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  1. Re:Demand over-the-air receivers on You're Paying 40% More For TV Than You Were 5 Years Ago (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? I'd rather they stop paying for towers and let me stream.

  2. Re:Uber doesn't work that way on Uber's Terrifying 'Ghost Drivers' Are Freaking Out Passengers in China (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Post one: You can cancel immediately with no penalty
    Post two: If the riders cancels five minutes after...

    These two are in agreement, I don't know what is wrong

  3. Re:That's too bad.... on It Took a Couple Decades, But the Music Business Looks Like It's Okay Again (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Well, I bet they could include the imaginary sales as profit, then the piracy as loss.

    It'd kill their margins though.

  4. Yeah, I suppose you're right.

    Specifically, proper change handling techniques (count up from sale to total given) would make it not an issue.

    Much like with decimal currency today.

    They shouldn't even need to do math, just count.

  5. Shockingly recently IMO.

    Says the guy that defends inches and feet, because I can divide feet into whole numbers by quarters or thirds, but still, imagining the average counter person being able to give change for things such as "£10-7-6" paid with a £20 note is hard for me.

  6. Thinking about it, it definitely seems like fair use to me.

    Format/time shifting is a fair use case, the amount of work copied is only part of what determines fair use.

  7. Re:Long haul on Lyft Says Robots Will Drive Most Of Its Cars in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Because the cost per passenger of a bus driver is far less than the cost per passenger in point to point transit.

  8. Re:No, they won't. on Lyft Says Robots Will Drive Most Of Its Cars in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Kids already do this, and throw rocks from overpasses.

    Fortunately, most humans, even children, aren't horrible people, and it's rare.

    Do you really think a kickball thrown onto a busy highway won't cause an accident already?

  9. I'm actually alright with that for something that is intended to be used as a reference point to test codecs and distribution.

    Though, I suppose arguably re encoding it could be seen as violating ND.

    Considering the summary implies that Hulu, etc. can use it as a demo of the quality of their streams, but the NC definitely prohibits that (promotional demo for a for profit service is definitely commercial use), the summary is just stupid.

    The ND may or may not apply to reducing the size by encoding (it could either be fair use, or alteration, depending on interpretation), in the context it's being presented, NC is definitely more limiting.

  10. Maybe.

    Alphabet can't put it on youtube, as it's a commercial service. A person can put it on YouTube, as long as they aren't participating in the revenue sharing, and a DMCA notice would have to be respected.

    NC clause is hardly given away though.

  11. Re:Sausage Stylus! on iPhone 7 Home Button Now Requires Skin Contact To Work (todaysiphone.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe something like Landjäger would work to prevent the smelly problem.

  12. Re:Not enough bang for the buck on Android Wear Hopefuls Call Timeout On Smartwatches (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm skeptical that the e-ink will be satisfying on the interactivity with my cards.

    Also, I don't need a weak's battery, I need 20 hours.

    And last I looked, the pebble steel wasn't under $200 either.

  13. Re:Not enough bang for the buck on Android Wear Hopefuls Call Timeout On Smartwatches (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm in a similar situation. My limit is $200, but I want the battery of the bigger ones in the size of the smaller, and the stylings of the nicer ones.

    I'd pay $200 for a 2nd gen moto 360 of the smaller size if it had the battery.

    But they're both $300 and I'm not confident of the battery.

    Just adding that I'm less concerned about the price than you, but still too expensive.

  14. Re:Arrest warrent is being drawn up now on A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If T-Mobile has anything to say about it, nothing will happen.

    They're cultivating a break the rules fuck the system image, it wouldnt be worth breaking that because one kid visited a few websites in an inconvenient way.

  15. Re:Human drivers have some advantages on Uber Starts Self Driving Car Pickups In Pittsburgh (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, they don't need enough cars to cover peak times 24/7.

    The part time driver model allows for extra cars when needed, and the driver uses the car as they see fit the rest of the time.

  16. Re: "For Sale: Baby shoes, Never worn." on Twitter Will Extend Its 140 Character Limit On September 19th (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This change seems reasonable though.

    Being able to quote a full tweet for context and reply makes sense to me, not counting media does to a point too (though it looks like people just post text of longer posts frequently).

    Note: I don't use twitter, but it seems reasonable to define content as actual text and allow that to be 140 characters on the face of it.

  17. Does that get you passwords, or anything, with encrypted home/user directory and a strong password?

  18. Re: Ooh on T-Mobile To Boost Its LTE Speeds To 400 Mbps (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Are their unlimited hot-spot plans?

    Because all tethering data is deprioritozed, and if you break the 97th percentile AND have majority of your data via tether, they reserve the right to kick you.

  19. Re:Bye Bye Adobe on Adobe Resurrects Flash Player On Linux (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    For us the expense spike sucked too.

    Also, it's only around now that it's starting to cut is more than even our delayed upgrade cycle.

    And I'm not saying it reduces piracy, but hypothetically the ability to virtually no cost add someone for a season may or may not have reduced piracy too.

    We partially had to keep relatively current because we were a print shop taking files from other people, as a producer I'd see it very differently, but even so, 20/month vs 800 for photoshop seems a pretty good deal to me.

    Even if after 24 months you're spending more.

  20. Re:Bye Bye Adobe on Adobe Resurrects Flash Player On Linux (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    It worked for where I work.

    It was going to take 2 years for the subscription to cost more than purchasing upgrades, and kept us current.

    $600/year vs $800/every 18 months to stay current, enough where I worked we didn't stay current and paid closer to $1200 every three years. It was constant frustration trying to get the budget for the upgrades.

    The creative cloud made things current, and was able to be sold as not costing more for quite while.

    I think the real reason they switched is that small businesses purchases rather than pirated when it was cheaper than internet instead of thousands of dollars up front though ($1800 if memory serves).

  21. Re:Bye Bye Adobe on Adobe Resurrects Flash Player On Linux (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    20/month priced out of the market for professional photo editing? I'm skeptical.

    Acrobat is pretty solid too, and I hate the new interface, but they continue to augment the editing capabilities.

    I know the tools aren't for everyone, but acrobat + illustrator for editing PDFs is worth well over 50/month, as a bonus I get indesign and Photoshop too.

    I'm not convinced there's anything that really replaces indesign in the market at all, aside from content aware delete, there's nothing photoshop offers me as a novice I can't get elsewhere, but acrobat and indesign for sure.

  22. He was under arrest, his pocket contents were no longer private anyway.

    The real concern I have is the fact that 20g is a crime at all.

  23. Re:Insure anything on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If I'm not mistaken Lloyd's of London was even established specifically to protect shipments.

  24. Re:I would invest on Uber Loses At Least $1.2 Billion In First Half of 2016 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Your giving me flashbacks to working in NYC prior to smart phones. They didn't have GPSs yet in '05, and it was a mess.

    Even when I had a smart phone, it was as you describe.

    In Philly, way too late they were required to take credit cards by law, still refused, same in NYC (though three years earlier).

    The cab industry used regulatory capture to make money and not innovate.

    I'm crying them no rivers.

    When a GPS was $200, every fucking cab with a 500k medallion (NYC) should have had one, but no.

  25. Re:I would invest on Uber Loses At Least $1.2 Billion In First Half of 2016 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In suburban south Eastern PA, they refused to pick me up from the bar, so much for the call a cab campaign, but they may be an uber dead zone too.

    As for California, in San Francisco, I used uber as a convenient way to get an official cab.