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  1. Re:Suckers buy "predict the past" on Google, Bing, Yahoo Data Retention Doesn't Improve Search Quality, Study Claims (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There is areas of worthwhile data retention. One requires log in and that is of course blocking specific sites from turning up in your searches, the more that happens for specific sites, the further they drop down search rankings (it would require thousands of down votes). Next up of course is how to better aligning searches ie locality based, and how local, country, state, city and making than easy to use. Next is type of service you are searching, info, sales, repair, showroom, online only etc and how to smoothly incorporate that into a search, via pull downs menus ie trying to carefully squeeze in some of the more advanced search features into the basic search.

    The big thing for search, is auto translate and to make sure that works properly, it can only be done as a free open shared resource, not only translating across written language but also and especially the translation of verbal communications into written communications. This is an extremely important resource to be free open and shared, otherwise a monopoly will establish itself and censor the hell out of everything via that utility function.

  2. Re:300,000 terrorists? on Twitter Suspends 300,000 Accounts Tied To Terrorism In 2017 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    It seems you want to join in the action of being the target of a law suit. Lets see, twitter is accusing people of being terrorists and supporters of terrorism, that is slander of the worst sort, seriously that kind of accusation can get you killed in a steroid fuelled law enforcer raid. Twitter, you better have proof, you better have evidence before flinging around those kind of accusations. Now add in those bullshit claims by twitter, 'er' yeah morons, supporting terrorism is a fucking crime punishable by severe penalties, why the fuck are you not reporting those crimes as you are required to by law, no escaping that fact because you fucking morons are claiming it to censor people. Fuck you, you lying sack of shit corporation, prove in it court, otherwise we know the truth, you are censoring to politically manipulate the people and to kill criticism of corporations.

    So which way is it you shit heads at twitter, where those people really supporting terrorism and you failed to report those crimes as required by law, after you specifically searched them out or you are just another corporate censor seeking to censor for profit. It is a crime to not report a crime, so why the fuck are the executives of Twitter not being investigated and prosecuted, they have now made a public declaration that yes, they are criminals after the fact for failing to report crimes.

  3. Re:Public Buses are different on Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip On a Single Charge (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    The system for personal cars is pretty obvious, charging points in every carpark, even public street parking. Think of them as all points of revenue. So your town has a parking metre in the street, well, make it into a charge point and charge more, heh heh. Supermarket carpark instead of being a loss beyond attracting customers (there are a reason carparks are in the front of stores and not the back and note, if the store was near the street they could advertise product much more readily), add in charging in every car park and make money when ever people stop. So charging points could be everywhere cars park, not rapid charge stations but top up charge, either they charge or they provide it free to attract more people. The cost for it would be much lower than people think and the revenue over time would be pretty much guaranteed. Suck it up, the infernal combustion engine is reaching EOL and with it fossil fuels, regardless of how much those psychopaths spend feeding their greed whilst parasitically destroying out societies.

  4. Re:Autonomous Vehicles on Is the World Ready For Flying Cars? (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The real problem with flying cars is not what is happening with road cars ie the road, it is the lack of road. So from an individual perspective, why the fuck should I risk my life, when fly your car over my house vs you risking your life when you drive past my house on the road. You can really extend that to all flying, what gives the right to some people, to fly over other peoples dwellings, risking their lives. Likely one way versus the other, it is more likely there will be more and more restrictions on flight over inhabited zones, rather than the other way round. You might say the risk is small but other people are fully entitled to say, fuck you if you think you entitled to force risk upon me, for your convenience. VR communications or flying cars, which is the more environmentally sound, which is cheaper and which does not put others at risk for your fucking convenience.

  5. Like, duh, too fucking easy, just like trains, a 'dead man switch' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Keep in pressed in with your left foot and the vehicle continues to operate, ease pressure and an alarm sounds and the vehicle slows to a stop pulling over a near a practicable to the vehicle shoulder. I have driving long distance and the conclusions are erroneous, reality is not having to continually focus, means you do not tire as quickly, you can relax whilst continuing to drive. Those who fall asleep in this mode would likely have fallen asleep sooner having to work hard at maintaining focus and tiring themselves out. The conclusion is faulty. You know the reality, put a dead man's switch for auto drive and morons will jam them on fall asleep and kill themselves and if the rest of us are lucky, do so without killing some one else.

  6. Re:Yay... Abrams on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars: Episode IX; Premiere Date Pushed To December 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem is Jar Jar Abrams is strictly second set, knows how to do actions scenes but is crap at telling a story and family connections gets him the work. In the end instead of the actions scenes just being bits to tell the story, the actions scenes become the story and the story are just same nothing bits used to try to stitch the action scenes together. Crappy action scenes that do nothing much for the story but they look OK. Jar Jar Abrams the franchise killer.

  7. Re:NORTH KOREA or THE NSA on Researchers Catch Microsoft Zero-Day Used To Install Government Spyware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Good PR schtick but the reality is the whole world is concerned about the US hacking their elections, from extortion, to colour revolutions, coups against democracies to turn them into autocracies who will ruthlessly exploit their citizens at the behest of US corporations, to out and out invasion and mass murder of the population. Now all of these are proven facts and histories and not some bullshit about Russia spending $100,000 buying advertisements or foreign citizens reporting the crimes of the US government against foreign countries somehow being a crime against the US government or email detailing corruption being Russia's fault even when they were locally exposed and a whole host of crimes were exposed and nothing done about it, nothing what so ever except the global exposure of the US as a blatantly corrupt state.

    Reality is the US government lies nearly all of the time at every level about nearly everything, the only people with a worse reputation for lying than the US government is US main stream media, not only repeating the lies of the US government but spreading even more on behalf of US corporations. If you think screaming Russia will improve the reputation of the US government, than you are nucking futs, seriously, the US has become a joke. I know people just like the US government, inveterate liars, can't help themselves, the lie so much you stop bothering to correct them, the idiots than believe you believe them, rather than the reality of you have simply stopped listening. Each US government press announcement has become a joke, so what lies will they spread today and who bothers to listen any more. Yeah, yeah, WMDs wolf boy, sure we believe you.

  8. Re:What's wrong with that? on Amazon Tries To Snuff Out a Bunch of Kindle Publishing Scams (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The reality is, it is more of an interactive world now and passive content, all though reading is less passive than most, as readers are creating those worlds in their on minds based upon the guidance of the writer, still, writer of books are competing with writers of games. There is a good reason why open world games are so popular, people basically writing their own story through the game add in playing with others online and they are doing it together. On top of that, you are competing with all the new writers with access to self publishing. When it comes to junk reviews, yeah, what was old (junk reviews paid for by advertising dollars in main stream media) is new again (junk reviews paid for by advertising dollars on the internet, which according to the USPTO you should be allowed to patent because internet in the description).

    Rather than writing old world novels, you might try writing short stories suitable for incorporating as events in open world games. Keep in mind you are also competing with all the books ever written https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki..., whether in or out of copyright and that will only become much worse, much faster.

  9. Re:But of Course! on Software To Capture Votes in Upcoming National Election is Insecure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What we all really agree on is election are about people not machines. Elections should be one hundred percent manual from go to whoa, pencil, paper, with officials manually counting the vote and representative from those running for government overseeing that count, with elections held on weekends to make sure everyone can participate, not just in voting but also in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or http://www.girlscouts.org/en/c.... It should be a social event, where people directly interact with the electoral process. Not a hackathon for the deep state and shadow government who apparently got really busy in the last election keeping the Libertarians and the Greens out, with many US states terrified of a recount and breaking all kinds of laws to stop it happening but hey, they managed to steal in even prior to the elections in the primaries but the morons could not keep what they sold and lost it to Don Don, anyhow and they have been attacking the orange orangutan, desperately trying to stay out of jail ever since, after Don Don made the mistake of failing to sick the FBI on them the very first second he could.

    The one and only reason to go electronic, to steal elections and that has pretty much been shown to be the truth.

  10. Re: So long... on Disney Is Pulling Star Wars and Marvel Films From Netflix (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Nepotism has pretty much ravaged the creative ability of major studios, relying on marketing and formulaic content and PR for the receivers of that nepotistic largess, which is fine I suppose, except when they do it with other people's money. Obviously they want to simply put Netflix out of business and sell direct, with the idiots expecting people to subscribe to each studio and paying per view per person, with them making use of cameras on TVs to count the number of people watching in your living room, you just know that delusion is buried right in their little greedy little beetle brains.

  11. Re:So what's the problem? on The Google Drive App For PC, Mac Is Being Shut Down In March (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Why, I suppose the same problem as before, Google is pretty bloody privacy invasive, so it is not really a good idea. Plus in the shift away from Google's politically driven corporate censorship of citizens, you should be abandoning their services as much as possible ie take you pick of stories https://duckduckgo.com/?q=goog... where Google was caught out blatantly invading people's privacy (and yeah, duckduckgo away Google is more than good enough now). If they don't feel economic pain, they will never reform.

  12. Either that or I am not American and the only pay attention to big weather news, major storms. So no record cold weather where I am from but lots of record hot weather, Australia, and no death cults, that seems to be an American thing, you know the war industrial complex and being in a near permanent state of war and all. Now apparently that polar vortex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is also fed by "A polar vortex strengthens in the winter and weakens in the summer due to its dependence on the temperature difference between the equator and the poles.", so well, well, perhaps you should study more and when it comes to weather in the US, I should, well, who is kidding who, I will still only pay any attention to major destructive storms because, yeah, I am on the other side of the world (So yeah, you missed the cold snap created by increased temperature difference between the pole and the equator and the increased moisture at the equator). I find the severe weather interesting as I come from a city that does not experience it at all, Adelaide, storms seem all a little distant, apart from the heat waves when they hit 45C, man that is killer hot and not an ounce of breeze when it gets that hot.

    To be fair of course, it was reported different here, http://www.abc.net.au/news/201..., note "Meteorologists predicted the lowest temperatures in two decades in some areas of the country".

  13. Re:No Hardware Audit Too? on Lenovo Won't Pay a Fine For Preinstalling Superfish Adware (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    'ER', all of the above, with longer rehabilitative custodial terms for those with the greatest responsibility for decisions and actions, keeping in mind laws with regard to accessory before and after the fact. Everyone who participated in a corporate criminal act or was aware of it and failed to act, should face a criminal penalty, whether 10 or 1,000. As for the rest of us, so for the slimy scum hiding in corporations.

  14. But, but, but, fashion and marketing. No matter what everyone knows, everyone expects the stupid to happen because arts majors selling crap take precedence over usability.

  15. Re:File under on Binge Watching TV Makes It Less Enjoyable, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The big thing with watching a season in one sitting is continuity. Basically they often break the story they were telling to tell this particular weeks particular plot work. The arch old question, what is the speed of warp, why, it is the speed of plot and warp speed slows down and speeds up according to this week particular plot. This sort of stuff really screws with the entire story when watched one episode after another, not so bad a week apart, but when minutes apart, really story breaking. Lazy writers not bothering to check and just spew out this weeks story at a budget and the spend more on the muppets in the story than in the story itself and that makes for bad story telling and a lot of WTF moments when you watch one episode after another.

  16. Re:Business Opportunity on Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should they be, won't to play and record music, have fun, why should my tax dollars pay protect you imaginary monopoly, serious money, get a real job flipping burgers and play and record in you spare time for fun, with hundreds of millions able to exactly the same and self publish on the internet, why should tax payers spend hundreds of millions dollars to create a false monopoly at the expense of free speech and this without properly proving the social worth of the content and paying for that social value assessment to be done.

  17. 'ER', excuse me but no record cold snaps, there were record snow falls. How here is how that works, once it is cold enough to freeze water it is cold enough, the critical point how much water in the atmosphere to freeze. So whether it is -10 C or -8 C because it is 2 degrees warmer will not affect snow falls, how much water there is in the atmosphere after evaporating over warmer oceans, will. So during the last round of bullshit, this was covered, yes, expect much worse snow storms, they'll be a little warmer but they will have much more water 'er' snow to dump on your cities. This is all your are doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and it is actually happening, actually really happening, you have become https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lotu....

  18. Re:Few legs left on the chair on Microsoft Extends Free Windows 10 S-To-Pro Upgrade Deadline (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The next screw up is basically a continuation of the Windows anal probe 10 debacle and not releasing a Secure Edition that did not pry into the users privacy and only connected to the internet to serve the User not M$ at the users expense both in terms of privacy and cost, controlled windows update as in controlled by the user. Keeping that lame arse bing name going is also pretty stupid, always reminds of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., windows search, just like an annoying insurance salesman.

    The thing that really kills M$ it's over weaning arrogance and lack of respect for the customer. They will not be missed.

  19. It only really work when there is free land to steal and new resources to claim. Right now mass economic cannibalism is going on the rich parasitically feeding off the poor, basically bringing the system to failure, getting closer and closer. So the majority believe all sorts of silly stuff, still investing in underwater front (should be some real bargains in Houston shortly), the US has a democracy, they won't lose their jobs to robots, that US main stream media news is worth paying attention to, the rest of the world is a threat to the US rather than the other way around, identity politics has value and that psychopathic capitalism (US version) is the same as regulated capitalism.

  20. Re:Impulse control on How One Writer Is Battling Tech-Induced Attention Disorder (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, it's called an on/off switch, just use the off version and do it for a couple of days. Do it regularly with the mobile phone, do it sometimes with the computer and no do it every now and again with the internet connection. Just switch the fuckers off, do it at night before going to sleep and just do switch them back on again for a few days, just did it with the internet connection, down for, not sure two or four days, not sure, still used the computer in that period, just disconnected. The idea being 'Freedom, I won't', I wont answer the phone, I wont be ruled by technological devices and I have the right to be a slacker when ever I choose to be a slacker.

    When it comes to managing your time and you get readily distracted, quite simply you are in way over your head, quit and do something simpler. When it comes to actively pursuing your freedoms, just refuse to be a slave to technology by switching it off (if you say you simply can not do that, then you are a slave).

  21. Re: it's just another prototype. on Cummins Unveils Electric Semi Truck Before Tesla (autoblog.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You will far more likely find those employed by the fossil fuel industry targeting Tesla and any other electric vehicle manufacturer, with propaganda. People seem to forget, electric vehicles will bankrupt large portions of the fossil fuel industry. As more electric vehicles and renewables to power them, so demand for fossil fuel drops and with it drops the price and all the more expensive sources of fossil fuel, where producing the fuel, costs more than the fuel, then that company goes bankrupt, hundreds of billions will simply go belly up, floating in a sea of oil, no one wants. So not in mom's basement (which is a pretty nasty slander for children living with their parents) but trolls living in Public Relations Firms, paid to troll the internet, and more often than not, first posters, actively full time monitoring target forums with their lame targeted messages.

    I am surprised they were no jumping all over the trucks limited range but of course trailers with batteries, will fix that and you can simply drop off the trailer with the load and pick up another fully charged empty trailer or a loaded one going some where else. Cummins also launched, near-zero-emissions natural gas engines, "X15 and lightweight X12 clean diesel engines". Tesla likely forced their hand with their electric semi and they added to the launch for those other fossil fuellers, sort of the last hurrah of the infernal combustion engine, the old and new at the one opening.

  22. Pointing out US labour costs for a robot that makes clothes, really not the reality of the situation. That the robot produces the work of 15 people in sweat shop conditions, well, that puts 15 people in sweat shops out of work and that will not really affect the US or Europe or any other high wage country, that labour market has already largely disappeared, it will affect the third world far more. Where the shipping costs are greater than the manufacturing costs, producing those products as close to market as possible becomes the driving force. Cheap labour countries will run into real problems, their exploited citizens lack fat and when those labour economies start drying up, it will become instantly very apparent and civil unrest will grow quite quickly.

  23. Re:Oh, my GOSH! on Uber Says It'll Stop Tracking Riders After They're Dropped Off (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Companies do not have the right to do what ever they want to do. There are real restriction in contract law and really no provisions of contract can ever really out weigh the rights of individuals and individuals have the right to enforce their rights at a moments notice and companies are required to adhere to that. The very second a citizen wishes to reclaim their rights, the company must not only comply but must actively ensure the citizen has access to reclaim those rights. The second a citizen requires a company to delete all private data, the company must comply. Where this is in question, them the company must delete that information, the law must favour the real citizen over the fake person. It is a lie to claim any rights what so fucking ever for a company, a total fucking lie, only citizens or the guest of a country have rights, companies do not. No corporations has a right to the private information of citizens the very second those citizens demand the company delete that information, the very fucking second.

  24. Re:The internet is for porn on Messaging-App Kik's Big Bet On Digital Coin Offering (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    The fantasy, the pot of crypto gold at the end of the delusional rainbow, the reality, flood a fad market and everybody drowns. The more that play, the sooner they all die, under very specific regulations. There were reasons why private currencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... were mostly outlawed, how can the US Federal Reserve have imaginary money they lend out that becomes real when the government pays it back (seriously what the fuck, how the fuck come I can not pretend to lend out money and get people to pay it back for real, some thing doesn't seem really at all fair in that bullshit), if everyone can do it. It like those bullshit patents, add internet into the title and you can claim old patents as new again, now add cypto into the title and you can reclaim private currency again, although technically speaking in the US with the US Federal reserve? being private, the US dollar is already a private currency, with only select insiders being allowed to pretend it into existence.

  25. Re: New Slogan on Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There is not that much really there to break up. Google with the help of the deep state and scammy bankers, just used their overprice share float to buy up other actually performing companies, in order to take a more dominant and corruptive position in line with their deep state finnacial origins. You start to think how best to avoid dealing with google and remeber that I don't spend one cent with google. A lot of advertisers are simply sucked in.

    For example, when looking for a specific company and the search comes up, often google shows you the ad first for the company you are looking for, which is not even in the first few real search returns but further down the list but that ad is number one on the page. So if I click the ad, the schmucks pay google price for free search result that was buried further down the page. Sometimes I click the ads to waste the companies money and sometimes I look further down the page for the free search result. Funny that though, that companies ad is number one on search but the actual company search result is not the first one but buried further down the page, hmm, I'll bet you can program a search engine to achieve that outcome, to make sure the pay for click is actually paid for and I have noticed it happens quite a lot, like it has specifically been programmed that way. Google is shit, run by the bug shit at Alphabet and certainly not to be trusted. It seems very much like a retread of the asta la vista story is on the cards.