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  1. Re:10x more job loss than coal on Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, many of those truck drivers have to mortgage their own truck on that and they are away from their families 90% of their life. That's why the pay.

  2. Re:offshoring on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 1

    If infrastructure is great in India, why can't they work when they go to their local village to visit their sick family? Why is the network always going down? Why do their voices sound fuzzy to the point of not being able to understand them in every phone call?

  3. Re:60 hours a week? on Black Friday Protest Sites Included An Amazon Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but no one wants to be forced to work 60 hours a week.

  4. Re:Um... so what? on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought you meant a government sponsored licensing board. Must be regulated by government. No other way. And yes I know they can become corrupt to but so does anyone.

  5. Re: Tesla builds shit cars on Consumer Reports: Tesla's Model X Is 'Fast and Flawed' (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a lot easier to find windy roads to drive down than it is long straight roads. A well handling car is more fun to drive in traffic. Straight line is fun (I have a straight line car. chevy big block) but I grew out of it years ago and I would want more from a car that expensive.

  6. Re: So don't use apps on Android Malware Used To Hack and Steal Tesla Car (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    YES that's what I'm saying. I'm not saying Tesla should pull their app, I'm saying it is their choice whether they pull the app or not. If Android was not secure enough to host their app then they shouldn't have made it. You can use the car without the app, so buy and iPhone or suck it up; and I am a adamant Android user. Maybe you aren't familiar with programming but an app is only as secure as the OS it sits on. Tesla should have researched Android and knew what they were getting into. It seems like they just rush head long into everything and expect their customers to take the risk and blame. Anyway the app itself stored the tokens in plain text which was wrong, but I think it goes far beyond that.

    On the other hand, I guess if a high tech company like Tesla feels Android is safe enough, then all the complaints about Android security are hot air. Nor will Google ever have any inventive to improve it.

  7. Re:Who cares on Consumer Reports: Tesla's Model X Is 'Fast and Flawed' (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Well personally I'm glad about that. Not that I would ever buy a Tesla but I would sure want to know if I was paying that much for a car that didn't even have the power windows right. That screams safety hazard right there. If they can't do that, how would you expect them to make a car with a frame that can hold all that torque for the lifetime of a car.

  8. Re: Tesla builds shit cars on Consumer Reports: Tesla's Model X Is 'Fast and Flawed' (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you ever drive your BMWs fast around a corner? I'm pretty sure it would be night and day. Driving fast in a straight line gets old fast.

  9. Re: Tesla builds shit cars on Consumer Reports: Tesla's Model X Is 'Fast and Flawed' (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    They are fun to drive in a straight line but they corner like shit. Wooo lots of fun accelerating hard from light to light.

  10. Re:Tesla builds shit cars on Consumer Reports: Tesla's Model X Is 'Fast and Flawed' (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    WT FUCK does that have to do with doors stopping and trim falling off?

  11. Re:Careful my little homies..... on Consumer Reports: Tesla's Model X Is 'Fast and Flawed' (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    All the news I see about Tesla is bad news. Elon has assured me that it is all fake!

  12. Large companies are allowed to get the focus of school year kids and you think they won't advertise? Wow, just wow. Next we'll hear that Trump is milking the American public for all they are worth!

  13. Re: Um... so what? on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    There needs to be a minimum amount of safety in any business catering to the public.

  14. Re: Um... so what? on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem was already solved. Traditional taxis. It's up to someone who thinks the new way is better to solve it.

  15. Re:Um... so what? on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually it's going to be a licensing board. It's to easy for a business to fake credentials without one.

  16. Re:Um... so what? on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The 2% doesn't just consist of people living in certain areas, it also consists of people who are physically disabled who cannot use a regular vehicle. Currently most taxi services must provide these services, but Uber does not.

  17. Re:software patents all over again on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking I should start a food sharing service in my back yard that matches people to food that they may me for and I prepare. Think of all the health and safety regulations I could avoid!

  18. Re:Digital + Physical services is the key, not onl on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You could say requiring restaurants to have stainless steel surfaces that can be cleaned properly and don't transfer dangerous bacteria prevents restaurants from progressing because it becomes immensely more expensive to open a restaurant.. yet you're not complaining about that.

  19. Re:Um... so what? on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife has had lymph nodes out and if she goes to a salon and they use cuticle pushers incorrectly and break her skin she could be in deep trouble. So yes, there needs to be a minimum ounce of safety even for salons.

  20. Re:Um... so what? on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    attacked*

  21. Re:Um... so what? on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Listen I know with Trump and everything equality seems to be going out of style, but it is a pretty shitty society that turns their backs on that 2%. In fact that is pretty much the gold standard of how well a society treats its members. And anyway if you count all the people who may be raped or attached in some other way it is far higher than 2%.

  22. Re: So don't use apps on Android Malware Used To Hack and Steal Tesla Car (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not their fault that Android is a security risk. You're putting words into my mouth.

    Tesla can't control Android, but they can decide whether they put their app on Android or not. If Tesla is comfortable putting their name behind an Android app that can start cars, then obviously they don't think Android is the POS that you think it is. They wrote the app, they can accept the risk for it. Or, they could only publish on iPhone only and say, "We're sorry we did not feel Android was secure enough for an app that starts our cars."

    It is about Tesla taking responsibility for their actions.

  23. Re: So don't use apps on Android Malware Used To Hack and Steal Tesla Car (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla could have only released the app on iPhone, or sold an iPhone with Tesla, no one is preventing them from doing that. They made the choice to release the app on Android so now they should stand by it.

  24. Re:If all you have is a hammer... on MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is how something like MongoDB optimizes searching. In a relational database the focus is on the field, so if you want to search by last name and date or by order number you make an index that has last name and date fields, and another that has order number. If the whole order is just one glob, how do you signify that certain fields should be made more efficient than others?

  25. Re:Customer service on Android Malware Used To Hack and Steal Tesla Car (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    As a Tesla owner, I didn't put the app on Android. Therefore it is more like Tesla handing your keys to some guy wearing a red coat and hat outside a posh restaurant. Or at the very least, it is like handing the valet the key that isn't supposed to open the trunk but yet finding something from the trunk missing because there was a flaw with the key that allowed the valet to open the trunk after all.