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  1. Re:Or how about recruiting people that we have? on Slashdot Asks: Do We Need To Plan For a Future Without Jobs And Should We Resort To Universal Basic Income? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not really sure you can legitimately classify providing the necessities of life (which is the goal of a UBI) as a "reward".

  2. Dismissed or not ... the simple leveling of charges against a journalist in the performance of their job is an egregious misuse of power.

  3. Re:Ultimately, we are what we do on Right To Be Forgotten? Web Privacy Debate in Italy After Women's Suicide (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Please .... Religious nut-jobs are generally more affluent than that ... a double-wide at least. :)

  4. The right to be forgotten .... on Right To Be Forgotten? Web Privacy Debate in Italy After Women's Suicide (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Is similar to the "right to remain silent" ... you have the "right" the REAL question is ... do you have the ability?

  5. Re:Or the other reason.... on Bill Nye Explains That the Flooding In Louisiana Is the Result of Climate Change (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank-you!! That was the point I was trying (& evidently failing) to make ... Obviously I'm expecting too much out of the average /. user. If you're going to populate a flood plain it might be a good idea to invest in the infrastructure to mitigate the inevitable outcome instead of bitching about it, and blaming the completely predictable consequences on everything but your own shortsightedness.

  6. Re:Or the other reason.... on Bill Nye Explains That the Flooding In Louisiana Is the Result of Climate Change (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet the Netherlands has no problems with flooding despite most of the country being below sea level..

  7. Oh how i long for the MOD points i burned this morning.

  8. Re:How fast is the 0 to 88 MPH speed? on Tesla Unveils New Model S, Its Quickest Production Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming acceleration is linear (and it generally is with EV's) 3.666 seconds to time travel speed.

  9. Am I paranoid ... on Want To Hunt Bank Robbers? There's an App For That, Says The FBI (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    to think this would be a perfect opportunity for FBI malware that collects information about the American public to be distributed to your phone? They don't need a back door in the OS if you can be convinced to install one for them.

  10. Techgasm aside ... it fulfills its primary purpose on Uber Hires a Robot To Patrol Its Parking Lot and It's Way Cheaper Than a Security Guard (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    Which is to deprive some family of their income to increase corporate profits regardless of the detrimental impacts to society. All hail our corporate overlords.

  11. Re:Mandatory metal detectors at night clubs? on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    You clearly think the LGBT community differs from everyone else in something other than sexual identity/preference. Let me let you in on something ... the LGBT community is just like everyone else ... Even without numbers I can tell you they are just as likely to blow someone away in a fit of passion as someone in the straight community. You're welcome.

  12. Re:Is the answer smart gun technology? on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    a reliable "smart" gun would also prevent a persons gun from being used on them ... an unreliable smart gun would be worse than useless

  13. Re:With technology ? No. But it is very simple. on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    I'm sick of the news of terrorist attacks in Europe .... maybe we should enact religion control.

  14. Re:With Experience of Similar Incidents... on Tesla: Model X Accident Caused By Driver Error, Not Autopilot (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    IANAD but "abruptly" is a word that one might use if it went straight to 100% from one reading to the next ... instantaneously is the exact word I would use.

  15. Re:What's particularly fishy... on Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Fitbit For 'Highly Inaccurate' Heart Rate Trackers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure it's a percentage set up front in most cases .... in some jurisdictions, i believe there are even limits on the percentage the lawyers can take out of the settlement

  16. Re:Migrations are costly and newer is not better on Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL --- Since "a line" implies the singular and there is no "single line" of COBOL that can be compiled ... your statement "For the record -- IANACP -- I've never written or compiled a line of COBOL in my life." is virtually a tautology, Well Done!!

  17. Re:What's particularly fishy... on Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Fitbit For 'Highly Inaccurate' Heart Rate Trackers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    IANAL ... but it's my understanding that in most cases the costs for class action lawsuits is fronted by the law firm and they get a large cut of the settlement in recompense. So it's in the "plaintiff" firms' interest to secure a fast settlement.

  18. Re:Batteries on Solar Planes Aren't the Green Future Of Air Travel (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Citation ?

  19. Alternative phone on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Glare On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    I like my Yotaphone 2 ... use it anywhere ... no glare problems at all http://www.amazon.com/Smartpho...

  20. Re: Huh? Was there a smartwatch bubble to begin wi on Pebble Lays Off 25% of Its Staff, Smartwatch Bubble Set To Burst? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Pebble too ...

  21. Re:good deal on SeaWorld To End Orca Breeding Program (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Excellent point ... wish i had mod points :(

  22. The only way "medical privacy" would apply ... on New Jersey Rejects Request For Dolphin Necropsy Results, Cites "Medical Privacy" (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    is if dolphins are people too. Animals have no right to privacy.

  23. Abrams is a spectacle guy. Not a story guy! on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    This first Disney Star Wars film was never about story. As you say ... What the first SW film after the George Lucas travesty known as episodes I - !!I needed to be was a spectacle that clearly established, for the fans, that Disney could recapture the look and feel, mood and tone, however you want to describe it, of the original trilogy. They have unequivocally done that!

    Let's face it ... nobody would pick Abrams to tell a story. Abrams is a spectacle guy. Not a story guy!

    I anticipate few story elements will be "borrowed" from the original trilogy for any of the episodes to come. Don't expect redemption of the villain, for example.. Do expect that the sets will be reused ... they are an integral and essential part of the mood and tone of the franchise ...

    The guy tagged to write and direct episode VIII( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt25... [imdb.com] ), Rian Johnson (Looper), is NOT a spectacle guy he is definitely a "story" guy and while he's no Irwin Kershner, I have considerable hope that episode VIII will be as much better than VII as V was better than IV.

    I know that is dangerous, shattered hope kills ....

  24. Re:Thank god he did... on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    you don't really think that Disney will be limiting themselves to just the 9 episodes originally conceived do you ? I anticipate at least a 1/2 dozen if they are successful ....

    In 2027 ... The 50th anniversary episode Star Wars Episode XIV - The Force Diminishes ...

  25. Re:And not a single crap was given that day on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points .... I think people deserve to have their comments modded up for explaining the obvious to the stupid. well done.