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  1. You must be new here on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 5, Funny

    here's no doubt that the Slashdot community is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and prolific communities on the web.

    You must be new here.

  2. Re:New York Taxi Workers' Alliance on How Uber Profits Even When Its Drivers Aren't Earning Money (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Complain to your municipal government. Taxis here are clean, the drivers have to conform to a dress code and a service code, and there are dedicated inspectors to make sure that standards have to be maintained. When a taxi enters service, it cannot be more than 5 years old, and has to be retired when it it 10 years old, no matter if it's still in great condition. Rusty cars aren't allowed. Heck, there's even one cab driver driving a tesla because the extra initial cost is offset by the lower running costs.

    If taxi drivers are expected to live up to professional standards, they'll actually behave like professionals, which is good for everybody. When you get a company that just reinforces the race to the bottom, all you're going to get is bottom-feeders.

  3. Planning for driverless cars on How Uber Profits Even When Its Drivers Aren't Earning Money (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're collecting all this "dead time" behavior (as well as the rest) to help them figure out how to best have the driverless uber cars 10 years down the road. If you drive for uber, you're working to put yourself out of a "job."

  4. Re:Can a Hillary supporter step up and explain? on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    She's succeeded at basically everything she's ever tried.

    Really? When Bill was POTUS, he gave her free reign to fix health care. NOTHING got fixed.

  5. Re:The powers-that-be are concerned about Trump on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    So does North Korea. China. Israel. Russia. etc etc. Access and actually using them in war are two different things. The country most likely to use nuclear weapons in a war is Israel.

  6. Re:Give me ONE reason you'd vote Hillary! on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Blah blah blah. Citizen's United needs to be overturned. Corporations are NOT people. Get over it already, republican shill.

  7. Re:Seems Bill isn't the only Clinton ... on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Or tail.

    Only Bill's cigar got tail, not Bill himself. That was key to his belief that he had "no sexual relations" with that woman.

    No, it's because in the particular state where the sex act occurred, sex is defined as penis penetrating vagina, so neither oral nor anal sex counts as sex.

  8. 1/64, not 1/32

  9. "she basically won the lottery" is a figure of speech. Something most humans grok. So, you're either a script or an obsessive-compulsive pedant. Either way, the odds aren't looking good for you. :-)

  10. Sure, in a run of 100 consecutive tosses. Not in a run of 6 consecutive tosses .

  11. Re:Dear New Owners on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they'll toss a coin?

  12. Re:update - there were other tosses which Sanders on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    The chance that a coin tossed one time lands with the same face up is 1 in 1.

    The odds that a coin lands with a particular face up on ANY throw is 1 in 2 - including the first.

    The odds that you'll call the correct face ("heads" or "tails") on any throw are also 1 in 2 (.5)

    The odds that you'll call the correct face 6 times in a row (not that the coin will be the same face 6 times in a row) is 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5, or 0.015625, or 1.56256% (1 in 64).

  13. Re:"the usual business doublespeak excuse" on Barracuda Copy Shutting Down (barracuda.com) · · Score: 2

    No, you're translating the doublespeak wrong. Proper translation: "We can't make money with this, so we're moving it to the cloud, because CLOUD!"

  14. Magic Leap projects a digital light field into the observer's eyes,

    The japanese have been there, done that

  15. Re:Apple Wireless Charging on Apple Developing Wireless Charging For Mobile Devices (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you don't know that emissions drop at the 3rd power of distance. That's why my original moto flip-phone was able to cause radiation burns when in my jean pocket, even though it was far lower power than my microwave.

  16. Re:For a lower price... on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never driven under a wide overpass in bright daylight - they're lit even during the day because the human eye can't react fast enough to the change in illumination.

  17. Re:Will you stop approving submissions by this guy on One Hoss Shay and Our Society of Obsolescence (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    The article is crap. There is NO excuse. And references to a dog cart (single-person carriage in england) in the title are so f*ing contrived - the shill is a poseur and a hoser.

  18. Re: /. under new boss on Price Dispute Means 800k Customers Lose TV Channels In Sweden (telecompaper.com) · · Score: 1

    Come off it - if enough people were watching it, it would be worth it. A lot of these bundled programs are crap filler produced at low cost, to pad the number of programs offered.Get with the times - this has been a known problem since the last century.

  19. Re:This is what happens when monopoly revenue fall on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    But the general public is so accustomed to being abuse by Microsoft that they enjoy complaining as an excuse not to get their work done - and their bosses, teachers, and parents buy it.
    FTFY

  20. Re:Microsoft Recommendations on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? This is a lot of work for "maybe" wanting to "upgrade" at some point. It's not worth it for most people, especially since most people will be stuck with whatever they get when they buy their next computer anyway, unless they're prepared to switch to another os at a future date, in which case, why bother?

  21. Re:Family member's WIN computer got locked out on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Just look around you. Or just listen - you can hear them at 2am!

  22. Re: Farewell to the soulskill and samzenpus on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You DO understand that you review a bunch of stories, then set their post times to individual dates in the future, don't you?

  23. Re:Number, please? on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not good enough. Some of the "important updates" do initial steps to prepare the machine for 10. Check EVERY update manually. And even then ..

  24. Re: MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It will never be their machine as long as you can nuke the hard drive.

  25. Re:cruft on One Hoss Shay and Our Society of Obsolescence (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    Select "Factory reset." on startup. You'll have to play around with the on-off and volume buttons a bit to get to the boot menu when you restart. For a more limited cruft removal - Settings | Backup and reset | Factory data reset.