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  1. Re:So long truckers on How Ubiquitous Autonomous Cars Could Affect Society (Video) · · Score: 1

    Except the robot wouldn't be held by emotions, sleep deprivation, boredom, anxiousness, desire to get home, desire to get to destination etc... all contributing to his desire to travel faster than s/he should for the current road conditions that get him into that situation in the first place.

  2. Re:big box stores are dying on Best Buy To Carve Out Space For Microsoft Stores · · Score: 1

    sure they will, Hell that $3 HDMI cable is in the BB bin for 7.99. Just because they also carry the high end ones doesn't mean they don't also have the generic ones.

  3. Re:Disposable cell phone on Ask Slashdot: How To Bypass Gov't Spying On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    Here in Phoenix I think you'd stand out a little more than many places if you're wearing a balaclava.

  4. Re:big box stores are dying on Best Buy To Carve Out Space For Microsoft Stores · · Score: 1

    Perhaps BB's price matching will then? Why buy from Amazon and wait for shipping when you can walk in to BB and walk out with what you were looking for at the same price.

  5. Re:I walked by a "Microsoft Store" the other day on Best Buy To Carve Out Space For Microsoft Stores · · Score: 1

    The last 6-9 months has been the worst time ever for java updates. Most all the most recent releases have screwed up our business critical apps on Windows and Linux as well. I don't think I'd blame apple for that one. We have had to roll back many versions in our dev environments because they just wouldn't run existing code.

  6. Re:Russia? Please... they were amateurs. on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 1

    The largest 3rd party would be your choice then. Look for them on your ballot in your state, they are almost always there.

  7. Re:Cloud computing platform on Can Red Hat Do For OpenStack What It Did For Linux? · · Score: 1

    If you think of a development diagram where you map the interfaces of your application, often times the back end will be a cloud similar to this image which isn't the best example but all I could pull up in a hurry. It basically means we don't really care what's in this part of the application as that is someone else's responsibility.

    Things like AWS gives you the illusion of a full server in their cloud. The idea being you don't care what the back end is, you just care on the unit of performance they provide and "trust" they are doing the right thing in the back ground.

  8. Re:This just in.... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    So you're saying we could empirically take everyone and line them up according to their intelligence? Maybe you should take a class in reality. At what precession would it take to actually distinguish the large number of people with a 100IQ? What test gets that precession?

  9. Re:This just in.... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    Except it hassn't been a bell curve and more like an upside down bathtub curve with a large flat top.

  10. Re:Or... on World Population Could Reach Nearly 11 Billion By 2100 · · Score: 1

    Or it could cause heavy rainfall and refertilization of aired land.

  11. Re:Fearmongering in 3...2...1... on World Population Could Reach Nearly 11 Billion By 2100 · · Score: 1

    And exactly what is going to get all this extra food production going? Good wishes?

    That's not just good wishes but good wishes of another 5Billion people. I'm pretty sure a couple of them will help out.

  12. Re:This just in.... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 0

    except that is only true if intelligence is a purely straight line going from dumb to genius, which it is not. there isn't a number 1 most average person, but a large group of people that would all fit in the group. The people above and below that level are going to be much less than ~50%. Parroting a saying without understanding I'd guess puts you in that group.

  13. Re:HTTPS is not safe either on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 1

    That is only useful if the NSA wants to spoof the site you are connecting too. The authentication key is not the same as the transport key which is randomly generated per connection and forgotten afterwards.
    1. Negotiate cipher suites and compression algorithms.

    2. Authenticate the server to the client and, optionally, authenticate the client to the server through certificates and public or private keys.

    3. Exchange random numbers and a pre-master secret. Together with some further data, these values will be used to create the shared secret key that the Record Layer will use to hash and encrypt application data. The shared secret key is called the Master Secret.

  14. Re:Security through obscurity on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't NSA stand for Not San Antonio?

  15. Re:Interesting on First Look At Ubuntu Touch, the Smartphone OS · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Phone-based ransom-ware? on Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense · · Score: 2

    But they do have a VIN that, if it shows up somewhere the car is impounded and possibly returned to the proper owner or insurance carrier at some point.

  17. Re:Short on details on Nicaragua Gives Chinese Firm Contract To Build Alternative To Panama Canal · · Score: 1

    except that just a quick look at google maps, Panama is slight more than 20 miles across, even with the lake Nicaragua would have to dig more than 60 miles of canal to get across.

  18. Re:"Liberty-Minded"? on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    You are correct:
    One side of the comparison finds comfort in what they have built up around them even though they complain to friends about the abuses and controlling nature. They keep saying this time things will be different. Only to be given more of the same. Sometimes a few breadcrumbs are dropped for you and you think hey things are starting to get better. Only to find out that more is being taken away from you then ever. Leaving doesn't seem like an option because where would you start over? Would things really be different? You can plead and beg, but the lies have buried any sense of hope you may have in that. So you continue on with what you have rather than make the change needed to help yourself.

    The other side of the comparison shouldn't have burnt the meat loaf.

  19. Re:"Liberty-Minded"? on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    And that is all they should be for. Now you are getting to the point of what a Libertarian is.

  20. Re:Taxation wrong? Sorry, don't get it. Foreign. on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    Sarcasm, I love it.

  21. Re:"Liberty-Minded"? on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    That's as stupid as saying the battered wife really just wants to be beaten regularly.

  22. Re:"Liberty-Minded"? on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    Sounds right to me. Make sure that all interactions are mutually agreed to. Never force someone to do something they don't want to do.

  23. Re:Taxation wrong? Sorry, don't get it. Foreign. on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    "...The right not to be hungry. The right to healthcare. The right to education. The right to vote. The right to work. The right to warmth, clothing and shelter."

    Also known as:

    "The right not to force others to give me food at the point of a gun. The right to force doctors to provide medical services or someone else to pay them at the point of a gun. The right to force others to pay for my education at the point of a gun. The right to vote. The right to force someone to give me a job at the point of a gun. The right to force someone to give me warmth, clothing and shelter at the point of a gun."

    There was one in there that you had right. Although some countries have posted that one at the point of a gun as well.

  24. Re:And we all know what will happen... on NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress · · Score: 1

    which is why we need libertarian policy at the federal level. Vote what ever socialist crap you want at state and local levels, but leave that crap out of the federal government.

  25. Re:And we all know what will happen... on NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress · · Score: 1

    Let's take the communist slogan to start with: "From each according to his ability. To each according to his need."

    Which means take from those who work harder and give to those who don't work as hard. How about repealing tax cuts for the "rich" that fits pretty much 100% How about the national health care system designed to give to people who need but cant afford. Pretty much fits the slogan right there. Now those are just two of the easier ones, there are many others.