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  1. Re: Rats fleeing a sinking ship on Tesla Autopilot Crisis Deepens With Loss of Third Autopilot Boss In 18 Months (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well if you want Apples to Apples, let's talk about how Autopilot cannot 'see' plainly visible concrete barriers, yet humans have their license taken away if their eyes are that poor.

  2. Re: Canadian Pharmaceutical Practices? on US Keeps China, Puts Canada on IP Priority Watch List (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife finds that generic T3s dont work as well for her migraines, we just pay the difference for the real thing.

  3. Re: Badge of Honour on US Keeps China, Puts Canada on IP Priority Watch List (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No one is stopping you from paying for it in the US.

  4. Re: LIDAR is the way to go on Tesla Autopilot Crisis Deepens With Loss of Third Autopilot Boss In 18 Months (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So if the real answer is that autonomous cars need both to be safe?

  5. Re: Rats fleeing a sinking ship on Tesla Autopilot Crisis Deepens With Loss of Third Autopilot Boss In 18 Months (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So this is the version where they got it not to kill people? Funny, I would have put that feature in first.

  6. I here the sound of taxes going up for the sake of autonomous driving.... again.

  7. Web consoles suck on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Like the New Gmail UI? (vortex.com) · · Score: 2

    Web consoles suck, period. They take twice as long to access and experience severe limitations in the way with which you can interact with them, even for something as simple as an email client.

  8. One day if I'm lucky I hope to buy a Crown Vic.

  9. The people who can afford new SUVs will be able to afford the gas for them for some time.

  10. Re: Electric cars are still toys on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus, you had better hope there is a Supercharger on the way home somewhere, I might add.

  11. Re: Electric cars are still toys on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, owns the dragstrip for *production cars* maybe. Ludicrus speed is still over a 10 second quarter mile, which is pretty much the beginning for "serious drag speed".

  12. Re:Look backwards. on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Because people with low intelligence can get a GUN in the US no matter whether they are working or not. It doesn't take much intelligence to take that gun and rob you or worse.

  13. Re:Not surprising on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're using 2020 conveniences then you aren't really living a '60s lifestyle, what ever that means.

  14. Re:Not surprising on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    What do I care

    I'm assuming that you don't have kids?

  15. Well, the USB-C ports in my 1.5 year old macbook pro are worn out already. IN fact, typing here on my bed, the power cable just fell out on its own AGAIN. The only micro-USB port I have ever worn out was in my Galaxy S3 and that took 4 years of plugging in several times a day.

  16. Re:They're probably all Democrats on Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, what I just described is a society with a complete lack of government regulation.

  17. Re:what about paying for drivers to buy cars with on Lyft Announces It Will Make All Rides Carbon Neutral (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    That's funny, I see very few EVs as Taxis where I live. Some used Prius for awhile have most have gone back to Chevy Caprice type vehicles. Maybe it has something to do with freezing temps down to -30F.

  18. Re:If only... on Lyft Announces It Will Make All Rides Carbon Neutral (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The current fact of the matter is, businesses that respect people's privacy don't make enough money to resist being bought out by / being crushed by the players that don't respect people's privacy.

  19. That your nightstand is a charging station has nothing to do with Apple. Every iOS device Apple has released in the last 5+ years has used the same lightning connector.

    Oh so we're supposed to be a good little iFamily and but only iProducts with the iLighting connector? Screw off, the best choice isn't always an Apple product. They are the standalone that doesn't work like everything else; don't try to make the claim otherwise. Besides, every Apple product doesn't have a lightning port. The iPhone 6 I use as an MP3 player has a lightning port, but my clock radio and bookshelf stereo has a 30-pin and my Macbook has USB-C. I mean really, it's enough to make your head spin. I can only take so much of the little capitalistic game that Apple plays.

  20. Re:Oh Really? on Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I've worked with good people in India, but large companies aren't getting those people at 1/10 the pay. Those people in my experience are really just capable of following direct orders so they need someone to direct things. I've been told it's because people with 'skills' quickly want to become part of management because of social status but I don't know how true this is.

  21. Re:They're probably all Democrats on Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Oops.. meant 'worse than communism'.

  22. Re:They're probably all Democrats on Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I know someone in Africa who worked until he could afford a juice cart. Finally he started to make a living for his family. That lasted a few months and warlords came and shot up his town. Possessions were taken, along with his juice cart. This is the world libertarians will have us in. Giving absolute power to people with no legal structure for which to obtain that power in is an absolute disaster every time. Worse than capitalism.

  23. Re:No single reason on Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I've always found the strategy short sighted. If you pick the people right, and by that I mean people with the capability and initiative to do it NOT the people with a stacked resume, then it isn't that hard to train them. If I was to run a startup, I would start somewhere with a good school and find people with those qualities. It's not really that hard to train them while you are working with them. SV startups are just kicking themselves in the ass before they start, paying it all up front; competing for high-priced talent with money that isn't even theirs.

  24. Sure.. USB dongles, a dongle for an HDMI monitor, a dongle to plug in headphones... I also have a family, and everyone has has their devices. Since the kids can't have them at night, dad's nightstand becomes a charging station. We don't need anything else to charge.

  25. Having to know where all your dongles are at all times just so you can do what you want to do without running around frantically for 1/2 hour first is quite a large burden. Remembering to plug in 10 tiny devices every night is a burden. Apple creates this situation, yet somehow get away with labeling themselves as easy to use. I want to own my devices, not for them to own me.