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  1. Same thing as homeopathy.

  2. Re:A rational answer to Black Lives Matters on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Police have the right to kill threats, this man was clearly a threat.

    They apparently have the right to kill whoever the fuck they want.

  3. They managed to get along with those 22,000 for quite a long time. Nothing says they couldn't survive by hiring them.

    Apart from that's what killed them in the first place.

  4. Re:I'm not a company on Wannabe Prime Minister Andrea Leadsom Thinks Websites Should Be Rated Like Films (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Poor Brits. After succesfully escaping the totalitarian clutches of the EU, they get this kind of asshole as a potential future leader...

    Any one with any sense knew the EU were the ones holding back this tory authoritarian nightmare.

  5. If police are raiding a home, they are, in theory, protecting the community at large from the people and activities going on in the home. Sorry, but I don't want people manufacturing meth in the Condo or even house next to me.

    What if they just have a tor exit node?

  6. What are they protecting, serving?

    Themselves, is that not obvious?

  7. So your definition of a rough ride is wide turns and no sudden stops?

  8. Re:Always on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    It was probably your lack of capitalisation ;)

  9. Possibilities in order of likelihood

    1) This reporting is wildly inaccurate, and misses key details, like for example only part of the implantation must be completed in two weeks or similar.

    Best one of those I saw recently said "MP threatens to cut off Gove's penis", turned out what had actually happened was when asked what game of thrones character he resembled the MP responded with the name of a guy in it who apparently had his cut off or something.

  10. Extra letters get you?

  11. Your sig could not be more apt.

  12. Just don't ask me to match each key with each piece of data...

    You'll get an extra week for that.

  13. Re:Always on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    Like most blanket statements, that one doesn't hold water. My brother's company stood by him through four years of chemo. Some companies are not douches.

    Is that the company or the people running it? If there was a different set of people in charge that weren't so charitably inclined would they still have done the same?

  14. Re:loyalty is a two-way street on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    2 weeks is something employees are expected to provide, but not employers. They let go on the same day itself.

    One place I worked tried to sack me for the most bullshit of reasons and gave me the choice to work out the week or work out the day. Hmmm that's a hard choice. They ended up backing down the very next day and paying out my contract anyway, suckers.

  15. Re: loyalty is a two-way street on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    don't cut off your nose to spiderface.

    That's a new one.

  16. Re:No Judicial Oversight on Russian Leader Putin Signs Controversial 'Big Brother' Law (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Access to every communication with no judicial oversight? The question isn't "will this be abused" but "how quickly will this be abused?" Also: "Will we ever know that it has been abused or will the Russian government cover it up?"

    Bonus question: Will the Russian equivalent of Snowden flee his country with files detailing the abuses this law allows, publish the information drawing the ire of the Russian government, and flee to the US for sanctuary? Also, would the US grant him asylum or use him in a trade for Snowden?

    Snowden was a thing because the US were hiding what they were doing. Putin doesn't give a fuck.

  17. In Soviet Russia... on Russian Leader Putin Signs Controversial 'Big Brother' Law (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    ...You're fucked

  18. Re:It's inevitable on UK Bill Introduces 10 Year Prison Sentence for Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we call it fair dealing instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  19. Re:Easily destroyed or disabled on Uber Hires a Robot To Patrol Its Parking Lot and It's Way Cheaper Than a Security Guard (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    Most criminals won't think twice before blasting this thing into oblivion. Until they are given the same rights as people, these will never be as effective as there is no incentive to not take them out before or during the crime.

    Couple questions.

    1)How many bullets do you have? 2)Where is this thing vulnerable to them?

    It's not like a person where one shot pretty much anywhere will stop them chasing you. Where are you going to shoot it and how much damage will you do? Hit the camera, it probably has a few and has everything recorded. Hit the motor it's still recording. The storage unit will probably be well protected. Can't even take it with you because it's probably loaded up with gps. Then they'll put guns on the thing and you have ED-101, good luck with that, you have five seconds to comply.

  20. Re:Not feasible, he's shirking responsibility on Elon Musk: Tesla's Autopilot Software Could Save Half a Million Lives Every Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I hop you die at the hand of one of these piece of shit teslas.

    So nice to meet another Seventh Day Advent Hoppist!

    Faith, Hop and Charity. But the greatest of these is Hop

  21. Re:Not feasible, he's shirking responsibility on Elon Musk: Tesla's Autopilot Software Could Save Half a Million Lives Every Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This would only be true under ideal circumstances in which everyone and everything worked flawlessly in tandem, and that just isn't the real world any more than the opposite statement. Suck it up, take responsibility, and be a man, Elon. Do the right thing and suspend public trials of this tech until it's truly ready.

    So basically you are saying it's not ready until it's death proof? I'm sure they'll update the system based on this set of circumstances to avoid future accidents, but how are they supposed to find all the fringe cases people might not think of unless they experience them? Cars are going to crash, that's a given, take the only two cars in ohio story, anything that can avoid even one crash is surely a net win.

  22. Re:Ideal vs. All Driving Conditions on Elon Musk: Tesla's Autopilot Software Could Save Half a Million Lives Every Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm smart enough not to drive into a truck, as demonstrated by 30 years of me not driving into trucks. The Tesla isn't, so any other stat trying to justify a product that just killed it's owner is completely meaningless.

    Yeah but how many miles has autopilot driven and how many miles have you driven? All you can really infer is you haven't driven into a truck yet. Plus you have the advantage of having eyes.

  23. Re:Change the name of the feature!! on Elon Musk: Tesla's Autopilot Software Could Save Half a Million Lives Every Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Not testing beta versions of safety-critical software on end-consumers might also help.

    Do you expect them to test on their own cross country road networks full of other traffic?

  24. Meanwhile how many people died on the roads that day?

  25. Re:Colour me skeptical... on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't the majority of crashes occur on takeoff or landing?

    One could argue that all crashes technically occur on landing. ;)