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  1. Re:I wonder if on Lessons From the Healthcare.gov Fiasco · · Score: 1

    Yep and the problem is the system of contracting and privatisation they created. With contractors spending more and more on lawyers to find holes in tenders documents and contracts to ensure they do as little as possible, in as dysfunctional way as possible in order to charge more and more and more to fix it up and thus by corporate law make the maximum amount of profit possible, seriously it is a real surprise when ever any government privatised and contracted computer system works. In house is the only realistic method by which a government computer can succeed. Once it is contracted it is down to the lawyers not the coders and those for profit private lawyers are paid to make it cost more and do less.

  2. Re:A Movie that Gets the Science Right... on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, Nazi Nazi, much ;P.

    Personally the impacts reflected more of a high speed impact within an atmosphere reflecting the rapid heating of the atmosphere at the point of impact generating an explosive affect, rather than a more realistic straight puncturing effect, with only a minimal explosive affect from only a small amount of metal super heated into a gas. With most fragments following along a similar path to the original impacting object.

    It's what we like to do. Want to be part of the cheeto's ADHD crowd, them by all means go to their forums and comment on pseudo celebrity gossip and it's impact upon, hmm, nothing.

  3. Re:Getting me started, man! on Support For NASA Spending Depends On Perception of Size of Space Agency Budget · · Score: 1

    I thought the original tea party people were all about stealing a country away from the people they originally stole it for ie ultra super massive wealth redistribution a whole bloody countries worth. Realistically today's modern conservative can't see anything but their own ego, greed and selfishness. NASA is meaningless to them if they can't earn any money out of it, roads and footpaths on the other side of the block are meaningless because they are not in front of their house and that future generations choke on pollution out of control is meaningless as long as the tea baggers of today can profit on it today.

  4. Re:Short Answer: NONE on RMS: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? · · Score: 1

    Real answer to the question of how much surveillance can a society withstand is defined by whether it is from the top down or the bottom up.

    From the bottom up of course those at the top will keep driving it further and further as long as they can isolate themselves from it. From the top down, well, those at the top will make sure privacy is the single most important right.

    Out job is to force it from the top down. Fuck national security, it is the public's right, the voter's to invade the privacy at the top to the extent that it will properly inform the vote. Every time they keep anything secret from us we lose. Every thing they do, every thing they say, every thing they write, should be made available to the public to ensure come elections the public can vote on the truth.

  5. Re:Ring = Long Building on A Peek At Apple's Planned $5B HQ · · Score: 1

    As a building estimator contract administrator, curving buildings doubles or triples cost dependent upon how strongly you adhere to maintaining a curve rather the segmenting the structure.

  6. Re:Ring = Long Building on A Peek At Apple's Planned $5B HQ · · Score: 1

    However it doesn't feed ego. Really, really, want to throw huge amounts of money away, do curved buildings. It adds levels of complexity to construction and associated cost beyond anything people outside of the construction industry appreciate. Not only does it cost at lot (basically doubling or tripling construction costs) but it is enormous wasteful in internal space utilisation. With sales falling I would wonder why Apple investors would allow this Apple corporate executive ego driven indulgence.

  7. Re:You can buy a computer with Ubuntu preinstalled on Battlefield Director: Linux Only Needs One 'Killer' Game To Explode · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Android is a Linux distribution, there are already hundreds even thousands of game titles building up. All it is down too now is how the Android layer and other Linux distributions come together. Chances are for simplicity, they will simply load the Android layer to play games and for other major applications like office suites load them direct.

    New games are neither here nor there the problem lies with a decades long game library and porting them across and it is looking like the Android layer will be the bridge to that porting of existing games to Linux.

    Linux is making huge inroads into the windows market via Android.

  8. Re:A hack is not just a hack on Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine · · Score: 0

    Then again it is all down to end user laziness. With phones we created our own personal domain names services, associating a phone number with a name. Yet, with the internet, that's seems to have completely broken down and now it is impossible for use to manage because of broken applications isolating us from the reality of IP addresses. Domain names have proven to be spectacularly abusable, by domain name services, by governments, by domain name squatters and by hackers, really honestly, is seems to have been a bad idea compared to keeping and tracking IP Addresses. Companies should seriously start considering listing the correct IP address along with the domain name so that end users can get in the practice of checking them, keeping track of them and directly connecting via them.

  9. Re:Are there any available for free? on Finnish Doctors Are Prescribing Video Games For ADHD · · Score: 1

    Interesting, sounds like the pharmaceuticals will be spending hundreds of millions of dollars with the lobbyists to get it banned ASAP. Cure, screw that, treat the symptoms with patented 1,000% profit drugs. It is going to be a real battle.

  10. Re:How unusual... on Irony: iPhone 5S Users Reporting Blue Screen of Death · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can effectively sandbox but for it to really work it requires a major change in system design and, a major commitment to a bug free OS, OS on chip. Offers far faster boot time, keeps the OS really secure but if it isn't bug and security issue free, then you have real problems. Software coders have always been as slack as hell compared to CPU engineers.

  11. Re:small purchases are better with cash on Who's Getting Pay-By-Phone Right? The Fast Food Industry · · Score: 1

    I'll pay by phone the day, I can drop it from pretty much any height, sit on it, tread on it, throw it across the room onto a table, and even forget it in the wash. I can just imagine ass hat telecom incumbents rubbing their hands together at the idea of you depositing money on your phone, then dropping it and breaking it and the the Telecom provider saying that money was bound to the phone as is now gone (into their pocket). The electronic wallet has a long, long way to catch up to the durability of a typical leather wallet, cash and even the credit card protected within the wallet.

  12. Re:This just in on Google X Display Boss: Smartphones, Tablets, Apps Are "Mind-Numbing" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I desire to make a phone call, have it arrive within 10 minutes clean, take me to my destination and then allow me to forget it ever existed (screw parking), until I make the next call and wait 10 minutes (careful timing of making the call and walking to the pick up point could get that down to seconds).

    As for google glass, yeah I want some privacy invasive freak jamming adds into my eyeballs in accompaniment with maximum volume screaming "BUY THIS", all at random intervals, trust Google when they jump in bed with ALEC, FUCK THAT.

  13. Re:Self-censorship then? on EU Court Holds News Website Liable For Readers' Comments · · Score: 1

    There is a gap in free speech the difference between opinion and false statement of fact. The US is currently one of the few countries that maintains a distorted view of the difference and how it counts against libel and slander. In Europe couching the forums as being only the "Opinions" of commentators and not statements of fact and continually reinforcing that concept of opinions over statements of facts, gives a great degree of protection. Of course it is still far more sensible to review comments at regular intervals and delete inappropriate ones, this policy can be clearly stated along with comment review schedule. It is never slander if it is in fact your opinion at the time of making the statement and your statement was made in the form of an opinion.

  14. Re:Wages as share of GDP dropping since 1972 on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    It is also you right to survive free and you know exactly what that means when they want starve you into slavery, I remember a phrase "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS" and how it can about.

  15. Re:Actually, this is kinda nice... on Lenovo Shows Android Laptop In Leaked User Manuals · · Score: 1

    Hmm, headline reads more like, "Lenovo just goosed M$, we want a 50% discount on current prices across the board or else". It seems like other manufacturers are also joining the action. So will M$ dig deep or is this the light at the end of the tunnel for M$, that great big huge Android freight train.

  16. Re:Being portrayed as a liar... on Why Julian Assange Should Embrace 'The Fifth Estate' · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Manning wasn't betrayed by Adrian Lamo. Lamo was just the actor, Manning was betrayed by 'WIRED MAGAZINE' who did it for profit, with the hopes of increased readership, remember that when and if you go to that POS website.

    Reality is Assange feels exposed because many of those who support Wikileaks believe he should takes his lumps for seemingly carrying on like a douche and purposely disrupting birth control measure in order to get women pregnant when it was not their intention. Right now he is a dead weight on Wikileaks and needs to man up, step aside and face his accusers and likely take his punishment.

    Either Wikileaks can stand on it's own, free from the pretensions of a pseudo celebrity and exist as a true collective work or it will fail.

  17. Re:want more pixels, ffs! on Acer Officially Announces C720 Chromebook · · Score: 2

    I can remember when (and your are begging for this) computer resellers went around making claims to business that they would need nothing beyond amber text based 14 inch screens as they were capable of reproducing all the information a business needed. With regard to this product it is all about cost efficiency, how much bang for how much buck. At $250.00 it seems pretty impressive and a worthwhile contender for reasonable loss with death by misadventure, as long as the SSD is readily removable and can be easily placed into another unit.

  18. Re:This also in... on Some Bing Ads Redirecting To Malware · · Score: 2

    Perhaps a legal review is required. How far should the advertiser be allowed to seperate themselves from the contents of the Ads they serve. The generate profits by promoting products and seem to be completely free from any responsibility for the reality of the advertisements versus what they actually promote.

    At the moment advertisers make money by selling products, blatantly promoted with lies and regardless if the impact of those products upon victims the promoters get to wander off laughing with those profits generated by creating those victims.

    I think it is about time, that those who generate income from products promoted by misleading advertising, start sharing the pain of the victims their actions are creating. You make money by selling lies, it about time when those lies get exposed that you start paying back the victims.

  19. Re: What could possibly go wrong? on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Oh my you are so, well, gullible. People get rich not through hard work but greed, the greater the wealth the greater the greed. Those people would not only baulk at paying 15% tax, they would strive for the government to pay them 100% more than what they earn as a bonus. Greed knows no bounds, it will lie, it will cheat and it most definitely will kill, in the insatiably quest to own it all.

    On the plus sides it seems the Republicans should be congratulated it seems the shut down is crippling the Trans Pacific Partnership (the toilet paper protocol as it turns countries constitutions into toilet paper in favour of a multi-national corporate oligarchy) and, a China led trade agreement Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is taking the lead. Trust in the US government fiscal capabilities is rapidly running out.

  20. Re:Huge Difference on Guardian Ignores MI5 Warnings, Vows To 'Publish More Snowden Leaks' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well to put that in perspective, the Russian Intelligence Services already have a complete copy and the Chinese Intelligence Services also have a complete copy, so who exactly are they keeping it secret from. Well, we all know that, the voting public who will be outraged at the invasion of privacy. The financial sector who will be deeply disturbed by global insider trading schemes. Many countries, some of which are meant to be allies of the countries doing the most spying. Terrorist not so much, unless they are starting up some new terminology vote-terrorists those that vote against government who support insane 1984 Orwellian scams. Voters who know too much and most be prevented from contacting other voters, voters unafraid to express their opinions and the very worst of all voters who actively vote against the dictates of the military industrial complex, evil vote-terrorists all over the place.

  21. Re:Sorry, but we NEED our new techno gadgets in ti on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    The rush to the lowest common denominator. How about we cull from the top, eliminate those who want to push us into the rush to the lowest common denominator and see what happens then. Don't forget they get paid the most and do by far the least, so massive savings to be had. No Golden parachutes, no private jets and, no insane bonus schemes. At least in China they are teaching future management what it means to work the production, sounds like that lesson should be spread around some more.

  22. Re:Not surprised on US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Only about 10% of that 57% voted when it counted in the primaries because that's when the elections are stacked against the electorate, ensuring the majority will always be corporate flunkies. I seem to remember Obama managed to loose primaries to none of the above.

  23. Re:Management Sucks on HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well as long as HP doesn't try to sell telecommuting to other companies because they obviously don't know how to do it http://www8.hp.com/h20621/video-gallery/us/en/customer-care/computing-and-mobile-devices/network-and-internet/1251324810001/hp-home-office-telecommuting-equipment-basics/video/.

  24. Re:The solution is simple. on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 1

    What an insanely vapid rant. You of course are representative of the typical hypocrite, who likes to target other people whilst indulging themselves in the same behaviour. My comment represents a complete lack of interest in those mug shot sites, a complete lack of desire to target people for the mistakes they have made and a complete dislike for the hypocrites who do the opposite. You are so blatantly apparent, hmm, pseudo celebrity issues.

  25. Re:Very safe indeed on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 1

    Of course you are dealing with microbes so volume of liquid and solids required can be very limited, allowing for lots of scope of 'spare' space (sic) contained within the experiment. Agitation would still be required with centrifugal action to prevent excess concentrations of particular products at each density boundary layer. Of course just mixing at the start and then doing nothing and watching how it develops would also be interesting.