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  1. Re:Jobs Hates Flash on iFixit Tears Down the New Moto X, So You Don't Have To · · Score: 1

    You think getting a small screen his hard? try finding a high end phone with a good slide out physical keyboard these days.

    The Samsung Relay is the only one I could find on t-mobile that was even remotely usable, and its keyboard is worse than the old Samsung Epic I had before switching providers.

  2. Re:Don't wanna be first... on Dispatch From the Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google · · Score: 2

    The good news is that they are already loaded with camera's. As camera's are a component of their collision avoidance sensor suite.

  3. Re:Don't wanna be first... on Dispatch From the Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google · · Score: 2

    I am pretty sure the average person has an at fault accident more often than 300k miles driven.

  4. Re:Don't wanna be first... on Dispatch From the Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean one that automatically and effectively drives effectively and avoids obstacles? That doesn't seem very appropriate considering the number of random obstacles that the house has thrown up that Obama managed to crash into.

  5. Re:Don't wanna be first... on Dispatch From the Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google · · Score: 2

    Yo dawg is already a car analogy as it originates from that "Pimp Yo Ride" show or whatever its called.

  6. Re:Five Star on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 1

    There are two types of environmentalists.

    Those who see environmental damage as detrimental to human progress and survival. They try to make the world a better cleaner place by using science and progress to reduce the harm we are doing, and even repair the harm we already have done.

    Those who see human progress and survival as environmental damage. These guys are anti-human scum who want to return us to the stone age or worse, extinction.

  7. Re:... grow a pair ? on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    The smaller the government, the more easily it can be corrupted and bullied into disenfranchising the people it is supposed to serve. To weaken the federal governments defense of rights in favor of the state is nothing less than a naked attack on the rights of the people. Every American has exactly the same rights, and there can be nothing more unequal than abdicating the defense of those rights to the states that seek to infringe upon them.

    States Rights is a doublethink code word for individual states infringing on the rights of Americans when the federal government makes progress in recognizing and correcting unequal treatment. Now the states rightists are banning guns, trying to prohibit gay marriage, repeal the equal voting rights and ban abortion. None of these things make Americans more free.

  8. Re:Five Star on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 1

    Except that it routinely does get rated better than the other $80k cars in both amenities and performance. Like it or not, it is rated near or at the top of its class.

  9. Re:Five Star on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its not supposed to be in the same galaxy as a family sedan. Its supposed to be in the same galaxy as the other $80k-$100k high end luxury performance cars, and it is much "greener" than those.

  10. Re:Five Star on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes it is a top end luxury vehicle, and it is also the best in its class, for a lower cost than comparable vehicles. It is also green.

    It just isn't a cheap family sedan. We are still at least 5 to 10 years from an affordable all electric inexpensive family car.

  11. Re:NHTSA pushed a 5 star rating on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 0

    Wasn't the next tesla vehicle going to compete against the $50k luxury SUV's?

  12. Re:Implied license... on Comcast Allegedly Confirms That Prenda Planted Porn Torrents · · Score: 0

    Yea, but in this case the porsche has an engine that squeels the same sound over and over, no matter if its idling or not, so its obviously faking it. The sneakers look, feel and sound much more natural, like they might actually be enjoying it.

  13. Re:Ghost in The Shell on DARPA Wants Computers That Fuse With Higher Human Brain Function · · Score: 0

    You mean cyber-brains? Almost everyone in Ghost in the Shell has an artificial brain implant.

  14. Re:... grow a pair ? on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    I don't see this as quite as big an issue, but what the hell. I'll get on board with this as well.

    More time to vote for everyone makes it harder for peoples right to vote to be infringed by employers refusing to make allowances to work schedules.

  15. Re:20-30 ms is massive on Protests Mount In New Zealand Against New Surveillance Laws · · Score: 1, Informative

    I can definitely tell the difference of 20ms to 30ms ping when playing an FPS like counterstrike or tactical ops that doesn't perform latency gimping. Its huge, and makes all the difference in the world if your base ping is under 100. Above 100ms, its not even worth playing anyway. Way to slow.

  16. Re:Who watches the watchers on Should Cops Wear Google Glass? · · Score: 0

    That is because the criminals are in charge of seeing themselves prosecuted. Its only the rare case that can't be swept under the rug that gets any media attention.

  17. Re:Who watches the watchers on Should Cops Wear Google Glass? · · Score: 0

    Criminals and psychopaths are drawn to positions of authority and the ability to wield power without consequence. That is what a police officer is. Some few of them may be truly altruistic, but it is also a magnet for the worst kind of scum. There are far more than just a few bad cops. Most of them are bad, some of them are downright vile.

    Monitor and record their every move. Any officer that forsakes his oath and the duty of his position to abuse the rights of the people is an enemy of the people and the constitution, an enemy of America. Prosecute all officers found to abuse their power, and then execute them for treason.

  18. Re:... grow a pair ? on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    No it is not. I am a proponent of individual and citizens rights. The state has no more right to infringe on those than the federal government.

  19. Re:... grow a pair ? on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 2

    States rights are shit. The only states rights movement I have seen with any legitimacy has been the drug legalization movement. Every other states rights agenda is about tearing down equality and liberty by circumventing federal protection of the rights of citizens.

    No, what we need is a mandate that neuters the ability of states to game the federal system.

    1: eliminate the electoral college. Elect the president by a simple popular vote.
    Why? so that the vote of every citizen matters. Right now, the only people who have a voice in electing the president are those who live in contested states. A Mississippi vote for R, D or anyone else doesn't matter in the least right now because the aggregate of the state will always be R, and the same applies to safe states for D. Enacting this change can increase voter participation and turnout.

    2: eliminate congressional districts and replace with a party proportional by state house. What I mean by this: each state retains its number of seats in the house. But instead of being assigned by geographical distribution, they are split based the proportion of the vote won by each party.

    Why? congressional districts allow gerrymandering, enforcing the binary party system and disenfranchising the individual vote of every citizen. By switching to a party proportional system, we can eliminate that and also empower 3rd party options, even ones that are geographically limited, such as the Texas secessionists.

  20. Re:Teaching someone to beat pseudoscience? on Feds Target Instructors of Polygraph-Beating Methods · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is the point. Do anything that sheds light on the incompetence, illegality or malevolence of the us intelligence industry makes you an enemy of the state.

  21. Re:How about on Feds Target Instructors of Polygraph-Beating Methods · · Score: 0

    They may also deter people who are "unconventional". I have a habit of dating crazy bisexual girls, I don't want people to judge me on that basis.

  22. Re:at some point... on The College-Loan Scandal · · Score: 2

    I was working 40 to 60 hours a week, spent a few years taking classes at a community college, lived at home with my parents, pinched pennies to the point I was still wearing my clothes from high school, went to a cheap state school in a cheap state (Mississippi), and I graduated with $40k in student loans when i left school.

    I find these stories of "toughing it out and working through school" to be incredibly unlikely. Because that is exactly what I did, and I didn't make nearly enough to get through.

  23. Re:at some point... on The College-Loan Scandal · · Score: 1

    That isn't free.

  24. Re:The best combination on The College-Loan Scandal · · Score: 2

    You also have tall Swedish blondes in abundance.

  25. Re:at some point... on The College-Loan Scandal · · Score: 4, Informative

    In much of europe, college is payed for by government issue 0% interest student loans to universities with tuition caps. The repayment of these loans is based on the persons income after graduation. If they never find a sufficiently good job after a certain number of years the loans are forgiven. It generally works out very well.