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  1. Re:"Get the Facts" on Microsoft: Macs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase' · · Score: 1

    Does it really come do to more popular products or does it come down to greed. Not to accuse M$ of purposefully producing and releasing malware to attack and damage a competitor, yet never forget M$ is not just M$.

    M$ is owned by investors and the big banks own a chunk just as they do of Apple. Now those big banks, let's be honest are just chock a block full of psychopathic criminals. Would they pay to produce malware to attack a companies product and then bet via puts the value of the companies stock will fall and bet via calls that their competitors will rise. How many damaging simultaneous hacks would be required to cripple a companies sales of it's flagship product. Would these same bankster douche's also promote those stories via their advertising controlled marketing channels.

    Something sure stinks and I don't think it's just scruffy hackers who never clean up around the hardware. Never forget there were a bunch of investors that bet the airlines stock would fall just before 9/11 and due to some very high up people being involved nothing was done about it.

  2. Re:Too bad they're not also pushing ... on Why Verizon Doesn't Want You To Buy an iPhone · · Score: 1

    Of course the only reason Verizon could be pushing Android is because they are looking into that market. The latest Amazon Kindle is a big hint at what all the telecoms can achieve. Screw Apple, iPad profits, could be the Telco's profits, the new Verizon Tablet.

    Apple is just pretty much an ODM seller, Android with it's branding capabilities means any major company can compete directly against Apple to grab their profits.

    Once you have access to customers it makes a lot of sense for a company like Verizon to take an ODM Android device, pay someone to do some OS rebranding and then Verizon bundle it with their services. It makes no business sense to allow someone like Apple to suck the bulk of the profits out of a service you can provide that they can not ie. Apples profits rapidly become you profits.

  3. Here is exactly what Canada will do about. Delay, investigate, evaluate, investigate, refute, investigate, oh well it's time for the next election let's forget all about it.

  4. Re:Yeah go with a tablet - iPad is a good choice on Ask Slashdot: All-In-One PC For Kitchen? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If if is going to be permanently in one location, than a goofy little partly functional device makes no sense at all.

    You are really looking at something more along these lines http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Reviews/Home_Office/G3X2A9D4.

    So an all in one computer mounted to say a cabinet door with a slide out and tilt forward keyboard mounted underneath that cabinet, mains powered.

    If you can afford to spend more, why stuff about with a dinky little toy. Here's another http://www.pcworld.com/article/185061/windows_7_allinone_pcs_big_touchscreens_for_all_budgets.html. Basically what they are looking at, is what ever is left in the all in one PC with touch screen market, with a 20 inch or bigger screen.

  5. Re:Does anyone else not like the idea of touch... on Running Apps From Your Car's Dashboard · · Score: 2

    Having been on the receiving end of a permanently life changing incident, with someone paying more attention to their mobile phone than the colour traffic, I whole heartedly agree. Any distractions that have nothing to do with driving that can be restricted should be restricted. Basically a lot of these additional features should simply cease to function once the vehicle is in motion, activate with parking brake, then adjust, once parking brake off the device is off.

  6. Re:Fucking units, how do they work? on Swiss Solar Powered Catamaran Finishes 'Round the World Tour · · Score: 2

    Here's a better article with more images http://www.charterworld.com/news/tranor-planetsolar-catamarans-record-transatlantic-crossing. So they have outrigger panels to substantial solar panel surface area with out compromising durability in tougher weather. They could have also used a bit of methane generated from crew waste, as long a the crew were vegetarian of course.

  7. Re:hope we luck out on Oracle Vs. Google and the Right To Use APIs · · Score: 1

    I really think Oracle were looking for a way forward and wanted to merge with Google, this whole suite was just a negotiation tactic to kick off talks ie lets negotiate out licensing issues and by the way.

  8. Re:What if the Pound goes down again? on Microsoft Raises UK Prices By a Third and Can't Rule Out Future Hikes · · Score: 1

    To be fair to a lot of the users. They are just not into computers full stop. They hate any change, they will stubbornly stick to the most idiosyncratic ways of using computers no matter how hard you try to show them betters ways, no matter how many problems doing it 'their' way causes. If they had started with Linux, they would have screamed about changing to windows. One or two years down the track, they will finally start bitching about something else, air-conditioning, car-parking, the deli across the street changing and will have forgotten all about the operating system change, except of course forever bitching about tech support no doing exactly what they want them to do when they want them to do it ;).

  9. Re:Because SEALs aren't the police on Osama Bin Laden Didn't Encrypt His Files · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sorry pal, no trial by law, innocent until proven guilty. Under law he did not 'do' anything he was accused of doing plenty of stuff but nothing, absolutely nothing was proven in a court of law.

    Just in case your completely unaware, the court of law is not about keeping criminals honest it is about keeping government honest and forcing them to prove their case before punishing anybody. Yeah, I know. slippery, slidey, make up our own rules as we go along, memos, order of the day, rules of engagement (which surprise, surprise aren't laws of engagement, just military standing orders), rah, rah, rah, kill, kill, kill, bullshit, bullshit.

  10. Re:What if the Pound goes down again? on Microsoft Raises UK Prices By a Third and Can't Rule Out Future Hikes · · Score: 1

    It all boils down to lock in. Once companies and government were sucked in to commit to a particular direction. M$ is now basically screwing them. If those Government departments and companies make sufficient noises about Linux and Foss the M$ price comes crashing back down again but only if the kick backs fail to ensure continued questionable decision making.

    it's not like they weren't warned, again and, again and, again and, oh yes again. By people who had been similarly scammed with promises of one thing and delivery of another and continually rising prices and forced upgrades and etc. ect. etc.

    People went to Linux because M$ forced them too (it just was far to expensive to be an M$ customer, lost time, upgrade costs, continual retraining, give me your credit card before I will answer your questions, etc. etc.), then M$ took umbrige and started hurling insults at ex-customers (calling us terrorists,computer hackers, organised criminals, cancers, viruses).

    Those fools were warned based upon painful and bitter experience, they didn't listen not they have to pay, idiots.

  11. Re:Is there anything M$ money can't buy ? on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 1

    I's still trying to imagine why hackers would buy dead tree pulp in the first place. The last time I bought a magazine was near a decade ago, only because I was stuck in the city an hour before a meeting so needed to kill some time reading and sucking up some coffee. Do hackers even buy magazines any more?

  12. Re:So, they returned a server on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 2

    I think this whole thing is tied to the Lulzsec fiasco, where after months of committing crimes under FBI control and direction they ended up with no more people than they started with and due to messy entrapment issues now might end up losing the majority of them.

    The FBI are desperately trying to capture thousands of 'Anonymous' agents that the FBI convinced the government and media existed, this huge infamous organisation that managed to make fools out of the FBI by convincing them and others that 'Anonymous' was a huge infamous organisation (basically preyed upon the idiosyncrasies of the professionally paranoid). This and other recent similar server seizures as well as raids on journalists is all a fishing expedition for 'Anonymous' as the FBI teams involved try to rebuild credibility by capturing lots of 'Anonymous', ohh umm, terrorists.

    They are digging themselves deeper and deeper while hoping it will all just go away. Everyone kept saying 'Anonymous' was just an activism meme but the FBI kept insisting they were some huge computer terrorist organisation and that in turn all driven by private for profit security organisation trying to create the new security bogey man 'Anonymous'. Kind of silly when for quite a few months the majority of computer crimes committed by 'Anonymous' were actually being committed by the FBI and all those government trolls posting on slashdot about naughty members of 'Anonymous' should have been really criticising the actual criminals behind it all the FBI.

  13. Re:Does this apply to all cases? on NY Judge Rules IP Addresses Insufficient To Identify Pirates · · Score: 1

    More accurately if a car number plates, or even more accurately a set of number plates with same numbers and letters as a vehicle claimed to be owned by someone.

    Now you see how slim it all really is. Not a car, not even the actual number plates, just the temporarily assigned matching letters and numbers. So in car parlance it's like I look at my neighbours car, copy down his number plates on a bit of cardboard, stick it over my number plates and courts treat it like those matching letters and numbers are the only evidence required to fine some tens even hundreds of thousands of dollars or in the case of a search warrant steal thousands of dollars worth of computer gear for an indefinite time. A reasonable warrant should only cover the data not the hardware and the police should return the hardware with 24 hours and at the very most 72 hours, as computers are rapidly becoming a part of essential communications.

  14. Re:Security through obscurity on Osama Bin Laden Didn't Encrypt His Files · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The unanswered question is, why the claim of justifiable execution when they had him captured when the majority of the planet wanted him in trial.

    Forget the bullshit about risk, that is just bullshit. By far the majority wanted to see him paraded before the public, lead around in handcuffs, reduced to nothing but just another criminal on trial. They wanted to see the evidence, they wanted all the accusations out in the open and, they wanted to understand how a US government funded agent become an anti-US terrorist.

    They wanted the details, they wanted the truth they absolutely did not want some bullshit stage photo shoot of Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton sitting around a room with the co-conspirators pretending to watch it live, what a crock of shit. We by law had the right to our bloody trial, we had the right to all the evidence, we had the right to know everything that went on and we had the right to track all the government failings of the.

  15. Re:hope we luck out on Oracle Vs. Google and the Right To Use APIs · · Score: 1

    What is interesting here is if Oracle wins they will lose. The reason they will lose is because a win will affect every single other developer using Java as they also come under risk, end result, 'Class Action Lawsuit' pretty much guaranteed. A professional legal team experienced in computer litigation will take up the challenge to sue Oracle for misleading developers who have made substantive investments in Java with regard to their rights to use the language and risk that implies to the ownership of the result's. Oracle can not win without losing, it can not single out Google without threatening everyone else.

  16. Re:Doesn't that make him a better CEO? on Yahoo CEO Wrongly Claimed To Have Degree In Computer Science · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well no really because of course that ruthless and efficient leader is all about ruthless and efficient salary, bonuses and of course golden parachute.

    Ruthless and efficient thinking ie psychopathic thinking demands that those with the greatest resources make the most profitable victims, in this case it is the investors.

    The pattern should be pretty obvious by now. Fudge the books to create the false illusion of high profits, ramp up salary and bonuses, make it look like you are doing something through acquisitions, mergers and, mass sackings. Make it all last as long as possible and try to avoid jail when you bail with your golden parachute just before the company goes belly up.

    Modern CEO no qualifications required beyond excellence in PR=B$ (lies for profit).

  17. Re:Last bastion on Last Bastion For Climate Dissenters Crumbling · · Score: 1

    On the one hand, we have major coastal cities basically trillions of dollars of real estate destroyed and around a billion people displaced. On the other hand we have the myopic greed of a couple of thousand psychopaths. Climate change in our life time, measured and based up scientific research, analysis and testing, sound theories put forward.

    Past weather cycles from tens of thousands of year ago (for ice ages only not total collapse of ice coverage) and hundreds of millions of years ago (hey wait a second aren't your side also the bunch of buffoons that say the planet is only 6,000 years old) for extreme warming. Do not relate to short term high risk alteration we are, no if buts or maybes, changes to the atmosphere.

    Any sound decisions are always based on risk. Risk assessment here is, fine accept the denialists and their financial backers but if they are wrong they and their families are all to be executed and their assets confiscated. It's a fair balance for trillions of dollars in real estate damage, a billion displaced people likely leading to the deaths of tens of millions of them for failing to take action.

    Personally reducing the reasoned risk, considering the consequences in sound thinking. Listening to insane psychopaths driven by nothing but greed or their paid flunkies, well, is insane.

  18. Re:headline incorrect on Twitter Leaked Obama's Visit To Afghanistan · · Score: 2

    More importantly why should it be secret, there is something horribly wrong with secret head of state meetings, something inherently corrupt and really security is not a good enough excuse.

    The big secrecy seemed more to revolve around adding a decade to the hostile occupation of Afghanistan. Letting it all slide because an election is up and coming and the majority of people, globally are sick of America's military occupations of other countries. All with promises to rebuild infrastructure but reality of destroying infrastructure with missiles and bombs and saving people from autocratic governments by 'er' killing them.

    Wikileaks has proven that the secrecy in diplomatic circles is very unhealthy to democracies all around the globe.

  19. Re:They're acting like they're in trouble! on IBM Offers Retirement With Job Guarantee Through 2013 · · Score: 1

    What part of 'offers participants 70% of their pay for working 60% of their schedule.' do you not understand. Just because you are a ruthless unthinking schmuck does not mean IBM is.

    It's called job sharing. People who aren't as greedy and have enough sharing employment opportunities with others.

    Basically IBM is being very smart 21st century smart, by establishing the principle of job sharing they can in fact increase the size of the labour force without substantially increasing cost. In terms of sales this puts many more boots on the ground, many more people interested in promoting the future of IBM.

    So smart thinking not screw everyone else greed thinking.

  20. Re:OK with this? on NYC Teachers Forbidden To "Friend" Students · · Score: 1

    Really it doesn't make sense. You can have teachers and students members of the same sports and social clubs, teachers who are after hours coaches, teachers who are members of guides and scouts.

    This is really pushing the bounds of making all one on one student teacher contacts risky and being perceived as potentially sexually abusive.

    Some adults will abuse any kind of contact with children, crazy over-reaction and banning any contact situation that a bad adult has abused is utterly pointless ie. adult wanders street at night, breaks into home kidnaps child, idiot knee jerk reaction, immediate curfew for all adults not allowed to walk streets after dark.

    Adults not allowed physical contact with children without parents permission, sounds fine. Reality adult comes across child with broken leg from bicycle fall, adult leaves child in agony to find a pay phone because they don't have a cell phone.

    Most adults are responsible, attempting to ban all possible adult child interactions because of a few that will abuse them is ludicrous. That kind of crazy thinking could lead to things like, having to remove shoves and belts, naked scans and, sexual probes for possible illegal items, ohh that's right, 'Chicken shite Amerika'.

  21. Re:US, nobody gives a shit on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 1

    Should those copyright laws be tackled upon a competitive basis. Which has greater true value primary resources and labour or artificially valued IP.

    Is the US using threats of military actions and economic sanctions anti-competitively artificially inflating the value of it's often anti-social pornographic IP.

    The global market really needs to take a long hard look of the artificial value of IP versus the real value of primary resources. Is the current US administration insane enough to attempt economic sanctions against all countries rich in primary resources, should they create their own economic block to ensure the proper value of real property.

    The US was barely able to drag Europe along in it's insane Israeli driven crusade against Iran, with threats of nuclear weapons, war and shutting down oil flow. Could the US find itself the victim of primary resources economic sanctions for using extortion, corruption, illegal intelligence activities, to artificially grossly inflate the highly questionable value of it's IP.

    Has the US become far more of a burden than it is worth?

  22. Re:And.....? on Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    It could be the Wozniak is very unhappy about the direction of Apple and, it's myopic exploitative greed driven management ie Apple is no longer beautiful it is very ugly company. So a public complimentary comment about competitors software to sting Apple management.

  23. Re:Stego on German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn · · Score: 1

    For a start, these plans are all just works of fiction without any corroborating evidence, the equipment actually required to carry out an attack. All major attacks to have been planned by government organisation, out of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, oddly enough both partners in crime with the US government war on terrorism.

    Seriously why is the major funder of terrorism and the major recruiter both in bed with the US government. Of course the recent attacks against Israeli's in foreign countries has also mysteriously disappeared of the terrorist radar, why, is it because no believed.

    Here's how to transport secret documents, buy second hand thumb drives, keep receipt, encrypt the files ensure save dates pre-date receipt. Police demand decryption password, answer, "How the fuck would I know the files were on there when I bought them I just haven't bothered to delete them yet".

  24. Re:It's not Entrapment. on NY Times: 'FBI Foils Its Own Terrorist Plots' · · Score: 2

    The FBI are basically acting in exactly the same manner as terrorist organisation. Targeting the mentally ill and then working and working on them until the agree to go along with the schemes of the planners.

    Hey Fucking, Bloody, Idiots, want to seriously increase you arrest ratio, just target mental institutions, you'll get all the mentally ill victims of your mad 'lets get promoted' schemes you'll need.

    It is pretty clear that the FBI is basically targeting mentally ill people wandering around the community without access mental health care. Who is the more insane the 'special' agents concocting these schemes or their victims.

  25. Re:It's around everywhere else, too... on Is Humanity Still Evolving? · · Score: 1

    You are aware those are genetics defects. Narcissism is the lack of an autonomic empathic response and psychopathy combines that with an extreme shallowness of emotion, basically frustration and rage. The only people who defend psychopaths are psychopaths.