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  1. Re:It is not going to work on Twitter Users Blocked By Trump Sue, Claim @realDonaldTrump Is Public Forum (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, it's the last part that's the crux of the matter, you have the right to speak, but I don't have to listen to you.

  2. Re:Won't be long now on Google Home Ends A Domestic Dispute By Calling The Police (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Episode was: The Luck of the Fryrish
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. Re:Lot more here for some reason on Oregon Raises the Smoking Age (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the diet effect... it's the one thing that I miss about smoking; it replaces every craving. Hungry? Must want a smoke. Thirsty? Yeah, definitely need a smoke. Tired? OMG, you might as well light the next smoke off this one!

    Realising that was also a big help in quitting... I had to start going to bed a /lot/ earlier.

  4. Re:Cure worse than disease on Getting Rid of Carpool Lanes Could Double Travel Times (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I was proposing switching HOV-only for odds and evens. I can still get to work after I drop someone off, or vice versa.

  5. Re:Cure worse than disease on Getting Rid of Carpool Lanes Could Double Travel Times (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Sure, there's some technicalities to work out, but it's a lot better than 3 in 1. You could offer an alternative or any explanation of why it's wrong. Or just make blind assertions I guess.

  6. Re:Cure worse than disease on Getting Rid of Carpool Lanes Could Double Travel Times (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, however I'd expect a rule that allowed changing your number plate every few months or so would make that part work.

    As to same place, same time; meh, only has to be within a margin to be acceptable. For location differences: I drop you 20 mins early if we start at the same time and I have to also get to work afterwards, and I pick you up 20 mins late. For time differences: same really, and when you're absolutely forced, you can find someone to pool with when the alternative is a long public transport trip.

  7. Re:Cure worse than disease on Getting Rid of Carpool Lanes Could Double Travel Times (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Yup. What they should do is just do an odds and evens system.

    Rich people can have 2 cars and drive every day, most people can carpool with a neighbour.

    Then you can just have plate scanning cameras issuing the fines.

  8. Re:Braess' paradox Another possible reason on Getting Rid of Carpool Lanes Could Double Travel Times (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, we're in furious agreement... excepting that the article title and first paragraph both misrepresent the study.

  9. Re:Braess' paradox Another possible reason on Getting Rid of Carpool Lanes Could Double Travel Times (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Read the summary again, it's not a carpool lane, it's ALL traffic.

    Whoever wrote the article needs a kick in the crotch.

  10. Re:There is only one logical conclusion. on Getting Rid of Carpool Lanes Could Double Travel Times (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The thing is, that was the case. The title misleads people into thinking there was just "another lane" which required 3+ people in the car, it was all of them.

  11. I might do minimum work for maximum pay, but I'm not taking an 80% paycut to sit around the house.

    Your reductio ad absurdum argument is not even funny.

  12. Re:Beware LG Smart TV and Amazon Streaming on Amazon Will Offer Prime Video At Half-Price In All New Markets For Six More Months (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Also doesn't matter if you're in one of the new markets where their programming is /very/ different. The US comparison is completely irrelevant to this article.

  13. Yeah, I doubt they'll really go that way, rapid charging is just too convenient and how would you use an external battery pack?

  14. Years later while at Harvard on Facebook Built an AI System That Learned To Lie To Get What It Wants (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    it stole the idea for facebook from some weird square-headed twins, and the rest is history.

  15. I know, right. It was tried and abandoned as an expensive gimmick.

    QI Pro: MicroUSB is fragile and annoying to plug in the right way.
    QI Neg: USB-C solves the problem better and more reliably than getting the charging coil /just/ right on the pad.

    However, if they're going to remove the Lightning connector entirely to get a properly waterproof phone... then you're stuck with wireless charging (good luck)

  16. Re:So FUCKING what!? on Robots Are Coming For Our Ms. Pac-Man High Scores (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    In all honesty; I care more about your spelling of seriously than this.

  17. How dare you on Wisconsin Speech Bill Might Allow Students To Challenge Science Professors (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    impinge on my right to free speech by using yours!

    How can this possibly get past the SCOTUS?

    As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis advised, in his famous Whitney v. California opinion in 1927, "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."

  18. Re:tulpenmanie on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Please tell me how one uses tulips to transfer money across the globe in a few minutes pseudonymously without intermediate parties. Cryptocurrencies are not just a fancy collectible, they perform valuable services in the real world.

    There are definitely intermediate parties if you want money and not just crypto-currency, and they all want money because they want to buy shit that isn't illegal.

    So it's no better than Hawala

  19. isn't criminal any more than picking up a $20 bill laying on the sidewalk is robbery.

    Yeah, that is in fact robbery. Not armed robbery, but robbery is just theft and picking up the $20 is theft by omission, and is criminal.

    You're not very good at this.

  20. Fuck you and all, mod.

  21. Re:The Mythical Man Month on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    You just buy a baby that was prepared earlier.

  22. The 4 hour work week on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    Be an asshole to employees in a poor country.

  23. Re:Books I Wish I'd Read Earlier on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    I think you mean punctuation. /shrug

  24. Re:They have seen the enemy on TSA May Recommend Stowing Laptops In Cargo For US Domestic Flights (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait until they hear that people can buy capacitors at any RadioShack!

    Oh.. wow, the TSA moves in mysterious ways.

  25. this scam is probably somewhat similar with Android vendors.

    The fuck are you talking about? There's no evidence of that at all.