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Comment Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age (Score 1) 100

Most of the document promotes the principle, Capitalism includes the poor people: An idea that is essentially correct, yet many Americans are sure to hate.

Of particular note is the "wealth fund": It seems to suggest a socialist co-operative, delivering profits to the people. How this co-operative refuses to compete against private vendors, is not discussed. It is suggested instead, that the co-operative would be fascist, or at least, out-sourcing its functions to private vendors: Like the US DoD and similar departments currently do. The USA has 140 years of history, explaining how well that fails.

It is refreshing that a millionaire has the honesty to include all people in his vision of a (economically) richer world. But the driving forces of US "exceptionalism" over the last 400 years have been discrimination, poverty and cruelty: His vision is the opposite and it's impossible to imagine how the USA will re-define itself and its culture, to comply.

Comment Microsoft admits their abuses (Score 1) 66

... for entertainment purposes ...

That's why Microsoft attempts again to block Google Chrome, forcing Windows users to share their data with Microsoft is entertaining. I wonder if all the corporations forced to fight Microsoft Edge, feel entertained, as well as Google which is again being sabotaged by Microsoft.

It makes someone pray that gunmen visit Microsoft's CEO: The CEO can keep the three bullets fired into his body, they are purely for entertainment. Okay, attacking a web-browser isn't life-threatening. But it's the same "don't care" psychopathic behaviour. Microsoft doesn't hide its 'too big to care' enshitification, it forces a legal disclaimer onto its victims. Can gunmen put a legal disclaimer on their bullets? It's always been horrifying what US politicians and corporations can do without consequences. The fact they can now admit it their abuses in advance, is beyond sanity.

Comment There's real 'funeral' scams too (Score 2) 28

It's much more difficult to catch the real funeral scammers, because it's a practice copied by legitimate businesses. They send fake invoices to the person handling your estate. That person doesn't know which businesses you dealt with, what debts you left unpaid, and probably doesn't have a lot of experience in tracking-down paperwork. So, the fake invoices are paid.

Comment Re:Lazy loading images sucks when you're offline (Score 1) 43

Why don't you install an extension/plug-in and "Save page"? It means your browser isn't full of open tabs,a isn't hogging all the RAM, causing it to crash. Bigger pages tend towards non-text elements controlled by Javascript, not fixed to the page, thus saving in advance is not an option. Such pages are designed to always be online and will cause problems if 'idled'.

Chrome, in general, is designed to be always refreshing, always downloading adverts, so the first step to offline browsing is switching to (Android OS) FireFox or WaterFox or IceRaven.

Comment Re:Understand the NYT's and the ex-agent's agenda (Score 2, Informative) 126

Yep, it was kindness that forced the UK and USA to destroy a democracy and install a blood-thirsty dictator. It was kindness that made the USA idly watch while an Iranian dictator murdered thousands of people every year.

The USA is being the cruel, selfish hypocrite it has always been. It's fitting that its current target is its own citizens: Now, the USA has a blood-thirsty dictator, albeit, one bad at committing mass murder, so far.

The USA pretends to buy Israel but Israel super-enriches uranium anyway, builds nuclear weapons anyway, assassinates scientists (a war-crime) anyway, murders all of its neighbours anyway (and invades Palestine/Gaza, Syria and Lebanon). Israel does exactly what the USA prevents Iran doing, while the USA idly watches.

... never been on any ballot ...

Do you mean the authority for US ICE to arrest US citizens without a warrant, to deport them to a slave-camp in El Salvador, comes from US voters?

Comment A panopticon for your safety (Score 1) 103

Soon, every electric device will require wi-fi and a drivers license to operate. The answer is easy, steal the phone, since it is now the key to unlock all appliances. Bluetooth doesn't have a lot of encryption, someone make a sniffer to capture the unlock code and replay it on command.

The fact this security measure can be bypassed, contrary to the wowsers who whinge it can be by-passed, isn't the problem: It's the fact that demanding every device watch the user (or his/her identity documents) is a demand for a panopticon,

Comment Re:Will, not could, come to the USA (Score 1) 118

Mass surveillance is the norm: The problem is, every mum-n-dad shop is doing it. Moving the responsibility to rich people/corporations, means less identity theft and grifting. It means, online victims have an easy-to-find culprit they can punish. The current problem is, there's no service for the OS to link to and depend on. That affects the accuracy of the solution and thus, the ability of big corporations to obey the law. Also, for some reason, it allows the excuse, that an unknown implementation is worthless, thus everyone should prefer the current system that enables malicious doxing, online robbery and identity theft.

Comment Inhumanity was always the plan (Score 3, Insightful) 86

While the Chicago School of Business and Milton Friedman argued for 20 years, that corporations should abandon social responsibility and be immoral dictators. Most of all, they promoted the idea that society had to give corporations rights but corporations did not have to care about living people. The economic gibberish of Arthur Laffer demanded all problems be fixed by sales volume and volume could be increased by lower taxes: Reagan made that official policy. It's proven to be bullshit but it is still policy, because the rich people in US congress want to pay lower taxes. Getting more money became the only purpose of corporations, and with it, the incentive to take money from the government and their employees. Any social good, such as investing in employees, telling the truth, or increasing scientific knowledge, was unimportant.

Comment The truth, missing (Score 1) 122

Manufacturer says this advert/WMD/frilly lace will help you, end-user says it doesn't: Sounds representative to me. Who did you want the journalist to ask?

Hiding a feature/service because the end-user doesn't like being monetized, has a name: Enshitification. That's the truth missing from this report.

Comment Trash your principles (Score 2) 53

... a last resort ...

Oh, Sam, we know you're not that ignorant: When your early investors demand bigger dividends, you'll trash your principles like yesterday's paper. You know, we know that.

Is this what SaaS CEOs have become: Salesmen who tell lies that everyone knows are lies, same as insurance industry CEOs. I guess, it was always so but now, you don't attempt to hide it behind the facts.

Comment Re:Why are lawsuits allowed against end users? (Score 1) 44

Which why music/video rights-holders demanded laws and court precedents declaring BitTorrent/Magnet servers, ISPs and CDNs guilty of copyright infringement. The court precedents are overturned in due course, the laws are an expensive game of whack-a-mole.

Comment A right to abuse others (Score 1) 90

Unfortunately, cowards making anonymous threats is as old as daily news. Ruml doesn't deserve respect. Now, about the FBI, this abuse of public office happens because it can: It shows the moral fibre of their bosses, or lack thereof. Also, because nepo-babies truly believe they have a right to abuse other people. As Ruml shows, many poor people want the same right.

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