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  1. Re:I'd say the results are pretty obvious... on The First Open Ranking of the World Wide Web Is Available · · Score: 1

    More likely, with sufficient money, simply gaming the system with thousands even tens of thousands of bogus web sites all linking back to the advertising revenue targeted web site.

    What realistic rating get them from accurately identified people, with specific reviews, one set of review per person. The rest is just bullshot programming and cake.

  2. Re:Um... on Government Secrecy Spurs $4 Million Lawsuit Over Simple 'No Fly' List Error · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are ignoring the real reason for the high cost of defending a mistake, the retention of that power to attack others by a simple flick of the pen. That's the reality of what it was all about, for what ever personal reasons the power of political appointees to destroy the lives of other people and the request of the political party apparatus, be that from within the political party or from significant campaign donors. Keep in mind there was the stated intention of extending to all forms of transport and if you think suspending drivers licences was in there as well for the future, you are quite foolish.

    So it was all down to retaining the power at the flick of a pen to effectively destroy a persons life outside of the purview of the courts and they fought tooth and nail to protect it and they still have not given up on it.

  3. Not really, for an incompetent consultant to survive and gull money from customer after customer, their gift of the gab must be pretty good and they know exactly how to blame other people for each and every mistake the consultant makes. Having been through this, the best bet is to collect evidence and document failures and wait until the customer approaches you with suspicions about the qualities of the consultant, at this time present the evidence of failures you have documented and allow the customer to make their decision. If you attempt to contact the client with regard to the skills of the consultant prior to the customer bringing up the subject you will the customer will be baffled by a well developed defence patois, to shift faults and suspicions back to you ie how else do you think bad consultants manage to stay in business.

  4. Re:States Rights on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    It is not there prerogative to infringe upon constitutional rights. Freedom of religion is also freedom from religion. The state does not have the right to force religion upon anyone and that includes censorship of information for one particular religion purposes. Especially taking into account when that censorship contradicts the statements made by a particularly large segment of that religion itself, in this case being the Roman Catholic Church as part of Christianity, whereby the Roman Catholic Church has accepted evolution all be it that do so upon the basis that evolution is their Gods creation (still a damn site smarter than dumb evangelist who do not understand evolution claiming their god is a ignorant as they are).

  5. Re:This isn't the best way to handle the problem on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 1

    More realistically how many of those laser "strikes" have resulted in a pilot being blinded and then crashing the plane. So what is the hype really about? Likely getting in a legal first strike against hobbyist high powered lasers.

    Obviously it would be far more sensible to limit the power of domestically available lasers and, to fix domestic lasers to a single colour frequency which can then be blocked.

    Reality is, the exact same affect can be achieved with high powered spot lights or even with car high beams (for all of those who have experienced that exact affect). So why wasn't there a $10,000 fine for driving with high beams on so as to cause a dangerous distraction to other drivers. Hmm, is the government going for yet another terrorist stretch, buy a laser and automatically become a suspected terrorist.

  6. Re:what if... on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? · · Score: 1

    The bricklayer is a contractor not a employee. So you tell the boss that if he wants you to fix the bugs in your own time to hand over the contract to you and you'll take all the profits and the boss, well, there is no need for them. The difference is between being an employee and a contractor, the difference between charging for a finished product including bug fixing and charging for coding work. In the example case taking the risk of wearing a brick when telling a bricklayer that a standing well built wall is not good enough and that they must knock it all down and replace all the materials at their own expense and rebuild the wall, because a couple of the bricks are wrong. Seriously I would pause and think deeply before telling a bricklayer that, I been out there in the hot sun laying bricks, mixing the mortar and you don't want to fuck around with a person holding a brick and a full sized bricklayers trowel with which bricklayers can readily cut a brick in half with one quick stroke. Remind you boss there is a world of difference between coding and laying bricks and he is seriously delusion if he thinks he can get away with instructing bricklayers in so whimsical a fashion.

  7. Re:That's why on The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US · · Score: 2

    An interesting evolutionary point, did the death cap evolve as toxic because it was so tasty, that only the toxic variety survived as the rest where eaten. In commercial terms would the death cap be an ideal mushroom to grow and selectively breed to eliminate the toxicity, being one of the tastiest varieties.

  8. Re:Cost on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 1

    They are in fact a fairly static group. The 1% of the population who are psychopaths also are those most represented in the 1% (excluding that portion of the 1% that represent 15% of the prison population) who see their economic value as being far above the social value of the remaining 99%, it is psychopathic, there is a root cause to the problem a profound genetic parasitical distinction.

  9. Re:change you can believe in! on Death By Metadata: The NSA's Secret Role In the US Drone Strike Program · · Score: 1

    More like Reagan 5.0. Puppets of US corporate mass media. Now who obeys who, does corporate mass media live in abeyance to the US government or are they both just obeying the same corporate masters which is why their message aligns. Kill for resources, kill for profits, people are of no value unless they can be controlled and exploited.

  10. Re:Cost on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have you not woken up to reality yet. A countries economic growth does not count for shit if only the top 1% get the benefit whilst the rest get screwed. Want to see a country grow, that only happens when the middle class economic wealth growths, they are the real driver, the real circulator of wealth. The top 1% are just parasites and like parasites they starve out the rest of the system so they grow ever more bloated.

    The middle class got screwed and they generated the numbers when it came to private flying, hence the massive drop. The top 1% want 99% poor, no middle class because the middle class are the power and the greatest threat to the psychopathic dominance of the 1%, who are conspiring to starve the middle class out of existence and have done so for the last thirty years.

  11. Re:First Things First on Non-Coders As the Face of the Learn-to-Code Movements · · Score: 1

    If you are talking about Lottie Dexter than this might help explain things http://politicalscrapbook.net/.... So if your questions is who the hell is she fucking to get this job the answer is someone closely involved with Iain Duncan Smithâ(TM)s thinktank the Centre for Social Justice (yes, it is a PR=B$ double speak title).

  12. Re:Definitely Small Claims and/or BBB. on Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC · · Score: 1

    It is readily understandable why Dell would break warranty on the speaker. They can not bill the supplier and, the high labour cost to dis-assemble the laptop, insert speaker and reassemble laptop. Who do you think pays for the bulk of Dell warranty claims, Dell or the part supplier? How do you think the ability of Dell to shift the cost of a warranty repair affects their willingness to honour the warranty?

  13. Re:This is what I HATE! Misunderstood by no-coders on Non-Coders As the Face of the Learn-to-Code Movements · · Score: 0

    The inherent problem with software coding is it is not logical but bound purely by the internal rules of software language used, when the internal rules of software languages diverge from simple logical rules taught in other aspects of learning, it really confuses a lot people who have difficulty reorganising their logic around the internal rules of a software language. There are plenty of reason why this happens, in speeding up code productivity and not having to rewrite the wheel every time you use one or how coding has to diverge from logical rules in other learning systems if you want to make compact to read and write code.

    This all speaks of the frustration of individuals who have bought software packages telling them they would make great web sites in a hour and well it being nothing but marketing. Software language faces three mutually incompatible conflictions, compact vs literally understandable vs rewriting the same algorithms over and over again and the comprises made with them when creating a language do profoundly break logic.

  14. Re:Oh, come on. on A Corporate War Against a Scientist, and How He Fought Back · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How much did the habit of fining the shareholders of a company for the criminal actions of the companies executives do to prevent the British Petroleum disaster in the gulf? You can bet your bottom dollar if they started sending corporate executives to jail for life when their decisions illegally kill people a whole bunch of disasters would be avoided. Time to stop fining the shareholders and start holding the psychopathic killer executives responsible for their actions.

  15. Re:It is far, far better ... on Big Pharma Presses US To Quash Cheap Drug Production In India · · Score: 1

    So the obvious counter to this, is all pharmaceutical research goes government and public funded. Successful drugs are then open to production by all facilities with licences to produce pharmaceuticals. Skipping all the 1000% profit margins, ludicrous luxury holidays for doctors, scams to sell patented drugs and all the other psychopathy currently associated with the industry.

  16. Re:I thought this was already perfected on Military Electronics That Shatter Into Dust On Command · · Score: 1

    Given recent light of the NSAs behaviour, this whole thing stinks of having nothing to do with protect technology deployed in the field and everything to do with crippling other countries infrastructure at the press of a button. It is becoming pretty obvious in you get you computer or software essential infrastructure out of the US then you are a bloody idiot, they can not be trusted in any way shape or form and it is pretty obvious they are fully intent on doing far worse rather than better.

  17. Re:No, because they are not compatible on Should Nuclear and Renewable Energy Supporters Stop Fighting? · · Score: 1

    You could also incorporate distributed energy storage into the system ie every supply point could incorporate battery storage capable of provide between 24 and 48 hours of average energy demand, including car charging. So the mains power supply balances out battery charging for a near continuous supply whilst those batteries handle peaks and troughs of demand via the release of storage of energy.

  18. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    Take you pick of the whole of the internet Libertarian waffle is everywhere ie citation "see internet" and if your still having trouble https://www.google.com/search?.... Now if I was a Libertarian I would be entitled to charge you for that service as nothing would be for free in Libertarian world and you requested the fee, initiated the contact and did not stipulate any limits on cost, as such it would be my economic free right to charge you what ever I deemed applicable. You have to be careful what you ask for in a Libertarian world and how you ask for it.

  19. Re:Fruit of the poison tree on DEA Presentation Shows How Agency Hides Investigative Methods From Trial Review · · Score: 1

    It is looking more and more like it is not a wiretap nut an illegal global wireless wifi tap. It is starting to look like they have hacked the crap out of wifi and are using hacking wifi access points to tap into hacked smart phones and suck up all the data whenever that wifi hacked phone wanders into a hacked wifi point. The reasoning for doing the initial hack of wifi points and phones because they can and the two leading provisioner of those hacking services Google and Apple, they are the ones giving them an inside run at hacking your phone with a hidden installed app.

  20. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    Nope Libertarians are 100% about economic freedom and 0% about personal freedom. Basically their core is about the right to turn people into property. The teenagers economic philosophy, down right disturbing to say the least.

  21. Re:Coders on HealthCare.gov Can't Handle Appeals of Errors · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The real answer it obvious, it would have been a whole lot simpler to go with universal health care, charge a 1% premium on everyones income and tie it to the existing social security number. Nope, the Uncle Tom dope had to go with stuffing of private insurance company profits and corporate executive bonuses and then those executives still turned around and attacked the idiot because the crazy complicated scheme eliminated junk policies (ones that charged fees but basically provided zero coverage). Insurance companies wanted compulsory junk policies for the poor, that's where a big chunk of their profits come from, those junk policies for the poor in reality were actually subsidising actual full health insurance policies for the rich.

  22. Re:All about the money on Facebook Estimates Around 10% of Accounts Are Fake · · Score: 1

    I wonder if that 10% counted as 'fake' include or exclude multiple PR=B$ accounts or are they counted as real.

    The answer has always been, force a real identity to open the account but allow the account to publicly operate under as an avatar identity as well as the real identity and allow the user to choose which they are using but for safeties sake default to the avatar.

  23. Re:Should Everybody Learn Calculus? on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    Should everyone learn to code, sure, now pick a language. That is the real problem a lack of a universal learning language. Obviously first up it has to be free and open source or it will fail, just as a copyrighted language would fail. Imagine paying a licence fee to speak. So the big challenge is to pick a universal coding language. So far Ruby https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ seems to be doing a slow but sure climb to the top.

  24. Re:Secret meetings: on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Far more likely is was released on purpose because it is an incredibly bad idea. Any system to shut every car by every police force across the globe will absolutely positively e hacked before it is even distributed, allowing criminals to shut down peoples cars across the globe. So driving on unlit back country roads would become incredibly dangerous. Driving in the wee hours of the morning with out much traffic about, would become incredibly dangerous. Peak hour mega traffic jams would become routine. Payments to have the system stripped from the cars of criminals would become some routine, that they would become very cheap. I bet those same idiots would considering adding it to aircraft.

  25. Re:Texas Barely Registers on Map of Publicly-Funded Creationism Teaching · · Score: 1

    ?, seriously, ?. I targeted no religion, no specific religious works and no practitioner there of. What I targeted was religions generally operating outside the limits of existing laws. I also did not promote science over religion, I did not even mention science.

    Hmm, guilty conscience bothering you much? You appeared to have subconsciously attached you're guilt to my words even when my words mentioned nothing of any specific actions, they just simply must have reflected what was bound to your own disturbed conscience.