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  1. Re: Utter stupidity on Elon Musk's Alleged Email To Employees on Tesla's Big Picture (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how manufacturing tolerances work. Tight tolerances don't mean pieces fit together tightly; it means the pieces are built precisely.

  2. They have it backwards. on Engineer Develops Sonar Alarm System To Monitor Kids In the Pool (newatlas.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A much better idea would be a to have adults wear the sonar device to act as an inhibit for a wave based alarm sensor.

  3. Re: Wave-activated sounds superior, actually on Engineer Develops Sonar Alarm System To Monitor Kids In the Pool (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    It works be trivially easy to program one to re-arm itself after detecting to activity for 5 min. Actually, a much better idea would be to have adults wear the sonar device to inhibit the alarm when they are present.

  4. Re: Why shouldn't they? on California May Soon Allow Passengers In Driverless Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Autocorrect screwed up my comment, so you probably couldn't couldn't understand what I was saying. I do think transportation should be regulated. I was just saying that I am more in favor of self driving cars risking the lives of consenting passengers than I am of self driving cars risking the lives of pedestrians and other people on the road who don't get a choice in the matter.

  5. Why shouldn't they? on California May Soon Allow Passengers In Driverless Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    If consenting passengers want to or put their lives in the handsof down technology why shouldn't they be allowed to? My concern is for everyone else out in the general population who has become test subjects without any say in the matter.

  6. Re: Most posts here... on California May Soon Allow Passengers In Driverless Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if the video wasn't darkened that doesn't change the fact that operating a self driving car with cameras that have such poor light sensitivity should be considered criminally negligent.

  7. As nature intended it... on Sea Level Rise in the SF Bay Area Just Got a Lot More Dire (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    A quick look at a map confirmed my suspicion that the airport was just built on landfill. It looks like there is also a significant risk of liquefaction when the next earthquake strikes. https://priceonomics.com/what-...

  8. Re:No. Just No. on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    To say that trucks are inexpensive compared to cars is just plain wrong.

  9. Re: Like someone else illustrated on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You are literally wrong.

  10. Re: Like someone else illustrated on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I estimated half an inch all the time with half the tip of my index finger.

  11. Oh look, someone mentioned censorship! Time to trot out the tired old xkcd on the topic and post it again even though it's not relevant to the point being made.

  12. Re: Use it as a LoJack? on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With An Old Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Why not wire it up to the light to charge it.

  13. Re:And who cares? on The Solar Eclipse of 2017 Destroyed Lots of Rental Camera Gear (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    You had me pretty excited there for a minute. Your Venus transit date is off by 100 years. The next one is Dec. 2117.

  14. This is a symptom of a broader problem. on Modest Proposal To Companies: Let Your Customers Respond To Your Emails - Kill no-reply@ (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    The people running big companies, especially big near-monopolies, think that they get to unilaterally define the terms of all communication. They want the customer to think long and hard before they dare to ask for something to be made right. This is done by making it as painful as possible to talk to a representative and if you are lucky enough to actually get to speak to a person it will likely be someone with no authority to resolve a problem and who will just hide behind the excuse that the "their system" won't allow them to do what needs to be done.

    The no-reply thing even happens with snail mail. I once received an erroneous medical bill which I sent back with a letter explaining why the bill was in error. The payment processing center decided that they could not be bothered with two-way communication and simply reported me to collections.

  15. Who cares? on Trump Can Block People On Twitter If He Wants, Administration Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not on twitter. It took me exactly 15 seconds to search @realdonaldtrump on a search engine and pull up his Twitter account where I can read his inane babbling all day if I want. It's hard to take Trump's critics seriously when they keep whining about complete nonsense like this.