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  1. Re:Why not one for the BSDs? on Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Most likely simple bait and switch. Lock you into azure with the Linux kernel and then kill the Linux kernel to replace it with, a Windows anal probe 10, kernel. The clearly do not give a crap, M$ reputation is now shite because power user will not accept the probe nor compulsory software installs on their, I repeat their, computers and a big ole fuck you to M$ for continuing to force it. They simply can not be trusted, they are more definitely not a trusted suppler and only a corrupt US government is allowing them to get away with this crap.

  2. I look forward to thousands of dollars, as a non Facebook member if they used facial recognition on me in other peoples photos and recorded it in a database about me. I think somewhere between fifty thousand and one hundred thousand dollars should be appropriate in punitive damages (punitive being punishment, not actual damages, not a member, no financial transactions, no data record allowed). The class action to spread from one country to another like a bush fire, and Facebook all burned down. Some countries allow perception of psychological harm in civil suits and invading someone's privacy, seeking to manipulate them, is quite psychologically damaging.

  3. Re:On the other side of the coin: on Netflix Licensed Content Generates 80% of US Viewing, Study Finds (variety.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is quite bit of difference between making content and paying a production house to make content for you. Still quite an impressive list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and it goes on https://media.netflix.com/en/o.... Of course http://www.news.com.au/technol..., NewsCorpse who own Fox, think it is a really bad idea, competing against their content is an extremely bad idea.

    Now that explains why Netflix went from friend to last millenniums content dinosaurs to being the enemy to be cut off from content (I dare say, the more popular Netflix become the more they wanted to charge Netflix, Netflix's response fine, we will make our own, see you at the bargaining table).

  4. Re: Why ?? why ?? on Microsoft Engineer Charged In Reveton Ransomware Case (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Look on the bright side, he was Nigerian and M$ hired him, not to be racist but it is as funny as fuck (apparently this case pre-dates his employment at M$, who will likely have to carefully check everything this guy ever touched ie inside access at M$ probably more profitable than the prior scam, a real problem for M$).

    Side note, the shut down Liberty Reserve servers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... contained $6 BILLION in claimed money laundering operations and they are still working through it. I am wondering if that is why they let bitcoin go for so long, their next huge fishing expedition when they shut it down and steal all the servers, take them many years to go through that (big fish first and then the little ones there in after).

  5. Re:That's easy, build it and they will come on Ola Wants a Million Electric Rides on India's Roads by 2021 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Shh, it's about this quarters profits. That is as far as they see. They know the truth, they do not care, they want to keep fossil fuellers share prices up and sell fossil fuels for as long as they can, as fast as they can, they do not care, honestly really, they get more of a kick getting away with lying to everyone, then they do about creating a better future for humanity. For them humanity is the person they see in the mirror and the rest of us, we are just furniture to be used.

    Electric vehicles will dominate, how fast is the question and of course the next big question, how best to recycle used batteries and of course how to design better batteries.

    Americans used to enjoy slaves (in the worst ways imaginable and unimaginable), it was a part of their lifestyle and they had to be forced to give them up, actual war. So yeah, trying to talk them out of fossil fuels, waste of breath if they are making profit from fossil fuels. You talk around they and formulate regulations and you ban the shit, that is the only way to stop it. They will of course lie, cheat, steal and kill to keep the system that profits them going, that is just the way it is.

    Is regulation required to stop fossil fuels, yes, 100% no other choice, either you ban it or they will keep getting it out of the ground and burn it to make money.

  6. Re:Jumping the gun just a bit? on Europe Divided Over Robot 'Personhood' (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    See that is the real underlying issue that is only be started to be discussed. Why does anyone need a humanoid robot, why the fetish for a synthetic human slave, really at it's core extremely disturbing. Why would any one feel the need or desire to emulate a human slave, we know the 1% want to treat all of us like that but should we desire that at all.

    Personally a series of automated devices seem much more logically. Auto vacuum cleaners, auto floor polishers, maybe a couple of robot kitchen arms bolted to the ceiling. A mobile arm platform, as a picker upper and put downer. So more an automated house tied into the home computer server. For those that feel the need, a robot arm above their beds.

    It is really questionable to want to emulate a human slave in robot form, perhaps they can do the job with robot furries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., still a fetish but less so than a human one, although others would argue as it being more perverse. Fully automated makes more sense than robot slaves, most of the automated are bound to location and would struggle to run amok. Synthetic human slaves when you really stop to think about it, is really quite perverse and sick.

    So that leaves robot companions, not a slave by behaviour but they will never lie to you, never cheat you, will always support you and critique your questionable behaviour, with recommendations for better behaviour, robo-nannies, who you must request actions from, rather than order about, hmm, auto house sounds better, robots seen by results, rather than ever being heard.

    For companionship, try people, most aren't that bad except the 1% most of them a really quite awful, just goes with the territory, actions are louder than words and their greed is way louder than their voices.

  7. Well, you see, you just don't get it. By public, they do not mean you, you don't count, you are not a person, not a real one, not the one percent that is, you are the 99%, the consumables. They want to be safe from us, when they lie to us, when they cheat us, when they steal from us and when they kill us. So their public safety (the only people that count, the one percent) has to be balanced against our privacy the 99%, well, the completely and utter total lack of it, hell, they don't concern themselves with out lives, except to get a groin rush from killing us in mass numbers, why would they care about our privacy, it's a threat to them. Non-establishment political affiliations, they want to put you out of work, with 100% digital currency they want to deny not only you ability to travel but also buy the essentials of life and deny you any communications you can not use what you can not pay for.

    When you are a kakistocracy, a government run by criminals, they need to know what you know and who to silence to keep the corruption going and by silence I do mean, 'Seth Riching' your ass (an honourable man betrayed by his own country and apparently by his fellow citizens, Americans should not have let that slide, they need to be ashamed).

    Former establishment lawyer for life appointed, in an extremely corrupt fashion, (an agent with extended history should have been selected upon a competing basis from a group of agents put forward) was politically appointed to that position purely upon the basis of the willingness to serve the corrupt interests of those who appointed him, this proven by fact, a rock solid history of failing to prosecute those publicly exposed for criminal actions. How did Obama put, oh yes, it is in the past, time to move on, it should be the standard response for any criminal in any court, gees what are you on about was in the past, let it go, you know, torture, war based on lies and who knows what else, meh, yesterday's problem.

  8. Re:Good gravy on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    How about 7 million Russians do English and pissing them of by testing their anti- missiles system (what this latest round of bullshit was all about) because the next attack, if the Russian missiles had failed to take out so many NATO missiles, would have been directly on the Russian military in Syria, oh yeah. How will Russian government react to this, now that is an interesting question, how will Russians react, they will comment on forums (in US/UK main stream media, Russians commenting with their genuine opinions in English speaking forums, are all trolls, how did they put it, they are genetically all liars, this not questioned as racism by US/UK media, all controlled by the combined countries military industrial complex).

    Of course coming out of the pentagon, most probably a straight up lie. Let me bloody guess, oh yeah, 2,000% increase compared to last night for Russia between the hours of midnight and 6 in the morning, you know compared to working hours, 2,000 percent increase, compared to when most bloody Russians are asleep.

    How busy have US/UK trolls been, they have not fucking shut up for three decades in control of main stream media, global gaslighters, never stops and at least a decade on the internet, lying to their own citizens, war profits first, the lives of their own citizens, meh, cannon fodder for the US military industrial complex and US corporations.

    How about the Qanon bullshit, now with wall street version, filling the airwaves with utterly mindless natter, whilst they test out new ways to start wars and test other countries military preparedness prior to attacking, it seems the Russian read it right when they deployed the missile system on a 'training excercise'. The way mongers will monger war and will chew as up and spit us out, unless we kick them out and lock them up.

  9. Re:Nevermind that shit, here comes Mongo on YouTube Is Littered With Mass-Produced Videos Made By Automated Bots (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 0

    Sometimes it is all too stupid to deal with. Much like a lot of youtube content, rehashed banal bullshit apart for US mainstream media showing off it's war erection and now UK media joining, positively orgasming over war, straight up defective genetic traits on display, they are not making it up, that is the way they feel, they are celebrating psychopathic mass murder. There is that same content all over YouTube, same videos, different uploader names. Like Sinclair, same script shared from station to station and the same kind of con artist shameless liars sharing it, though the darkness on display, the obvious sexual stimulation based upon their participation in mass murder, damn they look sick.

    It seems to help, when you use Youtube signed in (for google et al, my treatment of their cookies are all this instance only and require signing in everytime I start my browser), that you remove them from the initial landing page recoomendation and in the suggested column, click the three vertical dots and remove them, it seems to slow down their appearance. Working to kill of all US main stream media, simply not worth watching any more.

    Just like the false flag bullshit, one has to wonder why the bother any more, everyone knows they are lying, no one believes it, they are attacking to keep the war on terror going, whilst being careful not to attack Russia but those US bases in Syria are likely to end up surrounded by Russian soldiers and effectively held hostage (if the US fires on the Russians approaching the bases will be destroyed, they will wait for the Russians to fire and they wont, they will simply barricade them in their bases), now that is the cunning move.

    Same for Youtube, simply allow us to block crap up loaders for fucksake.

  10. Re:Racking up views and revenue? Seriously? on YouTube Is Littered With Mass-Produced Videos Made By Automated Bots (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet the bastards at YouTube continue to fail to enable blocking of uploaders, why the fuck not. Youtube would be so much better if they just implemented the ability for end users to block specific uploaders so they never see their content, never have to deal with that empty crap. Would produce great statistics to be analysed for bad players who should be kicked off. Simply allow blocking and a lot of problems go away.

  11. Re:Are they sure that it's him? on A Wanted Man in China Has Been Caught Because of Facial Recognition Software (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Reality is 'they all look alike', is inherently racist and prejudiced, full stop. They all look alike because you pay less attention to their appearance, they are not individuals, they are one of them, the them bit is what ever can be used to make them stand out to isolate them, to give you a competitive advantage over all of them. Guilt also plays a part, you no longer recognising them as individuals, just a lesser group, you don't want to recognise them individually and associate your poor behaviour with actual individual people, they are just a mass of undesirables, what you want to believe to exploit that competitive advantage of not being one of them.

    The lack of recognition is an active choice, you don't want to recognise them as individuals. You do recognise them because you see them as individuals, just like anyone else you look at.

  12. Re:What happens when you can't read a page of text on Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Crap, the TPP was a grab for total power by multinational corporations. It seems to be going smoother now without the US, what makes you think, they want the US back in again. Stuff is now missing that the US corporations demanded and besides nothing is past government anywhere. It might well all still die and get the US back in and it certainly will die because 'THE US MUST DOMINATE, THEY ARE THE EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE', yeah fuck off.

  13. Re:what is it? on Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is not about accessing the phone when it is in their possession, with a search warrant, that is a lie. It is all about accessing the phone when it is in your possession without your knowledge and sometimes without a warrant. That is why a backdoor, nothing what so ever to do with legal access via a warrant, all to do with fishing expedition access without your knowledge. Now add in more reality, also about spying on the opposite sex, competitors and revenge. The more power some people have, the more power they want.

  14. Re:Misleading title - he admits data is collected on Mark Zuckerberg Denies Knowledge of Non-Consensual Shadow Profiles Facebook Has Been Building of Non-Users For Years · · Score: 1

    They also failed to mention the Facebook scripts and cookies on websites that also gather up your data, not just visiting the site, from a link on a different web site. So I do block Facebook script and cookies and if they still have a profile on me, that would be a real invasion of privacy, I actively take steps to avoid being in their database which they would have to subvert in order to get me in there. Mark Zuckerberg quote "They trust me, Dumb fucks " https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/..., that was also a reason why I dropped the platform, some people don't ever change their stripes and as far as Mark Zuckerberg is concerned, you are a dumb fuck if you trust him, I would have to agree with that opinion, especially once you are aware of that quote (I really do not understand why anyone would trust him after that quote, I really do not).

  15. Re:Oh come on on The US Military Desperately Wants To Weaponize AI (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    A more sound maxim, if you are not intelligent enough to run a war, don't rely on an AI to do it for you because you will not be able to tell if it is doing the right thing or the wrong thing, until it is too late. Sort of like basic common sense.

    The thing they most want is auto drone targeting of human beings, no outside control required, because of jamming. Problem is hacking and confusing the program, the more you know about the program the easier it will be and the worse the consequences. The smarter the AI in the drone, the more dangerous it becomes for you.

    Number one algorithm in any war AI, self destruct, inviolate, it must function, problem with that guaranteeing it will work means it will be all to easy to trigger. You have to guarantee it will work, because you are likely not to send a couple of dozen drones, but tens of thousands of drones to clear an entire battlefield. One wrong line of code in tens of millions of lines of code and the day you launch in conflict could be the day you die by you own AI hand.

    Likely peace is a much more sound solution than an AI, you can lose control of it by inevitably bribing just one individual or using other methods to gain the password, can't block it because if the AI goes haywire, the norm in computer coding and you are screwed. I can not think of a way to guarantee the AI wont make a mistake and think you, the person who launched the weapon are the target, anything you set up can be copied and they are not the target, make it too secure and any fault and you are the target again.

  16. Re:Difficult to compress centuries to hours on Apple Is Developing a TV Show Based On Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series (deadline.com) · · Score: 1

    How about shifting close to the current era, rather than latter on, you know with the vehicle for psychohistory game play being the internet. I could imagine the game looking something like controlling this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... by tapping the right hoop and the right time.

    The current era on, would likely be more interesting, add in jumping forward an era with each season and new cast, with knew story line. How many seasons defines how far forward they go and whether or not they make it to collapse and reconstruction of the society.

    The exact story is too tightly bound to it's era of production and their forecasts at that time. So getting into space and colonising other systems (avoiding world war three and triggering space colonisation), expanding further and then civil war and the following reconstruction. Use the current period to set the hook so to speak.

  17. Track down the radio play, that was in a BBC walled garden, not so much any more and pretty darn good radio play.

    Hmm, I wonder if high performing aspergers with savant qualities can play the second foundation psychohistory game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The right idea, at the right time, generating a mass action change and hardly anyone the wiser.

  18. Re:"semi-infinite"? on Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    The problem with rare earths, why China took the lead, is not having the resource, it is the pollution generated trying to extract the resource. Reason why not so popular in the US http://tucson.com/business/loc... from the article "The most hazardous refineries are those that crack the tight chemical bonds that tie rare earths found in mineral ores to a variety of hazardous materials, notably radioactive thorium.". So either tons of pollution in Africa, or much more stable and safe resources in isolated locations in Australia. Japan a fish loving nation is going to pollute it's waters to extreme levels to gain rare earths, hmm, decisions, decisions.

    The problem with rare earths is not having them, it is extracting them that is often extremely problematic.

  19. Nobody forced the Clinton crew to bankrupt the Democratic Party, cheat their voters and criminally spike the primaries to keep Bernie Sanders out. Not to mention a corrupt legal system is all that kept the Clinton's out of prison and that was on full public show. Don't brag about not getting convicted in the US, insiders do it all the time with out any problem what so ever, regardless of the crime. Torture, no conviction and everyone knows. Start an illegal war no WMDs and everyone knows. False flags in Syria repeatedly and everyone knows.

    The only thing most people are not aware of, it was not the US leading the UK to war, it was the cunning bastards in the UK skulking in the background leading the US to war because the UK is actually generating a profit out of the war on terror, whilst the US is generating massive losses. It appears the UK has been playing a rather sly game from the Blair era on, they have been the instigator in the shadows, rather than the claiming to resist the US and only following the US reluctantly.

    The US wanted out of Syria and what happened the UK Tory government strove to keep them there, a little too publicly (eyes are now focused on them). I wonder if those personality traits in politicians are causing them to become addicted to the game where they play with us, make us fight and kill each other and they get off on it and don't want it to stop. Perhaps it is better that those arseholes are addicted to phones rather than playing with our lives.

  20. Perhaps because the US has 3rd world road markings. How much street view of the US do you have to see with extremely worn line marking, often missing completely and very often, the only markings left, is those right out of actual wheel tracks. Offramp markings are really bad, there is sufficient gap between worn divergent lines to create the impression of a traffic lane between the divergent lines. with one route only possible.

    The are standards for road marking, how visible and of what quality. Divergent road lines should be filled with angled warning lines and roughened road surfaces, alert the driver and provide maximum traction. 'D' grade infrastructure also means really poorly maintained road markings, some places missing entirely. Do no expect good results with vehicles trying to scan for road markings of that poor quality keep in mind breaks in quality likely to trigger scanning for traffic markings and picking wrong.

    Likely a algorithm needs to be added in, 'Warning road markings of unreliable quality, auto pilot not possible at this time. Fault with road forward to regulatory agency, also why not send in reports of pot holes whilst you are at it'. Scan the road, see the if markings adhere to stated standards, fail, sue the state.

  21. I would rather government regulation, targeting the caller and the advertised product. I would rather it be answered by a bot to confirm the nature of the call, letting me check it after the call is over, before forwarding to the appropriate authority for action. Don't penalised them and they won't stop. Really want it to stop, there has to be regulation and penalties. Other country the source, then penalised the country, the country pays the fine, for bad digital exports and it is up to them to recover the money from offenders.

  22. Re:The market on Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes Following Rule Change (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    Nothing lasts for ever, Cannes like all the rest of the live acting gigs, is doomed. Reality based animation will wipe them out, the creations of writers and animators together with virtual robotics will simply flood content channels. Why pay Hollywood puppets with delusions of grandeur, the reality is all the other people actually make movies and those movies work best when the puppets do as directed when directed and park their egos off stage. Sure calling them stars worked for marketing, selling the public relations illusion of them instead of trying to sell bad stories poorly told but it simply does not work any more except for the naive and gullible and they are usually broke or near broke. As for the rich breeding with those narcissists to feed their joint egos, well, they are figuring out the folly of that, incompetent spawn, with massive egos and no talent for anything, well, except posing about.

    This spat just highlights the end of the poseur show and the beginning of a new streaming era with a whole lot more people creating content. A probably rebirth of the studio business, where studios are leased out for a piece of the action and an agency established to source creators for those studios. Basically to undercut Hollywood et al by a long shot.

  23. Driving a car, to a location, 1.5m accuracy who cares. What I want to know is the basic route and where to park when I get there, what the location looks like, what the entry to the carpark looks like and the best route to a carpark, close to the final destination.

    High resolution, sure if it is a big building and I want a walking route to the required location. Does that 1.5m accuracy including vertical accuracy because sometimes buildings come in storeys.

  24. Here is the text of the bill https://www.congress.gov/115/b.... Talk about propaganda the bill is just chock a block full of it (that just had to fill it full of Russia propaganda, lame, really lame).

    Even the title is bull puckey, the ads don't have to be honest in the slightest, it just has to be stated somewhere in it, that is was a paid political advertisement. Although I find the description of a paid ad as a qualified ad to be some what disturbing.

    Of course paid political commentators, corporate stink tanks (more stink than think), in fact nearly any commentator what so ever, need declare nothing. Sort of tied to a person or entity spending more than $500 on ads and what is or is not a political ad and when that content is and is not a political ad (context counts).

    Is it too much to ask the US government to quit it with the bullshit double speak, The honest ad Act, should bloody force honest ad content, doesn't matter who paid for what as long as it is bloody honest. The act as it stands, does not care one whit about honesty or the truth and place dishonest ads placed properly above honest ads placed improperly and the properness being very interpretive.

  25. No more like the laws governing psychotherapists, you know they can not publish your details. So more in that regard, you start to gather too much data and that data constitutes a potential harm to the individuals psychology via manipulation, would be considered excessive and banned. Pretty much tie all data to what the individual, individually approves, no blanket approvals. Approvals sought and confirmed for all data types and specifically renewed once a year with details provided for what information is already stored and the requirement to delete any non-legally required transactional information at that time.