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  1. Re:Russians not necessary on US Voting Server At Heart of Russian Hack Probe Mysteriously Wiped (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only problem with giving the Democrats the roto rooter treatment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., is Americans expect everything now, it must happen yesterday and cleaning out the Democrats much like cleaning out the Republicans will take at least 6 years. Two minor elections and one full election. Not that it wont be chaotic fun to do so but too many Americans expect it served up a platter for them, someone else to clean up their mess.

    I don't get, look how much fun it has been screwing over the establishment and making them look as stupid and clumsy as clowns in a clown car. This is the best time to enjoy politics, sure the outcomes at the moment aren't all that flash but you can see them literally falling apart in a blind panic, collapsing in the pile of bullshit the have crafted out of US politics.

    Being a reformist is always way meaner than being a revolutionary. Revolutions tend to lead to one thing only, another revolution. The Reformists use the power of the state to clean the state and once started becomes pretty much impossible to stop. We are not fighting the authorities but backing those with honour and integrity and allowing them to do the job they want to do and providing them with the support and information to do that job. The best way to fight crime of any sort is for the authorities and the public to work together and that takes patience, cooperation and clear thought, the willingness to do the hard yards to get the touch down.

  2. Re:Dose on Scientists Find a Better Way To Wash Pesticides Off Your Apples (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Meh, I'll just peel apples from now on. I know I don't get as much nutrition but I like my nutrition free of pesticides, herbicides and various other rural pollutants. As for low doses, you know what, I'll be I could punch you in the face every day for the rest of your life and it would not shorten your life one little bit but I can assure that is sound reason to allow someone to punch you in the face ever day for the rest of your life. Poisoning yourself at non-lethal levels, still impacts your life, makes you more unhealthy, makes you suffer longer from infections and generally makes life a whole lot less satisfying, much like getting punched every day for the rest of your life. That it takes so long and another chemical to clean the chemicals off apples, means I will be peeling apples for the rest of my life unless they a reliably certified organic, punch yourself in the face as much as you want, I will not be joining you.

  3. Re:Look, I love Elon as much as the next sycophant on Tesla Turns Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Chosen, seriously chosen. You people are so gullible buying into any bullshit. Why the big strangle on Puerto Rico, to drive the population out, to force them to sell on the cheap, so developers can buy it up on cents on the dollar, demolish the homes, redevelop everything to sell for maximum profits. You want to know why others countries do not, absolutely do no want to join the US, who the fuck wants to become another Puerto Rico. Bankrupted on purpose by the US Congress and Senate and then blamed for the bankruptcy and now being driven out of their homes to favour corporate developers. What a piece of shit the US government has become, actively preying on it's citizens to feed the greed of it's corporations all in full public view, don't even pretend to hide it, just smear a layer of bullshit propaganda over it and pretend it isn't there (yeah I know it Russia's fault, they were the ones who mishandled Puerto Rico's finances, there's proof it just can't be released for national security reasons).

  4. Re:Comments on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, to be fair, if you are a women, looking to get married and pregnant, homosexual men are evil. They are inherently prejudiced against women, misogynists of the worst order, only willing to share their bodies, cooking abilities, cleaning skills and their wallets with other men, the horror for fat lazy ugly heterosexual women (even though I do recognise that it has been proven, that perception of appearance is not driven by exceptional appearance but by super average appearance, you are not exceptionally attractive, just exceptionally average, you face lacking all character), especially when they are feminists wanting to dominate effeminate men, the hen pecked (it would be funnier if it weren't true, believe me, well if you are hen pecked not so funny but for us slackers super funny) ;D.

  5. Re:Win? on FCC To Loosen TV, Newspaper Ownership Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    FCC approves the big brother network, the only network to be allowed access to the internet. Big brother watching out for you, ignorance is strength, truth is fake news and voting is stupid, only nazis vote.

  6. Re:Soo.. how much longer until the Bitcoin crackdo on North Korea Could Be Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency On Your Computer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't want to block transaction requests, they like what the government of China did, they want to data mine crypto currency transactions and not just because the spy vs spy types are heavily into it, sort it, as it crumbles away because it's like the number flag for criminal activity, tax evasions, espionage, computer hacking. The more crypto currency you have, the worse you look to criminal investigators. Stories like this, the early shots in the PR meme to attack crypto currency users, are a strong indicator of where all this will be going and they will be coming after you.

  7. Pretty obvious reasons why. New company, lots of hires, all got a little out of control (one bag egg at a higher level can hire a dozens of others) and Tesla was falling behind schedule and was looking for reasons why, well, they found them and let them go. Typical teething problems for a new company with seeking lots of new employees. They will get a lot of bad ones.

  8. Re:Shut down before inspecting? on China Shuts Down Tens Of Thousands Of Factories In Widespread Pollution Crackdown (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Which seems to be exactly the reason why those inspectors are rotating across the country. It blocks the ability to set up contacts for bribes except at the higher levels. At lower levels, you do not know you fellow inspectors, you do not know the companies, you do not know who might be a different kind of government agent and corruption charges in China can have the death penalty. That bribe ends up being more expensive than cleaning up the mess, simply because of the risk is so high. Large corporations still cheat of course, small and medium it seems much less so. Rotating investigatory agents to break up contacts seems to work quite well, even in China.

  9. Re:No, really this time it's unlimited, we promise on Verizon Will Stop Throttling Video On Unlimited Plans If You Pay An Extra $10 Per Month (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What they are selling is a lie. Rent this bandwidth 100Mbps download unlimited use, 'er', except where it is limited and the 100Mbps becomes 2.5Mbps and we achieve that by spying on your usage and censoring it. Rent this bandwidth we purposefully wont let you use, so why the fuck would you rent it in the first place. That does not even touch contention, claiming to sell what you do not have to sell. The record setter for that would be the Australian NBN project, selling 860Mbps between 500 users 100Mbps at a time on decades old hybrid fibre coax and laughing at them when it dies every peak period, after school and work when everyone downloads (great scam but kind of pointless when you over load decades old gear and it just does killing tens of thousands of peoples connections for months at a time). Perhaps its too late for American companies to go with that approach, they have build too much bandwidth into the system and they don't have the total protection of a corrupt government to allow them to tell the citizenry to suck it up and fuck off (who designed it to fail on purpose to favour one corporation - News Corporation - the Fox News bunch - one sick family).

  10. Re:The Assumption on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 2

    I can remember way back, decades ago, old cobol programmers went into sales. Basically they look old and reliable, have a lot of information the correlation between client requirements and the programmes required to achieve it and present those solutions to clients. Then you have the whole sales advancement stream. So a lot go into sales, even over counter sales.

  11. Re:Well... on Justice Department Demands Five Twitter Users' Personal Info Over an Emoji (techdirt.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Collecting data might not seem all that harmful but when it is used to create stupidly flimsy search warrants and the agent that hates you is first through the door, hot to shoot anyone for anything (I saw a bulge in his under shorts and when he reached for them, In emptied my magazine three times in order to stop him). Either that or the beat the piss out of you and your family and shoot your pets or they destroy your career with a security warning or they destroy you finances with a drawn out fake arse criminal trial and on it goes. When they go out of control, which it seems in this case they have, they can cause an extreme amount of damage to the people they target and in the end to the taxpayers who pay the fine for their corruption.

    People have every reason for extreme caution when low quality investigative agents, basically incompetents get on them and start fabricating reasons for legal attacks, fo what ever egoistic reasons those agents choose, whether it just be an easy target for career advancement (easy to fabricate evidence out of nothing and they lack the ability to defend themselves), to wanting to screw a particular persons and needing to get someone out of the way, to a straight up ego trip by destroying someone who has offended them.

    US law enforcement is widly out of control, there is every reason to fear any interaction with them and to avoid them as much as possible, they are shite and you people let them turn into shite, by going performance based (more arrest more advancement and better pay, numbers count not quality), specially hiring dumber people rather than smarter people because the dumber people last longer (because they are feeding a power ego trip), cheap ass moronic training (training them to be soldiers on a battlefield rather than police officers), protecting corrupt officers to save on civil suits (totally insane psychopathic capitalism right there). Then not giving a fuck because they will only beat up, kill and falsely imprison the poor because you are not poor (until the make you poor or don't recognise you as rich and treat you like the poor).

  12. Technically locking out the user is not a design exploit but a design feature. With M$ as the main administrator user of any windows 10 installation (as the owner you are no longer the administrator just the pretend one), will use it to upload and store programs which they claim for convenience you can instantly access when you pay for them or just to be even more helpfull they can lock you out when you stop paying rent on your own hardware. This is not a security feature for you, this is a control feature for them.

  13. Re:I nominate this article on Facebook Tests Removing Publishers From News Feed -- Unless They Pay (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    They are basically charging facebook members to interact with other facebook members, they are just deciding upon a greed driven whim, who is targeted and censored and has to pay and who is not. Well beyond publishers, they will extend it out to the typical for profit youtuber as a example. The only publisher of content facebook will accept is facebook and the only acceptable propaganda is facebooks or the propaganda that pays facebook for access. Facebook users real, will just be treated like mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed bullshit. Then you have the imaginary facebook users controlled by AI selling interactions to advertisers (it works both ways and doesn't M$ cheat with numbers as well).

    With AI you can create 100 million fake users to gull advertisers into spending money, ticking and clicking and corresponding away, as advertisers slowly go bankrupt wandering what the fuck is going on even though they have really great interactions with customers on say the Google network (masters of AI of creating an illusion).

  14. Re:Yes they are. on Tech Companies To Lobby For Immigrant 'Dreamers' To Remain In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The law is the law, unhappy with the law, change it, don't ignore it, that's called corruption, do it in one area and it spreads to others. Enter the country illegal or stay to long and expect to be helped out (not imprisoned and enslaved AMERICA), as in out of the country are quickly as possible. Make a claim for refugee status and be held in a containment facility whilst that claim is processed (not enslaved, fucking hell America, what the fuck is wrong with you, we need to keep the good workers locked up because cheap labour).

  15. Re:Well... on YouTube Suspends Account of Popular Chinese Dissident (freebeacon.com) · · Score: -1

    Easy, if you are really rich and that government allows you to be really rich, rather than making you poor or dead, than you are not oppressed, just an egoistic greedy moron really good a telling lies. Basically, there is more than that but that basically covers it, suck it up.

  16. You are really, really slow to catch up. This is way beyond governments, this is actual corporate wars. Take out a competitors computer system and you can seriously screw them up and cost them a ton of business which you can then grab.

    The idiots keep saying Russia this and China that and because they wanted to play stupid global political games, they ignored the reality, it was Russian Oligarchs and Chinese Oligarchs and of course US Oligarchs and EU Oligarchs and well, many corporations from all over the globe started joining in. Corrupt executives paying people to hack competitors, to cripple their revenue and shift that revenue into the corrupt executives bonus plan. Those large extremely economically dangerous corporations doing all sort of crap for an economic advantage.

    This is exactly how you would expect World War III to start, the corporate wars. Messy stuff, funding war contractors to do all sorts of insane shit, well, beyond just hacking each others computer networks, to steal data, steal research, expose public information, expose any corruption, steal crucial financial data, steal employee data (which to poach and which to avoid), steal customer information and of course simply crash the system for as long as possible.

    Don't think of it occurring at the boardroom level, yet, mainly still at the corrupt executive level and padding bonuses with what is a pretty small investment, on the attack side, defending computer networks is far more expensive than bringing them down. Corporations are even using their own governments to launch attacks, with the right payoffs of course (dangerous stuff). Think grabbing a highly placed tech security exec and back dooring them for back doors (when you can readily causes ten of millions of dollars in damage even billions in damage, spending a million to grab someone gets within easy reach). Greed driven stupidity will cause a lot of harm.

  17. Re:Really? on Microsoft Chastises Google Over Chrome Security (pcmag.com) · · Score: 2

    How about I can uninstall chrome and gain privacy from google but I can not uninstall wildly privacy invasive elements of Windows 10 and I can not stop M$ installing what ever software they want to unless I never connect a Windows 10 computer to the internet, literally impossible and I can stop Google from install software on my computer. Google my claim a right to my privacy but M$ actually claims a right to my privacy, my PC and my internet connection, well, if I am stupid enough to run Windows 10.

    You can not secure Windows 10 form the worst bastards of the lot M$.

  18. Reality is, interactive content is slowly but surely strangling them out of business. The idiot box can not compete with online gaming and the cheaper online gaming becomes and the greater the choice, the worse it will become, especially with growing US poverty, the majority no longer able to afford that service and of course the Luddites, the majority technophobe elderly dying off. Add in social media and much broader video distribution, canned content stuffed full of commercials screaming at you, is just awful, I find it un-watch able. I can just barely tolerate a video commercial as long as it is socially informative, aligns with the content, does not scream at me and remains polite in it's content and request for screening (break those rules, not only will I be unwilling to watch the content, I will most emphatically remember not to buy it, specifically not to buy it).

  19. Re:Sources FO with your Sources on Dodging Russian Spies, Customers Are Ripping Out Kaspersky (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    American, wot language that, perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., surely you don't expect that. I think you mean that other language, the language of the poms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., you know from the colonies, as in prisoner of his or her majesty (don't wont to rile up feminists and apparantly they dislike that message so pretend it isn't true). Dude's that's called English, which apparently you lot don't know how to spell properly (that troublesome English spelling is just too hard to learn, zs and ss just too confusing and ou my how difficult). the crazy crap you septic tanks http://onlineslangdictionary.c... come up with. As I am not that rascist, perhaps a little but more culturalist than rascist, being called Russian, seems hardly a problem, is there any reason it should, assuming the Mikhail http://www.thinkbabynames.com/... is meant to be Russian rather than an anti-semetic swipe. Sure if you must know my great great grandmother the maid was diddled by her boss, twice mind you and dumped when he took off to the US to escape his responsibilities and changed his name. So if you feel the need to be anti-semetic, sure fine, not that I feel particularly Jewish but what ever (my religion being freedom, democracy and justice - the shared work of common effort - you might call that socialism).

  20. Re:Not Typical Drone on CNN Gets a First-Of-Its-Kind Waiver To Fly Drones Over Crowds (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Let me just poke you in the eye with a pencil, what could the harm be, seriously just a pencil.

  21. Re:Sources FO with your Sources on Dodging Russian Spies, Customers Are Ripping Out Kaspersky (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The awful thing is, it is so bad, so poorly done. Going to do propaganda, at least do a reasonable effort. The thing is, what is really exposed, is not only how they cheat us but how they cheat each other. Those doing the leg work of propaganda seem to no longer care how many people they convince of anything, just how well they can convince the people paying them, how effective that propaganda is, even and especially when it isn't. The propaganda is no longer targeted at us but at the people paying for it. Which is why the utter failures of propaganda come as such a surprise to them. When you pay people to lie, cheat and steal for you, never ever be surprised when they lie, cheat and steal from you.

  22. Re:This explains a lot on Intelligent People More At Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Capitalism places capital over human worth, hence by description, psychopathic capitalism is a far more accurate title, shamelessly placing self capital worth over the value of other people's lives. It is the more honest title for that social system, a society of psychopaths by psychopaths and for psychopaths, so that they can more readily can prey upon those governed by capitalism or far more accurately psychopathic capitalism. Capitalism by it's very nature is psychopathic in it's implementation, born of slavery it has never abandoned it's roots.

  23. Sources FO with your Sources on Dodging Russian Spies, Customers Are Ripping Out Kaspersky (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Normal tech story, company ABC does this, what ever this is, cancels contract, changes suppier, what ever. US main stream media tell a story, sources say unknown companies are doing this. One true, past evidence clearly establishes the second version as a lie. Meh, more main stream media crap. Name the companies ripping out Kaspersky software, otherwise you are lying. Why would any company not say they were dropping software, why the fuck would the keep it secret. Why the fuckity fucking fuck would insider sources need to report this, what utter fucking bullshit. The whole premise is stupid, company XYZ stops using a particular brand of software, that is regular news and reported regularly with full detail regardless of the brand of type of software, stories appear all of the time. Now we get inside sources because the details need to be keep secret. Oh my US main stream media has jumped on the FUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... bandwagon, drop Kaspersky because everyone else is, exactly who is that, we wont say because it has to be kept a secret otherwise Stalin and undead KGB agents will attack them.

  24. Re:Chalk Up Another Victory... on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sorry you do not understand but simply you must man up and take the consequences and the more than do it the more effective it becomes but it does start with you. Whining about it wont change anything, simply man up, tell them to fuck off and take the consequences if you get it right you are not alone, get it wrong and your are screwed. I did not say ignore PC culture I said specifically charge it head on and that means telling actively telling them to fuck off and standing up for yourself, come hell or high water.

  25. Re:Bye Bye Middle Class... on Bankers Publicly Embracing Robots Are Privately Fearing Job Cuts (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All infrastructure projects are very much labour intensive but I would hardly call it make work, to have the best roads, the best footpaths, the best public paths, the best railroad, the best highways, the best electrical grid, the best sewer system, the best fresh water systems, the best storm water systems, the best communications network, the best ports, the best airports and of course out into the future, the best space ports, the best star bases, the best Lunar colonies. When people can not see beyond their own greed, they can not see the need for anybody else to live, other than to serve them. There is a whole galaxy of things out their to achieve and for us to reach them, requires real work and real effort and it is best served by creating the best possible infrastructure to best serve humanity. Idiots who can not see beyond their own greed will be the death of us, unless we push them out of the way.