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  1. Re:A solution in search of a problem... on Technological Solution For Texting While Driving Struggles For Traction · · Score: 1

    You're going to need a much more expensive black box to log enough to make the results unambiguous. They'll have to log enough information to make them prime targets for warrant-less searches for non-safety purposes.

  2. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    The crazy prison population comes mainly from non-violent drug offenses.

  3. Re:10 and 2 is for older cars on Technological Solution For Texting While Driving Struggles For Traction · · Score: 1

    Or they could quit designing cars to deliver the contents of the engine compartment to your lap.

  4. Re:A solution in search of a problem... on Technological Solution For Texting While Driving Struggles For Traction · · Score: 1

    First, your 'freebie' is ruinous to some people (we're talking living in a shelter losing the kids sort of ruinous). The second is ruinous to nearly anyone.

    So don't do it, you say. Fine as soon as cops start only writing fair and just tickets without quotas AND as soon as traffic court runs the kangaroos out and takes the right to a fair trial seriously.

    Until; those very unlikely things happen, perhaps a court ordered technological solution with NO fine is more appropriate.

  5. Re:Fucking Government doesn't care about US on NSA Metadata Collection Gets 90-Day Extension · · Score: 1

    No extension is needed at all if we had reasonable people in government (I know, belly laugh time) especially in the courts (OK, I'll stop before you break a rib).

  6. Re:Replacement Organs on Medical Milestone: Scientists Reset Human Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    So it was, in fact, developed by a non-capitalist system? Can you give me the title of the publication, I'd like to look it up.

  7. Re:Replacement Organs on Medical Milestone: Scientists Reset Human Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    I would need to know more about the non-profit (they're not all the same). Why not donate the idea to the public domain and publish the whole thing?

  8. Re:Replacement Organs on Medical Milestone: Scientists Reset Human Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    (On a related side note, I worked on a non-sterile dialysis system that was so cheap, we couldn't figure out how to make money from it. A few hundred bucks a year, could be done at home, 0% risk of infection. We donated the research and $100k to a research hospital.)

    That sounds like a very good reason not to leave healthcare to capitalism. Truly a case of defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

  9. Re:Well now. on Top EU Court: Libraries Can Digitize Books Without Publishers' Permission · · Score: 1

    The library could offer VNC/RDP sessions to designated book reading machines.

  10. Re:... and back again. on City of Turin To Switch From Windows To Linux and Save 6M Euros · · Score: 1

    That hasn't been true for a very long time.

  11. Re:... and back again. on City of Turin To Switch From Windows To Linux and Save 6M Euros · · Score: 2

    Nobody's complaining about moving the cheese. They just figure that as long as it's moving anyway, the kitchen will be a better place than the toilet.

  12. Re:Expense on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1

    Everyone else's salary is a pittance next to the CEO's, but that doesn't seem to get the generosity going for them, why should it for the CEO?

    There are any number of CEOs they could bring in from Europe and Asia who are accustomed to working for a tenth the price.

  13. Re:Not just Reno on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1

    That's one of the advantages for those who went solar, the price spikes won't hit them very hard if at all.

  14. Re:RT.com? on Cuba Calculates Cost of 54yr US Embargo At $1.1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    In truth, Cuba was only a problem for the U.S. because of it's association w/ the Soviet Union. Once that fell apart, the embargo became pointless and damaging.

  15. Re: License mismatch on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes. That's the thing. I needed it then, not some future point.

    I'll keep watching btrfs and see how it goes. It shows promise but it also shows immaturity right now.

  16. Re:Google should win this if they went to court... on German Court: Google Must Stop Ignoring Customer E-mails · · Score: 2

    WOW! New all-time record. You didn't even read the TITLE!

  17. Re:Let's look at the data on Ozone Layer Recovering But Remains Threatened · · Score: 1

    That would be because one doesn't NECESSARILY inhale from the whipped cream can.

    You don't normally see people doing whip-its in the office.

  18. Re:Let's look at the data on Ozone Layer Recovering But Remains Threatened · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem there was none other than incredible greed on the part of the pharmaceutical companies. Every other industry that uses propellants managed to make the transition for no more than pennies per container.

  19. Re:Let's look at the data on Ozone Layer Recovering But Remains Threatened · · Score: 1

    Don't you see any potential problems with using laughing gas as a propellant for an inhaler?

  20. Re:Simple solution on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 1

    In times of budget cuts? Better chance for a raise, new office chair, not having to set the A/C up to 79 in the summer, getting that pothole in the parking lot fixed, the possibility of hiring a few more people to help judges out. On and on.

  21. Re:Wrong Title on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 1

    She did not lie. She knew that two acquaintances joined a different group and subsequently went to jail, but that's not what was asked. Since SHE did not join that other group, the correct answer was no.

  22. Re:Simple solution on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In many places, the court itself shares a percentage of the take. I'm quite sure I wouldn't like to be on trial in that court when the judge can't help knowing 10% of it will help pay his salary.

    Anything short of destruction of the seized property leads to perverse incentives.

  23. Re:Welcome to America! on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just like so many other 'capitalists' in the U.S.

  24. Re:Obviously. on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    More or less. all through the '70s you couldn't watch TV at all without hearing all about how butter and the cholesterol in it would kill you so use margarine.

    Yes, margarine with all that trans-fat goodness!

  25. Re: License mismatch on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 1

    I recently evaluated both btrfs and zfs for a new server. I like the features of btrfs and the overall design, but chose zfs in the end.

    The problem is that btrfs has very poor behavior in the face of a failed disk in the array. It actually papered over the problem rather than doing the right thing and kicking it out of the pool.

    Ideally, I would like for it to improve in that and grow the ability to evacuate a disk in an orderly manner.