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  1. Re:$1220 fine? on Man Fined For Implanting NFC Train Ticket In Hand (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    He paid extra to the government because he pleaded not guilty and was found to actually be guilty, hence forced to pay costs. seems reasonable to me.

  2. users that use the windows mail app (not sure I have ever come across one, but I am sure theyr must be some) are unlikely to care what they use. If anything this may actually be a positive move as such users are likely to need heavy support in their day to day use and a consist supported option is probably better.

  3. Re: Ransoms and contraband on Bitcoin's Highly Anticipated 'Lightning Network' Goes Live (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    so to paraphrase, bitcoin fees are cheap and it is fast.... as long as no one uses bitcoin.

  4. "Alpha Zero can read the rules of any game and beat the human. For any game"

    , no it can't. It can only do this for games with complete information of the current state. It cannot beat a human at any game, it can't even do it at most games.

  5. if you had AI courses you would think he would be a little more informed than parroting movie storyline fantasies.

  6. What a load of fucking horseshit. Musk you do some great stuff but for fucks sake shut up in this area, you have no fucking clue

  7. Re:fcc? on FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites · · Score: 1

    Not in other countries it doesn't

  8. Elon Musk is many things, but someone that runs projects on budget and on time aint one of them.

  9. Re:We still need good trains on California Bullet Train Costs Soar To $77.3 Billion, Will Take 5 Years Longer To Complete · · Score: 1

    done both, the train is easier and faster.

  10. Re:Hm on FBI Paid Geek Squad Repair Staff As Informants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    never underestimate the stupidity of people. I work with security teams at various organisations and on a daily basis they are pulling people up on security breaches for browsing porn or other material at work and regularly some are referred to police. Yet despite the education, the warnings, the contract they sign, hell the bloody login screen explicitly tells them everything is monitored and logged they continue to get caught. Some people are beyond help.

  11. They created a lot of new court cases and made a lot of lawyers very rich.

  12. Re:Somewhere in the middle on Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So the reported figures in this report are actually pretty close to reality of profit per hour then?

  13. Re: This is the way it's supposed to work on Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    personally I don't give a shit. But you live in a society with rules and laws that govern how business is conducted and the conditions under which a license is granted to operate a business. Who the fuck are you that you think societies laws and rules don't apply to you?

  14. Re: This is the way it's supposed to work on Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't tell you who you can pickup, they CAN TELL YOU whether you can charge money or have a license to do that. this has absolutely fucking nothing to do with laws of association, it is purely a licensing and business thing. You do not have a right to drive and the local laws get to dictate the conditions under which you are allowed to drive.

  15. Re:Still makes no sense on Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    you are making the assumption that they have done the maths to understand they are really working for $3 an hour.

  16. Re:Somewhere in the middle on Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    so is that 75-100 before or after all your expenses, maintenance, depreciation etc or is just the raw income.

  17. Re:The Takeaway: Pay is Crap on Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    simple, most people are morons when it comes to maths. They might include fuel costs in calculations, might even add rego or insurance (they bet many don't) and fuck all will be including true costs like tires, maintenance and the depreciating asset of their car. When you exclude the very real costs of a business even one where you are losing money can look very attractive when you see just one side of the balance sheet.

  18. Re:No jurisdiction on SEC Reportedly Subpoenas Companies and Advisers Over ICOs (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    They can fuck off.

    huh? this is exactly their jurisdiction.

  19. Re:Will kill US companies operating globally ... on Supreme Court Wrestles With Microsoft Data Privacy Fight (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    GDPR is SPECIFICALLY targeted at large corporations and governments.

  20. Re:Absurd on Supreme Court Wrestles With Microsoft Data Privacy Fight (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They operate under EU laws their, you cannot fire someone because they refused to commit a crime on your behalf.

  21. Re:Will kill US companies operating globally ... on Supreme Court Wrestles With Microsoft Data Privacy Fight (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    you made an illogical jump their. He would be subject to the laws in BOTH countries, it isn't an either/or as he is still within germany and his act was to send emails to germany. So he would still be able to be prosecuted for what he did, if he also broke laws in the US while on that server he could be prosecuted by the US for those too. In fact the US has enforced such prosecutions for hackers in the past which is an interesting contradiction as it seems servers and data being under foreign laws only apply when convenient.

  22. Re:Will kill US companies operating globally ... on Supreme Court Wrestles With Microsoft Data Privacy Fight (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    you are the one miss stating the issue. They could tell you to murder the president of another country, sign and seal it in a US court, it doesn't make it legal for you to go to that country and do it. this is the same, nothing a US court can say will make your action legal or exempt you from the laws of another country where your action is taking place and hence they are ordering them to commit a criminal act. Just like if a Irish court issued an order for a Microsoft employee locally that had access to US servers they would not be legally allowed to hand over all assets of the company, or perhaps they had access to US military servers (will be plenty with that), they could order all US data taken from US servers. It simply doesn't and CAN'T work that way, international borders need to be respected otherwise everything goes to shit.

  23. Re:Unintended Consequences on Supreme Court Wrestles With Microsoft Data Privacy Fight (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The EU's data protection laws ALREADY applies to all data residing in the EU. No if's but's or maybes and regardless of which way the US supreme court rules that is a simple fact, the US does not have the power or right to override those laws. Should they choose to saw those laws can be overridden by US authorities then they put US companies in a truly fucked up position and will cost companies massive amounts of business and/or see many companies relocate out of the US so they are not put in such a fucked up position. It isn't even like the US has no way to get the data, their are existing international treaties that allow them to request the data through Irelands courts and it would almost certainly be turned over to the US.

  24. Re:complete and utter unfair discrimination on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    What the IRS really needs is evidence and they have none. They better not waste my time with this BS in later years.

    The whole point of the demand for details is to check if their is evidence of tax evasion. The IRS can audit anyone at anytime, they don't need evidence, the audit is to determine if there is evidence.

  25. Re:perhaps send those that signed this to maths cl on Tesla Deploys Over 300 Powerwalls To Give Hawaiian School Kids AC (electrek.co) · · Score: 0

    it is just sad to see such wastage. Nothing wrong with solar, though better solutions are probably geo thermal in that region. Solar with net feed to the grid would be far better, Powerwalls suck balls cost wise, they are purely waste, they only have benefit where connectivity to the grid is expensive or the grid is inherently unreliable.