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  1. Re:Not DST on EU Polls The Public About Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    It really depends on the number of daylight hours you have. That hour change in countries with more hours of daylight, means not getting up in the dark in winter, nor wasting daylight in summer. Oh my god the horror of adjusting a clock twice a year, oh wait I don't, all my computerised gear does it automatically. I still have an old clock radio going, for no real apparent reason and I don't bother to adjust the time on that, just doing it my head as appropriate to the season.

  2. I would also tend to lean to warning and then firing developers who argued with young teenagers on line not as a stranger but as an employee of the company.

    Oh noes, the horror, seemingly adult developers are getting harassed by teenage boys and girls. Yep, that is a real problem and the problem is not the teenage boys and girls, they are just being what you would expect children to do as the struggle with the hormonal changes of adolescence. The adult employees are the problem and their inability to mature, hence warning then firings.

    If they are adults and they arguing shite with adolescents online, then they are problem and they need to grow the fuck up and shut the fuck up if they can not control themselves.

    Gamergate, adult narcissistic women, arguing shite with young teenage boys and those narcissistic women claiming it meant something so, they could play the victim and profit by it (technically the behaviour of the women was child abuse as it promoted bad behaviour in the children they targeted, so the children would hurl insults at them online).

  3. If people do not censor goggle out of existence, then google will continue to censor the people. They really have become quisling corp, censors for the establishment, propagandists for the 1%, just straight up evil is as evil does, google rewards lies for profit and tries to economically destroy those who expose the truth to the people.

  4. Re:Open surveillance, annoyance, and zero-trust on Open Offices Make You Less Open (calnewport.com) · · Score: 1

    Geeks and nerds on slashdot like privacy. Geeks and nerds on slashdot hate meetings. Not all but by far the majority.

    Most other employees, the non geek and non nerds are chatter boxes, that love long waffle on sessions that they call meetings. Open plan, totally wipes on their productivity. Put slave collars around their necks to measure productivity, will not generate real or accurate results, just the kind of closed in cut of censored existence you would expect when you put slave collars on people.

    When an employer demands you wear something around your neck to monitor your activity, you accept that accoutrement as a slave collar and no mistake about that. They measured the functioning of people reduced to psychological slavery. My response to a slave collar would have been to scream 'shove it up your fucking arse', an inch from their face", hey the first response would have been a polite 'no thank you' whilst I boiled on the inside, they would then inevitably insist and I would respond appropriately to anyone demanding that I wear a performance monitoring slave collar.

  5. AI facial recognitions works by extracting wealth from the public purse, via lying lobbyists and paid of politicians. How well does it need to work, not as well as the propaganda feed into corporate main stream media about how great it is. Why does it work so badly because profits first, the spend the absolute minimum amount possible, whilst charging the maximum amount possible, use propaganda channels to cover it all about because bribes are expensive and not tax deductible and it is all, absolutely 100% about the profits and nothing to do with whether or not the shit the make works.

    Tech industries have been extremely good at fraudworks, selling rubbish that doesn't for massive profits all enabled by a system of capitalist corruption build up over the last several decades.

  6. In this case, strictly the economic growth of the investors. Watch out for the investors behind Reddit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., they are not to be trusted.

    This story, their plan, a pump and dump, run up short term income by turning Reddit into a straight up propaganda channel, especially targeting upcoming elections and they sell, sell, sell, before censored Reddit users abandon the platform.

    A lot of people go there mainly as a result of internet searches. Many of the forums are empty and most are inbred, either agreed or be censored out of existence. Lots of useful information buried in Reddit but the site is shite as a forum, nearly all threads are totally inbred and allow no new ideas or discussions, that is killing the site, slowly but surely.

    That slow grinding death with no future, the reason why the propaganda web site shift to feed short term revenue boost and a pump and dump, before the haemorrhage too many censored users. They know, they absolutely know, they will lose too many users when they start censoring them but they will not mention that in the pump and dump scam.

  7. Re: Cannot be climate change on All-time Heat Records Are Being Set All Over the World (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    They'll be complaining loud and clear and demand that people responsible be prosecuted for crimes against humanity and executed, when their cities start to flood and that could happen a whole lot sooner than people think. Weather is the real threat now, that heat wave that will eliminate permafrost and release a methane generated heatwave, in the worst place imaginable, where ice turns to flooded cities and the deaths of millions. Get out your dice and start rolling them, it's only a matter of time and a matter of chance, as to how soon and how bad, far beyond anything put out as worst case examples and in a few years not in a century. Either the permafrost breaks down slowly and not that bad, still far worse than claimed or it goes really fast and a century of sea level rise occurs in those few short years.

    Too late to stop know and when hundreds of millions start screaming crimes against humanity, the perpetrators will be tried and executed for those crimes against humanity, first the corrupt politicians, the media personalities who spread propaganda and then those who paid for it all. When hundreds of millions call for your death, there is absolutely no stopping it.

  8. Re:I don't think it's just "the wealthy" on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's a government of the psychopath, by the psychopath and for the psychopath. Of course psychopaths can never be trusted, especially by psychopaths. Escape of the rich, the psychopath is a total delusion, as the ratio of psychopaths rises, so a society destroys itself, not by accident but on purpose. When psychopath do not have the rest of society, the normal human being to parasite off, to attack and abuse to feed the egos and lusts of the psychopaths, they will attack and destroy each other, till the scattered handful and left to die, howling in the wilderness, nothing left to parasite off.

    They can not escape self destruction, it is their nature, just as we allow them to pillage and destroy our planet, to our destruction, they insane compulsion to consume, destroy and pollute far beyond anything even slightly resembling reason, even when they have less, far far less as a result, as long as in their insanity, they have far more then the rest of us, now left with nothing but a burned out planet and the insane living in concrete holes in the ground.

    Well, as it turns out they have already lost, that we are publicly discussing and tearing apart the insanity, their insatiable greed and lusts and we know, we absolutely know the final outcome of their continued rule, the extinction of humanity. All to easy to avoid, simply extinction of the psychopath, their genetic removal in the womb, to save homo sapiens from in reality homo psychopath, a genetic aberration, a parasitic sub species.

    Allow psychopaths to lead us to extinction or get rid of the psychopaths and colonise other worlds around other stars, that is the factual choice.

  9. Re:Beware Leaky DNA on Data From Open-Source Ancestry Site Leads to More Arrests (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You already seem to have forgotten all those people fucked up with wrongful convictions based upon one forensic DNA scientist screwing with test results and even faking them completely, so there nothing back FAKE DNA evidence lead straight to convictions for hundreds of people. Yep, just DNA evidence will get you destroyed in court and force you to try to prove how it got there and that it was not your legal responsibility.

  10. Re:Our reach exceeds our grasp.. on UK Banks Told To Reveal Tech Meltdown Plans (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nuthin' because as you well know, doing something costs money and doing nuthin' cost nuthin' and boosts this quarter bonus. Don't expect anything to change until regulations force it and don't expect regulations until it fucks up really bad. Likely the next major solar flare, which half of the planet, gets pretty digitally fucked up, just a matter of waiting to find out.

  11. Re:Slashdot --- the fashion site for geeks on Microsoft Teases New Outlook.com Dark Mode (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah I though Windows anal probe 10, with it's forced software install and invasions of privacy was quite dark enough, I can only imagine the horror of outlook dark mode, emails to hell get a response I suppose.

  12. Re:Party City is planning to open a toy city on Amazon Will Publish Toy Catalog This Holiday To Fill Toys R Us Void, Says Report (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It was American corporations who outsourced to China specifically to break the back of American unions by shutting down industry and they did it on purpose because psychopathic greed and ego. Now you blame China, wake up.

    Fair competition tariffs are quite reasonable, where the tariffs are based on the regulated cost difference, covering minimum wage, health and safety conditions, environmental rules, local, state and federal taxes, to ensure equal competition for locally produced product and imported product. Would that generate quite high tariffs on product coming out of China, of course it would but it would be done upon a fair basis globally.

    This is not what they do, they still want to break unions ie US workers completely but they want to fund another tax cut for the rich first and of course fair competition tariffs would mean US product would pay tariffs in most other western countries because of low minimum wage, lower environmental standards, lower health and safety conditions at places of employment, paying for universal health care, etc. See I support tariffs on US product imported to Australia to account for lower regulated costs in the US and much higher ones for China for the same reason. I do not support arbitrary tariffs, just ones that cover the differences in regulated costs.

  13. Re:Bad Challenge on DeepMind's AI Agents Exceed 'Human-Level' Gameplay In Quake III (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Half way there, did they use the mouse and keyboard. Don't think quality of mouse and keyboard make a difference in first person shooters. To compare to human players, they have to do the whole human thing. From the article they still did cheat, they used low res screens and that also has a huge impact in processed data, missmatch between target zones and graphic representation of the target zones, not only taking fire but blocking it and eliminating camouflage opportunities, deep mind can only apparently play at low res and there is a real reason why.

  14. Re:Oh my, color me beige on Apple's New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    We still have to keep track of the others, so we can mock and laugh at them. Soon they will be wanting colour coding for their custom genitals, you know they will, you just absolutely know they will.

    Apple we have absolutely nothing to announce, 'FUCK', 'er' colour coded phones, yeah. C'mon Apple where is the resin phone, where the bulk of parts of cast in resin, leaving the front add on panel for a screen and the back panel as battery, user removable and replaceable, the electronics safely locked away behind a solid resin, extremely damage resistant and definitely water proof.

  15. Re:Party City is planning to open a toy city on Amazon Will Publish Toy Catalog This Holiday To Fill Toys R Us Void, Says Report (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Then other parents would grab the toys of the porches of other people immediately after Amazon delivered them and then those parents would make a last minute dash to wallmart, to pay the poor tax on toys imported from China. US tarrifs on China basically a Wallmart sales tax on the poor, to fund the next tax cut for the rich.

  16. Re:Misleading title... on How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning · · Score: 1

    Walking to work makes the most sense but in reality to do that you need jobs for life so that you can move close to work, super efficient but don't expect it to happen any time soon because psychopathic greed and the disposable work force (make no mistake as far as the US economic system is concerned workers are treated as disposable, actively denied a political voice).

  17. The unicorn free market where magic cable flies out of the unicorns butt to provide you a connection. You can only connect to the services provide at your location, no competition at all if you can only get one service and if you can get more expect a cartel to form from the two or three services you can get. Same bloated prices, same shitty services and when it comes to complaining, free market unicorns is what they scream at you.

  18. Re:Hypocrisy, thy name is Boshevik Republican on Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Far simple, just tackle those corrupt idiots weaknesses. They are psychopaths driven by their ego and lusts, put them under the spot light to deny them their lusts and just insult the crap out of them at every opportunity, they will never feel shame but being publicly ridiculed makes them burn. That and expose everyone of the deceptions, scams and simply keep poking their plots and schemes until they fall apart. Next level shun those than refuse to shun them (they then have to rely on each other, worse than it sounds as they are all disingenuous back stabber all too happy to stab each other in the back to get ahead).

    Without us they fail and with them we fail, interesting that.

  19. Shh, don't remind the rest of the world too much because it will pretty much gaurantee a global shrinking of copyright laws. The US has sanctioned so much it has become the norm and everyone is simply adapting to trading around them. Keep this up and it will not be all that long before the US is the one sanctioned, closer than you think. Want to be a pack of muderous cunts don't be surprised when the rest of the world start treating you like a pack of murderous cunts.

  20. Re:Bad Challenge on DeepMind's AI Agents Exceed 'Human-Level' Gameplay In Quake III (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    At the very least play with the same handicap ie watching a screen and actually manipulating a mouse and keyboard, not directly plugged in. People will also play better if they were directly plugged in. This kind of crap really is just a sales blow job for AI which is a pretty solid indication that AI is currently shite and they need to make up more shite to cover it up. Would not need to do this crap if AI where any good, rather than the current database store and sort. It's the American way though, want the big bucks, waffle bullshit, pay lobbyists, get billion dollar contracts, produce crap, use main stream media to cover it all up, shuffle the money off to tax havens and don't pay any taxes. They are crippling the US economy with fraud and corruption.

  21. Beware Leaky DNA on Data From Open-Source Ancestry Site Leads to More Arrests (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The threat of excess reliance on DNA evidence, remains the same, it can always be obtained from you and then planted where ever they want it, https://www.quora.com/How-many.... You leak DNA where ever you go, that is what they are relying on to prosecute you but you loose it where ever you go and they want to prosecute your for that. Drop a hair on the actual criminal and they drop it at the scene of the crime, you are fucked. The criminal collects it before hand and leaves it too obscure the crime trail. Use a hooker to collect an undeniable sample. Yeah over reliance on DNA is extremely dangerous to the enemies of a corrupt state. You can be any where they want you to be, well, at least your DNA can.

  22. Re:Does that mean key word Pirate now will work ? on Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites In Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason Google is waffling shite about the down ranking is they are the quislings of the corrupt. See, they are proudly proclaiming, we are attacking the choices of the people and fully 100% behind the corrupt establishment. This is actually a good thing, a solid indication that sites like https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck... are really starting to hurt. Hence the desire to appeal to the corrupt, to attack those that threaten Google's dominance. See google is the good little corrupt authoritarian tool, who will ruthlessly attack and silence any actual real democracy, protect it from it's good guy 'er' evil competitors, they promise to protect the pigopolists in return, the corrupt establishment, those who abhor actual real democracy. Google, evil is as evil does and google certainly does a huge amount of it.

  23. Re:There have been many on Ask Slashdot: Is There a 'Gig Economy' Site For Tech Skills? · · Score: 1

    Sure there is a gig economy for those with tech skills but the government tend to call those activities computer crimes but hey if it was a freemarket, it should no be illegal. What is legal and what is a crime tends to be defined by those who used crime to achieve the point where they could write laws to keep what they have stolen before closing that chance behind them but why should we allow that, they stole it, then claimed we can't steal it, why do they get to choose the point where it was legal and now it is illegal. Freemarket man, I should be able to decide when I am free to steal just like they did.

  24. Re:This is idiotic on US Government Study Concludes: You're Probably Washing Your Hands Wrong (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Washing you hands in dirty water is pretty pointless and the US has some of the shitiest water in the entire developed world, really, really bad. Lead, fracking chemicals, pesticides, all sorts of infectious agents, reality want to clean you hands properly. First get in a car, drive across the Canadian border and wash you hands in a much cleaner water supply, the Canadian water supply and then return. No matter how fucking hard you try, you are not washing you hands clean in the typically contaminated US water supply, remember the US water supply is focused on lower taxes and the poor are worthless and should be euthanised https://news.ava360.com/gop-ca.... You are getting the water supply you are willing to pay for, good luck trying to get clean using that water (USA rapidly working to achieve a China grade water supply where you should filter and boil it prior to using it no lead though, US the only developed country where tested bottled water is the only safe choice for your family).

  25. Re:Windows must stop being yet another Linux distr on ComputerWorld Says Newest Windows 10 'Isn't Ready for Prime Time' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I see you left out the bit where to avoid being fucked over by M$, crappy updates, and privacy invasion, you have to pay $7 per month for the rest of your life and absolutely 100% guaranteed to rise far faster than the inflation rate, protection and extortion fee, stop paying and they kill your box. Ahh windows anal probe 10 delivering exactly what everyone warned M$ would deliver, renting access to your own computer. Refuse to pay and the shit version of windows is all they will sell you, still demand that you pay for it. What a piece of shit company, ESAD M$ (that would be eat yourself M$).