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Comment Re:There must be a very good reason... (Score 1) 579

by no-body on Friday December 27, 2013 @04:25AM (#45794375) Attached to: Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy

To have the municipality own and operate the electrical supply/grid and be disconnected from multi-state/country/continent power corporations and their business plans, financial goals and all what comes with it - future trading, lobbying, PAC and other democracy amendments active these days.

Municipalities are not fully isolated because they have to buy their supply on the existing market but sure work more in the interest of smaller folks and the big corps are hell-of afraid of municipalities changing towards independence.

Comment And she apologizes, (Score 1) 399

by no-body on Monday December 23, 2013 @10:43PM (#45772047) Attached to: Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob

playing along with this idiocy?
Great company to have worked for, standing behind me like a rock and thanks a lot all you Twitter-Hyppocrites blowing up your egos showing your true face yet again!

Comment Trying to make a buck... (Score 1) 192

by no-body on Thursday December 12, 2013 @04:17AM (#45668539) Attached to: Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn

Seems it is a lawyer outfit or company trying to squeeze money from people by trying to embarrass them by maybe disclosing their name, address etc.
There was one case apparently where a person got a court order to stop it for her.

There are a lot of open questions - court seemed to mix up downloads with streaming and how the IP/name info etc. got created is another good question.
What also seems to happen is that other crooks are sending fake cease and desist emails (or something like that) to catch a ride on this..

Comment Re:Exponential growth ended in 1970s in academia (Score 1) 308

by no-body on Thursday December 12, 2013 @01:13AM (#45667891) Attached to: Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today

The Big Crunch by David Goodstein: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html

Depends how you look - if any capital gain of an investment is reinvested, it's exponential growth. Maybe that's one reason why all the wealth is "bubbling up" and look what a role money plays....

Comment Re:The workers are upset (Score 1) 841

by no-body on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @01:47AM (#45647899) Attached to: Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA

You are not getting it - if it would not feel good or "right" to do "bad" things, there would no "bad things" happening - ha?

Who says the NSA people were feeling bad doing their numbers? After some things were disclosed the other side - public - is perceiving "bad" things are happening for them and that turns the table.

What's bad anyway - on which level is something bad, ultimately?
Millions of people ripped off - deprived of something they own, worked for or deserve, by "culprit" - depends whom you ask...

Comment Re:The workers are upset (Score 1) 841

by no-body on Monday December 09, 2013 @03:46AM (#45637507) Attached to: Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA

Don't do bad shit, so you don't have to feel bad about it.

Yawn....
Ever heard about "framing somebody" with concocted evidence?

And - doing some bad shit feels good sometimes.

Comment Re:Why are you spying on your ex-girlfriend? (Score 1) 841

by no-body on Monday December 09, 2013 @03:37AM (#45637485) Attached to: Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA

... that's serious on a governmental level....

Just consider blackmail in general with some information picked up. I mean, they are going after porn-watching folks somewhere to supposedly discredit them. On searches like that, other results come up and...

Aren't "they" doing industrial espionage overseas, which does not have much to do with security? Who gets the results - most-paying or best-connected...

Comment In a system (Score 1) 308

by no-body on Saturday December 07, 2013 @01:54PM (#45627537) Attached to: Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today

where money is the main criteria for any action, many things can and do go wrong. In particular when continuing exponential growth processes run by humans happen in a closed system with limited non-renewable resources.

Comment Absolutely! (Score 1) 146

by no-body on Friday December 06, 2013 @11:08PM (#45624289) Attached to: After FDA Objections, 23andMe Won't Offer Health Information

"It would be great to see a secondary market in this kind of analysis emerge"

Health/Life insurance Co's need to increase profit margins, employers figure out whom to fire first, police departments preventative arrests, - Minority Report-Style, paradise for extortionists getting their hand on those data worth a fortune.

Comment hmmm... (Score 1) 923

by no-body on Thursday December 05, 2013 @01:30PM (#45609379) Attached to: Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead

I wonder, in your car, having some properly shielded container looking precious with that kind of stuff in it would take care of car thieves for good?

Comment Better solution: (Score 1) 174

by no-body on Sunday December 01, 2013 @09:36PM (#45571475) Attached to: Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump

Have the individuals with those ideas eat it!

Comment Hmpffff (Score 1, Insightful) 135

by no-body on Sunday December 01, 2013 @07:30PM (#45570787) Attached to: Siberia's Methane Release Larger Than Previously Thought

Studying doesn't reduce it. Looks like a runaway process to me. Mars-like surface to come at the end - thanx a lot. Probably not the only idiotic failure in the universe.

Comment Same stupid thing (Score 1, Funny) 670

by no-body on Monday November 25, 2013 @09:44PM (#45521739) Attached to: Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing

as all those stop signs on crossings where one can see traffic 1/2 mile each side.

Which leads to the question how much fuel is wasted bringing all those huge masses of big cars to a full stop, then accelerating again - all just satisfying the rules....

Comment Who knows... (Score 1) 276

by no-body on Thursday November 21, 2013 @05:53PM (#45485311) Attached to: Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video)

Looking at the history of this whole health care thing:

- the single payer version did not fly at all - why

- the "solution" was severely attacked from ground up - why

- at the start date the project fails...

Goal achieved - Americans continue to get severely milked at health care coverage filling coffers of others living on a different planet.
Good luck with it!

Comment Re:Establishe fact: (Score 1) 237

by no-body on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @12:03PM (#45473137) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software?

...TT is probably tattling all my financial details back to Intuit ...

You can configure a firewall to block what you don't like. Block everything, then open what is trusted. A lot of work but worth it. One problem is software updates. Snoopers may be in those processes, MSoft one big suspect.

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