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  1. settle down Beavis, I may have been exaggerating a lot but I guess you are too much of a nit picking fuckwit to see the actual point I was trying to make. One rough start or one stall is fine with just a clutch and a junction yes but my point is that the other "Driver assists" could easily cause a pileup if you jumped from one car to another and it had different assists or none at all. Imagin jumping in a rental and trying to work out just which functions you have to do and which the car is going to do for you if they differ from one model to the next. Suddenly the one rough start doesnt seem so bad.

  2. As a UK resident I have been brought up with mainly manual gearboxes on cars, on the odd occasion that I drive an automatic for a while the moment I go back to a manual I inevitable stall at the first dozen or so junctions as I have forgotten to use the clutch. While this is a minor inconvenience in the case of an automated gearbox it has the potential to be fatal when scaled up to other "semi autonomous" functions. I think we either have a car with no human input at all or a manual car otherwise people jumping in and out of cars with varying autonomy will start assuming the car will take care of differing things. If some cars brake for you and other models don't what sort of confusion is going to ensue?

  3. battery is everything on Apple Replaced 11 Million iPhone Batteries in Its $29 Program (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I just had Apple "genius" refuse to replace my battery due to it not being an original Apple one so I had to go out and spend a whole £13 & 15 mins replacing my own iPhone 6S battery, now it lasts 2 days again and is as fast as the old 7 I gave to my daughter. 8, 10, xs xr x? I really am not surprised by the lack of sales, phones have just hit the same ceiling as gmers PC's did 5-6 years ago. "Good enough" As an avid gamer and less avid phone fan I can say the pressure on us to upgrade our PC's and our phones has gone away, its only the perpetually stupid or rich who even bother with both now.

  4. Re:Why challenge with a shitty tool? on Windows 10 Is Finally Getting An Improved Screenshot Tool (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    For the same reason that Microsoft Paint completely destroyed Photoshop back in the day. OneUpManShip.

  5. who gives a shitnkeys on Apple To Release Lisa OS For Free As Open Source In 2018 (iphoneincanada.ca) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    see, i am the 2nd post, nobody cares,. I am simply filling space

  6. Re:Model 3 is a complete styling miss on Tesla Model 3 Test Drive: Car Has Bite and Simple Interior (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    No Grill, nowhere to hang the coal shovel or the buggy whip, completely useless.

  7. Re:Three different sources, three different units on Iceberg the Size of Delaware, Among Biggest Ever Recorded, Snaps Off Antarctica (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a quarter the size of Wales, so now its clear :D

  8. The stents do actually work on Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say (independent.ie) · · Score: 2

    As someone who suffered a heart attack in 2014 at the age of 45 due to clogged arterys and subsequently suffered 6 cardiac arrests on the way to and in the hospital (I still have the paddle burns to prove it) I can confirm that so far the stent they had to fit to allow my heart to continue working does appear to be doing its job. I was informed at the time that the main contributor to the artery clogging was smoking so I gave up there and then. As much as everyone would love to have a diet that required no excercise to keep healthy I think that is only available in a coma or stasis, the rest of us really need to think about what we eat and excersise enough to burn it off and stay fit. Stop being told what to and what not to eat and simply use a little common sense.... oh and stop smoking, it really is pointless.

  9. Re:Medical tricorder on Scientists Win $2.6 Million For Star Trek Tricorder Device (vocativ.com) · · Score: 2

    I think it would work quite well in any country where healthcare is seen as a basic human right not a privilage. More importantly though, I will put up a prize fund of $10 for a fully functional holodeck that can be retrofitted to my 12' x 12' garden shed as I want to try out a new Dixon Hill program.

  10. build in a timer on Researchers Convert Biomass To Hydrogen Using Sunlight (rdmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The ancient boffins of Jupiter experimented with this just before someone left one switched on.

  11. lets be honest, this seems like alt-great stuff, NN, wish I had pixels and nexii when boiling onions.

  12. The horses seem to have made a breakthrough where the Dolphins and Chimps have all but thrown in the towel. Humans are finally realising the rest of the planet has been happily communicating for years. The 60's documentary about our species interpreter Dr Dolittle should never have been dismissed so quickly as a conspiricy theory.

  13. Re:Waste of money. on Fourth SpaceX Rocket Successfully Landed on A Drone Ship (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you not watched the space mining documentary Avatar?

  14. Re:Great on A Smaller Version of Raspberry Pi 3 Is Coming Soon (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you need to get on Kickstarter with your "Beowulfenator"

  15. They still sell CD's ? on Streaming Surpasses CD Sales At Warner Music (ft.com) · · Score: 0

    I wasn't aware they were still made, havent seen an old plastic media player in years, I suppose the elderly might still have an old CD player around to play their "Rock and Roll" or " 70's - 80's classics. Next you will be telling me that some people still watch movies from DVD's :P

  16. Practically useless on India Installs 'Laser Walls' At Border With Pakistan (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    A quick blow of face powder or even a vape cloud followed by a rapidly planned series of handstands and cartwheels will easily allow you safe passage. What were they thinking?

  17. Got to love beancounters on Malaria Has Been Eliminated In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    " Nine European countries had reported malaria cases, but agreed to focus their efforts on a full elimination of the mosquito-borne disease" Nine European countries had reported malaria cases, but agreed to retract those reports to pretend Europe was malaria free and give themselves a big pat on the back and thumb their nose at others. FTFY

  18. Re:It's not just those 0.3% on Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Or of course we should move to a more free thinking attutude alltogether where we remove all walls/barriers/taboos and shamelessly take a "Donald Trump" side by side with our fellow human beings while discussing the hot topics of the day.

  19. Linux gaming rig on New Year's Resolutions For *nix SysAdmins (cyberciti.biz) · · Score: 1

    LOL, Linux and Gaming Rig in the same sentence, who'd have thunk it eh. Microsoft should also port excel to the playstation 4 and Xbone so they will obviously take off in the financial industry as a direct replacement for Windows based PC's.

  20. Re:There are US DHS at London Gatwick?? on US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dont think you can land anywhere else, JFK is the only international airport in the USA, I believe there are buses from that airport to the surrounding states but you are lucky to get a space on the roof of those.

  21. Turn off notifications on Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a Persistent and Incessant Port Scanner? · · Score: 1

    long time ago in a PC now far away I once installed Black Ice...... for a few days I was overwhelmed by the amount of attacks I was seeing. It can give you sleepless nights but thats exactly what the software seller wants you to see, background noise raised up to make you think it is a serious threat. Treat it as a mataphore for everything else you percieve as a threat and move on. Lock your front door, put your wallet and phone safely in your pocket and get on with your life. Oh, and don't forget to line your hat with foil....SHINY SIDE OUT.

  22. Stop encouraging them on Smithsonian Increases Goal For Spacesuit Crowdfunding Effort · · Score: 2

    Backers are simply enabling these people and not actually helping to cure their hoarding illness, 138 million items is really nothing to be proud of, they should be actively encouraged to de-clutter and to let go of these things, they will thank you for it in the long run.

  23. They look like they could be on Microsoft Tries Another Icon Theme For Windows 10 · · Score: 2, Funny

    very iconic.

  24. Ahh, the great Zergoblott Event on Hubble Spots Star Explosion Astronomers Can't Explain · · Score: 1

    Its the fallout from when Scientists on the planet Zergoblott 3 restarted their new collider, apparantly quite common throughout the universe once you know what to look for.

  25. Re:This is some serious sci-fi drama on IBM Reported To Be Developing Blockchain-Based Currency Transaction System · · Score: 1

    Will they allow me to pre-mine it for a month or 2 though?