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  1. Re:Chicken Littles on Recession, Tech Kill Middle-Class Jobs · · Score: 1

    Slavery first and foremost served the function of sexual ego. Economics had nothing to do with it, it was all about being about to beat people to death and rape them, all about the sickness of total control over another life. In addition to the underlying sickness of psychopathy and narcissism, the slaves were put to work, those of course willing to be slaves, the rest were tortured to death or they broke free and executed their ex-masters and all those that would force slavery upon them.

  2. Re:Apparently one Aaron Swartz was not enough. on US Government Announces National Day of Civic Hacking · · Score: 1

    I would have thought, the even more paranoid, be careful out there, it's a trap would be even more relevant. FBI we need a list of all hackers, so we can decide which ones are the anarchistic criminals.

  3. Re:It worked better with relays on Multi-State AT&T U-Verse Outage Enters Third Day · · Score: 1

    No, no, just wait, the right will claim that it is a conspiracy by the left to create a socialist government run fibre to the home internet by demonstrating the incompetence of corporations when it comes to running critical infrastructure. Heaven forbid that America should resort to an Australian style communistic roll out.

  4. Re:Chicken Littles on Recession, Tech Kill Middle-Class Jobs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    However reality is we live in a psychopathic insane society, where selfishness and greed have become dominant at the top. For them, if you have no useful function, you should starve and die. So the reality is automation presents a real problem for us as a transitional society.

    With no attempts in place to reduce working hours, in fact the opposite occurring the reality is, society is far more likely disintegrate into violence as those at the top expect those at the bottom to simply die and those at the bottom refusing to do so.

    The internet is helping to break down the control of the psychopathic minority but will it be quick enough to prevent societal collapse driven by insanity at the top? At the current rate no, with continuing pressure to reduce wages and increases hours rather than the required increase in wages with a reduction in working hours. Until that shift occurs to say a 6 hour 4 day week, things look pretty grim in the long term.

  5. Re:Isn't Some of this Stuff Sort of Nitpicking? on Kim Dotcom's Mega Fileshare Service Riddled With Security Holes · · Score: 1

    With the court case still going on, obviously several parties are highly motivated to attack KDC publicly in any way possible in order to taint all possible juries into having a negative image of KDC and to side ruling against him, whether in a criminal or more importantly a civil court. The US government is up for hundreds of millions of dollars in a blatantly corrupt prosecution, where a Vice President drove the case at the behest of industry lobbyists in order to garner support for an upcoming US election.

    You can expect the slander and defamation to kick off from every possible mass media outlet, with suggestive questions, direct personal attacks and of course targeting any business ventures launched by KDC.

    Current public perception is, KDC is winning, the US government was corrupt, and the little lamb NZ government got right royally screwed. So any negative mass media publicity will be viewed as tainted. Basically a business was destroyed in order to ensure campaign support for an Uncle Tom President and now someone has to pay for that destruction.

  6. Re:Actually, it DOES matter on MS Won't Release Study Disputing Munich's Linux-Switch Savings · · Score: 2

    Consider the logic. The original study showed a saving in switching from windows and office to linux and open source software, rather than sticking with windows and office. Now M$ have an alternate study which shows they would have saved four time as much in switching from windows and office to 'er' windows and office rather than 'er', sticking with windows and office. Hey, wait up a second, something here doesn't make any sense at all.

  7. Re:Microsoft needs Dell on Microsoft May Invest $1B-$3B In Dell Buyout · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a straight up financial deal. The M$ buy in, is just to ramp up the price of Dell. Dell has a real problem going forward, all those ODM's that it uses are now pushing selling direct and Dell simply wont be able to compete. M$ could simply get in and get out with a guarantee by Silverlake to make a good percentage, basically Silverlake paying M$ an appearance fee to help sell Dell.

    If M$ go hardware and software, at this point in time they will create a Android, Chrome, Linux storm, with all the ODM's looking to fight off the threat of a company that has a record of manipulative deceitful tactics.

    Dell ideally want's to sell itself as a front end sales, service and support to one of it's existing major ODM's. The current price with a downward trend makes it a tough sell. Likely a vulture capitalist move would be the most profitable. Use credit derived from Dells current share value to buy up an existing major ODM, shift the debt to the ODM, ramp up the perceived value of the new combined manufacture and sales , with enormous savings. Sack a bunch of people, squeeze out service and support, inflate new returns upon investment, with the fudge of debt reducing investment, to show huge increases and sell, sell, sell. The whole lot then goes belly up with too much debt and inflated executive salaries.

  8. Re:The Luddite Fallacy on Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour · · Score: 2

    In this case however, there are many running costs skipped by the article. The robot handles food which sponsors the growth of many kinds of bacteria and moulds and would need to be cleaned frequently. Raw meat held in a warm humid environment, even a couple of hours is a problem (think of the supply tubes and streaks left behind). At a minimum the machine would need to be cleaned out and rinsed every four hours. Then of course a worker takes a sicky, you get a replacement, here, well you have to fix the worker and it depends what broke down and how far away your fixer is. Then there is vermin detection and keeping them out of the works, a 'ratburger' might become all to real. Basically when closely looked at, some forms of automation, until far higher technological solutions are available, simply more higher cost labour to implement, than the labour they eliminate.

  9. Re:MLK and friends went to jail as well on Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience Or Cyber Crime? · · Score: 1

    Obviously not. However his actions need to take into account what was actually occurring. The institution was charging for access to free documents due to their chosen distribution system. He was seeking to make the documents more accessible by shifting them to more public domain style distribution systems. His method was questionable and likely deserved a warning and a fine, threats of a life behind bars with death his only escape, were not.

  10. Re:This article is bullshit! on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 1

    Of course there is always the subtle difference between sell and split off. So say xbox and MSN, with similarly aligned segments on one side and windows and office on the other side. Shove all the spare cash on xbox and MSN to give them a solid start under new management and leave windows and office to ruthlessly exploit their market for as long as possible. So MSN and M$.

  11. Re:Survey Suggests on Survey Suggests P2P Users Buy More Music · · Score: 1

    Seriously why waste all that time and effort trying to find it. Too me the best music has always been that shared with good company and that in reality is regardless of the quality of the music. So pfft, fuck it all, it's just background, the activity and the people in the foreground is what counts.

  12. Re:Survey Suggests on Survey Suggests P2P Users Buy More Music · · Score: 1

    I don't P2P and I buy zero music. I started to hear the greed, the narcissism, crappy lyrics and, repetitive rhythms. I started to get really put of by drunken, drugged up minstrels thinking and carrying on like they are the most special people in the world. It got all so boring, seriously 'BORING', that listening to car noise, the sounds of nature, the background hum of the metropolitan environment became preferable.

    You want lying through their teeth, the MTV and the whole industry basically bullshits about every single thing to do with it. As an industry it has had it's day and should be passed over as utterly defective and worthless.

  13. Re:Makes no sense. on French Telecom Claims To Have Forced Google To Pay For Traffic · · Score: 1

    The reality is the same as it always has been. Google doesn't really generate that traffic, Google's customers generate that traffic. Google's customers request the downloads and generate the uploads. This has always been about the same thing. Existing telecom wants to provide competing services to Google and of course 'ALL' the other content providers. To out compete, the Telecoms own services would be provided free data access and all competitors would have to pay for data transmission, with this cost being ramped up over time until they are non-competitive.

    Of course old world you paid for your connection and what you did with it was your business, as it should be. Now, straight up psychopathic greed is simply trying to corrupt government and the laws, into arbitrarily differentiating that content so that additional charges can be applied, one after another, after another, after another ad nauseum, with the only real driver blatant 'GREED'.

  14. Re:I'd rather heare they were going distributed on Wikimedia Moving Main Data Center To Ashburn, Virginia · · Score: 1

    It is never a measure of safe, it is a measure of safer. So not risk versus no risk but risk versus lesser risk. Of course major snow storms versus hurricanes, can be a tricky balance of risk. Governors would be above ground power and comms versus below ground power and comms. In this case of Wikipedia access to volunteers would also count, more possible volunteers versus fewer, especially could be tied to the number of Universities in relatively close proximity. Of course land values could also be a major driver and how much support the local community could provide.

  15. Re:MLK and friends went to jail as well on Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience Or Cyber Crime? · · Score: 1

    You are repeating the same lie, no matter how many times you repeat it, it does not make it true. Civil disobedience is the failure to act ie legally crossing a street and then stopping part way, legally entering a building then sitting down. Civil disobedience is an act of obstruction your lie is the attempt to paint an act of obstruction to be the same as an act of violence against a person. Yours is the role of the propagandist that blatantly tries to equate human life to the value of corporate profits, that corporate profits can readily exceed the value of human life no matter how little profit nor how many human lives are sacrificed to greed.

  16. Re:MLK and friends went to jail as well on Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience Or Cyber Crime? · · Score: 2

    Assaulting a person is never an act of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience revolves around the disruption of economic activity, where that economic activity harms people and is the result of corruption. Beating a person who is not not capable of defending themselves in not civil disobedience. Riot Police are not acting out in civil disobedience when they attack protesters and seek to publicly torture, humiliate and kill any who resist the demands of psychopathic greed. They are acting fully in accord with the corruption of psychopathic greed.

    So no, civil disobedience is really the refusal to do something not the carrying out of an act of direct personal violence. DDOS, pushes the boundary, as the access attempting is normal and repeated attempts are legal, you are just not limiting those attempts. Only a sick idiot would attempt to compare blocking some ones drive with attempting to beat someone near to death in order to force slave like obedience.

  17. Re:This is a country that wants in the EU on Turkey's Science Research Council Stops Publication of Evolution Books · · Score: 2

    It seems more like Turkish government types are simply fudging. Those more advanced Turks who can read English have access to the full range scientific content. Those less literate types that rely on government subsidised books in Turkish can be temporarily placated.

    After all the same council, TUBITAK is responsible for Pardus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardus_(operating_system). It seems with evolution where the benefit understanding for the less educated is somewhat arbitrary, simply putting it off for some number of years while they socially catch up is simply a matter of expedience.

  18. Re:Misdirection on Missouri Republican Wants Violent Video Game Tax · · Score: 1

    The worst thing of all, living in fear and guns don't solve that problem they create it.

  19. Re:Misdirection on Missouri Republican Wants Violent Video Game Tax · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's all got to do with living in fear and what do Americans have to fear, why all those gun nuts surrounding them. Why do they need a gun, obviously to protect yourself from other people with guns. Hence the NRA as the lobbyists of gun manufacturers keep promoting more guns as the cure to too many guns. It's all about selling guns and ammunition and has nothing to do with creating safe neighbourhoods, safe work environments or safe schools. Nothing more than cynical psychopathic greed at work in all it's stars and stripes glory.

  20. Re:so? apple is still selling less product on The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts · · Score: 1, Troll

    The louder you brag about those numbers the more you piss of the suckers who are paying for them. That is Apple's problem right now, their ego driven customers are just starting to wake up to being schmucks, suckers and pigeons. Buying the latest model, buying the full product range, being walking advertisement except now they are not advertising Apple sleek saturation marketed products, they are advertising their gullibility.

  21. Re:Why keep it going? on Dell Said To Be In Buyout Talks With Private-Equity Firms · · Score: 1

    DELL does not make laptops. DELL buys laptops from ODMs and just adds bits. DELL has few warranty problems because the ODMs pay the bill. Have you noticed DELL has no real qualms about replacing bits, sends a contrator out to check, seems valid, replace part rather than repair, bill goes to ODM.

    DELLs real problem are all those ODMs that DELL built up are now pushing to supply direct, basically undercutting DELL. So DELL now has to push it's service and supply with a higher price.

  22. Re:murder on Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide · · Score: 1

    Perhaps of a review of the documents in question might be in order. Universities are often to deep into military weapons research and often to lax in their security. The case seems most absurd and likely to fall over in the end but it all disappears with the accused disappearing.

    At the very least what will be done about the readiness of the US Department of inJustice turning their prosecution of the case into the punishment even when they know they will likely lose.

  23. Re:And on Vietnam Admits Deploying Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Actually it says a lot about their strength. They publicly admit to doing unlike all those others who lie about it. Who hide behind misleading names, who hire thousands of people to tell lies.

    Of course the reality of the internet bites back. Are we up to a trillion pages yet? So many pages no matter how hard you try with your trolling, you disappear unless there is real long term interest. All you can really end up doing is driving interest in the subject not your particular viewpoint and that given time pretty much always ends up backfiring. Too much interest, generates to many questions, which drives a whole bunch of research which inevitably uncovers the truth.

  24. Re:How do we stop them? on Australian Spy Agency Seeks Permission To Hack Third-Party Computers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am an Australian and I find the whole idea of the gutless and cowardly attack appalling. ASIO is proposing to leave some poor innocent nobody holding the bag for when the attack is detected. Some innocent person minding their own business acceding the internet, who suddenly finds the local swat team raiding their home and threatening that family with death. That whole family now finds itself on trial for espionage and treason a death penalty offence in many countries. That trial will be accompanied by torture. At which point will the Australia Government have the courage and stand up and tell the truth to the country so that the innocent family are no longer standing under the threat of execution.

    This all smells of a request by the US government who has all sorts of laws to deny any rights at all to foreigners. Sounds like those people at Pine Gap have been up to some naughty business and are looking to tidy up the legalities of a 'Joint Facility', Australian and US, doing stuff that is legal for the US part of the partnership but illegal for the Australian part of the partnership and as the attack must eventually leave the joint territory and cross Australian land it is subject to Australian law.

    It is well known that the US consider innocent third parties as nothing more than statistics and collateral damage, to be lied about in press releases but the Australian government better think long and hard about likely sending people to their death because those other countries aren't all rank computer security amateurs who wont detect the attack, after all if they were ASIO could attack direct or more accurately stand idly by and ignore the US led and controlled attack.

    You only have to look at the MEGAupload case to see how badly it can go when you trust the US inJustice system.

  25. Re:Irony on Game Receives First R18+ "Adults Only" Classification In Australia · · Score: 1

    Australia, it's a democracy, if the majority were concerned enough as adults to alter censorship in Australia they would. If a few immature people whine about it, well, the majority ignore them. Ton of games out there, now to many to play, so what if some are cut out for gratuitous scenes that have nothing to do with game play and often screw it up in there purely for notoriety and to feed the most immature ignorant players. Want to change the rules, then show some maturity and seek political change, become active in the elections and least you will learn whether your desires fit in with the majority or are rejected by the majority. If rejected what can I say but suck it up.