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  1. I see these idiots on the road daily. Next time I'll take note of whether they are driving a VW and if so, sue for the disruption caused to my motoring.

  2. London is home to a lot of foreigners too, so trying to dupe people at Heathrow isn't really a great idea for cab drivers. The M4 will almost always be the quickest route into the central city due to the dedicated bus and taxi lane, so there isn't much opportunity for straying onto non optimal routes, and anyone not going to the city centre is more likely to be a local that will catch you out. Whenever I've thought the taxi driver was taking me for a ride in London, a quick check of the map later showed that their route was actually more direct than the obvious main road route.

  3. Re:From most of the jobs I see posted online on What Are Today's Most Difficult IT Hires? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I called an agent on one of these once (it was a targeted email, as I was in his database with the experience and skills the position was asking for, though with a latest salary 4x what was beng offered), and he called me racist.

  4. Re:CD == cable bundle 500-channel universe on Are Music CDs Dying? Best Buy Stops Selling CDs (complex.com) · · Score: 1

    CD singles existed for a while, maybe even long enough for iTunes to get established as the preferred way to buy single tracks.

  5. Re:I don't get it on Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Rather than simply encrypting them, they should hide them by steganography inside random pictures of cats.

  6. Re:Why only when there is a death? on Family of 'Swat' Victim Sues Kansas Police, Lawmakers Propose 40-Year Jail Terms (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If they're really in a hurry, they travel in convoy with 4 motorcycles that speed ahead in pairs to clear alternate intersections.

  7. Re:Sometimes weird problems DO have solutions on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    There are of course other solutions to the way the problem is given, which involve people losing count or lying about the number of people they shook hands with...

  8. Re:Sometimes weird problems DO have solutions on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone must shake every hand except their partner to be the person on 8. All the people who shook their hand are already on 1, so the only candidate for 0 is their partner. This process then repeats with a base of 1 - to get up to 7, someone needs to shake hands with everyone remaining except their partner (8 and 0 are already out as all their handshakes are accounted for), and the only person left that can remain on 1 is their partner. Repeating this process with a base of 2 and 3 leaves two people both on a base of 4 with noone left to shake hands with. Since the requirement is no duplicates, but you didn't ask yourself, these last two must be you and your partner.

  9. Re:South Korea Computer Emergency Response Team on New Zero-Day Vulnerability Found In Adobe Flash Player (gbhackers.com) · · Score: 1

    The government didn't force banks to use ActiveX. It forced them to use South Korea's homegrown encryption algorithms. For a long time an ActiveX control was the only off the shelf way to deploy those algorithms. They have since been added to TLS and are natively supported by all major browsers by now.

  10. My cell phone can talk to me and answer my questions using AI.

    You do know your voice commands really just go through to a call center full of carefully trained orcas, don't you?

  11. Re:Qui Bono? on New Zero-Day Vulnerability Found In Adobe Flash Player (gbhackers.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no DMZ or no-fly zone between China and North Korea or Russia and North Korea. Driving a truck across those borders without being stopped for 'sanctions reasons' probably doesn't cost much in bribes either.

  12. Re:Why doesn't the wristband do the tracking? on Amazon Patents Wristbands Designed To Track and Steer Employees' Movements (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Jeff Bezos wants to replace everyone else's jobs with AI, not his own.

  13. Re:Wait a minute, Wristbands that on Amazon Patents Wristbands Designed To Track and Steer Employees' Movements (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically cattle prods that can be worn on the subject's wrist. Must be fun working in an Amazon warehouse.

  14. Re:Sometimes weird problems DO have solutions on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I shook hands with 0 people, of course. That is implied in the provided solution.

    The provided solution requires you to have shaken hands with 4 people. The question is whether you can swap your wife with one of the other people by adjusting the number of people you shook hands with without upsetting the others, since the number of people you shake hands with does not matter for the problem constraints.

  15. Re:Is that outside? on How To Watch the 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, NASA TV is live streaming it from the telescopes at Griffith Observatory, which looks a lot better than anything I can see here with the naked eye.

  16. Re:gotta be kidding me on How To Watch the 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an Asian / Australian eclipse and some Americans will see a bit. Americans don't even realise there is a rest of the world.

    Sunset at 7:29pm here, and the moon rose at 7:34pm, meaning I missed the start of the perumbral phase by a few minutes. East coast US is pretty much on the opposite side of the globe, so I'm guessing they didn't see much of it at all before the moon set and sun rose. Europe will probably see about the same amount of the end of the eclipse in their evening.

  17. Re:VERY hard to beat the alliance on MPEG Founder Says the MPEG Business Model Is Broken (chiariglione.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What weird proprietary encoding are you using where % is encoded as â?

  18. Bad move in much of the world on Facebook Will Prioritize Local Stories In Your News Feed (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    In much of the world, the local press is not free. With the rise of the internet, people finally had a way to get the real news about their government through the major international news organizations. Now Facebook is going to push local propaganda over reputable international news coverage. This is not an improvement.

  19. Re:What it should have added... on The SCO Vs IBM Zombie Shambles On (uscourts.gov) · · Score: 1

    Interchangeable isn't the word I would have chosen when talking about transplant candidates. On a lawyer, yes, but on a normal person they are really both only usable for one purpose.

  20. Re:What it should have added... on The SCO Vs IBM Zombie Shambles On (uscourts.gov) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the lawyers who enabled them.

  21. If they are using Roman numerals, then MM is 2 thousand, not 1 million.

  22. Re:A study ? By scientists ? on Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    When 3 1/2 of the 4 contaminated countries they found in their study of 159 Pacific Ocean reefs lie in the Indian Ocean, you've got to wonder.

  23. Researchers from Curtin University in Australia examined rocks from the Georgetown region of northern Queensland.

    Now we have learned something new.... a portion of southern Australia is actually part of Canada.

    I see by your grasp of geography that you hail from the land of Canada's southern neighbors.

  24. What punishment did Apple get for the blatant insurance fraud?

  25. Re:power loss = reset passwords ???? on Church Elder/'Jeopardy' Champion Charged With Computer Crimes (mlive.com) · · Score: 1

    also... reset passwords = a generic standard passcode ????