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  1. Re: on Pilot's Selfies Could Have Caused Deadly Air Crash · · Score: 1

    Does the same thing happen when you take your selfie now at McDonald's?

    "Would you like plummeting to Earth at 9.8 m/s/s with that?"

  2. Re:On Uber's board...not much longer on Google To Compete With Uber, Uber To Explore Autonomous Transportation · · Score: 1

    What ideas did they obviously steal?

    If we could figure that out from the outside then they wouldn't have needed to be on the board in the first place. Even businesses that appear simple have unexpected aspects that become apparent through experience.

  3. Re:Regulation, more regulation, only lawyers win on Nuclear Safety Push To Be Softened After US Objections · · Score: 3

    And he died of cancer not too long after. "Unrelated," they (The power plant owners) say, but it hadn't been diagnosed before the incident.

  4. Re:Why even use a webcam? on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Modern IP Webcam That Lets the User Control the Output? · · Score: 1

    They can't take a photo of the chalkboard and post it? This seems like a problem from the 90's.

  5. Re:The human will to succeed on How Blind Programmers Write Code · · Score: 1

    When you hire, give everyone a chance.

    Unless you're Uber.

  6. Re:Only a matter of time... on Indian Woman Sues Uber In the US Over Alleged New Delhi Taxi Rape · · Score: 1

    Well, upon closer reading, please allow me to give myself a preemptive whoosh.

  7. Re:Only a matter of time... on Indian Woman Sues Uber In the US Over Alleged New Delhi Taxi Rape · · Score: 1

    it's a ride-sharing service

    by that, they mean, a person with a car, who doesn't have any interest in driving to point A or point B, drives to point A, picks up one or more people they don't know, and drives them to point B for money.

    Those two notions are not in agreement.

  8. Re:Tax on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 5, Informative

    They are paying 26% tax. It's right there in the filing.

  9. Re:When will there be justice? on Researchers Tie Regin Malware To NSA, Five Eyes Intel Agencies · · Score: 2

    How long is it going to take before the American people get fed up with this.

    Their elected representatives are to blame. They don't put real pressure on them to clean up their act. And how could they? Considering what it takes to have a career in politics, surely the NSA has too much dirt on each of them. So they occasionally put on a show but that's the extent of it.

  10. Re:Californians ARE moving to Texas in droves, and on Ed Felten: California Must Lead On Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    Do you think that will last if the price of oil stays down? Serious question, not an argument. I don't know the answer.

  11. Re:I won't notice on UHD Spec Stomps on Current Blu-ray Spec, But Will Consumers Notice? · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what it means: resolution is the number of pixels, always has been.

    No it doesn't. It's the measurable degree of detail.

  12. Re:Fault of the walled garden on WhatsApp vs. WhatsApp Plus Fight Gets Ugly For Users · · Score: 1

    if your friends are requiring you to use dubious software are they really your friends?

    If start with "If they were really my friends they wouldn't do X" you end with no friends.

  13. Re:What an idiot on Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much" · · Score: 1

    The simplest strategy would have been to have already moved to a non-extradition country. He'd already racked up tens of millions of dollars in profits! What was he waiting for?

    Another good strategy would be to just stop doing it. Taking a big risk when you don't have money is much different from taking it when you do. He had enough to be comfortable for the rest for his life. Why risk that? You've already won whatever game you think you're playing.

  14. Re:Really?! on Microbots Deliver Medical Payload In Living Creature For the First Time · · Score: 1

    What do you suggest they be called?

  15. Re:In inevitable questions of why... on Your Entire PC In a Mouse · · Score: 1

    If it uses one of those rotary balls to detect movement it could be partially self-charging. Assuming sufficiently vigorous mousing, of course.

  16. Re:Limited power to change working situation... on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    Drink lots of water. Having to pee every hour will take care of your sitting problem.

  17. Re:Hurrah for America, the land of opportunity on Iran Forced To Cancel Its Space Program · · Score: 1

    A combination of luck and talent is my guess.

  18. Re:Flawed by design . . . on Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads · · Score: 1

    Apple sells ads in the same way that Google sells hardware. They both do it, but it's not a significant part of the business.

  19. Re: Then don't buy their phones on Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads · · Score: 1

    They don't have free phones where you live? USA FTW

    Either this is some attempt at ironic humor or you're fooling yourself. Which is it?

  20. Re: Makes sense. on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    With iOS, you are a criminal for modifying your own property.

    Yes, all those people going to prison over it is a tragedy pure and simple.

  21. First known indication of knowledge of the relation for integer-sided triangles

    Integers using what units? The prof never says. He just says the lengths. He might as well say "Today I walked a nice even 6."

  22. Re:I'm shocked, SHOCKED! on Tesla vs. Car Dealers: the Lobbyist Went Down To Georgia · · Score: 2

    Dealership may be mandatory in USA but, AFAIK that's not the case in Europe but, still, automakers go with the dealership model here also.

    Don't go muddying the issue with pesky facts. Stick to the rants, please.

  23. Re:NADA is very powerful. on Tesla vs. Car Dealers: the Lobbyist Went Down To Georgia · · Score: 2

    Thanks for the clarification. Before that, reading that sentence was the most unsatisfactory part of reading that sentence.

  24. Sounds on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1
    No doubt one or two of these can still be heard somewhere, but off the top of my head and in no particular order, these are sounds I can remember from my youth:
    1. The rotary dialing of a telephone
    2. The bell on a cash register
    3. "old style" police sirens
    4. A baseball card in the spokes of a bicycle
    5. The clunk-clunk-clunk of a mechanical TV tuner
    6. Tubes warming up
    7. The unmistakable clinking of glass milk bottles being delivered
    8. The "time at the tone" recording
  25. Re:Useless site on "Disco Clam" Lights Up To Scare Predators Away · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why bother even using HTML? Can't they just fax me a copy of the content?

    Back in the mid 90's I was working for a small company that had a marketing director who, when he saw something on the "world wide web" that he thought would be useful to us, would actually print it out and fax it to us.
    And then later he hired someone to make up some images for the web site. He called me up and asked what was the best way to get it to me? Which courier service? I said "Can't you email them?" "Oh no," he said. "I want to make sure you get them."