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  1. Re:No Surprise There on Apple Exits "Green Hardware" Certification Program · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple marketing created the illusion which it's products hid behind, the illusion has mostly evaporated under the glare of the truth. So Apple is basically acknowledging that it's market are the spoilt brats who don't give a crap about anything unless it is fashionable to do so, today, in the last hour, now. So it is squeezing out on cost to maximise profits because the spoilt brat market eventually becomes the no taste market, they have basically painted themselves in a corner. Fashionable fads always die, clothes, hairstyles, jewellery, food, cars, basically any imaginable accessory all go the route of the yoyo and hula hoop.

  2. Re:Inevitably... on Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You really don't get it do you. Nukes are the weapon that most effectively targets leadership, the idiots pushing the buttons, the shit heads hiding in bunkers while every else does the fighting and dying. Every knew that wars would come to an end as soon as they created a missile that targeted the 'other guys' leadership from the top down. They are not so eager to fight when it is their worthless narcissistic arses on the line, then it's all let's negotiate and give peace a chance.

  3. Re:Age on Ask Slashdot: Old Dogs vs. New Technology? · · Score: 1

    I am fifty, the lesson to be learned is how easily do workers accept new technology, retraining, porting documents, when they have to do it again and, again and, again and, again and, again and, well you get the idea. It's gets really annoying after a while when the new guy turns up and yet again, wants to change yet again to the latest and greatest because that what modern marketing has driven into the head of the young guy.

    What needs to happen is to ensure changes are not just about inflating the profits of companies like M$ and the costs saved which actually balance out against the expense of change. Reality would mean the latest version of windows should cost something like 'MINUS' ten thousand dollars in accrued loses where the cost of change has failed to balance out savings made, ignoring for example escaping windows bugs because that is bullshit reason to spend more money with for example M$.

    Always remeber it the computer age you are not pushing change number one going from pen and paper to computers, I and other people of my age did that, you are pushing change number 15. Change number 1 was easy to prove, change number 15 is starting to make change number 1 look not so good.

  4. Re:First Thetan! on Church of Scientology Enlisting Followers In Censorship · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also Christianity does not specifically target those suffering from psychological illness and to compound that target psychologists and psychiatrists and their professions with a vilification campaign in order to ensure people suffering from psychological illness will end up trapped with in the corporate for profit cult of Scientology. This corporate cult of greed also goes to any disaster event to target people at the weakest, people when they are most vulnerable with a scheme or providing aid only to try take everything those people own. Far better to be called the Church of Corporate Psychopathy a for more accurate description.

  5. Re:Kitchen staff on Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    Your kind of attitude adds an extra billion to the budget. Here's how it works, it's all in percentages, each and every budget items counts, when you start inflating one area you soon find yourself inflating every single other area with the same bullshit excuse, in a billion dollar budget what difference does another few million make, repeated over and over and over again. Pretty soon a 5 billion dollar budget becomes 9 billion and no one knows how or why.

  6. Re:Foundations are tax shields on A Critical Examination of Bill Gates' Philanthropic Record · · Score: 1

    You should clarify, Gates wants to pursue his own 'TAX AVOIDANCE' philanthropic endeavours, that apparently do more harm than good but feed into Gates ego and generate hidden profits for Gates. Sorry but the world's assets belong to every person on the planet, control is given to those often excessive control for all the wrong reason to too much of the planet's assets.

  7. Re:Smart but not nice on China Begins Stockpiling Rare Earths, Draws WTO Attention · · Score: 1

    China needs to tell the WTO to go fuck itself, all of it's corporate stooges and political flunkies as well. China is doing what is in China's best interest and what will profit China the most. The US is using drones to murder Afghanis at random in order to control Afghan minerals, so China doing what it likes with it resources to maximise the benefit for China is sound and reasonable and the WTO and it's corporate stooges can basically Fuck Off.

  8. Re:Kitchen staff on Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    To be fair whilst coffee adds to the cost of these projects, using Linux means saving tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars of licence fees. Often those extra costs can mean the difference between success and failure, simply by running out of cash before success is achieved. When you total up all software licences used in major research projects you are talking millions of dollars, months of research time preserved for actual research.

  9. Re:aka... on Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks · · Score: 2

    It's already old tech, it's called creating a honey pot, nothing new here. When you create honey pots, you announce them, much the same as a mine field, it helps to keep away amateurs so that you can focus on professionals. This is of course similar to the reason professionals give away their hacking tools free, so that they can hide their attacks behind hundreds even thousands of amateurs.

    Taking into account the cost of computer equipment, any network where security is a real issue should be running a parallel and interleaved honey pot network, to draw in attacks, so that those attacks can be analysed and evidence produced for further prosecution. With a honey pot network, unlike a regular network, you know exactly what state it should be in and exactly what data should be entering or leaving, making any attack readily visible, the weak point in your network should always be a honey pot and they should be every where possible. An extension of the idea is that police, should be able to place honey pot networks in private enterprise, where an attack has occurred or where they suspect an attack will be likely to be a step ahead of attackers, especially foreign governments. There should be hundreds of thousands of honey pot network minefields scattered all over the place.

  10. Re:White roofs help greatly. on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    Surfaces that have a high reflectivity will also have low radiation. All to do with the molecular structure at the surface and having a high molecular surface area to radiate heat as well as losing heat through convection. So you still gain in winter with shiny surfaces.

    One of the most important things in high temperature areas is to make maximum use of lower overnight temperatures to cool heat sinks overnight and allow them to absorb excess heat during the day, from now sealed off well insulated areas.

  11. Re:stack ranking sounds like the strict curve on Microsoft's 'Cannibalistic Culture' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find the whole process of stack racking fascinating in a Machiavellian point of way. It really points to incompetent management who have no idea how to motivate staff, how to create effective productive teams and of course how to create a healthy working environment. Basically it screams we have no idea what we are doing so we are going to introduce dog eat dog, into the work environment and let itself sort itself out and blame everything on middle management and take credit for any success.

    I would look at stack racking in employee evaluation as a solid indication that a company has psychopathic corporate executives in charge. They enjoy the carnage that results, they revel in the benefits of favouritism, include gifts and sexual favours, the enjoy the ego boost of being able to destroy more competent people and they thrive in the hostile environment created. Insane people driving insanity in order to make themselves appear normal. This certainly explain a lot about M$'s failures in new product lines. No one willing to take risks, top to bottom favouritism and ensure the job permanence of current graders. A top to bottom scheme to ensure the survival of Ballmer and nothing else.

  12. Re:Apple? on Bill Gates: the Traditional PC Is Changing · · Score: 1

    It is quite possible to create content with a hammer, chisel and stone 'tablet', doing it in any other context than say head stones for dead ideas is just never going to be very productive.

  13. Re:Sell! on Sea Level Rise Can't Be Stopped · · Score: 1

    Now add in equatorial bulge, tidal impacts as percentage of water available and, storm surges. Substantial increased weathering and erosion removing currently protective barriers and not to forget altered weather patterns due to altered sea temperature and destabilisation of existing weather patterns around 'new' weather norms with random consequences of extremes. Note also ice melt can be added to the rise which will escalate as a result of increased flooding producing considerably more methane from rotting vegetation and drowned animals. So all of a sudden 12 inches can readily become 12 feet and even more. Sing to your masters 'Privatise the profits and socialise the losses' sing it loud and that's all you'll here, 'Privatise the profits and socialise the losses'.

  14. Re:Dunno, might help but not solve problem on Google Proposes Fighting Piracy By Blocking Ad Money · · Score: 2

    Tax havens, allow Politicians to strip mine their countries assets, allow arms dealers to trade in weapons, allow major drug dealers like the CIA to launder their money, allow corporations to cheat on hundreds of billions in taxes globally, allow organised crime to hide their assets, allow hundreds of millions in bribes to be paid top corrupt countries all over the globe, allow for assassins to be more readily paid, facilitate global espionage payments basically they allow every kind of corruption to occur that requirements the transfer of money. All of a sudden tax havens are going to draw the line at naughty advertisement income. Google you morons, you cheat on taxes in every possible way, just as advertisements via spam and copyright infringement will cheat.

  15. Re:Apple? on Bill Gates: the Traditional PC Is Changing · · Score: 1

    The problem here is a cognisance gap, the failure to realise the difference between content creation and content consumption. M$ is relying on the majority feedback of users who allowed M$'s experience software to run ie by and large content consumers. M$ is now fooling itself that the majority of the computer market, the content consumers, now defines the PC market rather than the content creators which M$ is choosing to ignore to M$'s peril.

    Content creators are largely the business market, people who create business plans, feasibility studies, building plans and, reports. Next up you have science and advanced education, with every imaginable kind of content being created. Then there is the school experience and unlike the expectation of M$ marketdroids selling content to students will not educate, students need to create content to learn.

    M$ seems determined to stick with Uncle Festers idiot plan because their privacy invasive feed back software tells them to. Either that or the typical every second version of windows must be shite in order to force upgrades is running to plan.

  16. Re:useful.... on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 1

    People are well known for being very slow at searching filtering large data sets for an individual piece of information, computers on the other hand are very well known for the exact opposite. Of course this kind of radar could be used to create a continuous national 3 dimensional image of airspace and based upon economies of scale useful for, air traffic control, weather forecasting and alien aircraft detection. So not one radar, but many working together.

  17. Re:useful.... on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 1

    If your jamming radar, why do you need a stealth aircraft???

  18. Re:stopped using it? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    However you do not represent the majority of users. This is M$ simply being fooled into a stupid decision by their own smartness, "The telemetry gathered by the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program". This bit of what appears to be extremely invasive technology was of course turned of by most smart and business users. Now M$ has fooled itself by accepting the data as reality. The way the least technically inclined users use windows being the best way to use windows. This would be much the same a google redesigning the search experience around the way the most inexperienced users use search and removing all the other search search features like - and "" and site specific: or in tech talk removing all the boolean search options and of course eliminating advanced search all together because the majority of users don't use it.

    M$ is basically making an advanced decision is annoying power users because the computer says so. Pretty much proof positive of empty headed marketdroids and insurance salespersons taking over the company. Smart person would leave in choice because tens of millions of customers still use the start button but don't use "The Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program" for obvious reasons.

  19. Re:Illogical all around on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    However the US has managed to manipulate Julian Assange into silencing himself and sending a message to the rest of the world. Julian's biggest mistake was in failing to get to an Australian Embassy right at the beginning and forcing an extradition from Australia where the case has to be largely proven and it must be a criminal offence in Australia. Julian was manoeuvred into trapping himself through a unwillingness to take a gamble.

  20. Re:useful.... on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What it means is stealth is now meaningless technology, paying megabucks for a stealth fighter is simply throwing the tax payers money away. Once you can accurately track moisture in the atmosphere, then tracking ex-stealth aircraft is simply a matter of searching for and pinpointing areas of the sky not behaving like other areas of the sky. Specifically those areas of the sky which show a disturbance of where the aircraft has been, contrails http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail and where the aircraft actually is shock and compression waves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_wave, even subsonic compression of the atmosphere by the passage of an aircraft substantially alters the amount of moisture in close proximity to the aircraft.

    The US Navy might as well announce to the world, don't waste your money on the F35 or F22, what you want is a high durability aircraft. Stealth is utterly meaningless especially when the shape impacts durability and performance. Basically the only real defence is flying really low, as fast as possible and being the smallest target possible (cruise missile). Once you get above ground clutter, you'll announce your position, even if you stop and hover, your past passage will show up as well as your thrust plumes, jet or propeller.

    No such thing as 'atmospheric' stealth no matter how advanced your technology unless of course you can jam or shut down the detection technology with even more 'advanced' technology (you can guess who I mean), the microchip being such an desirable target for at range energy fluctuations.

  21. Re:That judge is an Obama appointee on U.S. Judge Grants Apple Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well ain't that a bunch of deceitful malarky. Those trademarks are about confusing products ie people buying the Samsung product when they thought they were buying the Apple product. No one can claim that. These choice is not hardware but a choice about operating systems and online sales resources. The Android operating system and the Google store versus iOS and the Apple store, no confusion there, Apple's who premise is a lie. People buy the Galaxy Tab specifically because they do not want Apple operating system or the Apple store, no confusion, they are avoiding Apple and the Judge stole their choice, the judge eliminated competition, the judge handed sown an extremely questionable verdict one that stinks of corruption.

  22. Re:No idea on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 1

    It wasn't for profit for the donor of the liver. It was out of the kindness of their heart while it was still functioning. Face it, if asshat douches like Steve Jobs can buy their way to the head of the organ line, well then, fuck them all, I ain't donating my organs they can rot along with douche bags who think they are entitled to but their way to the head of the queue in front of more deserving and likely better outcome patients. Acts like this will have a real impact on the willingness of people to donate their organs after death.

  23. Re:Please, Please, Please start a trend. on UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published · · Score: 1

    'You', the individual, not your number plate. They are not identifying you, your car or even a physical number plate, just the arrangements of shared numbers. Basically they are not really requiring proof of anything, guilty until you can prove your innocence against a lowest possible system that is only used monitor use with regards to billings in the dollars per week range which can deny access that can represent losses in the thousands of dollars per week range.

    When 'you' are driving 'your' car and 'you' get pulled over for speeding and the police officer identifies 'you', 'you' get ticked and 'you' have 'your' right to 'your' day in court to defend yourself. Notice all the evidence against you the individual. Now this law is all about the complete opposite, you have not been identified, you computer has not been identified, you modem/router has not been identified, all they have is a log of an IP address nothing more and based upon this purely circumstantial evidence you will now be treated as a guilty criminal without any defence.

  24. Re:As an American... on EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Ignore Any Rejection of ACTA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is happening is a government agency is wasting taxpayer dollars attempting to force through something everyone already democratically opposes to suit one small corrupting segment of the market. What should happen is the idiot should be fired, as they do not have the right to waste taxpayer dollars on things only on small part of the market is interested in when major parts of the market have already expressed their opposition and that opposition has extended out to democracies within EU. You basically have one paid off asshat who has publicly stated that they will exploit a loophole to waste millions of taxpayer dollars in attempting to force through the interests of minor corrupt part of the market. So how much money will be wasted in all of this, somewhere between one million and ten million dollars, just burned away by one paid off dick head on a power trip, this person desperately needs to be fired.

  25. Re:Crazy on While the U.S. and Iran Negotiate, War Commences In Cyberspace · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hyperbole, numbnuts. The weapon used in cyber-warfare are not one shot and gone, do not disappear in an explosion are not fired and used. Software weapons last forever, once released, released into the wild, anyone can access them, mutate, edit them for their own purpose. What you have is idiot government agencies basically handing over the tools of crime to criminals. Here's a back doors, here's a hole, here's an exploit, and here is the tool to attack it, go edit it have fun, do as much for profit attack to private sector as possible, "JUSTIFY OUR SECURITY BUDGETS".

    One would have to become deeply suspicious at the real reason behind releasing these attack tools to the wild, where any organised crime gang can access them, where any foreign government can access, where skilled coders can edit them to their own purpose. This is criminal stupidity.