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  1. Re: As usual. on Measles Outbreak Tied To Texas Megachurch · · Score: 2

    Your last sentence doesn't ring true, with the church leaders reversing opinion.

  2. Re:$20,000 hammer on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like that's all they needed.

    An invoice for support.

    There's even a template for one in one of the FOSS spreadsheet programs.

  3. Re:And the survival-selection hypothesis would be. on Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences · · Score: 1

    I'm the AC GP here.

    I would think that a flexible self tuning system is more likely to result from natural selection than a perfectly programmed system to match the actual body rigidly.

    I think AI and robotics research goes in that direction for the same reason. There's no reason that this "bug" as a side-effect would be problematic, so the more rigid (and therefore complex system, with extra rules to how it operates) is not selected for.

  4. Re:Jeez, did you even READ the article? on Dispatch From the Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google · · Score: 1

    No, I stopped at the headline "Disbatch from the future"

  5. Re: As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    Yes, that was my point. The hypothetical increased risk is well worth the freedom provided by a self driving car.

  6. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I've heard the median mileage between accidents is 250k, I've driven 300k or so in my life, and haven't had one. That's really all I'm basing saying I'm in the top 2/3rds on. I'm not trying to claim to be a remarkable, or even particularly good driver, just safer than the bottom third.

  7. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    I'm not even too concerned about safety, as long as it's safe enough, the benefits would far outweigh the risk if it was as safe as the bottom quarter of drivers (which I am above, with 300 or so thousand miles, and no accidents).

  8. As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm in.

    I would pay a lot of money to be able to drive distracted, asleep, or inebriated legally. Right now none of those are legal and one isn't even possible.

  9. Re:Hormone therapy? on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: 1

    I suspect a break-down of seriously torturous serial killers would match about the same percentage of homosexuals as the general populous.

    I don't really know enough about the topic, but I can think of a couple off the top of my head, and I can't think of that many over-all.

    Your knowing a few murderers doesn't really get to the threshold of where one would expect to get a homosexual or a trangender in the sample.

  10. Re:We're from OSHA on A New Spate of Deaths In the Wireless Industry · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the solution is to act unlawfully and stay in business (unless you're unlucky and employees sue), or to not have a business. You can argue about the validity of labor laws, but in this case the options are to violate them at AT&T's encouragement or to stop doing business. AT&T doesn't need to worry about it, as they are isolated, but is essentially funding massive amounts of illegal work.

    There will always be a supply corrupt employers willing to violate their workers' rights, that's why we need to monitor regulations to some extent (but not too much, the correct balance is where things become tricky).

  11. Re: Something on Three Banks Lose Millions After Wire Transfer Switches Hacked · · Score: 1

    Aside from the /. and banking crowd, does anyone even know about this?

  12. Re:Incinerators on US States Banned From Exporting Trash To China Are Drowning In Plastic · · Score: 1

    In Belize (I'm sure other places too, but that's where I've personally seen it), the bottle deposits are taken seriously, and the bottles are definitely reused.

    The ridges on all the bottles are very worn from what I assume is thousands of times through the process.

  13. Re:Incinerators on US States Banned From Exporting Trash To China Are Drowning In Plastic · · Score: 1

    Depends where "here" is in the US.

    Where I live most big cities use gas radiators still (with Window unit ACs if any), outside of the city/smaller cities it's usually oil and forced air (most city houses are early 20th century, while the suburbs are post WW2).

  14. Re: Something on Three Banks Lose Millions After Wire Transfer Switches Hacked · · Score: 1

    If the market will bare that fee, why are they waiting? Shouldn't they already be charging the most fees possible without loosing customers?

  15. I suspect less bad than a typical rail disaster. I get the impression (without reading details) this is about individual cars powered externally. This would reduce the harm, though it'd still approach a plain (which a modern rail problem can surpass).

  16. Re: Hipster on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? · · Score: 1

    But alcove purse. Cole Haan makes a nice men's 12x12x1 "newspaper bag". Its good quality leather, nobody will tease. Easily fit a wallet, phone, tablet, sunglasses. Stop caring what people think and do what works.

  17. Re: Cool but probably not feasible... on Elon Musk's 'Hyperloop': More Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    Isn't the fact that land use is the major cost reason to spend lots of money on the transport tech?

  18. Re:Economics -- a pricing failure on Have eBooks Peaked? · · Score: 1

    Something like Amazon?

    Authors will start making money selling more directly at lower prices, at some point one will become a millionaire, and then they'll be fucked. It's happening in music, and it will happen in writing.

  19. Re:Piracy! on Have eBooks Peaked? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Not really, alcohol consumption is suspected to have dropped by 30% due to prohibition (citation needed).

    Prohibition lead to all sorts of problems for society, and alcohol really wasn't that bad. Certainly not bad enough that cutting its consumption by 30% had any notable impact.

  20. Re: GET READY.... on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    He was pretty prominent in a season of torchwood (season three, children of men, on netflix and worth watching that season alone ). Same fake universe as doctor who even.

  21. Re:Where did this come from? on KDE Releases Calligra 2.7 · · Score: 1

    I think the Calliga name is quite new (and I assume Words is Kword 2).

    I'm hoping for a usable cross platform Kexi personally.

  22. Re:Newer OS, means the shipping manual fails on How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped? · · Score: 1

    I'd say any product that ships with the calendar broken is pretty obviously shoddy though. It's pretty much what I expect from Samsung. I avoided the Nexus S and the Galaxy line because of my experiences with Samsung in general (products great on paper, but dozens of little frustrations when using them, and a higher than expected 1 year failure rate (usually powering on failing to work do to some minore part bricking a fairly expensive TV). Also poorly designed remotes, terrible on screen menus (even by TV, VCR, and Camera standards).

    My understanding is that their high-end is moving away from the shoddy make and poor design, but I pretty much avoid them now, because often it's the type of thing that requires normal use to identify.

  23. Re:Handheld Gaming Market on QuakeCon 2013: Carmack On Next-Gen Console Hardware · · Score: 1

    Baldur's Gate, Xcom, this is the direction things are moving.

  24. Re: Alright then. Carry On. on Surveillance Story Turns Into a Warning About Employer Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Not nearly at a rate quick enough to cover spending increases over the last decade. We pretty much have borrow and spend republicans and democrats, used to be that at least thermometers were tax and spend.

  25. Re: Alright then. Carry On. on Surveillance Story Turns Into a Warning About Employer Monitoring · · Score: 0

    I see little evidence of federal taxes going up to cover smith since the first bush president.