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  1. Re:Hugo Weeps on The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords · · Score: 2

    Do you not understand how organisation like the Mafia implement a protection racket. The Don or Boss doesn't go out roughing people up, nor does the Consigliere, even the Caporegime doesn't go out and rarely do the soldiers pay a visit (they tend to visit latter in the piece), it's associates who go out and do the dirty work, those with the least links bank to the Capo. Now that holds true for them all whether it be the Triads, Yakuza or the RIAA/MPAA. Something else interesting all of them at various times have had direct ties to government, just as the RIAA/MPAA does now.

  2. Re:Hugo Weeps on The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords · · Score: 1

    Ahh so the new rule is you must pay the copyright overloards to ensure the content you create isn't taken down by default, something really, really stinks in that statement.

    It stinks like the existing publishers are trying to enforce a system which necessitates paying them a percentage of your revenue else like protection racket organised crime your content will suffer an accident. If you do not see the criminality implicit in your statement then you deserve to be arrested, ignorance of the law is no excuse. The rest of use of course are now seeing what is really happening, a direct attempt at extortion by the existing content cartel, pay us or have your content disrupted.

  3. Re:im sorry to tell you this, but your phone on Chinese Students Say They Are Being Forced To Build Your Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    Remember the rule "divide and conquer" it also works for the little people when they tackle the big end of town. Apple is the biggest, hence the best target, Samsung is in Korea pretty hard to target directly and at the end of the day, nobody believes they will maintain their market share blip. Deal with the problems you know, problems you have been informed about, not ones you are guessing at. Samsung and Apple marketing are different. Apple is marketing as the elite fashion accessory and look just like all those other elite fashion accessory it is produced in a sweat shop to further bloat already bloated profits, disgusting.

    When you're out their on the hunt, when you're out there to teach a new reality, you target the biggest for a reason and once you've taken them down, guess what, you target the new biggest.

  4. Re:I propose... on The UK's New Minister For Magic · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't all be so desperate to defend it if you all didn't see the inherent inhumanity in it, just saying. Get over it all ready.

  5. Re:The Wookie Who Shagged Me on Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? · · Score: 2

    The thinking would be, that Barrack Obama RIAA/MPAA stuffed department of in-justice put the hard word on Sweden via that political hooker Hilary Clinton, for totally screwing up the Julian Assange thing and making both the UK and US government look pretty ridiculous, that Sweden had better make that Pirate Bay guy. Campaign dollar pressures.

  6. Re:Methinks people don't appreciate the scales her on Bill Clinton Backs 100 Year Starship · · Score: 1

    Plus right now the government is finding virtually impossible to recruit the best and brightest because they don't buy into the propaganda and are simply not interested in killing people. Of course a truly ambitious space program is all together especially if tickets to fly are on offer. So more attack carriers or another space station a big space space. Another bunch of nuclear submarines or really pushing the enveloped when it comes to getting out of a gravity well, how close are we to really understanding gravity and how much more really focused effort would it take.

  7. Re:I propose... on The UK's New Minister For Magic · · Score: 1

    Likely a more complete testing program, where all the patients reactions are measured over an extended period as well as all dietary implications and of course full psychological evaluation. Whilst more costly it still seems far more humane. Double blind just seems to be quick dirty inhumane solution to drugs testing.

  8. Re:Methinks people don't appreciate the scales her on Bill Clinton Backs 100 Year Starship · · Score: 1

    Isn't that cute, the Democrats are trying to get the computer geeks and nerds onside by supporting the 100 year starship. Less talk more action. Halve the US military budget and spend it on NASA and then computer geeks and nerds the world over will sing your praises.

  9. Re:I propose... on The UK's New Minister For Magic · · Score: 1

    I would have to question the legitimacy of double blind tests. It seems really off, 50% of the patients are turned into victims destined to suffer and or die 'Here sucker take the placebo'. Seriously is it really fare to treat people like that, they are hoping for a treatment and you are sucking them in with a placebo because it makes for better statistical analysis, somehow that seems truly inhumane.

  10. Re:Good facial recognition on Google Awarded Face-To-Unlock Patent · · Score: 1

    Incorporating facial recognition in a device that incorporates a camera. Some thing seems decidedly wrong about that whole principle. Camera takes picture of persons face, hmm, have colour printer. Something just quite doesn't make sense about this whole security picture. Why do I get the feeling it's like selling locks with a set of locks picks designed to pick those locks.

  11. Re:Then I've evolved to not buy EA games... on EA Exec Won't Green Light Any Single Player-Only Games · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Time for a reality check. We all know what it really is all about. It's for short sucky single campaign so the marketing dicks can say but it's multi player. Basically when the keep using the same game engine over and over again it ain't even a new game, just a mod with new maps and they cheap ass even that level of development trying to rely on millions upon millions spent on saturation marketing. Asshats spend less money on marketing and more on developing better games and you will generate higher sales. Continue to think marketing can get you out of crap development just continues to prove you have no idea how the internet works and how it chews up and spits out marketing.

  12. Re:Easy to get UDID's on Apple Denies FBI Had Access To UDIDs · · Score: 1

    A furious FBI attempts to tempt nobody and everybody ('Anonymous'), with a blanket denial, sniff, sniff, I smell a trap. Right at this moment the individuals involved have the advantage having sprung a surprise on the FBI, right now the FBI will be sniffing the network legally and illegally via the NSA to try to track the individuals involved. Now would be a could time to drop this particular game and while the FBI are so focused on it, 'peek' them some where else and keep the yucks going (although you would have to watch out for the "to good to be true stuff"). Kind of reminds you of the movie Hackers were the fun comes from peeking and poking agents although it was the secret service they were targeting in that movie.

  13. Re:Are you sure? on Behind the Scenes With Samsung's Factory Workers · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_engineering which leads to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Works_Administration. Americans being fonts of dumbing it down of course turned it into heavy construction and to make it easier for you, here look at the pretty pictures https://www.google.com.au/search?num=10&hl=en&safe=off&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1536&bih=724&q=civil+works&oq=civil+works&gs_l=img.3..0l3.1782.3585.0.4120.11.10.0.1.1.1.259.1341.4j2j4.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.UEOhI97LhAk.

    Just so you understand everyone is eventually built for the end user, now that's back to the 99%. Currently all that happens is the psychopathic 1% have inserted themselves in there as parasites sucking 30% odd out of everything going on by having bought up all the means of production and creating the illusion of high finance. We build for the 99%, we feed the 99%, we house the 99% etc. Hint, hint, that is why they psychopathic 1% so hate government industry, because it is a continual reminder that we do not need the 1% and that they are an economic waste.

  14. Re:Are you sure? on Behind the Scenes With Samsung's Factory Workers · · Score: 1

    'Erm yeah' record corporate profits, you really pay now attention at all to facts facts and just rant libertarian talking points. Anyone who doesn't understand that economics for the last half century has largely be PR=B$ and market distortions, well, there is just no hope for them.

  15. Re:Are you sure? on Behind the Scenes With Samsung's Factory Workers · · Score: 1

    The smallest government is a monarchy. All your crap is just that crap, delusional right wing thinking. Big government is for once and for all, a government of the people, by the people and for the people, it's as big as it can get because it involves all the people. Last time we had small government, we cut off the heads because they refused to accept democracy, let's not go back there again.

  16. Re:So is apple... on Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs · · Score: 1

    Well doubting Thomas here's a better story which even gives a hint where it occurred http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/380372/20120904/antisec-anonymous-fbi-data-breach-apple-udids.htm. and if you want to see his recruitment spiel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiY2oGEEYb4. See, you too can become a FBI security leak. I wonder what else they got and didn't mention. It sure to make Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl brain burn for the next few months trying to figure out. Could you imagine the ribbing this particular FBI nugget is going to get in the office over the next few years, ouch.

  17. Re:No TDM in .au? on Business Tier For Australia's NBN Brings Big Possibilities For VoIP · · Score: 1

    It seems you missed the in addition to the 100MBps bit so basically you'll have 105MBps to play with on one connection, being that nothing bars you from having more than 1 connection, which of course you'd need for 400VVoIP (video and voice over IP) and if you don't think video calls will take over then you deserve to be staring at a green screen.

  18. Re:Can't work for 40 hours? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Disabilities In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Part time is easy in critical ICT just think laterally, Friday night to Monday morning, catch though trust is a priority. Anything that brings your trust into question is going to be a problem especially on the weekend shift with less supervision. Networks doing contract installations generally occur on the weekends.

  19. Re:I find this hard to believe on Australian Attorney General Pushes Ahead With Gov't Web Snooping · · Score: 1

    The third Australian political party The Greens opposed it http://greens.org.au/content/data-retention-scheme-lunge-vast-surveillance-powers-0. Unlike the US voting system with preferential voting, your vote for the Greens means either they win or your vote goes to the next party you least dislike, either way a message is sent to all sitting politicians that their jobs are under threat if they continue to support police state policies that turn all Australians into suspects.

  20. Re:Well that cinches it for me on Obama and Romney Respond To ScienceDebate.org Questionnaire · · Score: 2

    Still far superior to Ayn Rand Objectivism. Want to be afraid, consider who Ayn Rand lauded, a psychopathic who dismembered a child when the ransom wasn't paid. She lauded him for being free or morals or the strictures of society and having a single minded focus on himself, his lusts and ego. That is who the running mate of Mitt Romney idolised, who Paul Ryan has stated to have been inspirational in all his decisions.

    Never just look at the figure head pay attention to the whole team. Might as well as those answers were prepared by a whole team and designed around garnering more votes, than anything to do with policy direction and the only thing to pay any attention to is blunders.

    Something as stupid as the job of regulatory agencies is to "streamline and reduce burden", no you Mitt Romney bloody morons, the job of regulatory agencies is to reduce company fuck ups. Mass pollution, poisoning, structures falling down, companies to big to fail, corporations basically acting in a criminal fashion etc.. Raising visa caps for high skilled foreign workers kind of kills the point or retraining existing unemployed workers, make your choice flip flopping Romneyites. Yes there is global warming but the Romney solution is to wait for confirmation with the great flood before doing anything. On education both Obama and Romney are nuts, looney tunes not point in education if you keep exporting the jobs by allowing unfair imports. It sounds like both idiots aim to have the highest education unemployed people in the world.

    Mitt Romney hates net neutrality and wants a corporate controlled internet not only in the US but wants that forced upon other countries. Obama of course loves the RIAA/MPAA crowd and they come first. Overall Romney comes off as a deregulation nutter who thinks corporate executives can be trusted beyond this months bonus and padding their golden parachute. Obama comes off a whishy washy and non-committal to anything in particular except the RIAA/MPAA of course. I think their PR teams need a second shot at the questionnaire, simply not good enough try again.

  21. Re:Cody claims teacher performance doesn't correla on The Gates Foundation Engages Its Critics · · Score: 1

    Just a heads up. The cost of school infrastructure is built into the cost of teaching. That land, those building and the recreation facilities. In urban areas, that land could be a high rise apartment structure, often several high rise apartment structures and is priced into the cost of teaching at that location. Next due to local government school administrations, the cost of school administration is repeated again and again and again, easy fix go from local government school administration to state government school administration, one state education body, doing all the administration, hiring and firing and setting curricula.

    The was no great problem until knee jerk right wing reactionaries got involved and started fixing things. The more they fixed the worse it got, with them complaining all the way they if only they could fix things more suddenly somehow by some miracle instead of their fixes making things worse it would suddenly make things better.

    You have got ignorant uneducated (speciality knowledge) people making 'from the gut' decisions. Measuring student education costs in one year can be affected by postponed building maintenance cost suddenly blowing out with repair it now at double the cost of keeping it maintained or it will fall down. Text book replacement put off for years finally being updated. Local government with a minimal number of schools to off set administration costs. Accounting fudges inflating capital infrastructure right downs for more federal funding. Inflated administration wages due to political appointees. Regional security and vandalism repair costs. Of course often forgotten stuff like heating and cooling bills, some locations get away with spending very little on that, whilst others pay a fortune.

  22. Re:Are you sure? on Behind the Scenes With Samsung's Factory Workers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's normally referred to as civil works, a distinction because of the lack of skills required in labour. Construction work is separate due to the skills required even in labouring work. I have done 12 hour shifts on a production like, fortunately with an agile mind and vivid imagination, it was easy to park my body on the task at hand whilst my mind was elsewhere. Still it is easy based upon my experience to see where RSI comes from and it logical long term consequences upon people who lack the intellectual ability to move on. That lack of intellect should not be a reason to exploit, leave the in a dead end position which they will not be able to sustain till retirement and to give them no real future.

    We is it contrary to right wing bullshit, those that work the hardest in the most undesirable jobs get paid the least and those that put in the least real effort in the most desirable jobs get paid the most. A fair and honest society recognises this and makes an adjustment, an inherently insane, deceitful and dishonest society simply exploits the situation. Turns human beings into drones working in poverty, to be ruthlessly exploited unto death.

    What ever happened to the lie about increased productivity and automation, it would seem the benefits only got shared amongst the top psychopathic 1% and the rest simply got screwed over. It's time to start nailing the 1% and teach them a thing or two about being ruthlessly exploited.

  23. Re:Flamebait on Windows 7 Overtakes XP, OSX Struggles To Beat Vista · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but it is pretty much you. This news article is pretty much total confirmation that people are not updating the OS at all any more. The OS that came with their hardware is basically the OS they are sticking and until the hardware is replaced that OS remains, apart from Linux dual boots, which is generally not measured.

    From a M$ perspective it means pretty much zero income from OS upgrades. In fact the only OS people really talk about upgrading and complaining when they can't is Android, they've got some pretty solid marketing going on there.

    M$ is going to have a really hard time with windows 8, pretty much no upgrade market, so exposure is going to be pretty much locked to paid for news as advertising. End user exposure is going to be really limited and it will take years for it to have an impact. Imagine 'Years' in the tech market, a market infamous for critical monthly and even weekly changes, now slowly down to yearly upgrade cycles and in the case of the OS now looking to become pretty much stagnant and purely hardware driven.

    It is going to be hard or more likely impossible to generate as much desire for windows 8 as there was for ice cream sandwich, the majority of the market just doesn't care. Application makers are going to be really paying attention to this.

  24. Re:Alternate hypothesis on Do We Need a Longer School Year? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Those same schools also have a selective entry process. Do they teach better or do they just cheat by selectively only allowing smarter students into the schools and readily expelling students that fail. Basically a cunning exercise in marketing, taking credit for being better educators by the simple expediency of preventing poor performing students from gaining entry and removing any that sneak through the interview process.

    Think about those sneaky bastards basically charge more for creating an illusion by selectively only 'teaching' smarter students, 'SUCKER'.

  25. Re:usteam isn't responding. on Hugo Awards Live Stream Cut By Copyright Enforcement Bot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Based on that you can shut down any live streaming event with a good old fashioned boom box. Copyright bots beware fun is to be had.