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  1. Re:Feedback Loop on Tesla Owner in Autopilot Crash Won't Sue, But Car Insurer May (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a big difference between the way Google is doing it and Tesla. I am completely behind Google's methodology. Tesla, not so much.

  2. Re:So are kinds of pain are equivalent to cold han on Marijuana Provides More Pain Relief For Men Than Woman, Says Study (psypost.org) · · Score: 1

    I had a motorcycle accident and shattered my big toe- had surgery and pins to fix it. The weird thing is that later that evening when the pain blocker wore off my foot 'remembered' the surgery. I experienced the entire thing- washing, pulling off the toenail, drilling. I wished I were dead.

  3. Re:Most driving is wasteful and boring on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like having my clutch leg start to spasm in stop and go traffic... so fun.

  4. Re:More proof on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    The OP specifically mentioned New Mexico ... and you attributed his observations to minorities being disadvantaged. Are you talking about New Mexico or not? Hispanics are not a minority in New Mexico, but rarely take up engineering. WTF are YOU talking about?

  5. Re:Good to hear. on AMD Says Upcoming Zen CPU Will Outperform Intel Broadwell-E (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Good to hear. on AMD Says Upcoming Zen CPU Will Outperform Intel Broadwell-E (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Incorporating the memory controller in the CPU and adding the 64 bit instruction set were AMD innovation and had nothing to do with Intel making mistakes.

  7. Re:Good to hear. on AMD Says Upcoming Zen CPU Will Outperform Intel Broadwell-E (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Should have been more specific/accurate... i7 family and 7 years old... but the point still stands.

  8. Re:Good to hear. on AMD Says Upcoming Zen CPU Will Outperform Intel Broadwell-E (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    They have had plenty of time to catch up... for Intel at best there is a 50% improvement over their own offerings from 7 or 8 years ago.

  9. Re:More proof on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    That's just plain wrong. I live in Albuquerque and while there are plenty of poor here there are a huge number of Hispanics with well paying jobs in every walk of life. It is to the point where you don't even think about it (ie there is nothing remarkable about it). So as the OP observed, why so little interest in CS or engineering? I doubt it is for a lack of computer.

  10. Re: When I don't want to change my phone on Too Many New Smartphone Models Released Each Year: Survey (livemint.com) · · Score: 1

    Perfect apple is a Vermont McIntosh... only available a few weeks out of the year. Tastes like candy :)

  11. Yeah I can get better deal with DSL but they always have pricing for one year and then you have to renegotiate, or you have to sign up for a year of service.... I absolutely hate this kind of stuff. All account setup is automated anyway don't give me BS about a contract... the cable is just month to month so I stick with it.

  12. Saying you "can't be swayed" is simply a negotiating tactic. Hopefully that will get the people with weak arguments or who are not passionate about their position to simply go away.

  13. Re:Where should that conversation happen? on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "Then where is the appropriate forum?"

    A political forum perhaps? The rest of us really don't want to hear from you.

  14. Re:This sounds great on Billionaire Launches Free Code College in California (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There are few or no computer jobs in West Virginia or Missippi Delta and a shortage of instructors. They give free rooms, so for the price of a bus ticket an enterprising rural student could give it a go....

  15. Re:Aging? on More Airline Outages Seen As Carriers Grapple With Aging Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If it isn't implemented with ROR or Node it is garbage.

  16. Important Question... on New Air-Gap Jumper Covertly Transmits Data in Hard-Drive Sounds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If the computer has a RAID array will this work and will the throughput be faster ? ;-)

  17. How about $286

  18. It's very easy to engineer a waterproof headphone jack and I believe this has been used on Galaxy S4/S5.

  19. Re:News for noobs on Next Generation of Wireless -- 5G -- Is All Hype (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Or to put it bluntly, "news for nobs"

  20. Re:They's right, probably on Next Generation of Wireless -- 5G -- Is All Hype (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Well hope springs eternal... maybe we can finally get some investment in last mile delivery. It would be a lot easier to justify the cost if it could be used by both cell carriers and home users.

  21. Why is it hype? on Next Generation of Wireless -- 5G -- Is All Hype (backchannel.com) · · Score: 0

    If it is reasonably faster than 4G and technically feasible for providers and cell phone manufacturers it's legitimate. Who cares what the technology is or if there is a standard?

  22. Re:Homestar Runner; Weebl's Stuff; Newgrounds on Google: Chrome 53 Will 'De-Emphasize Flash In Favor of HTML5' Next Month (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The number of people that care about what you are talking about is vanishingly small, like a fraction of a percent. The rest of us don't care.

  23. I would presume they came from parents....

  24. Google Grow a Pair on Google: Chrome 53 Will 'De-Emphasize Flash In Favor of HTML5' Next Month (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just remove it. Sure you will lose maybe .5% of users but you will put a stake in the heart of the monster, and those lost users will come back eventually.

  25. Re:Simple solution on London's Metropolitan Police Still Running 27,000 Windows XP Desktops (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    This idea has been discussed to death... the drivers and a lot of OS code is protected with NDA from various vendors so they can't release the source code.