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  1. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    BWAHAHAHahhahahahha.

    Nice.

  2. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    They can stop your dumb car now..

    All they have to do is have the lights all go red and you will be trapped in traffic.

    And we need more central planning and infrastructure to support capitalistic industry in a way it doesn't crush the people.

    Interesting note. Do you know who has the best record for turning over NSA error and illegal tapping to the courts? The NSA. We know that becasue Obama pressured the courts into releasing documentation, something the varies 3 letter agencies where happy about.

    Funny, all that came out from Snowden, but no one talks about that. No one talks about the fact that the possible illegal* searches they did was far less then 1% of their total searchers, and people were punished for it.
    I don't say that to excuse them, just to give some perspective, cause the media won't.

    *While some would be obvious to everyone, there is some grey uninterpreted areas.

  3. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    oh great, now I want a falafel kabob.

    I would expect the "fallafel (sic) kebab jihad" is the one that comes with hot peppers?

    Did you know the kebob was invented in america? along the Jesus and guns.

  4. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    without the yelling, funny smell, cost, and bad driving.

  5. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    Then you should study human response.
    About one summer of that will convince you otherwise.
    Yes, yes, we all love the story of the heroic cigar chomping man making a daring and last minute maneuver to save the day!

    But computer system end up in those situations less, and respond quickly. Many automated system ca detect a problem and respond before you could register the flashing red warning light.

  6. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 2

    It adds an hour to each side of my commute, and it saves me exactly no money.

    "compared to the expense of a car/gas/maintenance it could almost be considered steeling"
    um, no. In fact when I calculated it last year, its was 5 cents more a day to take the bus.

    You're just reiterating the lies put out be various Bus Companies.

  7. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    gas was 50 cents a gallon when you were a teen?
    Get off the road, gramps.

  8. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    Just so you know, the old people get the more likely they are to CAUSE accidents.

  9. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 3, Informative

    Stop dictating what other people consider fun.
    Jeez, a Fun Nazi.

  10. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 2

    Never own a manual transmission? someone take this guy's sports cars away.

    And they will probably go away in your life time, and that's a good thing overall.
    Just so you know, I have raced, love muscle cars, I have taken several driving course to learn a variety of skill sets.
    I love driving so much I'm GLAD when my wife asks me to go to the store.

    That era is passing. Just like horse drawn carriages.

  11. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 3, Funny

    Another driver thingk he's better then everyone else.

    Shocking.
    300,000 miles? noob.
    I am also above average at driving, just like everyone else.

  12. Too bad all the increased data only made stronger evidence for his claim, i'm not sure why they 'made you wan to vomit*'
    The hockey stick is still there, all the new data supports it. Dozens of more studies have been done with that data.

    *frankly, I've never wanted to vomit.

  13. Re:Why worry about Category 5 or 6? on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 1

    so complete shut down, billions in damage, compete destruction of 100s of automobiles is now a minor conveniences?

  14. There was talk of adding a 6 on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 2

    Open ended doesn't mean there isn't room for another category. Category is based on damage to a home. SO Cat 5 means 'highly likely to destroy a house'.
    also takes out most the windows in a high rise building..

    But what happens when they start making high rises uninhabitable and need to be torn down?
    That would mean they would need to add a category.
    It's science. If new data or events start to happen the science with adjust to fit the data.

    http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/sshws_table.pdf

  15. Re:Wrong on Ubuntu Edge Draws Nearly $13M, But Falls Short of Indiegogo Goal · · Score: 1

    they searched the Web, not the internet.

  16. Re:Of course it did on Ubuntu Edge Draws Nearly $13M, But Falls Short of Indiegogo Goal · · Score: 1

    Is that the same rigor of thinking you apply to your experiments?

  17. Re:Of course it did on Ubuntu Edge Draws Nearly $13M, But Falls Short of Indiegogo Goal · · Score: 1

    minimus slashdotium numerium must be the new logical fallacy.

  18. In on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I love driving. Everything about it, but even I want it. Better driving from everyone. Safer, better traffic, and you can play board games with the family while driving down the road.
    All around awesome.

    I wouldn't feel safe. I know I would be safer, but at first it would feel dangerous. That's from years of driving and being driven.

  19. Re:Theres already an app for that ... on Motorola Uses NFC To Enable Touch-to-Unlock For Smartphones · · Score: 1

    It will pair with any NFC key. So if you are using one for something else you could use that. You could get one of those NFC rings.
    Maybe an old CC card?

  20. Re:And what ? on Motorola Uses NFC To Enable Touch-to-Unlock For Smartphones · · Score: 2

    Actually, the hard it gets the less crime there is. You don't really need to raise that bar very far.

  21. Re:3 pillars... on Motorola Uses NFC To Enable Touch-to-Unlock For Smartphones · · Score: 1

    It's in its infancy, and not kool aid.
    That said, the vast majority of unexpected phone access come from people leaving their phone someplace. What are the odds that the person who finds it ALSO has a picture of you?

    Security isn't about absolutes, it's about layers, risk, percentages and time.

    The issue you bring up have been solved in high end racial recognition tools.
    Eventually the phone.

  22. Re:My first thought ... on Dentist Wants To Clone John Lennon Using DNA Extracted From Lennon's Tooth · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume he traveled backwards?

  23. Re:The US should stay out of it on Syrian Rebels Claim Hundreds Killed By Poison-Gas Attack · · Score: 1

    "Naive isolationism has such a weird attraction to Americans."
    to loud mouth Americans that haven't actually read history.
    The rest of us are well aware of the dangers of isolation.

  24. Re:The US should stay out of it on Syrian Rebels Claim Hundreds Killed By Poison-Gas Attack · · Score: 1

    They have been violently attack and going into other peoples territories far longer then the US has existed.

  25. Re:The US should stay out of it on Syrian Rebels Claim Hundreds Killed By Poison-Gas Attack · · Score: 1

    Except crazy takes others with it.