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  1. Re: For the math impaired on Tesla Agrees To Settle Class Action Over Autopilot Billed As 'Safer' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is very bad news for Tesla because they have been selling full self driving capability since 2016. Musk is saying 2020, but then there are regulatory changes needed too.

    So by the time people actually get this feature their leases may have finished or they only get a few months use.

    Plus it looks like Tesla might have to roll back on some of the promised features anyway.

  2. Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand on A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    The two primary story movies made over $3.5bn on direct sales alone, I don't think they are doing too badly. Much better than the prequels.

    Anyway, you may get your wish now because everyone except Chewie is dead. I guess you don't like Ray... But really the EU characters are worse in terms of being Mary Sues and having ridiculous force powers.

  3. Re:Dear Slashdot management on Robin "Roblimo" Miller, a Long-Time Voice of the Linux Community, Has Passed Away (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    I remember that, it was great... Still happens to an extent. I think something had changed with moderation lately so stuff doesn't get voted down for political reasons when it is technically literate.

    I'm not sure what else you can do. Abby suggestions?

  4. Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand on A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine they had decided to keep all the expand universe stuff an canon. People want to see the popular charterers again, but their whole lives have already been mapped out in great detail.

    It would suck. And the vast majority of the money doesn't come from EU fans.

  5. Indeed, rest in peace. Rob contributed so much to this site, that has been a part of my life for so long... Thanks. Thanks so much.

  6. Re: Dear Slashdot management on Robin "Roblimo" Miller, a Long-Time Voice of the Linux Community, Has Passed Away (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 2

    I created a new SourceForge account the other day. It's surprisingly good now. Well done.

    I'm still figuring out how to integrate it with my open source code. I get the impression it's more about projects that have ordinary users, while most of my code is libraries and the like for other coders.

    I need to look at the project organisation options. The biggest thing all the others lack is a way to organise 100+ repos.

  7. Except in this instance both Samsung and LG released products that look similar to the iPhone long before it was even announced.

    Shiny slab that is mostly screen is just where the market was going. Apple's bullshit design patent is just patent trolling. They took something trivial and obvious that others were already doing and used it to extract money from their victims.

  8. Re:Not According to the FA on Uber's Self-Driving Car Saw Pedestrian 6 Seconds Before Fatal Strike, Says Report (tucson.com) · · Score: 1

    You are reading way too much into her face. What you call a smirk looks like just chin fat as she looks down.

  9. Re:Am I supposed to be outraged? on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They have a few journalists a free replacement, but individuals were SOL.

  10. Re:Only $20 Trillion on Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Combustion engines aren't practical. They can't do everything an EV can yet.

  11. Re:Dear Slashdot management on Robin "Roblimo" Miller, a Long-Time Voice of the Linux Community, Has Passed Away (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    If chip in too, but I honestly don't think the current lot are doing that badly. Certainly nothing like the dark Dice days.

    Just fix the moderation system a little and it will be as good as it ever was.

  12. If someone tells you that you could be injured badly if you don't put on your seatbelt, do you ignore them because it's not falsifiable?

  13. Re:Only $20 Trillion on Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not true anyway. A better designed house that maintains a pleasant temperature with less HVAC is going to save you money. Your life gets better because of it.

    Same with electric vehicles. They are getting very affordable now and will continue to get cheaper. The air you breathe gets cleaner, you spend less on healthcare and cleaning your house. Life gets better for you.

  14. Re:Jurassic Climate on Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate hot weather.

  15. Re:This is the right approach on Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that there is no "we". There are a bunch of different countries, states, towns, individuals. There are corporations and politicians.

    Climate change affects them all differently. Some stand to gain from it, most will lose to some extent but the amount varies hugely. Half of them will be dead before it really kicks in.

    The only way to solve this is to make a high level decision to do it and then make doing it the cheapest option for everyone. It's a little bit authoritarian perhaps, but there doesn't appear to be any other solution and it's fairly popular.

  16. The Google one let's you configure it so that it only listens when you press a button. That doesn't seem like a bad fix.

  17. Re:Never said I liked Ted Kennedy on Massachusetts Gains Foothold in Offshore Wind Power, Long Ignored in US (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Ask the guy dying of easily curable diseases in the gutter what he thinks of capitalism.

    Or maybe just accept that extremes of anything tend to be bad. Right now the best counties to live in are all socialist.

  18. Re:Am I supposed to be outraged? on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be so bad if they were not being dicks about replacing bent phones. They knew it was a problem and replaced some journalists phones immediately, but normal customers were left with expensive bricks.

  19. Re:I hope the world survives this madman . . . on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the end game for Kim? Dictatorships never last anyway, and the south isn't going to let him become their supreme leader in a united country.

    Kim has to rehabilitate himself.

  20. Re:Good, throw the book at them! on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Surprise and speed seems to also maximise the probability of killing innocent people.

  21. Reading the description in the link you provided it seems that the heavily armed and armoured cops surrounded the front of his house. The victim opened the door to see what all the commotion was. The cops started screaming at him. The report uses that word, the cops use that word in their statements.

    The victim seems unsure what is happening and looks around. They start screaming louder to put his hands up. He goes to put his hands up and gets shot.

    That seems like a massive collective failure and an individual failure of the cop who shot him. I can't see how raising his hands could have presented an imminent threat to the fake hostages or the even the cop, and that's what they were telling him to do (in a very confused manner).

  22. Re:I hope the world survives this madman . . . on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kim is playing him like a fiddle. Now Trump looks like the bad guy, unwilling to make concessions or pull back from his brinkmanship.

    Give it a while and Kim will keep talking to the south, making progress and setting himself up as the good guy for the post-dictatorship period he knows is coming.

  23. Re:Disingenuous Citation is Disingenuous on Facebook Asks British Users To Submit Their Nudes as Protection Against Revenge Porn (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that sounds ineffective. Clearly the kind of monogamy he wants (to help incels) is not likely to be a personal choice many women make.

  24. Re:Disingenuous Citation is Disingenuous on Facebook Asks British Users To Submit Their Nudes as Protection Against Revenge Porn (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you even know what libel is?

  25. The West has a birth rate problem and prudish people are making it worse. It's hard enough looking after a baby without having to find somewhere private just to feed it.