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  1. Re:I wish there were more video stores on Blockbuster Video Now Has Just One Store Left On Earth (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Well for $9 per month you can stream a whole bunch more, so yeah, Google, 'The rent is too damn high'. Honestly I do my content a year after, always playing catch up and avoiding the crap. Most of the best content is pre-nineties, content just ain't good enough any more to justify the price, so people don't care as much, watch it when it comes out or a year latter, who cares. Seriously for five dollars, with no packing or hardware and with an unknown life for the supplier, $5 is the buy and not the rent price, rent $1 pretty much it.

  2. Re: Maybe it makes more sense to do things in reve on Global Video Streaming Market is Largely Controlled by the Usual Suspects (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    For my viewing, it all has really changed. Unless that content get's politicised, I don't even hear about it, living largely in an ad free life, screaming video ads, just don't see them. I find out what the latest movies are from other sites that provide streaming services of the latest content with reviews that are much more honest, they are reviewing free content so no profit lying, you know the ones, they carry all sorts of shonky ads, that you should generally avoid clicking but it is pretty much the best way to see what is on and what people actually think about it.

    Content has been getting worse and worse, formulaic with no real stories and lots of special effects as those effects get cheaper and cheaper, you get more and more of them and less and less story, no loss the story is usually a Jar Jar Abrams style shit show, just barely enough story to string the action scenes together hitting specific plot points without actually telling a story and generally not making much sense or have much basis in reason or understanding (reflecting the intellect of it's creators, high on bullshit and low on smarts).

    Netflix, because I am too lazy to get up and swap DVDs that I already own and have yet to bother to shift too hard disk. Most of the time I am just sort of watching content, whilst actually interacting with the internet.

  3. Re:Sony makes smartphones? on Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Sony's problem, no unique phone design to create an identity in the phone space. One model needs to be specific to them, otherwise they are just seen as a follower no different to any Chinese phone manufacturer. They have no identity in the phone market and need to create one.

  4. Organic product, bought at select and audited farms and that product inspected by trained staff to maintain quality, as well as biological testing of product, cost money and make good product much more expensive. Not that Amazon would do that, they would just bullshit that they do and buy the cheapest rubbish they can get and sell it at inflated prices and pretend it is high quality product because that is where the big profits are.

  5. Unless they are over fifty, most 'FORMER' spies are not in reality 'FORMER' but simply off balance sheet spies with two paymasters. Seriously if they were any good how many would be allowed to work for foreign governments, without their government deciding that was an excessive risk and terminating them 'er' their employability. It is interesting how 'FORMER' spies still push their own countries policies, especially the really dirty off balance sheet ones. There is only one reason to hire a former spy, to interrogate them, using enhanced interrogation techniques, otherwise they are simply never ever to be trusted. Straight of the bat, they are betraying their former employer by using their training against them, seriously why trust them with anything.

  6. Re:Google breaks the web, yet again on Google Is Killing Off the Pixel 2, Inbox, goo.gl URL Shortener, and Google+ This Week (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, not only is Google often late to the game, it often fails, M$ and Google has so much in common, one in the same, just with different marketing, much like the Corporate Democrats and the Corporate Republicans, doing exactly the same thing, selling out their users or voters as is the case, whilst pretending to serve them. You could imagine Google and M$ both coming out with the book, 'How To Serve Humans', only we find out when it is too late, it is a cook book, well a book on how to invade and analyse people's subconscious minds so that they can be manipulated into bad choice for them but very profitable choice for others.

    Google is a disease, a privacy invasive infection.

  7. Re:It is hard to avoid that downgrade on Windows 10 Makes Large Share Gains, While Windows 7 Declines Significantly (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point mentioning windows 8.1. Note they are only comparing windows 7 to windows anal probe 10 and that is extremely misleading because it provides and extremely inaccurate image of how bad the anal probe is doing. You actually need to combine windows 7 and windows 8.1 and that reflects the true picture of how badly the anal probe is doing and why it 'KILLED THEIR MOBILE PHONE'. Windows anal probe 10, killed windows mobile, slaughtered it because people are sick of M$ bullshit and everyone knows it. Yet the anal retentive, privacy invasive, control freak cunts have to stick to trying to control everyone, what a pack of arse holes and it will take them down in the end.

  8. Re:Friends don't let Friends use IBM on SUSE Will Soon Be the Largest Independent Linux Company (qz.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    IBM had no choice but to buy Redhat, the decision forced on it by a corrupt and incompetent US government and security letters and companies like M$ and Google all to happy to hack other countries citizens, for a cash reward of course, especially their politicians so they can be blackmailed by US intelligence services at the behest of entirely corrupt US corporations.

    The only safe choice forced upon the rest of the globe, whilst trying to retain interoperability, is Linux and other major open source projects. The can strip control of the US government over their infrastructure and get rid of the backdoors, at least on the software side by using open source software, maintained on their servers inside their countries and supervised by their intelligence services. The hardware side, does require a much greater spend, a government manufacturer of electronic communication products, regardless of the cost of doing so, this cost reduce by open source chip designs.

    US corporations either make a big investment in open source software or be destroyed competitively in the rest of the world, due to the incompetent corrupt shenanigans of US government agencies and the loss in trust in anything coming out of the US related to anything technological.

    The US practically announced back doors in all their stuff, when they attacked Turkey for buying S400 which will shoot down US jets, versus any US anti-air systems which have all been back doored not to shoot down US jets. Now they don't get F35s, well, no loss there because US missiles that don't shoot down US jets, means US jets sold to other nations with back doors as well, fall right out of the sky on command and if the enemy gets that command, well, thanks US, all your allies jets supplied by the US just fell out of the sky (they are really, well and truly stupid enough to build that in, control freaks, it is inevitable, it's their idiotic nature, they think everyone is as corrupt as they are).

    The US is slowly but surely killing US tech companies in foreign environments because everyone knows neither can be trusted. IBM is making a smart move, because it will still be able to install and manage open source in other countries via IBM subsidiaries based in those countries answerable only to those governments. M$ is becoming nothing but an unwanted shite stain and Google is pretty much already there.

  9. That thinking kind of stops when you specifically hand over the information to the FBI. The Saudi's attempting to extort the US fiscal elite, in conjunction with denying the handover of bits of Syria to Israel (Syria was meant to be the enemy and Israel the friend of Saudi Arabia). It feels like all the fractures and faults in the deep state and shadow government are starting to bring down those houses of cards. They are turning on each other now.

  10. Anti-satellite weapon. Ever seen a solar power array, the old ones where they reflect light and generate lots and lots of heat. So set up 1 square kilometre mirror array, wait for daylight and point that daylight at the satellite, you'll cook it for sure. Creating debris in space in orbital paths should be considered an international crime and India and any other nation that does it should be punished for doing so and denied access to space.

  11. Not careless at all but all preplanned, it was employment insurance. With the US rabid dog eat rabid dog (healthy dogs do not eat each other) economy, anything goes. So simply stick piling core proprietary designs and engineering to take to their new company, should they ever be let go from the current company, so inter company espionage and not foreign espionage. It's the sort of thing you would expect in an extremely corrupt system, everyone is hedging their bets, ready to turn on each other, at the drop of a dime. I'll bet there is a whole bunch of extortion going on in the US war industrial complex, as the corrupt and incompetent seek to keep their positions. Building up extortion material to keep their job, to gain promotions, to shift corporations for a bigger piece of the pie. The whole war industrial complex is being run on corruption and this is the kind of behaviour you should expect and it will get much worse.

  12. So it should all, just like work out. You know, like the bloke lies about being tall and well built and the shiela lies about being tall and well built and when they actually get together, they both turn out to be short, fat, liars, see something in common right from the get go, obviously the match making works out well and they both have the same tastes, not them, meh, they'll make do.

  13. Re:They should have been doing this all along. on US Lawmakers Propose Allowing Prisons To Jam Signals From Smuggled Cellphones (apnews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You have been isolated from the rest of society because of your problematic behaviour and isolated to a controlled environment the purpose of which should be you rehabilitation. That isolation includes communications, you should not be able to communicate with anyone without their prior approval and the approval of correctional services and those communications should be monitored to ensure rehabilitation is occurring. You are in, what is meant to be, a school for delinquent adults, where you will be treated like an irresponsible child and taught to behave like a responsible adult, you have zero right to initiate communications without supervisions with those outside the correctional facility and they have every right to be protected from your communications, just as they are now protected from direct phsyical constant with your person.

    Jamming would be bad because the correctional services facility has no right to interfere with communications outside of it walls. So prisons walls need to be rendered and in that render a wire mesh to disrupt all communications, no need for mobile in prison at all, land line serves fine and not privatised either but part of the rehabilitation process.

  14. They did not just fail, they did not try to do it properly and failed at it, they conspired to cheat the system because of greed and lots of people died or more accurately to US law, were murdered because Boeing and US government officials conspired to maximise Boeing profits killing people and then tried to cover up that conspiracy killing more people and then they got busted. An American corporation murdered people out of pure greed, corrupted the system to facilitate it and then conspired to cover it up and more people died.

    Not three major failures, an actual criminal conspiracy to maximise profits, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people and leading to Boeing and the FAA no longer being trusted in the rest of the world. It could not be much worse, other than a bunch more jets falling out of the sky but the rest of the world taking action forced a corrupt FAA to eventually corruptly take action LAST and ohh look the puppet Canada second to last, completely taken over by the US deep state.

  15. Re:What are the cons? on Tenants Outraged Over New York Landlord's Plan To Install Facial Recognition Technology (gothamist.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remember the last swatting guy got twenty years. How about if the landlord gets the same, when their system falsely identifies someone and they get shot, the landlords facial recognition swatted them. How about locking people out and not letting them because, cough, cough, the facial recognition system told them to. How about you guests are they not entitled to privacy, so what if they wear a face mask or scarfe they are not allowed in the building. You can have cameras, you can not have facial recognition, the intent there is clear, the landlords control of the tenants, monitoring all their comings and goings, locking people out to get rid of them, harass them and their guests and blame it on the computer because it told them to do it.

  16. Re:Nice to see people just not G.A.F. on Elon Musk Continues To Amuse Himself On Twitter, Sharing Song, Duck Emoji (billboard.com) · · Score: 2

    Corporate main stream media, the deep state and the shadow government are playing divide and conquer. When you look at those information sources, you wonder what the fuck is going on because you see none of it around you, yet it is continuously on corporate main stream media. Only the odd and I mean odd, not just occasional, individuals you know are into this, yet corporate main stream media and establishment politicians broadcast it like it is every where.

    I mean seriously this story, we all complain when corporate try to silence their employees on social media, turning a job, into indentured servitude where you thoughts and conversations are to be controlled by the corporation that pays your salary, that owns you. Same should hold for executives, their social media conversations are social media conversations just like everyone else. Real name, real identity social media is just extremely problematic and needs to be held accountable.

  17. How the grid owner can profit most with solar and batteries. It sells those systems, supplied and installed, first profit, it handles and sells the electricity coming off those systems for profit. For those who can not afford to buy outright, it leases those systems and the energy they sell, helps pay for them over time. As the grid operator it will have a monopoly of the buy price and sell price of that electricity and will not have to negotiate with a major energy corporation, so the margins will be big.

    So power companies who own the grid and the power stations will be looking to divest the power stations, and to keep prices up, including really high buy prices for the electricity, they sell on their grid. Meanwhile, they will be working overtime getting people to install the largest possible solar battery power system on their property, screaming, EARN TAX FREE MONEY, makes thousands a year with the IRS not knocking on your door (well at least for the electricity you use and not that you sell, what you sell you have to pay tax on but that will be in the fine print).

    Going forward, for sound investment reasons, you have to separate grid owner and operators from power station owner and operators. Pay real close attention to sneaky divestment and stick with the grid investment whilst avoiding the power station investment, the insiders will be doing exactly the same and of course you can bet crooked pension funds will be buying up all those power stations.

  18. Technically legal, as you are simply conducting open research into a company and it's products in order to make investment choices with regard to the company and simply releasing the research, the reason for your investments after your made your investment. It would be criminal if you got that information from a company employee, any employee, that is insider information.

  19. Re:This is the real game changer on Missile Defense Test Intercepts ICBM Target, Says Pentagon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, this is a new level of stupid from the US military. Missiles are changing, they will no longer fly a ballistic trajectory because the US dropped a certain missiles treaty, so now the solution to targeting each others capital cities, is long range stealth cruise missiles, which fly close to the ground as speed and can no be currently effectively detected until it is too late, they will destroy the anti-missile system and the target is was meant to protect.

    Even with ballistic missiles, only one change needs to be made to the design, one it reaches a safe distance from the launch country, it is set to detonate should it be impacted and that EMP will take out and disrupt all anti-missiles technology. Let alone long range nuclear torpedoes.

    Then have effectively demonstrated how to take out what they turned into yesterdays technology. They new rational is extended retaliation over weeks and the grinding dismantling of the nuclear conflict initiating nation and those people in those submarines WILL DO IT because you KILLED THEIR FAMILIES. They will just do it slowly over weeks, city after city destroyed, really nasty stuff, just when you think it is safe, whoof, your city disappears in a nuclear holocaust.

    The US has guaranteed the spread of nuclear weapons across the planet and it will be targeted by most of them. Enduring response being the new nuclear terminology, it will only stop when all those who participated in initiating the nuclear conflict are hung publicly by the survivors, all of them, military, political and corporate, don't do it and cities will continue to go up in flames.

  20. Re: repeat after me... on Are We Experiencing a Burnout Epidemic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    As a correction, Australia has 20 paid days off per year for full time workers, ten days sick pay accumulating to 90 days, plus one rostered day off per month, plus long service leave accruing at 10 days per year and available after 10 years of more, plus 12 paid public holidays, together with weekends, that means you work nominally half the year and have half the year off. That is not an ideology, technically the ideology is what created that. So the ideologies encapsulated in that would be, 'A Fair Go', "Work to live don't live to work", and probably "You don't be a Jack Cunt just because you have money", what brought it about was probably compulsory voting and thus a very high worker vote turnout.

    Probable response to rabid dog eat rabid dog US ideology, "Yeah right, fuck off mate" and the US does continually try to subvert Australian politics, continually but keeps a civil tongue in it's head because if it doesn't it would play out quite poorly (whilst the participation of Americans in Australia political discussion is accepted as just normal stuff, the participation of the US government in Australian politics is totally unacceptable and to be condemned and is when exposed and the careers of Australian politicians destroyed with the merest scent of US government hooks).

  21. Re:What we really need! on Hoping To Fix College Teaching, CMU Open-Sources Trove of Software (edsurge.com) · · Score: 1

    The best learning sessions I had were during the tutorials and that was dependent upon the specific skills of the tutor. No machine learning for that, one tutor with good knowledge and a desire to teach and ten students or less, that worked the best. All the rest, meh.

    Computers should only be used in STEM subjects (win, lose or draw on your own skill set and tested under pressure because all STEM learning will be applied in the workplace under pressure, fail and you can cause real harm), most other subjects should be manual as they generally relate to the interaction of humans and not machines, hence people should interact with people to teach them how to interact with people.

  22. Re:Fear of regulator on Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, quite simply the lying conartist wants to privatise the profits of mass privacy invasion and thought control and socialise the losses of administrating Facebook. Facebook makes the money, whilst we pay for the salaries of ten of thousands to monitor his for profit web site for him. Quite simply use real names, then as a corporation you are promoting that speech for profit and hence should be fully legally liable for it. Choose and perish, drop real names and loose that lovely lovely mass invasion of privacy and ability to lock people into the service and manipulate or keep real names and bear full legal responsibility, both civil and criminal, for those real identities that you promote for profit. Facebook is a for profit publishers of attacks, it takes the profit for those real people attacking other real people and should be liable for the costs of those real people attacking other real people.

    Real name social media should be held liable for the attacks of people against other people on their platform, that is it's purpose, to promote and publish real communications between named people, targeting named people, no excuse, they promote those people for profit, Facebook are liable for those people's actions, civil and criminal.

  23. Re:Pronounced like the peanut butter most moms lov on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 2

    Easy, how do you pronounce JIF versus GIF, if you pronounce them the same, you probably have problem and are probably a Joat or is that Goat. Different ascents pronounce the same words differently, hence the recognisable accents. By the way, accurately, you are pronouncing it correctly if the person you are talking to understands what you are saying, if they do not and remember the intent is communicating with them, you are pronouncing incorrectly because they did not understand what you were trying to say, hence you failed at your attempt at communication. Proper pronunciation is for the receiver of the verbal communications and not the sender.

  24. You don't need wood, you need a biodegradable fibre source and a binder. The most logical fibre, should be obvious to everyone, hemp, low water use and easy to grow and it only takes one season to produce the crop. You plant trees for timber and not for fibre due to slow growth, it requires a premium price, that timber but not fibre can provide.

    So hemp based product, bound with a biodegradable binder, that preserves, protects and binds the fibre but breaks down under UV light. Slow to break down in the dark but breaks down quickly in sunlight and of course it should float. It should also be digestible by most creatures, break down in their stomach, slowly admittedly to be of use but, over a day, definitely break down.

    Sold in light blocking cardboard cartons, they do not need to be as durable as the items themselves. Hemp fibre still preferable to wood pulp. If you can grow the tree, grow a tree that produces select grade high worth timber, not cheap fibre, hemp is far and away more efficient and will use less water.

  25. Re:Wouldn't it be the people doing the discriminat on Housing Department Slaps Facebook With Discrimination Charge (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That is not the out, there is one but that is not it. I would say what it is but the Facebook crew are a pack of privacy invasive cunts and they deserve to be prosecuted in every way possible.

    I think it is particularly cruel to exclude people from certain postcodes. Seriously, WTF?, people live in a shitty neighbourhood and want to move out and a multi-billion dollar corporations tries to stop them, what a pack of arseholes. You could have moved to that postcode by mistake, not knowing how bad it is but once you have moved there in you are not allowed to move out, that is just fucking awful, they should be sued, heh, heh.

    What Facebook were doing was promoting criminal activity by offering to serve a criminal outcome. It was illegal, Facebook sought to do a end run around the law and promote criminal activity (which is a crime), so that makes them an accessory to that crime, before the fact.