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  1. Re:Needs to be frequent and ubiquitous on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    They are not deceiving themselves, they simply live in an area with good public transit, or are too poor to afford anything better.

  2. Re:Ridiculous Premise. on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    My best example is when I went to university in Kitchener/Waterloo. It was a 4-7 minute drive to the university. Which translated into an hour bus ride. No one who could afford a car would ever take the bus in that situation, even if they were paid to do so.

  3. Ridiculous Premise. on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    The reason people drive to work instead of using public transit, is not because public transit is more expensive. Period, no one in their right mind has ever made this argument. Even the most expensive public transit in the world is less tan a tiny fraction of the cost of owning and operating a car. They do not use public transit because it take far longer than a car. Look at Toronto, they could pretty much charge anything they wanted, it is faster to use public transit, so pretty much everyone does. There are even people who drive to work from out of town, who park out in the boondocks and transfer to public transit for the final leg of their journey (and probably spend thousands on parking). But then you have cities where it is ass slow, like slower than walking, and cities where the driver might be an hour early or an hour late, depending on if he took lunch.

  4. Re:What happened to Common Sense? on NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns · · Score: 1

    The pedestrian is not surrounded by a thousand pounds of metal, it is his responsibility to make sure he remains alive.

  5. Separate your Networks. on Ask Slashdot: Giving Users Extra-Firewall Access For Sites Normally Blocked? · · Score: 1

    If you have important data it absolutely should not be stored on the same machines used to watch porn and browse Facebook. I know we are supposed to be entering the Internet Of Things revolution where even your fridge has direct access to the internet, but there is no reason to use the same machine to both access random web pages and store sensitive client financial data. Just install an open wifi router, completely disconnected from your business network, and allow the employees to research/goof-off at their leisure on their iphones.

  6. 2 Weeks? on Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Sure, cosmic rays will randomly flip bits over time and cause OS degradation. But that is over months or years. It is it noticeably slower after a few weeks that is something else, most often installing random shit. Note: Chrome, by default, is always running in the background.

  7. Re:Tell me... on Amazon Is Only Going To Pay Authors When Each Page Is Read · · Score: 1

    I think, while it might make sense to say that a 500 page book takes more effort, I think we might be surprised. I think like coding most of the effort can easily go into trimming a book down. Both authors wrote 600 page manuscripts, the one whole published the 200 page one just spend months more refining than the 500 page guy.

  8. Re:Excellent. Now how about High Fructose Corn Syr on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    I would be happy if the government just stopped substituting them so heavily.

  9. Re:trivial to circumvent on Police Scanning Every Face At UK Download Festival · · Score: 1

    Which is trivial to circumvent, just outlaw hoodies and masks. I would really love to watch you try to enter any festival while obscuring your face. You would be in police detention within 5 minutes.

  10. Just a Fan of Game of Thrones on Journalist Burned Alive In India For Facebook Post Exposing Corruption · · Score: 1

    A corrupt official, or just a fan of Game of Thrones?

  11. Re:Mixture on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 1

    How it is any different. He is charged with aiding/helping ISIS. If he is also charged with helping a potential fighter it is probably because he told him he could take a 9am flight from AirAmerica and arrive at Syria by 3pm.

  12. They should call this Kernel driver the "ADE 651"

  13. Re:The cliches are right on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job? · · Score: 1

    Which works well if you are a competent person. But 99% of the people out there are mediocre at best and have a self inflated opinion of themselves, and would just screw up their career if they "took ownership" of it. By the law of statistics 99% of people who get passed over for a promotion were passed over because they were not the best candidate.

  14. There is no way on Can You Commit Copyright Infringement By Using Your Own Work? · · Score: 1

    I do not know what happened in the last case, but this new "art" is literally just a screenshot of a post. Since he added nothign to it, other than a pricetag, no one would buy the transformative angle.

  15. Re:VPNs and proxies on High Court Orders UK ISPs To Block EBook Sites · · Score: 1

    Call me when they have a chrome version.

  16. Re:Bitter chocolate tastes bad? on How a Scientist Fooled Millions With Bizarre Chocolate Diet Claims · · Score: 1

    This.Coco does not need sugar added, ever.

  17. Re:This was done by a journalist, not a scientist! on How a Scientist Fooled Millions With Bizarre Chocolate Diet Claims · · Score: 0

    The author only makes clear his own bias. A journalist cannot hope to pick apart a scientific article, because they are not scientists. If they had the credentials that allowed them to understand and critic a scientist's work they would not be a journalist. What this article shows is a few of the methods the scientific community uses to generate esteem and keep their jobs by faking science. Pay to get your article taken periodicals do not exist because of poor journalism, there is an entire huge industry of scientific journals that has popped up like this to cater to biased, incompetent, and sometimes even dishonest scientists. It is ridiculous to think that the scientist would suffer any effects other than positive, as this is general industry practice.

  18. Re:How do the "poorest residents" own homes on California Is Giving Away Free Solar Panels To Its Poorest Residents · · Score: 2

    No you don't. There is no law preventing homeless people from holding solar panels up above their heads, or mounting it on their cardboard box.

  19. Re:CO2 from Astronauts? on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    Presumably, the atmosphere's CO2 is far too concentrated and lased with deadly toxins.

  20. Re:Hobbit on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    Which is why it will never work. The kind of people who want to go into space, and the type of people people want to send into space are not the kind of people who are necessary for frontier living. The kind of people you would want to send to mars to develop a colony, are the sort of people you have always wanted to send to a desolate inhospitable location to develop a colony, the kind of people who say "Git'R Done" on a daily basis.

  21. Won't Someone Please Think of the ... on 'Prisonized' Neighborhoods Make Recidivism More Likely · · Score: 1

    Won't Someone Please Think of the Prison Barons?

  22. Re:Or they're just proxying their connections on Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System · · Score: 1

    Which ones? I looked back when this measure was first announced, and all I found was references to VPNs which used to allow free torrenting use. I have absolutely shit internet, so even an incredibly restricted VPN would be useful, but I found absolutely zero.

  23. Re:Unenforceable laws on Swedish Court Orders Seizure of Pirate Bay Domains · · Score: 1

    Don't murder people was pretty unenforceable for quite a while during the colonization of the America's. Didn't stop everyone from agreeing that it was a good law in principle.

  24. Re:What the hell? on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 1

    A hell of a lot of students are non residents. Studying abroad is one of the most common things to do.

  25. That is How is is supposed to Work on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 1

    That is how both Canadian and American post-secondary education is set up to work. There is nothing below board about it, I think there are laws that demand they leave room for minorities like Africans, Native Americans, and Whites. I am pretty sure you would have to sue the government if you wanted this changed.