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  1. Rules do not go far enough on Amazon Wins US Regulators' Approval To Test-fly Drone · · Score: 1

    Drone pilots should have ATP license, first class medical and at least 1500 hours of flight time. Also, every flying drone must have a bird flying at least 100 feet in front of a drone. Bird should carry small red flag with dimensions of at least 2 x 2 inches with insurance policy number written on it.

  2. Software update will play relaxing music on Elon Musk Pledges To End "Range Anxiety" For Tesla Model S · · Score: 0

    The newly updated software will automatically start playing relaxing music when car battery is almost out of juice and charging station is far away.

  3. It is now #3. Is there #4? I guess not. So if Linux moves it can only go up 'case there is no way to go down.

  4. So what should we do? on Researchers: Global Risk of Supervolcano Eruption Greater Than Previously Though · · Score: 0

    Buy guns? Any problem can be fixed by buying guns and ammo. If volcano attacks me I am going to shoot back.

  5. Re:Why? Developer Developers Developers. And Games on PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES · · Score: 0

    also from the user side, presumably you could play Android games, buying them at Android prices instead of Windows prices (or playing them for free, the dark unfortunate secret of Android).

    99 cent tetris vs. $40 Far Cry yay

  6. Protect quality of movies! on Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality · · Score: 0

    I agree with fine for poor quality. Quality of movies is important.

  7. Relax on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 0

    You are having typical type mismatch and buffer overflow. Relax. My brain fried when I heard about quantum theory. I do not try to understand physics anymore. Somebody will find a way to test all these crazy theories one day. Then we will live in a parallel universe and real estate on earth will be really cheap.

  8. Re:Bitcoin is crap on JPMorgan Files Patent Application On 'Bitcoin Killer' · · Score: 0

    I would hate to be the last guy holding bitcoin.

  9. Bitcoin is crap on JPMorgan Files Patent Application On 'Bitcoin Killer' · · Score: 0

    I am sorry to tell you but bitcoin is total crap as a currency. With wild fluctuations like we saw recently there is no way it can be used as currency.

  10. Re:Back on a PC on IDC: PC Shipments Decline Worse Than Forecasted, No Recovery Expected · · Score: 0

    Isn't retirement nice?

  11. Re:Expected on IDC: PC Shipments Decline Worse Than Forecasted, No Recovery Expected · · Score: 0

    So what kind of security do you expect? Enter password or if you forgot it just double tap on something? Did somebody from Microsoft also steal your milk and cookies when you were a child?

  12. Re:Wait, what? on Pentagon Readies Contingency Plans Due To BlackBerry's Uncertain Future · · Score: 0

    Glad military are not talking about BYOG. Imagine if you are military pilot and have to have your own F-16.

  13. Re:A day late and a dollar short on Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix · · Score: 0

    In that case Microsoft is Titanic that keeps hitting golden icebergs. Just look at their last quarter results.

  14. Computer-generated online predator on Researchers Use Computer-Generated 10-Year-Old Girl To Catch Online Predators · · Score: 0

    What if computer-generated online predator contacts computer-generated 10-year-old girl? Is it computer-generated crime then?

  15. Re: NOT posted as AC. on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 0

    Most sane people do not feel safe with roaming machine-gun-toting civilians in any venue neither.

    OTOH, there hasn't been a single crime committed with a lawfully-owned civilian machine gun (or other automatic firearm) since 1934.

    There has not been a single crime committed with a lawfully-owned civilian nuclear device either.

  16. Re:Win8 as a UI vs. an OS on Windows 8.1 Rolls Out Today · · Score: 0

    You do not have to use windows live account to log into win8. It may not be obvious though. When starting for the first time win8 asks for your windows live user name but there is a small "do not want" link somewhere that you can click.

  17. Spec is more than 33K pages on Lessons From the Healthcare.gov Fiasco · · Score: 0

    According to washington post “Obamacare is fully implemented January 1st, even though the regulations haven’t been written yet. And Brian, we’ve got 33,000 pages of regulations that they’ve already written. If we stacked it up here, it would be seven feet tall.” No wonder it costs a lot to implement. I've seen software with much smaller specs being late and over budget. This should be the warning for our lovely legislators. Every page could be the cause of bugs and delays. Better yet maybe legislators should go and code this crap themselves? When you write 33K pages of crap then you can read them all and implement everything. In assembly please.

  18. Re:Microsoft Sync sucks on Auto Makers To Standardize On Open Source · · Score: 0

    User needs an update. Updated user whines less.

  19. Re:Allow Root Access Please! on Auto Makers To Standardize On Open Source · · Score: 0

    BTW windows phone has no problems reading SMSs over bluetooth while I drive. Phone also has voice recognition so I can also reply if I want. Not sure what sync does but I always thought that phone is reading SMSs and not the car's computer. Maybe android phone should read those messages.

  20. Now go back and fix the damn Steam! on Steam Machine Prototypes Use Intel CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs · · Score: 0

    Steam engine keeps updating for 10 minutes every time I boot my laptop. It is the new Norton Antivirus. I friggin hate it.

  21. Re:I'm sure the pilots will not want to see this.. on Delta Replacing Flight Manuals with Surface Tablets · · Score: 0

    MS DOS 6.22 tablet? Cool!

  22. Re:There's still the solution to that. on Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Doesn't Trust Company, Uses Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    However, those insistent on trashing open source will still forget that the issue is a solved one for anyone willing to do a little work.

    Yeah, like reading couple millions lines of code... Good luck with that. I have seen 100 line magic functions that could not be understood in couple of days. I bet in a bigger code base the number of such magic functions could be quite significant. Open source only gives us illusion.

  23. Re:A third reason is they gave it to us free on Delta Replacing Flight Manuals with Surface Tablets · · Score: 0

    Nice how you neatly dismissed it. If hardware is such a small problem, why didn't previous generations of CE-based Microsoft tablets work? If hardware is such a small problem, why not laptops, after all, it even has a keyboard for precise data entry.

    Battery life.

  24. Re:Try the Surface Pro on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 0

    But the hinge can't hold the screen up. Laptops have been able to do that for decades.

    Exactly. I have laptop from 1968 and it can hold screen up. It even has touch interface. Dumb, dumb Micro$$$oft!

  25. Re:I seriously like my Surface Pro tyvm on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 0

    If those were meaningless points, Microsoft wouldn't just have had to dump a billion dollars worth of Surface tablets because no-one wanted to buy them.

    'Surface Pro' is just a continuation of the long line of x86 tablets that hardly anyone wanted to buy for the last decade or more.

    Are you really that dumb? Surface pro is continuation of the last decade of tablets? It is damn different. It is like comparing iPhone with Palm Pilot from 2000. It is so dumb that it is not even funny.