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  1. Re:this is outrageous. on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    Sadly, these days, just getting dragged to court is a potentially life changing punitive process.

  2. Re:"Automatic" Weapon? on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    That MIGHT depend on the nature of the mechanism. If it is wired so that button press activates the solinoid to pull back and release is necessary for ity to move forward again, then one press can only ever fire one round.

  3. Re:Investigating if laws were broken on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The world is flat. This is a scientific principle that pre-dates the Greek.

    When literally nobody knows the entirety of the law anymore (because there's too much of it for that) INCLUDING the legislature and SCOTUS (they have to look it up all the time), then ignorance of the law really IS an excuse even if it isn't accepted as one.

    The elephant in the courtroom is that pretty much everyone has no choice but to do what seems right and hope for the best.

  4. Re:the important detail on Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit · · Score: 1

    Do you realise that you veered off into your SJW rant?

    SJW is a pejorative and calling his post a "rant" didn't help either.

  5. Re:the important detail on Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit · · Score: 1

    What, you expect "family values" to somehow value the family?

  6. Unless the consistent part of the process is that she is 'too old'.

  7. Re:Parallel Construction = Perjury on FBI's Hacks Don't Comply With Legal Safeguards · · Score: 1

    THIS! Please mod up.

  8. Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a on Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, when you grow up you'll understand the nuances of what I wrote and it will all become clear to you.

  9. Re: Illuminates objects 12 meters ahead on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 1

    It turns out TFA is wrong, Ford claims 120m, not 12.

    But yes, maximum speed must be dictated by visibility.

  10. Re:Some advertising is OK on Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention · · Score: 1

    Alas, it seems to be hit of miss. A good friend has gotten mostly useless 'help' from Apple. YMMV

  11. Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a on Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat · · Score: 1

    People voluntarily wash their windshield while driving all the time. They also drive in the rain, even heavy rain.

    People's cars stall on the highway all the time. At no point was he in the situation your link talks about. Even if he had been on the shoulder, that too happens all the time and rarely leads to a problem.

  12. Re:Not for USA on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 4, Informative

    Turns out TFA and TFS are wrong. Press release says 120m.

  13. Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a on Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat · · Score: 1

    Like I said, cars stall on the highway all the time. Then they are freewheeling AND they lose power steering and brakes. People use the windshield washer all the time while in motion.

    For real fun, try having your heater core burst at night while at speed. Still manageable.

  14. Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a on Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat · · Score: 1

    So, given the steering and brakes were NOT messed with, what part do you find so wildly dangerous?

  15. Re:Illuminates objects 12 meters ahead on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 1

    That makes a lot more sense.

  16. Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a on Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat · · Score: 1

    The "nuclear option would have been to disable the brakes. They didn't do that on the highway. They can only mess with the steering in reverse. Do you claim the jeep was reversing down the highway or would you like to retract that one?

    They DID mess with the brakes at low speed NOT on a public road (picture looked like the edge of a parking lot).

  17. Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a on Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat · · Score: 1

    That is what is known as a design defect.

  18. Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a on Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat · · Score: 0

    And then the jury yawns loudly. By doing the test on the highway, everyone who sees the video can suddenly relate.

    Meanwhile, putting it in neutral wasn't THAT dangerous. Cars suddenly quit running on the highway every day and most can't be fixed just by turning it off and then on again.

  19. Re:1.2 Billion on Toshiba CEO, 8 Others, Resign Over $1.2 Billion Accounting Cover-Up · · Score: 1

    See what happens if you overstate your personal income by that much and then borrow money from the bank.

  20. Re:Not for USA on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 1

    That's OK, even at 30 MPH, you won't have time to stop for anything the headlights might highlight for you. You won't even have time to get the brakes applied. If they can at least triple the range of detection to 36 meters, they might occasionally help you.

  21. Re: Illuminates objects 12 meters ahead on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 1

    Yes. That means that even at 30 MPH (44 ft/sec), these headlights will only highlight things you will inevitably hit.

  22. Re:Illuminates objects 12 meters ahead on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought. Great, I can clearly see the thing I will inevitably run over rather than the thing far enough ahead that I can stop for it.

  23. Re: Try Stack Overflow and --synclines on GCC 5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    At least that's how it's supposed to be, but I have seen way too many broken ones that will build for the host but it's easier to replace the build system than it is to make it cross compile.

  24. Re: Try Stack Overflow and --synclines on GCC 5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    No. Make, a cross compiler, and assembler need to be able to run on your HOST platform. It's configure that's worthless if it won't run on the TARGET platform.

  25. Re:nothing new under the sun on Affair Site Hackers Threaten Release of All User Data Unless It Closes · · Score: 1

    Agreed.