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  1. Re:Ownership and Appreciation on From Commune To Sharing Economy Startup · · Score: 2

    Happiness is subjective.
    There are multiple forms of communism.
    Humans by their very nature are "classed" animals, humans can not stop putting things and other people into groups, categories, classes, etc.

    It's what we do down to the very core of our beings, a handful of Danish hippies does not an argument make.

  2. Re:Ownership and Appreciation on From Commune To Sharing Economy Startup · · Score: 0

    As nice as communism sounds

    Never sounded nice to me, and of course it fails every where it is implemented.

  3. Laugh on From Commune To Sharing Economy Startup · · Score: 1

    But there's one big difference. "I appreciate capitalism," Schlacks says. "I definitely prefer it."

    Of course you do, capitalism appeals to basic human nature, communal sharing does not.

  4. Re:Fluff on James Comey: the Man Who Wants To Outlaw Encryption · · Score: 1

    Correction: "Apple's goto fail" not "got fail", I think that's the Windows 8 marketing tag "Got Fail?"

  5. Fluff on James Comey: the Man Who Wants To Outlaw Encryption · · Score: 1

    First step to banning encryption all together? Why does this guy strike me as a "The internet is a series of pipes" kind of guy?

    And I would like some evidence that this default "gather up and record everything" mode of spying has paid off, I don't believe I've seen any hard evidence it's stopped anything, in fact I have seen several articles that state it hasn't stopped any attack.

    Personally I believe Apple, Microsoft and Google (along with others) will have something in place to aid the decryption, I see the tech giants, the NSA, FBI, as the digital portion of the MIC.
    They work together, and the only concern of the corps is that they have deniability if discovered, you know like Apple's got fail SSL error.

    Hell he might be bitching about it just to get people to think it actually works, and make them complacent again, like most were prior to Snowden.

  6. Re:We're so screwed. on US Appeals Court Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Not Authorized By Congress · · Score: 3, Insightful

    know in your heart that you have allowed that to happen.

    Show me some data showing this surveillance has worked and I might agree with you.

    Other wise, if you give an ape a gun sooner or later someone gets shot.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  7. There goes all those long lonely nights talking to my phone...

  8. *sigh* on Apple's Plans For Your DNA · · Score: 1

    What can I say?

  9. Re:The mating calls on Mysterious Sounds Recorded During Near Space Balloon Flight · · Score: 1, Funny

    air whales

    That's what we called one of the tubbos in the office as he had a flatulation problem.

  10. Hmmm on Mysterious Sounds Recorded During Near Space Balloon Flight · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On 31 May 2003, a group of UK researchers held a mass experiment where they exposed some 700 people to music laced with soft 17 Hz sine waves played at a level described as "near the edge of hearing", produced by an extra-long-stroke subwoofer mounted two-thirds of the way from the end of a seven-meter-long plastic sewer pipe. The experimental concert (entitled Infrasonic) took place in the Purcell Room over the course of two performances, each consisting of four musical pieces. Two of the pieces in each concert had 17 Hz tones played underneath. In the second concert, the pieces that were to carry a 17 Hz undertone were swapped so that test results would not focus on any specific musical piece. The participants were not told which pieces included the low-level 17 Hz near-infrasonic tone. The presence of the tone resulted in a significant number (22%) of respondents reporting anxiety, uneasiness, extreme sorrow, nervous feelings of revulsion or fear, chills down the spine, and feelings of pressure on the chest.[34][35] In presenting the evidence to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Richard Wiseman said, "These results suggest that low frequency sound can cause people to have unusual experiences even though they cannot consciously detect infrasound. Some scientists have suggested that this level of sound may be present at some allegedly haunted sites and so cause people to have odd sensations that they attribute to a ghost—our findings support these ideas."[33]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    It teh guvernmint....

  11. Re:Indicative of A Problem At NASA on Opportunity Rover Reaches Martian Day 4,000 of Its 90-Day Mission · · Score: 1

    You'll never achieve your big goals with an attitude like that.

    I disagree, it will just take longer.

    Why are we listening to Carmack? Thresh took his Ferrari in a game Carmack designed.

  12. Hmm on Opportunity Rover Reaches Martian Day 4,000 of Its 90-Day Mission · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally I think a Martian has taken a liking to it and repairs it while it's sleeping.

  13. It's better than you think on How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text · · Score: 1

    And all the voice samples from "OK Google" and SIRI are theirs to sort through.
    After turning on the personal voice sampling (to make OK google more accurate) the tablet never misses a beat, it knows exactly what I'm saying whether I just woke up, in the middle of eating, or with a cold.

    I also left an older version of the Nexus 7 tablet (first gen) off for several months, upon turning it on I was surprised to see it was "ready to install" an system update, one that I never approved downloading in the first place, and of course IT HAD BEEN OFF.

    Meh, is anything really "off" any more? And what else does it do?

  14. Led By Zuckerberg on Led By Zuckerberg, Billionaires Give $100M To Fund Private Elementary Schools · · Score: 1

    Usually an indication of problems to come, wonder if that's true this time.

  15. For me is that no matter how well I take care of information if someone sticks it into their Android and runs one of these apps there goes that phone number.

    In fact shortly after my buddy bought a Nexus 7 (he installs EVERYTHING on it...) I started getting txt offers from Chinese retailers and my number blew up with various other issues.

    Nothing for years then this...

    Now I can't prove it was his device and his bad habit of installing anything, but the timing works.

  16. Why? on Researchers Detect Android Apps That Connect to User Tracking and Ad Sites · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Doesn't Android allow the user to set permissions?

  17. Re:Nothign new here on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    I thought so as well, but it appears they have found a way to do it.
    After all "are you older than 49" yes/no is ageist, but could make it stick if it went to court?

  18. Re:Nothign new here on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    This was a while back I don't recall the exact verbage, basically when you answered they knew you were older, or younger.

  19. Re:Nothign new here on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    I don't remember the exact verbage but basically the answer told whether or not you were older.

  20. Nothign new here on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Comcast online application has the question "Are you older than 49 or younger".
    When I went back to school to finish up, I applied for several low level IT jobs and was asked "aren't you a little old for this job?".
    Watch the look on the temp service persons face when they meet you the first time,ageism is fairly rampant I would say.

  21. Re:why do we need a walled garden? on Facebook Launches Internet.org Platform and Opens Up To More Developers · · Score: 1

    I doubt there will be any "raw internet" with Fuckerberg in charge.

  22. Internet.org

    I wonder how much that domain cost.

  23. Re:PLease delete this topic on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 2

    Perhaps, but Islam needs a good bashing, all religions do, but currently there's one religion that is far more active in the "oppression and violence" arena, so lets bash it until we get a war or they go away.

    Ask your self how long is it until the disenfranchised youths in the ghettos find their local radicalized mosque, or you have to live under someone else concept of right and wrong.

  24. Re:Don't mess with Texas on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Netherlands gun violence is high by European standards

    And guess who is doing the shooting...
    https://www.google.com/search?...

  25. Re:I've got an idea! on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    I think we should, World wide, everyday a cartoon of Muhammad getting ridiculed.