Greece needs to grow up and stop the tax holiday for the rich rort. They simply need to balance out the revenue side of the taxation so they cay pay for social services. So lock down the wealth of the rich and the tax the hell out of it, basically something like 20 odd years worth.

Let's be clear here a computer science or masters degree teaches you not one whit about how a computer works in terms of physics or chemistry. subjects aren't even really touched unless you decide to pick them up. Other sciencey topics not touched include biology, geology, meteorology for a start. So yeah, computer science degrees are pretty light on when it comes to science and heavy on programming which is of course language learning, so technically more of an arts degree than a science degree and when it comes to producing code for people, many of the other arts subjects are actually of more value than science subjects. People who do science degrees of course pick up quite a few computer subjects.

That 90% OS's is of course, one great big fat lie. Let's try and count mobile devices in that and as they greatly outnumber desktops and that doesn't include servers either. So yeah, windows, they are well below 50% and falling fast with regard to OS installations. When it comes to Lenovo and superfish and their intent was to 'supplement the shopping experience', seriously piss of you public relations shit heads, that makes them a dead product manufacturer for at least a decade, simply not to be trusted, redirecting searches, hidden and hard to remove, simply totally and grossly unacceptable, anybody who buys any of the products even from a bargain bin is foolish.

Catch with a rehabilitative system versus a punitive punishment system is, what do you do with people who do not rehabilitate. So minimum length sentences with extensions for those who fail to rehabilitate and for those who will never rehabilitate, life extensions. Logical but a little harsh, well, for the person in question not so harsh for potential future victims. It is really horrible when a person is released after punitive punishment only to be further radicalised and then goes on to commit worse crimes until they are caught and prosecuted again. Fines should of course became percentages of annual income to ensure equal impact of the penalty and incarceration should be about approximate rehabilitation time for the offence and for the individual as well as mitigating risk implied by the individual repeating those actions or worse.

High court judges should be appointed with their qualifications reviewed as well as questionable paid associations and they should be a one time thing for a set term, definitely not more than a decade.

Still did not answer the quest. Of course the only answer to the question "could we detect an outer space invasion fleet", is that depends upon whether they choose to remain hidden or wish to be seen. If they want to be seen, no problem, they will make it pretty bloody obvious they are there. Now if they want to remain hidden and wish to launch a debilitating strike say targeting, power stations, dams, bridges, communications hubs and all major transport hubs and then let chaos simply settle in a while, months even. Well, they could launch that attack from so far away, as none of the targets are moving that much and, even the dumbest warhead could be fired a year away from it target and allow gravity and orbital mechanics to finish it all off. So if they were invading and didn't want to be seen, pretty much it would all be over before we even knew they were there. Now if you think they should target the military first, you fail to appreciate how much chaos in the civilian population, failed energy, failed communications, food supplies, will impact the military and complete derail their deployment, if the chaos is simply allowed to occur with out any further strikes, with the public making huge demands on the military to solve day to day problems whilst no further attack is occurring. This would scatter and expose the military making it more accessible for long range strikes targeted at military assets. Then you get in closer range and selectively target all energy sources. Why rush the preliminaries, no reinforcements from somewhere, just a population to be taken back to the stone age. Of course why bother, there are more resources out in our Oort cloud, already 'mined' and out of the 'gravity well', so pointless to go grubbing around on the planet for them. The best asset is likely to comedy show itself, watch mankind psychopathically eat itself alive, watch the cranky short hair, crested rock throwing monkey people, torture and kill each other, they could screen that to the rest of the galaxy. We have already been invaded by greed driven stupidity and unless we put an end to it, it will put an end to us and any invaders just need to sit back watch the show and laugh.

Basically they can't, that is the reality. It is all down to mutually exclusive goals. You want very creative intelligent people but you want disciplined single minded people, that is a mutually exclusive goal. You want people who are happy being indoors all of the time but you want fit active people who can spend a lot of time outdoors. You want people who will think freely and independently but you want people who will obey orders without question. You want people who do not indulge in a range of intoxicants but the people who you want actually do indulge in a range of intoxicants. You want buy people you can trust but as soon as you can readily buy people you can no longer trust them.

So you think privatise it all and they turn a blind eye to what is actually going on with regard to labour as long as you are getting results but the result you want are not the results the contractor wants. The contractor wants more revenue for less effort, more profit and the truth rarely provides that. So privately contract that and you get what we already have, a whole system of lies designed to promote activity that generates more profit and does nothing to solve problems. In fact that run around creating imaginary problems to solve and perversely enough the supposed solutions to those imaginary problems, create real problems that now need to be resolved. You have got the whole US injustice system extortion racket where you blackmail people into jobs but of course they will be untrustworthy and not as skilled as those who do not make all those mistakes and do not get caught in the first place.

Basically those jobs suck shit and they are only really meant for the perverse, for psychopaths and basically for third raters who cant get employed else where. Perhaps on the defensive side as a real and genuine public service they can get better people based upon being far more tolerant and accepting of personal behaviour but on the offensive side they are screwed.

The laws already exist in most countries to ignore patents. They are generally tied to military uses, no you can not patent you gun and expect other countries to ignore the gun because you wont licence the patent to them, they just override the patent for military applications. Military style patents are basically limited to the country of origin and every other country basically ignores them. So yeah, just twist around the clean energy technologies as having military applications and you can legally ignore them in most countries except of course the country of origin.

The biggest problem I have with the design, is the whole stupid idea that you buy it at some retail outlet. Let's get some far more realistic custom design fitting and make sure that each pair specifically suits that individual user, even the frame, let alone the lenses. The only place the glasses should be sold is at an optometrist and they should be properly fitted and adjusted to that specific user, otherwise problems will result with any real extended use.

So I see you, hear you and remember what you said and did and that is OK but I can prove it, is not. What are you really trying to say, you want to reserve the very questionable right to lie?

Smart glasses are really all about leaving that smart phone in your pocket, not having to take it out, of it being far more functional with vastly improved screen real estate.

When it comes to advertising wonks of course the idea is not to jam in ads just anywhere in view space, that will get banned in short order, likely well before too many successful law suits for accidents caused by unexpected obscuring images but to have special billboards where the glasses substitute the shown image for an alternate one but ensure it is still enclosed within that physical defined boundary, be that in a shop window or the side of a building. Some interesting other things can be done, ugly streetscapes can be made beautiful, well at least in the eyes of the beholder.

It will all make for very interesting walks down city streets, all those people staring off into no where, flapping their arms about and talking to themselves, it is all going to look really fucked up, at least until you join them and they cease to exist, welcome to the asylum ;D.

Would that elephant be that while those agencies were all so busy working on those hacks, they were doing nothing at all to protect us from them. In fact it would have gone against their own personal, individual benefit and future career prospects to protect us from those security failings ie they were actively working against the interests of the own state and citizens in order to attack other states and their citizens. The stupidity continues as does the failure of various justice departments to prosecute because yes, when those tools turn around and attack their own citizens they have committed a computer crime and should be prosecuted.

Based up that idea of having your work on public display in a very central and core element of computing can become very, very competitive. Very likely the more you get in there and the more it is noticed the far more certain and beneficial becomes your future career. Closed source proprietary code provides now where near the same benefit, your art work all hidden in a company safe. Some employers even actively blocking employee participation, for more than one reason, not only sharing of ideas but of course likely loss of employee or just being forced to pay them more to keep them.

The year of Linux on the desktop has come and gone and most people didn't even notice (M$ certainly did). That was the year when the majority of people put their Android smart phone down on their desk after using it. M$ didn't buy Nokia for nothing, they certainly managed to buy it on the cheap though, after it was crippled by an ex(nudge, nudge, wink, wink) M$ employee. It sort of all tied in with the change in nature of what roles computer fill and how they fill it.

Wasps, bees, ants, etc etc all prove you false. Reality is cooperation is genetically inherent within many species, together as a group they survive and all genes associated with that collective group survive. So with cooperative species it is not about individual genes but the shared genes within individuals that provides for the advantage of cooperation.

The entirety of you genes are absolute not unique it would be impossible to breed if that were true. So there is only a minor variability in genes with cooperative species. Consider evolution in cooperative species as being how those genes mix, match and share over generations as various parental genes are shared within that cooperative group over generations ie inbred leads to genetic failure, so the mix genetic pairings over generations incorporating more effective genetics across the whole social group over generations.

So yeah, absolutely wrong with regard to the selfish gene because it is not one breeding in cooperative groups, but shared breeding with variations in parental lineage over many generations, effectively cooperatively sharing genes within that social group.

And the New Zealand government is a lamb with it's hind legs stuck in the gum boots of the US government getting the ride off it's life in order to gain the questionable benefits of access to US markets (getting paid with what is becoming funny money might not really be all that beneficial after all and likely not pay for all that pain and humiliation). So all of it corrupt from go and still to get there whoa.

However government agencies using inside knowledge of source code to create these attack tools and then being stupid enough to use them ie release them into the wild where organised crime can get hold of them, is not so new. It fact it is totally and utterly mind bogglingly stupid thing to do, how fucking myopically short sighted can those fuckwits be. Government need to bloody wake up to what is going on and create a huge level of separation between attack and defence elements of cyber security. In fact the defence elements of cyber security should actively seek to prosecute the morons on the offence side when they stupidly release destructive code into the wild which goes on to attack what everyone else in the country is trying to protect. Some of those idiots need some rest time behind bars, some levels of stupidity should be punished, OK, rehabilitated in correctional facilities.