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  1. So in your opinion, judges should not bother to take away Driver's Licenses from drunk drivers because nothing physically prevents them from getting behind the wheel and driving anyways?

  2. Re:NYC taxi system could DESTROY uber on Taxi Owners Sue NYC Over Uber, While Court Overrules Class-Action Appeal (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    This is specifically what Uber's demand pricing is designed to do. Too many Uber drivers in an area with too few jobs, lower the rate, as more users need rides, increase pricing to draw in drivers. Allows for more direct control than the medallion system which forces the medallion owners to ensure the medallion is trying to make them money 24/7 by having the car out on the road thus contributing to your problems.

  3. Re:NYC taxi system could DESTROY uber on Taxi Owners Sue NYC Over Uber, While Court Overrules Class-Action Appeal (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    By far the biggest cost of running a cab is maintenance, fuel, insurance, and the interest you pay on the loan you took out for the "medallion".

    Uber drivers have all of these costs too, with the exception of the Medallion, and probably cost more for the one-off Uber driver as the cab companies are able to pool their costs across their fleet. Also, what would prevent a cab company from converting cabs to Uber cars and flying under the radar without medallions?

  4. Re:If you don't like the textbooks, on Texas Narrowly Rejects Allowing Academics To Fact-Check Public School Textbooks (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Also they'll become Doctors and forget which probe goes in your mouth and which goes in your anus!

  5. Re: About as far as you can throw a strawman on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    As urbandictionary.com can be a risky-click, I will assume that Hoplophobia is a fear of being attacked by Hoplites.

  6. quite possibly from the 'Mac vs PC' advertisements, made by Apple...

    Except those ads come after the beginning of the Intel Mac era, not prior...

  7. Re:Herpin' the Derp on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    They do it by using the same data connection provided for features such as Remote Start/Diagnostics on your Smartphone and built-in apps like Pandora and Twitter. They can get the data regardless of whether you take it back to the dealer.

  8. Re:Like what Budweiser did back then... on UK Company Successfully Claims Ownership of "Pinterest" Trademark · · Score: 1

    Seems like the UK is a special case

    That's because the UK wants "Just the Tip" in regards to being in the EU.

  9. Re:GNU Savannah supports git on Emacs Needs To Move To GitHub, Says ESR · · Score: 1

    You might consider him a whackjob, but he and his ideas are responsible for a lot of the software you use directly and indirectly.

  10. Re:real socialism on GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses · · Score: 1

    Please tell me how sole-provider and no-bid contracts handed to a few corporations by our government is completely different from "means of production owned by the state". When government contracts like Lockheed-Martin or BoozAllenHamilton will do anything the government pays them to do, often without transparency, the net effect is the same.

    Also, cite examples of any "conservatives will question the logic of solving the problem of too much power concentrating in the hands of a few corporations by further concentrating that power into the hands of a single, enormous entity." The conservatives were the ones that supported the deregulation that allowed banks to consolidate to become "too large to fail" in the first place.

  11. Re:really on Head of Silk Road 2.0 Says It Will Be Back In Minutes If Shut Down · · Score: 2

    Then clearly the answer is to make your own Pot stamps. The government would then be unable to prove that the ones you made are counterfeit as they could not provide "approved" Pot stamps to compare them against.

  12. Re:See... this is why I torrent cracked versions. on Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing Adobe's cheese-cloth approach to security with PDF and Flash should certainly be huge red flags that the rest of their infrastructure was likely not up to par either.

  13. Re:Redundant keys on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    I am a lefty. I never use them either. Mouse with right hand as the most-utilized short cuts are left-handed, Ctrl-A, -X, -C, -V, etc.

  14. Re:What I dont get... on Ballmer Admits Microsoft Whiffed Big-Time On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    It makes sense because their offering is excellent (most who have used it say "superior", and it's just a matter of time, now. It would be silly for them to walk away at this point.

    You know who else thought that... Sony with their BetaMAX product line.

  15. Re: In summary... on Did Apple Make a Mistake By Releasing Two New iPhones? · · Score: 2

    GP said "lower-end" not cheap. Compare the price (and specs) of a iMac to the Mac towers and indeed it is lower-end.

  16. like different users? on Apple Receives Patent For Accessing Sets of Apps With Different Passcodes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So basically they re-invented having different accounts having access to different apps. Only its on a mobile device, and it deserves a patent?!

  17. Give them Surfaces?! on Ask Slashdot: Hands-On Activity For IT Career Fair · · Score: 1

    Give them Surfaces and make them dance like the commercial. If they can pull it off in 40 minutes, they can keep the tablets.

  18. Re:Clear something up? on How One Man Turns Annoying Cold Calls Into Cash · · Score: 1

    Similarly, I will generally answer unknown numbers that are of local origin. I cannot think of a time I received a telemarketing call from within my area code, as less local prefixes.

  19. Re:Next step on Comcast Allegedly Confirms That Prenda Planted Porn Torrents · · Score: 2, Funny

    What is this world coming to when a porn company is not completely on the up-and-up?

  20. Re:Can we discuss the fourth amendment now? on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 2

    I don't know about where you live, but here in Virginia, USA, most localities already provide GIS sites that provide the tax assessments and the amounts of the last few transactions on every property in the locality. So without hacking anyone's email you can see for yourself the "value" of a property. Of course "really worth" is what the buyer and seller agree on.

  21. Re:Sounds like a plan on Steve Ballmer Reorganizing Microsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    you mean you are not happy with the xbox interface on your datacenter server

    I know won't be happy until I can log in to my servers by flipping off my laptop's webcam and screaming: "BOOM! Headshot!!11!!!!"

  22. Re:Good for the economy. on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Undermining national security. LOL. What does it feel like to see a threat in every shadow? Everyone is out to get you huh? Careful, the Democratic Republic of the Congo might just get the upper hand and de-stabilize the US before invading it!

    Seriously, by fundamentally changing what the US stands for over the last 20-30 years, you have undermined your own national security. There isn't anything left worth fighting for.

    The truth is, the US. Government is scared because they have been doing things that the people wouldn't approve for decades. They are scared because they know the house they built is coming down around them, and people are getting tired of it. They are scared because they know when we get sick of it and find out all shit they been doing, we are going to come down hard. They are trying to keep us from doing anything.

    Come down hard?! Hmm, no. The American people will continue to ignore what the U.S. government does as long as they keep Hollywood pumping out new episodes of "Ouch! My Balls!" If the American people really gave a fuck, then a Congress with 16% approval rating would be wiped clean rather than the majority of incumbents be re-elected.

  23. Re:Figure out where he is located on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Better to be judged by 12 then carried by 6

    If you consider 12 people that can't get out of jury duty to be your peers.

  24. Re:The hell it doesn't cost consumers! on Everything You Know About Password-Stealing Is Wrong · · Score: 5, Informative

    Clearly, you missed the 60 Minutes report this week about Credit Rating companies and their dispute process (source).

    In a nutshell, your dispute is never sent to someone who will approve it, and you basically have to sue them to fix it. Its a multi-year case and you better be well documented.

  25. Re:Wow on Critic Cites Revenge of the Sith As "Generation's Greatest Work of Art · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because it was safer for the rest of Naboo to have him off the planet.