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  1. Re:At what speed? on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    In texas they can take all your cash on a traffic stop due to how drug laws are worded. Yes the cop has a legal right to mug you.

  2. Re:At what speed? on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    If you think laws will go away, then you are silly. No revenue from speeding, Oh look texting, while in the drivers seat of that auto drive car... bingo another revenue stream!

  3. Re:Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    Because you cant be bothered to drive on a race track? If you really liked to drive then why are you not out on a track on weekends where the real drivers and real men who can drive are?

    I hope they pass laws mandating driverless cars, because most drivers cant obey the laws, cant drive safely, and need to be removed from control. My solution is to significantly increase drivers license and car ownership requirements. but that will never happen.

  4. Re:Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    No ambulance anywhere comes with doctors.

    Those are EMT's and most are far better trained than doctors are.

  5. Re:Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    You cant expect good service in a war zone.

  6. Re:Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    "I don't know where you are so I can't comment on your local laws. In the United States, it would likely be considered neither. Acts necessary to save human lives are neither criminally prosecutable nor subject to civil litigation."

    You are not from the USA. just search online and find several stories of someone racing to the hospital and getting arrested when they arrive.
    It is 100% illegal unless you have a police escort, and if you think they will not arrest or persecute you for it, then you have no idea at all what the USA is about or how citizens are treated here.

  7. Re:There is no such thing as "zero emission" on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Or just get uneducated americans to stop freaking out about having a small nuclear reactor under the hood. That would be my solution.

  8. Re:There is no Magic Energy Fairy on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    They are? well someone better tell the local electrical plant here they need to use COAL instead of Nuclear. And all the ones around in other cities are all natural gas.

    Damn these power plants and their refusal to use COAL!

  9. Re:Uh... anyone check electric grid capacity? on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 2

    Actually solar can work, you can easily build a 200amp 100% solar charging station.
    http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/02/solar-integrated-ev-fast-charging-station-eco-station-gets-coda-energy-storage-system/
    CODA energy is putting them all over the place.

  10. Re:Uh... anyone check electric grid capacity? on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Hell with more grid capacity, how about a grid that is modern and in good condition.

  11. Re:still doesn't compute on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes if you are standing around waiting for it. If they had slow charging stations in parking locations it doesn't matter, and at some locations a 20 minute gas stop is normal even for gasoline cars. Last time I took I-80 westbound we had to wait for 15 minutes to get to a pump, then 5 minutes to pump with another 10 minutes to wait for traffic to get out of my way so we can get back on the highway. Instead, if there was a charging station at the oasis I would plug in, go inside to use the bathroom, get a coffee, and walk back out in those 20 minutes instead of sitting in my car while the guy with the F950 pickup truck fills both his 300 gallon gas tanks.

  12. Re:No name fake site that has no rep is a honeypot on File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tiger4 on slashdot is the best piracy source out there. Talk to them they have all the good stuff.

  13. No name fake site that has no rep is a honeypot... on File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    News at 11.

    Honestly they were barely known and had ZERO rep in the community. In fact most people never even knew about them or knew to stay away because it was too new and too unknown.

    If this is the best they got, then there is no worries out there. Now find out that TPB was a BSA sting operation.... THAT is real news.

  14. Here is my question.... on FBI Seized 144,000 Bitcoins ($28.5 Million) From Silk Road Bust · · Score: 1

    If the feds have seized the file he had with them in it, would someone be able to sped a copy of that file? Does bitcoin have a way to let you "back up" your money so that in the case of a government raid you secret copy elsewhere can be put into action and use the bitcoins for your defense fund, etc? Because it is well known the feds will seize all assets right away to prevent the accused from being able to afford good council and fight in court. If you don't have access to your money, you cant hire good lawyers.

    Because if this is the case, then I look at bitcoin with more interest and a different light, was that by design or by accident?

  15. Re:Yes they can.... on Can Nintendo Survive Gaming's Brave New World? · · Score: 1

    Then they need to make a 9.5" super high resolution quad cored game system that is not embarrassing to use in an airport by a businessman.

  16. Re:iWork isn't bad for home use... on Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions · · Score: 1

    no sane business will have it's documents synced with the cloud.

  17. "although it acts more like a prosumer app than the previous versions of Final Cut and doesn't do half what Premiere Pro / After Effects does"

    Oh god that is funny. Premier pro is a JOKE in the pro video world, the only people that use it are wedding videographers and kiddies on youtube. The current Final Cut is back to what Final cut 8/9 was like but with a lot of good stuff added.

    a LOT of TV shows are edited in Avid, Vegas, and Final Cut, ZERO are edited on Premiere Pro. Premiere Pros Color corrector is horrible at best, etc...

  18. Re:Shame about intel mac pros on Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions · · Score: 1

    Please go ahead and install Windows 64 bit on any of those 32 bit only processors. Oh wait, you cant. How about 64 bit linux.... wait that doesnt work either....

    ZOMG FOAM AT THE MOUTH ZOMG!

    Maybe if you had a clue as to how computers even worked you would understand why they stopped supporting 7 year old computer hardware that were made with the craptastic Core 2 duo processor platform.

  19. Re:Not a Dick Move on Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions · · Score: 1

    No they are not, you still can easily install 3rd party software, Stop spreading lies.

  20. Re:Not a Dick Move on Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions · · Score: 1

    "With Apple now seemingly turning away from being the platform for "premium" users...."
    were you hit in the head? you cant get any more premium than the pricing and design of the frigging Mac Pro.

  21. Re:Not a Dick Move on Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions · · Score: 1

    It's not even software pirates. if you had the trial version installed, you know the 10% legal trial version... It upgraded to full legit for you. That is not Pirating, That is called a gift.

  22. Re:Not a Dick Move on Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions · · Score: 0

    Yes they do, the holy google sends out refund checks all the time for Android devices...

    Oh wait.....

  23. Yes they can.... on Can Nintendo Survive Gaming's Brave New World? · · Score: 2

    Release Mario Kart and other Mario titles on the iPad\Andriod tablet platforms. Even at $29.95 they will sell faster than Apple can make digital copes to send to customers.

  24. Because killing people.... on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    Is always the right answer. Honestly, why cant we have a running man island where they all have to fight to the death? WE try and act as if we are civilized but in reality we are so far from it. And you know that the ratings on a TV show where inmates kill each other would be higher than the NFL has ever had.

    It would fit perfectly with the completely corrupted and screwed up legal system we have, so why not just make the jump and go all the way? It would be highly profitable!

  25. Re:How Safe Is Cycling? on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    It works just fine and there are a lot of products out there that are just magnets that work well for motorcycles and bicycles. They look for a flux change, a magnet delivers a far larger flux change.

    Plus I have observed that they do in fact work as well as many many others have.