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  1. Time for class action suit against California on Can You Buy a License To Speed In California? · · Score: 1

    If it can be proven that owners of these plates were given leniency against speeding and moving violations then every person who has ever received a ticket in California during this class period should be able to sue to recover their costs for ticket fines.

  2. Who else misread the title as 'exotic hardons' ? on LHCb Confirms Existence of Exotic Hadrons · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Reminded me of when I was 18 and got one every day without thinking.

  3. Re:Completely wrong summary on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 1

    Yes, and nothing in the summary suggested that the city of SF is the party performing the convictions. In fact, the summary specifically stated the contrary:

    SF resident Jeffrey Katz recently came home to an eviction notice posted on his door that read 'You are illegally using the premises as a tourist or transient unit.' According to Edward Singer, an attorney with Zacks & Freedman who filed the notice against Katz, 'Using an apartment for short-term rentals is a crime in San Francisco.'

  4. Re:Completely wrong summary on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And even more specifically, when it comes time to evict someone who refuses to leave, the city would enforce that as well via the sheriff's department.

  5. Re:Completely wrong summary on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the article:

    "People who rent out space on Airbnb, VRBO and other markets for temporary housing are facing fines by the City Planning Department and eviction on the grounds of illegally operating hotels."

  6. Sounds scary on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I live near a municipal airport and based on the landings I've seen I'm not sure I would entrust my life to a private pilot certified on only a puddle jumper.

  7. I lament Microsoft's skills gap in UI design on Should Microsoft Give Kids Programmable Versions of Office? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about we send Microsoft some books on how to design a user interface?

  8. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It will work. The majority of HFT's illicit profits accrue from speed arbitrage *between* the exchanges, not from a speed advantage at any particular exchange. A co-located HFT server at an exchange sees an order, and, in anticipation of that order representing a larger order that can't be filled in full at that same inside "best" price at that exchange, trades ahead of the order by sending a buy/sell order to other exchanges faster than the original buyer/seller can, resulting in a riskless vig for the HFT trader. By delaying orders on all exchanges by 500ms, the benefit of early-access to incoming orders on any particular exchange is eliminated because all the exchanges will have 500ms of order price discovery incorporated into their SIP, the consolidated price representing the aggregate of the best prices for all the exchanges.

  9. Reality Check: Go for your dreams on App Developers, It's Time For a Reality Check · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or you'll live a miserable life of what if's and what could have beens. Are the odds against immediate success against you? Maybe. Sure. Who gives a fuck.Go for it. Even if you "fail" you'll still learn a bunch of shit and be better for the effort in more ways than you can ever imagine.

  10. Apple likes patents for round corners on Apple Patent Could Herald Interchangeable iPhone Camera Lenses · · Score: 1

    Lenses seem like a natural progression.

  11. Further injury to Blackberry? on Typo Keyboard For iPhone Faces Sales Ban · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean it's possible for someone to destroy Blackberry faster than Blackberry has done itself?

  12. I know some adults who wouldn't pass that test on Crows Complete Basic Aesop's Fable Task · · Score: 1

    The fact that the average crow can means they're likely a lot smarter than even these researchers give them credit for.

  13. Ads on Youtube are getting obnoxious on Yahoo May Build Its Own YouTube · · Score: 4, Informative

    For my own experience the quantity and length of ads on Youtube has reached the tipping point where I start dreading even going to Youtube anymore. It's fine to see a 5 second ad for a video I know I will enjoy, but the ads on the 'speculative' videos where I'm just hopping around looking for something interesting to watch are beyond ridiculous. The other day I watched 10 crappy videos in a row, all of which had at least a 5 second-then-skip ad at the beginning, and one with a must-watch 15 second ad. That totaled one minute of ads for what turned out to be zero seconds of entertainment.

  14. In other news, Thunderstorms hits Florida on 5.1 Earthquake Hits California · · Score: 1

    Normal weather for each respective locale.

  15. Re:Customers may benefit... maybe on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 2

    The exact opposite is true. Walmart doesn't have loss leaders outside of maybe Christmas season (like all other retailers). And unlike other realtors Walmart doesn't play games with variable pricing and "sales" - nearly everything at Walmart is cheaper than their competitors.

  16. Adam is fighting patent trolls by the sweat of his on Adam Carolla Joins Fight Against Podcast Patent Troll · · Score: 2

    unibrow.

  17. If you have to diffuse myths you've already lost on Google Tries To Defuse Glass "Myths" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Successful, groundbreaking products are loved at first sight.

  18. Sounds like a marketing gimmick on Twitter Turns 8; May Drop Hashtags and @replies · · Score: 2

    Remove two essential elements of how people use their product, wait for the uproar, then return them back to much fanfare.

  19. You know it's time to modernize a program on Neovim: Rebuilding Vim For the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    When the primary forum for discussion of said program is still on usenet.

  20. Tech companies hate paying high salaries on More On the Disposable Tech Worker · · Score: 1

    Companies collude illegally to limit wage competition and when that was discovered they started to pay lobbyists to work on H-1B reforms instead. If they want to lower their wage costs let them burn more billions into overseas outsourcing.

  21. It's a one-time jesture. on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: 2

    In other words, a fluke.

  22. How about 2 fast cores instead of 8 slow ones? on Intel Announced 8-Core CPUs And Iris Pro Graphics for Desktop Chips · · Score: 1

    We've been limping along with ~10% performance increases per chip generation since forever.

  23. NSA claims Google and others are lying on Gmail Goes HTTPS Only For All Connections · · Score: 0

    NSA LAWYER: Tech Companies Knew We Collected Their Data http://www.businessinsider.com...

  24. There's a fungus among us on Friendly Fungus Protects Our Mouths From Invaders · · Score: 1

    I named my fungus Wilbur.

  25. At a carribean resort somewhere... on Mozilla Scraps Firefox For Windows 8, Citing Low Adoption of Metro · · Score: 2

    Steve Balmer is jumping up and down on his beach chair.