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  1. Re:A loss for children. Adults, not so much. on Toys R Us To Close All 800 of Its US Stores (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's called austerity. With the gutting of the middle class to feed the insatiable rich (can never ever have too much), there is very little money left to buy expensive toys and thus the economy implodes. Perhaps the can be an interesting measure of a countries economy, how much they spend on toys for children per capita, would be some interesting results, pretty much gaurantee the US would not be in the top ten.

  2. Re:How does google know what I subscribe to? on Google Will Prioritize Stories for Paying News Subscribers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How about taking the worst approach. So Google will basically cook your search results to ensure that you do not see better quality news articles, in order to lock you in with corporate main stream propaganda and making it look like they are doing you a favour, what a pack of cunts, this hidden behind but you are already a subscriber and already addicted to that brand of coolaid, why would you want to read more open and honest news.

    Every time you turn around you find google prying over you shoulder, ready to shove corporate main stream media propaganda down your throat, so that you will always speak the words of the corporations that own you. Good thing they are only real affective at doctoring collation efforts, making existing disparate individuals sharing a false belief, look like they sold them all, when they just brought them together, this to sell false claims to advertisers about how they sold those people, when they just collated them.

    Their loss in the last election proving how ineffective they really are both Google and it's apparent partner in crime, Facebook.

  3. Re:A good start. on SEC Charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes With 'Massive Fraud' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Well, did she get thrown to the ground, brutally arrested and earn a long prison sentence like a three time shoplifter caught stealing $50 dollars worth of stuff. Oh I see, one rule for the poor and another rule for the rich, cheat $700 million earn a multimillion dollar wage and pay a minor fine, compared to earned income and the losses. Oh the suffering of having to give up millions of worthless shares, apparently plenty of money left to pay well connected lawyers (it's those connections that create purposeful corrupt bias in the legal system).

  4. Re:Facebook and Twitter don't seem to get it on Facebook Quietly Hid Webpages Bragging of Ability to Influence Elections (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought is was this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?... that did a lot of damage and nothing but the words out of her own mouth and her own behaviour, this produced after calling a large number of voters deplorables.

  5. Re:Drag them all out into the street on Former Equifax CIO Charged With Insider Trading (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case, heads or tails, did someone at the company exercise their stock options in the months prior to the hack and short the stock too boot. How about deposits in an offshore bank account by a competitor. Hacking another tech company is proving to be a sure way to major profits, shorts, gained market share, good luck, with the board and the executive team the last to be trusted. It will get messier from here on in.

  6. Yet no collection of governments or universities are able to do better, they are the shite groups. Wikipedia is doing the best it can and that's not that bad and far better than the zero effort of the planets governments and universities, what a shit show they are, where the fuck are those lazy greedy cunts globally accessible free encyclopaedia, lost in the greed of for profit publishing extremely expensive compulsory text books because greed first fuck educating the public.

    So in reality who is the worse player. Those POSs blocking an open university, open encyclopaedia or those people working together to create the best one they can at Wikipedia. Hmm, let me guess. Yet look who loves to whine and whine and whine, university arseholes because they perceive that Wikipedia eats into their profits from over priced texy books.

  7. Re:Because that's the only way on Microsoft Announces Breakthrough In Chinese-To-English Machine Translation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually bi-cultural bi-linguals. There are differences in culture which drive the different expressions and translations. Auto-translation is of course a very important tool in global human discourse. The problem, well, the less informed, the less educated, those with far less understanding, will be readily able to communicate with each across the language barrier, think say American Rednecks and Chinese Rednecks, screaming at each other about how their armies can destroy each other and flooding other parts of the internet with their rubbish. Think a few hundred millions rather lame rude and crude trolls infecting all corners of the internet, generating racism and hate across a much broader scale. Societies losers spreading their bitterness across the internet striving to drive conflict and strife, better be prepared.

    The other thing of course, the translation software has to be open source and freely accessible, others corporations become the gate keepers data mining and manipulating the translation to serve their own individual psychopathic greed and ego. Every single corporation, once it has gained sufficient power become the dominant player, has every single time, demonstrated it's inherent psychopathic nature, well, at least the psychopathic nature of it's board and executive team, in cultural corporate groups, where the biggest POS rises to the top (it's built into that determination to be the dominant player, to charge monopolistic profit margins, to lie with impunity, to cheat impunity, to steal with impunity, to kill with indifference, to wholesale steal the rights of citizens, invade the privacy, seek to control their actions to serve the sick egos of corporations). You most definitely do not want any private for profit corporation to be the gatekeepers of language translation, most definitely not M$ or Google or Facebook or Twittter.

  8. Well, make no mistake, if you do not prepare, then yes, you are fucking doomed and it is only a matter of time. Perhaps this exaggerated story is not all bad, if it makes people think about the consequences of a real one which will inevitably happen, and in an unprotected digital world cause extremely severe ramifications, that will take months to repair. No manual systems in place to repair digital systems damaged to the extent they are incapable of repairing themselves. This causing repair time to blow out disastrously. Take no notice, no one will care, until it is too late and then everyone will be complaining about it on the internet, oh wait, they won't because the internet will be down for quite some time. For the simple, oh look, major solar storm, all the companies computers down, have to drive to work, oh wait my car doesn't work, it needs fixing, I'll call the repairman, oh wait the phone doesn't work. So can't even get to work, to try to use a computer that doesn't to order replacements, across a network that doesn't work, to a spare parts company who can not receive it because their computers are down and there is no staff to fill the order and can not even find the product in the warehouse and on it goes. A major solar storm would be a major disaster and make no mistake, the consequences would be really bad for quite some time. Imagine a modern digital police force required to operate manually for a month.

  9. Re:what about letting us have lan servers and our on Google and Ubisoft Are Teaming Up To Improve Online Multi-Player Video Games (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    More than just data mining, for psych assessment, they will know more about you than you know about yourself and exactly how to motivate and control you. Of mixed mind about this, they will clearly target the playgrounds of the psychopaths and the narcissists, player versus player or as I like to call it purse versus purse. No point targeting pve player versus environment because that is cooperative game play, unless they have pvp elements. Now with passing off information to three letter agencies, individuals most certainly will be tagged for investigation, whilst the rest are simply triggered into spending more and more money.

    I can see the day when pvp is actually in reality pve, just that the npc non-player characters, pretend to be player characters, that the psychopath and narcissists can abuse with their paid for in real currency overpowered weapons (cheaper on bandwidth and server power, do not have to allow free to play to bring in all the targets, players who do not spend money on free to play games, which you need to spend money on to win).

  10. Ohh you slippery PR=B$er. M$ does not have 124,000 managers and no Untermensch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The majority of that number, by far the majority of that number are not managers. So the number you need to compare is 236 complaints against the total number of managers only. Not the numbers of untermensch, some of which, the bravest complain about the abuses of the Ãoebermensch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Those words are appropriate because it is definitely the way US corporations and the government they control have gone but the widerstand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is growing, can you be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

  11. Re:Market Opening on Facebook Has Turned Into a Beast in Myanmar, UN Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People can believe anything, some people literally anything what so ever. How ever people will also tend to believe what ever serves their own personal interest or in a twisty way, what they believe is their own personal interest. Did facebook trigger the crisis, probably but likely just triggered earlier, rather than a little latter. People struggling in that environment simply seized upon the opportunity for a competitive advantage within their society and collectively aligned their beliefs to assuage their guilt, to enable the exploitation of that competitive advantage, to gain the resource of the individuals targeted. Racism is the most effective measure of excessive competition within a society for access to resources, it is the quickest and easiest means by which to obtain competitive advantage by eliminating a lot of competition.

  12. Re:Doesn't matter. Won't convince anyone. on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you start bullshitting people all of the time, they will start bullshitting back. Want to annoy the crap out of government and corporate propagandists, tell them you believe the crap that is undermining them, even when you don't, in fact especially when you don't. Think about it, they go through all the trouble and expense of generating propaganda to target conspiracy theories and think they are failing because the response from the public, we believe the conspiracy theory fuck off (when they actually don't but are saying so, just to gaslight the fuck out of the propagandists and get them fired for being incompetent at their job). The best way to target the propaganda of the professional government and corporate propagandists is to target them, to fuck with their heads, to sow doubt and confusion, to spread FUD, not targeted at the public just at the propagandists.

    Provide me with any conspiracy theory what so ever and the humour in convincing the people who are trying to convince people that it is false, that you believe it to be true, forcing them to keep trying, well, that is priceless (actually it is priceless as they continue to spend more and more trying to convince you not to believe in something you already do not but simply claim that you do, especially when done on a larger scale, meh, fuck em). When they government want to bullshit the people, it is time for the people to bullshit the government back, in every way possible, nothing really illegal in that, just funny as fuck.

  13. Re:Doesn't sound like it was the accident on New York's Subway Is Slow Because They Slowed Down the Trains After A 1995 Accident · · Score: 1

    Do you know why they concentrate on sports, most people do not realise why. Universities have a tax exempt status, so sporting revenues, advertising and ticket sales are tax exempt and hence the major source of profits for insiders, investors and staff with inflated salaries, why sport in US universities, greed not education, although that would technically be an education in US greed. Infinite greed is eating the USA alive, the snake eating it's own tail in it's rapacious gluttony.

    Seriously slow down the trains rather than fix the problem, that'll work with growth really well. Slower trains less passengers per hour. I can guess the next 'er' improvement, remove the seats, standing room only basically cattle cars to get as many domesticated mud monkeys (earth primates) on the cars as possible and it will make the train carriages cheaper, extra bonus.

    Hey America, can you taste the Russian governments trick yet, trying to break the stalemate they have enforced will cost approximately about three times what you currently spend, to just barely enable an offensive first strike opportunity. Of course all Russia has to do is double spending, currently 1/10th of US spending, and the US would have to triple it again.

    Part two of the plan, joint Russia China space program, which will scream ahead of the US, especially when Russia and China invite other countries into the program, as the good guys, all about gaining access to the universe, rather than a fascist takeover of the planet. After all the defence spending growing out of control, the US will be forced to find funding for space, to compete with Russia and China, who working to achieve a lost cost stalemate, will spend money saved on a very expansive space program (guaranteeing the further collapse of US infrastructure which will cripple the economy from which they are trying to squeeze out more defence spending).

    US insolvency assured, not because they can not see it coming because well, at least some of them are not that stupid but because others do not give a crap as long as they fill their pockets. They are quite content to retire to say Yalta (interesting reasons why Yalta, the number one pick for major tourism and retirement development in the 'near' future, good weather and a fairly steep coastline, you don't have to go very far inland to avoid becoming underwaterfront and of course Russia has become a stable government, far more stable than say the Ukraine, which is why the Ukraine had to lose the Crimea in order for the Crimea to financially take off, hence the no longer so hidden global investment).

    Now Americans can either ride that public train to collapse in full view of the rest of the world or stop the rot, end the infinite greed and poseur status mentality which feeds corruption or suffer the self driven consequence.

  14. Re:Security concerns? Gravity concerns. on Coming Soon to a Front Porch Near You: Package Delivery Via Drone (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, you want to wait until deliveries drones have killed thousands of people before saying, wait up, how about some standards. What can the drones miss, what can they see, will drones avoid birds, what can they record, can drones avoid other drones, will drones travel across private property to reach the delivery point and what altitude above that property will be required, at least 50m, maximum package weight and size, maximum drone weight, shrouded or exposed blades, safe weather conditions, can drones travel across public roadways, at what height above roadways do they need to travel maybe 100m.

    Regulations, what penalty when drone crashes, what about when drones collide, power line interactions, penalties for injuries, hours of operation, noise limits, safe operation at delivery point. What happens if kills a pet.

  15. Still just a pretty lame M$ pump piece, how to tell it's a pump piece, the hid what they did not want you to see. Sure they sure they set the order of the most used programs but where is the numbers behind it, you know like percentages. Look if number one is getting say 50% and number 14 is getting 0.5% who cares, what the hell number fourteen is doing when it beats out number 15 who got 0.49 percent. Only one reason to hide the numbers that really counted and only show the B$ meaningless numbers, the real numbers look like shite ie M$ could be doing far worse with real numbers but the others at the bottom are just doing worse than that. Stupidest most meaningless article I have seen it a while, why were the market share numbers missing, they are the only ones that count.

  16. Re:student athletes miss a lot of it make to final on University of Arizona Tracks Student ID Card Swipes To Detect Who Might Drop Out (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Millions of tax free dollars but wait, exactly why the fuck are they tax free dollars if the jock strap douche baggery has nothing what so ever to do with education.

  17. Re:Electronic devices on ACLU Sues TSA Over Electronic Device Searches (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    By the way, searching is the lie, installing software when you are not looking is the reality. Soon as that phone leaves you sight sell it, if you want your privacy back and make no mistake. They want to take you phone, simply refuse and catch the next flight, you digital life, you are the only person who has rights to it, don't say no and not only are you selling yourself out but in the most gutless fashion imaginable selling out all future generations, why, cowardice. When they ask what do you need to keep secret, look them right in the face and say, fine fucker give me your phone to look at, download and keep a copy, as well as to install what ever software I want. Oh, you don't want me to look at your phone, why are you corrupt, what are you hiding from the public.

    The only reasonable response, give me your fucking phone first.

  18. Who the hell wants a head set. I want a set of lightweight glasses, with optometrist ground lenses for a perfect fit, with a light excluding pull on shroud for when I want to exclude light and no motion required strictly fixed point of view, just a 125" big screen in my pocket, probably curved screens, way better than flat. I would not run any Google software on it though, eww, pushing targets subliminal ads focusing on politics or any other sjw freak shite, just awful. If the hardware is good great but definitely no forever google beta rubbish.

  19. Re:Strange article on Intel Fights For Its Future (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    PC market is shrinking fast and what has replaced it is a plethora of smart products, the smart phone, the smart TV and tablet, for students in the family a cheap notebook. For business, smart terminals, simply easier to manager and no pesky USB or accessible disk drives of what ever type. See desktop replaced in by far the majority of instance and market shrinking back to power users, the core and they hate M$ only barely putting up with them and that is killing Intel because everyone is holding of upgrades because M$ are a privacy invasive big brother freaks who want to control people's digital lives and that is killing upgrades. Desktops are inevitably doomed but they can stretch out the next few decades as long as the OS improves substantially, privacy and security.

  20. Re:Aren't you talking rubbish? on YouTube, the Great Radicalizer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    People are drawn to the radical content, not because they want to believe but just for fun. What is really fucking annoying with YouTube look at a couple just for a lark and YouTube starts feeding you nothing but, really fucking annoying. Just like most people, you look at those crazy stories just for a lark, most of the corporate main stream media is just boring bullshit corporate propaganda, they keep repeating the same shit over and over again, finally giving up and starting on the next round of bullshit when it doesn't stick because no one cares.

    People even accuse the government for all that conspiracy stuff, just to make them look like fools when they try to explain it all away. People are pissed with the establishment and they will stick it to them any way they can.

    They can do whatever the fuck they like with the algorithm people are looking for the conspiracy stuff, the crazy stuff, the age old tabloid journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... only the nutters believe it, just like they are the only ones who believe the crazy corporate main stream media establishment propaganda. Sure it can be problematic, but that is what proper mental health services are for. Those that believe already have a screw less and believing crazy stories is a part of their existing condition and will not make them worse, just send them down that particular rabbit hole ie Russia, Russia, Russia or another rabbit hole ie identity politics and self identifying yourself as what ever flips into your head be it a 200 year old female traffic light or a 6 month old male teapot cosy and hacking away at you genitals is a great idea.

  21. Re:And that says what? on What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How about having some fun then, best image, a monkey shoving a banana up their butt, https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Still mired in silly beliefs and even worse some really, really destructive beliefs. Mud monkey religiosity, forever shoving bananas up their butts because they are the perfect shaped fruit ;D.

  22. Here you go https://www.safework.sa.gov.au.... Just keep in mind other people are not as selfish as you and families spending more daylight hours together is a good thing and if you want more https://www.safework.sa.gov.au.... By your logic, I want the entire worlds clock adjust to when it is noon over my house, screw everyone else. As you go from west to east, so noon differs by the metre.

  23. Actually, technically speaking, minimalist advertising, advertising that nickels and dimes advertisers, does not do much else but dilute advertising to nothing but ads targeted at advertisers, convincing them the ads work by them looking for and seeing their ads, even when everyone else ignores them. Google adwords https://duckduckgo.com/?q=adwo... (heh heh) are a scam target in reality just at advertisers, who have to keep paying and paying and paying just to hold ground, rather than gain market share. Sure hype advertising works on a new product, but only tends to work once and needs year between hype to work again Oculus Rift anyone.

    Google altruistic projects, yeah pull the other one mate. Google's ability to claim altruism (perhaps altruism washing, like charity washing et al, dick companies found this kind of advertising relying on others to spread news stories about it charity work or altruistic failed projects is cheaper than paying for ads), kind of went up in a cloud of fan spread bullshit, when they got caught out cooking elections to suit their own ego's and fake left actual homo far right (because their right wing buddies wont accept their behavioural mores, plus it blocks worker issues in the left), political ideology pushing divide and conquer identity politics https://duckduckgo.com/?q=iden... to silence policy based politics.

    Google, you so full of shit https://duckduckgo.com/?q=http.... duckduckgo.com is better than google, honestly try it, you will like it, after about a week or so, you won't think of going back, after a month you will specifically avoid Google (like going from alta vista to google years ago).

  24. Re:Fact checkers? on Scientists Prove That Truth is No Match For Fiction on Twitter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a snap back to reality in this argument. Are the reading that fake news because it is fun or because they believe it to be true. How many people believe the fake news, what ever the source not because they actually really believe it but simply because they want to believe it. Is it actually convincing all that many about anything what so ever, except of one thing, they are not alone in their beliefs, which is what corporate main stream media used, 'USED' to be able to do, simple can't do it any more, because people can watch other stuff instead and they do.

    The time is getting close for the news model, still not there though and corporate main stream media will fight the new model fang and claw, the lying animals that they are. The time will come when the new model is accepted but it is not yet.

  25. Re:Mozilla suite on Firefox Quantum Leader Takes Over All Mozilla Products (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course if you just want the old Firefox and think Quantum sucks dead dogs balls and who fucking cares how fast it sucks them, there is always https://www.waterfoxproject.or.... After fighting with mulefox (stubborn lot) for months it was such a relief to switch to waterfox.

    Ahh the pleasures of FOSS and the freedom of choice it provides. How stubborn am I about my tabs being below the address bar, end of time maties, end of fucking time ;D.