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  1. Re:Good luck with that on Kentucky Bill: Wait an Hour Before Posting Injuries To Social Media (kentucky.com) · · Score: 1

    With the low fine, and unconstitutionality, it seems like this rep is trolling us.
    How can he possibly be serious?

    Horrible people posting inappropriate things is just one of the bad things that come along with all the good the Internet brings us. I don't think there's anything we can do about it. You can't legislate compassion into people.

  2. 1" quadcopters are pretty difficult to fly. on Drone Flight Takes To Living Rooms, Gymnasiums, and Parking Garages (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    I have one from Axis drones, that was the world's smallest quadcopter when I bought it, and avoiding slamming it into the ceiling, then crashing to the floor at my place is the biggest challenge. They're much easier to use in a gym, or at least a house with high ceilings.

    Axis has a new small copter with video, called the VIDIUS, which should be really good for beginners.

    I'm not with the company, just someone who likes playing with new technologies.

  3. Re:Prior art? on GM Dumps $500 Million Into Lyft (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    >So....taxis?

    Sort of. I expect these will try to dodge paying the community for taxi medallions.

    The medallion system has been abused, so I understand why people want to bypass it, but I think they'll find that you can't just bypass the law using technology unless you're an underground business. Even then, it's risky as Ross Ulbricht will attest.

  4. Re:The price worries me a bit. on Oculus To Ship "Lucky's Tale" Game With Rift (oculus.com) · · Score: 1

    VR is better than a high-end gaming monitor for anyone who doesn't get motion sickness. Even Gear VR is incredibly immersive, and the Rift + a gaming PC will be a much more powerful device.

    I think it'll take off at any sub-$1K price point. Obviously it'll catch on faster if they can get it under $500.

  5. I can't tell if you're joking or so propagandized that you're retarded. Poe's law and all.

  6. Re:What about the hundreds of hours of other ST fa on Paramount and CBS File Lawsuit Against Crowdfunded, Indie Star Trek Movie (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    This one is big money, and CBS is starting a Trek series. When you push boundaries, eventually you hit a wall.

  7. Re:Systemd's first victim on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 1

    Professional police don't rough anyone up. That's what goon police forces do.

  8. Re:FTFY... on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, that's an insane reactionary belief. Whoever put that nonsense in your head is your real enemy, not the people they taught you to hate.

  9. Re:So Twitter is banning Twitter? on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's no such thing as "Only Black Lives Matter." That's a stupid belief common in the destructive reactionary subculture that made the Republican party a cesspool. Try to not be a stupid reactionary, we're up to our asses in those yahoos, as illustrated by Trump playing the indoctrinated wingnuts like a fiddle.

  10. Re:Standing desk on Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not just you, but it is just a subset of the population.
    At my computer I'm sitting, but I stand to go over documents with coworkers. Changing up seems to help.

  11. I'd think the only time this would work is if a programmer was a contributor to open source projects, then went bad and started writing software designed to commit crimes. Anyone starting as a criminal developer would never have uploaded their code to Github.

  12. Maybe talk to a therapist rather than spewing your ignorant hate.

  13. Re:Typical of mainstream media on North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back (newsobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical of media in general. Alternative media is even worse, with the same clickbait, but delivering pure propaganda in whatever flavor you want.

  14. Re:Surrounded? on North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back (newsobserver.com) · · Score: 2

    It doesn't have to. If the houses adjacent to the panels received deeply discounted, or free power, it could make up for the lack of greenery, and balance out the loss in property value.

  15. By many, many factories that quickly retooled to create competing variations on the concept, presumably many of these are poorly designed and could ruin the potential market for ones that work well.

    http://boingboing.net/2015/11/...

  16. Too many people are addicted to being upset. on "Fallout 4" Release Raises Questions About Reviews of Buggy Games (kotaku.com) · · Score: 0

    We know that huge open-world games will contain bugs. It's just that the games are so good that it's worth putting up with some crashes.

  17. The entitled heavy-users would lose their minds if they started to have to pay for their use. They're accustomed to being subsidized by the much larger email/websurfing crowd.

  18. >But it may only apply to cellular telephone minutes and not generally to all data on every communications platform.

    I'd hope so. The concept is no different than the way sick days and PTO roll over to the next year, which predates cellular billing by a long time.

  19. Re:Downloading the intertubes, Daily on Comcast Expanding Data Cap Locations, Training Reps To Avoid Subject (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They probably don't currently have the technology in place to meter during the day, and be unlimited at night. It's an excellent idea to encourage users to schedule big downloads overnight. Maybe they don't pursue it because those big downloads are often TV and movie piracy, which competes with Comcast's cable TV business.

    Heavy Internet users should consider getting a business account. This also makes it possible to access your home video library remotely using software like Plex, and to set up an FTP server for your friends. It's expensive, but the added capabilities, higher speed, and lack of caps make it worthwhile to some people.

    Of course the definition of heavy Internet use is going to change over time as average people start streaming UHD video, and caps will go up, so unless you're in the top 1% of users like I used to be, I wouldn't worry about it.

  20. Re:Permanently? or just 'permanently'? on BBC Lets Viewers Buy Shows and Episodes Permanently, But No 'Extras' (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    [posted from 2057]
    To be played back in a lame flatscreen within your holographic player, like old people used to watch. No thanks gramps!

  21. Physical media doesn't last forever either. Try to buy a laserdisc player in an electronics store, if your laserdiscs haven't already failed from oxidization.

  22. Re:No on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's not just physical security. If your servers are connected to the Internet, and no security expert is reviewing your configuration, it's extremely likely that a cloud provider is more secure. Of course in-house servers with no Internet connection are the most secure, but most businesses seem to be Internet-connected these days, and too few focus on security.

  23. Re:NIce to see on Leading Theory of Solar System's Formation Just Disproven (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    models and hypotheses being tested by the scientific method. So why doesn't this skepticism and rigor extend to climate science?

    It does. The willfully-ignorant Conservatives just keep denying reality.

    Answer: the leftists are too heavily invested politically to allow the scientific method to proceed untainted.

    Hahaha, no...That's the wingnut "explanation." None of their bizarre claims regarding people outside their cult are true.
    Why is it that the fantasy-role-playing RWNJs keep pretending that it's the tricksy left that's anti-science, when we can all see that it's the Republican lunatics who chose superstition, and rejected science. It's not the left who keep coming out as bigots and blaming their superstitions for their failure as humans, making them doubly-stupid.

  24. Yeah, I suspect you're replying to a global warming denier. He seems to have a paranoid perspective that sees delusional people as just having a different belief.

  25. Where are there Maoist show trials where researchers are called deniers? Is this what the insane global warming deniers now pretend is the case? The Conservative cult is highly motivated to never engage with reality, all for the profits of those who so easily manipulate Conservative superstitions. Their whole house of delusions would crumble if they engaged any critical thinking skills instead of immersing themselves in conspiracy theories.