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  1. Re:Netflix, others keep dumping 3rd party content on The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Reality presents a new problem a lot of the content is bad rehashed content, one show on one network, much like different shows on other networks. They all become boring bleh, apart from the occasional good show but there is so much content, so just watching the season of something else is good enough and movies, well, the trailers being better than the movie is pretty much the norm, so watching anything else.

    The only really selective content out there now is video games. The idiot box is still the idiot box, whether filled with commercials or streamed.

    Exclusivity is really bad for content producers though, it limits their reach and is really a bad idea ie you stream the bulk of the content you peruse, commercial free, it becomes likely you will never hear of the exclusive content on other sites, or the content producers, even exclusive for a time, with so much available, harms the market penetration of content producers and their broad market popularity.

  2. Re:Slashdot proves otherwise on Government of Canada's Plan To Improve Cybersecurity? Be Less Attractive (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason of course why influence trolls are so recognisable on slashdot is of course low IQ compared to the slashdot norm. So troll farms will exist where ever there are lazy low IQ trolls to employ on minimum wage. As for hacking out of Russia, it is the logical move in the west to rent a server in Russia to attack any western target because of the idiocy at the top, no treaty and as long as you are not hacking Russian companies, Russian security services wont give much of a fuck, so it makes sense to route attacks through Russia, as it is a dead end for western security organisations. Which is exactly why cybersecurity treaties are required but US politicians are playing blame the Russians for everything game, making logical sound decisions impossible.

  3. The gist of the bill, if you are going to lie to people, you can not use a computer to automatically generate the lie, you must pay people to be liars with multiple accounts. So a job creation scheme?

    How about, who gives a crap about the source and simply prosecuting people who lie to win elections.

  4. I use Netflix to watch content I already own, to lazy to get up and change a DVD. So I am swapping internet traffic for lounge room traffic ;D. I also have bought a game on steam because it was really cheap and I couldn't be bothered looking for the DVD, yeah it was worth $2.

    Then again that is what the internet is all about, altered flows of information, from having to travel, via car to the store to buy, what was delivered by truck, from the warehouse, which received it by truck and from their well, planes, trains and ships.

    So how much is Netflix saving in terms of resource spending. Higher bandwidth is better for the planet but old supply routes will suffer. It is only the infinite greed of the old network companies seeking to become internet publishers. They want to take over the roles of Apple et al, as internet publishers so the Network companies want 30% of all revenue, going across their networks and they need to strangle of data flow to get it, hence the end of network neutrality, which of course will affect the profitability of all other companies ie robbing the 99.999% to pay the 0.001%.

  5. Re:What a stupid question on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Almost Nothing Come With a Proper Printed Manual Anymore? · · Score: 1

    I went to far as to create a, manual directory, track down PDFs for all my various bits and pieces and saved that into that directory and linked to it on the desktop, of course I am screwed if my computer goes down, such is life ;).

    The only real manual I have seen recently is one for the car and I was most peeved when I could not get the PDF, very annoying, still the manual is in the car and accessible, without a computer, so a plus.

    If you want to, buy a laser printer, download the PDF and print it. If you like buy a folder and a hole punch, some card stock and voila, printed manual (I have all those items but have yet to make a hardcopy manual, never felt the need).

  6. Re:Um, it won't work on Government of Canada's Plan To Improve Cybersecurity? Be Less Attractive (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Kind of makes no sense as most attacks still come out of the US, so how will they help any one else. If they wanted security, they would establish treaties so as to source the attack to the actual perpetrator, rather than just another link on the route but one they can not see beyond.

    Reality is most attacks are now automated, unless there is a particular interest in a particular location. Banks have been pretty secure for decades, they spend the money, governments have not been secure, they go for the lowest tender and the lowest tender is more interested in profit than security.

    Governments can talk big on securing their network but they have to spend the money and create real network and computer security. How can Canada claim security, if they are not making the bits and piece of their network, have no control over them and do not actively audit components and suppliers. Speech in reality, waffle, waffle, blib blob, my political party is the greatest.

    If you are importing the hardware and or software, than you are by nature insecure and exposed to the source countries government espionage services which inherently are criminal. If you commit your security to the lowest for profit tender, than you are guaranteed to be insecure, even if you attempt to apply penalties, you just end up bankrupting single contract subsidiaries.

    So empty PR to justify the spend https://www.fifthdomain.com/in..., keep in mind the gap to US spending and they have problems with security.

    Now what would be fun, is for https://cse-cst.gc.ca/en/homep... to set up a page, detailing every single failure when they occur, every leak, every hole, to see how well they are really doing ;D.

  7. A Ghost Writer for Politicians,hmmm on A Computer Has Written A 'Novel' Narrating Its Own Cross-Country Road Trip (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry but a person that wrote the lies that politicians told, sorry but probably had a nervous breakdown, wrote that crap themselves, couldn't believe how bad it was and decided to blame it on a computer ;D.

    You choose to do the job, well, accept the ramifications, paid professional writer of lies for politicians, I ain't going to believe anything you say or write, just the way it is.

  8. Re:Smart Move on Saudi Arabia Puts World's Biggest Solar Power Project On Hold (dw.com) · · Score: 2

    Interest rates are low, money is cheap. So you get a higher rate of return by buying a piece of worthless land and putting solar panels on it, a better return than bank interest and the tax write offs means it is tax free. In the current economic climate solar panels provides a pretty solid return. Low interests rates makes all renewables a pretty good investment, just depends how long they will stay low. Solar provides a pretty good return upon land that would otherwise have very little value.

    Fossil fuels are doomed, just a harsh reality, the worst one to go first ie coal.

  9. You are doing your job properly, then you are doing you job properly, your opinions about anything should count for shit. If they are going to play silly fuckers with SJW nonsense, lets see how they go doing science with empty headed liberal arts women, good fucking luck.

    Suspend someone because you don't like their opinion and you are the problem not them. More men need to push the system to breaking by purposefully expressing bad opinions and forcing a deadlock. Go right the fuck ahead and suspend all the men and shut the fucking place down.

    Either stand up to this shit or become a sissy boy, your choice. Express a shite opinion and take a stand.

  10. Re:Not sure I like on Facebook is Equipping K-8 Classrooms With Robot Sets To Boost Tech Diversity · · Score: 1

    They are trying to make coding more fun, so more people will participate. Only one problem with that, what happens when they go to work, get shoved in a cubicle and code all day every day and not a toy robot to play with in kilometres.

    So diversity, stop people doing what they are naturally inclined to do as a result of genetics and get other people to do it regardless of their lack of inclination.

    So generally force people into careers they will hate, why because the people doing the forcing are a pack of control freak cunts, seems the most reasonable answer. You know the kind, you remember them from school, they knew how to do everything better than everyone else but when they actually tried to do it, they routinely failed but they never ever slowed them down from telling everyone how to do it properly.

    They seem to be pandering to them for political purposes. For all the world it seems they want males to vote Republican and females to vote democrat and keep the vote divide, whilst they run their corrupt cons.

    If you enjoy coding it is fun and if you do not, it is as fucking boring as fuck. Trying to make it fun when teaching it, will not make it one iota more fun when it becomes a job. Teaching should reflect the job, so children do not make poor career choices, you fucking morons, else you create unhappy poorly performing workers who must retrain.

  11. I play with wired keyboard and mouse because I do not like the latency of wireless keyboards and mouse, how much would I be willing to pay to play a streamed game, nothing, in fact I would have to be paid.

    What this is really all about, it is a great big ole con, they want you to rent games for the rest of your life and not buy them once, come on in sucker. Infinite copyright and the cartels ban the selling of content, for infinite greed.

    Wont work, they are already at saturation on gaming and really games are not selling that well at the moment.

  12. Re:They have to practice on something on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I allowed evolution to take over my lawn, only the strongest plants survive with out any artificial watering and every know and again I reduce excessive growth, depending upon rainfall, with an electric mower. I prefer the overgrown look, it's environmentally soothing. I keep hoping the galahs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... will do a better job of eating the grass but they are not very even lawn trimmers.

  13. Re:A worrying lack of imagination on Moon is Stepping Stone, Not Alternative To Mars, NASA Chief Says (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously the Moon is not Mars and it is a wholly accurate description to call it a stepping stone. So the long term role of the Moon in terms of human exploration of the galaxy, is being that stepping stone. It is kind of better to have high speed objects, space craft, aiming at a largely empty moon, rather than the earth, even though the atmosphere would diminish the impact, it is still not desirable.

    So the Moon, is the logical space station by which we explore the rest of the galaxy, where space rescue fleet is based and where most launches and landing from, well, the rest of the galaxy would occur (it makes for a far safer quarantine facility).

    Not atmosphere on the Moon both makes it awkward and makes it more effective, depending upon what you want to do (breathing bad, but launching and landing spacecraft good, quarantine especially good. So Mars a planet to terraform and the Moon, well it's a large space station, to do all the space station kind of stuff, unless you specifically wanted a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and those will change from many small, to a fewer larger multifunction satellites.

    So launches to Mars will much more likely be from the moon and Launches from the Mars will more likely be aimed at the moon, it is simply much safer (maybe not the first few but certainly when it becomes a regular event). Obviously when travelling from other planets to the earth, than a Lunar quarantine station is far more safer and space ships that go to other planets, well, it's far safer that they land on the moon with no atmosphere, than any where on earth, no matter how much effort you put into cleaning them, outside of course a very close orbit to the Sun, baking it clean.

  14. Re:Well, it isn't unexpected. on SEC Charges Elon Musk With Fraud Over His Statements To Take Tesla Private (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Reality, a corrupt hedge fund, paid a corrupt lobbyist, to buy SEC action. CEO can tweet pretty much anything, it is not a company press release. Normal SEC role, would be to request a confirmation as a company press release (investors should pay far more attention to company press releases than to CEO tweets).

    As a company press release, you claim funding has been provided there better be there, as a CEO with a tweet, you claim funding is available, any one can provide that letter. So he goes to his favourite bank manager and asks for a letter saying they would have (heh heh) provided funding and the SEC looks as stupid as fuck. As a last ditch super lame effort, they claim the letter is after the action, as a retort, yeah, we did a verbal and a handshake (100% legally binding in the eyes of the court). The SEC, well, the particular stooge who fronted the case, might well lose their job because Tesla can counter claim that the only reason prosecution was brought was to actively seek to damage the share price to favour the shorts and well, demand an FBI investigation to find the lobbyists and the hedge fund manager doing the shorting.

    The SEC in this case is doing far more to try to damage the price of Tesla in favour of the hedge funds doing the shorting, on purpose, then Musk did with his tweet ie the SEC has launched a court case to specifically cripple Tesla share price affecting all investors compared to a fucking tweet only affecting hedge funds doing shorts and guess fucking what, protecting all other Tesla investors.

    So who is guilty of the greater stock price manipulation, Elon Musk or the SEC (the unknown lobbyist and hedge fund managers shorting the stock), obviously not Tesla, so guess who will have the case tossed and guess who will be facing major ramifications.

  15. Re:Skype Is Dead on Microsoft Will End Support For Skype Classic In November (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not the size of the organisation it is the arrogance of the organisation. Skype users complain, M$ response in crude terms starts like this;

    fuck off you do not have a problem, next
    fuck you, you caused the problem, next
    fuck off some other companies applications caused the problem, next
    there might be a problem but fuck off it is free (after market share starts shrinking alarmingly) next,
    fuck off and stop complaining the new version is better so shut the fuck up, (market share is halved), next
    we sort of fixed it but it really was all the arsehole users fault, (market share is continuing to shrink), next
    you can all fuck off we dropped the product not enough people using it.

    You are on the M$ product to oblivion tread mill, give up early, you will be better off.

  16. Re:The difference. on Panasonic Completing 3 New Cell Production Lines At Tesla's Gigafactory (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Used to be mainly for electric vehicles. Battery packs for solar powered homes and battery packs for vehicle are very similar. Panasonic pumping up the number of production lines, well Tesla also sells complete solar systems and they will likely sell far more of them them they do cars. Cars for Tesla are upmarket, the solar powered home system with battery pack are mass market and that's where the big dollars are and where probably over the mid term, where the bulk of Tesla profits will come.

    Pretty soon, people will not be going solar without also doing batteries and a complete system with a reliable installer is where the market is headed. You can expect Tesla to figure highly in this market, whether they choose to have installers on wages or franchises or a mix, is yet to become apparent.

    There is more money for Tesla in solar home power system with battery packs, then there is in just the segment of high end vehicles, cheaper to produce, much larger market, far simpler production. Good thing he picked up the solar panel manufacturer to go with Panasonic batteries and whom ever provides the control systems. Expect revenue from this to overtake cars within the decade. Panasonic expanding production is more to do with the home market than the vehicle market.

  17. Re:Why on Earth would I submit files to Google? on Alphabet Launches VirusTotal Enterprise (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I mean really, the whole idea of sending you files, all of them to Google to scan, really off putting. Almost as bad as Windows anal probe 10 scanning your hard disk drive and reporting it's contents back to M$ and their being able to delete files whole sale. Which is worse, kind of like, as bad as each other, M$ is now slightly better than Google, only because Google thinks it is a OK to fuck with elections across the planet to favour the candidates that favour it, allow mass privacy invasions et al. M$ is just a crap, unreliable and not to be trusted supplier and Google, well, evil is as evil does and corrupting elections is as evil as it gets.

  18. Re:Overstaying their time? In an airport? on Face Scanning In US Airports Is Rife With Technical Problems (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Come on, you overstayed and you are at the international airport about to board a plane to leave the country and you arrest them, why, just fucking why?!?

    My concern especially with junk yard dog US law enforcers, is how secure are they, how hackable are they, did they even bother to secure them. One hack and that family boarding a flight are not terrorist and in the US that is extremely serious and dangerous, they are very likely to get shot, regardless of age or gender, just trigger happy fuckwits emptying their entire magazine into them because yeah, they are carrying phones on other things in their hand, that police all over world recognise but US law enforcers, whether they recognise them or call, claim they looked like guns, they felt threatened and they shot them as many times as they could, yeah mainly for the thrill kill and not because of fear.

    So what has been to secure facial recognition systems to prevent hacking and false warnings and in the most the world being arrested and detained and missing your flight and in the US being shot and missing your life.

  19. Re:What They Really Want on In Senate Hearing, Tech Giants Push Lawmakers For Federal Privacy Rules (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Psst, psst but if they know enough about you, as their favourite pet politician, they don't have to pay you as much and when they can create a stable of potential pet politicians, well, they can go the churn route. Get to uppity as their political slave, demand to much money and well, they'll just expose your ass and replace you with another pet from their stable of researched and disturbing sexual actions data verified potential pet politicians.

    The silly fuckers might not yet fully understand but they are coming under real threat. No power, fuck all pay and extorted to obey, until they lose political sales value and either dumped with warnings of being exposed or exposed as a treat to feed to the angry wolves of a cheated populace.

    The US government has been extorting control all over the world by uncovering the corrupt and abusive actions of politicians across the globe but they are tightening up security and the exposed are being replaced. I'll think you'll find there is a lot more comfort in corporations with the idea of tossing corrupt politicians to the public to chew on to distract from the actions of those corporations ie how much would it ease up public disturbance if they tossed the Klinton Krime Klan to the public, blame them for everything, make them look so bad, nothing they say is believed, sacrificing them would surely have to be in the black in terms of return on investment, the worse they look, the better everyone else will look, just the way it is.

    Make no mistake though, in the current lack of privacy market, the rich are just as exposed as the poor, probably more so because information on them is worth far, far more than information on the poor. They'll soon become drone paranoid, things like tiny little drones that can fly to a window, suction attach to the glass and monitor it's vibrations. Getting the dirt on them is worth, well, billions, getting the dirt on the poor is worth a 95 cent advertisement. Tiny drones at board meetings flying in after the tech PIs cleared the room, tech PIs realising there is way more money in gaining certain secrets rather than protecting them, who watches the watchers, whoops problem, big targets means there is enough money to pay them all off. Why rob a bank when you can just get a billionaire to hand over a check for an 'er' non-disclosure agreement.

  20. I would rather they live in poverty for the rest of their lives, with their every movement monitored and controlled, extended custodial sentences for those who simply can not be rehabilitated, actually I would rather they rehabilitate, good for us and good for them. The future negative consequences of living a destructive life exploiting others, the negative quantum concious balance, well that will be what ever that will be. Odds are really rather boringly empty devoid of everything but your negative quantum mind, insane making boringly empty and probably quite enduring, especially within that dimensional scope, extremely enduring, until balance is achieved and you get another shot on the wheel with what ever than means, perhaps you have to grind you way back on up higher levels. Not all fantasy and make believe, just quantum forces playing out and taking you along for the ride, much like the rest of your reality.

  21. Re:Reading comprehension on Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Except it is happening on a mass basis with Facebook constructing profiles on all people, as privacy invasive as possible (now probably to skirt investigation, they are contract it out to an off balance sheet company owned by Facebook executives, so Facebook isn't doing oh no, company Facebook owns is doing it, naughty, naughty people that they are, here is a list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., take your pick of participants in the lie, Facebook ain't doing absolutely not, some company on this list is though). Google paid for credit card purchases information which the credit card issuers in the most corrupt fashion imaginable provided. I'll be Facebook will be chomping at the bit to do the same.

    Everyone knows the reality, Facebook, Google, Twitter, M$ have all proved to be bad actors and you should stop using them as much as possible and you should strive to get others to do the same. It is nothing about what power we want and all about how they have abused the power we allowed through insatiable greed.

  22. Would that be like, be good at being evil, be the best evil you can be. It really feels like they are developing the environment for total control and monitoring in China for deployment across the globe, hence delete this memo, the idea so funny, delete this memo, make it disappear from history, how many immediately copied it, probably read it for the first time as well.

    Google be good at being evil (they just leave out the last part). If you don't https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck..., then you are part of the problem. You just know Google is developing it for global deployment, their political inclinations to date totally prove that, don't even try to pretend otherwise. Everywhere their search touches is now cooked up, YouTube, Google Earth, Search, all of it subject to the wills of corporate at Alphabet, why would the government of China be stupid enough to trust Google and the US government to control all searches in China, the idea is laughable. Google will have to show them more and more details to prove validity and lack of US government controls and by then will, why would the Government of China bother with Google, they have all the information now, they don't need Google. Greed driven stupidity is always evil.

    Kind of funny to think of the Government of China actively stringing along Google with the big carrot of infinite profit from a billion Chinese people. Google wake up you fucking pack of morons, you are an American company and the government of America is telling the government of China, you will be dominated in every way or you will be attacked in every possible way, you seriously want to sell US government controlled, internet controls into China, you seriously think it will work, don't be that silly but keep trying I am sure sales will be fantastic, yep, uh huh, for sure ;D.

  23. Re:did riders and drivers get $? on Uber Settles Data Breach Investigation For $148 Million (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Each time, those details are leaked, the citizen should have the right to change as many as possible and as necessary. Change credit card numbers (the citizen and the credit card company should be reimbursed costs), social security numbers (the state and the citizen should be reimbursed costs, any details you wish to be altered should be done at that companies expense. What cost to the citizen, every single second of their time in arranging those things and the costs associated with delays in activity until they can be replaced, likely somewhere between 4 and 8 hours of that citizens time plus on costs. The other cost credit card companies and the state, are what ever they claim.

    So how many citizens have been contacted and reimbursed for needing to change some details, which should be changed, like credit card numbers and social security numbers and any other details that need to be changed to be more secure again. This done, each and every time. How about personal psychological profiling data, there should be a massive penalty for that. Keep the data, expect real consequences when you fail to secure it. We are not even touching on the penalty they should be for as it turns out, successfully assisting criminals in their fraudulent activities. That leak causes a bank account to be emptied of tens of thousands of dollars, well, they should pay.

  24. Re:How many were truly voluntary, though? on Windows 10 Passes 700 Million Devices (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Meh, M$ routinely lies. So is a computer one device or many. Careful, they said installed on, not running on. So like the typical M$ PR wankers they are, I'll bet they are counting broken devices that were replaced with another windows 10 box. Hey if you installed windows 10 and then replaced it, guess fucking what, you still installed it. Hey this is fun, windows 10 killed your box and you had to reinstall, that is windows 10 installed again, woo hoo. Also, yeah, I checked, I can still get windows 8.1 at lot of custom build places offer it, installed with windows 10 sort of but not and then another licence. Yep M$ scored big on a dying desktop market, which they are helping to kill because they want to whack an anal probe right into your device, feed advertising to your desktop, control your use of the device you, charge you rent to access your data and then charge a licence fee to other software manufacturers to access the device but they sacrificed the majority of user respect and killed the mobile phones and tablets and no one buys a TV with windows on it.

    This bullshit press release, they are hurting, we know it, they know it and so the bullshit. Fuck you recalcitrant users you will be forced to use windows ten as commanded by M$ and here's proof numbers, we are dominating you and we will continue to dominate you, so fucking American. You have to feel sorry for those people who had to install windows anal probe on the same device more than once because windows anal probe 10 hosed their machine, suckers, your helping improve M$'s PR=B$ numbers, every time you are forced to reinstall they look better, it's another install, bwa hah hah (you just know they are counting them as well, you just know it).

    Now will the SEC investigate M$ to confirm the validity of the numbers because they have a big impact on share price and they have already been caught out lying and well guess fucking what, the SEC did nothing about them pumping up their share prices with false press releases, not just an empty tweet but a full on marketing campaign, probably not. M$ work closely with the US government hacking computers on automatic unstoppable updates with the slightest request, empty security letters. Hey if they accuse you computer of doing bad things and blame you, are you responsible or is M$, they have full access to your device at all times, back door right into it, your device is now legally insecure as you have no control over it, you have ceded control of that device to Windows anal probe 10, so where do the legal liabilities lie on the illegal activities of the device, until they can physically prove you used the device and activated those commands, M$ kind of has to prove that it did not do it until the authorities can prove you physically did it. You can not keep M$ management out of your device, they made it impossible once you connect it to the internet, so who is really legally liable for the activity of the device, if they can not physically prove you carried out those actions, a video record of you, your keyboard and screen.

  25. Re:They're not hearing all sides on Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed In Leaked Video (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You are listening to the noise, rather than listening to the people. Most people agree with you, they and you are just effectively silenced on purposed in order to promote the lies. The greed of a tiny minority over the healthy, welfare and safety of the majority, is good, that is the lie, obviously told in more effective terms but that is the core of it. Slashdot plainly draws enough attention to have dickwads with money, spend that money on PR=B$ trolls, as such, noise exists on /. as well.

    Corporate main stream media is dying a slow painful death and with them will go the ability to maintain the charade. Thinking in team of human life, this lie has only been effective from the late seventies on and died in the late 2000. The corruption is exposed and now blatant and public, they have corrupt control of institutions but it is collapsing, they have sucked too much out of the economy of their societies but insane greed will not let them stop and as a result the system they abuse will collapse with somewhat unpredictable outcomes. It kind of depends how violent they get in the end in their last violent flailings as to how disturbed the results.

    They should have stepped back from insatiable greed a while back but didn't mainly because the mid level types were still forcing their access to unlimited riches and power, leaving them locked in their insane plots and schemes until it all blows up. For US society generally, well, lead water pipes, lead in fuels and firing lead bullets a lot has done your society no favours but the millennials seem to be getting back on track (less lead poisoning) but it will not end will. It works like this, all the psychopaths you put in charge of everything, well they put the 'i' in run, the run everything how it best serves them now, that 'i' of course changes run to ruin and that is how the run or ruin everything they touch, their forte ruining the future of everything they touch to serve their ego and greed now. They have a death grip on power and will not let go, until actively forced to do so. Want change simply become politically active, run or campaign, your choice, fail to do so and the outcomes will be worse.