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  1. Re:And that's still too long on Happy Public Domain Day: Works That Copyright Extension Stole From Us In 2015 · · Score: 1

    The obvious solution to this is to trademark the characters, that way the work can be released to the world but derivative works with the same characters or some portion of it couldn't be made without your permission.

  2. Re:And who will watch it? on South Korean Activist To Drop "The Interview" In North Korea Using Balloons · · Score: 1

    When I was stationed there the north did similar with pamphlets all the time. As an american solder we would pick them up, unable to read them. I asked a Korean solder what it said and he wouldn't even look at it and told me to get rid of it. The south wasn't (20+ years ago) much different.

  3. Re:What the hell is this guy smoking on The Billionaires' Space Club · · Score: 1

    Why would I want to launch something in space just to bring it back. If it's not required to insure the survival of the crew I could make it significantly lighter and cheaper, and instead of all that extra weight that will just be coming back for another trip I could be sending up that much more payload. This re-usable rocket bullshit is what stalled the space programs over the past 40+ years.

  4. Re:Eh on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that, if Jesus is in a group then there is a 50% chance the Issac Newton would be in the group as well?

  5. Re:More job loss on The Magic of Pallets · · Score: 1

    One man's /sarcasm tag is another man's political viewpoint.

  6. Re:Read the update on Docker Image Insecurity · · Score: 1

    Docket is a container, but not all containers are docker. I'm pretty sure Google doest down load their images from docker hub.

  7. Re:Yellow Journalism on The World Is Not Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    something about the way the videos are presented. If I catch a random person posting a video, recent from memory of a cat trying to catch fish through the ice of a frozen pond, people would think that is funny. If it was on the 5 o'clock news, they'd think, "People are getting shot and there is rioting and this is what they put on?"

    I don't know why but it seems if it's coming from professionals it should be bad news.

  8. Re:re on Docker Image Insecurity · · Score: 1

    Hmm, why not? If you're using docker in a production environment I'd hope you're building your own images, so where is the security concern? If you're just testing out software and testing builds then sure pull away from the docker hub, but if you're deploying to production you better have your own artifact repository storing your personal generated images.

  9. Re:Read the update on Docker Image Insecurity · · Score: 1

    for something that runs in a fenced network and only takes deploys and runs integration tests before being destroyed, I don't see how this is a huge problem?

    You mean people use docker to run production images?

  10. Re:Duck & Cover? on ESA Carries Out Asteroid Impact Drill · · Score: 2

    The problem with "give everybody X" schemes is where are all the X going to come from?

  11. Re:Old news. on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    I'd rather live in your universe.

  12. Re: More job loss on The Magic of Pallets · · Score: 1

    And even with this job reducing tech they are still able to find a need to ship millions of dollars of equipment annually.

  13. Re:More job loss on The Magic of Pallets · · Score: 2

    ...and becoming lawyers and bureaucrats.

    You've convinced me. remove my /sarcasm tag

  14. Re:That's weird on 26 Foot Long Boat 3D Printed In 100,000 Different Pieces · · Score: 1

    Ohh it's suppose to look like that? I just thought he was still working on the calibration of the 3d printers.

  15. More job loss on The Magic of Pallets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Think of the dock works who lost their jobs due to this "marvelous" invention. It's this efficiency and automation we have to fight against or nobody will have a job again. /sarcasm

  16. Re:Old news. on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    That is wonderful if everyone is a perfect driver such as yourself. Some people are not great drivers, some are distracted even for a second, that 4-5 is easily dropped to 1-2 just by checking your rear view mirror and dash gauges before looking up again.

    If the world were full of perfect drivers, with endless patients and no emotion, then your theory would hold mostly true. Until then we have to adjust for the world we live in.

  17. Re:Old news. on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    Yea, I'd only ever seen that in movies. I always thought it was a dramatic addition, I've still never seen it in the US but there are many parts of the US I've never been to.

  18. Re:Make it easier to hire people? on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 1

    In the end, life has to have a balance. There's not much point in fully automated everything if nobody has a job and is able to purchase the fruits of that automation. So either the products of industry will become so cheap as to be effectively free and the poor just have to go pick up the things they want, or there will have to be value that people can generate in exchange for the items they desire.

  19. Re:Old news. on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter what you or I do or what is or isn't safe driving. Fact is red light cameras reduced the safety of the over all driving experience.

  20. Re:Make it easier to hire people? on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 1

    The scale may be different but one man with a backhoe still displaces 100 men with shovels. Now it may be one man with a factory of robots displaces 1000 assembly line workers. Or one man watching a console of automated farm machines displaces 100 tractor drivers. In the past it was one man with a cotton gin could replace 100 slaves. or one caveman with a wheel and cart could carry back three knocked out mates to his cave.

    (*) except for the last example, man is used in the non gender specific man-kind form.

  21. Re:Good news, bad news on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just like any technical achievement with a creative destruction aftermath.

    The rich will get richer, and the poor will get richer too, they'll just continue to complain that their poor choices aren't responsible for their state.

  22. Re:Old news. on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually yes they did, due to the extra threat of photos people are more likely to slam on the brakes at the last second when it would be safer to continue through the intersection.

  23. Re:Zoning laws are tyranny on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    My lot was only recently begrudgingly incorporated into the city from the county island it was.

  24. Re:It will empower the few on AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us · · Score: 1

    Just like how the industrial revolution cut working time from 16+ hours a day 7 days a week to 10-12 hours a day 7 days a week. Then more tech has dropped that to 8+ hours a day that making anything mroe than a teenage job and doing some basic money management will give you a pretty good life. soon it will be 4+ hours 3 days a week will be enough to sustain an average family. People will look back in amazement how most people worked 40 hours a week and some people did 60+ just to survive. Sames as how we look back at the 12-16 hour 360+ days a year jobs of prior. And I'm sure they looked back at the nearly 24x7x365 that less primitive people had to live where they didn't get reasonable rest between fighting to survive and finding food.

  25. Re:I Don't Get It on Ubuntu Gets Container-Friendly "Snappy" Core · · Score: 1

    while not the lowest I'm sure my ID is lower than yours. And normally I would agree with you.