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  1. Re: Here it comes on FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars · · Score: 1

    Remote signal is a bad idea.

    1) If it's blocked the car won't know (but it will know if a camera is blocked, and should do a fail-safe pullover)
    2) twenty year old cars are more common than 20 year old encryption that holds up, which I assume would mean remote pull-over on older cars will be cracked.

  2. Re: Here it comes on FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They won't even need a button. I highly doubt an automated car will proceed to pilot itself on a high speed chase, or ignore red and blue lights.

    Fbi should go back to consulting their Internet slang dictionary, rather than trying to think.

  3. Re:I don't know how they pay on Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is the type of stuff I do in my house, except it takes me weeks or months to get it working again because I have to make multiple trips to to store, because I don't know what I need, being an amateur and whatnot. I've never lived in a place for more than 5 years afterwards, so I don't know the long-term implications of what I do, but I've been around enough DIY plumbing growing up, that lasted for decades, to be relatively confident I'm not causing troubles like that.

    If I only had one bathroom though, there's no way I'd attempt it on my own, because I need to shower regularly.

    Certainly, a plumber is going to do the work with way less hours than me, so even at their rate, unless I have the time, it's worth it.

  4. Re:"Not that exciting" on OpenWRT 14.07 RC1 Supports Native IPv6, Procd Init System · · Score: 1

    Also, snapshot is more exciting I'd think.

  5. Re:I don't know how they pay on Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Working on pipes running through walls will never be easy, and someone who does it for a living will always be quicker at it than you, and is far less likely to keep the drain runs at the correct slope, pipes away from areas that get too cold, and install the access points for easy cleaning.

    These are ALL things I've had to work around fixing plumbing in houses I've owned where various bits of plumbing were done by amateurs, and I'm sure I am busy leaving behind similar issues for future owners...

    The time thing can't be over-rated either, a plumber may charge 80-200/hour, but they get a lot more done in the hour, having all the various tools etc. (and yes, you will always need tools to deal with pipes that are 50-100 years old, the modular snapping will lock up, two layers of remodeling will block key joints, with the right too getting the reach needed, etc.).

    Plumbing is here to stay, doesn't mean we won't get a glut in plumbers though.

  6. Re:What? on Uber Is Now Cheaper Than a New York City Taxi · · Score: 1

    I've horrible luck with NYC taxi drivers knowing the city.

    By cross street, address, or landmark.

    I don't fucking know how to get to the city courthouse, because I don't fucking live here, ugh. It's gotten a lot better in the last 5 years with smart phones, but a lot of them did not know the city, or have GPS up until then.

  7. Re:Seems excessive... on Netflix Is Looking To Pay Someone To Watch Netflix All Day · · Score: 1

    The thing is, if "loud shirt" is irrelevant, than the back-end recommendation algorithm can throw it out.

    There very well may be weird unexpected things that corralate to liking various movies, and they may not be causal at all, Netflix only needs correlation though.

  8. At the rate content seems to be decreasing on Netflix Is Looking To Pay Someone To Watch Netflix All Day · · Score: 0

    I'm skeptical they'll have a day of it left soon.

  9. Re:Should probably be locked up on Judge Frees "Cannibal Cop" Who Shared His Fantasies Online · · Score: 1

    This guy was clearly doing bad, and for his abuse of authority (use of police DB) should be punished, but was it really a conspiracy? that takes two people planning something, how serious was the guy he was fantasizing with? The judge said there was no evidence of intent, I haven't read all the transcripts, so I don't want to say definitively where it fell.

    This is a person that needs help, and to not have the authoratiy of legitimate use of force, but to to be committed seems a little extreme.

  10. Re:Should probably be locked up on Judge Frees "Cannibal Cop" Who Shared His Fantasies Online · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because a lot of us are freedom nerds, and this ruling is interesting in that it was allowed to go to trial, but the judge issued a judgment notwithstanding the verdict that preserves free thought.

    As to GP post, yes, they should have tried him for any crimes he committed using the police database, and I obviously assume he's no longer Popo, but this was not an actual conspiracy to commit a crime, locking people up because they are gross under the guise of conspiracy is not the solution to anything.

  11. Re: Gimme a keyboard on Ars Takes an Early Look At the Privacy-Centric Blackphone · · Score: 2

    I use it fairly regularly.

    With hackers keyboard.

  12. Not really,

    The work around was the national security letters.

  13. Agreed, but generally the supreme court gets it right (not always, but maybe 75% of the time).

    Especially when they have conflicting rulings to work with.

  14. Re:FP on Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I kind of do.

    It's pretty obvious that the data on cell phones is "papers" from the fourth amendment, and the phones themselves are "effects".

  15. Re:Gigawatts per hour on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    It's an old headline too, this fucking thing has been floating around the facebook for a while. Pisses me off every time, and I'm a damned liberal.

    https://hateandanger.wordpress...

    I assume there was a German press release done in English, and there was issue with translating with the intended effect of "for an hour", but it was translated to "per an hour".

    I don't speak German, but I can see how in places those words are interchangeable(ish).

  16. Gigawatts per hour on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Amazing, in 24 hours it'll be 528 gigawatts, amazing ramp up of production.

  17. Re: Bets, anyone? on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 1

    My last car had breaks, plugs and wires, tires, and oil changes to get to 100k (maybe a tail lite too).

  18. Re: Bets, anyone? on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 2

    Are you kidding?

    100k miles used to be a big deal, now it's not uncommon to hit that without any unscheduled maitenance.

    And the scheduled maitenance is dramatically reduced too.

    The more complex cars are far more reliable.

  19. Re: Flaimbate on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    All this talk of preparing to launch a service makes me nervous.

    Are they going to drop google play music all access? Because I'm starting to really like it.

    The I feel lucky will shuffle through the music I like in various genres whenever I click it. It keeps the sound of a consistent station with music I like, and I reload until it's the type of music I'm in the mood for. I hope the new service is as good.

  20. Re: And hippies will protest it on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    Still need to eat the Burger every now and again for b12 I assume.

  21. Re:Desktop-Spoiled Users (Re:Why?) on Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    isn't that what XUL (is that what Mozilla uses?) was supposed to be?

  22. Re:Protecting the Weak from the Strong on Interviews: Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Are you serious?

    Could you imagine what 10,000 DC sniper style people could do to the government, it would grind to a halt, and possibly trigger open revolt with the other tens of millions of owners as government failed to protect.

    I'm not saying it's good, but it's silly to think 10,000 rebels couldnt' fuck up the government.

  23. Re:Protecting the Weak from the Strong on Interviews: Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    This, yes, thank you.

    As someone that's neutral on weather we have too much or too little gun control (it seems unlikely we have the perfect amount, but I suppose it's possible), I find the specifics boring and useless, because we have the second amendment, and I want the constitution to count for something. /me naive

  24. Re: Any chance at getting one? on Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India · · Score: 2

    I got the Motorola e ink phone (with 12 segment characters by 8 or so across) for $25 on Amazon as a back up phone a few years ago, it was a $15 dollar phone for India too.

  25. Re: No one will ever buy a GM product again on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 1

    They didn't turn of the ignition because they didn't know how, do to the fact they purchased a $20k+ device and didn't read the manual.

    To kill the ignition hold for three seconds I think (don't own one).