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  1. Re:fuckwittery of the highest order on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So it is just the gross exaggeration of a tiny spot of light. Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to actually try to get one of those slow remote control quadrocopters to intersect with a jet airliner going a few hundred miles per hour. So somebody was playing with one of these too close to an airport and paying attention to the camera view of the 'ground' rather than any airspace around them. Even an automated flight gone out of control as it lost radio contact with the controller. This kind of extreme exaggeration stinks of a law enforcement desire to clamp down on these devices because they could all to readily spy on out of control cops.

  2. Re:Its hard to tell on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 0

    Hate to puncture you lie but they were using attack helicopters after President Bush had declared victory, so they were bloody policing with attack helicopters shooting anyone they felt like they could get away with.

    Now tell me arse hole what is the law in the United Stated of America for someone carrying a weapon, is it you shall be gunned down by an attack helicopter or is there some constitutional limitation on that. Yet the US military freely breaks US law in over seas situation because 'er' 'um' they are foreigners and hence sub-human and not entitled to any rights.

  3. Re:nice efficiency there on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 0

    Technically speaking in more advanced countries military law is simply considered a contractual obligation and does not ever deny a citizen their full rights. In the US will silly willingness to join the military allows the US government to now define you as sub-human and you willingness to serve means that "YOU SHOULD LOSE RIGHTS".

    In other countries, Australia for you, the military can only lock you up for 3 months, than they must hand you over to civilian authorities for the same equal rights access to the law. Don't listen to the government quisling joining the military does not mean, once you are locked up and no longer armed, you still lose your fucking rights as a citizen.

    It's insane to think that you have volunteered to serve and risk your life to protect your fellow citizens rights and as punishment you government can now deny you your rights as a normal citizen, talk about one great big fuck you.

  4. Re:Didn't you listen to Mitt on When It's Time To Scale, US Manufacturing Hits a Wall · · Score: 1

    yes, because the US minimum wage can get you all those things, hah hah hah, you so funny and in China the minimum wage, hmm, also doesn't get you those things, you just work till you die.

  5. Re:On the other end... on Groupon Still Losing Money, CEO Is Fired And Leaks Final Email · · Score: 2

    Oooh, you've angered the Apple marketdroids. Apple toys have become brat bait and that's never good for sales as it's considered tasteless. Now that's exactly what happens when you play the fad/fashion game, high profits but when the marketing loses it's bite as it always inevitably does, watch out. So groupon lots of noise and colour so that it could be sold and then hang on for the ride.

  6. Re:lol on A School in the Cloud · · Score: 2

    Your reference is culturally prejudicial. We have spent millions of years trying to educate humanity. Can you track wild animals, and know the animal by it's tracks and it health condition and age? Can you fabricate all the hunting tools you require to survive? Can you fabricate your clothing and accommodation? Due you know all the natural remedies available in your environment for the most common maladies? Can you communicate within your social group? Do you know the social mores of your group?

    Of course now our society has far more complex educational needs to fulfil many more specialised roles. This is beyond factory workers, the image of which has been distorted by greed being a factory worker is not so bad subject to the remuneration you receive.

    So random trial and error education whilst likely the most personally enjoyable would produce very poor results when considering the specialised knowledge required to fill the many specialised roles with in a modern society.

    Early education starts general and then becomes more specialised over time as that individual commits themselves to fulfil more specialised roles. The quality of that education makes them more competitive in gaining those roles and receiving the best possible remuneration.

  7. Re:Not so fast on How Paid Apps On Firefox OS Will Work · · Score: 1

    Whether or not they can sell their solution in the way they would prefer to sell it, is of course another question. There remains a huge choice of unlocked phones which allows the user to go where they will and always remains the preferable recommended choice. Ego drives the purchase of high priced contract phones by offsetting but increasing the cost over time.

    It seems most larger companies want to be publishers rather than developers as that's were the real money is and high cost creative talent is not required.

  8. Until it breaks during a heat wave. Then due to your weakened psychological state as a result of continued and extended protection from extremes of temperature as a result of living a life largely protected by air-conditioning your truly suffer until it is repaired. My air-conditioning broke and I was quite surprised how much I suffered compared to decades of exposure to air-conditioned high temperatures in my youth and the mild discomfort that resulted.

  9. Re:It IS somewhat shocking. on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    Excuse me but this was not in the name of justice it was in the name of 'Unlimited Greed' ie the profits generated by copyright. They publicly admitted that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted, 'ney', persecuted for his public political opposition to the unlimited greed of attempted manipulations of copyright law. They were in matter of principle executing the individual ie silencing his political opposition to the current Obama/Biden administration and a major source of their campaign dollars.

  10. Re:remember sim city? on New Jersey Legalizes Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    Interesting note, they choose not only the weak attempt to insult me but also choose to insult two other whole groups of people they obviously dislike, hmm, the common thread they represent a threat to greed.

  11. Re:remember sim city? on New Jersey Legalizes Online Gambling · · Score: 0

    So balance is not equal hence imbalance must be equal, let me guess you work in advertising.

  12. Re:remember sim city? on New Jersey Legalizes Online Gambling · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I guess in your dictionary the word 'balance' means something completely different to what most people accept. You even wrote if fucking down, the mind boggles.

  13. Re:remember sim city? on New Jersey Legalizes Online Gambling · · Score: -1

    It ain't gambling unless the odds of winning or losing and equal, all the 'tub o lard' has done is legalise online losing and tax shifting from one state to another with 85% losses along the way.

  14. Re:Of course on Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Especially not a waste if you purpose is to set up traps for the six strike system and not only get the $35 back but also go for damages for disruption of service due to negligence by the ISP and anyone reporting you. Could become quite profitable, take some years to generate a profit on the investment but could be a very good side line.

  15. Re:Hollywood Computers on Minority Report's Legacy of Terrible Interfaces · · Score: 1

    To be coarse some Scientology douche flapping his arms in the air for a few minutes at a time does not equal an eight hour work day plus over time, What really works is a keyboard and mouse, the keyboard for a wide variety of content entry and the mouse for screen focus adjustment with minimal effort. The have been many attempts to change this and they have all mostly failed unless they were tied to very specific uses.

    They only really new input device is the smart phone/small tablet and a big screen, so using the small touch screen to more comfortable control the large screen, so that you are not obscuring the view, dirtying the screen and flapping your arms about all over the place. This remote GUI of course still needs some plenty of adjustment and tweaking to really bring of well, included transfer of data between devices for latter use on the smaller device.

  16. Re:Willing to pay? on Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility? · · Score: 1

    The principle would be to do it under another name and pretend 'partner' so it doesn't damage the corporate brand. The choice would be to pay or the by far smarter option to politically agitate for tighter privacy laws, consider by far the majority of people and companies would be on your side. So the choice are you pay google or simply force google to earn less, hmm, I like the idea of sticking it too google and privacy audits and a new per instance fine system (per person per instance). Here's betting we can get a whole lot more privacy for free and still keep our beer.

  17. Re:Nintendo needs to rethink its place in the worl on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you live without an unlimited spending on toys budgets but most people do not. Quite simply "Little billy you can either have the portable game console or the tablet choose but we don't have enough money for both, let alone a smart phone as well". So no, by far the majority family of four can not afford, 4 laptops, a gaming desktop, 4 tablets, 4 smart phones plus phone accounts, a big screen TV, a game console and two portable game consoles, plus content accounts for gaming, for music, for television and movie content.

  18. Re:Al Jazeera *was* on How Close Is Iran, Really, To Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    A plethora of greed over need and exploitation to extinction over conservation is not diversity and is more often than not founded in lies and not truth. In point of fact Fox not-News fought a court case to prove the right to "FUCKING LIE IN THE NEWS". It was in fact the Fox not-News network that first sought to turns news into a high profit propaganda operation, with advertising unabashedly presenting itself as news.

  19. Re:What? on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 2

    Simply reality the test subject have been corrupted by saturation 24/7/365 mass marketing designed by psychopaths with degrees in psychology to manipulate the behaviour and choices of all possible test subjects. See not so clear cut if you stop and think about it.

    Now of course the rest are catching up to the destructive saturation marketing system and are also losing normal balance. So time to stop the excesses of psychologically destructive marketing.

  20. Re:Nintendo needs to rethink its place in the worl on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    It's all as simple as this, the portable game consoles ran face first into the other great computer toy, the 'Tablet' and lost. Face it at least between portable game consoles and tablets, the tablet is the better choice because of greater flexibility.

  21. Re:As expected on Microsoft Admits To Being Hacked Too · · Score: 2

    The real problem here is all those technology trying to sell the lie of being able to secure the internet completely. The reality is, if you want it secure then don't bloody connect it to the internet. It only takes one mistake, in set up, in maintenance, in updating and of course in end user use and you security will fail.

    So these companies in seeking billions of taxpayer dollars to fill their coffers and trying to sell something they know will fail and of course they will be able to sell upgrades for.

    Real security is, if it absolutely doesn't have to be connected to the internet, then don't connect it to the internet. Parallel networks are safer, internal and external, with only vetted data entering and exiting the internal secure network. The external network is of course readily repairable.

  22. Re:Nothing To Worry About on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1

    It's called failure to control the military industrial complex, when the military industrial complex ends up controlling government and taking all sorts of insane risks and not visa versa without the risks.

  23. Re:Nothing To Worry About on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1

    It was making nuclear weapons, labelled DOE for security reasons in reality run by the DOD.

  24. Re:Nothing To Worry About on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1

    Not just government but Department Of Defence started in 1943 to specifically build nuclear weapons. The US Department of Defence is now hand balling the problems to other government departments. http://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/HanfordOverviewandHistory.

  25. Re:Sort of interesting, but... on The Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Next Xbox and PlayStation · · Score: 1

    You are a shit head. A direct personal invasion is not the same as an internet hack of a business account. One relates to escalation which can result in bodily harm and death and the other of course is largely meaningless. M$ in this case has used it's corporate US power to escalate this beyond all reason, to a risky how invasion with some douche FBI agent threatening a minor with extradition (zip, zero, nil, nul chance, just some douche being true dick). How was the hack possible, obviously some truly piss poor security by M$.

    Now consider this was a family home and M$ and the FBI led an attack against the whole family and their technology (there you go a direct personal attack, where the attack is the punsihment the US government via the FBI intended) which they knew in majority would have nothing to do with the poorly secured information M$ lost. I am sick of psycho idiots and the pathetic mod cheerleaders comparing internet hacks to direct personal attacks. Especially where it is blatant that the direct personal attack and collective punishment against the whole family, occurred as a result of some pumped up fuckwits at M$.