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  1. So it's binary or quantum? Pay $9.99 and all's well but pay $10 and you're bankrupt? I doubt that.

  2. Easy to say when the problem hasn't reached you yet. Others are suffering now. It's like saying flood relief isn't needed yet because you're on the 3rd floor and only the 1st floor is under water.

  3. Re:Welcome to the future of capitalism on When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the US (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's bad when the poor get pennies on the dollar.

  4. Re: Welcome to the future of capitalism on When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the US (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You might be surprised at how many employers violate the law all the time. Enforcement is beyond anemic.

  5. Re:DMCA is a federal law on Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws (ifixit.org) · · Score: 1

    That is related to my point. Basically, the state would ban state and local law enforcement from cooperating with the feds, an activity that supported the enforcement of the federal law.

    A similar tactic is being used against ICE in a number of cities.

  6. Re:DMCA is a federal law on Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws (ifixit.org) · · Score: 1

    There were a few skirmishes, sure. But notice how the feds didn't go on a crazy all out assault in spite of the location of each and every dispensary being well known and there being thousands of them.

    Instead, they picked on a few where they had some shred of evidence (often bogus, but still) that the state law wasn't being strictly followed.

    In return, they lost support of state law enforcement and their costs shot up.

  7. Re:Not so fast. on Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws (ifixit.org) · · Score: 1

    And since the odds are the guidance software won't break, very few will care to touch it anyway. Much like very few people design their own replacement braking system. There are some who install after-market brakes, but those do go through safety testing so that the seller doesn't get sued into the stone age.

  8. Re:Not so fast. on Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws (ifixit.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, lets.

    It is perfectly legal for me to repair my own brakes or steering. People have done so for decades even though a failure while driving could be very bad. The upshot is simple, if you're going to work on safety critical parts of your car, you'll want to make sure you know what you're doing. If you screw up, you might face significant liability.

  9. Re:DMCA is a federal law on Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws (ifixit.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He did that because he HAD to. Otherwise, he starts a small scale war where the state then makes most activities that might support enforcing the federal law illegal. Next thing you know, there are DEA agents sitting in jail while it all winds it's way slowly through the courts. Worst case (for the president), the legitimacy of invoking interstate commerce to permit the federal laws to exist ends up in court with an opponent that can actually afford to fight it.

  10. Re:American Jobs? on Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws (ifixit.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it is American independent mechanics who will use it to fix American cars in America. Also, perhaps if the gray area was cleared up, an American company might dare to make such tools as well.

  11. At long last on New Wyoming Bill Penalizes Utilities Using Renewable Energy (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 2

    Many decades ago, Groucho Marx posed the question "Why not Oming?". Finally we have an answer.

  12. Re:Call To Trump on Are Squirrels A Bigger Threat To Our Critical Infrastructure? (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    He has a shovel and he's doing his best. He wears one on his head as a trophy.

  13. Re:Not impulsive at all on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadly, there's some truth to that. That's how the Ds managed to lose after the Rs handed them a gimmee.

    Of course, that's after the Rs who absolutely didn't want trump managed to run the most unelectable dregs of the party against him.

  14. Gig economy in a nutshell on Uber Will Pay $20 Million For Exaggerating Drivers' Earnings (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Work more, get poorer.

  15. Exactly. This is just the cellphone division trying to palm off their own failure to use proper tolerances on to someone else.

  16. OTOH, it beats the devices being too explody!

  17. It's universal on 32% of All US Adults Watch Pirated Content (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    It's time to face up to it, most people don't see copyright infringement as being all that serious. That includes the big copyright advocates that get caught with infringing material on their websites or who never quite get around to paying the artists their royalties, or who claim copyright on things that expired years ago. Right down to agencies who collect "for" artists who never agreed to their representation and who never see a check for the amount collected.

    Meanwhile, it can't be THAT big of a problem. The various media companies make more money every year.

  18. Re:A Modest Proposal on 5G Internet is the 'Beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, a Dr. Who reference. Davros, the creator of the Daleks.

  19. Re:A Modest Proposal on 5G Internet is the 'Beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes. We don't need the screaming prune calling for the poor to be exterminated.

  20. Re:They are suppressing partial solutions on Sitting Too Much Ages You By 8 Years (time.com) · · Score: 1

    American Medicine enjoys the punitive Puritan approach. That's why we get so much bogus dietary advice that leads to eating unsatisfying food that tastes like sweetened cardboard in spite of research suggesting that your Grandma's (or Great Grandma's by now) dietary advice works much better and tastes orders of magnitude better.

  21. Re:Remote work is validated once again. on Sitting Too Much Ages You By 8 Years (time.com) · · Score: 1

    It should surprise nobody that a manager's frontal lobe wouldn't be up to the task of modifying primate instincts. That is, the boss is a chimp.

  22. Re:Which is it? on Robotic Sleeve Mimics Muscles To Keep a Heart Beating (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    No idea where TFA got the idea it isn't an implant. It IS a less invasive implant since it doesn't come in to contact with circulating blood and so doesn't require blood thinners and run the risk of clotting, but it's certainly an implant.

  23. Re:counterproductive ? on Robotic Sleeve Mimics Muscles To Keep a Heart Beating (seeker.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    While use it or lose it is very real in biological systems, that applies to healthy muscle. In the case of heart failure, sometimes a period of rest and recovery is necessary. When the LVAD was first put into use, it was thought it would be just a bridge to transplant or at best a permanent implant. However, surprising to everyone, some patient's natural heart recovered once given a bit of a rest to the point that the device could be explanted with no need for a transplant.

  24. Re:Not sure what to think.... on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate when that happens :-)

  25. Re:Not sure what to think.... on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    New article on /.: "Russia Extends Edward Snowden's Asylum To 2020, To Offer Citizenship Next Year"