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  1. The internet provides such a sheer volume of content, why provide that artificial protection, at taxpayer expense. What purpose does it serve any more, what is the energy and resource wasted by the content creation industry. Should all of it be protected or only some, like text books and documentaries. Why should be protect porn, why should we protect comics, why should we protect drunken drugged up minstrels selling depravity, how does that serve and protect society, what worthwhile service does it provide. Should it be allowed any tax payer dollars at all, show we have to protect it, all it seems to do is attack core normative values, corrupt democracy and parasite upon the society that foolishly feeds it.

    If it has no worth to society and that worth should be tested and proven why should society pay to protect it and the decidedly amoral people that produce it. What benefit are their excesses of consumption to human society.

  2. Re:Resolution is half the problem on Google and LG Unveil World's Highest-Resolution OLED On-Glass VR Display (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 2

    Size of display ie distance to the eye, governs that. Closer the fewer number of pixels but the smaller they need to be and the more complex the lens needs to be to fit it to your eye. A compact curved screen where that curve, together with lenses is match to your eye, correct fitting is going to be quite fussy. Why does this story feel like an ad.

  3. Re:Trump is gonna be pissed. on FBI Seizes Control of Russian Botnet (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    To claim truth without testing in court is to lie. Governments routinely lie, not for the people but against the people. Lie to cover up corruption, lie to cover up incompetence, lie to cover up nepotism, lie, lie and lie some more. Nothing was proven, in fact the only court action so far was against thirteen Russian trolls working at a click bait operation, simply put up content that people will click, taking them to the ad to be served. Of course the reality there, the US banned the people it claimed it wanted to arrest from entering the US, so yeah, right.

    It seems much more likely and based upon actual evidence exposed, that it was an inside job and the assassinated the person that did it. Pathetic lies like this coming from /. ohh so lame, like you are going to convince anyone here of anything. So many lies told about Russia, nobody cares any more, the US government can tell all the lies it wants and it is only arrogance that makes them think people are believing them because they don't attack them as much any more. Don't you morons get it, we stopped listening because you always just bullshit, so waffle on what ever crap you want, you just look worse and worse and worse.

    NATO North American Territorial Occupation farce. Main purpose force itself on more countries. Privatise their defence industries and have US multinational takes them over. Then demand 2% of GDP as tribute payment buying arms and munitions, you don't need an army, if fact they are a hindrance, you just need to buy the crap as demanded, failure and regime change operation and that is up to an including a coup as witnessed in Turkey a NATO country, hence the need for US military to be in NATO countries, to capture and kill that countries anti-vassal state politicians and political activists.

    Look at the suck up nations, Australia voting with the US, that it is A OK to murder unarmed protesters with snipers on purpose and shoot thousands beyond that blowing off limbs on purpose to destroy their lives. So the US drags other countries down into the muck and mire, the blood and gore of their rapacious greed and vileness.

  4. Re:Driverless, really? on Apple Signs Deal With Volkswagen For Driverless Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Projected pattern analysis with additional light inputs makes robotic vehicles possible. Projecting a pattern onto the surrounds using the invisible to us light spectrum, allows computers to analyse the three dimensional surface around them and analyse it, see it and react to it. A pattern has a set appearance when projected on a flat surface at a set distance, as the distance increases or decreases so the pattern changes size. As the surface changes from flat relatively to the projection point, to tilted so the pattern shape distorts. The detail, would be defined by the detail of the pattern and it's projection area, as well as the detail of the image capture device and processing power, how many frames a second can be processed and for additional detail, how the patterns alters as it moves across a surface. As the computer searches out it's three dimensional space, it takes a broader view or more tightly focuses in on objects for detail. Then of course you have stereoscopic patterns, more than one pattern in different frequencies, through two image capture systems for much greater three dimensional environment capture. You will need to digitise the projection, to set projection pulses, so that you can pick out your projection from other devices projecting at their variable digitised pulse rate. This method has limits in ranges but for robotic vehicles the distance where accurate 3d models can be built is sufficient, by adjusting projection, focus and focal point more detail can be obtained at a distance at the expense of local awareness, requiring multiple systems, some fixed at say the four corners and probably four longer range units scanning above them.

    For those who want to use them in drones to target women and children like Google, add in additional infrared scan to make sure you are in fact killing women and children and not targeting 3d dummies. I bet the Google execs are counting the patent fees per kill already, doing coke and abusing their SJW pets, evil is as evil does.

  5. The public wont be shut down, they will just be product shifted. Can't break up Facebook, no problem, ban it and kill it, choose and perish. Facebook fad audience will just shift from hula hoops to yoyos, loyaltity Facebook executives do not have it, not even the scent of it, right now, governments could coat the executives of facebook with gravy and toss them to the wolven mob and they would just tear them to pieces, they are already baying for blood, don't even try calling to them and attracting their attention, it is attention you do not want. Somebody has to be blamed and oh look, Facebook it looks like it's you.

  6. Re:I gave up on music on Sony In $2.3 Billion Deal For EMI, Becomes World's Biggest Music Publisher · · Score: 1

    That's not the current problem, the current problem is the review of copyright durations due to the excess flow from the internet, everything will end up locked up and choked, simply too much content and you can not differentiate under law, so the copyright crunch is inevitable, no need to promote anything, already too much, copyright will be shrunk and how low can it go is now the question. Copyright the new global conflict?!?

  7. Re:In other news on FBI Repeatedly Overstated Encryption Threat Figures To Congress, Public (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    High school, it never stops, you think it's over but there it is, the same people, behaving the same way, from the teens to their decrepitude, control freaks will be control freaks and they wont ever stop. It is all as lame as that regardless of the public relations and advertising.

  8. Re:Avoid American-made chipsets and phones on Pentagon-Funded Project Will 'Solve' Cellphone Identity Verification Within Two Years (nextgov.com) · · Score: 1

    No it will eventually come down to the cheapest phones with the least number of features will be the most secure and reliable. High end phones will be insecure by design, have many routes of failure (any of the security features fail and you phone is a brick), and lack all measure of privacy. Every feature missing from a phone makes it cheaper, so which phone will win, cheaper and private or expensive and whores you privacy out to all and sundry.

  9. Re:Google is too busy on Popular 'Gboard' Keyboard App Has Had a Broken Spell Checker For Months · · Score: 1

    Why would GBoard be able to spell, hell it can't even do the alphabet, the ABCs, even when they are owned by Alphabet, Google permanent beta it's now a feature, 'er', no it's not Google it is starting to look real amateur hour. Google single true focus, advertising, and that is of questionable worth, google having diluted it to futility, ads drowning under ads.

  10. Re:Causation on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It definitely is sociopathic ego, a society trained to enjoy the denigration of losers, to get a kick out of it, to clamour for worse to be done. Only the US takes pride in prison rape, calling a feature, defend law enforcers shooting the unarmed not just shooting but emptying their entire clip and reloading. Denial will not alter it in the slightest, the US routinely attacks victims of the rich, victims of society, it truly grinds down on losers and disparages them in every way possible to justify attacking them with law enforcers. Americans hate Americans more than any other people in the world, a dog eat dog society.

  11. Obviously other countries are looking a reviewing copyright terms and reducing them, hence the US corporate counter move of doubling them but of course they actually want to make it permanent, you know like the scientology contracts, a billion years.

    What happens when the rest of the world goes their own way, US import revenues dry up anyhow. They will of course threaten economic conflict but those doing the importing can only really threaten war. Economic war, does not work for the economic parasite because it cuts them off from their victims and they end up starving.

    So this story nothing more than proof that other countries are already sticking it to the US behind the scenes to cut back on copyright terms, this move pointless, other than showing their hand, laughably pointless. 144 years of internet content, you wont be able to publish anything in about 25 years without infringing someone's copyright on some internet content. Reality is, copyright needs to be radically shortened to take into account the sheer volume of internet content and you can not separate content types some having protection and others not. The internet will force a reduction in copyright terms, otherwise everyone will end up existing content blocked.

    Those trade war meetings with China did not go so well, huh ;)?

  12. Nothing to do with GDP, this story is a straight up frothy beat up, attack Russia and China story and nothing else, the lamest shite science and the lamest shite journalism, why, https://www.greentechmedia.com.... So what the fuck are they even talking about. A measure of street lighting is not a measure of GDP, more a measure of tax levels and willingness to pay for street lighting.

    GDP is not a reliable measure of anything because it is gross, heh, heh and not nett. You can be generating all the revenue you want but if you are generating it at a loss, you will go bankrupt. Street lighting is more a measure of taxation, those with higher taxes are more likely to have well lit cities, those skimping out to keep taxes low and basically privatise the profits and socialise the losses will have low levels of lighting.

    Here is a more sound question, what fucking government doesn't fudge the numbers at election time, answer, fucking NONE. They must have been masturbating when they wrote this story because that would be the only excuse for the level of froth in it.

  13. Re:The key to Data Sience. on Data Science is America's Hottest Job (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Nope, what they are doing is confusing the term, data scientist with data analyst. Get away from the silliness that writing data formulas are all that flash, what is important is knowing what data is important, not the data formulas to dig it out. So the idea of the composite of a very experienced data analysts, where is it their broad knowledge across a broad range of subjects that gives them insight into valuable data and that bit of knowledge that allows them to write data formulas. It is knowing what data is important and what data can be ignored, that is key, not the data base design or it's data formulas.

  14. Re:What leverage? on Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Supply and demand. The App makers and sellers are their own worst enemy, they are each competitors to each other, fighting over the same income. The more app developers the worse the returns, simple as that. Too many, similar apps will eat each others revenue, overly compete upon price and basically earn bugger all. Forming a union utterly pointless, you can not force you customers to be treated as employers, they choose to buy or ignore you product. Reality is, I installed apps and after a while found the default ones to be enough and uninstalled all the redundant aps and disabled built in ones I was not using.

    There are quite simply too many app developers and so you eat each others lunch and starve ie go bankrupt, nature of the market. Not making enough money as a app developer for Apple products, stop and do something else, such is life. Keep in mind, any new aps have to compete against all the existing ones and the more there are the stiffer the competition.

    Want to make money on apps, do what the corporate types do. Pay lobbyists to pay politicians to force government departments to buy those aps, whether they use them or not, buy them in the millions.

  15. Re:Good. Arrest =/= guilt on Alleged Owners of Mugshots.com Have Been Arrested For Extortion (lawandcrime.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is actually much more complex that it seems at first glance. Why are arrests public because nothing is more dangerous than secret arrests, disappearing people, so they have to be public, very public, to protect the individual being arrested. News service report the arrest and they no longer delete the stories as they did in days of yore by virtue of the fact looking up old newspapers was a laborious task and of course nobody really recorded TV news.

    Now this stuff stays published for life. The biggest onus for false arrest should be on the police and they should be required to publish an apology and pay restitution. The state should not be allowed to get away with false arresting anyone, they should be required to undo all harm caused and penalties should be applied, dependent upon how egregious the false arrest is.

    Where the individuals went wrong was being selective about removing data, that selectiveness was based around the harm they knew they were causing and greed. They set out to cause harm and extort money in order to minimise that harm, they set out to harass people to extort them into paying them to stop that harassment. They would have been safe if they had not filtered, if they had not been aware of the harm they were purposefully causing and if they had to demonstrated intent to cause harm and charge fees to stop causing harm. Somewhat similar to a protection racket and probably subject to similar Rico style charges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... the charges could mount quite alarmingly for them due to the organised nature of their activity.

  16. Re:Waiting for the backlash. on Utilities, Tesla Appeal Federal Rollback of Auto Emissions Standards (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You are really starting to understand now. They do not expect these laws to be permanent, they expect the regulations to come back and they will fight them off for as long as possible. More profits this quarter and bigger bonuses is all they care about, how many they kill, meh, as long as the penalties are less than the profits and besides the investors pay the penalties and the executes keep the profit. They know they damage they are causing, they don't care and will continue to do it for as long as they can. Executives need to be going to prison for life when their decisions kill and don't expect any change in behaviour until that happens.

  17. Re:Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    A logical thought. The problem is in human reproduction is most often not reliant on logic but inebriation and laziness. The smarter make the logical choice and the dumber just 'hmm', 'well', what can you say but drink and fuck, birth control, well, beer is for drinking and not for thinking.

    With a declining birth rate I would be more interested in the association with IQ, as well as age of reproduction and the long term forecast for achieving an idiocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?... or a parenting licence, cough, cough, to dumb to parent, to dumb to breed.

  18. You know what I am hearing, 'watch the fuck out the end is nigh'. This sounds like the typical press release media backup and corporate support for a war. That increasing frequency of targeted news, associations of threat and imminent major harm. The other against whom a war must be fought, the other in this case, 'unbacked crypto currencies'. It seems like the decision has most definitely been made and the preliminaries are being deployed with a view to action taken which would have a zeroing affect on worth in legal terms (illegal transaction only). Unbacked needs to be eliminated to make way for backed with assets and no competition will be tolerated.

  19. Re:fair on NYC Announces Plans To Test Algorithms For Bias (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    What seems to confusing the geeks and nerds is the whole idea of bias in algorithms, makes no sense but then you stop and think. What if a couple of racist idiots got the programs to add in racist elements to the data manipulation functions and they simply don't want to fess up to it and instead claim biased algorithms. You know the political appointees who got into office purely based on their electioneering and nothing what so ever to do with their honesty, reliability, skill set or fitness for the job. Their instructions to the programmers biased and prejudiced, algorithms are fine, some of the data functions just need to be altered or removed.

  20. Steak is actually quite complex for a robot. Thickness of steak, temperature of steak, toughness of steak, desired level of cooking, age of steak, the cut, all affect the outcome and the chef must react to them to deliver a professionally cooked steak reliably. The automated fry pots are not robots, they are just automated fry machines, not even close to being chefs. As for prepare the foods they night before, freshly cut vegetables taste better than old cut vegetables, bad things happen with chlorophyll and other elements as they break down over time.

  21. People are starting to learn with Google, their new Youtube security method, https://www.theguardian.com/te..., want to secure it, hah hah, well just break it in fucking purpose, now it's secure and tough luck for the suckers who bought it, what a pack of dick bags. They have become just as ridiculously unreliable as M$.

    New reality from Google don't trust it. Forever in Beta, they will scrap it after selling, break it to suit them with total disregard to the people who already bought it, delete features and just invade your privacy like there is no tommorow and just for total dick baggedness, corrupt democracy and censor news, 'lets be evil' has to be their new motto.

    PS google want to hunt and kill people with drones, here's a hint, do not hunt them passively but use active visual pattern recognition by projecting a digital visual pattern using specific frequencies of light and monitor and decipher the change of that pattern as it reflects of the environment and the AI analyse for targeting. See Google, no problem to be able to hunt down and execute all the women and children you want, perhaps you can charge a patent fee for each one you kill, better long term returns (have the AI automatically return 'SEARCH' and kill result higher points for children they are smaller targets), Google 'Evil is as Evil does'.

  22. Re:What's a "police sheriff"? on Cell Phone Tracking Firm Exposed Millions of Americans' Real-time Locations (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There should be the additional charge of hacking a computer network. Once that access right demand comes up and you actively thwart it, you have hacked a computer network and then the other laws come into play. So the computer network crime should take priority. Else it is like claiming a locked door is not secure of there is a pane of glass that can be readily thwarted right next to it. So busted for the lessor crime, failing to adhere to the requirement for warrants, only to face a worse prosecution upon investigation, hacking a computer network.

  23. Re:A stronger "silicon valley" ideological bubble on Twitter Will Start Hiding Tweets That 'Detract From the Conversation' (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Twitter are a public relations marketing scam. Their focus is to sell advertising, the drive is to create a communications channel that sell shit, full a pathetic lying scum sucking influencers. Who gives a fuck what they do, it is an utterly pointless and worthless communications channel. It is not about promoting quality discussion, it is all about selling shit, about false advertising as long as it is paid for those false ads, whether political manipulations, social manipulations or simple shit product promotion. Twitter is a suckers marketing channel, that is all it is, twits making tweets and the gullible reading it. Twitter is starting to die and so it should, just another empty worthless crap marketing channel like Facebook all destined for the same fad trash heap as MySpace.

  24. Re:Causation on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lets no lie, want to solve homelessness, it is all to easy, you just have to spend money. Social support should all be done on a federal basis and not by the state or local communities. Problem with states and local communities attempting it is, well, psychopaths, rather than trying to solve problems they just use law enforcers to drive people out and force them on other communities and on the tax base and social support services, overloading them, a real cunt act, no better way to put it.

    So done on a federal basis, consider homelessness and mental disorder and pick those people up and put them in protected housing. Generally monitored and controlled one person studio style apartments, a controlled environment, where you can assist them with their problems or based upon their problems provide more controlled care and rehabilitation in an institution.

    So the problem is solvable but be honest in the US, you don't want to really solve the problem, it feeds the ego of those better off to look down their noses at people in poverty, lets the better off pose before those in poverty, this kind of stuff https://www.rt.com/usa/403097-... is not a negative in the US economy, it is clearly seen an ego burnishing benefit. Poverty in the US because most Americans do not want it to end, they want to grind being a loser into the faces of the losers, that want the poseur opportunities and be honest, they want to do worse things than they already are.

  25. Re:Say what now? on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 1

    The answer is clearly, you are glambling make your choice but not based upon lies. Some things have a much higher risk than others of generating cancer, cancer being a specific kind of genetic damage that allows sufficient change in your cells DNA to reproduce uncontrollably, not trigger self destruction for excessive change and not be detected by you immune system for eradication.

    You can be a PR dickbag and pretend all sorts of bullshit but the simply fact is, those cancer causing substances cause all sorts of genetic harm and it is just time and random chance, till that harm fucking kills you. All sorts of DNA breakdown can occur during cellular reproduction and most of it wont matter a crap, DNA that controls eye colour when it is damaged in another part of the body, will not affect that part of the body but will reproduce in future. So DNA damage accumulates over time and right up until you get specific style of damage, you are fine and then, wham you are dying.

    So ignore the PR dickbags, the real scum sucking cunts, their lies will kill you. You can accumulate all sorts of DNA damage over time and be fine or straight out of the gate, you get the kind of DNA damage that kills you. The more DNA damage you accumulate over the time, the more likely you are to get that critical kind of damage that kills.

    So play your gambling game with substances that cause DNA damage, but remember this, you could be trading a fucking cup of covfefe for a enduring miserable and extremely painful death, so do you smell the covfefe or is that the smell of your carcass rotting away around you. Playing the cancer game is exactly the same as playing Russian roulette, you can die on the first pull of the trigger or not but keep pulling that trigger and you most certainly will die eventually, still a better way to die than cancer.

    There are real answers and real choices, you want to gamble with cancer, go right ahead, you wont to lie to others about that risk, well you should go to prison.