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  1. You're spot on, buddy! I was born and raised here in this sunny mugshot factory. As long as your vehicle has approximately the right number of lights and the rubber side remains down, you're cool - tag is optional if you put a piece of paper in your back window with the magic incantation "LOST TAG." They will give you grief over tint, though. Never really understood that. If you pass through Jacksonville on your way back and you have some time, stop in for barbecue, bullets, and beers. It's on me.

  2. Re: Correlation is not causality on White House Releases Report On How To Spur Smart-Gun Technology (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The chamber on my carry gun is always empty. I figure if I can't take one extra second to rack the weapon and ready it for use, I have much bigger problems. The rest of the time, I don't have to worry about shooting my cock off or someone snatching a loaded gun.

  3. I solve this problem on double action revolvers by leaving one chamber empty. First trigger pull is a dry fire.

  4. Re: Depends on what you mean by 'compromised' on Apple Is Outdated, Says Chinese Conglomerate LeEco CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "hereâ(TM)s a mathematical formula for getting embedded cameras to recognize faces without calling up a distant database." Scorpion Stare.

  5. Re: Some jobs will always be safe on Mercedes-Benz Swaps Robots For People On Assembly Lines (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Rock-paper-scissors-shotgun.

  6. Re: Robots will not bring the end of scarcity on Mercedes-Benz Swaps Robots For People On Assembly Lines (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re: Robots will not bring the end of scarcity on Mercedes-Benz Swaps Robots For People On Assembly Lines (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadly, this future seems way more likely. Have you read Manna?

  8. Re: Taxis & Uber on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    Good point. I have relatives who live about 4 hours away and I'd make the trip every weekend to go drink craft beers and get rekt... If only I didn't have to deal with central Florida traffic.

  9. Re: Or... on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    It's not the top 1% I'm worried about, it's the angry and idle bottom 50%.

  10. Re: Or... on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking about the wretched taxi drivers when I say transportation... I'm talking about truck drivers and the like. Totally agree with you about on-shoring jobs, but in my field, manufacturing, that's never going to happen for any sort of mass production. Too expensive. Once the automation cat is out of the bag on transportation, you'd have to be insane to pay a human when the driver is baked into the vehicle's upfront cost.

  11. Re: Or... on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    I spend a fair bit of time reading about economics, but I think the automation that's coming will bring disruption that's different than the kind faced by the buggy whip makers. Most of the industrial advances improved individual productivity and made new classes of jobs - your buggy whip maker could go to work on an auto parts line, for example - but I fear we're hitting a point where we're poised to create a new underclass of people whose labor is redundant. People we just don't need and have no particular desire to support. From my spare time reading about economic fallacies, I seem to recall these situations being what revolutions are made of.

  12. Or... on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 2

    ...they could put a ton of people out of work in the transportation industry, enrich a few corporations, and further wreck the economy through knock-on effects as the unemployed push wages down by widening the already huge pool of desperate labor. No wonder they keep predicting we won't own these autonomous cars... Most people won't be able to afford to.

  13. Re: Ethernet on Raspberry Pi 3 Rolls Out With Faster CPU, On-Board Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer, lest anyone think I'm hatin' on the pi: I'm talking IoT in general. I just ordered my Pi 3 and I can't wait. What makes the couple Pi 2s I have already kick so much ass is that they're capable of running OpenVPN, so you can make an Internet of Thing without going full retard on the c&c side.

  14. Re: Ethernet on Raspberry Pi 3 Rolls Out With Faster CPU, On-Board Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth · · Score: 2

    I am imagining! No firmware update signing, open ports out the wazoo, HELLO packets streaming out on every interface at boot to request config, and highly specific strings in the network traffic for the local LEO to look for. Might as well call the cops on yourself.

  15. Re: SubjectsInCommentsAreStupidCauseTheSubjectIsTF on Chinese ISPs Caught Injecting Ads And Malware In Their Network Traffic (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    You can change root CA permissions in Firefox, it's just all-or-nothing per certificate for code signing, site ID, and something else I'm too lazy to look up. I nuke plenty of dodgy CAs on every fresh install... Never really noticed a problem while browsing.

  16. Re: And what will you do? on Chinese ISPs Caught Injecting Ads And Malware In Their Network Traffic (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    More like, if you complain, they take your guts.

  17. Re: Why is this a surprise? on IoT Devices Are Secretly Phoning Home (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Nope. VPN.

  18. Re: WoW, after all THAT, you give ME guff? on IoT Devices Are Secretly Phoning Home (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Welcome back, buddy. We missed you.

  19. Re: No need to phone home. on IoT Devices Are Secretly Phoning Home (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I own a few Chinese IP cameras i bought for experimenting, and no two of them work with the same app/P2P cloud bullshit/whatever. They do, however, all expose Telnet and SSH to the world. There's no way I'd let them anywhere near the WAN because they're all running Linux on a decently snappy ARM SOC and phoning home. Can you say beach head?

  20. Re: transmitter in the brain on Pentagon Research Could Make 'Brain Modem' A Reality (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The BBB is a barrier between the blood vessels and the brain tissue that surrounds them. Well, barrier in a sort of macroscopic sense - the blood vessel walls are formed of tight junctions between cells. Small molecules like gases can pass, larger items like pathogens cannot. The electrical signals used by an implant like this would pass just fine. You do have a good point, though, if this stent scrapes up the blood brain barrier you'll have your grey matter turned to mush the next time you get an infection.