just in the US and create chaos where ever they touch, in the end if they can not control it they will attempt to leave it in chaos whilst emptying the US treasury into their pockets.

    Will they succeed in taking over Venezuela, pretty obviously no but they want stop them from trying or leaving it in a self destructive civil war. So why the lack of patience why no long term view because the rich and greedy want their money and power now, fuck future generations, as far as the current rank of psychopaths are concerned if future generations are stuck with a burnt out hulk of planet so the fuck what.

  11. Re:Change on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: 1

    Even worse from the M$ PR=B$ perspective those older customers who had very bad direct customer experiences with M$ should basically shut up and die because their opinions are worthless, youch. Problem is that is exactly what M$ problem has always been, don't listen to the customer only play lip service, blame the customer it's their fault, deny bugs, faults, poor design claim complaining customers are only a minority. Now they are just an elderly minority, so all you young customer, rebel against those old fossils, show them you know the right why the M$ way, become a microsoftie and if your gullible enough to buy into that PR=B$ your gullible enough to start renting your software and locking all your data to that one rented proprietary format. (now come the M$ complaints from the marketdroid trolls).

    One thing I had noticed about computer geeks and nerds there is no age limit, not age barrier, they start at a very early age and keep going pretty much to the last heart attack (from the lack of exercise) driven breath and the share it at all ages. Something of course the business and marketing, marketdroid trolls being very ageist, sexist and politically biased completely miss (very much libertarian right, if a lie sells what's wrong, fit for purpose is just a marketing term to them, as is reliability, quality and warranty).

  12. Re:Tomorrow's News on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    The NSA still needs to be a threatening agency but the reality is they should be basically be the honey pot kingdom, heh, heh. Basically a national network of honey pots scattered far and wide across the whole network, all government agencies, most financial institution and voluntary private networks. Not so funny when you view it as a well concealed reactive cyber-minefield. Any hacks across a network are always repeated, hence detect attack, record all data, confirm attack and pass of to the appropriate agency whether to tackle domestic or foreign threats. Issue warrants, provide misinformation (the kind of information those hackers are after), obtain evidence and then prosecute. Best misinformation to provide valid but monitored credit card details. When they are used instead of delivery the requested item, deliver the correct packaging with a geo-location and tracking device and follow it home. Should the card be used in person immediate notification to the authorities for immediate arrest. All local authority cyber-problems should be handed off the NSA for investigation in association with those local authorities with the NSA providing technical expertise.

    Also the should monitor the network and inform people including the general public of security flaws in their system (a lot of this can be automated, especially the general public kind of security flaws). The public can be made much more aware of these actvivities via their ISP and local authorities. Basically the NSA has no real business outside of securing the network and putting them on the offensive was grossly offensive and stupid. Something only a real ignorant jackass riding upon the own ego would do, hell, that kind of moron would be stupid enough to turn his desk into some kind of idiotic starhship captains chair and that should have been a real warning about his real intentions, where he can sit in command of everything and I mean everything.

  13. Re:Maybe they learned on Iran's Hacking of US Navy 'Extensive,' Repairs Took $10M and 4 Months · · Score: 2, Informative

    Far more likely the US congress running around all the time threatening to kill millions of Iranians to keep Israeli campaign donors happy has motivated a lot of high order Iranian thinkers to work together to thumb their noses at the US dogs of war.

    Real reason why the failure, US computer security services were far too busy attacking everyone else, purposefully leaving holes in the system and in some super crazily deranged false flag attack creating new ones for others to exploit which is OK so long as they can also exploit them (seriously WTF). Want security in the US then completely separate cybersecuirty defence from offence and remind defensive system that they should consider offensive systems as the enemy and if they catch them operating within domestic territory they should be arrested and prosecuted.

    Until then expect to routinely fail on the defensive side because it is harder and there is more opportunity for promotion impacting failure (success is the expected norm, failure is punished). On the attack side of course failure is completely ignored (failure is the norm, success in rewarded). Not to forget that success on the attack side requires your targets to fail. I'm sure anyone with half a brain can see the problem this creates, well, perhaps not your typical US politician or military type. Hint, you create a system where attack is promoted and those within the system prefer the attack side because that's where the promotions are and defence is where the losers end up because success for them is never rewarded but failure is a guaranteed career killer (which is why you separate them). Attack will also hide information from defence to protect it so they can use it, whilst demanding all information from defence in order to create new attacks and weakening defence.

  14. Re:Makes no sense. on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    Meh, the answer is all too easy, Have a trigger happy armed security guard on board. When someone takes out a camera and attempts to use it, the security guard shoots them and then tosses the body out onto the street, after of course have relieved the deceased of their valuables, it's all about profits after all ;D.

  15. Re:Cloud formation albedo on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: 2

    More importantly with clouds, they do not just represent a change of moisture within then atmosphere but a change of ability due to temperature change of that atmosphere to hold that moisture without condensation occurring and clouds forming. So the fallacy is that with higher temperatures there will be more clouds, false, the truth is with higher temperatures more water will be held within the atmosphere, whether clouds form or do not form will be subject to local weather conditions and geography, nothing to do with planetary warming.

    In fact the only conditions where you can claim more clouds will categorically be formed upon a planetary basis is under catastrophic cooling, cause by mass coincidental tectonic affects or astronomical affects like impact or dust from passing bodies. We of course can still achieve it with nuclear winter, we are not free of that calamity yet.

  16. Re:But... on Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind in all this, the camera is just proof of what you saw and likely remembered. It's not like goggle glass is seeing something you didn't see or recording something you couldn't remember. Of course once any like system becomes more universal, the reality of sorting through the petabytes of data generated because quite difficult and in reality just becomes an individuals proof of events especially when dealing with salespersons, government agencies, police and of course passing unruly strangers, acquaintances and even relatives.

    The only real thing about monitoring people is we all know it should be from the top down rather than the bottom up. Those with the greatest responsibilities and the greatest impact should be monitored well before those with the least responsibilities and the least impact ie if Darth Cheney was monitored there would have been no war in Iraq and hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive today. Of course as we all know exposure of the NSA has very much proven that the monitoring is from the bottom up, with the top quite readily able to hide their criminal actions, whilst attempting to gain information on the bottom with a view to extortion. Failure to comply or change behaviour results in the release of the data to law enforcement where you are brutally arrested (injuries ranging from minor to death) and pushed into the trial system where you a threatened with grossly exaggerated crimes and extended abusive prison sentences with homosexual rape alluded too or you plead guilty to circumstantial evidence and are given an arbitrary punishment in order to steal your rights and silence you.

  17. Re: riiiight on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 1

    What is going on with double speak nowadays it seems to be all the rage. PR firms have fallen in love with, bullshit baffles brains, empty rhetoric that sounds like something until someone with half a brain sits down an analyses it for it's blatant deceits and flaws.

    I get the feeling they don't give a crap whether we believe it or not, they will just scream it out from every possible venue, every possible outlet 24/7 to simply drown out opposing forces. They know it's bullshit, they know we know it's bullshit, they don't care, it just noise to drown out dissenting voices and when they have killed net neutrality they'll do more than just drown out dissenting voices they will silence them by charging fees in excess of what those dissenting voices can pay.

  18. Re:Is Snowden being tried? on Edward Snowden's Lawyer Claims Harassment From Heathrow Border Agent · · Score: 1

    Oh No, not another desperate narcissist frothing at the mouth and keyboard to gain publicity and the money they are after. A political switcher from way back, conservative, liberal and back to conservative where ever she thought she could gain the greatest advantage and sell more of her apparently "you are not good enough" books to impressionable teenage girls. Another political quitter that dumped an elected position when it wasn't making her enough money. Talk about a lame attempt at attention in a grab for the cash.

  19. Re:We're the best country in the world!!! Woo!! on US Plunges To 46th In World Press Freedom Index · · Score: 1

    The corporate boardrooms of the various companies that owned the US media corporations have not only suppressed the press they have turned it into a obfuscation and propaganda machine, a tool of PR=B$ (lies for profit) agencies. Just because the US government is also owned by those same corporate boardrooms and is not directly suppressing the press, does not mean it is occurring. Basically the reason the US press and the US government align so much in their propaganda is because they are both owned by the same masters. You only have to see the way they attack people like Manning and Snowden, that they do truly hate the truth about what they have done, what they are doing and what they intend doing.

    They are losing the propaganda war on the internet and a seeking to get it back, working arduously to block universal broadband, attacking net neutrality and every turn and attempting raise prices as high as possible through monopolies in order to reduce use, targeting uploading more than downloading.

  20. Re:A looping simulation, apparently on Mathematician: Is Our Universe a Simulation? · · Score: 1

    More simply of course, our appreciation of the universe is a simulation within our own minds. Whilst it might be real, our interaction with it will always be a simulation of it based upon our abilities to interpret the non-electric inputs we receive from a biological senses and that would also include the maths with simulate to attempt to understand what is happening.

  21. Re:There is a way to reduce trolling... on Psychologists: Internet Trolls Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic · · Score: 1

    Regardless of what trolls are or are not this research and article have most assuredly done one thing, painted a great big old target on them. Those described behavioural patterns also would be strongly indicative of a willingness to commit crime, hence trolls become likely suspects for committing the associated types of crimes in proximity to their location, they in affect become automatically suspect. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, it is something trolls will have to become extremely careful of, especially those who do commit crimes. A whole bunch of crime investigation agencies all over the world a going to look at this information and start looking for, identifying and tracking trolls with regard to other crimes they might have committed. Trolls had better stop and think before they comment because it will expose them and as far as many investigatory agencies are concerned the evidence is the trolls postings are not as anonymous as they think. The number of trolls is likely to start reducing as they go silent either to hide or as a result of arrest and prosecution for associated activities.

  22. Re:Why is this news? on NSA Ally Spied on US Law Firm · · Score: 1

    Of course with regard to Pine Gap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... being a token joint facility, it's very likely everything was being done by Americans, it's just that the paperwork creates a trail for obfuscation when those Americans paid by the US government and working for the Australian government on behalf of the US government. Any actual Australian government employees were just token players, clearly in all matters beyond the shores of Australia the Australian government simply obeys the 'er' suggestions of the US government.

  23. Re:Lack of empathy on 'The Color Run' Violates Agreement With College Photographer, Then Sues Him · · Score: 1

    If someone asks for your work (pay bloody attention) and you say yes, don't turn around a stipulate new conditions after they use in a manner you had not intended but did not stipulate or limit ie stinks of typical patent trap, just applied to copyright. So yeah, once you here of someone who behaves like that, you simply do not touch them, ever. Who knows what extortionate demands he might make in the future. When you say yes it is your responsibility to clarify, a person with half a brain with have just asked for attribution and taken the free advertising but greed won out.

  24. Of course even worse for the fool, he has now made a name for himself as someone not to touch with a barge pole when it comes to commercial photography. Greed driven stupidity, one lucky chance becomes the end of a career, there is a lesson for everyone here. Oh yes and trying to scam slashdot with the bullshit plea whilst not declaring the original claim really pretty shitty.

  25. Cut Out The Middle Men on Music Industry Is Keeping Streaming Services Unprofitable · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Music streaming services simply need to form an association so they can publish direct and basically cut out the publishers who do nothing but bring junk music to the scene. So direct from artist to music streaming services and skip those shit head, money sucking, politically corrupting, parasites. There is plenty of money there once the middle men parasites are pushed out of the system.