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  1. Re:Fighting the facts with FB's narrative. on Facebook Fights Fake News With Links To Other Angles (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The Facebook version of getting it right, the advertisers don't sue to keep their lies alive and they pay more for more lies 'er' marketing to be spread, like manure on the public conciousness. Fake news as far as corporations are concerned, news that does not generate a profit but does expose them to major losses even custodial sentences. In our modern society fake news, it does not matter whether it is true or lies, all that matters is the impact on the bottom line and that bottom line does not include pain, suffering and death, those problems just get buried under the line, 6 feet under, by a horde of psychopathic lawyers, lobbyists and corrupt politicians.

    Imagine letting a fad social hub govern your news, where else will you go for important information, the local pub, over a half dozen beers. Want to be safer, get your news from the broader internet, in coffee house with a joint and some coffee. Even with that joint you will pick up more truth than you ever will on Facebook.

  2. Rounding percentages on workers whose lives are threatened, meh, 20% or less easy to replace. I also really like this bit of PR twaddle, "the person with a does of one millirem would receive a dose less than a tenth of a standard xray", there not so bad, but fuckers, they are having that 1/10th xray every second of everyday for the rest of their expected to be fairly short lives. They had alarms where they expected there might be exposure, then why the fuck were they not in suits with contained air, oh I know, to expensive and lost productivity and likely only a small percentage would die of cancer, and out lawyers could fight them off, that plutonium in their lungs could have come from anywhere. Exposed suckers report to our contamination expert and be prepared to be fobbed off and warned about out lawyers. Exposed workers with a brain, report to your union, your doctor and your lawyer (suckers without a union are in deep trouble because the companies lawyers are preparing to attack you).

  3. Re:Unless you obsessively hate Uber on Uber Knowingly Leased Unsafe Cars To Drivers, Says Report (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    In the race to the bottom, many will die and those who do the racing do not care, not one iota, if fact it gets them off to see others die as a result of their decisions and getting away with it. No conspiracy, just psychopaths at work, doing what they normally do, more for me and fuck everyone else.

  4. Re:Stinker on CBS Delaying 'Star Trek: Discovery' To Maintain Quality (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    More accurately SJWs clamber all over causes fighting for nothing else but the public spotlight the money that follows, when main stream media pumps up the issue for ratings and to divide and conquer the working class, who are invariably the target of SJWs. Those kinds of SJWs have been touched on in Star Trek episodes more than once, as the core problem of a society that the Federation either solves or blocks. Social Justice where social is entirely narcissistic and all about them and the Federation strives to free the SJWs foolishly loyal minions an oft repeated meme, which we were ignoring in our own societies but no longer are.

  5. Re:It's a colorful way of describing a mundane job on NASA Is Looking For Someone To Protect Earth From Aliens -- And the Job Pays a Six-Figure Salary (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem is that it is nearly impossible to achieve. Microbes are tiny and space is huge, anything can be frozen into tiny ice particles. Reality is, if it didn't evolve with us, the entire planetary ecosphere, it won't be adapted to eat us or to not be eaten by us (numbers some will die eating them but they will be gone) and likely will be allergic, extremely allergic to our various trace exudations. Any Alien craft visiting might well do a relatively low orbit of the sun to burn off any external contaminants, as we could visiting other planet. Of course any primitive planet we are likely to want to inhabit, will need it's biome altered to suit us, allergies being a shared evolutionary trait (adding lots of microbes into that space, that can tolerate them but that they can not tolerate and than building up that biosphere, not big fusion powered plants at all but adding in a range of microbes, algae, bacteria, fungi and on up from there, in airborne or floating mobile growth and distribution facilities). Allergies will always be problematic, those trace molecules that feed some but kill others, things we mutually adapted too.

  6. Re:Saw the preview, it's not a "quality" problem on CBS Delaying 'Star Trek: Discovery' To Maintain Quality (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A 9 month delay on a TV series mean scrapping a lot of stuff. At a guess Days of our Lives in space, day time soap opera for broad, more accurately female appeal, bombed really badly with test audiences, day time soap opera viewers hated it and sci fi aficionados absolutely loathed it. SJWs loved what was in it but hated to watch it and believed they could force other people to watch it, it's their self serving nature. It seems to be all they can produce now, the last series of Dr Who was crap, just went stupid, dropped sci fi to go day time soap opera, stopped watching half way through the season, likely the same crap done to Discovery. This weird attempt to normalise their disturbed personal behaviour and force it on the rest of us, genital mutilation and arbitrary sexual relations, the narcissists must be served, the entirety of society must be warped to make fit their personal insanities, normalise the abnormal and call the normal, what was it again, oh yeah deplorables, white male privilege deplorables.

  7. Re:This is absolutely... on Cable Giants Step Up Piracy Battle By Interrogating Montreal Software Developer (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It depends how bad they lose. So can you generate profits by becoming their target, in the knowledge their arrogance and greed will get them to break they law, allowing for maximum civil penalty against them. This case might well become the standard trap to strip mine them of their capital.

  8. Dude all bosses are the same, regardless of the job. You are not working for them, you are sucking up their profits. You do not earn money for the, you are a parasite sucking away their money. Generally speaking, you want to soundly manage your working life, work for yourself, don't work for someone else. I can only think all that craps enters their head because of guilt, stealing the bulk of your labour, as well as the labour of your coworkers to feed the bosses greed. You can most definitely get fired for being too good at your job (from the boss noticing not being busy enough all of the time to the other workers plotting together to get rid of you because you are making them look bad).

  9. I have not once in my entire live participated in a protest, well, on the streets, in the digital age, now that's another story and a bagful of weapons and fire starting materials would just, well, destroy my own house. I find the weapons in my brain to be far more effective ie the pen is mightier than the sword.

  10. Re:Give up on How Rust Can Replace C In Python Libraries (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not come up with a coding dictionary first. Agree on the words, write/print, var make let, and the list goes on. Agree on the fucking words to be used at least before arguing over their arrangements. Agree on which symbols do what. Come up with reasons for any choices. We are going to keep churning languages driven by nothing but the greed of people pushing specific languages, reality is coders seem to be nothing more than a bunch of purposefully argumentative fuckups who do not want to agree on anything with other coders, argue to win with no purpose or valid reason other than winning the argument.

  11. Re:Decisions, decisions on The US Congress Is Investigating Government Use Of Kaspersky Software (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The same holds for all software. Any software that is electronically updated from a US location, should be considered suspicious and of limited trust, that includes operating systems ie Windows in not an anonymous update, they know exactly what computer is being updated and can and do, supply custom updates, right up to US security letter backdoor upgrades to crack not only the OS but on many computers the firmware.

    Should US government agencies trust software from overseas, no, it's stupid, same as any other government with regard to US software. The same rule applies to hardware. The US broke international trust in digital application and there ain't no putting that fucker back together again. All essential digital infrastructure and government agency digital infrastructure should be entirely locally sourced, from secured and audited premises whether government or private.

    Can not do it securely electronically, than go back to analogue, all manual systems. Only idiots allow their infrastructure to be held hostage by other countries and I would trust the US a whole lot less than Russia.

  12. Re:I get immediately suspicicious when... on 100x Faster, 10x Cheaper: 3D Metal Printing Is About To Go Mainstream (newatlas.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At a guess what they are trying to achieve is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Clean metal particles being bonded together naturally. The trick of course how to keep them apart when you want to keep them apart. A solvent that prevents bonding and is vacuum stripped away as the fluid with metal in suspension is sprayed or rolled (photo copier style magnetic pick up and deposition) onto the target surface, electro statically charging the metal particles to repel each other, interesting problem. Cold welding only when you want to cold weld.

  13. Re:Stolen phones are still valuable for parts on Do Kill Switches Deter Cellphone Theft? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    What happens is you hugely limit the market. For the majority willing to buy stolen stuff, parts are of no use and only a tiny minority are in a position to buy as parts to use in their business and it makes it much easier to monitor, investigate and prosecute those that do. It would likely be better that devices are not bricked but rather flagged. So device stolen, device flagged, some one uses the device, than police and the device and the person using the device are brought together. The police can then investigate whether the person stole the device or just bought it unknowingly and try to track back the seller and in the interim return the device.

  14. Re:A $100 million study on P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million In 'Largely Ineffective' Digital Ads (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Originally the idea was not to advertise on the web so much as create informative interactive sites and draw people to them. Show me an ad when I don't fell like it and it will put me right off the product. This is because I see far fewer ads that in the days of free to air idiot box and the tolerance of them has faded away. Rather than an ad being buried in a hoard of ads, it now stands out, scream at me to buy your product and there is every likelihood that I will stop buying all of your products for quite some time. Lie to me about your product and the same applies.

    I look up all products on the internet now, do a comparison, check peoples opinion and ignore all marketing except to assume it is lies.

    Too many companies were taken over by psychopaths who chose to trade on brand to inflate profits temporarily, than sell out and move on ie buy company with solid reputation, then sell junk that cost a fraction of the original product, very profitable but sales start to fail because shit product and people stop buying. Lot of pissed off ex-customers, company going broke but the psychopaths have already sold out and moved on.

  15. Re:Material support for a hostile foreign governme on Apple Pulls Anti-Censorship Apps from China's App Store (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    How would would it if "the US arbitrarily said "other countries' laws do not apply to our citizens", well apparently they accept it under threat of nuclear strike and genocide of their population. Is it quite legal as far as US law is concerned for US agents to break any law they care too in foreign countries and in point of fact, you in a foreign country report US agents breaking the law in your country and report it to the public, they consider you an espionage agent and will seek to prosecute you ie Julian Assange and wikileaks, in a foreign country, gained all sorts of information about the US government and it's agent criminals breaking all sorts of laws all over the place and reported it to the public, the US desired response, varied from extradition and prosecution, assassination and even a drone missile strike, the punishment for obeying the law at your location when you expose criminal activity by the US government at your location.

    Then you have US bases in Syria, attacking the Syrian government forces, in Syria for approaching their own territory because, the US will start murdering the Syrian population including the US government allowed use of first strike nukes. How about arming Afghanis to collapse the Afghan government to drive out Russia so that the US could invade instead (I don't get that one, use terrorist to kill Russian troops to drive then out, so those very same terrorists could kill US troops instead, WTF was the purpose of that, spend my tax payer dollars, how much profit does the US war industrial complex make each time they kill an American in uniform, it seems to be quite a lot).

  16. Re:My IQ dropped 10 points after that summary on Why Your Call Center is Only Getting Noisier (mckinsey.com) · · Score: 1

    I pay about ten percent more for house and car insurance because no automation, you call them and a reception answers with a regular everyday accent, finds out what you need and puts you right through to exactly the person, in the right department, you actually need to speak to. Considering how much extra it costs versus the time saving on my end (waiting on hold, spending a whole bunch of time keying through shit automation systems and finally one wrong press, wrong person and start again). I am older and I can tell you that old fashioned receptionist makes calling in so much faster and better, the amount extra you spend is more than truly regained in the amount of your time you save. I also do not computer check out, preferring to employ a person rather than another computer. I am shifting some other digital to personal interactions upon the same basis. Automation works from their view point but it is mostly shite from the end user view point.

  17. Re:For a moment I got scared on Where's All My CPU and Memory Gone? The Answer: $5B Worth Slack App (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I am a slacker and I recognise slack it is software for slackers. Make it look like you are really busy and contributing but in reality you are just slacking off and playing the corporate social media game. I am the other kind of slacker, manage yourself to be far more productive so as to increase slack time. This software is bad, chews up productivity to fill it with empty make busy work, gets socially effective manipulative douche bags promoted and the real productive people fired because they are not playing the slack corporate social media game well.

    Security issues also scream out loud. Why the fuck would you share your company interactions with outside based upon their claims of security. No wonder M$ the number one privacy invasive douche bags of the digital age want a piece of slack.

  18. Re:TL;DR version on German Court Rules Bosses Can't Use Keyboard-Tracking Software To Spy On Workers (thelocal.de) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The claim was not about whether or not the worker was doing their assigned work but what they were also doing. So you do not punch you workers in the mouth when they chat with other non-productively if they are completing their work assignment. So in this instance they could have been firing their most productive worker, one who can finish his work load far faster than the other workers and thus had lots of spare time, which they then filled. So companies go nuts on idle time, must get profit out of worker 24/7/365, to the companies own detriment. Always watch for far more productive workers who seem to be doing not much, compared to unproductive workers who are always busy. The worker likely sued because they knew they were completely all required tasks and that they were far more productive than their fellow staffers, every right to be pissed off (although he would have been smarter to get away from salaried and move to contractor).

  19. Re:Gattaca predicted the outcome in 1997 on First Human Embryos Edited In US (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well in this case, the claim "by demonstrating that it is possible to safely and efficiently correct defective genes", is a bit fat lie. The only way that it is possible to demonstrate that is to allow the experiment to reach maturity. You might have managed your change but it is extremely hard to tell how much damage you have down especially to what they used to call junk genes, which in reality are a complex set of interrelated genes that don't turn stuff on or off but adjust how much they are turned off or on. Do not claim value or safety until the experimental subject has achieved maturity, else it is a lie.

  20. The reality is that can all be done far better by public universities. A global link of all public universities sharing content between themselves and the public. Distributed and mirrored keep the resource impact down on individual universities and that pool can also work to create open content, open reference material, making it far cheaper for students (free versus wasting thousands of dollars).

  21. Re:The lesson we learn today on US Indicts Suspected Russian 'Mastermind' of $4 Billion Bitcoin Laundering Scheme (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Do lots of crime all over the place and you become a competitor with the banks and they don't tolerate competition. They are going to have to be super tight on security, this dude is a potential criminal investigation gold mine. Turn over 4 billion in criminal currency (in today's value rather than the original value, nice pump up their boys) and you have a hook into and a record of quite a lot of crime and criminals. I dare say many countries would like to get a hold of this guy and I don't understand why Greece would hand him over, until their criminal justice system has finished with him, assuming the charges are valid and it ain't another US Russia propaganda criminal charge.

    I wonder how much information the guy would have to hand over to end up with a warning, rather than a custodial sentence. Where are the servers and who controls them now and which investigatory agencies can nab them.

  22. Re:As long as we can continue to rip the free stre on YouTube Red and Google Play Music Will Merge To Create a New Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I am starting to smell more reasons why the big shit at alphabet was cutting off payments to YouTubers, they were selling competing content. Doesn't matter what kind of content, but if eyeballs and ears are paying attention to YouTuber content instead pay to play content, Google make less money and even worse pays money to make less money. Google seem to be creeping their slimey way to pay to publish, even when they take the bulk of advertising revenue on other people's content, it will never be enough, corporations always demand more, More, MORE. Screwing with searches for political reasons, censoring people, economically punishing them for legal political content that Google doesn't like, you know what, that is exactly what evil looks like.

  23. Re:Surely they mean nitrates and phosphates? on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 2

    Whilst they have focused on the nitrates it tends not to be the biggest problem. Increased rainfall also changes movement of moisture through the soil, taking away many soluble elements, increasing porosity of soil, so then larger particles are taken away and then major soil movements, both sink holes and landslips. Also means much more organic material to rot in rivers, sucking up oxygen and releasing methane, a far worse greenhouse gas. There is a real need to slow down the movement of moisture through water catchments, pulling agriculture, industry and housing off water fronts to get more trees and plants to grow on river banks and perhaps at least 100m inland from river banks and ever further, dependent upon the catchment. In Rural areas, every fence line should have a line of trees, preferably at least three rows, associated with it to catch and hold run off. Those trees can serve commercial purposes if done properly, rather than empty headed farmers whining about losing arable land (OK if it washes down river and damages their farm but no one can tell them to plant trees). What will be done, nuthin', it's the nature of US society now.

  24. Automated radiation detection equipment that basically measures how big fines companies will pay when managing nuclear materials, back doors and no security, now that shit never happens by accident. Only question needed to be asked, how much money can be saved by not alerting the authorities of mismanagement, of letting them know investigations and prosecutions should occur and of opening up a cheating company taking stupid short cuts to civil suits. This device and the company need a proper investigation as does every single place that has that device fitted for undisclosed radiation leaks. This should be a major red flag.

  25. There is a profound difference between protesting the unfairness of marriage of what ever the sex or sexes in what ever combination or numbers and just being a slacker http://www.urbandictionary.com.... I give not one crap how bad the marriage partnership deal is for men, I am just a slacker and choose not to play a game that in all honesty does not really suit slackers, well, at least not this slacker.