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  1. Re:Bring back Teddy on President Obama To Nominate Cable and Wireless Lobbyist To Head FCC · · Score: 0

    Technically Uncle Tom Obama is far worse than Bush. Bush at least pretty much ran on what he provided with only minor lip service for the victims of his policies. Uncle Tom Obama betrayed everything he represented in Change and Hope, turning it into Trapped in Despair. So reality is Obama betrayed everything he stood for as well as his own heritage and his wife's family heritage, making him far, far worse than the Bush. Don't forget Bush was recognised for being totally ignorant and manipulated by those around, so you can't even blame him for what was happening around him.

  2. Re:one more distraction while driving on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 1

    Some countries require that all street side signage be submitted for approval and if too large or distracting they are banned. Your point is, if you have a 'FEW' distracting things going on what is the problem with adding even more, I think you have pointed out the flaw in your thinking, your are adding more distraction, which further degrades driving attention. As for those tests, they are specifically tests, not day to day distracted driving and lack all of your existing distractions to show the additional burdens for attention.

    The crazy bat shit logic of somehow adding new problems auto-magically eliminates other problems rather than compounding them and making them far worse. One hopes you become a victim of your statistic and see how your opinion changes.

  3. Re:Well... on How To Promote Stage Comedy In a Geeky Way? · · Score: 1

    You generate publicity via controversy, have you not been paying any attention at all to Colbert or Stewart, it has to be recent and relative to the comedians style. Dude, where the fuck is your brain, he can also try the opposite side of politics, problem is it is not appropriate as, the opposite side likes to work news commentary not bloody comedy. If your don't believe name all the successful right wing comedians who actually do a right wing shtick and compare that to the endless list of left wing comedians who do a left wing shtick. Now why is that so, don't blame me for it quite simply is the way of things.

  4. Re:Only true for a small portion of the world on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    A car accident 'sic' got me used to having groceries delivered. Shop in the evening over a few nights list still there or on a lazy Sunday afternoon, scope out all the specials and try something new, spend more than I normally would and have it delivered when it's convenient (even on the odd occasion go through the order with multiple stores to see which will be cheaper for the final order, including specials). Overall having groceries delivered is far more relaxing and with specials, which I never used to pay attention to, I save more than what I spend on delivery charges. The larger orders tend to spread out major shopping further and leave fresh bits and pieces for quick in and out trips on the way to or from.

  5. Re:What year is this? on Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs · · Score: 1

    "Just more personal services", now just what the fuck do you have in mind and why would you consider that by far the majority of people would consider it acceptable, hmmmmm?

  6. Re:FBI's general counsel - having a laugh? on National Security Draft For Fining Tech Company "Noncompliance" On Wiretapping · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sorry but targeting the end point of communications is just way to big a reach. What's to stop targeting of Banks, of online retailers, of typical business and how about the typical user. Once you attempt to force end point communications how do you write the law to limit how far that goes. The FBI wants the right to force everyone to become a spy on everyone else, sorry but fuck off. I remain honourable in my communications and spy and deceive for no one. This directly attacks the morals of any administrator of a system and attempts to force people against their will to deceive others.

  7. Re:Well... on How To Promote Stage Comedy In a Geeky Way? · · Score: 1

    That is only a start. Generally to push things forwards you should pay attention to what is most currently in the public's mind and 'effectively' target that, gutter politics. So the Texas fertilizer explosion, well, quite easy to twist that into inappropriate humour, the Koch(head) boys similarly no problem twisting that around, tar sands pipeline bursts and fracking gas leaks all ripe targets. Shove those at the rabid fundamentalist un-conservative and watch them go wild in their public attacks and 'er' free publicity.

  8. Re:The expense isn't the license, it's support on Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well the 'FACT' is due to M$ greed and their upgrade policy, windows and office support costs a packet, each and every forced upgrade cycle. Windows can and often is a nightmare to support, auto upgrade has to be disabled just in case and then manually done. Document incompatibilities in between versions needs constant support. Reality is, due to the simplicity of administering a Linux system (the windows registry sucks dead dog's dicks, why, why, oh why the fuck why) with text file configuration, a competent Linux administrator can get a huge amount done in a very short time, pay twice as much to often get ten times the work done in the same time.

    PS you pay more for better skilled people, so what you are really saying is that Linux trained system administrators are better skilled then windoze admins (having contracted out both I can guarantee on average that is true). In fact often those Linux admins are far better at administrating windows systems then your typical windoze admin.

  9. Re:Some Things Never Change on Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship · · Score: 1

    The infamous, manual override. There is of course one serious problem with manual over ride in today's corporate run crazy ass world, you need skilled people (paid high wages) to do it and there just ain't no bloody corporate profit in that, hence no manual over ride. Obviously if you are fully capable of manual over ride, why bother with the automation, except for simple monitoring and reporting.

    It needs to be extremely complicated, repairable and upgradeable only at base by private contractors at enormous cost and the users and operates need to be as ill-informed and ill-equipped as possible to ensure plenty of contracted out base repairs and upgrades occur as possible to keep those profits flowing.

    Reality is, to truly minimise cost, private contractors need to be kept out as much as possible otherwise guaranteed every single time they will create work, they will design in failure, they will ensure only they can repair it and upgrade will be required. 'Keep It Simple Stupid' especially for mission critical systems.

  10. Re:Less methane? So fracking what? on EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates Further Divides Fracking Camps · · Score: 1

    Fracking produces unpredictable fracturing of the ground and when you talking about tens of thousands of wells, avoiding mixing is impossible. Want the proof, quite fucking simple. That is exactly why the legislated to exempt fracking from water pollution controls. They knew 100% with out doubt they would be polluting the environment, they wanted the profits and to fuck over everyone else who has to clean up the mess.

    Don't think so 'THEN WHY THE FUCKING LAWS GRANTING THE POLLUTION EXEMPTIONS FOR FRACKING'. Why would those corporations pay their political puppets to write those laws if they did not need the legal protections from the harm and damages they are causing.

  11. Re:Just say NO to GMO on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    How about mold and then you simply leave a space and glaze over your walls in either glass or plastic, leaving a clean surface illuminated from behind with sufficient space to add in moisture and nutrients as required.

  12. Re:Red Herring on The Coming War Against Personal Photography and Video · · Score: 1

    I think you really miss the point of ubiquitous altered reality computing. When all people at the table share the same technology, the altered visual environment, they can simultaneously view the same elements and share them. A photo in space where all can view and then is passed from one person to the other as the file transfer occurs. Playing a shared game, in that altered reality space where of course any one outside the shared visual environment sees nothing. Then you have people using them for visual correction, so you can hardly say, either accept not being able to see properly or leave.

    Obviously the portable camera is a problem, not just when you can control it but when it is hacked. Obviously the prime protection is the legal rejection of images captured. Then you still have control freak parents who will demand their children wear them all the time and they are not allowed to prevent the parents from accessing the sights and sounds. How about fitted to criminals released on parole from random review and monitoring, of the course the criminal is on parole and not all the people the parolee interacts with. So yeah real problems coming up.

  13. Re:First it was Nokia, now Washington state on Former Microsoft Managers Now In Charge of Washington State's Budget · · Score: 2

    Total fantasy. Allowing capital to pool, simply allows that capital to buy up all the means of production, driving others out of business and further concentrating profits. The deluded thinking that you invest in 'new' means of profit generation belongs alongside money trees, you alter existing, shutting down current business, buy out all access to resource forcing out small business and of course use size to brutalise the labour market and corrupt government.

    You might as well be singing "tip to through the tulips" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_PLWqnfFgU your capitalist nonsense is of about the same quality. You should come up with your own teenage selfishness and greed anthem.

  14. Re:And... on MPAA Executive Tampers With Evidence In Piracy Case · · Score: 1

    Sorry but once you alter evidence you then taint all evidence from that source ie 'er' yes we changed all those files but 'er' 'um' we didn't make any other 'er' 'um' changes to strengthen our case 'tee' 'hee'. So a major fubar, it is a criminal offence to alter evidence and submit it to court and pretty much guarantees any evidence from that particular source will have to be rejected out of hand.

  15. Re:bets? on $200 Intel Android Laptops Are Coming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well obviously this Intel Android Laptop is not targeted at you. Everyone knows exactly who it will be targeted at, Android phone users who want to do a little bit more and need the keyboard and screen interface and of course tossed in with an Android phone contract, a pretty good and could be a well targeted sweetener, with an interface they are already accustomed to. What will be interesting is how much data storage expansion the device allows for and how readily an Android phone can be hooked up to it to transfer data and charge the phone.

  16. Re:Once we get the first real AP1000 on China Slows Nuclear Expansion · · Score: 1

    The major flaw in China is of course greed and corruption. Taking insane short cuts to inflate profits and paying of officials meant to be checking work is the norm. You only have to look at high speed rail failures in China to have proof of corruption in spite of definitive consequences of failure. So it will be interesting to see how the government of China will contract out Nuclear power station construction. There are a huge number of alternative designs from low power turbine reactors to high power bleeder reactors, still greed will promote corruption which will produce failure.

    The you have Israeli and US governments screwing around with viruses to specifically attack nuclear facilities as back door attacks. Apparently no one is safe from corporate cheating when it comes to management of reactors, from Japan to the US, greed has created terrible consequences. So much promise and so much greed driven stupidity to make it fail.

  17. Re:Last Sentence on Federal Magistrate Rules That Fifth Amendment Applies To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    They can compel you to try, they can not compel you to succeed ie this is what the password should be #V3ry@L0nG@Pa55W0rd# but it doesn't seem to be working, perhaps I entered the wrong key last time I changed it and all the stress of the prosecution is making me forget which special character, which capitals and actual phrase but I 'WILL' keep trying. I truthfully have forgotten quite a few passwords in my time and either lost the data or was forced to use other methods to access it. You only have to look around the internet to find all those "lost password/lost username" assists, pretty much every site that wants a log in. So forgetting your password is reasonable.

  18. Re:Oh Really? on Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader Arrested In Australia · · Score: 1

    Even then simple rules of personal security that should be followed. To conduct activity, boot from a USB thumb drive with different IP and mac address set and completely different identity, when not conducting activities thumb drive should be safely hidden. Main computer should contain dysfunctional root hack that points back to thumb drive identity (for when you're lazy and get caught). Preferably only ever use open wifi points, rather than home connection. There are a whole bunch of activities that a real skilled cracker would undertake and require a significant and long term investigation to break most likely requiring a femme fatale (any moderately attractive female who knows what FOSS stands for and what Linux is could get the typical hacker falling over themselves to brag/confess about everything they are up to). No signs of these pretty much indicate a low skilled attention seeker.

  19. Re:Dumbest idea, ever on Apple To Launch Largest Stock Repurchasing Plan In History · · Score: 1

    Disagreed. Stock buybacks are mostly used to fraudulently manipulate stock prices whilst insiders sell stock. Basically insiders wishing to bale (executive stock options) use inside information to align their sales with the buys (insiders selling is always a warning sign) to ensure prices do not drop, when they sell (they get to sell at a high price and pretend nothing is wrong). It all boils down to a company whose executives have no real future plan and know their stock options will eventually collapse and are seeking a way out, basically screwing over the majority of investors. It also can hold the price up when dividends are being issued, especially when a company stock price is so bound to over priced fad products where any kind of negative image can cripple sales.

    Financing the buy back in this case is a disgusting blatant cheat based around keeping profits hidden in offshore tax havens, the owed tax dollars which they claim in valuation of the company (without declaring it as a debt) while cheating all other tax payers. So make no mistake crooked all around and the IRS and the SEC should bend them over to teach them what for, except of course it is all crooked as hell at the top and governments across the globe turn a blind eye.

  20. Re:Oh Really? on Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader Arrested In Australia · · Score: 2

    What is it with computer crime that gets any police force involved to wildly exaggerate everything to do with it. From the skills of the accused, the claimed crimes committed, the damage caused, the global impact or the justification for promotions. The bullshit desire for massive headlines only to have it all deflate as the internet picks over the story as the slowly collapsing prosecution proceeds to a rather minor event.

    It seems driven by two things a desire for promotion and a need to flood the airwaves with propaganda in order to protect their case based on really rather weak and often only circumstantial evidence. Hype seemingly used to drive the individual into becoming an informant, a means by which to entrap minors into minor computer crimes.

  21. Re:Choice on Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence · · Score: 1

    You fail to grasp the concept. There in fact is no present, it does not in reality exist. The present is simply a construct of the past and the future, that life creates. The duration of the present defines how much life can alter the future and that is governed by intellect. There is also an element of altering the past and reaching into the future on the elemental scale, distorting probabilities, again the greater the ability the greater the intellect.

  22. Choice on Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Intelligence, the ability to delve into the past and reach into the future, in order to craft the present and manipulate the probability of eventualities. The greater the ability the greater the intellect, the power of choice.

  23. Re: Truth is the best defence on British Woman's Twitter Comments Spark Expensive Libel Claims · · Score: 1

    This also leaves scope for a counter suit, note her comment, "I'm absolutely horrified at how easy it is to slap a legal suit on someone. It was so frightening." When the nature of the civil suit reflects it's intent ie the size of the claim, then a counter suit for psychological damages is accessible.

  24. Re:In the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombing on Ask Slashdot: What Planks Would You Want In a Platform of a Political Party? · · Score: 1

    So does that mean you want all those bloody pink skinned arse holes to leave and give America back to Native Americans. I mean a lot of them are nasty dicks, you know psychopaths and narcissist and all but kicking them all out for the behaviour of a minority, well, hmm, I suppose the majority of those nasty pink skins did benefit by the genocidal activities so.

  25. Re:nope on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    Lotus lost to excel because the lotus eaters were to in love with their ridiculous pricing and the whole office suite was cheaper than their spread sheet. Not to forget you could so easily buy one, just one copy of M$ Office and easily load it on every computer in the office. So M$ office was way cheaper that Lotus and Word Perfect. M$ won be being easy to pirate, end of story.

    Once the had market of course their attitude to piracy change

    So for windows to recover, don't just sack Uncle Fester but also sack his cadre of brown nosing Ballmerites and then drop compulsory registration for the next couple of versions of windows before bringing it back in again.