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  1. Re:Hmmm ... on 19-Year-Old Squatted At AOL For 2 Months · · Score: 1

    More like a geek monastery, where the monks of code worship the cycles and multi task a better future. No, seriously, why not a monastery for computer geeks but without all the God bothering, a new kind of startup mentoring, rather than providing cash, provide facilities, accommodation, sustenance and fellowship?

  2. Re:Well, if they're going to generalize, I am too on Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation? · · Score: 1

    Actually the only life style changes I am considering are whether to move from my current hillside suburban home with sunset views to a low maintenance inner city home, a low maintenance beach side home or whether to try an apartment at either location, all as a result of reduced ability to maintain a yard and garden after a disabling car crash. Not sure how well I would tolerate apartment living, as for basement dwelling as you well dwell on it perhaps you can provide an experts review of that lifestyle choice.

  3. Re:Candice side on Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright · · Score: 1

    Far more polite to say she is a far right winger attempting to make use of charity washing (hiding behind and attempting to profit from charities that provide very little actual charity) in her get rich quick specialist SEO attorney scheme/scam and a swag of not very good cross linked web sites. Her carefully fabricated narcissistic delusions of becoming a multimillionaire SEO attorney were threatened by a DMCA notice and godaddys over reaction and shutting down of her dream/delusion, with the expected psychologically disturbed result.

  4. Re:Well, if they're going to generalize, I am too on Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well perhaps the mating, reproduction and caring model are wrong. Basically locked into gaming and the internet, they have become isolated from the current mass marketed model. To 'win' (why win exactly) the right women, you have to have the right job, own the right car and dress the right way, say the right things (at least in a token fashion), take her to the right places and buy her the right things (hmm, a lot of the current mass media marketing models revolves around buying the right stuff and has very little to do with act in the right way >60% divorce, need we say more).

    How about a different model Mosuo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo, sounds like an interesting switch. Stick with your own family for live, no divorce, no separation, no single mothers living on their own. Really it might be the model is broken. Whilst marriage and divorce and marriage et al might suit capitalist greed and mass media narcissism, is it really the appropriate model.

    Are young men liberated from mass media marketing not delivered in the gaming (no fit) and porn market (counter concept), just rebelling against the whole 'buying' into relationships thing and seeking women who actually do share the same lifestyle preferences. Is a modern mass media relationship more about being a consumer slaves than about a real relationship between men and women. Consider it is even worse from the women's perspective, ludicrous quantities of make up, mass painful removal of body hair, clothes and shoes as a life style, hair has to be treated like a living entity and all a huge cost.

  5. Re:The End of Free? on Free News Unsustainable, Says Warren Buffett · · Score: 1

    What is really going on here is ease of acceptability. No huge building, with printing presses, transport and delivery system and sales sites required. You can squeeze internet news to just the journalist and if you're an ass hat like Ariana Huffington you can suck them into doing for free and then sell out from underneath them (oh so slimy). So the problem with free internet news, is not that the model is bad, it's that easy access has driven up competition.

    Now add in global competition to that mix and you have real tough competitive markets. You are having to compete from every direction, along with also having access to customers from all over the place.

    It's going to swing back and forth, pay wall, free, pay wall, free. Along with gain subscribers, lose subscribers etc. Now lets not forget advertising as news and how much that really does hurt. I'm thinking that with paid subscribers they think they can get away with more advertising as news because their paid subscribers aren't checking elsewhere and will accept the bullshit. I bet that idea will blow up in their faces, just ask AOL about their 'We Love Darth Cheney Campaign'.

  6. Re:Mobile will destroy Google? on Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google? · · Score: 1

    'ER' a lot of the insiders have sold already, Zuckerberg has dumped a billion dollars worth on the suckers, Goldman Sachs has sold 50% of it's holdings, M$ has sold, etc. etc.. If fact insider dumping of stock is already severely impacting the price which is why they have 'slowed' down their sales, seeing if it will recover, if not expect another major insider sales driven drop.

    I'd be really suss about the major 'outside' purchases, what really motivated the corporate executives to decide to buy that dog and force their company down that money losing route (I wouldn't be surprised if those corporate executives were making money while their companies were losing it).

  7. Re:Why Forbes name Ballmer one of the worst CEO? on Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    MSN loses money under Ballmer, enough said (Google et al).

  8. Re:Dear Australia... on Australian IT Price Hike Inquiry Kicks Off: Submissions Wanted · · Score: 2

    Prime example of this, price of DVDs in Australia, often very closely align with the price of DVDs in the US, why http://www.amazon.com/, that's why, plus low cost of transport, import duties on the medium only and you still pay GST. Add to that the ACCC made region coding non-enforceble and you can buy most dvd players fixed to be region free (you notice boc has been opened and inspected and confirmed sticker placed on it, the media companies dont want it continually advertised that Australia has legally broken region coding).

    Commercial software seems to be the biggest problem mainly because the government is in the pocket of the BSA and routinely buys their product and data locks to it. Free open source software is only recognised by the Greens and the Democrats. Liberal will never want a piece of it and Labour has been horribly slow coming to the party with it comes to software that thrives on 'BLOODY LOCAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT' not on billions of dollars disappearing overseas.

  9. Re:Again copyright law abuse. on Fox Sues Dish Over "Auto Hop" Ad-Skipping Feature · · Score: 1

    Interestingly according to law "To promote the progress of science and useful arts" would mean that the claim would be false but along with extending copyright any pretence that copyright was about "promoting the progress of science and useful arts" and really all about sheer valueless greed, blowjobs in limos, sexual abuse on casting couches, huge orgies pretending to be business promotional events, a shit load of every kind of drug imaginable, sexual abuse of minors in mansions, the worst kind of political campaign abuse, would mean in a normal US court of deceit, it would be true.

  10. Re:Again copyright law abuse. on Fox Sues Dish Over "Auto Hop" Ad-Skipping Feature · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually recording a broadcast and then editing it to remove undesirable content prior to displaying it and doing so upon a 'commercial' basis, is a violation of copyright. Right now it is possible to create software that can dip into content and swap out product placements and replace them with competitors products ie replace all the cans of coke and coke advertisements in the actual content and replace them with cans of pepsi and pepsi advertisements. It would likely be cheaper for companies to take content and edit in their product placements as they edit out competitors product placements and surreptitiously distribute the edited content than to pay for product placements.

  11. Re:Why? on US State Department Hacks Al-Qaeda Websites In Yemen · · Score: 1

    So by any chance did that "information about civilians killed in terrorist strikes" include details about innocent victims killed by drone missile strikes or is the US State Department still heavily into pretending they don't exist and they are by far the best recruiting tool for those violently opposed to the US.

    Where would we be now if the US actually adhered to justice and sought to arrest and publicly try people accused of terrorist crimes, rather than seemingly randomly blowing people and hoping for the best. Not even bothering with trials in absentia to prove their case for homicide just relying on a mass media approved and spread 'WESAYSO' approach, yeah it's true dinosaur thinking.

  12. Re:Party afiliation not important on New Jersey Mayor and Son Arrested For Nuking Recall Website · · Score: 1

    How about the even trickier blue dogs are socialist progressive liberals regardless of how neocon they actually are. Fox not-News kind of wildly exaggerated the bias, no one is blind to the extremely exaggerated bias not even the far right, they think it is OK because of the rest of the media is against them. Hold on mass media is meant to be really good a fooling people, they are professional advertisers, reality TV kings, skilled at making celebrities out of narcissistic arse holes. Yet they so fail in hiding their blatant bias against what appears to be the left of politics, perhaps because the real scam here is making right wing democrats from Obama on down look like centre left politicians to suck people into blindly voting for them rather than looking for alternatives who will actually represent them. Is the blatant bias all about making conservative Republicans who pretend to be progressive Democrats, look more like progressive Democrats when their actual actions defiantly show them to be conservative Republicans. It's all talk left but legislate and vote right, with a mass media show obscuring the great deceit and the huge betrayal.

  13. Re:Question- How did scammers do this? on When Antivirus Scammers Call the Wrong Guy · · Score: 1

    I always get those scammers to hang up. I just all innocently ask them for their address, no matter what they say, they usually respond with an excuse me, and I just all so innocently ask for their address again, buggers just hang right up at that point, somehow I think they think I might be someone they don't want to deal with.

  14. Re:Simple solution on Apple and Samsung Ordered Talks Fail - Trial Date Set · · Score: 1

    Apple isn't interested in selling or winning, they just want to delay things for as long as legally possible, using every means possible. Samsung know this and still want to make money selling Apple parts. This has more to do with the corrupted legal process than anything else. No matter what happens it will be appealed through higher and higher courts and when it is at the highest legal level with about a couple of months to go then Apple will negotiate, to get there might take a year or more.

  15. Re:4 step plan on Florida VoIP Provider Files Net Neutrality Complaint With FCC · · Score: 1

    There are four levels of service, slashdot loves car analogies so it works like this.
    There are the highways, which take services intercity, interstate and international.
    Then there are the main roads which distribute services throughout the city.
    Then there are suburban streets which distribute services from main roads to every other street.
    Then there is the kerb to the house, the final service.
    The ISP really should only do the kerb to the house. By breaking it down you can more readily generate competing services at each level, one wholesaling to the other with the ISP providing retail services. Of course when the government provides the whole lot, they can then sell it at a price to promote the general welfare regardless of cost and use taxes to subsidise it during the initial uptake until full coverage is achieved, ensuring everyone gets it at an equal price.

  16. Re:Confucious say. Fair is fair. on ITC Judge Calls For US Xbox Import Ban · · Score: 1

    The question is will M$ sacrifice the xBox to stop an Android assault on the desktop market. How much does the xBox make, when they have to upgrade the xBox how much will they lose again like the last xBox upgrade, is M$ ready to let xBox die to protect Windows from Android. They wanted to dump Bing, Ballmer's baby are they ready to dump xBox.

    They unceremoniously dumped Zune after all the very expensive hype they pumped into it, even when Ballmer's uncle loved it so much 'sic'. Is M$ ready to dump windows phone because they think they can make more out of B$ Android patents. They can't run MSN properly and blame it for it's losses when it should be worth more than Google. Under Ballmer M$ has become pretty chaotic, lashing out in all directions and, starting stuff and killing it. It is becoming really difficult to predict what they will do, it all seems rather random with no real cohesive plan.

  17. Re:history repeating on The Future of Browser Choice · · Score: 1

    So now with smart phones and growing storage capacity there is no excuse for limited choice for an appliance with limited power and limited storage. The phone companies are basically shooting themselves in the foot with lock down, as phones become more powerful and storage capacity increases, there is no excuse for lock down even when M$ is no trying to go that path on PCs because of the threat of Android.

  18. Establishing the production facility with people is far cheaper as well as obviously retooling, also when they loose a contract, they can readily switch over to another product. As China shifts to manufacturing for the local market with self produced branded products so the increase in automation will occur. Consider the cost of a $50,000.00 or more machine versus training a disposable person. Until those disposable people decide that they are no longer disposable they will continue to be exploited. Labour reform was not given in the west, people died to achieve it.

  19. Re:How does it taste? on Kim Dotcom Demands Access To Seized Property To Defend Himself · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The claim is he 'sold' advertising space based upon allowing others to copy and distribute copyrighted content, not theft involved, no armed smugglers, no gang of armed criminals and, no pirates on the high seas. A straight up civil matter that was totally abused by a twisted by a demented and distorted Barack Obama/RIAA/MPAA Department of in-Justice, flooded with lawyers fresh out of the RIAA/MPAA(who dont give a crap about justice just how much money they are going to make screwing it over for as long as they can get away with it). That sucked in another country to do it's dirty work for them, a big Hollywood show. Now comes the collapsing court case and the massive civil suit not against megaupload but against the New Zealand government. New Zealand was the sheep and the US was wearing the gumboots. It is pretty obvious the current US administration does not give a crap about justice, the law courts are just something to be abused for their financial advantage. They just write up any old crap and say the most obscene abuses of justice are now legal. Barack Obama has betrayed every principle of progressive justice.

  20. Re:Clarify on MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates · · Score: 1

    However it is all a big show for mass media because the charge of conspiracy to defraud is based all upon the testimony of a person who is getting a substantial reward for testifying ie not being charged with a crime. So the whole thing will blow up in court, the ass hats don't give a crap because they got their mass media publicity and police resources were wasted based upon corruption of the justice system yet again by the RIAA/MPAA.

  21. Re:And now we can cut off space funding. on At Long Last, a Private Cargo Spaceship Takes Off (Video) · · Score: 1

    No but we are realist. If we can get the privatised military industrial complex to focus on privatised space exploration instead, millions of people wont have to pointlessly die in fabricated wars. So although the privatisation of space exploration will inevitably be chaotic and many people will die in space and on the ground (privatisation doing it on the cheap and falling to the ground all over the place) overall we will all still be far better off. All they need is lotteries for a space trip so the cheetos crowd can get in on it, as well as most of the rest of us and we are set. A bit of space exploration competition wouldn't go astray either as least three competing groups would be great.

  22. Re:Was the teacher tutoring a single student? on Machine-Guided Learning Matches Teachers In Study · · Score: 2

    Actually doing both makes the most sense. Were the students unsupervised or was someone present to ensure the odd student did not abuse the computer they were using.

    In the end, is not thus why computers are being introduced to the classroom. The computer does the bulk of the teaching and the teacher supervises and helps students stuck and not proceeding the with computer driven teaching. So no the teacher must understand the computer education program as well as the subject being taught.

    If you think having all children sitting at home connected to internet with no teachers will work, I have a US only teaching for profit teaching program to sell you and screw the resultant chaos, where both parents work and children are free to roam the streets during the day. I will electronically fudge the results to 'er' prove the success of the program so that the government will keep sending me millions and 10% of which I will religiously donate to the campaign of the crooked politician who signs off on it. This should euphemistically work for a minimum 3 maybe as long as 5 years then no matter how much PR=B$ via mass media is applied the majority will know it is all bull shit.

  23. Re:Underestimation? on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    This is the normal M$ windows rule, one good version, the next version bad, the net version good and repeat. It seems to be a test of what they can get away with, how much they can screw around with the market with unnecessary and pointless upgrades. Windows 8 looks to be a real dog to ensure windows 9 looks really good in comparison it's the crazy M$ way to justify pointless operating system upgrades.

  24. Re:Irrefutable fact on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    It is pretty obvious as the history evolves and fact replaces PR=B$ Thomas Edison is being rewritten as a dick and Nikola Tesla as a true genius. The internet has the power to unravel the most powerful and enduring public relations lies and expose the truth. Thomas Edison is no inventor just a manipulative psychopath who claimed other peoples inventions as his own, the first true speculative investor, who was a real dick when it came to claiming inventions he 'paid' to develop as something he invented, an ego driven ass hat.

  25. Re:False on Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser · · Score: 1

    Chrome on Android and windows phone with IE just absolutely dying. So windows phones being actively replaced with android phones. Firefox not so big on phones.