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  1. You left out that Windows enterprise lacks the anal probe and does not claim ownership of your software claiming the right to install any software they want and any time they want and of course delete any software they want to for any reason they choose. Notice the latest scummy MS paid troll tactic claiming the professional version is not as corrupt as home user, mind you they demand the right to spy on you at your expense, you pay for the hardware, you pay for software and you pay for the internet connection and they demand control over you privacy. Talk about a truly scummy corporations.

  2. Re:SO... if we're going to pretend on Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting (wired.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think it is typical American bullshit. Number Russian who do english 7,571,787 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... If they want to do English on the web they will have to do it on English based web sites, largely American. If they make one post a day for a year that is 2,763,702,255 a shit bucket ton of posts. According to the US government if a Russian any fucking english speaking Russian use the internet in English they are a Putin bot. Fuck off with your idiocy, it is fucking stupid they day you have more that 2.7 billion Russian posts then you can cry Putin bots but until then STFU murderous regime change Americans.

    Wow, English speaking Russians are forbidden from accessing English based web sites, else they are spies and should be killed. Pay attention to all those other fucking countries with large number of English who are also going to be in the smarter group in that society (2nd language smarter group) and who will also use English based web sites, are they fucking spies for their country too. Fuck off you lying pieces of shit in the US government, they are just fucking you with statistics making some thing look like it isn't. Total number of English speakers 838,676,510, take out the english as their main langurage countries and that is still a whole bunch of spies according to the mind bogglingly corrupt and idiots US Congress and Senate.

    I garan-fucking-tee you, you have seen just a drop in the ocean of foreign country trolling, keep pushing this shit and the numbers will sky rocket, just to mock the US and they will brag about it all over the place.

  3. Re:Cue the Musk haters in... on Bloomberg Starts Tracking Tesla Model 3 Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody is definitely in the market for Tesla bad, I mean real bad. Hence the trolling, corporate main stream media, always does the bidding of advertisers, trying to guess who is tricky. They desperately want to pick up Tesla cheap, likely the reputation must having taken a bruising in recent years, and they want the Tesla brand but it is pretty expensive and more than just a little overpriced, for it's current production levels. Might not even be a car manufacturer but an electronics firm. Even got to watch who you lend money from nowdays, if they can bankrupt you, than rescue and sell you at a profit, then absolutely do not trust them, they will probably try to do it to you.

  4. Re:It would be nice... on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Is Under Investigation Over $3.9 Billion Media Deal · · Score: 1

    Developing trend is that psychopaths are born and the various forms of sociopaths are made, most often by psychopaths the source of the abuse that turns norms into various anti-social disorders. Get rid of the psychopaths and you will have a whole lot less people suffering from social disorders as a result of interactions with psychopaths. Technically as it is genetic, you can nip the whole problem in the bud or is that womb.

    Nobody likes a fuckup and Ajit made a huge mess of mass internet censorship, even though he was the only one foolish to stick his neck out there, his supporters will be all to willing to cut it now that he has failed. Consider the next election, fire Ajit to look good, see we got rid of him, or have him as an anchor around their election neck, poster of Ajit at every polling booth as a meme, you know, stealing yours internets, invading your living room, allowing the corporations to watch you masturbate, Ajit strangleband Pai (that dude will cost millions of votes or gain thousands if they dump him for failing so spectacularly).

  5. Re:I don't understand the need for the restore dis on Electronics-Recycling Innovator Faces Prison For Extending Computers' Lives · · Score: 2

    Technically a temporary violation has the copy was waiting for a licensed computer, until it reached a licensed computer a copyright violation, clearly a civil matter not a criminal matter once it was investigated. That the filthy animal prosecutor choose to serve the corrupt entity M$ to destroy some old dude for a technicality is disgusting, why not just kill him you POSs, fucking disgusting.

  6. Re:appeal on Electronics-Recycling Innovator Faces Prison For Extending Computers' Lives · · Score: 5, Insightful

    M$ also has an extremely shallow soul. So deep pockets versus a total immorality and willingness to utterly destroy so old dude doing the right thing in slightly the wrong way, makes M$ a pack of cunts who should be driven out of business, simply fucking awful. Never buying another M$ product again, I am doing my part, are you ;D.

  7. Re:Priorities people... on Trump's Infrastructure Plan Has No Dedicated Money For Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The better your broadband the less you have to use transportation, simply the way it works. Of course the underlying reality, it's an unfunded plan, completely utterly meaningless until it is funded. Pretty much a bloody empty PR=B$ stunt. I don't get what any one sees in it, it is just unfunded marketing bullshit. Produce real plans, of what is really going to happen, with funding that has been approved and that you will do in the three years you have left. No funded projects, than you just have a PR=B$ press release.

  8. I go with the negative reviews, across multiple sites with similar statements. The positive ones, just idle interest to compare with the specifications. You kind of want a spread, that leans in the positive with no indication that specifications are false. So which is worse advertising or reviews, clearly the need to generate fake reviews indicate people prefer reviews to advertising. Of course not buying early in release and waiting for a spread of reviews to come out over the first few months of product release has pretty good results and always saves money. The other thing for reviews is the number of reviews by the individual over what time period and how consistent they are and the review writing. I know companies also pay for crap reviews of competitors product but they is always a sense of overall market view, regardless of the attempts at distortion by the scum of the earth the PR=B$ crowd.

  9. Re:LOL..."progressive" Seattle on Seattle To Remove Controversial City Spying Network After Public Backlash (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It is public space and it should be monitored. Whether you do that with a police officer on foot patrol or via cameras is really the same thing. Care should be taken to ensure the cameras do not point into private space but other than that, cameras recording public actives in public places is not really that bad. As to where they are and what they can record, should be up for public review and the public should have a right to access the system and to monitor it and track what recordings are being kept and for how long. Their failing not fully disclosing the system, detailing locations and providing public access to it, was in error. Hey, if it's a beach location I can check the beach, public carpark check space, city locale check how busy, find a friend even. So many more interesting possibilities if done properly rather than just working to create a panopticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., feed stuff to troll Meister Alex Jones at https://www.prisonplanet.com/ (sometimes OK but slow news day and like all too many others, they just make stuff up). So good idea poorly executed much like the UK.

  10. Re:Been at least 25 years since on New York Times CEO: Print Journalism Has Maybe Another 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Completely unrealistic. Print news is done because of the end user being able to digitally tailor their news. For print to compete, it would need to be say something like 10,000 pages and the customer buys it and then bins the 9,900 pages they are not interested in to read the 100 pages they are interested in. Quite simply digital media offers the end user news from multiple sites hundreds of sites that a user generally accesses in varying degrees, which they cherry pick their news from. The biggest problem with news now is, people drift to the news they want to hear regardless of it accuracy or veracity, as long as they agree with it, in content and style and it is consistent, they will go to that cluster (more than one news site) of news sites. Just the way it is, push propaganda on them and off they go, scattered like skittish cats, looking for what interest them, what they agree with, corporate main stream media is so fucked.

    In the end the only way to do reliable news will be via government involvement, simply too many scattered sources with so many specialist viewpoints and political ideology, products to be sold, people just being dicks, advertising clicks and simply poor quality journalism. Want news, that is definably news, accurate news, than it will have to be regulated and to use that title 'NEWS', you will have to be able to defend anything you claim in a court of law or else face a fine and custodial sentence much like falsely claiming to be able to provide advice as a lawyer or a diagnosis as a doctor.

    Corporate propaganda media is being killed by a flood of choice and only it's old world, last millennium monopolistic controls, the idiot box and public broadcast and the printing press and distribution mechanisms are keeping it temporarily on life support. It was obvious it was dying a decade ago, and so who gave a fuck about consolidation to drive corporate propaganda, they were still going to run into the competition of a billion web sites, of millions of bloggers, of video news channels in the tens of thousands all eating away at corporate main stream media and making it no more than any other blogger/news channel, technically they are running on fossil fuel, heh heh heh (old timers dying off fewer and fewer new readers and watchers).

  11. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    What is it with all this American whitey stuff all of a sudden. Seriously you guys can bugger off. I am olive skinned, in my youth, you easy burning pink skins called me wog, dagoe and spic, now you call me fucking white, fuck you. I am olive skinned, I am a wog, you pink skins made your mess, now you can lie (tee hee) in it.

    Why are you being sucked in by the corporate public relations bullshit campaign, it is a lie. Skin colour decides nothing except how badly you get burned staying out in the sun too long, obviously you pink skins have been out in the sun way too long. Cultures count, the cultures created by a society, what it values, how it works together, the community it creates. Skin colour, hair colour, eye shape mean nothing.

    You 'whities' can bugger off and leave us olive skinned people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... out of your squabbles with the brown people. Stop dragging us into your whitey nonsense when you rejected us last century, your pink skin, your sunburn, your problem. You brown people, the reason so many of you are BROWN rather than black or more accurately an even higher concentration of melanin in your skin, is because those fucking 'whities' were a rapey bunch and slaves, a lot of you reflect the behaviours of those rapey rednecks it must be genetic, the worst of the pink skins.

    If you don't mock it at every single opportunity it will not stop and just get worse.

  12. Re:Standing and Jurisdiction on Facebook 'Likes' Are a Powerful Tool For Authoritarian Rulers, Court Petition Says (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically speaking the RNC and DNC do not buy ads. The people really buying ads are the campaign donors, the corporations and the lobbyists. The lobbyists are way more cunning than people think, they pack the RNC and the DNC itself with consultants who must be paid millions and this is stolen from the campaign donations of the corporations. Think about that, the thieves are stealing from the thieves who pay the thieves to pay the bribes to make thievery legal and blocking it illegal. A bunch of emails demonstrated how the lobbyists and consultants collude to steal as much as they can of the campaign donations of the corporate class and keep in going by filling the corporate class with fear of the workers rising up.

    It's just lie after lie after lie. Take heart though, let's be honest, how worth while a marketing platform are they in reality. They were all in the tank for Clinton, all of the tech companies, and corporate media was there too, as was the war industrial complex, NATO, CIA, FBI, DOJ and they lost. Reality is they should have won but they do not control the internet, the tech companies do not control the internet, in reality the only thing they brought to the table was the marketing they had targeted at advertisers, convincing the advertisers how good they were at selling, they provided not much else.

  13. 53-47 that is a crap poll unless those numbers are for hundreds or thousand. If I were a manufacturer, I would delete it too, nothing to do with the direction of the polling, just the tiny numbers reflecting a lack of interest. An important question, how many hours was the poll up for and why did it attract so few people.

  14. Re:But it still requires ovaries. on First Human Eggs Grown In Laboratory (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually totally incorrect. You start out as a viable egg, women start out as a viable egg. Up comes mr sperm and it is consumed and it's genetic resource is strip mined to trigger further grow. So women start with zero eggs and then the DNA process triggers the creation of the egg creation structure and juvenile eggs are made. Likely egg production and cancer have some core similarities, that growth from something else. A none egg cell, turning into an immature egg cell and growing from there. As for the other stuff, the human individual with society has inalienable rights, it is a question of when they start and the problem is for women failing to get pregnant of course men masturbating. As soon as they are viable seems to be the defining moment and not too much before that. Either that it make it illegal for men's sperm to die outside of a women's vagina, apart from proven accidental discharge but that is bizzaro world stuff.

  15. Re:Very poorly managed (or not) on Mayfair Games Shuts Down After 36 Years of Board Games (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    There is of course the big management hassle of digitising leading boardgames, to increase market share, even shifting them to the mobile market. Not as easy as it sounds, lots of usability and networking issues to solve and creating hard copy board games and digital board games at the same time is more complicated. Realistically they could even sell you a digital file which you with a printer and even a 3d printer with the right materials, make your copy. On the fly gaming network with mobile devices for playing digitised boardgames could be quite the thing with the right games. Board games are much better for casual gaming, against other players or against the device or mixes there of.

  16. Re: An interesting prospect, but also an edge cas on 'Sinking' Pacific Nation Tuvalu Is Actually Getting Bigger (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    Here's a reason. Take a pile of sand, put water around it, as the water level rise, so the sand pile subsides and look the sand is lower and more spread around. So take a sand island, with trees and stuff up to say 3m above high tide. Raise the water level and more and more of the land is washed into the sea at high tide. A low tide you might have a larger island but at high tide it is under water, not really all that useful. Raise the water level high enough and you might have quite a large sandbar that is below sea level at high tide and supports only limited marine life, where once a smaller tree lined Island used to exist.

    Of course you can do what China did and add material to raise the low lying formation and create a useful Island. In it's way much like moving a rig to the location and anchoring it or even a ship, you got there first you developed it or anchored there and no one can really drive you off with infringing international territory and vessel sovereignty or man made island sovereignty in international territory (so the island is yours but the territory around it, is not, except what is need to secure the stability of the man made island). Right up until the next major tsunami and then everyone goes for a swim.

    There you go, Tuvalu could invite Chinese investors to create land, the land would be Tuvalu but the Chinese investors would own the land they create. The US would probably invade and kill everyone so maybe not, the US government is not in the control of the American voter, not in the least.

  17. Re:Tongue in Cheek on Detroit Decides Against Banning Airbnb -- For Now (detroitnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Creating a legislative balance between someone being able to rent their investment residence vs some dick turning their investment into a weekly party house and fuck the neighbours (hell force them to sell and buy cheap). Yup, pretty much greedy psychopathic arseholes fuck everything up for everyone else, pretty much all of the fucking time and force a whole range or regulations to keep the criminal freaks under control. We could test for them early, it's genetic and 'abort' the problem before it becomes one, a whole whack of regulations would disappear when they disappear.

    So greedy dickheads force all sort of regulations to constrain them and tie the rest of us up in paper work.

  18. I am holding off for the next phone that provides user replaceable battery and screen. Something that really extends the life of a phone.

  19. Re: I can't be certain... on Android Wear Is Getting Killed, and It's All Qualcomm's Fault (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    So basically the watch is dying and only victims of Apples marketing are still buying what's left of the watch market. Bought a smart phone, took off my watch, never put it back on again, not once and I fell liberated from the discomfort, having no need to pose with a wrist bracelet. As for the phone, I generally strive to use it for the smart features and make calls not so into receiving calls where even I am, I strive to avoid that, very invasive. I am older and jumping in a car to drive to a business trip, the way there and on the way back, was a great escape from the office and the phones. Young people have no idea what they are missing out on. Make the device your tool don't let the device turn you into a tool to be used.

  20. Actually communication directly via twitter makes no sense what so ever, defiantly no spy vs spy. What you do is encrypt the message going from other people to other people and just listen in. So not from 1st party to 2nd party but from 3rd party to 4th party and in return from 5th party to 6th party and you just listen in. You read from listening in and you send via the 3rd and 5th parties, who a pretty secure because they do nothing and it is just a temporary contact with you, say at a regularised location, say food place, or public transport. Now that's spy vs spy. Other sneaky stuff to like embedding stuff in ohhh ahhh RT https://www.rt.com/ and you decrypt the bits they publicly broadcast, sending a message still tricky frequent comments or any would like bad, so really a bad idea.

    The smartest now is a localised wireless digital connection, that forwards on. Say an extra wireless chip in a custom made phone, that connects to wireless networks at an eatery or near public transport access points and away you go, higher data transfer. That spy vs spy stuff, the profession of being professional paranoid, so many ways to do so many things, a real head fuck nowadays keepings security is so much fucking harder than breaking it, no comparison. Of course living in a large apartment block creates all sorts of digital methods for communication.

    Via direct tweets has to be the stupidest thing I have heard but apparently arrogance always provides (the above the law attitude).

  21. Re:The headline is garbage on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    1% inspiration -> 99% perspiration. The people you hire for the inspiration are often not that good at the perspiration and the same goes the other. Those good at the perspiration are most often really bad at the inspiration bits, just not their forte, limited imagination and the dreamers are usually distracted from the perspiration bit by their imagination. This of course relates to intellectual pursuits, perspiration of the mind, sweating out complex solution based upon the idea presented and making it come together. We all know the reality of it, regardless of how many retentive types what to complain about the dreamers. Just different brain wiring, that produces different results and provides brain chemical rewards, which whether you want them to or not, will mould your brain into solving problems your DNA prefers (reinforcement over time stimulating growth millions of thought cycles or diminishing some areas through lack of use), you will follow your program, well or poorly depending upon how much you resist it ;D.

    From the other viewpoint, hiring people who are wired to do that particular job better and retaining them, will provide massive dividends, in creativity or in mental focus.

  22. Re:The problem with water is political on Researchers Discover Efficient Way To Filter Salt, Metal Ions From Water (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It was a simple deduction based upon greed and logic. Basically pretty accurate but it is not about water, that is an incomplete lie, far more accurately it is about cheap water. The psychopathic corporations want to suck up all the cheap water they can at the lowest price possible for manufacture and industrial agriculture and then charge us enormousness amounts of money for way more expensive water ie they user river water, pollute it and dump it back into the environment making it unsuitable for use downstream and then charge us for very expensive desalinated water.

    Now the biggest cost in water in getting it from where it is, to where you need it, so cheap upriver to downhill use via gravity, cheapest, that's for psychopathically greedy corporate use. For us chumps pump it up from sea level to us hundreds of feet above sea level and that is expensive now add in desalination via reverse osmosis and the efficiency they are talking about is having to pump much more saltwater to draw out the fresh water, like 5 times as much.

    So getting greater efficiency is worthwhile. So for example having a nuclear plant close to a desalination plant. The nuclear plant can use the waste water from the desalination plant, so you recover the energy that the nuclear plant would otherwise us to pump water. You could also put the desalination plant below sea level and use tidal forces for flow and then only pump fresh water to hundreds of feet above sea level. Think of a supported concrete hemisphere, with the membrane across the bottom and a pump at the top drawing off fresh water and the tide shifting water past the base of the hemisphere. So high capital cost but energy inputs are for shifting fresh water and efficiency of the membrane is not that critical as the tide will shift massive volumes past the filter (not necessarily a hemisphere but you get the idea, say strings of box culverts but the idea remains the same, smart move make them artificial reefs and you get a fisheries bonus, maybe even wind farm fitted to the system, you have the structure so why not, concrete culverts and concrete footings into the sea bed). Done really well, the system could be extremely productive, with no energy input after construction, in fact energy surplus for the right location.

  23. Not according to the article I just read. They went on and Google removed them, based obviously on complaints, yeah, it is a shit way to do it and Apple tries to prevent them getting on by checking them first. Now if it is different, fucking prove it with a link to Google, too fucking easy.

  24. Well at least you accept the futility of it all, so why do, why take that chance with a false signal, does it make any sense or as you rightly point out, it is nothing but a scare mongering joke.

  25. Re:Mr. Musk indeed knows his audience on Elon Musk Sells $10 Million in Flamethrowers in Four Days (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes of course it could be about having fun. When you are rich enough you can play all sorts of silly games with the mug punters. Same goes for when you are smart enough, all sorts of silly fun. To fill conspiracy sites, youtube videos and a flame thrower that launched a million comments. You apparently don't get to play and find it all so very annoying.