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  1. You just aggressively claim it's true and that it proves itself. Otherwise known as a toutology.

    Yes, I know that was a bad joke.

  2. If you cherry-pick just the right hardware that doesn't have terrible, buggy drivers it can run great. This was relatively rare, so your experience is not the norm.

  3. Re:Police response will be 'OK', we'll outsource i on Judge Orders Fairfax Police To Stop Collecting Data From License Plate Readers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    If the LPR company is storing the data long-term, they should be shut down and their CEO convicted for stalking. Stalking is no more legal for a corporation than a private individual following you around and recording your every move.

  4. Re:I'm all for privacy but . . . on Judge Orders Fairfax Police To Stop Collecting Data From License Plate Readers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to take it to the kind of extremes where recording a license plate number is illegal, you might just as well outlaw collection and storage of fingerprints and DNA

    I have no problem with scanning license plates - that just augments something a person can do with their own two eyes. It's storage of location data over time that violates privacy.

    Outlawing storage of fingerprints and DNA for people who were not prosecuted or convicted is a good idea to me as well. Collecting for a single case is OK and fine. Even if for no other reason than false positives on future cases wasting innocent peoples' time.

  5. Re:There are other license plate readers in Fairfa on Judge Orders Fairfax Police To Stop Collecting Data From License Plate Readers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Emissions testing is important in dense population areas because air quality can get out of hand pretty fast. In rural or smaller urban areas, keeping old cars on the road longer is a net positive environmentally speaking.

  6. If it's declared private information that these companies have acquired, then it's not far off from being declared equivalent to illegal wiretapping.

  7. The AI has escaped the lab. If you find an AI roaming about, please enroll it in one of our courses immediately.

  8. Re:Loss leaders are a key factor on Amazon Is Slashing Whole Foods' Prices By 20 Percent On Hundreds of Items (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Words have meaning - and the concept describes itself with perfectly understandable dictionary words. And stop misspelling wretcheds. It's not a different word.

  9. Re:Loss leaders are a key factor on Amazon Is Slashing Whole Foods' Prices By 20 Percent On Hundreds of Items (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but "loss leader" is a specific textbook term with a specific meaning. Those are the semantics.

  10. Re:Loss leaders are a key factor on Amazon Is Slashing Whole Foods' Prices By 20 Percent On Hundreds of Items (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I'm arguing over semantics and you're treating it like discussion on economics.

  11. Re:Loss leaders are a key factor on Amazon Is Slashing Whole Foods' Prices By 20 Percent On Hundreds of Items (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    It could certainly create the perception of one. But claiming it is one just dilutes the term. It does not actually lead people into the store by offering something at a loss.

  12. Re:so does my grocery store on Amazon Is Slashing Whole Foods' Prices By 20 Percent On Hundreds of Items (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Walmart does it too. They are not the cheapest for everything.

  13. Re:Loss leaders are a key factor on Amazon Is Slashing Whole Foods' Prices By 20 Percent On Hundreds of Items (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If the individual item doesn't net a loss vs costs, then it's not a loss leader.

  14. Australia. Where the toilets flush backwards and cliches are reversed.

  15. Re:Amazon is insufficiently managed. on Amazon Is Slashing Whole Foods' Prices By 20 Percent On Hundreds of Items (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Well maybe Amazon is going to let other grocery brands sell directly from their Whole Foods stores on a consignment/commission basis.

  16. Re: Here lies Moore, dead by overhype. on Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Replace Samsung with iPhone and re-read.

  17. Re:Sony makes smartphones? on Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    I won't buy a smartphone from energizer just to get a better battery life. Why would I buy a phone where the only thing you can say about it is that it's better as a standalone camera? No doubt it's a great camera, but anything that advanced I'd rather just have a real camera with a much bigger lens.

  18. Re: TL;DR: This is not a secure VPN on Cloudflare Says Its New VPN Service Won't Slow You Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If you consider private to mean between you and the site you wanted to reach, then no. It's not private. If you want to welcome Cloudflare to have access to this data, you can have that - but you can't call it private.

  19. Re:$30/hour low-skill jobs. People like consistenc on Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Scratch that, it's a $400 minimum for self-employed people. There's probably no more tax fraud among kids than among adult business owners from what I've seen. People are always wanting to pay me in cash, thinking that I'm somehow not going to keep detailed records and not report income.

  20. Re:$30/hour low-skill jobs. People like consistenc on Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Owning an actual business comes with tax an regulatory implications. You have to set up an LLC, pay both sides if FICA, arrange to pay yourself through the business, etc

    Sole proprietor here. No, you don't have to set up an LLC to have a business. And a 12 year old earning $300 per week is not going to be mowing all year and very unlikely to hit the $12,000 mark that requires them to file taxes, not even FICA.

  21. They hired the Myspace team to relocate a few servers.

  22. Definitely a civil lawsuit, and a stupid one at that. Maximizing short-term profits at the expense of long term continued existence is a "breach of fiduciary duty" as well, but no shareholder wants to see it that way.

  23. Re:Should have pretended it never existed. on As Windows 10 19H1 Update Approaches, Microsoft Says Version 1809 is Now Ready For 'Broad Deployment' (onmsft.com) · · Score: 2

    That's 19H1. They're too embarrassed about their 03 releases coming out in month 04, and their 09 release coming out in month 11, rolled back and then decided to be ok in the month of....1903, I guess.

  24. So you're saying I should buy a Windows server license and run a domain controller for my home computer and reward Microsoft with loads of cash for this? You are delusional.

  25. That would be the same problem. Don't install it when it's new.