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  1. Re:MySpace = DeadSpace on Ask Slashdot: Has Technology Created A Monster? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    Try is not do. They make it appear they do, in order to sell advertising space. They make it look like issues that were generated by real people, were generated by them. They make it look like the control groups, rather than the second they try to apply any control, those people leave and go to another platform. They actively self promote their abilities, in order to sell them and they can 100% fabricate the appearance of those outcomes on the channels they own with employee accounts, especially with tens of thousands of employees and of course dummy computer generated accounts. The control does not have to exist for them to be able to make it look like it does exist and it takes a while for reality to catch up to the lies, especially when they keep shifting lies trying to keep ahead of reality catching up.

    If they are so powerful tell me exactly how many times, they have controlled your decisions on anything important, let me guess, zero. You are not unique in your ability to ignore the B$, there are millions upon millions just like you. Sure there are tens of millions of sheep but they count for naught, they do nothing, think nothing, have very little buying power as they are so readily exploited, they are empty numbers, like sugar, empty calories no nutrition, they mostly don't even vote, let alone be active in elections. Sure those sheep can be controlled and sheered but that is all they are and they express zero power, neither fiscal nor social, they'll just believe what ever they are sold and do not much of anything else.

    They are the numbers the tech companies point at the companies advertising even when the tech companies know full well, that those at the bottom on minimum wage are barely capable of buying anything beyond a burger and a six pack, old second hand car, paying rent and struggling from pay cheque to pay cheque (but they are numbers in the tech companies statistics to create the illusion of control).

  2. People are also self medicating with alchohol as a result of the abuses of capitalism. Alchohol also is a medicine, just a very bad one and better to use as an externally applied antiseptic, and instead inhale the correct combinant of cannibanoids, no hangover or liver damage.

  3. Forget the scientific method, for eHarmony to claim that would mean they were being wildly extremely privacy invasive, they would have to know you better than you know yourself and ensure no lies were thought let alone told.

  4. Hmm, I smell corporate shoppers, they are attacking Tesla to drive down the price, desperate for a cheap pick up, very, very unlikely to get it. Look for a few existing automotive corporations to get into a bidding war. I doubt that Tesla will make it to 2020, bought by one the existing manufacturers slow to catch on or even a major tech company looking for a major expansion. Apple Tesla, hmm, similar market, similar price premium, Apple has lots of money it needs to covert into capital growth and tax mitigation. The whole consumer product market is in for some more major shake ups.

  5. Re:Yeh no shit on Why Most Electric Cars Are Leased, Not Owned (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It is you losing at the tax office. Why leasing, well, corporations do it a lot, whole lot and auto manufacturer lobby like crazy and so do auto dealers, just look at the attacks on Tesla. Why lease, because the tax advantages are wildly over the top and hence it is a major tax dodge especially employee vehicles, counts as a tax free wage with major tax deductions for the employer.

  6. Repeat the same lie over and over again and according to the you beut Google AI it becomes the truth wowie zowie, how fucking useless :|.

  7. Re:MySpace = DeadSpace on Ask Slashdot: Has Technology Created A Monster? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps because it is a post absent of belief, no love, no hate, what is, simply is. No expression of desire or worth, no preference indicated at all, just a chain of interactions and there consequences with much missing detail because that is more effort than commenting on chaos is worth. A comment as an algorithm, with it's programming purpose, dismantling empty belief perhaps?

  8. Re:How about a superhero film made by Disney? on Movie Ticket Sales Hit A 22-Year Low in 2017 (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Actual quite an interesting film the Last Jedi, a real demonstration of Hollywood ego in action. What went so wrong with that Movie, one person, one single individual projected themselves into the role or 'Mary Sue Rey' so not a starwars movie but a movie about Kathleen Kenneby's personal ego, not SJW at all. Simply one individual following the Peter Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... promoted to a point of failure. Here ego will likely long term cost Disney somewhere in the vicinity of 10 billion dollars, just because she projected herself into the role of Mary Sue Rey. They pushed a bean counter into a creative role and the bean counters ego took over. Short people are always problematic https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., teasing never helps anything.

  9. Re:Why our patent system is broken on Can Docker Survive Google? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't containers inherently a bit bloaty, each container replicating the same things over and over and adding to waste storage space and slower apps. Are containers eliminating a problem or just adding to that problem. A fractured operating system environment, basically a broken leg in the computing tripod, the solution don't fix the fracture, add weight to it a permanent plaster caste to cover it over but leave it broken.

  10. Re:better than getting sued on America's Doctors Are Performing Expensive Procedures That Don't Work (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Put simply, a system driven be nothing but greed will eat itself, after it has eaten everything else and die as a result, not sometimes but every fucking time. USA make no mistake you are now eating yourselves alive.

  11. You kind of have to lump Android smart phones together because they are eating each others lunch, which reduce their individual numbers because it is a much more competitive market, still not competitive enough but it is getting there. Apple is it's own carefully constructed PR=B$ market, not that it is awful but they have their market niche that they have crafted and are keeping alive. Interesting thought in numbers, how much larger would Apple's market be if the dropped their prices, would it grow or shrink, keeping in mind a dropping price would damage their artificial marketing perception of a premium brand where price is the sole arbiter of perception of value (nothing unusual about about think Wine and people's perception of quality of flavour tied more to price and label on the bottle, rather than it's content, ohh look at me at can piss a thousand dollar bottle of wine against the porcelain, ain't I special, no you are a gullible egoist buying into marketing, you are a whale, a person who also gets targeted for play to win because ego demands you win and cheating is still winning).

    Will Android continue to dominate probably not, I expect a resurgence of pure Linux as manufacturers seek to diminish Google's control and gain control for themselves. This especially tied to the US governments idiot spy vs spy and we must dominate shenanigans in the tech market, creating a we can not trust anyone especially Americans in the market. Which in turn drives countries to a roll your own tech market and of course FOSS is the fuel of that market.

  12. MySpace = DeadSpace on Ask Slashdot: Has Technology Created A Monster? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing that needs to be pointed out, to make this whole yarn bunkum, is that, MySpace now equals DeadSpace. Fads today gone tomorrow. The noise of the proletariat is still driven by today's bright shiny, whether that be a fake egoist individual or object. Most of the rubbish about division is being driven by corporations so the psychopaths at the top can keep power and create chaos all to feed their ego. The false narratives of colour versus color (heh heh) or religion vs religion or make vs female, a fake narrative a false construct created by stink tanks and PR=B$ to keep workers divided because the workers united will hang the fucking corrupt bosses.

    The tech companies have neglible power, look what happened to hasta la vista or the lotus eaters or all the other once dominating tech companies and their products that simply died. M$ is dying in slow motion, only assiduous lobbying and corruption keeping it on life support. Google tail is definitely going between it's legs to protect it's genitals, it's power a marketing illusion, the reality it lives or dies at the people's whim. The halls of power a cracked with panic seeking stuff to blame and refusing to accept, yep, your ego, greed and lusts are solely to be blamed and is your downfall, as in the past so in the future. Rise to the top on popularity and the rush of blood from your brain to your genitals basically cripples your thinking and you own ego becomes your undoing. Technology is totally reliant on everything working, the greater the failure that technology causes, the more rapid technologies demise.

    A failing AI does not indulge in plots, it simply fails, stuck in loops, crashes, simply fails to work. A failing AI does not work 99% and only fail 1%, like all software typical failure is BSOD, done and finished.

  13. Re:Reporting on this is terrible on Call of Duty Gaming Community Points To 'Swatting' In Wichita Police Shooting (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    You bloody ding bat. Even if there had been a murder and hostage, the fucking idiot police would have turned up to the wrong address and killed an innocent person and in your imaginary world, the murderer would have killed the hostage and gotten away, to kill again. What do you not get, swatting bad, idiot law enforcers far fucking worse!

  14. Re:Obvious Solution on How A Civilian Drone Crashed Into the US Army's Helicopter (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed the second part, and if as a licensed operator you allowed to unmanned drone to impact a manned aircraft for what ever reason, will be enjoying an extended custodial stay for criminal negligence and risking human life. There always has to be a hammer that falls for any impact of law. So really, really much safer to do the right thing else the negative impact will be extreme, many will simply not take the chance and that is fine too.

  15. Re:Leave them alone on Iran Cuts Internet Access and Threatens Telegram Following Mass Protests (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    It's that political rubber band. You stretch it really hard to hold power and then the snap back ends up worse and then things finally settle down. The mess was created by the greed of the UK and then carried on by the greed of the US, this generated bad outcome. Now possibly, finally a good one but if born of violence pretty much guaranteed to be worse, one way or another.

  16. Re:Like most poems on Ask Slashdot: What Would an AI-Written Poem Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Logically a smart AI would search for and create context for expressing poetry, find a work referenced as such and write it to your screen. No mention of original or plagiarism, logical solution, find a much referenced work of poetry and copy it. Not cheating just the lessor example of teaching people speech and writing, demonstrating creative writing, establish all contexts for creative writing, allowing derivative works in reality a form of copying, so along the path of copying direct to copying with intent (similar interpretive understanding, the English language is being copyrighted in its content and barring uses of that language, access to cultural expression and social understandings).

  17. Re:No. on Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? (gnome.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All too late. Reality is the desktop is dying before Linux could take it over and well, Linux took over in all new mediums. So Linux won on the server, it won on the phone, it won on the TV, it won in the appliance market and the desktop is just slowly fading away and fragmenting. As the desktop OS becomes less and less consumer orientated and more business/science/education/government/geeks/nerds orientated, so it will fragment more to suit those elements. Probably Linux will dominate in that sphere but in the consumer market, in terms of numbers, Linux will dominate in consumer computer appliances.

    So where does that leave the personal computer gamer, it seems like at the present, that will fragment and be part of the console market sort off and depending upon what Apple does, they can be part of that market and steal market share from M$, whilst Google, Linux and surprise player Steam also steal market share from M$. M$ are screwed but they wanted to play anal probe with Windows 10 and they deserve it. So the desktop basically died before Linux was able to dominate it.

  18. Re:The future of multiculturalism on 12 Days In Xinjiang - China's Surveillance State (business-standard.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in an actual multi-cultural country, people who do not live in an actual multi-cultural country do not understand them at all. Basically multi-cultural does not mean pockets of differing cultures in different zones, that is not it at all. Multi-culture is you the individual, picking from the bits of culture representing to create your own individual culture that you share with others, there might be one culture that more represents you and that culture you in a way promote a bit more than the others. So multi-culture is not other cultures each dominating that part of society but a roll your own culture. So introvert computer geek Croatian Australian with smatterings of Irish, Italian, English, rural/native Australian and even some American (what ever that is really meant to mean).

    So actual real multiculturalism is kind of fluid thing only three countries that really represent that are Australia, Canada and New Zealand (alphabetical order), the US never really got multiculturalism, forcing the corporate fabricated US ideal as the only culture down all Americans throats, still there but definitely being actively suppressed for some reason (you must be American or be publicly condemned, although you can be African American but not if you are white and come from Africa, you used to see all the other stuff like Irish American but it all got visibly suppressed dumbed down to you are just white).

    So being pink skinned I am not meant to understand racism but in reality not true at all, I am olive skinned and southern European and was subject to racism and prejudice in my early youth (slurs being a wog, dagoe or spic), racism was actively suppressed by the Australian government and they did a reasonable job (bit of a shifting job over time and members of the original nations still do not get a fair go, racism shifted to target Asian and then shifted from them to Muslims, note the previous victims joined in to make victims out of the late comers, so weird). Current problem Muslims seem to hate real multiculturalism and are having trouble adapting to it, that roll your own aspect seems to really confuse them coming from really rigid cultures.

  19. Re:Nobody is ready on Project Maven Brings AI To the Fight Against ISIS (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    The US government and ISIS, perhaps if they just made up their fucking minds about whether they are funding and supplying ISIS with weapons and munitions or fighting them. Apparently it depends on who they are killing, any one brown or Russian or Chinese and A OK and well any one that is a US corporate resources exploitation team, white, black or brindle, Muslim or Christian, as long as they are not part of the US corporate resource and labour exploitation team, be they military, mercenary or civilian.

    Now the US government is trying to sell Afghanistan to Blackwater (what ever their current name is), with Blackwater to basically enslave the Afghanistan population and steal the Afghani resource, refuse and they kill everyone.

    Where's the computer tool to track down US corruption, theft from the Department of Defence, blatantly cheating in elections (that is on public display and nothing still happens), stealing money from all sorts of government projects. Yep don't need tools for that, system is working as planned.

  20. Re:Western civilization is truly collapsing. on How Harvard Teaches CS Students How To Code (kqed.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they will take it to engineering and the construction disciplines. The building fell down, everyone died but everyone tried hard to do a proper job, so pass. Ohh how about doctors and dentists, getting their qualifications based upon comfort level, the little darlings, part way through a procedure they got a little uncomfortable with the difficulty and simply walked away from it, that's fine. We all know exactly what this is, a way to get women who are crap at coding a passing grade and that is all it is about. One wonders exactly what they would do at the computer programming job based upon that training, comfort level programming (that sounds really dirty but still funny).

  21. Mock the stream, let them know what it is really worth and in a far more subtle way then most people would think, log into it, turn on you blank screen saver and turn off the volume and leave it run, nothing watching nothing, perhaps the advertisers will start to realise how much of this stuff is a marketing scam targeted at them.

  22. Re:Static or dynamic; that's the question. on Some Telcos and ISPs are Frustrating IPv6 Adoption (guardian.ng) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are crippling IPv6 for one reason and one reason only. They have an existing investment in IPv4 addresses that they rent for profit or can sell, IPv6 simply reduces IPv4 addresses from being worth hundreds of millions of dollars to sweet fuck all. The longer they can keep out IPv6 the more money they can make out of IPv4. Straight up greed.

  23. Re:Huh? on Wired Publishes Fake Christmas Letter By Elon Musk (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Wired are shite, they really blew it when they back stabbed Manning for doing the right thing, just to get more attention, fucking scum. They should have been the ones stripped and abused, instead they just keep trying to appear 'cool' fucking lame asses. I can not look at wired without being reminded of Manning, not ever fucking loathsome scum, turned over the source for ad revenue.

    PS A merry Christmas to Manning, Assange and Snowden and all the best wishes in your futures.

  24. The Dumbest Computer Can Beat the Smartest Person on CMU Researchers Reveal How Their AI Beat The World's Top Poker Players (triblive.com) · · Score: 1

    It is kind of silly. Reality is the least capable computer can beat the smartest person all of the time, as long as it is not a race. The computer can keep going and going and going, long after the person gives up https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

  25. For Whom the Bell Tolls on Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Run, buddy, run. Goldman sucks, those guys who stole billions from all over the place, you guys are doomed. You know what is coming, you know what they will do, you know they will fuck you over, it is hard wired into their nature. They'll be blowing up that bridge that traps you on the other side as they strip mine you of assets. Don't say you haven't been warned, again and again and again.