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  1. Re:Step 6) Uber/Lyft loses, Government wins. on UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration · · Score: 1

    What untraceability? You have to put a credit card number there. That, and those aren't australian companies. Good luck enforcing fines and other levvies.

  2. Re:Drivers, not gov't are choosing to deny rides. on UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration · · Score: 1

    Can you just enter their DMV, take some tests, survey their car, prove that they have some insurance (and no criminal record) and start driving their cab? Because if they can, you're right. If they can't (because of cab quotas), then you are totally wrong.

  3. Re:Cat and mouse game... on UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration · · Score: 1

    Step 5) Government employee is blacklisted by Uber/Lyft, can't repeat Steps 1-4 Step 6) wins whoever has more resources: Uber/Lyft or the Government That is actually awesome, I'm not even mad.

  4. Re:Good luck with that ... on The Difficulty In Getting a Machine To Forget Anything · · Score: 1

    There is something else: no one would EVER use a scheme like the proposed, because if you don't keep the originating data and you anonymize properly you can always have plausible deniability and you always can say "your data is not a part of our database".

  5. air bubbles.

  6. Re:NeXT on A FreeBSD "Spork" With Touches of NeXT and OS X: NeXTBSD · · Score: 1

    it's XWindow

  7. Re: When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    s/Some people/All people/

  8. Re:HOSTS file on How To Keep Microsoft's Nose Out of Your Personal Data In Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    The "telemetry" think might opt to accumulate your data and just send it at the first opportunity (when you connect to some other network, like starbucks' or something).

  9. Re: HOSTS file on How To Keep Microsoft's Nose Out of Your Personal Data In Windows 10 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The option to block microsoft's domains, via any interface. People already established that somethingsomethingspysomething.dll bypasses the hosts file, the dns lookups and the firewall (and who knows what else) when talking to the mothership.

  10. Re:Fragmentation is a lesser evil on Why Modular Smartphones Are Such a Nightmare To Develop · · Score: 1

    adb and fastboot are your friends :D

  11. Re:Movie remake in 5..4..3.... on Stephen Hawking Presents Theory On Getting Information Out of a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Han will shoot first because in extreme gravity conditions you can assume simultaneity does not exist?

  12. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 0

    What do you mean by "perfect"? "Pixel-perfect similitude"?

  13. Re:nothing new under the sun on Affair Site Hackers Threaten Release of All User Data Unless It Closes · · Score: 1

    4) someone whose bet is to devaluate the upcoming IPO, so shares sell cheaper than they should at start, wait for them to regain actual value, ..., profit?

  14. Re:Question about deep space pictures on NASA Unveils Historic Pictures of Pluto · · Score: 1

    the amount of light that is cast on an object is exponential with regard to distance, that means that the sun is shining a ridiculous amount of light onto Pluto compared with any other star. I would even bet that the sun illuminates the surface of Pluto significantly more than every other star combined.

    nitpicking: the amount of light is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.

    Yes, probably most/almost all of the light reflected in the surface of Pluto into the camera comes from Sol.

  15. Re:You guys act as if this stuff were simple... on The Cure Culture: Our Obsession With Cures That Are 'Just Around the Corner' · · Score: 1

    You want cures? Commit to the hard work they take to find.

    Capital won't commit to that if it means that it will profit less curing than managing an ailment.

  16. "The Cure Culture" on The Cure Culture: Our Obsession With Cures That Are 'Just Around the Corner' · · Score: 1

    that's the most eclectic 1980's revival band name.

  17. Re:Irrelevant on First Java 0-Day In 2 Years Exploited By Pawn Storm Hackers · · Score: 2

    Who gives a fuck about the Java plugin?

    Every single adult who has a bank account?

    (At least in my country, every single bank uses the java plugin in the internet banking site.)

  18. Re:Depends on Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? · · Score: 2

    Because at work I have to install all kinds of Adobe crap and Java, and other software that uses proprietary files and each piece of crap "requires" something running in the background. They don't actually require it, but Windows allows it anyway. And let's not mention the fact that you really can't do anything about it, because the developers of those software packages are so used to it, that you will probably break them if you try to do things the Right Way(tm).

    Here, at work, we image the PCs (we have 3000+) before sending them to the final users. One thing we do in our images is to disable autoupdates (Java, Adobe, Chrome, Firefox &c), and that makes the computers much snappier. We also filter the Windows Updates, pointing WU to an internal server. That makes the machines snappier in general. (Obviously, we keep one eye for security updates and push those to the users on the logon script, as needed).

  19. Re:The Fuck? on MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project · · Score: 1

    MySQL is free and quick and dirty. Use Oracle, MSSQL and I've heard great things about Postgres. I have experience with the first two, and you can do some amazing things if you know what you are doing. They cost that much for a reason.

    But probably not the reason you think. :D They cost that much so that some CIO can cover his arse when something goes terribly wrong with the corporate database... "we are waiting for Oracle support to tend to our ticket."

  20. Re:The Fuck? on MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project · · Score: 1

    Yes, if there's one thing professional programmers (and their PHBs) love, it's code that's almost certain to work.

    It's actually the best kind; there are two types of code, code that's almost certain to work and code that's almost certain not to work...

  21. Re:I feel like Rip van Winkle on Docker and CoreOS Join Together For Open Container Project At Linux Foundation · · Score: 4, Informative

    I will assume your question is serious. Posix never isolated processes. One process can see other processes' files, ports, and even the processes themselves. That is what containers are about: your web browser cannot see your email client's files and vice-versa (so a vulnerability in one process cannot give you access to the content of the other).

  22. Re: Not spider thread. Yeast string. on Spider Silk Finally Ready For Commercialization · · Score: 2

    The spinnerette on a spider puts the blocks together correctly as it extrudes the filament. A fermentation vat can't / won't.

    Apparently, the article has a photo of a synthetic spinneret-like thingy that does that now.

  23. Re:Save this crap for rentals on GM To Offer Apple CarPlay and Android Auto API In Most 2016 Vehicles · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with "infotainment" as long as it's audio. People have been listening to car radios without problems for many decades.

    Well, actually, EVERYTHING increases the risk of accidents. And "without problems" is really an euphemism for "cars already kill thousands of people per year, so we really don't want to think real hard about what causes those >"... http://www.monash.edu.au/miri/...

  24. Re:touch does not belong in cars! on GM To Offer Apple CarPlay and Android Auto API In Most 2016 Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's the way you speak.

    Yeah, you are speaking WRONG! :P

  25. Re:To be more specific ... on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In almost thirty years as a professional, I can say I have *NEVER* never never ever being to a productive meeting. A meeting that soothed some insecurity by a boss or client? Sure. A meeting where real decisions where taken after meaningful conversation and discussion? Nope.