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  1. Re:I am altering the deal on Tesla Ends Online Sales of $35,000 Model 3 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The most annoying part is they ALL come with heated seats and they charge you $2500 to flip a bit in the cars configuration file to enable them.

    I know that most of the Tesla options are difficult or impossible to unlock without paying.

    However, it seems somewhat likely that one could just rewire the heated seats separately...

  2. Re:Nothing beats Nature on Baby With DNA From Three People Born In Greece (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    For both my kids we needed help, and the 2nd one was 2 cycles of IVF and 8 embryo transfers. I wouldn't wish that experience on my worst enemy.

    There is absolutely no shortage of people on this earth, and so no reason to go through such measures to add another. Even worse that you seem to feel heroic for having done so...

  3. Re:Visible status marker, that's why on Why iPhone and Android Phone Prices Will Get Even Higher (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you replied to the wrong comment.

    No, I think that he got it right...

  4. Re:MultiFinder was in System 6 on High Sierra's Disk Utility Does Not Recognize Unformatted Disks (tinyapps.org) · · Score: 1

    In System 6, the Multifinder ran multiple full-screen applications, and let you switch between them more or less at will until the Multifinder crashed, which it did all the goddamned time. In System 7, all the applications shared a common backdrop, with the menu bar changing to reflect the application currently brought to the foreground, and the Finder still crashed all the goddamned time.

    You're thinking of Switcher, which was only available for a short time. Multifinder always allowed windows to be intermixed. For the fun of it, I actually run all of this (System6/Multifinder) in an emulator a few weeks ago.

  5. Re: Incriminating evidence on Judge Rules Against Forced Fingerprinting (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case, I side with the cops, as unpopular as that may be.

    Actually, it seems that the analogy would be the cops grabbing everyone's keys in the office, and then using the keys to go snoop through their homes. I don't believe that such a warrant would be granted or, if granted, would be constitutional, just like I don't think that this was constitutional, simply because of the broadness...

  6. Unable to configure that way on Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals To Unlock Their Wi-Fi (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I was in Italy a few years ago, in a town in the south part of the main land, and helped a friend set up their national-telecom-provided Wifi router (which was surprisingly not difficult, even with not knowing the language, and no English-language option).

    What was surprising was that there was not only no option to set the access point open, there wasn't even a way of specifying a passphrase -- only a cryptic one chosen by the router could be used. Which explained why I never saw an open access point the entire time that I was in the country...

  7. Re:In the U.S., why isn't this obsolete by now? on Australian Census Stirs Up Storm of Privacy Concerns (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The glib answer to "why" is simply "because nobody has passed an amendment to remove the legal mandate from the Constitution"...

  8. Re:A good reason not to use fingerprint unlocking on Suspect Required To Unlock iPhone Using Touch ID in Second Federal Case (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there any good reason to even use Touch ID or other fingerprint unlocks instead of just using a password or passcode?

    Less chance of someone seeing you typing in your passcode.

    When I used to use a passcode, I had the phone lock after an hour of not having been used. With the fingerprint sensor, it locks immediately when it goes to sleep, and then requires the code after not having been used for 8 hours. I'm comfortable with this, and consider it an improvement...

  9. Re:I'm good with this. on AP Style Alert: Don't Capitalize Internet and Web Anymore (poynter.org) · · Score: 1

    When you're using my as the qualifier

    So, kind of like the internet, then?

  10. Re:Human drivers are terrible on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The idiot humans are hitting them at double the average rate; the same rate would likely apply to any slower, rule following human drivers.

    I don't agree. I bet that I could get into an accident every day that wouldn't be my fault, without breaking any laws, but instead just by doing things that are unexpected by the other drivers.

    A lot of people don't realize (or believe) that the biggest part of good driving is communication -- acting in a way that is predictable by other drivers, such not yielding the right-of-way when you should not, slowing unexpectedly, etc. I drive a lot, and have never had an accident, but have avoided a countless number of situations where I anticipated that a driver was about to do something stupid.

  11. Re:Weight on FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Pounds are definitely not units of mass -- "slugs" are the imperial units of mass...

  12. Re:Anyone else think she could be a plant? on Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The bullshit meter just bent the needle. On what do you base this claim?

    There was a story last week that, if you pick a month (October) where Apple didn't have any new tablet products, while Microsoft introduced a new line (Surface Pro 4), and if you ignored sales from apple.com and the like, then Microsoft shipped a greater number if measured in dollars (not units).

  13. Re:Bonus points on USB Killer 2.0: a Harmless-Looking USB Stick That Destroys Computers · · Score: 1

    This thing might be more dangerous if plugged into one of those portable USB power supply battery packs. Not sure what would happen, but a fire is not out of the question.

    That is true -- I just got one that can supply enough current to jump-start my car!

  14. Re:In mainframe? Hell no! on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the Mac limited to 128Kb because that was all anyone would ever need?

    Do you have any other ignorant statements to add?

  15. Re:CoC on GitHub Desktop Launches To Replace Mac and Windows Apps · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as "reverse racism" and "reverse sexism". Racism is racism, and sexism is sexism.

    Yes, and a "brown" dog is still a dog. In the English language, adjectives are used to add more description to a noun; that's just the way the language works...

  16. Re:Interesting on Ex-TEPCO Officials To Be Indicted Over Fukushima · · Score: 1

    I would suspect that the problem is that jurors are selected not to know anything about the case. Then, if the prosecutor doesn't present any compelling evidence, how can there be a conviction?

  17. Re:Where's "Scroll Lock"? on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    Command-C, command-V. It works in the terminal just like in the rest of your apps. It's one of the things that I actually prefer about the Mac that I'm working on nowadays.

    And, since Command is used for shortcuts on the Mac, that leaves Control (mapped to be left of the "A" key, of course) available for emacs-style editing functions...

  18. Re:Can we hear from an IRS apologist? on Citizenfour Director Sues To Find Out Why She Was Detained Every Time She Flew · · Score: 1

    Note that it's not possible for an honest person to have need of the 5th amendment.

    That really isn't true...

    incriminate: make (someone) appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing; strongly imply the guilt of (someone).

    Note the word "appear". There was a robbery down on Main Street last night. Where were you last night? If you were to answer that you were on Main Street, you could well be incriminating yourself, even if you were to know nothing about the robbery.

  19. Re:And so preventable on A Beautiful Mind Mathematician John F. Nash Jr. Dies · · Score: 1

    Was her son's name Brutus?

    Nope, Bam-Bam...

  20. Re:USA in good company... on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    Besides, why are individuals punished for premeditated homicide, but it's OK for the state to do it?

    Couldn't the same comparison be made for kidnapping/confinement?

  21. Re:"Come on help the deflator" on NFL Releases Deflategate Report · · Score: 1

    Bill Belichick did not.

    More like there isn't any evidence that Bilichick knew. He seems to be enough of a micromanager that it seems pretty likely that he would know.

    I'm curious (and will probably never know) the extent of Brady's involvement. If it's like the mafia (or government), I would bet that it's more like "it would be nice if the balls were under-inflated", instead of "I would like you to break the rules, and remove air from the balls"...

  22. Re:What? Why discriminate? on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 1

    Dude, this isn't reddit -- you don't get instant karma just for saying "fedora"...

  23. Re:3 months? on Denver TSA Screeners Manipulated System In Order To Grope Men's Genitals · · Score: 1

    Murder victims can't press charges, but somehow murderers still end up on trial.

    But they still have to identify the victim, and conviction is much easier if there is a body...

  24. Re:Never consumer ready on 220TB Tapes Show Tape Storage Still Has a Long Future · · Score: 1

    You never used an audio cassette tape to backup your TRS-80?

    I don't know of anyone who ever used cassette for backup (other than to save to another cassette).

  25. Re:A less biased source please? on Google: Less Than One Percent of Android Devices Are Affected By Harmful Apps · · Score: 2

    I recently moved back to an iPhone, after a few years on Android. It is so very nice to be able to update my apps, and not have to review all of the extra permissions that every app is requesting. And not having to manage the permissions in appops/xprivacy.