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  1. Re:the new slow dummies in the left lane on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You just identified the real issue "following too closely behind the vehicle in front of you" perhaps if there was a legislative/punitive or technological solution to this, issues relating to "traffic waves" would be solved.

  2. Re:Logic versus programming on Programming Education: Selling People a Lie? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 2
  3. Re:Why would premiums drop? on Will Autonomous Cars Be the Insurance Industry's Napster Moment? · · Score: 1

    Have you considered, maybe, shopping around to your agent's competitors?

  4. Biohacking? on The Biohacking Movement and Open Source Insulin · · Score: 1

    Is that what we're calling "genetic engineering" these days to keep the tin-hatters away?

  5. Re:Encryption across radio waves is illegal? on Anonymizing Wi-Fi Device Project Unexpectedly Halted · · Score: 4, Informative

    I haven't looked in to it, but the statement "They said it would use low-frequency radio channels to connect a computer to public Wi-Fi hotspots up to 2.5 miles away, thus obscuring a user's actual location." makes me believe it would be using the portion of the amateur radio spectrum that borders the wifi range (as is used by HSMM) and thus encryption is not allowed.

  6. My deck on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    Ono sendai cyperspace 7

  7. Re:This is America! on Freedom of Information Requests Turn Up Creationist Materials In Schools · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately there are very well educated people who chose to ignore the science side of academia.

    Your argument is logically inconsistent. They may be educated, but if they ignored the science curricula I don't think anyone would argue they were "well educated"

  8. Counter attack? on Developer Draws Legal Threat For Exposing Indian Telco's Net Neutrality Violation · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps someone should write a javascript library that can detect if this "ad injection" library has been injected to the page, counter/block its effects and display a notice to the viewer that their ISP is up to some jackassery. Now that would have value.

  9. Re:So basically on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Easy solution, privatize and let the shippers maintain the roads and they can charge the citizens what they will to use the company roads.

  10. Yes, because it's so very difficult to boil water...

  11. Re:Here's MY test on A Bechdel Test For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Your citation proves my point in the very last sentence. "but "Yes" if you extend interpretations to "intelligence," whatever that is."

    Basically that an IQ test score only tells you how well someone did on an IQ test and is not an objective measure of their intelligence or possible performance.

  12. Re:One-sided relationship on Chinese CA Issues Certificates To Impersonate Google · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now you know how the rest of the world has viewed America for the past 100 years.

  13. Re:Here's MY test on A Bechdel Test For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    But the IQ test has been decried time and again as favoring a specific cultural background over others and, the argument is, that it is inherently biased against non-whites.

  14. Re:Software defined radio frequency? on First Fully Digital Radio Transmitter Built Purely From Microprocessor Tech · · Score: 1

    Before you consider doing that you should look up "notice of apparent liability for forfeiture" I think the average fine is 25,000 for willfully transmitting when you don't have permission to do so. And the FCC has nice new direction finding equipment.

  15. Re:International waters on SpaceX's Challenge Against Blue Origins' Patent Fails To Take Off · · Score: 1

    Not nearly as much open space as there is in the pacific ocean. I imagine a rocket crashing in San Antonio would cause some concerns.

  16. Re:Alternate Bank of Canada Press Release on Star Trek Fans Told To Stop "Spocking" Canadian $5 Bill · · Score: 2

    This isn't entirely correct, you're not allowed to not take cash to settle a debt. If there's no debt, you're more than welcome to tell people to piss off with their bag of change.

  17. Re: One Word ... on As Big As Net Neutrality? FCC Kills State-Imposed Internet Monopolies · · Score: 1

    Specifically where congress did this bit:

    The stated purposes of the Act are "regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority theretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign commerce in wire and radio communication, there is hereby created a commission to be known as the 'Federal Communications Commission', which shall be constituted as hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and enforce the provisions of this Act."

  18. Re: One Word ... on As Big As Net Neutrality? FCC Kills State-Imposed Internet Monopolies · · Score: 2

    You mean an act of congress like the Communications Act of 1934?

  19. Re:Oh bullshit! on FedEx Won't Ship DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    companies don't have rights, only people do.

  20. Re:"all but confirm" English lesson on 'Babar' Malware Attributed To France · · Score: 1

    They present a lot of information that will lead to that conclusion, but do not themselves state that the conclusion is fact.

  21. Re:Humanoid? on Students Demo Firefighting Humanoid Robot On US Navy Ship · · Score: 2

    A better question is why not just lay the plumbing for an automatic fire suppression system throughout every compartment.

  22. Re:Same answer every time. on Ask Slashdot: With Whom Do You Entrust Your Long Term Data? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Encrypt your own data, store it where ever and hope it's not valuable enough for someone to bother cracking it.

  23. Re:VM? on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 1

    And it's much easier to get a "higher performance machine" in a blade server form factor, than you will ever get in a laptop.

  24. Re:"A related article suggests..." on FCC Favors Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know what your cable/internet bill looks like, but I'm already paying "bullshit utility taxes" on mine.

  25. Re:So who's taxes are paying for this? on The Luxury of a Bottomless Bucket of Bandwidth For Georgia Schools · · Score: 2

    I imagine it's paid for by the "technology use fees" paid by every student of the USG.