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  1. Re:Hybrid != EV on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    I long for the day I can buy something like a leaf but with wife and three sons it'll have to be after the kids grow up and move out. I went from 2 door to 4 door to cross over with three row seating.

  2. Re:And the vendor response will be... on German Court Rules Adblock Plus Is Legal · · Score: 1

    I've been to websites likes CBS and CWTV that detect the advertising is blocked and tell me I can't use their services unless I turn off my adblocker. At this point I have a choice and so do they, since they have chosen not to let me use the service with adblocker, then my choices are I can turn of my adblocker to watch the latest episode of Flash or I can go away. This is a far better arrangement then trying to make an ad blocker illegal.

  3. Re:Administrators control on Microsoft Announces Device Guard For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    If you set up the permissions in your organization correctly that doesn't happen, however on home pc yes very much so.

    I'm considering making my next pc Ubuntu LTS with KDE. I built one for my brother... he saw the price tag on win7 and said let try Ubuntu, I can always buy windows later if I don't like it. It's been about three months and him and his wife love it.

  4. Re:like no problem humanity has ever faced on Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer · · Score: 1

    Is this a movie trailer?

    An intelligence unlike anything Humanity has ever faced! You can't adapt {they're faster} You can't overcome {they're stronger} and they're coming! Dec 1st to a theater near you.

  5. Re:So.... line of sight only? on Optical Tech Can Boost Wi-Fi Systems' Capacity With LEDs · · Score: 1

    Wireless is convenient, even if not entirely reliable. When I rented the landlords often didn't like the idea of running cable even if professionally installed.

  6. Re:Sounds like upper middle class housing developm on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    I had a co-worker visit from California who decided to retire here. He was picking out a 400k home in a gated community with a dock on a private lake and thought it was a steal.

  7. Re:Sounds like upper middle class housing developm on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    300k homes in my area of the country are usually 5 bed 3 bath 2 car garage .5 acre, I don't think I've seen anything over 500k unless it was a farm or ranch. At that price those are 700k+

  8. Re:Idiots ... on Broken Beer Bottle Battle In Debate Over Merits of Android Over iPhone · · Score: 1

    I don't know I have an iphone and it does what it is supposed to. I like it fine but I was working a fanboi the other day...

    iphone this, ipad, that , macbook mabook macbook...

    I was ready to hit him with a car just to get him to shut up.

     

  9. Re:Since when.... on FBI Accuses Researcher of Hacking Plane, Seizes Equipment · · Score: 1

    Sorry Lumpy, asshole has nothing to do with job title and it is common in just about every field. He was also unprofessional but since he founded the research firm he works at I doubt he will be fired.

  10. Re:Separate is Equal? on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 1

    I think it's a smoke screen of controversy to make people overlook the fact that for such a large school district every last one of those numbers are really low.

  11. Re:Backro-tastic on NASA's MESSENGER Mission To Crash Into Mercury In 2 Weeks · · Score: 1

    For a minute I was confused since I noticed this mentioned in an earlier article about wikipedia hoaxes but it appear that someone had just changed all the references to from Mercury to Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...

  12. Re:You are so right ! on US Dept. of Education Teams With Microsoft-Led Teach.org On Teacher Diversity · · Score: 1

    TFA has data that says you are wrong.

    No the data still agrees with my conclusion, just not my opinion that it makes you a poor educator if you can't connect with your students regardless.

  13. Re:You are so right ! on US Dept. of Education Teams With Microsoft-Led Teach.org On Teacher Diversity · · Score: 1

    Educators that are able to connect with their students and inspire them are more successful, regardless of race or ethnicity. Using race or ethnicity as a crutch to teach with is a sign of a poor educator.

  14. Re:Wow ... on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    There is guy on the sex offender list in my neighborhood on his 18th birthday his girlfriend's father had him arrested then when she turned 18 the next year and moved out she married him and had a restraining order placed against the father because he crashed the wedding and assaulted the groom.

     

  15. Re:Felony hacking on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    Green was released on Wednesday from Land O'Lakes Detention Center into the custody of his mother. He'll likely be granted pretrial intervention by a judge, sheriff's detective Anthony Bossone said.

    Since he is a juvenile if he has no prior record he will likely qualify for a pretrial intervention that doesn't require them to make a plea and if completed the charges are dropped and don't appear on the record.

  16. Re:Rare arguement for jury nullification on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    The first time he was caught according to the article he was suspended for three days, this time suspended for ten days and then pressed charges. From the article it sounds like after suspending him the first time they didn't change the password. Chances are he will be given a pretrial intervention and if he completes the program the charges will be dropped and not appear on his record.

  17. Re:Wow ... on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    The headline doesn't point out that as a juvenile with no prior record he will likely qualify for a diversion were he is on sudo probation might need to do some community service and if he successfully completes it the charges are dropped and there are no felonies on his record.

  18. Re:Wow ... on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    Green had previously received a three-day suspension for accessing the system inappropriately. Other students also got in trouble at the time, he said. It was a well-known trick, Green said, because the password was easy to remember: a teacher's last name. He said he discovered it by watching the teacher type it in.

    My question is if he had already been suspended for a different incident with the same password why was the password not changed?

     

  19. Re:Tortious Interference on Amazon Sues To Block Fake Reviews · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My brother plays in a band and they signed with an indie label, aside from airplay they also said they would get them advertising and reviews on popular websites and in magazines that they normally wouldn't be able to get. Some of the reviews were good, most were mediocre, and one very bad. The worst review started with the reviewer saying this isn't the style music he liked and went on to bash the entire genre. Reading other reviews on the site most by the same reviewer it became clear that this website was for a very different genre and they shouldn't have sent it there to begin with. The best reviews came from sites for the genre they played and the mediocre reviews where from hard rock websites.

  20. Re:Saddam on French TV Network TV5Monde Targeted In 'Pro-ISIS' Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    WWII ended the great depression and was followed by a kind of economic golden age. I think that some presidents are trying to recreate that economic boom.

  21. Re:What candidate doesn't pork things up? on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 1

    housing which is by far the most massive bill in everyone's budget

    Silly Billy a home is a long term investment. Renting is vital when you are young and starting out but not something you should do forever.

    Let me give you an example. My oldest brother has owned his house the longest Minimum wage was 4.25 when he bought his home and it has increased considerably in value, but his mortgage doesn't go up and will soon be paid. As time goes by the amount you pay stays the same until it's paid and your pay and minimum wage go up eventually you are in a position where your power bill exceeds your mortgage. So the 3 bed 2 bath 30k house he purchase in 1990s is now worth 90k and his mortgage is around $180.

    I was just trying to convince my son to purchase a 2 bed 1 bath starter home I found, I hope to get him into a house before minimum wage goes up again.

  22. Re:Fallacy on Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' · · Score: 1

    You are right but he likes to pick on the ones that think they are smarter than everyone else he finds it amusing. Poorly written inaccurate or incomplete wikipedia articles are another source of amusement for him.

  23. Re:Fallacy on Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' · · Score: 1

    I have a brother that likes to pose convincing, plausible, yet false ideas to otherwise bright people and particularly likes to pick on Mensa members and most of the time he is able to convince them he is correct. I'm not saying that their science is good just what I thought they were proposing.

  24. Re:What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    It's not and they will continue to try limit their liability just just like always.

  25. Re:Fallacy on Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' · · Score: 2

    I think the intended take away was that people who rely on the internet as an external source of information over estimate their own knowledge even when that resource is unavailable to them regardless of how intelligent they are.