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  1. Re:No. on Are Programmers Responsible For the Actions of Their Clients? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Gambling is only gambling when the odds are equal for everyone, else it is a scam and those whom the odds favour are lying, cheating and stealing, that's the truth forget the bullshit. Typically the individual has to be charged so that he can be properly investigated to find out how much maintenance he was doing on his code. No one produced perfect code except the most simplest of it, first time around and the environment it which the code operates is itself continually changing, so maintenance is highly likely as is taking a percentage of income for reduced initial payment.

    Not to forget asshat many part of Australia were settled by free citizens ie Adelaide was a free settled colony.

  2. Re:I say they set up a charity for public access c on Supercomputer Repossessed By State, May Be Sold In Pieces · · Score: 1

    Face it you got a bunch of dopey Republicans who would rather take a political shot at the previous Democrats rather than do anything useful with the supercomputer. Anyone with half a brain would simply rent out access at negotiated rates to those three university rather put it out of commission. Of course the whole scam will be to sell it as cheap as possible, spend as much as possible on breaking it up and then blame everything on democrats in the next election cycle.

  3. Re:How do they do it? on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In which case they would be taxing people the most who walk at every opportunity rather than taking the car. The reality is fuel efficient vehicles are light, generally have low power and have the least impact on roads. You want to tax energy, then stop being morons and nationalise energy production and the profits become taxes. Nationalise the banks and the gap between interest paid and interest earned becomes taxes. Do these things and you can substantially reduce taxes for everyone. Screw the psychopathic parasite, all essential services should be government owned and the profits be considered as taxes paid.

  4. Re:Those are our oldest ancestors? on World's Oldest Fossils Found In Australia · · Score: 1

    Why would the original be defined as destroyed in splitting, that is illogical. You have an original living mass, which internal reproduces a copy of it's inner functions and DNA. The internalised copy is then ejected within a new cell wall. You always have the original up until something consumes it or it is destroyed via any one of countless methods.

  5. Re:Facebook has crappy policies on Colleges Help Students Fix Their Online Indiscretions · · Score: 1

    In an advertising job, one finds it hard to imagine what possibly could damage you image except possibly a record of good deeds, protesting against the evils of corporatocracy, demonstrated honesty and an inability to lie. In fact that is starting to describe most of the starting requirements for corporate executive positions you can be anything at all except 'TRUTHFUL'.

  6. Re:Not that big a problem. on Trip To Mars Could Damage Astronauts' Brains · · Score: 1

    Magnetic deflection does not require massive amounts of energy, it is really dependent upon how much energy is lost in generating the current flow. The more efficient the flow the less energy is wasted. Now if you really smart you use that current flow as the propulsion system, so the whole space ship becomes the engine. Most likely need fins (woo hoo flash gordon design) to extend the field out as far as possible from the ship hence as large as possible and inducing a spin would have double benefits of increased flow around the craft and pseudo artificial gravity. Low temperature super conductors would really help. You could also look to ride planets magnetic fields for extra speed and to decelerate.

  7. Re:Huh?? on Patent Troll Targeting Users of Scanners; Wants $1000/Employee · · Score: 1

    It is about time that companies should be able to sue the US patents office for falsely assigning patents. If those patent lawyering favouring idiots were to be made financially liable for the stupid decisions we might see some improvement in that organisation. It is becoming all to apparent the ready willingness to approve the most stupid patents has been created by legal lobbyists and corrupt political appointees.

  8. Re:Possibility on Ask Slashdot: Undoing an Internet Smear Campaign? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Reality here. Take a deep breath, realise that there are tens of billions of pages and by far the majority get seen by very few people. The next step is really hard "ABANDON YOUR DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR" forget the pseudo celebrity bullshit, by far and I mean well and truly by far the majority of people on the planet do not give a shit one way or the other. Seriously so what?

    As for getting to the top of searchers simply report those pages as gaming the system to google and bing for advertising revenue. Generally those the freak out the most about what is on the web about them, lawyering up and such, well, it often because it is true and they make more profit from the lies.

  9. Re:Headline is disingenuous on FSF Does Want Secure Boot; They Just Want It Under User Control · · Score: 1

    Of course not to forget, the inevitable attack vector will be internet explorer. The worst of all the people who can least afford it will end up having to pay to fix it and M$ as always wont give a shit until class action law suit time.

  10. Re:Will Microsoft call on Burson-Marsteller to fix on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    Meh, it follows M$ every second rule. Every second update is completely crap it still generates some income but ultimately what it does is drive interest in the next update. Now take into account M$'s adherence to the stupid customer rule, M$ knows that when they talk about all the great improvements of windows 9 versus windows 8 all the idiots will suck it up without realising it pretty much was windows 7 or windows XP, you know blah blah blah.

  11. Re:So much for democracy on European Commission Support of FRAND Licenses Hurts Open Standards · · Score: 1

    FRAND is bullshit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing. Lawyers will have a field day in spending millions upon millions of dollars ramping up as high as possible exactly what Fair, Reasonable, and non-Discriminatory terms really actually means. In transactions totalling trillions of dollars is it not reasonable to demand say just one thousand dollars to access what cost billions of dollars to develop.

    So just M$ et al working to corrupt one countries elected representative in order to insert laws that will favour it greed and at the very least derail FOSS in years and years of argument. Even if they can win with their lies they can introduce delay and each year of delay is worth billions in profits. Psychopathic fuck heads are psychopathic fuck heads and so what if people at the bottom ending up paying the most for this crap, so long as the ones at the top get the most benefit.

  12. Re:0.001km = 0.01hm = 1m = 10dm = 100cm = 1000mm on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    It all boils down to exactly what you are measuring. It is insanely stupid to measure to the millimetre a steel beam 10m long, why you ask, expansion and contraction of the material due to temperature. So high quality construction does not as you claim relate to accuracy of measurement but to how much detail is put in to accommodate expansion of contraction of differing materials with different expansion and contraction rates and, how that expansion and contraction is transferred through the whole structure dependent upon connection types and of course two main cause for expansion and contraction, temperature and moisture levels.

    Forget all that stupid stuff about ancient builders being more accurate down to mm, load of crap, straight up lie. When the reality is the side of structure exposed to the sun will expand more than the side of the structure in the shade and in any major structure that can be very significant.

    So for example where timber and aluminium components are incorporated in the same element, it is quite possible to have the timber expanding due to increased moisture content while the aluminium has contracted due to low temperature ie winter. So accuracy of measure in summer it rather pointless, whilst properly accommodating the known outcome by a skilled tradesman and knowledgeable builders is far more important.

    The reality is Americans are just too ignorant to change to an easier system to learn, rather ironic ;).

  13. Re:This is good, but! on Scientology On Trial In Belgium · · Score: 2

    Start pushing for extradition of the leaders of scientology for any local prosecutions. Just like any other organised criminal enterprise the focus should be on getting the leaders of the organisation and stripping it's assets. So upon successful prosecution follow up with class action law suits to recover the money, and pay for the damages for the psychological harm caused by the organisation. Even when corrupt US governments turn a blind eye because scientology is profitable and the play ground of US pseudo celebrities, the rest of the world should do an end run around the corruption and bring the criminal corporate cult down.

  14. Re:Fiscal cliff on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    Not to forget. Also allow them to blatantly cheat with overseas tax havens and fraudulent charges so as to off shore profits. They wouldn't need to raise taxes if they just collected on the ones owed both federal and state.

  15. Re:Mutant Powers? on Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future · · Score: 1

    Back in the day I was asked the question what would you do if an officer became a threat to the general public, my answer was, shoot them. While it earned my some disturbed looks, the answer was legally correct. My morality was in place prior to the military and remained as firmly in place during and after the military. You are who you are and remain nobodies slave as long as you have the courage and choose not to be a slave, your life bloody own it.

  16. Re:Yes we can! on New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street · · Score: 1

    In this case he is a little different in that he marketed himself as being the opposite ie hope and change, which of course makes him an uncle tom rather than a straight up stooge.

  17. Re:Mutant Powers? on Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future · · Score: 1

    Conditioning, you either choose or refuse, conditioning is just an excuse of the morally weak. As for mutant powers. There is no way psychopath leaders could ever trust their minions with those powers beyond the fantasies of Hollywood. Psychopaths would only allow themselves those powers but they would not really trust genetic scientists to experiment on them. So all in all, reality is, it is a catch 22.

    Which is why psychopaths like automated killing machines so much. Death by a drone fired missile, with a propaganda based 100% perfect track record of murdering, under law innocent suspects (innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, the law is the law and propaganda is just bullshit).

  18. Re:The POTUS is not a leader? on NASA Faces Rough Road In 2013 · · Score: 1

    All a charade to keep driven by mass media and celebrity worship to keep people away from the lack lustre and boring congress and senate primaries where the real decision makers are elected by the corporations. President and his staff (unelected staff) is meant to be the administrator of the rules provided. Veto should be stripped away and all of the main staff positions should be selected from the senate and the congress. Of course tens of millions of idiot Americans need to start paying attention to the primaries, so they do not end up having to vote for corporate candidate number 1 or corporate candidate number 2 (plus a series of purposefully invisible to main stream media candidates).

    Main Stream media in the US continually screams the President the Leader, the President the Leader, only as a purposeful distraction, even though in reality the President is the puppet of the congress and the senate, they decide the Presidents powers.

  19. Re:And open interfaces? on Egyptian Government To Adopt Free Software On Larger Scale · · Score: 1

    All under the watchful eye of the US government. I wonder if the Egyptian Government has access to the source code?

  20. Re:Who cares? on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    You're making the assumption that all are equal. Look around you and you'll find equal ignorance, for those who can achieve more the opportunity should always remain, for those who can not, they should avoid very shiny surfaces.

  21. Re:One products competing with Apple will be banne on Ban on Certain Samsung Products Appears Likely ITC Ruling · · Score: 1

    When you have nothing worthwhile to contribute you resort to a baseless attack. Let me guess you work for Apple marketing and patents ;P.

  22. Re:Headline is disingenuous on FSF Does Want Secure Boot; They Just Want It Under User Control · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Problem with secure boot is it creates a whole new attack vector. Attempts to solve one problem by creating a new one. When the purpose of attack is to deny access to the machine, what better way than to trip secure boot into action and prevent the machine from running. So you attack software doesn't have to do much of anything at all, just be difficult to remove without a full reinstall and it can leave the rest of the attack to secure boot.

  23. Re:Who cares? on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 2

    What an insane idea. The greatest benefits of the internet are bringing people together, undermining the control information, uncovering the lies and releasing the truth. Want to free people from the religious dark ages, you do not cut them off from information you flood them with it. Not only are the religious dark ages being tackled but also the capitalist dark ages of the last thirty years.

  24. Re:People will say their duty is to shareholders.. on Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits · · Score: 1

    Worse are the corrupt politician who allow it to happen for a kick back of cents, not to the dollar but cents to the thousands of dollars and microscopic percentage which those corrupt cheats take to allow the richest to pay a negligible percentage versus the average wage earner. Now add to this the bullshit were those same lying cheating and stealing arseholes cheat of federal taxes also cheat on state taxes. Time to bust them up and lock them up, the corrupt politicians and those that pay them off.

  25. Re:How To Make PC Gaming Better on How To Make PC Gaming Better · · Score: 1

    It is the logical flip side of M$ trying to push everything to the XBOX in order to charge licence fees to all applications for access to the operating system, which the end user then pays for over and over and over and over etc. etc. again.