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  1. Re:When you're dead... on Autonomous Vehicles Won't Give Us Any More Free Time, Says Study (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Individual drivers aren't statistics. The people who are going to consider an autonomous car are not likely to be as stupid/careless as the statistically average driver. Your odds are still worse with autonomous right now.

  2. Re:When you're dead... on Autonomous Vehicles Won't Give Us Any More Free Time, Says Study (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The failure modes are not exactly promising. Most deaths so far are based on incidents that would be easily handled by a human driver. And it's these situations that are going to take the most work to fix.

  3. When you're dead... on Autonomous Vehicles Won't Give Us Any More Free Time, Says Study (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You don't get a lot of extra free time for productive work when your autonomous car kills you.

  4. Re:what we need here is a mentality reset on Chrome and Firefox Block Pirate Bay Over 'Harmful Programs' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Calm down, now. It's a warning that you can click right on through. It's a whole lot easier than maintaining your own list of sites with malware infested ads and/or drive-by downloads.

  5. Re:Goodbye Quality on Logitech Buys Saitek (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Their basic mice are fine. And I use the m705 now for wireless, while recommending the m310 for home users. BUT, the Performance Mouse MX is still a sore spot. An $89 mouse and the microswitches wore out on the mouse buttons after only a couple years. Had great tracking and great ergonomics, but that design doesn't matter if you cheap out on the one moving part.

  6. Re:Summary needs correcting on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Maths makes sense as a shortening of mathematics, which also ends in an 's.' But I do like the other shortening (sans 's') better.

  7. Re:In Production? on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The important part is the relevance, since it's actually available now. Unless you live in the US, where I don't think broadcast/streaming rights have even been sold yet.

  8. Re:Unauthorized access on A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's a reason that you can use to justify believing that part of the intent was allowing free use of bandwidth via a proxy.

    Neither do I, nor was I claiming so.

  9. Re:Or he could just use one of the free cell servi on A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    they initially launched on the Clearwire (later Sprint WiMAX) network

    FTFY. They started with just hotspots. They're on the Sprint 3G/4G networks now.

  10. Re:Unauthorized access on A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people would assume that this is to allow people to speedtest

    I wouldn't. Why would they offer free speed tests to non-customers?

    This is just a misconfigured firewall rule from their speed test cheating traffic prioritization.

  11. Re: unauthorized access device on A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So they have badly configured firewall rules for speedtests just to help non-subscribers get free speed tests?

  12. Re:The Free State Welcomes Edward Snowden on Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case For Presidential Pardon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No True Scotsman doesn't mean that everyone is a Scotsman that wants to be one.

  13. Re:constantly broken updates on Windows 10 Anniversary Update Rollout May Not Be Done Until Early November (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you using GRUB to boot? Temporarily switch to Windows Boot Manager instead, install the update, then switch back to GRUB. I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I'm fairly sure this is the fix.

  14. Re:Not going to happen on Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case For Presidential Pardon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    suggesting that "we're in a better place" is not accurate in the big picture.

    I wasn't even arguing against that. I was only taking issue with your one misrepresented fact. I've looked at the labor participation data - even built my own query to dive in further in the last few months. It's nearly a flat line when both genders are considered across 4 or 5 decades of data. The "low" is a very tiny difference to the baseline.

    If people have "given up", that's really no one else's fault but their own.

  15. Re:Not going to happen on Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case For Presidential Pardon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There is still so much flawed with that.

    That includes a striking number of 18-24 year olds

    And most jobs require a college education - even ones that shouldn't. So more people are going to go to college. Seems obvious.

    The high mark was 98 percent in 1954, and it now stands at 88 percent

    And in 1954, much fewer women were working. If you look at the long-term trend with both genders combined, it's more or less a flat line across the last 6 decades.

    I'm not sure what you think all this proves.

  16. Re:Not going to happen on Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case For Presidential Pardon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    We have fewer Americans in the workforce that we did a decade ago and that continues to decline.

    This one is due in huge part to the baby boom and all of them retiring. Between that and a decline in birth rates, you're going to have a smaller workforce.

  17. Pretty sure attempting to acquire lock uses more battery life, due to constant trying. Otherwise, once you get the location it stops.

  18. all I have to do is get people to buy my audio cables and wires for ten times what they're actually worth and I can trademark the word "Monster"? Got it.

    Yes, you can. But if some other company wants to run a jobs board under the name "Monster" you have no rights to sue under trademark infringement.

  19. successfully claims ownership of the word "monster"

    In a certain market. For example, I couldn't tell if you were talking about the cable manufacturer or the job search web site that owns monster.com. The idea behind trademarking generic words is that you do it for novel/memorable uses rather than what the word actually means.

    So you can call your computer Apple and own a trademark, but you can't trademark the word "phone" or a ringing sound for a telecommunications company.

  20. Re:SubjectsSomethingSomething on Valve Finally Takes On Steam User Review Score Manipulation (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    That review would still be far more relevant than an astroturfing campaign.

  21. Re:Old People on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    More than that, if they are impaired now but still doing the job they're not doing the best job that they could.

  22. Re:Not a 'real' group. on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    that human activity has not contributed to climate change, and that global warming will be beneficial and thus not a cause for concern;

    Definitely within the realm of Physicians' and Surgeon's area of expertise...

  23. Re: Look at the source on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 0

    Way to miss the point and go on a crazy diatribe. They were talking statistics. You are not personally a statistic, but you are part of an aggregate.

  24. Re:"who do not have the resources to challenge" on Uber Drivers Are Subject To Individual Arbitration, Says Court (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Those cases with merit are already settled out of court a lot of the time. This also increases the incentive to win the case aggressively and make the victim plaintiff pay for all of it.

  25. Re:"who do not have the resources to challenge" on Uber Drivers Are Subject To Individual Arbitration, Says Court (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Their legal bill will double if they lose

    Still missing the point. If the big company with high paid lawyers losses, their legal fees increase maybe 10 percent over what they are now. If the little guy loses, his fees are now 10 times as much as they would have been.