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  1. Re:That settles it... on Vermont Bans Fracking · · Score: 1

    How to tackle childish lies, liar, liar pants on fire.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01EK76Sy4A
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtgvwllNpg
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-L2nsSUCWw
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P8gAQhCq7c
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekzB7aUaaQ
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On8yM880x6A

    I'm getting a bored with adding these links, but there is definitely more than one and every single one of those was post some greedy arse hole trying to turn the ground into a massive soda fountain and screw the existing residents.

  2. Re:It's not a "right" on Social Networking: The New Workplace Smoke Break · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What about the slack executive that is incompetent at his job and got promoted by being a skilled psychopath. They can't do their job properly so they will take the easiest measures and that includes just firing 15% of the workforce at random to keep the rest on toes. Instil fear in the workers as the psychopath strolls around deciding who at random they will fire and what lies they will make up for the firing.

  3. Re:I do not mind on Ask Slashdot: What If Intellectual Property Expired After Five Years? · · Score: 1

    Drugs that fail, mwa hah hah. Drugs don't ever fail they just distort the test results, offer the FDA agents cushy jobs and voila, approved drug that kills thousands. If the drug is going to kill tens of thousands they stick it in an off balance sheet company that they extract the profits from before it all goes belly up. Hundreds of millions in off shore tax profits and the tax payers cover the cost of those who don't die just get horribly injured by the drugs side affects.

    Show me a pharmaceutical drug executive and I'll show you a psychopath who should be force feed the worst drugs they pushed on the market.

  4. Re:Mistrial! on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1

    The judge's example really brought up an interesting point. How will human thinking alter as people are being introduced to computer coding and younger and younger ages. I saw one interesting example of how the simplest mathematics can be taught as computer programming. How will the nature of human thinking change when a more methodical computer programming approach to problem solving is taught at a much younger age. Rather than solving math problems from an early age you solve computer programming problems, so far best language for that Ruby. Normally you take a written problem, convert it to a math problem and then convert it to a programming program, when ideally you should just be translating a written problem into a programming problem.

  5. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... on The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Best indication of a government agency a 24 hour attack rather than a cycling attack. Individual users will still want to use the computers and bandwidth for other things. Even botnet controllers will want to get back to money making spam. The only people who can keep it up solid had computers and bandwidth to waste and obviously will want to work the divide and conquer angle.

    As always they get carried away with their efforts, simply do far better than anyone else can and make it obvious, thus completely wasting the effort because even they can't keep it up for ever. Clumsy and pointless pretty much want you would expect from the anal retentive types that three letter agencies or even the private we're all dicks agencies end up recruiting.

    It is impossible to critique 'Anonymous' it does not really exist, there is no leadership to pass down the message and keep the others in line and, no core organisation to set policy. All that happens is, a call goes out for a particular activity and volunteers are requested to participate in that activity under the guise of 'Anonymous'. By far the majority of activity down using the name of 'Anonymous' is legal protest, that some activity is done by individuals using the name 'Anonymous' and this activity is generally considered illegal is there choice and other people who conduct legal protests using the name 'Anonymous' are pretty much indifferent to it, they have absolutely no control over it, they do not provide support and have nothing to do with it other than sharing a name, much like sharing the name Homo sapiens, Caucasian or Christian - you can not blame all of them for the actions of some of them or hold them legally accountable.

  6. Re:Will it? Yes. And here's why. on Facebook Adds 96 Million Shares, Will Privacy Get Worse After IPO? · · Score: 1

    Facebook are already coming under income pressure http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/16/gm_drops_facebook_ads/. GM dropped Facebook adds because of poor response (that'll spread like a wild fire).

    When people use Facebook they are very focused on their social relationships, the get in read what they have to, respond as they need to, maybe play a game and get out. They are never actually looking for anything, so adds are at complete divergence to their activity and ignorable background.

    When people are searching obviously supplying adds tied to the search as long as they are relevant to that search will work. When people are reading content, tying adds to that content will work obviously because they are currently interested in that content. Facebook can only really advertise, the people you are currently interested in because you are communicating with them.

    It's very much like two people having a conversation and a third person continuously chipping in with 'buy the new GM ????', they just ignore them and carry on with the conversation. Facebook adds would logically only really work when Facebook starts introducing artificial social contacts and, they insert buy comments into their virtual conversations. Watch out for when Facebook lists 25 billion members most of them will be fake, necessary to ensure everybody interacts with some of them, they must far outnumber real users.

  7. Re:Congratulations, Verizon on Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    This has got nothing to do on the amount of data you download. Even if the claim was made you were overloading the network, in would only be during peak times and peak time downloads have nothing to do with total downloads.

    This is all about Verizon becoming the monopoly content distributor on their network, otherwise why include uploads. So how as a content creator do you legally distribute the content you create when you run into the verizon cap, not only for your uploads but for your customers downloads.

    Basically Verizon will be able to out compete you by charging more for the content travelling over it's network than you are charging for your content and of course allowing the content Verizon publishes to travel freely, now add in many regions were Verizon has monopoly network control, so a straight up exploitation of one monopoly to gain another.

    Watch the dosy lazy Obama Department of non-justice do absolutely nothing about a blatant anti-competitive act.

  8. Re:Not quite on Wil Wheaton: BitTorrent Isn't Only For Piracy · · Score: 1

    That really has nothing to do with BitTorrent. BitTorrent is a free uncensored digital publishing medium to allow content creators to distribute their works economically direct to end users, nothing more and nothing less.

    If illegal content is distributed on BitTorrent then the authorities should be happy because in conjunction with a proper and legal investigation they can track down the distributors of that content. Basically it is 'some' end users who are abusing the principle behind BitTorrent a free uncensored digital publishing medium in order to engage in illegal activities.

    It really makes no sense to persecute BitTorrent as it brings that illegal activity from behind closed doors and out into the open where it can be tracked and after proper and legal investigations those who provably did infringe upon laws can be prosecuted.

    One thing the internet has definitely proven to be and that's a 'trap'. A trap for people who used to get away with crimes for years and years (using snail mail and direct delivery) only to get caught when they exposed themselves on the internet. The cost advantages and speed of transaction work well for the law abiding but for the criminal the exposure means they will inevitably get caught.

    As for Obama and his pals the RIA*/MPA* stick to the law and justice you cheating, lying, betraying scum sucking ass hats.

  9. Re:Using a phone in criminal activity? on UK Police Roll Out On-the-Spot Mobile Data Extraction System · · Score: 1

    You take one quick look at them and assess whether or not they can pay for high priced lawyers. If they can, you immediately ignore them if they can't then they are suspect (rich vs poor). This really has nothing to do with skin colour apart from the assumption if they are coloured they are poor. How many coloured people in expensive suits did they molest, this is really blatantly all about a two class society rich verses poor and protecting the rich from the poor the rich create in order to exploit.

  10. Re:Just another reason... on Police Charge News of the World Editor Over Voicemail Hacking · · Score: 1

    Gees wake up. Fox not-News is basically a cable news network, it will dominate where it's cable dominates, like duh. How do it's numbers compare when it competes, how well does cable news compete with free to air news and more importantly how well does Fox not-News compete on the Internet (I hear it get's it arse kicked all over the place hugely, it pretty much does the worst on the internet). So Fox not-News has the dying of old age luddites, yep, they'll get far with that audience, oh my.

    First comes this charge, then hopefully the break the surface of the conspiracy and get into the extortion and blackmail, the real reason why Fox not-News was doing all that hacking, a truly Machiavellian scheme to control global politics.

  11. Re:Nothing new here on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows exactly why the are being held. David Hicks demonstrated exactly what they need to do. False confession, plead guilty, one year token detention in the US or their own country and no absolutely no civil suit against the US for false imprisonment and torture. Until they agree to those terms they will remain in GITMO this brought to you by The Shrub, Uncle Tom and soon The Vulture. You can bit Mitt Romney will keep it going once he takes office.

  12. Re:Unfair on 'G20 Geek' Byron Sonne Cleared of Explosives Charges · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As for the 11 months in jail, a divorce, loss of future career, hmm penalties for criticising security theatre and attempting to short circuit the creation of a police state. The arrest was all about silencing a critic and nothing to do with justice. When out of control law enforcement had access to everything in his house, they knew, they 100% totally know they were in error, the only reason they kept going was they didn't want to admit fault and felt that regardless of the truth they could get away with a false prosecution under a poorly written law.

    A new criminal trial should start, one targeted at the officers in question, they who purposefully abused the trust placed in them in order to pursue personal agendas that had nothing to do with law and justice.

  13. Re:Broadcast rights on Big Media and Big Telcos Getting Nasty In Landmark Australian Law Case · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A little slippery. The teleco can do one thing that big media fear. They can buy a licence to the content and then distribute it as long as only one person sees it at a time, they only need one licence. Of course they can use computers to slice up the original content into ten of thousands of slices and only distribute one particular slice at a time, one licence thousands of end users, technically legal.

    Overiding everything is of course ultimately the true value of that content to society is it a negative or a positive this versus the value of an open internet is it a negative or a positive. On the whole today's content is honestly pretty much a negative all about nothing but greed and PR=B$ marketing no real value at all. An open internet is of course blatantly obviously of immense value, open up politics, enriching democracy, spreading knowledge and education, driving participation rather than spectating, huge productivity and energy savings etc. etc.

    So the real decision here is whether todays politicians will sell out the future in order to have their ego's stroked by funder's of the RIA*/MPA*, revolving around sex, drugs, holidays and straight up tax haven bribes.

  14. Re:What kind of supporters does Paul have? on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    Ron Paul supporters are a wildly diverse group. Hardly blame him for the worse elements. What he will draw in is younger geeks and that as Vice President will draw the internet to Romney. So Romney is the one on the tight rope trying to decide whether he needs Ron Paul and Ron Paul internet audience to win or not.

    Obama is going for same sex marriage and women, and trying to use carefully targeted astroturf of suck in that last few gullible progressives and liberals. On Politicfact he broke four pages worth of progressive and liberal promises, keep on the conservative ones though.

    That really only leaves the racist and prejudice, well let's guess which way they will vote

  15. Re:US and UK, best friends forever on UK In Danger From Electromagnetic Bomb, Says Defense Secretary · · Score: 2

    Psst tell the UK not to go to this naughty website http://www.amazing1.com/emp.htm. Building a EMP device seems to be a very popular topics indeed. China get's in on the game http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/07/24/china-developing-super-nuclear-electromagnet-pulse-bomb-future-war-41021/, I suppose when numbers are on your side taking the whole world back to the early gunpowder age makes sense. Of course in autocracies losing control really tends to blow up in your own face.

  16. Re:Science publishers making money off of scientis on Publishers Win On Only Five Claims In Copyright Case Against Georgia State · · Score: 2

    Science publishers sticking it to Universities, the institutions most capable of creating global multi-lingual free open reports and text books, 'erm' yeah, that's going to work out well for the publishers, 'Douh'.

  17. Re:Not interested on Foxconn CEO Fuels iTV Rumors · · Score: 1

    Burn in or the appearance of it on Plasma can be readily cleared by showing an all white screen. It's just that a story came out about Panasonic getting stuck with Pioneers old plasma plant and no sales to justify and likely forcing Panasonic to drop to cost to produce margins, rather than cost of development margins, so really cheap and they'd be desperate for numbers. So simply a target of opportunity. I'm indifferent in the LCD Plasma wars, I'm still running a CRT RPTV they do last a very long time and the colours are great, although alignment is a never ending annoyance of course but why create unnecessary waste.

  18. Re:Evidence... on LulzSec Member Pleads Not Guilty In Stratfor Leak Case · · Score: 1

    The FBI is going for straight up exaggeration no ifs buts or maybes, they are lying. PS Platoon size varies around the world so I just went average easy 'LOW' number and this is what the FBI are trying to insinuate http://people.howstuffworks.com/mafia1.htm, straight up bullshit, all organised crime and mafia and capos in charge of somewhere between 10 and 50 criminals, as you have petty criminals under the wise guys, it's all so laughably obvious, tied to the conspiracy charges and Rico http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act, really and, I mean really, lame.

  19. Re:Duh? on Finland: Open WiFi Access Point Owner Not Liable For Infringement · · Score: 1

    Well excuse me but my crappy PMCIA card and router refuse to talk beyond anything but WEP regardless of upgrades, so their crappy code is now my fault, well, FU ;D (joking about the last bit but seriously I should hardly be liable for broken upgrade code that's meant to allow WAP but doesn't and I'm stuck with WEP). So who gets the fine in this case me or the router/PMCIA card manufacturer (same company).

  20. Re:establish the facts of your standing on High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Incorrect undue risk comes into play. A excellent example would be building a shoddy dam wall. So even upon privately owned land, the owner can not just start piling up dirt to store water behind an improperly designed dam wall.

    Obviously it would be ludicrous for the court to say to the people downhill from the dam, sorry you can't sue until the dam breaks and your properties are destroyed and you all drown.

    They can state the case in court, use qualified persons to substantiate the undue risk and either stop the dam being built of force it to be properly engineered and built safely, all to prevent, 'TA-DAH' potential flooding, resultant damage and risk to life. You can not possibly argue that the case would fail.

    The same argument can be extrapolated out for climate change and the undue risk being placed on billions of future generations with regard to the flooding of coastal cities, this to privatise today's profits of ignoring the risks of climate change only to socialise the costs of losses and or remedial actions.

  21. Re:Not interested on Foxconn CEO Fuels iTV Rumors · · Score: 1

    If Apple are pursuing high margins as always then the best bet is Panasonic plasma's, they got burnt big time and will be looking to dump as many screens as possible. With plasma having better contrast they will do better on large displays with lots of text in well lit rooms.

    Apple of course will be able to dump lot's of rebranded iTV on the iGullibles who suck up Apple products, even when it is starting to trend to the spoilt brat market. Still it will be a tricky sell to get those people who can afford a big screen to dump it just to by a iTV with lock in, will it play Divx, doubt it.

    M$ and Sony can compete on big screen with built in game consoles, will Apple try to block game consoles because they won't be getting their 30% on the games. A really odd market for Apple, no profits on DVD's, no profit on game consoles and games, no profit on free to air and try and lock those out will cripple marketability. You can see why Apple are struggling with iTV.

  22. Re:Most powerful? on Member Claims Anonymous "Might Well Be the Most Powerful Organization On Earth" · · Score: 2

    With 'Anonymous' it will always be bound to the cause and to the tactics employed. Obviously the Scientology protests had nothing at all to do with the various DDos attacks and in the whole people involved in one had nothing or very little to do with the other.

    As an activism meme, it is purely people's individual choice when they wish to donate time and effort to a particular cause in the name of 'Anonymous' and what actions as individuals they decide to take. So a school of little fish that coalesce together to take on big fish, disperse and reform into new schools to take on other big fish.

    So not really a single organisation at all but just individuals. Consider the FBI promoted and drove the idea of 'Anonymous' for many months, not only participating in but leading the most publicity generated acts in that period, without doubt those FBI agents were unwitting members of 'Anonymous', doing 'Anonymous's' work in 'Anonymous's' name and did a great deal to promote the idea of 'Anonymous'. So how powerful is 'Anonymous', powerful enough to suck the FBI into doing it's dirty work for it, oh my ;D.

  23. Re:Bargin Bin? on GAME Australia Now Also In Administration · · Score: 1

    Sorry but under WTO rules, go screw yourself, global equal pricing is the rule so screw steam and go here http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=skyrim parrallel imports are legal for individuals re-sellers just have difficulty. That the US calculates minimum wage on nothing but bullshit is nothing to do with Australia. Considering Australia's minimum wage also includes universal health care and not US bullshit $5,000 deductibles with 20% coinsurance (you pay the first $5,000 plus 20% of all following charges, can't pay, piss off and die. That's after paying thousands in insurance which minimum wage Americans still can't really afford but under Uncle Tom Obama will pay compulsory high profit margin private health insurance which never has to pay for minimum wage types because they can't pay the deductible anyhow, mwa ha ha).

    The low income people aren't screwed over in Australia with wages doesn't mean they deserved to be screwed over with prices. So a big FU to U.

  24. Re:so what? on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you don't really understand US politics. A President only administers the laws given them and blocks change via veto. However US mass media celebrity focuses in on the President as leader, even when the power for change only lies with the congress and senate.

    It is all an illusion to get the gullible public to focus in on the President and largely ignore the congress and senate primaries, the only places to pay attention to if you want laws to be changed.

    The Tea Baggers sponsored directly by corporations specifically the Koch(head) boys demonstrated exactly how control can be obtained in the primaries and yet dozy Democrats completely ignored them yet again allowing Obama who clearly betrayed progressive issues a free run as well as a whole swag of blue dog democrats in both houses.

    Want hope and change then focus in on the congress and senate primaries, want trapped in despair then pay attention to the empty mass media presidential show.

  25. Re:Evidence... on LulzSec Member Pleads Not Guilty In Stratfor Leak Case · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What is interesting is they name him the lieutenant of LulzSec ringleader Hector Xavier 'Sabu' Monsegur but in court the FBI testified that Hector Xavier 'Sabu' Monsegur was only a participant. Just so the FBI sort of drops the bullshit a lieutenant normally commands a platoon of around 30 men.

    Now with the stooley the boss of 5 people, so as number 2, that only leaves 4 people that would make him more of a corporal not a lieutenant but I suppose if you are already lying in court and the ringleader becomes only a participant and then reverts to ringleader when you are accusing the claimed number 2, you might as well keep on lying. Now how exactly is the court meant to treat the FBI agents testimony when they lie and grossly exaggerate straight off the bat.