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  1. Re:Is this news to anyone? on Microsoft Counted As Key Linux Contributor · · Score: 1

    Now that's the whole silly point. Linux doesn't have to be a rival product, M$ choose to loudly and publicly make it a rival product. M$ are just as free to use it and distribute it as anyone else and if they had shifted from licensing to service and support with proprietary software on top they would have done just as well. Now they will be roided.

    Of course for Linux, Android is just a simple compatibility layer away.

  2. Of course if they were to win it becomes less of a problem. If Wall Street is broken up and it contents distributed to main street. If corporate control of politics is eliminated. If US society were adjusted so that the rich have less power over the poor. If the US military industrial complex was broken up.

    So being identified doesn't really matter.

    Of course if none of it changes and the slack jawed drooling idiots who don't want to end the exploitation but rather chase the dream of becoming the exploiter, well, likely you wont live that long

    So being identified doesn't really matter either.

    So in this case winning makes being identified arbitrary because those that would persecute you have been silenced and losing, well, losing everyone goes down anyhow, choking on the polluted remains of our planet.

  3. Re:I think the key... on Smearing Toddler Reputations Via Internet: Free Speech Or Extortion? · · Score: 1

    That just results in random targets. So why Obsidian Finance. Likely she has found some dirt on companies exploits and exaggerates that and attempts to make it go away, basically a budding Public Relations specialist. No better or worse than what PR firms already do.

    This straight up resembles normal everyday US politics. I would guess it is time to start cleaning stuff up from the top down.

    Suggestions defamation should be adjusted to be statements of fact must be provable as true and loser pays court costs.

    That should start cleaning stuff up pretty quick smart, not just this kind of crap but also advertising as news and slander politics.

  4. Re:Well then are better then text book in some way on Do Tablets Help Children Learn? · · Score: 2

    The autism exaggeration (in reality a tablet is more likely to leverage an autistic child into a more interactive state, if done properly) to counter a straight up marketing plant by Kids Industries for Apple http://www.kidsindustries.com/clients/ , just look at that list if ugly clients, mega corporations focused on manipulating as much children's pocket money into the hands of the greediest adult sacks of shite.

    Tablets provide a simpler interface than a smart book. Once the child is capable of reading and writing out goes the tablet and in comes the smartbook. Want the child to learn, than they must be producing content, tapping away at those keys, writing essays, creating art, drawing simple plans (when will we finally switch to alphabetic keyboards from bloody stupid qwerty, please stop lumbering the next generation with stupid stuck in the mud) thinking).

    The stupidest possible mistake will be trying to turn children into content consumer locked into iTunes to feed Apple's greed. The purpose of computers is for children to create content not consume, computers give them the ability to creative like never before and creative active thinking is what your after. Not mindless drones sucking up content feeding their pocket money to worms in the Apple.

  5. Re:Games are an easy political issue on Bill Introduced To Ban Sale of MA15+ Games To Anyone Under 18 in SA · · Score: 1

    It affects the display of games. The R rated games won't be on display to minors, hence making sales difficult, even commercials for those games will be restricted. In terms of sales, it will still be better to adjust those games so that they can reach a wider audience. International advertising via the internet will confuse that issue.

    Some games, those likely to appeal to a reduced audience will retain extremes in order to appeal to that reduced audience, the cheetos, reality TV, loving crowd, where gratuitous violence takes precedence over game play.

  6. Re:It's the religion, stupid on More Fuel For Facebook Censorship Advocates In India · · Score: 1

    That's bullshit. As demonstrated by ample evidence (the truth this time) that wars were driven by the leaders, leaders who psychopathically maintained power by the narcissistic minions torturing to death anybody that disagreed and refused to fight in those wars.

    In regions where rule was by tribal elders, it tended to be all show and little violence, more arbitration and little or no war.

    That key for war, for gross human violence, the slavery of the majority to the egoistic greed of the minority, was the ascendency of a genetic defect psychopathy, hidden behind the deceit of monarchy, those of un-special birth who maintained power by extremes of brutality. Are these brutish animals to be celebrated no they are to be reviled as a curse upon humanity.

    Divide and conquer is the rule of the minority to gain and keep power. The hate is born in the few and forced upon the many.

  7. Re:We all know why on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    You know what I have to call bullshit on your $90 per month health plan. Everything is available on the internet point us to this plan so we can all read the various exclusions and fine print before making a wild claim that $90 per month health insurance is anything other than pointless crap. Basically insurance not worth having and just right wing marketing crap to make it look like people on minimum wage have access to health care and a way for health insurance companies to bilk even the poorest of a few dollars.

  8. Re:Podcasts killed the industry on Despite Drop In Piracy, French Music Industry Still In Decline · · Score: 1

    I'll break it down for you. To aquire large amounts of money means taking it from others. Narrowing down the group the earns money to just a few sponsored and milk dry by publishers. So home the crap idea driven again and again and again, that only the few 'special' people controlled by publishers can create art.

    Well bugnuts, that idea is bullshit, anyone can create art, and what people are really starting recognised is the 'special' art created by 'special' people, was all just bullshit driven by mass media marketing and corporate greed driven control of the public mind scape. Some of the shitiest music made by the shitiest drunken drugged up minstrels, made the top seller list just because of warped psychologically manipulative advertising targeted at children by some of sickest doctorates in psychology.

    Art for arts suck, suck it up fucknuckle eventually you will have to get used to it and as for publishers bankruptcy and a dark stain in history is their future.

  9. Re:It's the religion, stupid on More Fuel For Facebook Censorship Advocates In India · · Score: 0

    Everything can be changed and it is not normal human nature to be violent. Humans are a social species evolutionarily produced to work together not just by thinking of it but by the normal flow of hormones and brain chemicals, humans are wired to be a social species. Of course genetic defects occur in the wiring, psychopaths and narcissists as examples, from them stems the bulk of human on human violence.

    A lot of the violence in India is driven by poverty, working hard every day just so you can more slowly starve, die from lack of medical treatment and live in squalor. All while the few live in opulent luxury, those few of course adhering the maxim divide and conquer.

    The rich and greedy driving the poor to attack each other because of caste, race, religion or any other excuse, just so the poor won't stop and think about who is actually the cause of the bulk of their suffering and who they should really focus their anger on.

  10. Re:The battle now begins. on Teacher's Aide Fired For Refusing To Hand Over Facebook Password · · Score: 1

    What triggered this was not the photo. What triggered this was a powerplay. Some arrogant idiot assumed he had powers they did not and made a over reach, when rebuffed this fired up their ego and they pushed for dismissal.

    Contract law is bound by criminal law, criminal law is bound by the constitution. No contract can exceed the bounds of criminal law in any way shape or form, criminal law not exceed the bounds of the constitution. Private companies of individuals seem to think they are above the laws and have been granted special powers by legal contracts because foolish lawyers wrote them in. Sorry but what happens in reality is when a contract is tested in court, any illegal (exceeds the bounds of criminal or constitutional law) is scrubbed out, the benefit of the doubt always goes against those that prepared the contract (they are responsible for it's failings). Make no mistake private companies are just as bound by criminal law and the constitution as the government is, so you can quite readily guess which law this infringes.

  11. Re:In case you missed it on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 1

    The story is right here http://digitaljournal.com/article/322092. This is not a racial case but straight up the ability of an ex-judge father to pervert the course of justice via a corruption of the legal system. From cooked testimony by police to an assailant briefed by the criminal justice system to protect one of their own. It looks pretty much like if the shooter had been black and the victim white, the shooters connection to the justice system would still have allowed him to walk away free.

  12. Re:Then what's the point? on EFF Files Brief To Allow Users Access To Their MegaUpload Files · · Score: 2

    Cloud is subject to the exact same risk. The premise and proof is if you house data in the US your data is at risk of arbitrary destruction by the US government. Story cloud services based in the US are shit as a result of arbitrary legal destruction by US government agencies (a delightful combination of arrogance and stupidity).

    WARNING DO NOT USE US CLOUD SERVICES OR FACE ARBITRARY DESTRUCTION OF YOUR DATA.

    All caps, just to emphasize the risk, end of story. US government agencies have proven, actual historic fact, to have a complete lack of regard to security of private data if they are the ones destroying it for whatever arbitrary reason they choose to destroy it.

    More akin to taking all the mail from every post office and destroying because of one package containing a copied music CD. Simply out of control US enforcement agecies, keeping in mind they have had months to react and make changes but quite simply don't give a fuck and the message from them is still piss off. If your stupid enough to house your data in the US this is what you get, you lowly nothing nobody.

  13. Re:Break Out The Australian Sparkling White Wine on Australian WiFi Inventors Win US Legal Battle · · Score: 1

    Keep a sharp eye on the patent holders. It would not be below a right wing government to pull a quick shonky deal. Sell the patent off cheap to a private company for an offshore tax have sales commission, so the private company can capitalise on the patent.

    The Liberal (big 'L' Liberal as in Libertarian) stated that all CSIRO work must make a profit, effectively banning all research work that bloody 'SAVED MONEY' in favour of research work that could be off loaded to private companies in sweet hard deals that screwed the tax payer.

  14. Re:Umm? on Taliban Offer Question-and-Answer Service Online · · Score: 2

    Their goal is far more primitive than that. Is is simply to ensure that they can continue to sexually abuse the women they call they wifes (of any age and more than one) and force them to obedient slaves.

    That they be able to violently react to anyone who challenges their male rights and their ability to hide behind a religious book and claim God made them them narcissists so that is normal behaviour.

    Now when it comes to laying the blame, first door to kick in and find some arses to kick would be in the US state department. Prior to the US State Departments psychopathic fun in order to stick in to the Soviet Union the Afghanis were not much of a problem.

    This definitely falls in the, you will reap what you sow department, great short term thinking you bloody pack of morons in the US State Department (of course with the assistance of Cowards Idiots and Arseholes, CIA), now, exactly how many of those fools were fired for the billion dollar problems they created.

  15. Re:The old fashioned way on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences? · · Score: 1

    Pen, paper and 'highlighter', in conjunction with the print our material provided (good conferences always provide handouts).

    This way you don't double up on content provided, you highlight important bits and you add extra information or thoughts to the handouts provided. Slip extra loose pages into the handouts for additional notes and of course absent minded doodling.

  16. Re:Good Riddance on Adobe Releases Last Linux Version of Flash Player · · Score: 2

    Which all points to the benefit of using open source. Instead of people shooting from the hip and complaining the should read and understand.

    Here's a lovely little wikipedia article on Google Native Client http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client.

    You will find it is a open source client, cross platform and of course can readily be incorporated in Linux.

    This is basically exactly what we all want really to happen. Open source modules incorporated into an open platform, with core programs open source and as for the rest as proprietary as producers want them to be. So Adobe has done the right thing and Google has done the right thing and everyone benefits.

    What's the bet it'll be the M$ofties that complain the loudest juts so they can try to make Adobe, Google and Linux look bad.

  17. Re:"Luddite?"! Um, yeah, We're Luddites. Sure... on The Phantoms of Google+ · · Score: 1

    I have found Google+ better than Facebook. Having done it and left it with no interest in allowing it to suck up a substantive portion of my life, with fewer people using it, I am far less likely to unknowingly create offence.

    Facebook was way to intrusive, tricking the less technically aware into feeding it with interaction that drew in other users and then setting those people into taking offence when people didn't respond. Unknowingly with Facebook I had offended quite a few people, simply because I had no real interest in Facebook, ever checked in, never really wanted to but the psychologically targeted design manipulated them into getting as many interactions going as possible and taking offence when they were not responded too.

    I loathed Facebook, when through all the rigmarole to completely delete my largely inactive account and routinely recommend every to avoid like the plague. From that point of view have a more active ghost profile in conjunction with your largely static distant and indifferent polished personal profile makes sense.

  18. Re:Good. on NY District Judge Dismisses Blogger Suit Against Huffington Post · · Score: 1

    Just as in this case. You can turn Huffington post into a dead zone simply by stop making contributions. The point is not that AOL paid for your work, the point is making AOL pay for nothing. Stop making contributions, Stop making comments, Stop going to the Site, Remove everything you can from the site.

    Face it Huffington post has turned into worthless shite, so bad in fact that they were defending Darth Cheney of all people. They set up a web page devoted to Darth Cheney, ensuring content and comments all worshipped and loved Darth Cheney.

    The whole idea is to laugh at how AOL got ripped off by the scamy Ariana Huffington selling them nothing. In fact when AOL bought them they peaked since then they have stagnated with no growth (meaning the purchase was pointless) and now they are treading down.

  19. Re:Better be a gag... on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 1

    The reasoning behind this. American tourism is bombing, tourist industries are crashing, income is burning out and management are exploding.

    The US is simply attacking other countries tourism industries in a idiotic and stupid attempt to force tourist to US shores by making other countries international airports just as undesirable to enter as US airports.

    Sorry too many countries still left, the US is so far down desirable the holiday destination lists as a results of abuse, offensiveness, wildly egoistic, officials at airports. The DHS and TSA need to wake up to what kind of arrogant arse holes they are producing to attack foreign tourist dollars.

    The internet is really crapping all over American mass media driven tourism and it ain't ever coming back until you start putting well mannered people who respect other people and do not allow, "I Am An Officer of US Law", to allow contempt of cop abuse.

  20. Re:Well, does it? on Australian National Broadband Network Releases 3-Year Plan · · Score: 1

    If your going to political plug on a public forum declare, else wise peddle your politics in other locations or expect you favourite political tools to be mocked. Abbot comes off as an offensive, boorish, wanker to interested in how much money he can make out off politics rather than in any of the issues. It seems he simply seeks to hide his personal greed behind a masquerade of religion, anti-immigrant nationalism, rampant Americanised bullshit about everyone absolutely everyone becoming rich and personal scheming attacks on anyone and everyone including members of his own political party.

  21. Re:Steal someones on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    Talk about straight over your head, It's all about shifting focus from victimless crimes to crimes that create a victim and can dangerously escalate. Break ins become home invasions just by the owner being home, non-violent rapidly escalates into extreme violence.

    Next up it was never penalties that deterred criminal activity it has always been fear of getting caught. The more certain a criminal is that they will be caught the less likely they are to commit the crime. Police announcing "WE WILL NEVER EVER PURSUE HOUSE BREAK INS" loudly clearly and repeatedly, guarantees repeated house break ins, now as it appears you have a undeclared vested interest in law enforcement, thanks for nothing and "FUCK YOU" (if you don't will, I will redirect that at any law enforcement types reading this). That's why there are so many house break-ins because the police do fucking nothing about them and they do nothing about them because there are so many (now guess who has to pull their thumb out of the bumb, stop munching doughnuts to break that cycle).

  22. Re:Well, does it? on Australian National Broadband Network Releases 3-Year Plan · · Score: 1

    'Sincere' You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. He comes of as an arrogant bible thumping, aggressive, right wing freak more suited for US politics than Australian politics. No matter how many times you stump for the liar on this forum, it will not change the kind of wrapped in the flag, carry the cross not to be trusted phoney he is.

    Rule of political law, the more a politician waves the flag, the more a politician hides behind religion, the bigger more disgusting lying sack of shit they are and that's pretty much a historical fact.

    NBN and no more paid political advertisements. With broadband all around there is absolutely no excuse for paid political adverts, if a person is interested they are a mouse click away from hearing any political speech by any politician, past present or a future hopefully, all downloaded directly from the representative houses of government. A complete legal ban on all paid political adverts becomes viable with a nationally accessible broadband network, now that's something definitely in the public interest.

  23. Re:It's more than just global warming gas on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 1

    This first mistake is in saying how can 'people' lie like that. Not all people are people, as in normal, average, socially cohesive, people. Note all human minds are the same, genetics alters the nature of some peoples thoughts to be at great divergence to the rest of human social thought.

    They lie because they feel they can gain more wealth and power through lying and quite simply don't give a damn, if you, your family, all your friends and neighbours, your whole city, die. They absolutely positively don't give a rats arse for the consequences beyond feeding their own ego and lusts.

    Once you put psychopaths, snakes in suits, in charge of corporations, in charge of media empires, lies, truth, fantasy, reality, lose all meaning. All you are seeing and hearing is what ever will further the insatiable ego of a handful of psychopathically insane individuals.

    Want change, easy, enforce legal conditions on using the word 'NEWS', it must be truthful and factual. Falsity will be penalised, intentional deceit will result in criminal penalties and imprisonment. Want the truth then put a huge price on telling lies and calling it news.

  24. Re:anyone can block anything without checks on Australian Federal Court Awards Damages To Artist For False Copyright Claim · · Score: 1

    What this really points to is the importance of net neutrality and the lack of bandwidth caps to ensure everybody can self publish, that no one can abuse the system by establishing anti-competitive publishing cartel contracts that lock the majority of people out of self publishing commercially viable content.

    More still needs to be done to protect individual rights over publishing cartel greed and corruption of due process.

  25. Re:The defendant didn't show up on Australian Federal Court Awards Damages To Artist For False Copyright Claim · · Score: 1

    In this case they do, specifically because the case reflected her actions in Australia and not in the US. Once she acted in Australia she subjected herself to Australian laws part of which is any statement of fact must be true and the defendant in a accusation of defamation must prove their statements true or lose the case.

    Basically she was trying to hide behind American legal exceptionalism but got carried away with herself when she tried to take it out of the US.