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  1. Re:It's called a dehumidifier. on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, technically it is a raintrap. The trap, the more you use it, the more moisture you suck out of the atmosphere, the more you need to use it because it's not raining.

  2. Public company, short the stocks, spread a story voila big profits to be made. It's all part of the corporate wars, using various criminal methods and attack and destroy other corporations, spreading misinformation just a minor part, computer hacking of all kinds, corrupting staff in competing companies and you can expect targeted assassination to follow. American special services are no bragging about post employment for profit assassination program. So take out a critical executive, at a critical time, can cripple a corporation, done right there in GTAV or is that GTGV(grand theft gaming), that hacks certainly are and it is contractors hacking contracts because that is the way the fuckwit US government decided to go in all of its grand idiocracy.

    Follow the money.

  3. Re:This Neubauer guy is a class act on 16-Year-Old Dethrones Tetris World Champion With Difficult Hyper-Tap Technique (kotaku.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A champion at tetris, a champion, seriously that is the word you would use?!? Man has that word be abused to death, like love or celebrity or hero, fuck marketing. You are the world best at tetris, now that is a statement just loaded with satire, yet it is celebrated by an idiot world and a new celebrity hero created that everyone loves. SHITVERTISING watch this content to watch the shitvertisements that accompany it. World best at tetris, yeah alright mate, your kind of special, you know when they talk about special kids, good luck with all that but seriously who gives a rats arse.

  4. Play typical PC game, lean back in recliner, computer on table over chair, TV streaming ,music in background, pretty view in windows, snacks and hot cocoa in reach, really comfortable. Virtual reality best played standing up, no chair, closed off from music and can't see pleasant view, scattered snacks and hot cocoa spilled everywhere, not very fucking comfortable at all. Now exactly who are you selling virtual reality, surely it could not be computer gamers like me. Sure fun some of the time for a short while but seriously, maybe, just maybe represent 10% of your gaming time.

    So go for a nice stroll, listening to tunes for that 10%, really enjoy that healthy pleasantness or play VR, even though I've already had my fill of gaming. The problem with VR gaming, is that it is not very comfortable, sure if you want to train soldiers and police et at, if they can run with a remote headset in an obstruction matched to vision environment so they do not run into things by accident but for you typical chubby gamer, yeah, nahhh.

    VR glasses, need to be compact enough to be able to hook into a phone and give phone users a 125" screen in their pocket, with zero motion feedback because it makes most people nauseous and some extremely so, beyond that more fantasy than reality. Virtual gladiator sports, with all the physical effort, lots and lots of physical effort but no carnage ie VR gyms but that makes it a very limited market.

  5. Re:Maybe they could finish on Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't forget really cheap to produce content, like scenery channel lopped from various locations with generic music. Then various music video channels, again buy cheap early and loop over and over again.

    People will pick the one the fills the most spots with the most content. Fuck sports that is for jock strap douche failures and with mind control levels of advertising, your sports stars, your team, the play for you, yeah fuck off, the mostly are jock strap douche fwits that chase the highest money and seeking to be masturbated by as many people as possible, hey morons, prostitutes get paid and you idiots pay.

    Producing your own content is smart and there is a lot out there to produce. Autotune et al has completely fucked up modern music with real generic celebration of narcissism crap and shallow worthless performance artists who know nothing about music, so there is a lot of scope there (simply advertise for bands and create videos, one time payment).

    Content creators of course do not want exclusive, it is death, they become unknowns outside of that subscription serves because there is no longer an advertising channel, free to air, to push their content out. Content creators want their content on all the subscription services because that is the only way to get known. Free to air with its endless shitvertising model is dying, along with corporate propaganda news, the main ways to waffle shit about pseudo celebrities and stars, yeah narcissist with egos as big as entire suns, what a pack of fwits. So will Netflic release content to other subscription services, probably on an exchange basis, we give two seasons of what ever for one season of what ever.

    Big money is sport is coming to an end, they have lost the saturation marketing hook, getting children to believe in utter bullshit sporting heroes, heroes my arse.

  6. Re:it is a sign alright. on Panasonic Designed Human Blinders To Block Out Open-Plan Office Distraction (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    I found an image, http://www.fggam.org/wp-conten.... So all you need now is the bit between your teeth and of course the whip. Fucking hell Panasonic, what the fuck were you thinking, way to look really fucking bad.

  7. Re:slow memory leaks? on Ubuntu Linux 18.10 'Cosmic Cuttlefish' Arrives (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think often because people just say KDE as if it provides the answer. Better to say https://kubuntu.org/. I personally go with Kubuntu, although I do swap around with Gnome and have both accessible with just a configuration change at bootup.

    So the answer is not so much go with KBE as go with Kubuntu. One leads to more questions and the other leads to a direct simple answer, even if you already use https://www.ubuntu.com/ or http://edubuntu.org/ or https://lubuntu.net/. After all those links it would be mean not to put in https://www.canonical.com/.

    Linux == choice ;).

  8. Climate change might cause some problems but it's the weather extreme's that'll kill you. More energy in the system, more weather extremes, can't run from them much. So yeah, you can move 3m above current sea levels but the category 6 hurricane will still totally fuck you up.

    Just to make stuff even more fun, moving masses around the planet, taking ice from one place and depositing another as water, well that alters plate tectonics, so a relative stable system gets a little more unstable, so the big ones, well toss a coin, the odds of when will change, maybe latter, maybe sooner, but interesting things of one variant of another will occur.

    Then you have the fun of weather not climate but extreme weather, up north releasing a shit bucket ton of methane setting of a spiral of rapid warming and melting, 100 years predicated by climate change occurring in 1 year, caused by weather.

    Climate is the overall average change over time and has very little to do with weather extremes, tricky stuff that but more energy in the system, the greater the extremes will be, you can run but you can not hide, ain't no place safe from this idiocy.

  9. Re:Whatever.... on eBay Files Lawsuit Against Amazon Over 'Seller Recruitment' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So what though. Please stop, no, disconnect. New account, please stop, no, disconnect. Just the reality of business, try suing Amazon, they can counter sue because you are acting in a prejudicial manner against the individuals you kick off.

  10. Re:Wake me up when they make telemetry removable on Microsoft Making More of the Windows 10 Built-In Apps Removable (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So I guess the probe is still jammed right up in their for those used by Windows 10. Forced updates, forced ads, forced data mine, forced applications, forced searching of you not the internet and free access to delete anything they want to at any time they want to. Extra special added feature, customised windows compulsory updates, so that Fed probe can be inserted at any time with just a letter, fuck your rights, even your firmware written over.

  11. Re:Citation needed on Internet Provider Groups Sue Vermont Over Net Neutrality Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Fuck the Rep and fuck the Dems, fuck the Fed and fuck the states, hey all your corporations screwed over by the end of net neutrality, you know the 99%, all your private proprietary data is going to be minded, if any of those 6 companies set up a subsidiary that competes with you the parent company will digitally destroy your traffic and make you pay ten times as much for the pleasure, competitors could pay to kill you traffic, your rates will go up and up and up, well do you want a cheap reliable utility or not!!! Do not let 6 fucking piece of shit companies destroy your digital commerce, fuck em now and fuck em hard, file counter suit for digital threats to your business.

  12. Re:If you're letting your pre-teen have an iphone on iPhone's New Parental Controls Block Sex Ed, Allow Violence and Racism (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Filters are the most idiotic thing for children's content. Reality, content for minors is not filtered by blocking, content for minors should be filtered by allowing. Basically zero content should be allowed for minors until it has passed muster, until it has been specifically checked, content is allowed, web site at a time and not blocked when it is too late, after the damage has been done.

    Want an internet suitable for minors create one. Want to control adults, claim you are controlling the adults to 'er' protect children, because you are allowing the children to mix with the adults so you can control the adults to protect the children.

  13. Re:Bad job twitter on Twitter Publishes Archive of 10 Million Tweets From Russian, Iranian Bots (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It is straight forward calling every Russian who uses twitter a troll. If you are Russian or Iranian and ever used twitter in English, you are now a troll and a Russian or Iranian agent. Seriously any post originating in Russia or Iran, any?!?

  14. Re:Behind? on The Army Is Preparing To Send Driverless Vehicles Into Combat (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    So the US is apparently planning to invade more countries, kill the local population, steal the resources and be under constant guerilla attack, for targeting and blowing up weddings and funerals, with the odd school bus thrown in for spice or is that spite.

    So the US military planning for a future of driving convoys through occupied lands, with subjugated people fighting back, is this the plan for the entire world, perhaps South America next after the middle east.

    So what new torture methods are being planned to align with the next convoy systems in occupied lands. The US was already using the world war 2 nazi tactic of murdering surrounding civilians if an attack occurred, perhaps concentration camps so you can more readily execute 1 in 10, you decimate the local population.

    Only the USA would brag about developing robotics convoys for use in occupied countries, subjugated populace, the USA will DOMINATE the planet and kill all who oppose US corporate dominance. Let me guess the system is only for defensive purposes and it is what US citizens who are the threat.

  15. Re: Yep, so wouldn't you just leave all that on Seattle Startup Vets Takes on Google with Helm, a New $499 Personal Email Server (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    The mail server needs to be built into a firewall router and you simply and an external USB hard disk for data storage. Mail doesn't need to be as secure if it is kept outside of your internal network before delivering a copy of filtered mail. The next thing you ad of course is ........

  16. A good story well told is always fun. What fucked star wars, idiots who did not understand science what so ever, thinking they were geniuses at everything because that's what their marketing department told everyone, allowing really, really, dumb stories, like bad Saturday afternoon cartoon stories, being told with hundreds of millions of dollars and trying to cover over the mess with PR=B$.

    The animated series Star Wars Clone troopers was better written and had better stories than the movie even Star Wars Rebels was better written and had better stories. Reality is the star wars movies a Kathleen mary sue rey Kennedy egoistic shit show, to push her ego into the story and parade it to the rest of the world, what an asshat, short people https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Nothing to do with SJW nonsence just the ego of one person, a short person who felt they were short changed on the sale of Lucas Arts (seriously in the movie, men suck, tall women are stupid and the taller you they are the worse you were portrayed in the story, the whole thing is a silly and funny as fuck).

  17. Well, yah fat bastards, have you considered walking because you know obesity epidemic. Walk you dumb fuckers and burn some of that fat off. Walking promotes circulation of all bodily fluids, ensuring the waste is removed and fresh stuff delivered to where it is needed.

    Just fucking walk already, it is really actually factually good for you, do it as much as possible, as often as possible. Boiling water, don't stand there and wait, walk around your home, don't get on an electric scooter walk. Go to the local shop, well, bloody walk because it is good for you, posing on some bit of electric junk honestly just makes you like a victim of marketing buying the next bit of hyped up electric junk. Save your money and just bloody walk. Struggle walking and your bicycle skills are questionable then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

    Seriously, don't buy into all this silly shit, walk.

  18. Re:Duh on Facebook Posts May Point To Depression, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    More accurately social isolation causes depression in those who have a genetic need for social interaction. For introvert computer geeks social isolation generates a ripple free brain, capable of deep thought and deep thought generates tasty, tasty, brain chemicals.

    Probably the best solution, would be to use the internet to allow the formation and hosting of group therapy sessions, a click and mortar solution. Obviously can not be done privately as it would be ruthlessly exploited (Scientology) but should be done by government and audited, the associations and the groups, not the individuals.

    Local community use of community facilities, to allow the formation and support of social interaction group therapy sessions. Universities could also participate, therapy study sessions. So using the internet to recreate person to person social interactions upon a group basis and monitored to prevent exploitation of the psychologically vulnerable. Can be done in every country except of course the United States of America, where exploitation of the psychologically vulnerable would be the number one priority both financially and sexually (you dumb fuckers are in deep shit if you do not end the rampant political corruption).

  19. Yes, of course it is a Public Relations move, a good one. What you can download, is the data Apple has on you, you know a fraction of the information other companies like M$ or Google have, and allow you to review it, correct it or delete it. All your private details, not your content, your digital identity. Obviously way to subtle for you to pick up on and equally obviously something neither M$ nor Google can offer because the user response would be, WHAT THE FUCK, why did you record and keep all that data, WHAT THE FUCK, business of yours is it and people would not be correcting, they would be deleting.

    Thoroughly good bit of PR and not PR=B$ of the M$ variety.

  20. Re:Amazon can blow me. Get on Amazon Doles Out Freebies To Juice Sales of Its Own Brands (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if they are serious, if it is satirical ie likening working at Amazon to being kidnapped by crazies and having to ransom yourself out by forced labour, then kind of funny. Does Bezos come off as infinitely greedy, yeah, kinda. Needs to do much more to look after the people making him his fortune, unlikely to happen. Probably a lot of his staff would be content to see Bezos kidnapped by crazies and never return, to be replaced by an employer that realises, their employees make the companies money.

  21. Re:Facebook taking more hits than Mohammed Ali on Facebook Lured Advertisers By Inflating Ad-watch Times Up To 900 Percent (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Technically from the point of view of investors, Facebook should be rewarded for it's extremely successful self marketing con and those who should be punished with a rapid firing, those who bought that worthless ad space, it's capitalism baby.

    Those marketing idiots that bought worthless ad space, might just keep their jobs if they get the money back. These are the small players, how about the big advertisers, they could strip mine Facebook to death, they will be paying attention, especially during discovery.

    All the internet marketing engines are going to come under increasing value auditing, what they really produce, what they really sell, how capable they really are and how much their ad space is really worth. Reality is, they simply advertise too much really shit stuff and the marketing of that, tarnishes every high quality product they try to market. From the consumers point of view, you see an ad for some shite bit of rubbish out of China and the next ad you see, right along side of that, Mercedes, they an erection dysfunction herbal remedy and then, Yves Saint Laurent, then online gambling in some tax haven, then Coca Cola, then a blatant ponzi scheme, then an actual government advertisement (seriously you want people to believe you mixing you advertisement with that rubbish). You get the problem, quality advertising used to be completely separate from junkvertising, now they are right along side each other. Some stupid make you penis grow ad, right along side a Samsung Phone ad, yeah the penis ad by associating damages the market penetration of the Samsung ad, it comes off just as limp as the bigger penis ad.

    Why was very little said earlier, hey, we liked the free content and fuck advertising, quite humorous to see the scammers at Facebook, Google, M$ et al conning all the advertisers. The platform leaves an image, mix junkvertising with quality product information and well, hang around with wild dogs and expect fleas. Of course they lie about the virtues of their advertising platform, that is their number one advertising product, themselves and of course they track the individuals buying their add space, to ensure, those targeted individuals see their ads all of the fucking time, suckers (the customers, oh no, they hardly ever see your ad and when they do it is buried under a flood of junkvertising)

  22. Ahh, the whole town illuminated, when it needs it the most, on dark and cloudy nights, when nary a star is to be seen, ohh wait ;D.

  23. Re:Works for me on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The can further enforce the litigation by forcing the allowance for users to install software on their phone from what ever repository they like and force Google in incorporate that feature into Android and also force access to root for the user.

    They whole they are making us charge, a lie, they want the money and those prices will go up and up and up. An open access Linux phone platform, will be far more sensible for most companies and users. Android is reaching it's use by date, simple reality, from here on in, the douche bags at Alphabet will make it worse and worse. The era of Google as your perceived friend in tech is over and the era of privacy invasive douche bag is now becoming exposed.

  24. Re:No such thing as true artificial intelligence on Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Which means it is just as likely to go nuts become dysfunctional as a bellow average intelligence person. The 'smarter' the AI the more likely it is to go nuts and not dysfunctional nuts, a little in error but totally nuts ie shut down, catatonic, irreconcilable loop nuts.

    AI only needs to be smart enough to carry out minor acts ie a bug hunter AI controlling a little army of limited bug hunter capability, probably modelled on something like a chameleon. Camouflage, sticky tongue and holding tank, smart enough to endlessly wander around a farm, catching bugs and in that design incapable of harming anything except bugs.

    No GOD pshaw https://www.thefreedictionary...., the totality of existence is my God and hence as I feel I direct tiny little elemental parts of the totality of existence and of course I am not alone in that but share existence with a virtual infinity of living beings, GOD therefore does direct not only the normal universe but the quantum universe and the multi verse via elements of God itself, via us as a teeny tiny part of God (lets not suffer from delusions of grandeur), not just us but every living thing in the normal universe, the quantum verse and the multi-verse

    PS mathematically speaking the multi-verse does not contain slightly different universes, that goes against infinity logic (fractional infinity, where fraction of infinity are both finite and infinite, relatively speaking), otherwise it would contain an infinite number of identical universes. So actually infinite universes, infinitely far apart and infinitely different, relative to our normal universe, is more mathematically accurate.

    God is the totality of existence and not some goat herder wish machine and some really poorly written, would should be illegal books (illegal because they contain hate speech).

  25. Re:Good. Less problems for the pirates on Rolls-Royce Wants To Fill the Seas With Self-Sailing Ships (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Ahh but the biggest enemy of ships, wear and tear. So no crew available to do any maintenance, requiring the ships to lay over at ports for extended periods to carry out maintenance, whilst paying port fees and carrying no cargo, which means coming to the port with just the cargo for that port, pretty high cost trip.

    I know what, we can flag in crap third world countries and hire their untrained, inexperienced, incompetent crews to man ships and pay them cents per day, 'OHH WAIT', that exactly how greed driven stupidity cost those fucking idiocy bean counters 1,000 ships. So lets double down on the stupid. Automated ships with zero automation, because nobody doing any maintenance is better than cheap incompetent people doing bad maintenance.

    I think you would probably be better off firing the idiots at Rolls Royce, I mean look what they did with the rest of the company, who owns those losers now and their loser mobiles.