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  1. "Should" implies a suggestion, "May not or will not" implies a directive. Lawyers drafted this if they meant a prohibition they would have used the later terms.

    You can legally have four users on a Netflix account, how are these users supposed to access the account in your absence without the password?

  2. Re:Bad weather.. on Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that an automated car would be worse that you or you grandma at driving in bad weather?

  3. Re:It was a slippery slope ... on Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My kingdom for mod points.

  4. Risk v. Reward on Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure humans might lose some of their proficiency at controlling a vehicle but the self-driving car would make those skills less necessary.

    Which would have fewer fatal accidents: automated vehicles with a human with poor skills or a standard car with normal everyday drivers?

    I am betting the automated car wins. Sure the automated car may have some accidents that the human might avoid but I'm betting the total goes down.

    Now I don't want an automated vehicle but that is because I really enjoy driving but the accident thing is IMO a red herring.

  5. Re:Stupid FUD on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    MAC filtering is old school, use 802.1x authentication at the port level. 802.1x can be a pain to implement and you will have to modify some of your processes, especially with imaging workstations over the network but 802.1x definitely eliminates MAC spoofing as a worry.

  6. Re:Stupid FUD on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    What about environments like universities, where you have hundreds or thousands of students that have access to your network via Ethernet ports in classrooms or lecture halls? Someone plugging in one of these devices and frying a stack of Cisco switches is quite feasible. Wonder if it would fry the whole stack, or only the blade directly connected to the port.

    Use this as a justification to install wireless for all network guests, remove/disconnect the physical ports. Probably not a large threat but you can exaggerate the threat when going for the money.

  7. Re:The Onion had it right on Ebola Vaccine 100% Successful In Guinea Trial · · Score: 1

    You seem to be ignoring how people in Africa do STUPID things that spread ebola, that a person in a first world country would never do. Eating bats as bush meat, fondling the dead, not respecting quarantine....Africa has huge problems because too many Africans are STUPID

    And people in the first world do stupid things like believing that vaccines cause autism

  8. Base Stickers??? on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    ALL AF bases and the majority of the the other services did away with base stickers several years ago and now everyone in the vehicle over the age of 16 has to display a valid Government issued ID to get on base. That being said it is still relatively to get onto most installations but the steal a vehicle with a base sticker thing no longer applies.

  9. Obligatory XKCD on NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set · · Score: 4, Interesting
  10. Re:Why isn't this illegal again? on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 2

    Tech workers are anti-union because they all believe they are above average and that having a union will drag down their wages to the average. They don't realize that employers are taking advantage of their pig-headedness.

    News Flash: Unions can bargain working conditions and leave salaries to individuals. Working conditions can mean no more exempt employee bullshit, no more arbitrary changes to 401K programs, no arbitrary changes to vacation policies when a company is bought out, etc. etc. etc.

  11. Re:Factor of 10 on India Targets July/August To Test Its Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    See F-4 and F-35 for proof of the principle. If you make something that has to a hundred different things don't be surprised if is very expensive.

    The US DoD will never learn. Build something for a single purpose you get it faster, cheaper and it is usually pretty good at the mission, see B-52, A-10, F-16 or F-15. Build it for a single mission then maybe modify it for additional missions afterwards

  12. Re:wrong on What Was the Effect of Rand Paul's 10-Hour "Filibuster"? · · Score: 2

    As am I, States' Rights is perhaps the greatest issue facing our nation today. And nullification is the right of the jury; whether by design or intentional, it is indeed a good feature.

    Not Jury nullification but this:
      Nullification is a term that means that states could reject or nullify a law passed by Congress if they do not like the law. Think about it for a minute.

  13. Re:Don't forget chromatic abberation on Prenda's Old Copyright Trolls Are Suing People Again · · Score: 1

    Or the colorblind. Using blue and purple on the same chart? You lose because because to many colorblind individuals purple is a conspiracy carried out by color-normals.

  14. Small Sample Size on Self-Driving Cars In California: 4 Out of 48 Have Accidents, None Their Fault · · Score: 1

    Get back to me when a few thousand of these cars are on the road.

  15. Repeater system on Baltimore Police Used Stingrays For Phone Tracking Over 25,000 Times · · Score: 1

    Most likely the SSA office has a cell phone repeater system installed inside the building to provide decent service for the workers and clients. I have installed multiple systems inside office buildings when the local tower is not providing a decent signal.

  16. Japan killed 80M, Not so fast there on How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial · · Score: 2

    Check your facts before spouting off about the Mass Media.

    According to this link http://www.nationalww2museum.o... the death total for WW2 was 90M so 80M for Japan might be a tad high. Granted the totals for China are in dispute but still complaining about the Mass Media getting it wrong then putting in such a number is just wrong.

  17. Locked Bootloaders on Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 7 Tablet · · Score: 1

    Unless you buy a nice tablets because they look like something that you might like, then they abandon you for upgrades and refuse to unlock the bootloader so you cannot put a third party ROM onto it. Thank you Toshiba, my Excite is a nice piece of hardware but no way to upgrade.

  18. Mandatory Data on Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 7 Tablet · · Score: 1

    They sure do then argue with you that the phone won't work without a supporting data plan. If I buy an unlocked smartphone and only want to use it with wifi data only then I damn well better be able to. Fuck you Cingular oops ATT.

  19. Well on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    Since Mountain Dew Throwback also goes back to the more citrus formula of the 60's you might have another reason for the taste difference

  20. Re:My only question, where does the LiOn come from on Elon Musk's SolarCity Offering To Build Cities, Businesses Their Own Grids · · Score: 2

    Chile, Atacama Desert..

    Whoosh, I ducked and your joke missed.

  21. Re:Only 30 Grand? on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 1

    WTF does three times less even mean?

    Do you mean 1/3 the fossil fuel of the TDI?

  22. Hydroelectric and the environment on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    Yes, hydro dams can and do destroy vast tracts of river ecosystem but they also create a vast ecosystem of lake, which while different cannot be ignored when discussing environmental impact. My hometown has a large area of swamps and wetlands that are over 100 years old directly attributable to an old dam that produced power for a long defunct mill. Remove the dam, restore the river and eliminate several thousands of acres of wetlands. Not a win in my book.

    Not saying that dams are all good but dams and hydro are not necessarily the ecosystem destroyer you imply.

  23. Made the entire island into a Navy base that you had to have permission to go to unless you were born there. Only changed that in the late 60s.

  24. Real-time radar versus processed satellite images on The History of the NORAD/Microsoft and Google Santa Trackers · · Score: 1

    Not really the same thing and only one is appropriate for tracking a flying object. Although you would be amazed what those satellites can track when the data is processed.

  25. And we have a winner on Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable · · Score: 1

    Multiple technologies are used by mobile comm units in the military. Setting up the Satellite downlink on one side of the cantonment area and using a laser link to transmit to the ops area sure beats laying fragile cable.

    Or satellite downlink at a single area and using this to distribute to multiple fire bases. Definitely a win.