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  1. Re:Censorship, plain and simple on Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They have been rabbitting on about RT for years and yet still no examples. Come on you laxy fuckers, if you are going to keep bullshitting and least do so creatively. Where are those RT news pieces carefully edited to look really bad, nope nothing, just ohh ahh, propaganda but no examples. Seriously by now with all the bullshitting you should be able to point to at least 100 examples, 100 RT stories proven to be lies, 100 examples of RT deceitful RT propagdanda.

    Fuck what those pieces of shit at Google are delivering, those fucking cunts delivered me a breaking news story about this incredible secret an actress was revealing, it was a fucking ad for makeup, those goddam arse holes cunts delivered me an ad for makeup as a breaking news story (getting google news off an Android phone is a lot trickier than getting it on especially when you are pissed off). Who the hell gives a fuck about a google news feed, I would rather https://duckduckgo.com/?q=RT&t... (no matter who you believe is right or wrong that is funny ;) ).

    The reality is if their power was so great, a bunch of yobbo trolls would not have stolen the election from them. The power is directed at the people paying for ads and convincing they can achieve what they patently failed to be able to achieve but the bullshit will continue and where common sense prevails, campaign bribes will ensure it remain silent whilst idiots pay the scammers at Google billions to control the internet, suckers.

  2. Re:Worst idea EVER on Amazon Launches a Cloud Service For US Intelligence Agencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it was like, Amazon has created Google, a cloud that rains your information on various three letter agencies, packaged and filtered for demand. It is pretty obvious that the cloud is just your information, with every corrupt arse hole squeezing that cloud for all they are worth. The delusion, they control your information, they control you, not if you treat your online information like a joke, then they have nothing on you but a clown car. The more seriously you take you online interactions, the far more dangerous, manipulatable and controllable they become. Push back against the online world and treat it with the mocking derision it most deserves (the crap out there on the internet, the censoring control freaks at Google, Facebook and Twitter, those delusion fuckwits carry on like they control the world, whilst they have managed to convince the US government it is true so they waste money with the fuckers, we should all know it is total and utter bullshit, it was always us and the scamming psychopaths at Google et at, especially the big shit at alphabet are lying for all they are worth, hint, hint because ???). Look they all lost the US election to a bunch of troll yobs and they wont admit it, they were all in the tank for the corporate whore fabricating and censoring their political fantasy out of reality and the lost big time even when the opposition was an orange orangutan with a bad hair piece because their campaign was trolled out of existence. So Amazon now selling it's version of Google's bullshit, you pay us enough and we can control the internet yobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for you, make them obey (yeah fucking right but the anus brains will milk it for years and for billions only because the other brains is what comes out, rather than what's delivering it, paid for with campaign cash).

  3. Re:Another ICO, another SCAM. on An Ethereum Startup Just Vanished After People Invested $374K (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bitcoin is in for a hell of a ride. Big money vulture capitalist have statistically analysed there is sufficient real money around bitcoin to harvest by purposefully hugely fluctuating the price of bit coin. UP, down, UP, down, UP, down, always milking cash out of the fools in the cycle, it is going to be really cruel. They will keep riding bitcoin until the kill it, little money does not stand a chance against big money, in a ponzi play like bitcoin, it's price as has been demonstrated can be all too readily pumped or dumped.

  4. Re:2021? Maybe. on Uber Expands Driverless-Car Push With Deal For 24,000 Volvos (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What ever happens, Uber go BOOM. Smells like running up cash flows and propaganda whilst planning to financially bail out. "We don't knwo what happened and all of a sudden it went bankrupt, yep, uh huh".

  5. Re:The perfect is the enemy of the good on Federal Extreme Vetting Plan Castigated By Tech Experts (apnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, because the greater the imperfection, the more likely you will pursue empty investigations whilst the real criminals further down the list, carry out their crimes. Have you failed to notice how often they have information about terrorists and failed to act. That is because they wasted resources upon empty investigations and did not get to the necessary ones. Add to that performance based investigatory demands. You must get results, you must profit, so they take the easy way out, the profitable way out, find some nutter and spend months stitching them up for a guaranteed prosecution, it is the corporate for profit way (that the nutter would have done nothing without intervention meaningless in a for profit world, it was a cheap investigation with a guarantee of success much easier than all those other hard investigations that you get blamed for when you don't deliver results). This is the reason why US security so routinely fails, why it's successes upon deep scrutiny are not successes at all, why performance based is a stupid failure, why an attitude of maximise profits not maximise results kills. You know what will happen, the contractors will pay lobbyists who will corrupt force through the failed programs to generate profits and basically fuck the results, they don't care, it was profitable.

  6. Re:So, Google, Apple, MS, Facebook... on The Brutal Fight To Mine Your Data and Sell It To Your Boss (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, you are confused. The slashdot privacy model is top down. When all the secrets of those at the top are exposed then the secrets of those below them can be accessible and not before. So strictly top down, the most powerful first, the least powerful last. See the subtle difference and you can not escape the logic of it, it is the sane sensible manner it which to do it. Keep in mind they do keep secret, what information about you they have and what they do with it (go on ask google to give you a copy, go on let's see the results, ask them to correct or delete it, go on and ask them for all the details about the big shit at alphabet, I'm sure they will hand it all across).

  7. Re:Imagine yourself as an overseas applicant on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You left out a whole bunch of issues. Trigger happy law enforcers, likely to shoot you many times for any reason and as a foreigner, as the US repeats again and again and again, you have no rights. Then the is rampant pollution all over the place, why the fuck go to America to study when the water you are drinking is delivered by lead water pipes, making you stupid as you attempt to study. Then you have guns on campuses, where a lot of people come from countries with strict gun control. The questionable FDA practices, where they no longer secure food and drug quality for the public, they ensure food and drug profits.

    There are so many reasons against studying in the US and cost is not one of the main ones. Basically the US has fallen behind whilst other countries have surged ahead. The US has falling numbers in a growing market and that is really, really bad because when market growth falters, US numbers will collapse because the US is on display on the internet and the truth does not in any way shape or form match the marketing and public relations bullshit.

    You will find smart young Americans studying overseas instead because when they pass the course, they often have immediate access to immigration to that country ie easiest way to immigrate to Australia, study and stay.

  8. Re:Sounds like... on 37% of Netflix Subscribers Say They Binge-Watch While at Work (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoops, careful their partner. They said they were watching at work, not that they were using the company network. How about down nothing nepotistic managements, the mommy and daddy demand they be at work and stay out of trouble and watch the nobodies to make sure they are not stealing, not that they do any actual work. Not to forget simple customer analysis. So the customer is a worker and it is working hours and hence they are accessing it at work via mobile services.

    No factory workers watching netflix, just factory management watching netflix and the IT staff, well, now they know all company secrets and hence they can do what they like as long as they keep managements secrets and the network keeps working.

  9. China's success was not the Chinese governments success, it was out and out US corporate greed, their failure, they myopic lusts and egos, their fuck everyone else, I want more, More, MORE, attitude. Not much at all to do with China and everything to do with US psychopathic capitalism, greed driving it's own self destruction.

  10. It should be really fucking obvious but it seems you are a bit dim. The person didn't trust US security software for some reason and instead preferred to use Kaspersky security software for some reason. Now for normal security software, the default setting is to send back a report about infections found, so that the security companies can tighten security, that is like so obvious. The idiots world view presented by the lying American establishment is, if you hire a security guard to guard you property and he finds someone breaking in and removes them, the security guard should no tell anyone, not report it to the security company and not report it to the authorities via the security company, they should keep it a secret because 'er' yeah, bullshit.

    That a NSA employee preferred Kaspersky software over US security software is extremely revealing ie probably you should prefer it as well but than again their machine was already infected but of course that could have been because of failed US security software with national security letter mandated back doors (hence the reason for the NSA employee to use Kaspersky, maybe they did not trust the NSA, their employer and for good reason).

    So how about this for a headline "USE KASPERKSY SOFTWARE BECAUSE IT IS WAS NSA AGENTS PREFER TO USE!!!". Make you feel happier now ;D.

  11. Re: Good and bad on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    The story is not really about Japan as it is about western private for profit practices. Late early, so fucking what, the price is going up 50% because we can and still be cheaper than driving. In fact how about banning single ride ticket, you must join the train club, pay an annual fee to use the train twice a day, every day, whether you use it or not, than pay extra fees to leave or enter the train. You after all only paid for the ride not for the station and additional fees for how long you are on the train, you only paid to be on it, not to be on it for an extended time. Than you can pay extra for lighting, air conditioning and of course a seat, you have to pay extra to sit. Also we never ever put in writing we would be on time, so shut the fuck up and any complaints and as per the agreement on the ticket, you must seek arbitration via the for profit arbitration team we set up and you must pay them to cheat you and again fuck you.

    The American train system the US is demanding to export to the rest of the world of course owned by US corporations, good, bad, indifferent or down right evil, the US will dominate train transport system, the US will dominate everything, accept it or die (that would be a Trumpism or what comes out of the orange orangutans mouth at the behest of the deep state and shadow government). Hint, the only reason is seems really, really odd, is because you have accepted shit for profit service, they have a right profit at your expense and you have no rights for good service.

  12. Yep, the idiots are funding the development of free open source Kodi ad ons. I'll bet those who created them and can not use their work, will be content to release and combine the code free for everyone to use.

  13. Re:It already did on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    As always US exceptionalism dominates discussion. What is far more important in this discussion, is not what Americans are doing but what is the rest of the world doing where English is becoming the dominant second language and whether they teach English or American pidgin english https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (I know it is not there but is sort of should be and it makes it all much more funnier). That would be more indicative of which will dominate. As far as I know English dominates over American pidgin english (American pidgin english seems only to be taught where Americans militarily dominate those countries ie they have no choice).

  14. Re:The Scientific Method is outdated on Elon Musk's 'Scientific Method' (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    A bit as missed out, a very subtle bit. How much effort should be put into converting the question into understanding. For some low risk, non actionable question, consensus is enough, for higher risk actionable question, you should be more effort into generating an understanding. Think of it like, wanting to select the most tasty peanut from a bowl of peanuts, consensus is a particularly appearance will define better taste, logically it is not true, you would have to individually test each peanut in the bowl of peanuts to make the proper scientific choice, so the effort is not worth it. This versus climate change, choosing how to manage industry and environment, in that case the risk is enormous our survival and basing that on conjecture and consensus would be nuts, every possible scientific test imaginable should be carried out to ensure the right choice are made, to prevent more damage and to correct the damage that has already occurred.

    Risk assessment is an important element in applying the scientific method because you only have so much time to make decisions and some require far more focus than others. So 1.5 Assess risk (you kind of have to do it early in order to effectively decide how much effort to put into the rest of the steps).

  15. Re:My experience of workplace bullying on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds more like a societal problem and crappy labour laws than bullying. They felt they could get away with it because you society is biased against the worker in favour of the employer. In other countries of your boss goes nuts like that, the worker is likely to hand the abuse straight back ie defending themselves as workers and the boss is likely to be in trouble both civilly and criminally (dependent upon what was said). As such behaviour like that rarely happens and in turn, it tampers down social activity across the work place because what the boss is not allowed to get away with, workers bellow that boss will not be allowed to get away with either, the boss saving face.

    Until you change labour laws to favour labour as they should, you are screwed, just the way it is.

  16. Re:Call your congressman on FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You got be a little more 'GRRR' than that, let them know, not only will you vote against them, you will actively support their opponent, with donations, street signs, stickers and you will spread far and wide, that they sold out the digital rights of the people to communicate and profitability of millions of companies sold down the river to serve a tiny handful of companies. Tell everyone how they turned the digital highway, into a clamped down pot hole infested toll road, with never ending billboards with speakers that scream at you to buy junk and cameras that spy on everything you do. Don't forget to remind them again and again and again, across all forums and digital venues, let them know and make sure they know, how you fell. Don't forget to have fun doing it, a wry sense of humour http://www.lifedaily.com/6-sig... will serve you better than anger, of course that they are fearful of losing their spot in the corruption trough and fuming as a result is great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  17. Re:Maybe they should hack a dictionary.com ... on Russia Posts Video Game Screenshot As 'Irrefutable Proof' of US Helping IS (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Espionage Contractors are always lazy and greedy, doesn't matter which government they work for, more interested in profits that the truth, which is why they should never be used (they will lie, if those lies sell, no matter the consequences). It will be interesting to track down the individual who supplied that image to be included in the content distributed by the Russian government. Contractors will always tell the lie that generates the most profit they feel they can get away with, rather than the truth and when caught out, simply blame foreign intelligence services as an excuse (when it comes to spying failure is the accepted norm and success an exceptional effort). When it comes to keeping the other guy out, success is the norm and failure is exceptionally bad (hence the often lazy greedy effort to fabricate data that sells).

  18. Spacex cheaper because the bulk of the research already done by NASA and that cost was added in NASA launches but effectively Spacex got it for free. NASA likely could do a lot of mission cheaper now and in it had gone into fabrication and not contracting it out, even cheaper, with lobbyists ensuring massive hidden profit margins for contractors (set profit margin, no problem inflate costs, simply pay higher wages to executives who do nothing, active pointless nepotism and ramp up the bill and more profit and ramp up costs they do at every single opportunity and use lobbyist to buy corrupt politicians to sign off on it all).

  19. Re:Silmarillion? on Amazon Is Making a 'Lord of the Rings' Prequel Series (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't really see the point. It makes no sense to do prequels of that, basically throwing away money. Going to make up new stories, might just as well create a whole new story theme, it seems a waste of money to pay for basically hobbits (elves and everything else are licence free, only the hobbits ties it to Lord of the Rings, so you basically pay licence fees for pretty much nothing but limiting the story).

  20. Re:So... what can the average prole do? on More Than 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Issue 'Warning To Humanity' (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It would actually be a socialist thing to introduce parenting licences in conjunction with social services support. Unfit to raise a child and you are unfit to have a child. Now how do you enforce that, threat of death, threat of sterilisation, really nasty stuff. There is a way, a whole lot of pregnancy relate to nothing more than laziness and excessive use of intoxicants, with absolutely no desire to have a child or raise it properly. So an easy incentive, incorporate birth control medication with very cheap intoxicants of what ever variety they prefer, the will slowly but surely self destruct by their own preference and simply not have any children during that process. No force, no violence, they are happy and the rest of society has a substantially reduced future burden. If you do not substantively contribute to society, you should not really be burdening society with your likely not to contribute to society genetic offspring. Voluntary birth control is easier if you provide an incentive, you can even up social security payments if they never had children (they are individually entitled to more support because they have not added a burden to society).

  21. Re:Faith on Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? (nautil.us) · · Score: 1

    As always, any claim about God, always has to have the follow up, not my God. So faith in God, how about my God is the totality of existence, can I have faith in the totality of existence and that existence does in fact exist, hmm, based upon my current interactions with existence, yes. So for me God exists and my existence is the proof, that upon the basis that I consider God to be the totality of existence and not some goat herder wish machine the supports the deceit of monarchy (face it believing in that God is the very definition of a lack of understanding, basically just blind belief).

    So how to perceive alien intelligence, taking into account we are a protogalatic species and any general number crunching would make that quite a rare thing and thus extremely interesting to any already advanced species (well at least the current living generation, via us they get to relive their own ascendency to galactic society, as near as the current living generation of aliens will ever get to), would be how invisible they are. The less we see, the likely more intelligent and technologically developed they are, tricky that one but it is just bound to be that way.

    Likely the sound approach, not living in fear and just going on like they are there and watching every possible single thing we do, up to their technological ability to do so without excessively interfering with outcomes (beyond a desire to keep the show going to final conclusion, it will likely be the only opportunity the current living generation ever get to do so and for thousands of generations there in after no chance of experiencing it). Advanced enough and they can feel our emotions via remote quantum measurement at a distance, likely quite a ride for a society basically say a million years or even a billion stable and boring (boring, boring, boring, well at least compared to our level of 'er' excitement, the murderously lethal kind of excitement).

    Another question is how much force would they use to protect that experience from interference. Is there a galactic broadcasting battle fleet, hovering over head somewhere, making sure no Alien joyriders put the Mud Monkey show at risk, a once in a million year show, lasting tens of thousands of years (especially the most 'er' interesting years). Try to sneak up on it all you want and you'll probably never manage it. Of course don't consider aliens to be all advanced, likely they would try to preserve their own genetic protogalatic state on a few preserved and protected worlds, just because (now they would especially enjoy the mud monkey show).

  22. Re:Still proprietary on New Samsung Video Demos Linux on Galaxy Smartphones (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    The big advantage is long term development. So the next logical step a Samsung Linux phone, why bother with Android if well, you can get all the Linux apps you want from the Samsung store and from a Samsung point of view, they are no longer reliant up Google or subject to Google's control. So looking to drop Android on a range of Linux specific phones?

  23. Re:Seems silly on North Korean Hackers Are Targeting US Defense Contractors (wpengine.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Apparently for you, dumping nuclear fallout in massive quantities on Japan, China, Russia and South Korea not a problem. So the fuck what if say millions people from those countries die of radiation poisoning, fuck em they are only commies and slope heads. Their view might be a little different, especially China as a million of their citizens dying from radiation poisoning and tens of thousands of hectares of farming land poisoned might not go down well, in fact so badly, that Honolulu would very likely start to glow in the dark, in return. Likely in response Japan and ally, would evict the US out of Japan and possibly demand trillions in reparations which the US would be hard put to refuse (expect the Japanese to forgive the US for a genocidal nuclear strike on North Korea in say a couple of hundred years or more). The US ability to use nukes in North Korea without North Korea firing first, zero (grow up).

  24. Re:Are they stupid or something? on Uber Drivers Have Rights on Wages and Time Off, UK Panel Rules (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sane governments like stable employment because it makes for happy voters, the majority of voters, the workers, that to whom society should be adjusted to serve because they are the majority. Hence the create laws to promote and protect stable employment in order to have happy workers and avoid workers revolutions, which always end up being rather scruffy, untidy and pointless affairs, replacing one group of exploiters with another group of exploiters or replacing one association of psychopaths with another association of psychopaths.

    Stable employment = good and unstable employment = exploitative tool against the workers. What kind of society do you want?

  25. Re:When you read a story like this on Man Who Sent GIF of Laughing Mouse To Employer After DDoS Attack Is Now Arrested (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really, seems very much like a psychotic break brought on by age and business failure, revenge on all and sundry to repair a damaged ego in a particularly self destructive fashion, more like just a bit sad. Before pursuing a path of self destructive aggrandisement, consider some mental health counselling first. Ego should be the tool you use to attack others not the tool you use to attack yourself. To set yourself on a path of global reformation, you must first abandon ego and instead develop a wry sense of humour. PS nearly everyone is 'Anonymous', the invisible people, with no publicly recognisable face or name, still a voice though and when everyone and I mean everyone is reduced to nothing but another blogging channel (fuck main stream media and the egoist freaks they are definitely not 'Anonymous', heh, heh) a much louder voice than it used to be (no need to hack anything but the minds of the propagandists).