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  1. Re:No way... on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 1

    Likely left out the part about carrying on like a whiny douche and demanding service from the government lakey and telling them how to do their job. Government lakey responded by temporarily holding up the importation of the vessel, until the fiscal matter can be confirmed and resolved.

  2. Re:I say cut the F-35 on There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon · · Score: 1

    The whole idea is to shift corporate thinking and greed away from totally lost spending into something with at least some potential for return. So a trade off from defence spending to NASA, same corporations, same dollars.

  3. Re: At your desk! on Mayer Terminates Yahoo's Remote Employee Policy · · Score: 1

    She is simply trying to make a name for herself beyond being a sperm receptacle just lucky to be there at the right time and at the right place, that and stealing some patents. Basically she left Google to avoid being seen as an empty head incapable of anything and just being along for the ride to be head of Yahoo and demonstrate the 'Peter Principle' for everyone to see. In the tech age shutting down remote working when it is working has to be the stupidest decision imaginable. Either she is a Google poison pill or she just wants the ego ride delusion of being able to direct each and every person each and every day because they are incapable of doing it themselves. The directors are going to start getting fidgety.

  4. Re:He's a snitch, an informer, an ignoble fraud. on Hector Xavier Monsegur, Aka Sabu, Dodges Sentencing Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even worse that slime sought and groomed minors to commit crimes for him and also to be the fall guys for the crimes he committed. The FBI also went on to seek and groom more minors into criminal activity with all the profound stupidity of those who see their promotions before any principles of justice.

    Right now the FBI and Hector Xavier Monsegur are stuck with each other. The FBI trying to excuse their joint criminal activity to the judges and now the FBI are stuck pushing a hugely reduced sentence for nothing, for all the joint criminal activity they finished with the same number of lulzsec members they started with and found 'Anonymous' not to be some giant hacking organisation with tens of thousands of members but just an idea. Yet the FBI are stuck with Hector Xavier Monsegur else they will not be able to recruit quislings and back stabbers in future.

  5. Re:The obvious solution! on Carmack On VR Latency · · Score: 1

    Better to focus on the motion programming ie things like what level of motion is ignored, how much can you reduce resolution during motion (less processing less lag), adding in catch up and, simply skipping areas during rapid motion. This tends to match reality, where you head is tending to catch up to your eyes point of focus and you only really focus in on detail once you head motion has mostly stopped.

  6. Re:To be fair. on Copyright Alert System To Launch Monday · · Score: 1

    Gees why be so uptight, those re-education programs sound real cool. Turn up to some place and meet a bunch of like minded people who want to share content, for whom the internet will be so slow that a sneaker net enormously faster and far preferable. Just the place for external h/disk drive exchanges or post meeting content swap dates. Where do you sign up ;)?

  7. Re:Typical. on Certificate Expiry Leads to Total Outage For Microsoft Azure Secured Storage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    M$ has a history of lack of customer focus hence it will fail ay any industry that demand the highest levels of customer focus. For cloud services to be down for a down is inexcusable and seriously any IT management staff that fails to acknowledge these failures and uses or recommends Azure should be fired. Any down time should be measured in minutes not days, this should be considered catastrophic failure. M$ is far to used to it's EULA's a warranty without a warranty and has become woefully complacent about actually guaranteeing a supply of service, meh, it mostly works it their motto and we'll fix it net time round, for sure this time.

  8. Re:I say cut the F-35 on There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon · · Score: 1

    So instead of spending that money on defence why not spend it on NASA and infrastructure spending instead. You are simply shifting that welfare to different contractors, so one industry reduces capacity shifts focus to space and a bunch of other high employment industries ramp up. Things like a national broadband network, which can be leased back to industry based upon competitive charges to the end user. Rebuilding of all roadways and bridges. National high speed rail network. All those things leave permanent value versus the military industrial complex which is a black hole of waste at it's best and at it's worst a global dealer of pointless pain and suffering creating enemies rather than eliminating them.

  9. How about a one time bludgeoning ie it is time ti destroy Wall Street and rebuild Main Street. Limit limited liability to say a set multiple of the minimum wage beyond that multiple share holders are fully liable for all debts. Companies will shrink to ensure share holders are safe and as a side benefit the minimum wage will rise.

  10. Re:First purchase on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    Your argument is ludicrously invalid, burglar has no idea of the value of the goods your house. Bedsides according to gun nut logic you will also at minimum have a gun that they can steel and sell.

    Of course when it comes to spending insurance money, don't try spending it before you get it. Some insurance companies can be real arse holes, like Allianz, delaying payment and only offering a small percentage value of lost good, using the ever growing delay to force you into agreement. Even if they finally pay the full amount, the longer they have it the more they can generate from their investments with out paying you a cent in interest unless you finally sue and then they play games with out of court settlement, all to run that payment date out as long as possible.

  11. Re: Death of Slashdot? on Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 1

    Anonymous speech, hmm, I seem to remember money is speech and speech is money, whoops. Republican state representative gets beaten to death by Republican Federal Representatives, think tank staff, lobbyists and all the staff from the US Chamber of Commerce amongst many other anonymous donor receiving political organisations.

    Now as for the internet so for any other public space, would that mean if you open your mouth to speak in any public space would you need you name and details tattooed on your forehead?

  12. Re:It's The American Drean on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    The delusion of ownership. Human society owns everything, ownership is never really transferred to the individual control is. Society grants control of the elements of society to individuals for the benefit of that society, when you drift away from that, than society has become insane. Basically psychopathic have corrupted the society so that now control of elements is not handed to individuals for the benefit of that society but to fulfil the insatiable greed and lusts of those individuals at the expense of the rest the human society.

    This insanity is kept in place via extreme violence and any challenge to the insanity is meet with escalating violence, until such time as the limit of the threat and impact of that violence is reached and the psychopaths are temporarily thrown down.

    Sorry but it is emphatically insane for any society to allow a minority of individuals to control billions for their own personal benefit whilst a far larger number go hungry and die due to lack of health care, that is a sick society and doomed to collapse as those at the tops inevitably attempt to force more and more to the very bottom.

  13. Re:Vista 2 on Windows 7 Still Being Sold On Up To 93% of British PCs · · Score: 1

    There was only one problem, one single problem with OS/2 the idiots at IBM over priced it. If they had not been stupidly greedy, they would have pushed M$ to be only an office suite.

  14. Re:Vista 2 on Windows 7 Still Being Sold On Up To 93% of British PCs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows Millennium Edition Part 3.

  15. Re:my bet on US Joins Google, Microsoft In "Brain Race" · · Score: 1

    I'm sure elements of the US Government are fully aware of how mapping the human brain and gaining a greater understanding of it would be useful in enhanced interrogation techniques or more accurately the forced answering of questions with the 'desired' (not necessarily the truth) answer both during and post interrogation. Big bucks will be spent by the US government and some of it for bad reasons but some of it also good ie. in terms of creating a healthier human society, the hunt for the psychopath in order to prevent the harm they cause (they are simply to unreliable to be 'trusted' any where) is also on.

    Never forget approximately 1% of the human population and approximately 15% of the prison population (think about all those victims that could be prevented) and that includes all the mostly harmless types like drug users in the prison population. There is a powerful drive on for crime prevention, as a result of the truly random nature of who ends up being victims.

  16. Re:strange on French Officials Say EU Will Sanction Google Over Privacy · · Score: 1

    Google is simply being targeted as the largest. Working out this internet privacy thing is still new to them, the law makers are testing things out, checking for public approval, seeing how deep the rules need to be and how structured enforcing of the rules need to be. Even checking size of companies to which it needs to be applied. Google can dick around with arrogance and lawyers all it wants, it will most certainly get caught up in rapidly escalating fines and then start driving prison sentences to be enforced. They are currently offending the law makers and generating long term hostility. This is still early days in legislation catching up to privacy abuses and manipulation.

  17. Re:big on Bill Gates Says Windows Phone Strategy Was Inadequate · · Score: 2

    Of course nothing will change while the current management is in place. Arrogance, petty vindictiveness have created a creativity chilling environment. M$ can either drop it's management and buy a new direction or just slowly but surely die off.

  18. Re:That's funny.... on Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick? · · Score: 1

    I tend to buy meat in bulk take it home and repackage, even into sets like mixed grills. If a meat container is torn open, well it er has never happened, not in years of shopping because it is called carefully stacking of your shopping bag. Well that meat would have to be washed and cooked that day and you would check the shopping bag and simply sponge it clean. After all you should pay attention when you unpack your shopping bags and store your shopping otherwise you pit it all over the place. Frozen food in the pantry vegetables in the kitchen bin, meat in the vegetable compartment, you get the idea, you are unpacking with a modicum of common sense and if a bag get crushed and filled with raw mixed goods, you decide whether to empty it in the bin or buy another $1 cloth bag, I've got about ten mainly because I often forget to immediately return them to the car, that way there are always some in the car, or simply I need to buy more to have them spare.

  19. Re:Hmm... on Ask Slashdot: What Does the FOSS Community Currently Need? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can't get the desire to look like a pre-pubescent unless it's a characteristic of marketdroids to pursue the under aged and as such they prefer to look as much like them as possible and use peer pressure to force the rest of us to do the same so they can hide their paedophile nature behind us. Seriously it really is rather odd behaviour to mature males to want to look like prepubescent males.

    What FOSS needs of course is the next generation of leaders to take it forward. Younger generations should not be scared at coming forward, adding their ideas and taking beyond where it is now. This as the older generation starts to shift from wanting to drive computers and software forward to just wanting to use them as their interests start to shift after decades of focus.

  20. Re:That's funny.... on Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why the hell would I wash a reusable cloth shopping bag. I don't stick slices of bread in it, I stick a packaged loaf of bread in it. I don't stick unbagged fruit and vegetables, they are all separately bagged. I can't imagine walking up to the meat section and start throwing unpacked chunks of meat into the bag, all of it is individually packed. The mind boggles at pouring milk into the bag rather than getting a sealed container.

    I've been using them for years, they are still pretty much clean, I might have cleaned one bag when there was a spill but that was it. No smells or odours from the bag, no weird growths and no illness. Me thinks the idiot neither does the shopping nor the cooking. Rinse all fruit and vegetable prior to eating or cooking. Check for dirty packages prior to storing in pantry or fridge and give them a wipe over if neccesary, pretty rare.

    Next people will be going nuts over how dirty and disease ridden money is and handling it whilst handling your groceries.

  21. Re:Disgusting on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 1

    It's a trap, the 1% I was talking about were psychopaths, you assumed the 1% were the rich and greedy. It's just an interesting coincidence that the percentages coincide, is it not ? Yet not all psychopaths are rich, so by logical extension, not all the 1% rich and greedy are psychopaths, especially as psychopaths make up approximately 15% of the prison population, so that certainly puts a large chunk out of the running. Of course guilt can often drive false association.

  22. Re:The reporter does not like electric vehicles on NY Times' Broder Responds To Tesla's Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    You just can't help yourself, you just have to tell more lies. Laptops are an excellent example, it's called clock speed, seriously you save energy by ramping up clock speed not by a factor of 10 but by 100s in the evolution of laptops and the transition from cadmium to nickel metal hydride to lithion ion to lithium polymer, i think not. Not to forget graphics going from ega 640x480 to xga 1680x 1080 and beyond and, faster ram. Pay attention to the following table http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop_battery to see how fast the changes in lithium ion batteries in the last ten years. Even faster now that the push is on for electric cars.

  23. Re:Disgusting on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 1

    That's really the wrong picture of the 1%. Basically you have to think insane, regardless of the consequence they will continue to lie, cheat and steal right to the bitter end, as long as they are at the top in the interim, the final consequence is of absolutely no import. Just like Gaddafi, they continue the right up until total collapse with the angry mob at their throat. You always have to remember that the 1% are always at each other's throat, as soon as weakness is detected the other's will attack. They continue their insanity until they are actively eliminated and more often than not as a direct consequence of their own actions.

    Just as in this case, they spend millions on propaganda campaigns get caught out and are exposed for who they are. The more they are caught out, insanely enough the more effort they put into it, right up until they break the law. Remember this, they got away with this kind of bullshit for thirty years, until the internet started exposing it all and rather than stopping they instead try to corrupt the whole of the internet only to be further exposed in their corruption.

  24. Re:The reporter does not like electric vehicles on NY Times' Broder Responds To Tesla's Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    Power stations are eminently more efficient than typical infernal combustion engines, not to mention renewable energy sources, so really rather a pretty pathetic lie on your part. As for battery technology development, just how mendacious are you, computer having been driving the development of battery technology at quite the rapid pace. Prior to this it was pretty lackadaisical but since the demand by notebooks for the holy grail of 24 hour power on, battery development has been about as rapid as you would expect, with the typical holdup of patent exploitation prior to release of the next technology.

  25. Re:The reporter does not like electric vehicles on NY Times' Broder Responds To Tesla's Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    They know eventually they will not be given a choice in the matter. As the qualities of batteries develop so the likelihood of a total ban on infernal combustion engines draws closer. So simply a childish huge bag of dicks with no regard for how much infernal combustion engines pollute metropolitan environments and how much that pollution shortens human life.

    There is that whole sense of restraint and control with fully electronic vehicles. Electronic vehicle logging with gps becomes the reality with checking at re-registration and fines applied.