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  1. Re:Sure... on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    So, if it gets a repossession packet, who is liable for damages if the vehicle drives itself back to the dealership and has an accident between the owner's home and the dealership?

  2. Re:Some people could do it well on Dungeons & Dragons Is Getting a Film Franchise · · Score: 1

    Joss probably could do a fun D&D movie but if he isn't with Marvel then I'd rather see him doing original stuff. J.J. Abrams although swamped, does very well with character-centric stories which is a particularly fitting treatment for D&D as source.

  3. Re:They'll do it wrong. Let's buy the rights. on Dungeons & Dragons Is Getting a Film Franchise · · Score: 1

    In one of the announcements that I read yesterday, Hasbro mentioned something about using the Realms.

  4. Re:Mechanism? on Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip · · Score: 1

    Unnecessarily encouraging interaction from these hostile creatures in my surrounding environment seems like a very abnormal thing to do.

  5. Re:Juat another euphemism... on Hillary Clinton Takes Aim At 'Gig Economy' · · Score: 1

    I started my career with Manpower. There was healthcare and a 401k program. That isn't nearly the same thing as what gp was talking about.

  6. Re:"What's ONE really good way to do that?" on On Managing Developers · · Score: 1

    I left my last job for that reason also, but on the other hand I'm not in my current job because that is the best compensation possible. It is reasonable compensation for a job that offers continued and varied meaningful and interesting tasks.

  7. Re:If it were easy on On Managing Developers · · Score: 1

    He just said that he wasn't interested in leaving first line management.

  8. Re: Exodus on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    Based on the resource infrastructure in the western world. Even if it hit tomorrow, it is very likely the equipment and the experts won't reach everyone on the planet any time soon.

  9. Re:Virus on Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners · · Score: 4, Funny

    This isn't new. I've had one of those for 7 years, another for 5, and another that hasn't activated yet that is 9 months. Even before my personal experiences, I've known of these viruses in the wild for as long as I've been alive.

  10. Re:Arrogant bastards on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 1

    "Google presumes to know what is good for boys and girls. They presume to know better than the parents of those boys and girls. They presume to know more than the boys and girls themselves." Google probably has a lot more data on what boys and girls want than either the parents or the children, probably even for a particular set of children.

  11. Re:Easy! on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but then the submitter doesn't have to sift through all the snarky comments to get an answer.

  12. Re:Correction on Comcast Brings Fiber To City That It Sued 7 Years Ago To Stop Fiber Rollout · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, the fiber roll out was done to support smart metering by the utility. Much of the infrastructure the city is supporting for fiber to the house is supported by electricity costs not the internet cost. It is hard enough to undercut the competition if it is a government provider, but this is a government provider that is providing a lot of the business expenses through a service sector you can't even compete in.

  13. Re:Benghazzzzzzzzi on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Innocent until proven guilty is one of the great achievements for human justice. This isn't about the standards for administering a punishment; this is about the standards for administering a reward. Not only a reward, a reward that could help or harm every one of us. Sorry, innocent until proven guilty just doesn't cut it for me for voting. The Clintons have a strong reputation of not being proven guilty.

  14. ESA on ESA Rebukes EFF's Request To Exempt Abandoned Games From Some DMCA Rules · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am on the EFF's side here, but isn't it the game industry's job? If the game industry wants to be taken seriously artistically, it is ultimately the industry's duty to set up ways to preserve the art. If the industry won't take itself seriously, then individuals attempting preservation are going to end up being blocked over and over again by whatever form our trademark and copyright laws take.

  15. Stress? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 1

    I know a bunch of people whose blood pressure skyrockets whenever climate change is mentioned...

  16. Re:No kidding ... on Research Finds Shoddy Security On Connected Home Gateways · · Score: 1

    Do I care if my valuables that can only be accessed virtually are protected by virtual security? Yes. Do I care that my valuables that can only be accessed physically have a virtual security flaw that is not any bigger than the security flaws with my existing traditional physical security? Not one bit.

  17. Re:No kidding ... on Research Finds Shoddy Security On Connected Home Gateways · · Score: 1

    Manufacturers should be investing in security, but me avoiding IoT devices that I find useful over security issues is pretty pointless.

  18. Re:No kidding ... on Research Finds Shoddy Security On Connected Home Gateways · · Score: 1

    My regular locks can be bypassed by any idiot with a brick. If you've got enough intelligence to bypass a connected lock, then you've got enough intelligence to get into my house past my normal locks and probably just as quietly.

  19. Re:What on earth on No Fuel In the Fukushima Reactor #1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank you. I'm now glad I never finished my hole through to the other side of the earth. My parents would have been loads of pissed when the Indian ocean drained out into our yard.

  20. Re:commercials and young kids on "Hello Barbie" Listens To Children Via Cloud · · Score: 1

    I see your children have played neither Skylanders nor Disney Infinity.

  21. Re:Cody Wilson wants to help you make a gun on Cody Wilson Wants To Help You Make a Gun · · Score: 1

    I work with some of those former military types. From some of my talks with them: It is also important to note that active duty military are required to follow lawful orders, not all orders. It is the duty of any military member to immediately detain someone issuing an unlawful order regardless of rank. Not having served myself, I don't know how this matches the military regulations, but that isa seemingly widely held understanding of their obligation. It seems a bit naive to consider the military as a cohesive pro-government force if an issue is big enough for a significant number of civilian gun-owners revolt.

  22. Re:Rock and Roll wouldn't EXIST without "stealing" on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lawyers don't commit theft; if for no other reason than lawyers write all the laws, interpret all the laws, and for the most part hold all the highest level law executive positions.

  23. Re:Write-only code. on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    STL was a dirty word in the CS program I attended. It wasn't introduced until the very last day and it was essentially: Here are some standard classes to use or not. My first job I was the lone developer and I rolled a lot of stuff on my own. I feel bad for whoever has to maintain that code now because instead of using well-used, presumably well-tested STL classes there are a bunch of one off classes that are used in one package written by one very young developer with no tester. I may lose something for leaning on the STL stuff but I've gained a whole bunch of testers as well. That last part usually goes a lot further than anything I'd get from rolling my own.

  24. Live feed too? on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 3

    I'm sure they'd be even better at their jobs if the citizens would just let them in on a live feed of said CCTV cameras. This is of course just a stop-gap measure until everyone can be fitted with crime-detecting locator chips.

  25. Re:Baking political correctness in society on Yik Yak Raises Controversy On College Campuses · · Score: 1

    I was wondering what got you on double secret probation. I was on secret probation once. I didn't find out until suspension that I was ever on probation.