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  1. Re: Try writing better searches on Microsoft Tackles 'Horrifying' Bing Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    All to easy to filter for yourself. Just provide a reason to log into a search engine by allowing users to block web sites from turning up in searches. Over time this block can be used to filter out those crappy sites. They do no want to do this because the worst sites are the ones they are paid to shove in your face over and over and over again. Like all the crap American news sites, corporate propaganda on steroids, the last sites you could be bothered going to for news and yet always the first ones served up.

    As for hate, well, what the fuck if the person using the search is looking for it ie so they dont give a fuck what the person is actually looking for, they want to show them what they believe is good for that person ie vote for our politician the one we paid for at the lobbyists office and only our favourite news advertising platform is worth going to for political information about our bought and paid for politicians, buy it ?, now, buy it ? in volume, you'll die if you don't buy ?, if you buy it ?, it will make you happy and your genitals will thrive (what ever the fuck it ? is at the time).

  2. There is more than enough information on the blockchain, things like tracking down IP addresses, to find the owner of the wallet and well, basically crack their bones until they crack their crypto wallet for you.

    The collapse of unbacked crypto will not follow normal economic patterns because it is tightly tied to organised crime, money laundering and other criminal activities. In the normal market it will slowly die off and the authorities will become involved and seek to ban it, as it's users start dying off, as a result of the greater concentration of criminal activity in it's trade, as the normal market dries up. More criminals, means more dangerous for holders of unbacked unsecured crypto.

    So the criminals will keep unbacked crypto going, until the fallout from that activity forces it's banning. Energy backed crypto, not going to be a US thing, too late for them.

  3. Re:That doesn't sound like common sense on The US Military Wants To Teach AI Some Basic Common Sense (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Common sense is just common knowledge. How common it is, entirely subject to the society that produces that common sense. So common sense for a nomadic society how to track animals, common sense for an advanced society, how to read and write typically used words and sentences.

    Teaching an AI common sense is stupid, common sense for a computer, how to talk to another computer.

    What they are after is speech parsing algorithms. How to translate speech, written or oral into, logical digital patterns. For a start it is not one parsing algorithm but many working in conjunction, pulling out the bits of information from the sentence that each algorithm parses and then cross collating the outcome to create a computer recognisable digital pattern, to which a response can be generated. Tricky and nothing is for free in this world.

  4. Re:Why would they jump? on Sony Says PlayStation 4 Successor is Coming, But Doesn't Call it PS5 Yet (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A far superior market would be gaming with FOSS built in. So add monitor and keyboard and you have a computer and game console. Computer running Linux as a virtual machine with gaming on the other virtual desktop. So two for one, take the xbox head on by offering far more, a pc thrown in and take on the windows pc gaming device, it will do work as well as game. Can they make the jump or will they fail like they did with the PS4.

  5. Re:Those accessories are prohibitively expensive on Google Unveils Pixel Slate, Its First Laptop-Tablet Hybrid in Three Years (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You have never tried a high end individual key illuminated keyboard, still seems really high but the keys feel so good and it's really pretty in a darkened room and programmable G1 infinite super fast right button mouse click that doesn't count as a double click, so useful in so many 'er' applications.

    Ahh the cute little privacy invasive pixies er pixels, two microphones and two cameras to here and see everything going on and just to make sure, a fingerprint scanner on the power button. It is just me or does this device smell more of George Orwell's 1984 than a mythical create of folklore, a corporation that cares about it's customers and does no evil.

    I do not suppose there is a manual hard wired off button for the microphone and cameras, now wouldn't that be silly :/.

  6. Re:Bloomberg! Bloomberg! Bloomberg! on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why would it be in any way shape or form outrageous, they would be logical and expected. The best supply line hack, high efficiency capacitors are smaller than low efficiency capacitors (much more expensive as well). So you can put a high efficiency capacitor in a low efficiency capacitor casing and have room left for a chip. What the chip does is check from a signal on the power flow, if it gets the right code, it shorts out the connection and the capacitor dies, taking out what ever product ie a computer it is in. So done on a broad scale you can collapse a country. The chaos, everything with that capacitor goes down, replacement computer motherboards are really difficult to order because the computers down. Get the motherboard, and if the signal is still going, once it is powered it fails.

    Get enough tainted capacitors into the infrastructure and that country goes down for months, everything goes down, it basically just lost a war it never knew it was fighting, would I trust capacitors out of China or the US in essential infrastructure, absolutely not, I would strive for all infrastructure components to be locally made. If I was supplying them to another country, I would bobby trap it all, just in case, so much fucking cheaper than a war machine and far more effective. Not happy with the supply of my tainted components, make your fucking own, or buy some other countries tainted components. US tech industries are so screwed and the US government did it to them.

  7. Re:Hard No on Uber CEO: We're Going After Groceries Next (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    You know the way to build your business is to piss off your customers because they could never ever possibly tell that you are selling them old stock. I had a store do this, I did not order off them again, some time latter they stopped deliveries, not enough people buying to make it worthwhile. Online ordering is competition hell for supermarkets, you are no longer bound by distance, competition is real, you can do a shopping cart comparison straight up and only complete the cheapest order or you can simply choose the one the provides the best freshest product. Bulk of my grocery delivered, I go through the specials list and I change supermarket chain when required and I still go to the store for odds and ends.

  8. They did not lose data. A secret feature of Windows anal probe 10, accidentally revealed itself in, 'delete all the users data mode', it's not a bug, it's a feature, it's just a broad test run, to confirm efficacy. The ability to delete all user data upon remote command from whom ever has access to windows anal probe 10 updates, which are never anonymous and each and every single individual update is uniquely identifiable and customisable, so some get normal mundane updates, some get firmware rewrites for monitoring, some get all their data deleted and some just get possibly copyright infringing files deleted and some get a copy of their files uploaded to master command program server for decompiling and their components added to the master control program ;D.

  9. Mate, they charged Russian trolls from a typical internet click bait marketing firm with crimes, issued arrest warrants and then sanctioned them to prevent them from entering the US, how the fuck can you arrest them when you bar them from entering the country.

    Blame Trump, for what, just another empty talking head, this is the deep state and shadow government, PR driven by profound arrogance, they simply pay no attention to anything beyond their own ego and bullshit, it is a silly as fuck and just makes them look really bad to the rest of the world. This kind of silly shit you would expect from ignorant political appointees who got their lead government agency job, because they were effective in a political campaigning, they can be relied upon to shamelessly lie and they will keep secret the corruption they are involved it, how good or bad they are at the job itself, entirely arbitrary as a lobbyist paid for by a corporation will actually be running that government department from behind the scenes, to favour the corporation that pays the lobbyists and fuck the rest of the country.

  10. Re:John Deere, is that you? on Apple's New Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair On New MacBook Pros (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically you have the right to repair that product, as long as you have that software. Logically it is a reasonable security step, depending upon the access to that software and how it signs itself off, when it runs. Preferably requiring the person who uses that software to log in and identify themselves when they use it. It will make stealing a new Apple notebook awkward and repairs impossible and even stripping it and selling the parts, also difficult. It depends how much the software costs, how accessible it is and how secure it is. For many users probably a reasonable choice and the price, yikes, Apple is able to maintain a pretty high profit margin by selling people their privacy back.

    Of course you can go Linux and really secure your privacy at a much more competitive price, if you have the technical capability or contract it out to someone else. Then again you can totally abandon your digital rights by going M$ and just let them bend your privacy right over and pump every bit of your privacy right off your hard disk drive or is it their hard disk drive once you install Windows 10.

  11. Nope just blatant stupidity and politicisation of stupidity. Just how the fuck do they ever expect to arrest those persons by publicly announcing they want to arrest those persons when they are in a country from which extradition is impossible ie you fucking moron, that is exactly what secret warrants are for and surprise phone call telling you, you have won a trip to Disneyland on fly naked with a bag on your head airlines (I have been told I won a free trip to Disneyland, I informed them I was on the do not call register and told them I had no intention of being an accessory to breaking that law and refused the trip, really odd that it was an actual annoyed American who made that call).

    The proof that it is political bullshit is the public announcement to ensure it never ever goes to court. In the world of United States of Bullshit, they way to catch spies, is too publicly announce that you want to catch them when they are in the home country. How stupid would you have to be to buy into this silly bullshit. For the apparently wildly inept and incompetent CIA/FBI, to catch spy, first rule, never publicly announce and identify the spy you want to catch. Rule number 2 try to trick them to go to a country where you have extradition and then extradite them and you get to prove your case in court and they serve a custodial sentence.

    This is not about arresting anyone, this is actually about convincing stupid governments to hand over the digital security of their country to NATO (North American Territorial Occupation farce) and the US government. This is part of the big con to hand over power to the US government, it is for your benefit.

  12. Re: I've no problems with this on Vice President Mike Pence Says Google Should Halt Dragonfly App Development (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That Christian one where it is alright to rape some virgin girl, as long as you buy her off her parents for fifty shekels https://www.biblegateway.com/p..., well you are stuck with it as it is legal to hand out a bible which recommends criminal acts to minors. If you tried to do it today it would be criminal but the bible and Christians get away with handing out publications to minors which recommend criminal acts, saying nobody reads it anyhow, is not an excuse ;D.

    The dragonfly app by the way does not make it easier to track people's searches, that is already buried right into the fore of google search and all the other apps they produce. What it does is tailer search results to individual users upon what ever basis goggle corporate deems profitable, with all the evil overtones. What the git really is saying do not develop it for China, develop it for corporate USA to control the peasants in America, the 99% ie it was in regards to, "Chinaâ(TM)s theft of U.S. technology" because American arrogance implies the Chinese are too stupid to invent anything, racist is as racist does.

  13. The solution is not to contract out service and support calls but put sales and production staff on rotation in sales and support to create depth of understanding between staff and customers but disposable staff == disposable companies == disposable customers, management by psychopathy.

  14. Re:Oh well, back to old school on Senate Passes Bill That Lets the Government Destroy Private Drones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Just tp note, although this legilsation is buried with in FAA stuff, it has nothing to do with the FAA and is in fact tied to Homeload security, so all Federal lands, including national parks et al, basically nearly all public lands. Look what else was in there "A roadmap for a United States and coalition strategy to reestablish security and governance in Syria", a fucking roadmap to invade and take over the government of Syria, what the fuck does that have to do with the FAA. Not even trying to pretend to hide their intent to invade and take over in Syria and killing all who resist (dumb fuckers, you should have put good in front security and governance, so neutral, rather than imply an intent for military invasion and taking over the government of Syria to turn it into another Libya).

    Note no mention for liability for taking down a drone ie target drone, disable drone, drone crashes into person directly or a person driving a car and kills them, well, tough luck for them and it is the drone owners fault. It is corrupt bullshit burying laws in unaffiliated legislation. What the fuck does the US FAA have to do with invading Syria and killing everyone who resists and anyone in their near vicinity.

  15. Re: Buy into our business model. on Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Giving Up Your Data For Better Services is 'a Bunch of Bunk' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Who gives a fuck, who they sell it to, they collect and trade in your privacy, not for your benefit but to psychologically manipulate you into buying shit products and services against your interest. So they contract out the manipulation so that they can continue to generate revenue, rather than selling raw data, yeah for Google evil is as evil does.

    Quite simply Apple is selling privacy as a premium product in order to charge more. Ohh look, people are willing to pay big bucks for privacy contrary to the lies told by Google, Facebook and M$.

    Do you know what is even more interesting, that privacy paid for with higher profit margins, steals away the best customers for manipulative advertising. Yes, Google, Facebook and M$ will have the poor customers who can not afford to buy anything and Apple will have the more wealthy customers who can afford to buy stuff.

    Apple selling 'YOU' privacy, not selling 'YOUR' privacy. I got no qualms about using Apple to beat M$ to death, none.

  16. Re:Don't you mean... on Facebook Bug Prevented Users From Deleting Their Accounts (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    PS forgot to add this in, prior to deleting a social media account, contaminate it by putting in false data, everywhere you can and then deleting it or in reality make it inaccessible by you.

  17. Re:Don't you mean... on Facebook Bug Prevented Users From Deleting Their Accounts (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    There was a bug, just not the bug you are looking for, heh, heh. The bug was of course letting you see what was really going on. Delete your account, yeah sure, account not deleted because shh, it never is. So delete your account, yeah sure, access to your account denied to you and from your perspective deleted but of course still entirely intact, just not accessible by you. That was of course the bug, account still not deleted but the forget to make it inaccessible to outside users. Still alive and well and still mining your privacy.

  18. Re:This is complete bullshit on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    You both missed the con. The con lies in the use of the energy generated. All energy used eventually degenerates back down to thermal load. So the con lies in the energy use. So wind power eventually breaks down to thermal load, 'BUT', and here is the con, the energy would still be generated and used by burning fossil fuels. So the energy is required and it eventually becomes a thermal load, but the energy is still required as it is obviously being used to do something. So the balance is wind generated thermal energy load vs fossil fuel energy generated thermal load and not as the con implies wind generated thermal energy load vs doing fucking nothing. Yes, absolutely generating electricity via wind turbines and using that energy will generate far more heat than doing nothing what so ever but of course would generate far less thermal load than burning fossil fuels, because it waste heat in production of energy (thermal efficiency is really low for cars less than 30%) and generates CO2 and in current production methods for fossil fuels also generates lots of methane, as well as the energy being used generating thermal load.

    I have got an idea how to stop global warming and cool the whole planet. Lets set of all the nuclear weapons on the planet, problem solved and I bet the maths can be done to prove it will work and will cool the planet and completely end man or woman made global warming.

  19. Re:Who Cares? on The EPA's Bold New Idea Has Massive Implications For Public Health (motherjones.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well technically, the comment is delivered in sarcastic terms but is entirely factual and accurate in content. They are applying any corrupt rule they can, with the reasoning that it will increase profits whilst the rule is in place and as long as they can corruptly keep it in place and fuck everyone and everything. They know it will eventually be struck down because it is entirely deceitful in intent and is meant to obfuscate the legal process making any civil suit for polluting and killing other people extremely difficult to pursue. Americans, you have the government you deserve and you will end up paying an enormous price for it, it's called karma. Your lack of interest in political activism, has led to this and it will get worse, so whilst you indifference caused the rest of the world to suffer, as empire comes to an end, it is you who will suffer the most and for far longer, at the hands of your own corrupt government and corporations, good luck, you will need it.

  20. Re:The methane "is then liquified and used to fuel on Company That Sucks CO2 From Air Announces a New Methane-Producing Plant (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    So it's a CO2 capture and release program ;D.

  21. Re:My New Font Is Called Ophidian Lubrica on Researchers Create 'Sans Forgetica,' a Memory-Boosting Font (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not quite, it will inherently diminish understanding because it simply requires more mental effort to read ie that greater mental effort required to read it, of course stimulates greater recall because you are putting much more mental effort in, especially when tired. Anyone outside of silly people using it, well no because it takes considerably more mental effort to read, greater pattern association processing is required, the problem there, it inherently will diminish thought being put into understanding what has been read, you really want to get that understanding in as early as possible to build a proper mental framework for more study. Japanese have a similar problem, with so much effort required to learn the Japanese language, it diminishes the amount that can be learned using the Japanese language.

    Same with this font, test well in theory but it will diminish overall learning, beyond rote learning, so more effort consumed in the learning process, resulting in less learned. Of course if you write notes by hand, well, good luck. It is far better to sit through a lecture with pencil and pad, than with a computer, unless you want to spend that lecture time completing other assignments .

  22. Re:Well I if didn't count my business expenses on Half of US Uber Drivers Make Less Than $10 An Hour After Vehicle Expenses, Study Says (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Yeah no one, just starvation, living naked in the streets and being used as target practice by the local county mounties and if you survive it is off to the for profit prison and slave labour. Yep, absolutely no one forcing them at all :/.

  23. You kind of missed the bit where Russians are on average more into science fiction than Americans and thus proportionally would have been more put off by crap science fiction but of course if you are Russian and you hate something, express your opinion online you are a troll and of course if you are Russian and you like something, express your opinion online you are a troll and if you are Russian and you are indifferent to something and express your opinion online you are a troll.

    To put it simply https://www.rbth.com/news/2015... and thus will use English language websites and they all are trolls, this is called rampant prejudice as is typical coming out of a very racist and prejudiced US, which is now also hugely sexually conflicted across multiple genders, I am going with Bunjil as my gender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., in preparation for more SJW bullshit coming out of the US, that or other ;D.

    American main stream media, please fuck off with your racism and prejudice, one thing I have noticed, it is funny in American media for white men to be raped in prison but not funny anywhere for women of any kind to be raped, why is that?!?

  24. It seems like rather short sighted thinking, is that property water front or underwater front but of course it's actually lakefront, so not a problem, probably.

    Want to do something new and different, create an above ground level basement across the whole site, creating access for vehicles and services below foot traffic level. Services would be much more accessible in bulkheads between structural elements and of course car traffic no longer interferes with human traffic, creating a more walkable environment.

    Of course full clarity on fitting of cameras and microphones would also be nice. Regardless of the evil is as evil does desires of Google, privacy laws are going to really tighten up over the coming years, a major crack down, especially on not specifically signed and accepted systems of monitoring and control, regularly updated.

  25. Re:Watching the video. BlackBerry Blend for Androi on Microsoft Announces App Mirroring To Let You Use Any Android App On Windows 10 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The reason why, M$ want to datamine the Android apps when you use them and that means datamining everything you do with that app, especially when you use that up on an Android device and then use it on PC with that data from the Android device, so no positives, just eww, don't do it, simply do not do it.