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  1. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Only because your insurance policy allows it. Insurance is against the vehicle, not the driver. If you have more than one car you need more than one policy, even if there is only one driver.

  2. Re:Who is Liable? on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Ticketed for what? There are plenty of cases where the driver does not get ticketed if he has not broken any laws, even if someone is killed. Now, if you're speeding, or distracted, or drunk, etc then yes, you will (and should be) ticketed even if the pedestrian shares in the fault.

  3. Re:This may cause the price of it to go up on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're an expert in taxes in most countries? Impressive. Anyway, this article is about the IRS, which means US federal tax. There is no US federal property tax. Property tax in the US is at the local level, and generally only includes real property.

  4. Re:Banks already have to report this on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't have all they need. They are not tracking money here, they are looking for under-reported income. Just because you are moving money in and out of an exchange doesn't mean you have income to report. The need the data from Coinbase to determine if there were gains on which tax should have been paid.

  5. Re:Isn't this a fishing expedition? on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Start reading the hearing transcript on page 6 line 18.

  6. Re:Free Baggage Checks? on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You nailed it. Whenever family members are travelling they always send two texts: I'm home, and 'through security'. 'Through security' to me represents 'I did my part, now it is up to the airline to get me home'. Prior to that is all the stress.

  7. Re:Can't avoid throwing the Leftist propaganda in on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    So how exactly are the airlines saying frequent fliers are 'innately superior'? I don't know how you manged to get from 'blankets' to 'kidney transplants'. If you have one blanket and two people who a a little chilly (freezing to death, really?), who should get the blanket? If you give it to your wife instead of the cute babe on the other side of you, the wife is happy, you are happy, and the cute babe is still chilly. Do it the other way and the cute babe (who you will probably never see again) is warmer but the wife is now extremely hot, and you probably will not be enjoying yourself for a while.

    It is the same thing with the airlines: do they give the blanket to the customer who has given them a lot of business, or do they give it to someone who hardly ever flies? Do it right and you have a happy regular customer and a new customer who thinks 'meh'. Do it wrong and you have an irate formerly regular customer. Which do you pick?

    Quit trying to make it sound like they are making some judgement on the value of the human being. They aren't. They are making judgement on the value of a relationship, even if it is only an economic relationship.

  8. Re:Back to Front on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe that if you are getting any 'bonuses' on a corporate credit card, the bonuses count as ordinary income for tax purposes. That means the company should be doing withholding, paying FICA, etc. The accounting mess makes it much easier to just say 'no bonus cards'.

  9. Re: Trump will send Hillary to PRISON on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're Allen Iverson?

  10. Re:Always been fucky. on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    This is so wrong it is funny. Yes, the 'traditional' airlines used to have free luggage, and meals, blah blah blah. Then 'discount' airlines, like JetBlue, came along and at the same time online booking made it MUCH easier to shop on price. The discount airlines started taking significant business away from the the traditionals. So in order to COMPETE (oddly, the exact opposite of your claim), the traditional airlines had to find ways to lower prices, and they did. To say that these changes have not resulted in lower prices is the height of stupidity.

  11. Re:Can't avoid throwing the Leftist propaganda in on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    What a load of crap. Everybody makes 'value' judgements about another persons 'worth', whether they admit it or not. For instance, I am sure that all else being equal, you would prioritize a member of your family over a stranger.

  12. Re:They're not interested ... on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    But then you wind up with idiots arguing with the gate attendant and further clogging up the line. See recent stories about snowflakes and their 'emotional support animals' that they were stupid enough to believe they could take on the plane.

  13. It depends. If the transmitter is actually radiating on the TV channels frequency, then yes, the transmitter can be fined. However, if the problem is that his TV, telephone, and everything else are picking up legally transmitted signals then it is HIS problem.

  14. Wow, what a complete mis-reading of part 15.

    There is NO such requirement as 'accept interference without causing improper operation'. That statement is not a technical requirment, it is a regulatory one. What it means is 'as this is an unlicensed device, you have no regulatory recourse for any and all interference, including that which causes unwanted operation'.

    The second part is 'must not CAUSE interference' which means that if the device causes interference, regardless of the reason, you must stop using it.

  15. Re:How does it get harder to move to the shoulder? on Mitsubishi Electric Believes Its AI-enhanced Camera Systems Will Make Mirrors on Cars Obsolete (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Steering and brakes were and are mechanical. The hydraulic or electric bits (or vacuum for brakes) apply pressure to make it easier for you to steer/brake, but if they fail you can steer or brake (but it requires more effort).

  16. Re:Does no-one read instruments? on Mitsubishi Electric Believes Its AI-enhanced Camera Systems Will Make Mirrors on Cars Obsolete (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Have your eyes gotten to the point where you need 'cheater' glasses to read a menu? When that happens you will find out how dumb of an idea it is to have a screen you have to focus on.

    You absolutely DO NOT have to be able to focus your eyes to read a speedometer or other instruments. All you need to be able to do is see where the needle is pointing, which is FAR different from having to read text. Why do you think race cars have those nice, big, analog gauges instead of some stupid screen for the driver to look at?

  17. Mirrors are quite useful for determining if it is safe to get out of the car. I suppose if you are agile enough maybe you could turn around enough to see anything out the back and off to the side, but when I try that I mostly just see the headrest, B pillar, or seatbelt.

  18. Infinity focus happens at about 20 feet in humans (you know 20/20 vision), not 'mountains 10 miles away'. The signals, etc, certainly are at infinity, despite your 'assurance' to the contrary.

  19. Re:What does that mean? on MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired (mpegla.com) · · Score: 2

    You may not intend your words to mean what I said, but they do. While you want to portray paid service contracts as some sort of vendor lock in and something customers are forced into, companies don't view them that way. They view support contracts for what they are: contracts. They are a guarantee that you will be there to help them if they need it, and if you aren't, they have legal recourse against you. Absent a paid contract they have no such guarantee.

  20. Re:What does that mean? on MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired (mpegla.com) · · Score: 2

    I would hope it would be hard to make that argument. Who would be dumb enough to fall for it? Basically what you are saying is "bet your business on me, and once you pay me you are on your own".

    "I'll document it and show you how to fix everything yourself" pretty much means "besides the documentation, I have no special knowledge or skills that could help you if/when something goes wrong, but trust me, this is the best thing ever". Do you really expect anyone to fall for that?

  21. Re:What does that mean? on MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired (mpegla.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's called a budget. The operating expenses were already budgeted for, a capital outlay for your system was not. During the next planning cycle they could decide whether to spend some capital money on your system or something else.

    The only companies that spend capital without going through a budget cycle are startups burning though VC money.

  22. So your definition of censorship includes someone refusing to PAY you? Good one

  23. Re:what about the center core? on Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Prefers Clusters of Small Engines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They said that failure was because of lack of fuel, so more engines wouldn't help that.

  24. Mainframes? on Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Prefers Clusters of Small Engines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If nothing else, this shows Elon knows nothing about mainframe computers.

  25. Re:Sport used to be just for fun on Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Amateur sports are 'enjoyment' for the participants. Pro sports are enjoyment for the spectators - it is entertainment. Pro athletes are employees whose (well-paying) JOB is winning - of course they take it seriously.

    As for the training from an early age: you will find that characteristic in just about everyone who is at the very top of their field. Chances are excellent that a world-famous violinist has been at it from a very early age, does that prevent you from enjoying his concert? Same goes a renowned physicist - he was probably inside studying when the other kids were out playing.