Comment Edison and Henry Ford and Disney (Score 0) 420
All cunts...
Comment Re:more privacy oriented Bing search engine (Score 1) 266
Unfortunately duckduckgo is shit
Comment Poison! (Score 5, Funny) 107
I love poisoning the data of market researchers!
Comment Re:tick tock (Score 0, Troll) 283
Even if your logic was flawless and arguments impeccable (which they are not), back here in the real world, an increase in speed limit will not cause unsafe drivers to become safe, just cause the damage they do to be greater. You don't have a right to speed because you are such a good driver.
Comment you need open source? (Score 3, Interesting) 108
Why the fuck you need open source? You aren't going to modify it, you just think open source is synonymous with free.
My company uses its book keeping / payroll software to do this, but from reading the comments here, apparently america doesnt have humane
vacation / sick days forced upon employers, I guess its that "free market" thing that works so well...
Comment Re:we give a fuck (Score 0) 218
nothing to do with reliability or "well-working-ness"
Comment Re:who gives a fuck (Score -1, Redundant) 218
fuck enterprise. they can pay for what they need. maybe enterprise users shouldn't be opening 40 tabs if they have low ram. nearly all the ram usage is from the pages being opened, all that really matters is the browser has the features you want and it releases the memory so it doesn't crash the whole computer after a day of running.
Why can't slashdot geeks be more focused on awesome, instead of the needs of poor people?
Comment who gives a fuck (Score -1, Troll) 218
I got 16gb of ram who gives a squatting fuck?
Comment Content free... (Score 4, Funny) 242
Pointless, content free article, where some guys say some opinions about some stuff. Where the fuck is my picks-up-my-clothes-washes-them-and-dries-them-and-folds-them-and-puts-them-away robot?
Huh? huh?
Can someone get moving on this shit? I can't afford a fucking human servant! And I'm too fucking lazy for this shit!
Here take my money!
Comment Re:Troubling signal, why? (Score 1) 471
As an aussie, my advice is to change to a different super fund with options, or, more likely, read your super funds documentation and realise you are full of shit (probably). My fund allows me to choose how my super is invested, I can go with their "managed" options, or direct into cash securities, bonds or various forms of shares. I can divide it up and put parts into different options if I so choose.
Last year I got ~9% return and the year before that a shade under 21%. 2009 was a shocker of course, with -15% but overall I'm well ahead. You have the option to change to a super fund that offers investment choice, so drop the crap and take charge of your own destiny, or play dumb and whine. your choice. At least your current way allows you to blame someone else if you make the wrong choices.
Self managed super is for rich people who can afford to have an accountant/ financial adviser on retainer (is that the right word?) You would be very dumb to really self-manage without the advice of someone who actually understands how to invest money.
Submission + - Golden Age of Silicon Valley is Over with Facebook IPO
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Steve Blank, a professor at Berkeley and Stanford and serial entrepreneur from Silicon Valley, says that the the Facebook IPO is the beginning of the end for Silicon Valley as we know it. "Silicon Valley historically would invest in science, and technology, and, you know, actual silicon," says Blank. "If you were a good venture capitalist you could make $100 million." But there's a new pattern emerging created by two big ideas that will lead to the demise of Silicon Valley as we know it. The first is putting computer devices, mobile and tablet especially, in the hands of billions of people and the second is that we are moving all the social needs that we used to do face-to-face onto the computer and this trend has just begun. "If you think Facebook is the end, ask MySpace. Art, entertainment, everything you can imagine in life is moving to computers. Companies like Facebook for the first time can get total markets approaching the entire population." That's great for Facebook but it means Silicon Valley is screwed as a place for investing in advanced science. "If I have a choice of investing in a blockbuster cancer drug that will pay me nothing for ten years, at best, whereas social media will go big in two years, what do you think I'm going to pick?" concludes Blank. "The headline for me here is that Facebook's success has the unintended consequence of leading to the demise of Silicon Valley as a place where investors take big risks on advanced science and tech that helps the world. The golden age of Silicon valley is over and we're dancing on its grave.""
Comment Re:Chattanooga doesn't know how to use it (Score 1) 128
where can I find out about this prize? I can't find a reference to it on the net... I have some ideas to enter. grow some imagination
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 128
Maybe the difference is that in australia (here), it is the rural dwellers that make the country money. They pay tax and see monuments go up in the cities, but city dwellers are mostly parasitic "service" providers. They contribute nothing to the international trade balance, only consume each others wealth.
Comment Why should california get it? (Score 2) 599
Why should california get a share of profits not made in california? Apple already supllies a large number of high earning employees that pay a high income tax rate, and if california has waived any other sort of taxes in order to have them headquarter there, then california has already worked out they will be better off with all that income tax minus the land and property taxes they waive, than without any of it at all. But why should california get to tax the profits earned in nevada? This is why states having corporate taxes is dumb, there should be a federal tax that is distributed to the states, in a fair and equitable way.
Not like it is done here in Australia. Here the government takes the taxes paid by some states and gives it to others. There might be a justification to give a better share to poorer states, but here it is taken from the big earning states that don't have great infrastructure and given to the ones that are the most developed! apparently they can't pay for the upkeep of all the nice stuff they have bought.
Submission + - US Unhappy With Australians Storing Data on Australian Shores (delimiter.com.au)
Fluffeh writes: "The United States’ global trade representative has strongly criticised a perceived preference on the part of large Australian organisations for hosting their data on-shore in Australia, claiming it created a significant trade barrier for US technology firms. A number of US companies had expressed concerns that various departments in the Australian Government, namely the Department of Defence had been sending negative messages about cloud providers based outside the country, implying that “hosting data overseas, including in the United States, by definition entails greater risk and unduly exposes consumers to their data being scrutinised by foreign governments”. Recently, Acting Victorian Privacy Commissioner Anthony Bendall highlighted some of the privacy concerns with cloud computing, particularly in its use by the local government. He said the main problems were the lack of control over stored data and privacy, in overseas cloud service providers."
