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  1. Re:Only 81%? on 81% of Recent ICOs Were Scams, Research Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not scams, as much as scams in the terms of reference. So not that make believe money with no backing is a scam but that there was no real intent to create make believe money with no backing, just charging for attempting to do so and keeping the money when failing. So just way more scammy, rather than not just plain scammy. In this case, scam is very much tied to the terms of reference, being able to create make believe money with no backing in the public market or even intending to attempt to do so.

  2. Actually that is not rules, that is a corrupt practice. I can get domain names from all over the world, but I can not get an EU one, hmm, that stinks of unfair trade practices and provides the opportunity to sue under the WTO. No one might have bothered before because who cares but now I demand that all individuals and organisations that are in the EU be actively denied domain addresses any where else in the world, what's fair for them should be fair for the of rest of us. Do they really want to pull that trigger.

  3. Re:Enough is enough on US To Seek Social Media Details From All Visa Applicants (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So easy answer. Social media accounts, don't remember having any, what's the penalty, wont let me in OK, done. Previous email addresses, oh yeah, er, fuck off, how the fuck would I know all the possible ones buried in all the possible web mail services, past companies email servers, past ISPs et al. Want an email, here have this one, I formally communicate with it, I don't remember having any others the user name and or the passwords. Phone numbers, here is the phone number to contact me with regard to visa queries, all the others, what others? Not truthful, meh, to the best of my reflection it is.

    The US could run afoul of other countries laws in the amount of information it is requiring, keeping in mind that request is being sent to that country under threat of penalty, that countries government has to accept it as reasonable otherwise travel and reciprocity problems will occur.

  4. Re:whew on Google Removes 'Kodi' From Search Autocomplete In Anti-Piracy Effort (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or more accurately https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kodi... . I don't even understand what everyone is talking about, search for Kodi right there. Is it me or has the rest of the internet gone nuts, I stopped using https://duckduckgo.com/?q=goog..., I don't see a whole slew of problematic searches any more. The googlites have seemingly turned into a whole pack of problematic control freaks, their market lead, their stint in the sun, seems to have caused the arrogantly flow of blood from the bug brain to the egotistical undefined genitals brain, you think from down there and you will make stupid decisions.

    You have to keep tech companies small, otherwise they just all go nuts, absolutely nucking futs.

  5. Re:Fact checking on Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, that means that Facebook in it's marketing foolishness will now be subject to a whole slew of slander suits and not the easy ones of the US, the really mean ones in other countries where you must prove your claim in a court of law or be subject to damages, including in some countries psychological damages.

    Instead of the more sensible response, "news, what news, we are not a news network, we are a social media fun and entertainment network, we don't do news, our users do news" ie hands off news. Got a court order about false content and Facebook will more than happily delete it beyond that Facebook is not the government, not the communication regulator and simply accepts there is far more fantasy and make believe on Facebook than reality.

    Become a global media definer and of what is true and what is false and you immediately become liable for it both civilly and criminally. It's like their marketing department went full blown stupid and wants to destroy themselves. What the fuck are Facebook lawyers thinking, dumb as fuck. Put yourself up as the censor and controller and you become liable, criminally and civilly, you vetted it, not some of it, 'ALL OF IT', by claiming to do it, mind boggling stupid.

  6. Well yeah clearly you do not understand the free market, supply and demand, PR=B$ and greed. You are not charged a reasonable price based upon reasonable costs on anything what so you. You are charged the highest possible price, where increasing it further would actually reduce profit, due to significant drops in revenue as a result of diminished sales. If they could, rather than buying something and selling it with a reasonable market, they would via corruption demand to be paid to take it and them demand via that same corruption, that you pay for it at the price they demand, by regulation, fail to buy and be penalised example it's called "Obama Care", a far right medical system, dumped on the US by a whole bunch of pretend left corrupt corporate douche bags.

    So in US terms, what will tariffs do, where the maximum possible price is already being charged, reduced profit margins and there goes the share price. There is so much crony capitalism combined with corruption of Democracy that you pay the fair price on practically nothing. The price of the food you eat has been enormously artificially inflated by futures trading on food, the profit from this goes to the banks, for doing nothing other than corrupting government, you pay more for food to feed the insatiable greed of those who own banks, banks being pretty much nothing more than corporate taxation system, corporations charging taxes on all transactions.

    However tarrifs should not be random but reflect the impact of regulated costs on fair completion, those regulated costs, wages, worker safety conditions, environmental safety requirements, product safety requirements, local, state and federal taxes, fees and charges. They should not occur at random but in a national trade court, where companies can apply for fair competition relief and the appropriate tariff applied to reflect regulated costs of operation. Double plus bonus, to reduce the tariff the affected country need just apply the same regulations, and either spend that money locally or pay it at the border of another country.

  7. Re:I would pick up on Most Tech Workers Would Ignore a Call From Their Boss Outside Work Hours (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't care, capitalism, contracts, don't work for free. They get a few calls, just a few in the entire contract life, no matter how many years, any more than that, want that call answered and reacted to, the fucking pay for it. Want standby responce, then fucking pay for standby response on a roster, and you pay for each and every hour of standby and when called, straight up double time, from the second the call starts until after I return home to standby pay, if I am rostered, not rostered fuck off. Fuck working for free, I ain't no fucking slave, what is it with you people. Standby is not for free, it is something that is contracted and bloody paid for, sitting at home, sober waiting, something a company has to pay for, not a bloody freebie. You people either need backbones or a union.

  8. Re:I am still waiting to apply these patches... on Microsoft's Windows 7 Meltdown Fixes From January and February Made PCs More Insecure (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You, 'HOPE'. No matter what you do, they want to hack you, they will. Security is a balance, being more secure than you are worth hacking. That worth hacking can take on all sorts of metrics, from being a target of three letter agencies, to manipulating your psychology, to identity fraud against credit card acceptors. In this case of M$ wanting to push Windows anal probe 10, you can bet patches will far and few and likely shite, to kick you off what they already sold you, to force you to buy what amounts to spyware, full up, no holds barred, spyware.

  9. Re:They're elected not to do it... on Tim Cook Says Apple's Customers Are Not Its Product, Unlike Facebook (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Facebook provides bait, to attract sheeple to fleece their digital identity and to sell the mind of those sheeple to other people to warp and twist in what ever way they want to try. The fish eats the worm, so the fisherman is now a contractor providing food services to fish, the hook, what hook, there's no hook, whose lying to you about a hook, not hook what so ever in that worm, nope, nah uh, no way, bite away. Facebook provides a service, not to the people who connect to it, to the corporations that want to datamine and control suckers who bite down hard on that hook.

    Sure use Facebook but treat it like a fantasy land, make it all up, role play, do not reveal anything of yourself on it, it will just be used against you. Think of Facebook as the arresting officer for you digital identity, anything you or your family communicate or that is communicated to you or your family may be used against you or your family in a data mining and thought manipulation program, no exception for minors, they will 'er' may be targeted, data mined and psychologically manipulated.

  10. Re:Wrong title on Apple Trains Chicago Teachers To Put Coding In More Classrooms (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    A little more detail ie "On December 3, 2015, the Swift language, supporting libraries, debugger, and package manager were published under the Apache 2.0 license with a Runtime Library Exception, and Swift.org was created to host the project." https://swift.org/about/ and of course https://swift.org/LICENSE.txt and not to forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... So it seems Apple could not sell swift and after having trained all of it's coders, it decided to open source it to save the cost of retraining it's coders and of course to bring in new coders. Quite the scheme but when you have tens of thousand of coders, that hundreds of millions of cost.

    All the major tech companies are the same pack of bean counter dicks, real arseholes. Instead of coming togethor to create an open generic program langauge that codes in two ways, verbose and compact and that translates well in the verbose form, the endlessly fuck with this bullshit to push their profit margins and fuck everyone else on the plant, a board of tiny dicks, blocking this from happening and governments or more accurately politicians not giving a fuck as long as they get campaign dollars.

    Seriously after over half a century of computer language, no generic open teaching language. Thank fuck these arseholes were not in charge of normal language, we would all have to own multiple dictionaries and translators for tens of thousands of languages and pay licenses and patent fees, to talk or write.

  11. Re:Back-ups... Back-ups... Back-ups... on Boeing Hit By WannaCry Virus, Fears It Could Cripple Some Jet Production (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Also if it doesn't need to be connected, do not connect it. If scanned sneaker net from one secured location to another secured location is good enough because it only happens once a week, not every second, that use scanned sneaker net, a lot more expensive per transaction maybe like an extra $10,000 over a year but the alternative hundreds of millions of dollars lost, makes that $10,000 look like nothing. Wireless quick easy, stupidly insecure. Wired not so quick not so easy but a lot more secure. Sneaker net, now that can be as tough as you want to get past, on secured verified staff get to carry data from one location to another location via a secured device and not network cards or chips, for those computers it is impossible to connect to the internet, factually impossible. Sure an internalised computer data transfer system, but not a typical computer network. Also don't hire foreigners because they are cheaper, the cheapest most skilled ones will be foreign agents, your greed serves insecurity best.

    This digital security break down should put all Boeing defence systems on a black list for digital security, who knows what little hidy holes it will bury itself in, only to pop up at some time in the future, when a device that was infected and got turned off in normal operations, only to be turned on at a required time years in the future. Boeing has a real problem now, it's competitors will be, hmm, insider trading raking in the hundreds of millions of dollars and getting a just to steal billions in business. The corporate wars, the US kicked them off, now the hassle of shutting them down.

  12. What goes in one direction, goes in the other, like duhh, 1+1=2, 2-1=1.

  13. Re: Bullshit on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Sure not a problem, take a set pattern at one location, intrinsically disassemble it and let it randomly reassemble at another location. Now the real problem comes with energy balance, everyone should know what a nuclear bomb is, that is matter broken down into energy and that energy distributed to nearby matter, enormously increasing it's energy state. So convert matter into energy, means you transporter turns you into a nuclear detonation, releasing a shit bucket ton of energy, counting your total mass, more than just a little problematic and of course where do you get the energy to create new matter, this normally done inside of stars, quite the little engines that could, a giant star to create tiny atoms, because apparently you need that level of energy to create normal space matter from quantum space matter, rather than just mass expressions of quantum space matter into normal space.

    An active quantum space hologram of you is more likely. You remain at your distant location and a quantum space hologram is created of you and projected to that distance location, and you interact via that expression of quantum space hologram, with inputs and outputs exchanged, obviously in a controlled way in one direction, impacting you, so destructive interactions are not replicated, although the more destructive and less replicated they are, the sooner the temporary quantum construct would degrade. The level of the expression of the temporary quantum construct would vary from translucent with limited interaction to more dense and interactive in outputs and inputs.

    So they can not teleport you but they could teleport a quantum simulacrum construct of you, whilst you remain in the chamber to interact with that construct. Interestingly the simulcrum should not be able to travel faster than the speed of gravity but interactions with it should be faster than the speed of gravity. So more realistic teleportation.

  14. Nope, you might not be able to access it in a year bet you can bet three letter agencies will be wanting to use it to covert all your, and I do mean all of 'YOU', spoken words into data mine able transcripts, welcome to the panopticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... brought to you by the lets be evil company, watching 'YOU' all of the time, trying to control 'YOU' all of the time.

    How many hours or days in the week, should you be spending, disconnected, to remain free.

  15. The Value of Walking on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Interstitium would help to explain the value of walking, shifting around the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., providing background circulation of fluids. It would help to explain why people find comfort in a peace amble, especially those suffering from mental conditions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... could be a form of internalised therapy, to make up for stress affecting other fluid flows. Got nothing better to do, walk around you home to keep circulation going, whilst waiting for water to boil for a cuppa, or while roasting a steak, just a peaceful amble about to home to stimulate Interstitium fluid flows, the expansive and contracts of major muscle groups would certainly move that fluid around the body.

  16. Re:Reporting on this topic is counter productive. on FBI Had No Way To Access Locked iPhone After Terror Attack, Watchdog Finds (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    To sum it all up, mental health services are expensive at it is cheaper to allow the crazies to kill other poor people and have the crazies publicly executed by law enforcers. Now if only the crazies would focus on the rich, then we would have mental health services implemented, rather than them killing the rich at random intervals ie instead of school shootings, hidey holes of the poseur rich shot up, that would see some real change taking place.

  17. Fingers on a keyboard and mouse work fine, tapping on a screen is stupidly slow. Going to give children computers in school, then they had better be creating lots of content on those computers ie notebooks with keyboards and trackpads, else you will just grind out empty consumers of content. It might feed Apple's bottom line but they know better and are very corrupt for pushing content consuming tablets rather than content creating notebooks. Students using computers should produce more content not less.

  18. It was a foreign corporation doing it to American citizens via an American corporation, in what seems a very criminal fashion. At the least the UK has to go through the motion, especially as it seems that same corporations played with Brexit, using the services of that American corporation. Now the real problem is that whole Russiagate yarn, which has set a legal precedent, it has gone through court yet, so not really set, but it is pretty close ie it is illegal to be a paid Troll, pretending to be someone you are not and it is a prosecutable criminal offence. All the PR agencies, advertising forms, forced ads internet companies, new agencies, are all on notice and it means cases will have to be pursued that would normally be ignored. Messy, messy, messy, if you are or ever have been a paid internet troll, watch out, you might be getting an arrest warrant delivered to you, once they go down that particular rabbit hole a lot of people are fucked, trolls, hmm, so something good to look forward too ;D.

  19. Re:Violation of the Fork Fairness Act on Facebook is Being Sued Over Housing Discrimination (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    They are not being misused, keep in mind what in reality is happening. A person paying for the ads, in a contract with a marketing agency, wants those ads targeted at a particular group, the one which will generate the highest profits for that person paying for the ad, with the least costs, high reliability tenets. That is fair and reasonable, why the fuck would I pay for an ad to be delivered to some one who is unlikely to be able to afford the rent or be the most desirable tenant. They are kind of forgetting who is the customer and who they are trading with. There is no contract between the entity that pays for the ad and the entity that view the ad, none what so ever and the person who pays for that ad, has every right to ensure only likely desired customer see that ad, when they are paying for on a per view ad basis.

  20. I'm just waiting for the cheapest crypt currency exchange to open, you know the one run by a three letter agency. You know they will quietly snaffle one up and then will, instead of mining currency, they will mine data and then, first the big sharks who can not be allowed to run wild and then after some time all the little piranha will feel that noose tighten, when they start issuing more public arrest warrants and brag about taking over that exchange, good luck.

  21. Dude, do you not know, if you to be a failed country to enter shithole status not a progressing country. Is China better or worse than it was a decade or more ago, well, only one answer to that substantively better. Not lets look at your typical Africa nation that Trump clearly has great love for, better or worse, well, worse it's definitely true. Then the biggest shitholes, well, of course all those countries USA delivered democracy to over the last decades, apparently deliver democracy == turn into shit hole because. On the flip side, has the US gotten better or worse over the last few decades, based upon infrastructure, far worse, based upon fairness, far worse, based upon peace, enormously worse, based upon truthfulness, well I suppose they are going for the USA number one Lies Are US award, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (the USA war or peace, it is clear, which is more profitable at them time is the one they will choose, every time I see the US Congress or Senate, I look on them as Ferengi and then what they say makes a sort of perverse sense, otherwise it sounds like mindless babble).

  22. Re:If you work in tech on Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    There was a election way back in Australia and the Labour Party posted some stuff to face book and I wanted to peruse it, so an account was temporarily required. Managed to unknowingly offend some people when I would not respond to the forced Facebook must communicate everything scam, I was not logging in and I done the bit I was interested in and new used it beyond that. Little did I know I had to actively delete that account to escape the Facebook must read and post treadmill. So disconnected and checked a week latter, whoops, do that and the idiot account would reactive and require deletion again, have not even tried to log in since. More than a decade ago, pretty nasty stuff how you can offend people with a unused Facebook account and they made that happen on purpose.

  23. Re: A saying everyone should remember on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Alternative to Facebook? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow that pretty aggressive, I would have just gone with, yes, there is a good alternative to Facebook and Twitter, communicate less. Short of that, bloody hell, stop treating them seriously, treat the like a joke, like a fun playground, make it all up. Either stop using them or turn the into fantasy land, don't take the seriously, don't let your government take them seriously, they can't data mine what you don't use.

  24. Re:We can't send him to trial... on UK High Court 'Perma-Bans' Efforts to Extradite Lauri Love to the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude seriously, do you not understand the law at all. No crime was committed, not until such time as it is proven in a court of law that a crime was committed, innocent until proven guilty, don't you know. I know that the US is extraordinary lax in that regard when it comes to foreigners, summary execution without even the slightest hint of a trial, tortured until you agree to what ever they want you to agree to or you die, this supervised by the most corrupt doctors on the planet. In the most mild perversions of the legal system, prosecution as punishment locking you up for years, in a purposefully extended and abusive trial and custody process. Held until you tell everyone you are guilty and they let you off with time served, decades in prison and in extremely abusive conditions, corrupt as you can get, basically putting Soviet show trials to shame, US definitely number one in this regard.

    No public trial, no crime committed, only the accusation of a crime being committed by a claimed individual or individuals. The US system, if you are rich you are not guilty, if you are poor you are always guilty, if you are connected the case wont even get to court, corrupt as corrupt can get, not third world level but at least somewhere between the second world and the third world, shame, shame, we know your name, USA.

    Here about the American Sheriff who gets to keep the money he does spend feeding people awaiting the day in court https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., Jesus fucking Christ, you guys are corrupt as fuck, starving people awaiting trial to buy a waterfront property. Your legal system is a corrupt mess and make no mistake.

  25. Re:depends on 'How I Went Dark In Australia's Surveillance State For 2 Years' (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a choice, a free choice, one that should not be taken away, the individual right to live a private life, ohhh, the sheer outrageous evil of that thought apparently.

    Trying to live a private life is difficult at this time because of just so many psychopathic control freaks in position of power, being able to pry into others lives, feeds their ego, their sexual perversions, it is their nature, from primary school to adulthood, the same perverse behaviour, a real sickness.

    In this age, you stay private by creating false information a flood of false data and preferably get your electronic device to do it for you. Create 100 times as much data, as your actual behaviour would generate, 1% truth mixed in with 99% lies and let them try to datamine that. False associations, false behaviour, false contacts, a sea of bullshit they have to wade through at high cost, only to discover they have eliminated the truth by accident along they way because they were looking for negative outcomes and created them, only to find they were not real.

    More FOSS tools need to be created to poison databases and hopelessly corrupt data mining. Every venue of digital contact should be flooded with 100 times as many fictitious data contacts. A ocean of data motion, rather than just tapping into your private stream, of data flow. All you social media should be done in fantasy mode, a toon you create to interact with others toons or a broader scale (a really imaginative toon, that you express yourself with, so nothing wrong with presenting yourself as a blue century egg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with no gender as yet, with a bent for space piracy and a fervent supporter of Hillary Clinton for World President and all who oppose her are deplorables and should die horribly, it should make no difference in reality, something to laugh at and have fun with, to mock and deride, not life or death), linked to alternate encrypted contact methods.