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  1. Re: Why would you save it? on The Hottest Chat App for Teens is Google Docs (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    Not quite. That note passing had to be careful and never dominated the lesson. What is happening now is excluding the lesson and oh look, we can see exactly why students with computer do worse than students without computers and why chomebooks were poorly designed from a teching perspective. They were designed to invade schools, dominate student thinking and be easy for schools to manage and get students used to a lack of privacy, get used to opening up to big brother or sister and what ever the gender, GOOGLE, to lock in schools. How good or bad at teaching and learning meh, who fucking cares, more profit, more control, more dominance.

    This stuff should be properly designed to be open sourced and freely accessed and reviewed by the broadest audience possible. The goal should be better teaching and learning and not more data for Google to mine and more profits for Google.

    Collective learning better for girls and worse for boys but meh who cares and collective learning extremely bad for STEM subjects, you either know and can apply that stuff or you do not but again meh who cares and the students are getting worse at it.

  2. Re:New data? on Boeing 737 Max Crashes 'Linked' By Satellite Track Data, FAA Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually it is very much sounding like they should have been grounded after incidents of the plane diving, when engaging auto pilot based upon false stall warnings. The data was all available from flight recorders, why the fuck would pilots not report it, oh that's right SHOW ME THE MONEY. Rampant corruption in the US means that two planes HAD TO CRASH prior to anything being done. They should have been grounded already, based upon several instance of this happening and pilots catching it before it was too late. A proper investigation now needs to happen to check for a greed based coverup, Boeing and the US government are in serious shit now, for the deaths of those people in those two instances where it could have been avoided.

  3. Re:Yes, good point on Microsoft Announces Xbox Live For Any iOS Or Android Game (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sony of course could nail M$ hard, real hard, include a boot to Sonyx a Sony Linux distribution on the playstation 5, not for gameplay but for everything else most users do. Now that would do real damage to M$, the only thing holding a lot of user to Windows 7 or 8.1 (ESAD windows anal probe 10) are games and the companies associated with PC games have become a real pack of cunts from one end to the end, Steam, Ubisoft, EA, EPIC, Activision, so fuck gaming on the PC and fuck windows 10 and fuck M$. It has all becoming to annoying to bother, keep in mind we are talking computer games, like they are only for fun and all this psycho unlimited greed is simply not worth bothering with for just a bit of gaming fun.

  4. Re:I'm not really shilling on NVIDIA Launches New $219 Turing-Powered GeForce GTX 1660 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It is just the way of things. US corporation when they get dominant market share, just turn into arse holes and take crappy short cuts, look no further than the latest iteration if Nvidia shield, just full of cheap crap shortcuts to maximise profits based on pretending it is like the previous model. So AMD damages it rep and moves heaven and earth to rebuild it with hardwork whilst Nvidia is selling out the trust it built to screw customers and maximise profits. Given time AMD will dominate and Nvidia will work hard at rebuilding it's reputations. It called the psychopathic corporate executive cycle of life. Those dickbrains clamber on corporations, pushing the high profit spreadsheets, earn the short term bonuses for pumping up profits, selling out the companies trust and reputation and it all inevitably blows up forcing the rehiring of stable executives who rebuild the company with much lower profit margins and once rebuilt, they are replaced with psychopaths again to sell out that reputation earned by others. Often the companies die before they can be rebuilt.

  5. Here is how that works. The problem is you not them, I like you take very few photos, just not in the habit because I like you adapted to an age of film and developing costs and you simply did not snap off photos for no reason. Now well there on you phone, snap away and even video, as you see fit when ever you see fit, not because the moment is special but because it might be and take a snap or video and so what, no cost and delete if you do not like it, hence they takes lots and lots of photos because it 'might' be worth keeping rather than can I afford that shot or not.

    The phones, the intent is, unrepairability, crack that screen and the phone is dead, NEW $1,000 maybe even $2,000 phone for every failing outside of warranty, MOAR PROFIT, don't trust anything they say in this regard, their goal, forced phone redundancy as soon as possible as often as possible, screw the customer and screw them just as hard as you can, just as often as you can.

  6. Re:Anxiety for 1200 Alex on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is simply, they have turned most lessons into talkfests to favour female learning at the expense of male learning, they did this knowingly and the crazies bragged about it as male children fail, they cheer it, sick stuff. Problem arises in all STEM subjects, you either know they shit and can do it or you do not, no female chin wag way out of it. Try as hard as they can, the crazies can not make maths a group therapy discussion, you either learn that maths individually and do it individually or fail, they can not create female learning favouring math, well they can but we call that basic geometry and simple arithmetic and it finishes in early high school.

    Just wait, math is anti-social and male biased and should not be a requirement of higher education, anything beyond primary school purely optional, maths is male and mean.

    They are purposefully tilting higher education to favour females and exclude males, here we come, all male technical colleges, it is inevitable and the crazies will scream about it after forcing it into being.

  7. The greatest resource for mining and refining for new battery production old batteries. Industrial scale recycling for a dominant electric vehicle market, will make those old batteries the cheapest source of material for new batteries. The scale will be huge and put in right into the mining refining ballpark.

    Toyota took a bet, that bet being people would be more resistant to all electric vehicles and they would be able to clean up with hybrids, they were wrong. Given a choice people are switching to all electric vehicles and solar battery home power system and filling the cars TAX FREE, all home solar battery power is tax free income, huge saving and really an easy sell. Pay tax on filling a Prius or refuel an all electric at home tax free over night. For the majority of drives the sane solution and those that whine but sometimes I need longer range, well, hire a car for that and return it when finished. Day to day, big savings in going all electric.

    Those executives who took the gamble, need to publicly apologise for the decision and correct it, not lie about it.

  8. Time cost money, it is illegal to spend the end users time with uncalled advertisements, think free to air TV supported by ads, you have to accept them prior, so criminal act, they are stealing your time with their ad. Personally M$ and slimey worthless cunts and the only upgrade I am considering from Windows 7, is playstation 5 and a Linux box, with a switch for the monitor. M$ can quite literally ESAD.

  9. Just what you would expect when ugly but rich marries and breeds with pretty but stupid, you get somewhat less ugly and slightly less stupid and parents with massive egos, their little kiddy can not be an ugly stupid failure, narcissism on parade.

    Why the criminal charges, it's a scam, so what, the school get's money and the idiots can a pretend degree in the liberal arts or business studies. It's not like anyone is profiting from those degrees, they will have no impact in the real world, the nepotism placement will just put it up on a wall, in their parents company with a job for life, where zero performance is required, all been going on for decades. Seriously where do you think all those shit movies and tv series come from, the spawn of the rich and ugly and the pretty but stupid. Technically only the investors in those projects should be peeved.

    Just all empty PR and marketing bullshit, why was it a crime, unless they are drawing on government or state funds for that education.

  10. Re:Microsoft: MORE control? on Windows 10 Could Automatically Uninstall Buggy Windows Updates (windowslatest.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait up, removes bad updates, like the ones the stop windows 10 from booting up, exactly how?!?

    I am going with a play station on monitor and linux boxen and a switch.

  11. Designed to Break? on Microsoft Brings DirectX 12 To Windows 7 (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    M$ has a pretty bad reputation at end of cycle, breaking programs, blocking use of documents with the next version, doing all sorts of crap. DX12 run on windows 7 at your risk, you can bet when it break all over the place, M$ will say but windows 7 is no longer supported.

  12. Re:and that nationalism started Nazi Germany china on Huawei Sues the US In Pushback Against Security Risk Claims (latimes.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yet, China has only begun catching up to the US in this regard. Union of Shitty Arseholes all to accurately describes the seppos government, killed more people than all of the rest of the world combined in the last half century, be proud of your corruptly murderous ways and that includes your junk yard dog law enforcers killing your own people, more than the rest of the western world combined and whole lot more. The US government is already a fascist oligarchy and barely even try to pretend it is not, except during the corporate controlled, main stream media, election campaign, where they scream about Freedom, Democracy and Justice, the best that money can buy, don't have enough money and you get none of either, how bad is it, to emasculate the male working population, the state fondles their genitals in front of their wives and children in airports and then fondle the children's and wives genitals in front of their gutless and cowardly husbands. Only as truly fascist country would do that, so suck up NO freedom, NO democracy and NO justice because that is what you have in reality. Are you so accustomed to that abuse that you have to worry about getting an erection at the airport.

  13. Re:So let me get this straight... on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is the silly way, the smart way, create a consortium of the right industries to work on ways to make recycling far more industrial in approach. The most appropriate companies, mining and refining companies. How to effectively mine and refine the resources out of garbage. The series of processing steps, to make processing it workable and it what order to extract resources and how to do so. Mining and refining are skilled in this and need to put their heads together to how to most effectively process the mountain of garbage to product stock piles of immediately usable resources. Using renewable energy to renew resources to make the usable again.

    Everything in that garbage pile started out as a high priced resource and getting those resources out of that garbage pile and making them usable again is what it is all about.

    Needs some real sit down and thinking and planning and research, core stuff, so ZERO WASTE cities can become a thing and mining/refining companies can bid for a cities waste resources.

  14. How Many More to Go on Facebook Takes Down Fake Account Network Used To Spread Hate In UK (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Facebook deletes 100 accounts, only 999,999,900 to go or thereabouts. I'll bet there is an internal rating system for this, approved fake accounts and unapproved fake accounts, you pay, you can have all the fake accounts you want, you don't pay and they might eventually kick you off.

  15. Re: Not very brave at all on Meizu's $1300 'Zero' Smartphone With No Ports Got Just 29 Pre-orders on Indiegogo (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I always use the socket, because I bought one pair of earphones and have never lost them, it's the cable, even when they fall out of your ear, they kind of just hang there and do not fall on the ground. Tell me, how many of your stick that earphone back in your ear after it falls on the ground, and the oil from your earth, pick up all the dog and bird shite and you whack that crap right back in your ear. Which is more convenient for ear phones, blue tooth or the cable often with a switch and mic on it, to change tracks, turn it off and make a call and turn it back on again, that cable does far more than just connect the earphones, it keeps them together, stops them falling on the ground and controls them very effectively and you can charge your phone while using them and they never ever need recharging.

  16. Re:Obligatory Hipster Comment on US Users Are Leaving Facebook by the Millions, Research Says (marketplace.org) · · Score: 1

    I deleted it years back what a hassle, you simply can not trust the fuckers. You so called delete it and after you so called delete it, if you log back in, testing to make sure it is deleted, they fucking reactivate it and it is all fucking there, which means it was never deleted. They only way to delete Facebook factually, is to become politically active, campaign to have Facebook shut down for crimes against humanity, specifically gross global of invasion of human privacy.

    So I supposedly deleted Facebook something like a decade ago, can I check, no because the fuckers will reactivate the account they never fucking deleted and just filled with data from other sources. So yeah nuke Facebook from orbit, shut the corporation down and lock up ALL of it's senior executives and board members, 10 year should be a reasonable sentence.

  17. I like my books piecemeal across the internet, just the highlights please, someone else can do all the reading and picking out the most salient points, many others. The internet killed book reading for me, to canned and the internet changes moment to moment based upon all sorts of inputs mine and others (my view of the internet not the broader humanities view of the internet which is as diversified as the internet itself).

  18. Re:Good. on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Credit card companies paid marketing trolls are expected to skulk around this story in every way possible. KEEP IN MIND, corporations demand the right to refuse trade with anyone, where the fuck would you be in a captitalist society, with only two corporations providing elctronic payment at a core level and they decide to no do business with you and no cash, you are well and truly fucked. Second point, this is basically instituting and making compulsary a CORPORATE for profit TAX on all transactions. Bitch about government taxes, no cash means compulsary corporate taxes and when those filthy slimey animal cunts have the cabal going, up goes those tax rates and you better fucking believe, they don't like you politics, wham, there goes your ability to pay for anything or be paid for anything, anyone attempt to subvert that and buy for you and you can bet, their ability to exist is a psychopathic capitalists society will also be zeroed out. Don't accept cash AMAZON well, go fuck yourself then because I can guess your psychopathic intent you fucking scum.

  19. Re:my answer and the death ray plasma arc on Tesla Launches Supercharger V3 With 1,000mph Charging, Better Efficiency, and More (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    Have fun with this story, https://darwinawards.com/darwi.... Amps kill more than volts and alternating current is far worse than direct current, just ask a certain elephant, well, you can't because, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., just proves you can't believe anything were money is involved.

    What Tesla should have done, was do a deal with nearby residents, to put in a solar powered charging grid adjacent to those charging stations, well, at least a few stations of them for marketing purposes. How many residents would depend upon location and sun exposure and not too hot or not too cold, as that would consume a lot of energy. Create a competing grid for marketing purpose and possibly considerably more.

  20. GMAIL == BAD on Egypt Government Used Gmail Third-Party Apps To Phish Activists (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't use Gmail it was designed to be mined, Google itself called Gmail and all email, Postcards, with ZERO, expectations of privacy or security. They mine everything they can get hold of, their focus and as it is their focus, security comes in no where, not even last, just a big ole zero, well, technically in 10 out of 10, it would be negative 10, as Gmail's primary function is not email but email data mining. Reality here, GMail, functioning as it is designed to function compared to snail mail, it is a travesty against humanity. Alphabet/Google should be ashamed but you get bet they are not beyond, bullshit public relations and marketing, designed to be mined. Help save people's lives, drop gmail and block gmail addresses, help to protect people from their own foolishness.

  21. Re:No manual review? on Thousands in London Face Incorrect Benefit Cuts From Automated Fraud Detector (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    The story is meaningless without knowing what is the ramification of those false positives. What happens, is it just a letter, can the person seek compensation for unfair psychological stress, do they need a lawyer, how about compensation for wasting their time. What happens, obviously 20% false positives is entirely unacceptable and if it generates 20% false positives, how many does it miss. Is it all a typical scam, the automation contract worth exorbitant amounts and how much profit it generates is the sole focus.

  22. Re:Overfishing had nothing to do with it on The World is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Here is how it works. Fish are genetically inclined to specfic water tempreture ranges. When they change, the fish move or die. In some regions that is worse than others, as the habitat might not be there to move to or they might be trapped in a habitat with to far to move. This combined with existing managed fishing levels lead to over fishing. Then you get stuff like fish size limits, effectively genetically breeding smaller fish or not catching fish that humans wont eat, giving them a huge advantage over fish people will eat. Add in the changes in microbes and parasites that might have been climatically excluded from specific habits are now moving in.

    So any significant change in climate will result in pretty large die offs as the populations adjust, either shift or genetically acclimate. For people reliant on those, well they will suffer and suffer a lot, until the fish populations rebound probably over a decade or century or so. Larger land masses tend to do better as greater habitat climate range.

  23. Re:Women Are Wonderful on Google Found it Paid Men Less Than Women For the Same Job (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Here is how it works, men tend to compete and women tend to cooperate. So men getting screwed over, well, fuck em, they are competitors they deserve to get screwed over, the weak must perish. As a man, you either stand up for yourself, or you are deservedly crushed and make space for those men who stand up for themselves and of course for others, not weak mean of course fuck em, but women and children. Don't like it, well, want to be a man, that is what being a man is about, standing up for yourself and for others but not for weak men, the weak must perish. Genetics are a bitch, mwa ha ha.

    If you are being shut down as a man, then you are no man but a woman ;). Who said you had to be fucking civil when standing up for your fucking self.

  24. Going to the cinema takes more effort and realistically most of the content that has come out over the last decade is not worth that extra effort. Streaming Netflix, well, I also computer game, or as is the moment right now, slashdot or browse the web at the same time because the content is simply not good enough to watch on it's own. When watching on it's own, fast forward on netflix is used ie the STD startrek took a little over three hours to watch the entire season, fast forward was used a lot, especially annoying the klingon orcs slow motion talking with their mouths full of marbles, watched it in part once and fast forwarded every time there in after, same as for the loathsome lead and all the other silly shite (magic bug drive, lame as, science fantasy and not science fiction in fact really bad science fantasy).

  25. They still datamine you via other people's accounts and companies that use facebook, when you get linked to that crap. Far safer to nuke facebook from orbit basically campaign for legislation to put them and their ilk out of business.