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  1. Re:11 rear enders on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    So, how did the car on front stop then?

  2. Re:Reasonable Access on Ask Slashdot: Giving Users Extra-Firewall Access For Sites Normally Blocked? · · Score: 1
  3. Re:can someone from Europe please explain on BBC Curates The "Right To Be Forgotten" Links That Google Can't · · Score: 1

    Except in this case it's the BBC. Is it that hard to get a judgement in the UK?

  4. Re:can someone from Europe please explain on BBC Curates The "Right To Be Forgotten" Links That Google Can't · · Score: 1

    In fact, why not get a judgement to get the original data removed from the original web page? It would vanish from Google.

    Or why not get Google to downrate web pages deemed illegal by a judgement?

  5. Re:I'm sorry, what? on Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing' · · Score: 1

    Who this policy is going to kill however is the small artist that is barely making ends meet. The ones that don't move millions of copies. The ones that appeal to a specific subset of people. You know, the stuff that isn't mass produced crap which would fall in to the area most music lovers would call "good music" if it happens to land in their preferred genre.

    Why? Do you think consumers will stop listening to them after 3 months?

    Big name artists have had more than 3 months visibility to build followers. The 3 free months eat their profit . Less known artists can ride their coattails. The 3 free months helps them gains new followers.

    Or maybe you believe in broken windows and a 3-month loss won't be be worth the future gain no matter the conversion rate.

  6. Re:Not relevant? on How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do people not see the connection between increases in privacy breeches and the moves to cloud systems?

    Well, I'm not wearing any pants.

  7. Re:This guy... on Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    But they have no mass, and a system requires a certain amount of mass to convert into a black hole (and the mass of system is invariant, i.e. it's the same in every reference frame).

    Kugelblitz.

  8. Re:Does El Capitan Fix Major Problems? on WWDC 2015 Roundup · · Score: 1

    - If I use the right screen Dock, can it open in the right screen?
    - When I switch Page, can the focus stay on the current screen?

  9. Re:This is ridiculous on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 0

    They're probably all terrorists anyway.

    Stephen "Father knows best" Harper says so, therefore you must be right!

  10. Re:Tesla enables Edison to win the endgame? on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 1

    Worth noting that this is still forced to work within the Edison system's restrictions: the power source encouraging DC must be local.

    HVDC is better than AC for long range.

  11. Re:Obviously.. on Choosing the Right IDE · · Score: 1

    tl;dr Ed is a talking horse. All praise Mister Ed!

  12. Re:and dog eats tail on Feds Order Amtrak To Turn On System That Would've Prevented Crash · · Score: 1

    No, your comment is what is misleading.

    Well, "turn on" seems pretty misleading. Is the system already installed and programmed? Does it only needs the flip of a switch? Is this a case of pot: kettle?

    Infact, the only reason I am here is because the headline seems shady and nothing in the summary details how close from active the system was. Could you enlighten us, please?

  13. Don't worry, the warrant is padded so hard it shouldn't give more than a hair injury.

  14. Did he use Excel to land the aircraft?

  15. Re:Is the Lobster an auto-post? on Is It Worth Learning a Little-Known Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    I'm beginning to think this Dice account is just an autopost with a random list of possible values.

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

  16. Re:Lobbying and Contributions on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The Space Merchants, Frederik Pohl.

  17. When does a P becomes a D? on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 1

    There's no "proper" English, but there are many "improper" ones. If your P becomes so misshappen that it can be seen as a D, you aren't communicating anymore.

    It's the same thing for words: u, m8, w8, pwn aren't proper per se but have a clear and unambiguous mapping to the proper word. Even when using misspellings like seperate or convinsable, you are still communicating clearly enough.

    It's only when you use the spelling of a different word that you screw up. Errors such as board/bored, hoard/horde, straight/strait send a sentence straight into damnyouautocorrect, if not Alice's Wonderland. You cannot "evolve" a word by having treasure and army become a single concept, unless you want to speak Smurf. And even then, they can smurf which smurf means smurf.

  18. Re:Lift the gag order first... on House Republicans Roll Out Legislation To Overturn New Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Likewise, there's no way multiple electric or gas companies could compete with an incumbent who had already wired/plumbed a neighborhood. When cities deregulate gas/electric service, they do so by transferring the wires to one company, and forcing that company to sell transit to all comers at regulated rates. If you want to see competition among ISPs, nationalize the coax, copper and fiber, and let the ISPs rent bandwidth to subscribers' homes and manage their access.

    IOW, same as electricity, no?
    The city infrastructure is owned by a carrier that only does transport. The client pays a provider, which is separate from the carrier. And every producer (Google, Disney Channel, MaBell) pays another provider to reach the carrier.

    The only non-neutral thing (in spirit maybe) would be if the producer had a box at the client site and therefore paid a different price to feed its box with its products.

  19. Re:How do we know? on FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    As for why they're still not public: The two republican commisioners are refusing to submit their final edits, which have to be included in the release. They're essentially misusing formalities in order to drag their feet.

    http://www.reddit.com/r/news/c...

    But what do I know.

  20. Re:How do we know? on FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    A Republican FCC chair confirmed that the document that has been voted on today will not be made public until he decides to submit his edits.

    FTFY

  21. if ! (doSomethingThatMightFail() &&
      doSomethingElseThatMightfail() &&
      doMoreFailingStuff() &&
      yepMoreFailingStuff()) {
        cleanupWork();
    }

    OR

    do {
      if ! doSomethingThatMightFail() break;
      if ! doSomethingElseThatMightfail() break;
      if ! doMoreFailingStuff() break;
      if ! yepMoreFailingStuff() break;
    } while (false);

    Utterly tongue in cheek!

  22. Re:Shrug, yawn. Have you read it? on Nuclear Safety Push To Be Softened After US Objections · · Score: 1

    You should dig up a 2011 Associated Press article about tritium leaks at nuclear plants across the country.

    Since tritium has to be ingested and its half-life is short, I thought this wasn't a risk for humans.

    Hell, there have been 2 nuclear plants that SCRAMed recently.
    One on Christmas and the other last week, during the big north east blizzard.

    Wasn't it shutdown because the powerline were gone and they could not "export" electricity out of the plant? That's how I read it anyway.

  23. Re:Crunch all you want... We'll make more! on Drug Company CEO Blames Drug Industry For Increased Drug Resistance · · Score: 1

    So is he saying that doctors should keep prescribing antibiotics for illness where they are unnecessary, and that prophylactic application of antibiotics in agriculture should continue? That is, the only thing that needs to be fixed is the manufacturing leakage?

    The biggest joke is that if we were to reduce prescription, we would reduce leakage by the same factor if not more.

  24. Re:And in the name of Jihadists... on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 1

    There was a clear chain of command and structure of authority to decide who gets to be a priest and who doesn't, and set rules as to what areas priests may have authority over with procedures for dispute resolution.

    Simony was a big problem in the Middle Ages. HRE Henry IV fought against Pope Gregory VII over who would name the bishops. There was still only 2 players who could name priests, which kept it relatively safe.

    And there were Cathars and Bogomils who got written off as heresy by the victors. Much closer to us (10-20 years or so), there were some (swiss?) traditionalist priests who got excommunicated for saying the mass in latin.

    All that does not stop some random Westboro Church or fake Caliphate from sprouting, but it might keep them from surviving a century or two.

  25. Re:Religions codify survival info ... on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the correction and reminding me those were separate albums.