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  1. Re:Again... on City of Austin Locked In Regulations Battle With Uber, Lyft · · Score: 1

    if Uber could just follow the law we could have a great alternative Taxi service that is safer and fully legal as well. That they're so inflexible and forceful frustrates me to no end.

    They're inflexible and forceful because their business plan doesn't work if they have to follow all of the existing laws and regulations. So, like AirBnB, they have decided that since their new and cool and different, that all of the existing laws don't apply to them.

  2. "Harry Reid doesn't like that, you've been no help at all, we should just abandon nuclear energy completely!"

    The people of Nevada overwhelmingly don't like it. But feel free to take cheap political shots at him for doing his job correctly.

  3. Re:And PI == 3 on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    It has no impact on Bitcoin. But it can certainly affect European businesses who handle bitcoin and their European customers.

  4. Re:Seems reasonable on Utility Targets Bitcoin Miners With Power Rate Hike (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    You can bet an HFT farm makes a bitcoin miner look like a blinking LED.

    Compared to 220MW of bitcoin mining? Bullshit.

  5. Re:Personally, I think it's pretty badass. on The Story Behind National Reconnaissance Office's Octopus Logo (muckrock.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    My thoughts as I looked through the list-

    Awesome
    Awesome
    Statue of Liberty in Space
    Awesome
    Cute fuzzy brown bear
    Awesome

  6. Re:Jah booty on A Small Secret Airstrip In Africa Is the Future of America's Way of War · · Score: 1

    And look long and hard into the act of flying your B-29 in over cities, much like the one you live in yourself, before releasing the bombs in your wake

    That explains why those bomber crews refused to drop nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No...wait...they actually killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.

  7. Re:Jah booty on A Small Secret Airstrip In Africa Is the Future of America's Way of War · · Score: 1

    So what's a fundamental difference, anonymous genius?

  8. Re:Slick or sick on A Small Secret Airstrip In Africa Is the Future of America's Way of War · · Score: 1

    Your second citation completely contradicts your claim-

    "TBIJ reports that from June 2004 through mid-September 2012, available data indicate that drone strikes killed 2,562 - 3,325 people in Pakistan, of whom 474 - 881 were civilians, including 176 children. TBIJ reports that these strikes also injured an additional 1,228 - 1,362 individuals," according to the Stanford/NYU study.

    Your first citation takes a claim from the second, that only 2% of people killed are "high value targets" and twists that into "only 2% of people killed are terrorists". That is not at all true. A rank and file ISIS member is definitely a terrorist, but not a high value target. Only management level people earn that distinction.

  9. Re:Jah booty on A Small Secret Airstrip In Africa Is the Future of America's Way of War · · Score: 1

    We've been killing people remotely for almost 100 years. I don't see a fundamental difference between a B-29 and a Reaper drone.

  10. Re:Slick or sick on A Small Secret Airstrip In Africa Is the Future of America's Way of War · · Score: 1

    30 people die for every "terrorist" killed by a drone

    Citation?

  11. At least get the name right on Casino Sues Security Firm For Failing To Contain Malware Infection (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it too much to ask for the article, or Slashdot's editors, to get the name of the affected company correct? It says right at the top of the lawsuit that their name is Affinity Gaming, not Affinity Games.

  12. Re:What About Liability Self-Driving Cars? on Obama Proposes $4 Billion Investment In Self-Driving Cars (transportation.gov) · · Score: 2

    That is what the gov needs to work on

    This is exactly the kind of thing that Obama is talking about. We need clear, nationally consistent regulations, so that companies can safely invest in R&D and know they'll get a return.

  13. Re:Crazy talk on Marco Rubio: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    That's irrelevant to the question. Rubio is trying to win votes from scared, misinformed people, who he meets with every day.

  14. Re:Crazy talk on Marco Rubio: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs (dailydot.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do these people actually go out there and actually talk to real people.

    Yes. Thousands of them. At least 100 million Americans, maybe more, agree with Rubio on this. Those people don't post on any of the same web forums that you or I do, but they exist and they vote.

  15. Re:Good! on Pirates Finding It Harder To Crack New PC Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to play a game created by evil people?

  16. Re:True Re:Eh, its not that much on Oculus Rift Pre-orders Begin At $600 (oculus.com) · · Score: 1

    ...it's the dual Titan X rig you'll need to pump out 3-4x the graphics load

    I don't expect you to read the article, but at least read the damn summary. A GTX 970 is about $325, a third of the price of one Titan X.

  17. Re:Not surpsing on Oculus Rift Pre-orders Begin At $600 (oculus.com) · · Score: 1

    And this one has a release date 4 months from now.

  18. Re:Ouch... on Oculus Rift Pre-orders Begin At $600 (oculus.com) · · Score: 1

    This product is more innovative than anything Apple has done since the iPod 15 years ago.

  19. Re:Eh, its not that much on Oculus Rift Pre-orders Begin At $600 (oculus.com) · · Score: 1

    Your signature is hilariously ironic.

  20. Re:is anyone else tired? on Samsung's Latest Smart Fridge Has Cameras and a Huge Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    People want cheap fridges, so the market sells them cheap, shitty fridges. If you spend a couple hundred more dollars, you can get a very reliable fridge that uses less energy than the old ones.

  21. Re:Is it part of the uncoordinated coordination? on 18 Million Targeted Voter Records Exposed By Database Error (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    One way to defeat it is to collect the data and leave in a secret location but arguably a public location.

    This database is basically an empty shell of an election information DB. Remember the thing between Bernie Sanders and Hillary? They share the same basic DB, with factual information like age and address. Then each campaign can add their own secret information on top of that, which was inadvertently opened up. This mystery DB doesn't have any of that secret sauce.

  22. Re:Going to be keeping my car for a while... on Software-Defined Vehicles Will Dominate At CES (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I've owned Hondas, Mazdas and a Nissan for over 20 years, and have had zero power window problems.

  23. Re:Going to be keeping my car for a while... on Software-Defined Vehicles Will Dominate At CES (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with power windows?

  24. Re:$37 million? on NSF and Federal Partners Award $37M To Advance Nation's Co-robots (nsf.gov) · · Score: 1

    More than the $0 that was previously budgeted.

  25. Re:Follow.The.Money? on Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? · · Score: 1

    It is financial, but it's not shady. Netflix and Hulu put servers inside T-Mobile's network. When you watch a YouTube video, that data comes from Google's network, into T-Mobile. Since Netflix data starts in T-Mobile's network, it's much cheaper for them.