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  1. Re: Why should? on Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    It will be much less than 10_years in the long haul trucking industry. Cities within 15. The people who are really worried ate the auto insurance industry. When people only need fire and theft because accidents are covered by the manufacturer, and the car can report someone is trying to steal it, and it doesn't matter how old or experienced the driver is, don't be surprised if the manufacturers cover fire and theft as well. The only thing you'll need to cover for would be uninsured driver, vandalism,s and falling pianos. Expect vandalism to drop when the car has video of the perps.

  2. Re: SJWs, 'ten-hut! on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    Why are we so fixated on three-letter extensions? It's not like we are stuck with that as a file system limitation. (see .HTML as an example). And what is wrong with using a prefix, or an internal grouping of letters with a delimiter? Except for laziness and inertia?

  3. Re: Let me quess on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    TERFs (teans-hating extreme radical feminists) see bogeymen everywhere. Gloria Steinem is a prime example of a TERF who seems more angry that she's a has-been than anything else, and is looking for easy targets in an attempt to get attention. Only problem is, times have changed and we're no longer soft targets for a cheap shot.

  4. Re: The shouldn't have backed down on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    Most rational people have better things to do than try to be offended by the name of a file extension or a piece of software. What next - getting upset over gender changer connectors? MANhole covers? MENstruation? HIStory? HERpes? (OK, I WOULD get upset over herpes :-)

  5. Re: What next? City of Los Angeles: Master/Slave H on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 2

    Anyone who's read any sci-fi and thinks that slaving a pair of waldos to your hand movements is racist is messed up. Good luck to the librarians censoring all those stories. Master and slave drives are perfectly acceptable, since primary and secondary storage devices can mean many different things.

  6. Re: What next? on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I just alias apropos to woman for the best of both worlds :-) Honestly, all this SJW crap is demeaning to women, as are the push for more girls to pick up coding and having it be assume that we have to be protected from a three letter file extension.

    OMG 0xCAFEBABE IS SEXIST. Not!

  7. Re: What will I see? on Tonight's Dazzling 'Supermoon' Lunar Eclipse: What You'll See · · Score: 1

    Perfect viewing conditions around Montreal. Watched it disappear, nothing to see after totality. (At least nothing I could see. YEMV - your eyes may vary).

  8. Re: The US needs a serious spanking on EU May Forbid the Transfer of Personal Data To the US · · Score: 1

    So bye-bye to Windows 10 and Redmond's hope of making enough from ultra targeted advertising to more than replace licensing revenue. #worksforme.

  9. Re: Binary Page Delivery on Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web · · Score: 1

    The page has to be decompressed so that the browser knows what else to fetch. This won't affect either ad blockers or host file based blocking, nor will it affect proxies that decode the original page and strip out references to anything that sucks bandwidth, such as images and tracking scripts so no attempt is made to download them. More aggressively, write a browser in java that does page rewriting. Or an app (such as Simply Slashdot) that only downloads the headlines and comments.

  10. Re: Next up: China tells Google to censor results on France Tells Google To Remove "Right To Be Forgotten" Search Results Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Google is most definitely a media company, and like many media businesses, makes money from advertising, same as radio and tv and print media. So Google should enjoy the same exemption as other media companies operating in France. Now what I want to know is what action France is going to take against windows 10 being extremely intrusive and ignoring people's privacy rights. Probably the same as Facebook - almost nothing.

  11. Re: The world needs the U.S. more... on France Tells Google To Remove "Right To Be Forgotten" Search Results Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Canadians have continuously thumbed our noses at the Cuban embargo. It's a nice vacation spot to escape from the long winters, prices are good, and it's the morally right thing to ignore an embargo that was stupid. And Canadian businesses trade with Cuba. And Canadians who vacation in Cuba have no problems entering the USA.

  12. Re: Status was NOT divulged, only email identities on UK Health Clinic Accidentally Publishes HIV Status of 800 Patients · · Score: 1

    And then there's everyone who the server logs showed they were browsing experts exchange (expertsexchange.com) and it was interpreted as expert sex change. Guess that's why they changed it to experts-exchange.com

  13. Re: You know there's a problem... on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    Maybe because things only work until they don't, and if you don't understand what's going on behind the scenes, you might not even recognize an error, never mind being able to fix it.

  14. Re: Yes, but you SHOULD get good at math on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    Enjoy your next integer overflow.

  15. Re: Programming on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    And by using the first thing she saw, which described how to do it with hex values, she didn't find out that you can use colour names as CSS properties instead of hex values in her example. And before she read the example, she didn't know you can do it with hex values either. Expect much more of this as people continue to try making coding a skill for the masses and dumb down so that everyone gets a gold star.

  16. Re: Not enough transgenders and women in tech on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 1

    We're everywhere, you ignorant clod.
    And FYI, being trans has nothing to do with sexual orientation. And the workplace can only benefit from fewer testosterone fuelled pissing contests and other juvenile crap.

  17. Re: Hypothesis: Patch the good eye on Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System? · · Score: 1

    Decades ago one of my sisters had a lazy eye. She had to wear an eye patch on the good eye for a while, that's all. Simple solution that doesn't interfere much with their daily lives.

  18. Re: not even a lil LED ? on Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've had to do it for weeks at a time when my eyes become extremely photosensitive, and my family thinks I'm crazy, so maybe you're right. But if he thinks eating ravioli in the dark, he should try baking biscuits from scratch without a timer. They were good, but it was kind of messy.

  19. Re: not even a lil LED ? on Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System? · · Score: 1

    I've done that for a month or so a cou

  20. Re: If you hold it 1.3 mm in from of your face on Sony Unveils Smartphone With 4K Screen · · Score: 1

    The market rejected 3d. Maybe the market will jump on the 4k market eventually, in which case those whose eyes are crappy will be able to buy the last 100" TVs to replace our 50" TVs dirt cheap. The older you get, the more size matters more than pixel density.

  21. Re: I hope not on Browser Makers To End RC4 Support In Early 2016 · · Score: 1

    Firefox 69 the porn edition will down on you on a regular basis. Their marketing motto will be "Firefox 69 sux even more".

  22. Re: Sigh, guess no Win boxes in the lab then on Microsoft's Telemetry Additions To Windows 7 and 8 Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2

    Microsoft is just helping you put into practice the (your) data wants to be free thing.

  23. Re: Telemetry Hack on Microsoft's Telemetry Additions To Windows 7 and 8 Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 0
    Beware of geeks
    Bearing gifts
    When Microsoft says
    It's free to upgrade
    It's the original
    Trojan horse
    Taking your data
    Is par for the course
    Like Ebola it's the gift
    That keeps on giving
    Because Microsoft execs
    Gotta make a living

    Burma Shave

  24. Re: Long Live XP on Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Games that won't run on a 64-bit platform and the newest version totally sucks but the old version runs on new hardware like a bat out of hell, software that still does the original task but without the bloat of later releases, or the requirement to always be connected, etc. 10 is a Trojan horse. Beware of geeks bearing gifts.

  25. Re: To be expected on Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8 · · Score: 0

    Of course they made it easy and free. Same as drug dealers - the first experience is free and enjoyable for the suckers, but once you're hooked, you're fscked.