User: FranTaylor

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On: Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise

Your car will FAIL INSPECTION with a fault light

You CANNOT legally drive your car without inspection

You DO NOT have to get your computer inspected, you can CONTINUE to use it with the lit fault light.

Re:Copyright forever and a day

On: Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise

That is a STRETCH by any account

HOWEVER

Saab is OUT OF BUSINESS, they don't own ANYTHING.

If you "own" a Saab, there is NO QUESTION that it belongs to YOU

Re:As a classic car enthusiast...

On: Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise

They come off the same line as the other ICs they just survived the higher/lower testing and thus received the special rating.

NOT TRUE!!!

Under-hood GRADE 0 parts are made with DIFFERENT PLASTIC to withstand -40C to +150C temperatures

They DO NOT "come off the same line"

Re:medallions look like a "bubble" waiting to burs

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

I LOVE it that a medallion costs a MILLION DOLLARS

It means that the cab driver is a SERIOUS BUSINESS PERSON and he will treat me in a professional manner.

Re:One company?

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

Because they TRIED the other way and the result is cab drivers who don't know their way around the city, costing people MORE money in longer trips.

The closed system ensures that your cab driver will have sufficient knowledge of the city to get you to your destination quickly.

WOW

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

Why don't you tell us why they moved to New Jersey: because it's NEXT DOOR to NYC.

Take the Subway

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

Thousands of Irish immigrants died so you could get an easy ride

DUH

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

Taxis make the return trip empty, DOUBLING the traffic load for one ride

Put it in the contract up front

On: Ask Slashdot: How To Get Paid For Open-Sourcing Your Work?

If you are serious about this, then make it an integral part of your "business plan" and put in your contract that open-sourcing the project non-negotiable.

REALLY you should SELL your customer on the idea that the software THEY ARE PAYING FOR will be BETTER.

100% FALSE

On: US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here

ANY well-run business will have EXTRA LABOR CAPACITY.

If EVERY PERSON in your company is working FLAT OUT, ALL THE TIME, then there is NO WAY to respond to unforseen circumstances.

YOUR company would TURN DOWN new business because you are TOO BUSY.

Re:If Obama doesn't come out swinging, he's toast.

On: US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here

then you have to find jobs for all of the ex-soldiers and ex-military contractors that are suddenly out of work.

Maybe those jobs could instead go toward BUILDING our infrastructure instead of DESTROYING others'?

HOW BRILLIANT of you to assert that defense contracts "create jobs" while you OVERLOOK the DEATH and DESTRUCTION ELSEWHERE that INVARIABLY results.

Please explain

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

How adding more vehicles to overcrowded streets is an "efficiency improvement"

Re:Just goes to show

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

Welcome to Slashdot where truth and hate are indistinguishable

Re:While I like the idea

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

"If taxi prices were set by the market"

The entire island of manhattan would be covered in taxi cabs. There would be total gridlock 24 hours a day.

Re:Message from the free market

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

The "free market" neglects to take account of the SHEER NUMBER OF VEHICLES in NYC

More taxis will SLOW THINGS DOWN FOR EVERYONE

Have you DRIVEN in NYC? Do you REALLY assert that things would go smoother with MORE CARS?

Re:Just goes to show

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

New Yorkers just don't have the balls to say or do anything anymore.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

You sit in your heated house with your computer and your internet and you think that IT ALL APPEARED OUT OF NOWHERE

These things were FINANCED and PAID FOR by those VERY PEOPLE that you accuse of "not having any balls"

Shit the reason you even WANT THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE is because of MADISON AVENUE MARKETERS

They don't have any balls and yet THEY CONTROL YOUR LIFE

Re:While I like the idea

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

Yeah right NYC should back out of their existing contracts and pay damages to allow these "special" people to sidestep the whole process THAT ALL THE OTHER SERVICES MUST ENDURE.

Re:New York New York

On: Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service

Ever noticed that these "liberal outposts" are where the vast majority of our commerce and business are done?

Re:Timing

On: Why Microsoft Shouldn't Copy Apple's iOS Walled Garden

WHY is it POINTLESS to have this discussion? It is NOT JUST FOR MICROSOFT's BENEFIT.

CONSUMERS and DEVELOPERS can learn MORE about what they are getting involved with.

And NATURALLY you ASSUME that Microsoft will actually PAY ATTENTION TO SLASHDOT

WHAT is it you are arguing again?

Re:why? this is why:

On: Why Microsoft Shouldn't Copy Apple's iOS Walled Garden

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT???

IBM invented these things in the 1960s

And of course these things have been STANDARD PRACTICE in many many other industries for DECADES.

Re:The only thing Windows needs to do

On: Why Microsoft Shouldn't Copy Apple's iOS Walled Garden

Oh yes what a GREAT way to make a collaborative platform: make it so the apps CANNOT share data with each other

Re:There is but one question from Microsoft.

On: Why Microsoft Shouldn't Copy Apple's iOS Walled Garden

STRAW MAN WARNING!

The argument is NOT about the PRESENCE of a garden but rather the WALLS around the garden.

WHAT ARE YOU ARGUING ABOUT?

Re:They should copy the walled garden

On: Why Microsoft Shouldn't Copy Apple's iOS Walled Garden

That's FUNNY!

VMWare has NO TROUBLE charging EXACTLY THE SAME THING for the Linux version as the Windows version.

Re:Since the 1980's

On: Hardware Is Dead — At Least Most Expensive Hardware Is

You've taken well to the brainwashing

Re:What Microsoft could do

On: Microsoft Wants To Nix Data Center Backup Generators

yeah like we don't have battery powered UPS units already that do exactly the same thing