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  1. Re:Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Kind of racist to claim that blacks (the majority of New Orleans residents) can't swim. Or is promoting racial stereotypes no longer considered racist. The rules change often enough that it is not really worth keeping up.

  2. Re: Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Nobody is moving goalposts with that -20 below. That is the norm in a northern Midwest winter for about a month.

  3. Re:Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a friend who puts around 36,000 miles per year on his car because of work. He regularly drives 300 miles a day visiting various customers to keep them happy. The notion that he should pull up to a customer and have them put fuel in his car so he can drive down the road to their competitor is somewhat ludicrous.

  4. Re:Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously trying to inject market theory into a discussion on slashdot? The only acceptable use of market theory on slashdot is when a "progressive" (meaning socialist/communist) is attempting to explain how the proper application of false pressures will aid in manipulating prices. If a freedom loving person uses it to explain why something just works, then all hell normally breaks loose trying to point out why capitalism is dead and market theory is just so much hocus pocus.

  5. Re:Not clearly stating password requirements UP FR on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I would be more embarrassed if somebody could prove I had an account on a fart jokes site than if they stole money from my checking account.

  6. Re:1 letter change on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What only 2 strikes? Does the AC want to try for a third. I just don't see how having deep feelings for another human being is considered bad. Nor why working for the same company for a long time is bad as long as the company is doing something you believe to be worthwhile and you enjoy the work. It isn't like most tech jobs are as repetitive as putting windshields in cars on the assembly line. To the extent that they are repetitive, that won't change from one company to the next. The only difference would be the color of the walls and the name on the door.

  7. Re:P055word!1 on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Which means that you work system is storing your password in a recoverable form which is an even worse situation than having meaningless complex rules about what a password can look like.

  8. Re:Cool of him. on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Because they aren't reading the current NIST recommendations. That is not the fault of NIST or Bill Burr. if we are going to say that something cannot have been good in its time because some people refuse to move beyond that, then we are in for a world of pain because we will do nothing more than enforce the status quo.

  9. Re:What about weather? on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Google and Tesla are headquarted in Silicon Valley. What is this thing you call snow? Those people that live where that stuff is just need to move to a climate more appropriate to the use of electric, self-driving cars. It isn't like progress requires massive changes in the way we live.

  10. Re:Growing pains on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    How frequently does StreetView get updated?

  11. Re:Emergency vehicles on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    That switch is a pulsing light that triggers the traffic signal to change the cycle in the same manner as a pedestrian push button or in ground sensor loop might. It just forces the priority of the change so that the normal green-to-yellow-to-red change starts now instead of a bit later. They are not exactly difficult to fake out. Putting them on every car on the road would be a terrible idea, or not. As long as I am in my manual operated vehicle, having one of those would be quite enjoyable at times. "Hey look, all the 'autonomous' cars pulled over for no apparent reason! Everybody should run down to the dealer and have the software diagnosed."

  12. Re:In other news on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    But not as easily. That was the claim in the article, anyway.

  13. Re:Better solution on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And how frequently will this database be updated? And how frequently are downloads of the updates required? Have you noticed that work crews generally erect signs during the day? And that drivers are generally required to follow the sign once it is in place? That means that the database must be updated as soon as the workers declare the sign to have been installed and all cars must download the update immediately because more than one crew could exist in a city and cars are everywhere.

    Or perhaps the download notice is prioritized to go to the cars in the immediate vicinity first and then to those approaching and it spreads out from there like the infection graphs in a disaster movie.

  14. Re: dumb machines on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Since when did machines become women?

  15. Re:then dont' make it public on LinkedIn Says It's Illegal To Scrape Its Website Without Permission (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the Louvre does not hold a copyright on the Mona Lisa? Many other works of art are still under copyright so let's focus on those.

  16. Re: Anyone care to post Tesla's side of the story? on Tesla Factory Workers Pushing For a Union Send Letter of Requests To Company's Board Members (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    How does a cable company wanting me to have cable and internet relate in any way to a company closing up and employing nobody? Is not having job a better working condition or does it not count against the "worse working condition" because it is a "lack of working" condition?

    I just don't see where my obtaining tv from x and internet from z versus my obtaining tv from z and internet from x fits.

  17. Just exactly how is it that the union is operating in a free market environment in California where the government has promised to use guns and violence to prevent an employer from hiring a single non-union employee at any time after 50% + 1 of the employees voted to be represented by a union? Using the guns of the government as your muscle kind of removes the whole free market thing.

    Forming a union and making it do enough that people want to join on their own and not as a condition of employment is a much more free market idea.

  18. Admitting that your mom was unsatisfied AND TOLD YOU, does not make you the winner, big moron.

  19. Re:Anyone care to post Tesla's side of the story? on Tesla Factory Workers Pushing For a Union Send Letter of Requests To Company's Board Members (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I guess if you go with the "I no longer have a job because the company went into bankruptcy because the union would not negotiate wages down when the entire landscape changed" as not being a worse working situation, then you may be correct.

  20. Re:Anyone care to post Tesla's side of the story? on Tesla Factory Workers Pushing For a Union Send Letter of Requests To Company's Board Members (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    "Because that leftist dipshit". That describes Elon Musk as easily as it does any UAW hack.

  21. Re:Stock prices are meaningless on Tesla Factory Workers Pushing For a Union Send Letter of Requests To Company's Board Members (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by "Now consider that many of these young techies are liberals who know little or nothing about economics and aren't very good with money anyway." They overwhelmingly supported Sanders who, by his own admission, is a proponent of the government taking ownership of all corporations (aka, the means of production). I'm sure these kids wouldn't go along with such lofty goals as that without having an in depth knowledge of the economics.

  22. Re: Anyone care to post Tesla's side of the story? on Tesla Factory Workers Pushing For a Union Send Letter of Requests To Company's Board Members (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Or to get more money for the Detroit and Chicago boys to have better vacation homes.

  23. Re:Anyone care to post Tesla's side of the story? on Tesla Factory Workers Pushing For a Union Send Letter of Requests To Company's Board Members (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Not in California he doesn't. California is one of those states where all employees are forced to join the union if 50% + 1 of the employees vote the union in.

  24. Re:Anyone care to post Tesla's side of the story? on Tesla Factory Workers Pushing For a Union Send Letter of Requests To Company's Board Members (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    If the Calexit folks get their wish, it will be the same thing.

  25. Nice one. Well done.