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  1. Re:Do not want on Unlock Your Android Phone With Open Source Wearable NFC · · Score: 2

    > Suppose a bunch of thugs (you know who I mean) are in my house, and I need to call the police?

    You mean the emergency call button that is on every recent smartphone?

  2. Yay? on Ericsson Trial 10Gbps 5G Mobile Broadband Network in Japan · · Score: 1

    Still waiting on decent 3/4G speeds here in the US.

  3. NeoCities? on Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who the heck is that?

    IOW: Some group nobody has heard of, throttled the FCCs connection speed to a site they'll never visit.

  4. Apocalypse? on The Upcoming Windows 8.1 Apocalypse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doesn't this happen every time they come out with a major update?

  5. Re:Stupid gimmick, and I even don't care about gun on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > He got two, the third strangled him. So three people dead, one in jail for life (I hope) ... which probably would not have happened if he had not had a gun.

    It still would have happened, but the only death would have been his.

  6. QQ More on Master of Analytics Program Admission Rates Falling To Single Digits · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NC State has received nearly 800 applications for 85 seats. Its acceptance rate is now at 12.5%. Northwestern University's Master of Science in Analytics received 600 applications for 30 openings its September class. That's an acceptance rate of 6%

    Try Med School. You might have 100 or more applicants per seat.

  7. Re:Problems? on Under the Chassis: A Look At Tesla's Battery Shield · · Score: -1, Troll

    The sample size of total number of Tesla's is still considerably smaller then ICE vehicles.

  8. Re:Not having been there on Algorithm Challenge: Burning Man Vehicle Exodus · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you're part of those hippies if you think they leave no trace.

    How about reading a real report about the impact.

    I think you were saying something about "Know what you're talking about before posting"

  9. Re:Not having been there on Algorithm Challenge: Burning Man Vehicle Exodus · · Score: 1

    > meaning that letting people just drive off over the desert will tear up the earth (and damage the ecosystem there) and allow people to try to jump on to the road anywhere they please

    As if Burning Man itself hasn't done enough of that already?

  10. Re:There is no "Sharing" going on on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 2

    Uber doesn't bill itself as ridesharing, and Uber drivers are licensed car for hires.

  11. Re:Not playing nice. on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    > Sounds like, after doing a quick 15 minutes of research that Uber, Lyft and their kin don't really care to play by the established regulations for for-hire drivers.

    False.

  12. Re:Free market on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    Aahahahahhaha. Come to Dallas and tell me regulation has fixed any of that. Yellow Cab is the monopoly here and they're utter shit and they have the city on their payroll to keep companies like Uber out.

  13. Re:Titanium? on Tesla Model S Gets Titanium Underbody Shield, Aluminum Deflector Plates · · Score: 4, Funny

    > In the event of a crash where there is grinding across the titanium shield, there would be a lot of sparks on the outside, but no damage to the batteries.

    Thank god a Tesla could never crash into anything carrying gasoline.

  14. No Details on Speedy Attack Targets Web Servers With Outdated Linux Kernels · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So the webserver was compromised and JavaScript was inserted and their first thought is it's the kernel?

  15. Re:World War Z.... WHY....? on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    Short answer? Brad Pitt

  16. Cut him some slack on Obama Administration Transparency Getting Worse · · Score: 1

    He was too busy Shilling healthcare.gov

  17. Re:Please post Tape backup ref on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    LTO-6 Tape Drive: $2200
    LTO-6 Tape: $65 x 4

  18. Re:Why? on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek · · Score: 1

    > Wrong, but it does match the public misconception. It's commonly believed that he's sitting on nearly half a billion dollars, and facts to the contrary won't even slow down those who will try to collect.

    So where did those coins go then if you say he doesn't have them.

  19. Associates on Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree? · · Score: 2

    A Bachelors of Arts in anything scientific generally implies that you're not going to get enough exposure to anything you'll actually be doing, much less an associates. So sure, if you want to develop a program that teaches things they could pick up for $20 out of a book and make your college thousands, then 'Associates of Applied Science' sounds perfect.

  20. Re: Mental stack overflow of the driver is more li on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Because no brakes are better then some brakes, everybody knows that.

  21. Re:I don't see the point on A Dedicated Shell For Git Commands · · Score: 1

    They're a Ruby on Rails shop, what were you expecting?

  22. Re:munis are broke on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    > How is this a bad deal for the city or it's constituents?

    Because it teaches them how much the telcos screw them over.

  23. Re:Perhaps... on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 0

    Daily 12.000.000 usd worth of bitcoin is converted on biggest exchange

    Converted maybe, withdrawn? Hell no. Withdrawing USD from any of the exchanges is next to impossible.

  24. Re:Bitcoin is vulernable to government manipulatio on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    > Bitcoins strength lies in its ability to be used as a payment processing network - and at a fraction of the cost of traditional payment networks (visa, mastercard, paypal, SWIFT, etc).

    It's only fractional the cost for people receiving money. It doesn't cost me anything to send people money using USD.

  25. ~nt~