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  1. Re: Swedish Capital on Volvo Plans To Have Self-Driving Cars In Swedish City of Gothenburg By 2017 · · Score: 1

    The capitol building is in the capital and the capital is Stockholm. Stockholm is the capital city.

  2. s/you/GP/g

  3. If you're expecting a package to be delivered, I would check all the doors. Granted, if it was locked, I can see why it may not have crossed your mind.

  4. Re:drones are good, drones are bad on Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone · · Score: 1

    How is the idea green? These copters are running on either some sort of oil-derived fuel, or batteries (which you burn plenty of energy making as well), right? I have to assume that it takes a hell of a lot more energy to keep something this size airborne than the equivalent wheeled delivery gadget that drives on, say, sidewalks.

  5. Re:Hacker's delight on Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone · · Score: 1

    Sounds like we need to start working on those EM pulse guns then.

  6. You didn't open your front door for two months?

  7. And yet in WI, UPS wants me to sign for a $20 cocktail shaker during work hours...just leave the damn thing in between the doors!

  8. Re:Man invents new Security Camera! on R2-D2: Mall Cop · · Score: 1

    This strikes me as falling in the same general sphere as mall security: less "oh shit it's a cop, run!" and more "hey, that thing looks pretty sweet--we should steal it!"

  9. Re: 00000000 just as secure as 73618357 on Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World · · Score: 1

    WTF would it be a valid code then?!

  10. Re:Well... ya on Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World · · Score: 1

    There isn't any "OMG we hax the missiles!" shit that can go on.

    Famous Last Words. After all the shoddily-done systems we've heard about with security holes you could fly a B-52 through, you really think the nuclear system is invulnerable? Perfectly?

  11. Re:Google Chrome virtual machine? on Google Is Building a Way To Launch Chrome Apps Without Installation · · Score: 1

    Because stupid developers are limited to IE?

  12. Re:Intents and background apps without registry on Google Is Building a Way To Launch Chrome Apps Without Installation · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Text files in standardized locations, like how Linux does it, I assume?

  13. Re:Why You Shouldn't Buy a UHD 4K TV This Year on Why You Shouldn't Buy a UHD 4K TV This Year · · Score: 1

    2160 pees is what I give about this new standard.

  14. Re:Tried to do this to Martin Luther KIng on NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits · · Score: 1

    Considering all the stoning and ragging on prostitutes and whatnot, I'd really like to see some references for that.

    Presumably the latter part of your post is referencing Song of Solomon, which pretty specifically deals with relations between a husband and wife.

  15. Re:#irc.t8ollt4lk.com on NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits · · Score: 1

    For awhile there, they all included "gay" in there somewhere, too. What does it mean? o.o

  16. Re:Not news but great reminder on NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Clinton is really sticking his neck out there, being 67 and a former president and all. Sigh...well, I suppose this is about as much as I can realistically hope for.

  17. Re:Opportunities for fabricating evidence on NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits · · Score: 1

    Is it still slander if only the entity making the accusation actually cares if they did it?

  18. Re:Taxing is not going to fix the problem on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    Not at all, but if we don't choose to start somewhere, no progress will ever be made.

    It's a lot easier for me to control what I produce than to regulate China.

  19. Re:Easy to ACTUALLY solve on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I kind of don't see that the average consumer is going to get cheesed off about 5 cents a bag unless they're using 50+ bags a month (maybe people do, but I don't). Now, if each bag was a dollar...

  20. Re:Taxing is not going to fix the problem on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    By this logic, we should just throw up our hands because the biggest polluters are factories in China.

    Have a nice Earth. However long that lasts.

  21. Re:Perspective on cleavage on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    What, is the shifter between their legs? This isn't a cockpit.

  22. Re:anti-texting hivemind in full effect. on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    Until there are 0 murders, robberies, arsons, rapes, financial crimes,dog thefts,sugared soda sales, or $crime in the city, cracking down on drivers while texting should be pretty much of 0 importance.

    So that would be approximately two weeks after never. Your list of which 'crimes' we should care about is rather arbitrary. Drinking a soft drink is not going to kill any bystanders.

    I kind of agree with your original point however.

  23. Re:Why don't they just use technology? on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    -1 Horrible Idea

    You *have* been listening to all this wiretapping stuff, right? We give them an inch and they'll take a mile, and your suggestion sounds like significantly more than an inch. You'd have to listen to the entire network to catch some hypothetical car "in the last 3 minutes" anyway, too, which is terrific. From there, it's just one small step to actually reading the texts "to catch terrorists and pedos."

    Also problematic is if this is displayed on a tablet in his car if he's moving, which is more or less exactly what we're trying to prevent in the first place.

  24. Re:Cost-benefit analysis on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    I demand my constitutional right to get myself killed if I want!!

  25. Re:Cost-benefit analysis on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    Lots of people still driving normal cars + cops in SUVs with elevated bumpers + said cops looking into other vehicles while driving = what could possibly go wrong?