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  1. Re:Perhaps is fake propaganda photograph? on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    If you need a pickup, America is where you get it. More pickups per capita than anywhere else. We love our trucks.

  2. So tired of "tech" companies on Airbnb Dethrones Google As the Best Tech Company To Work For In the US · · Score: 0

    Seriously, where is the tech? Webpages, databases, and billing/reservation system. Hardly tech.

  3. Re:Data data everywhere and not a drop to think on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The real question is why is he doing the math by hand. Computers are pretty good at that.

  4. It doesn't really matter on Mars Mission: How Hard? NASA Astronauts Weigh In · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If things go well, they're probably dead. If things go not so well, they are dead. There is no special set of skills that will make a real difference.

  5. Re:Easy Stuff! on Inside the Failure of Google+ · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Google+ isn't even a good name for it. It's confusing. And they are trying to make important something that people don't even want to think about. Facebook manages all the intricacies behind the scenes. People just get it for free without even thinking about it.

  6. The truth on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    He did the math when he got a check and realized that nobody actually cares about his music anymore.

  7. Re:Replacing hard to find spare parts. on Ask Slashdot: For What Are You Using 3-D Printing? · · Score: 1

    Tape is simpler for remote control covers. And people don't explain what they want something to look like. They send a cad or other type of file that defines what they want, not some inaccurate poorly rendered result of a cad file.

  8. Easy fix on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    They'll stop having contractors as cleaning crew and security guards and quickly remedy the female and hispanic numbers.

  9. Is this actually good? on Metamaterial Forms Near-Perfect Mirror · · Score: 1

    They toss out the 99.7% number, but in the realm of precision mirrors something tells me that isn't really all that impressive. Now it may be an improvement for the lower grade mirrors at a cheaper cost. But in that sense its a rather misleading headline and article.

  10. People are thinking of it the wrong way. on As Drought Worsens, California Orders Record Water Cuts · · Score: 1

    The people saying they don't want to pay for people to live in the desert have it wrong. It's more like you are paying for them to stay there and not have a bunch of new Californian neighbors. A price well worth it.

  11. Ok then. on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 1

    I guess it's up to the dolphins and their non opposable thumbs to save the day.

  12. Re:So what you're saying is... on Google Releases Report On Autonomous Vehicle Accidents · · Score: 0

    You're right. No obesity and health related issues at all in the world that kill far more people than driving.

  13. Re:So what you're saying is... on Google Releases Report On Autonomous Vehicle Accidents · · Score: 2

    That sounds like a fun life. We'd all eat better if we just took specially designed intravenous tubes of food also.

  14. So what? on Cloud Boom Drives Sales Boom For Physical Servers · · Score: 1

    The point is that those other people are buying less servers than all the people moving to the cloud were buying. If that isn't the case then its a broken business model.

  15. That's nice on Elon Musk Establishes a Grade School · · Score: 1

    So what is the cost/student ratio at his school for the super rich? How is that going to be applied to a class with 30 kids in it where at least some of them don't want to be in school and won't be told to behave because otherwise Mommy or Daddies boss will find out and fire them. Why not just skip this partial utopia and jump right to the Star Trek universe of no money, no janitors, and everyone working a their perfect fulfilling job. I think this is a great deal, just completely unworkable in a realistic population.

  16. Why should science be any different? on Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? · · Score: 1

    Cities were better when they were smaller. The internet was better when the entire world wasn't on facebook and twitter. Slashdot was certainly better when they didnt care so much about traffic. Science was more accurate when it was a much smaller. Human nature is to spoil things when you get too many people involved. And it's not a linear. That said, the real question is whether more good science is being done even as the ratio goes down.

  17. Re:Please, no. on The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As opposed to currently where your name, address, and age go onto the police blotter in the local newspaper?

  18. Re:What About The Innocent? on The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their names show up in the police blotter anyway. You are not anonymous until proven guilty.

  19. Re:Numbers on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Then just like you would do if you wanted to take your mileage for work travel off your taxes you provide a log book showing so. Why do we insist on not taking the simplest approach and making the 1% of people it doesn't apply to do a little extra work?

  20. Re:None of these solutions "work" on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    Somebody doesn't understand what it means to be in a support role.

  21. The real story on Schools That Ban Mobile Phones See Better Academic Results · · Score: 1

    Schools with administrators smart enough to ban smart phones tend to be in better school districts.

  22. It's called being lazy on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    It's really that simple. Interacting with real people takes effort. People just don't want to do it anymore. For boys more effort is required finding a relationship with a girl. Many are just too lazy to go through it now.

  23. Simple conclusion on Self-Driving Cars In California: 4 Out of 48 Have Accidents, None Their Fault · · Score: 4, Funny

    That the vast majority of human drivers around them were able to avoid accidents despite the presence of dangerous automated cars.

  24. Add the time it takes to get to and from the station, checkin, etc and you are adding probably 2 hours. Either way it's close enough to a days travel. Who really cares about saving 2-3 hours on a trip that most people do every once in a blue moon.

  25. Re:An ever bigger torpedo on Self-Driving Big Rigs Become a Reality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem isn't the 99.99%, but the .01% where the right thing has to be done quickly. Take for example the small tunnel near me. It's a 4 lane, 2 in each direction. While being repaired it's down to a two lane, with cones all over telling you to move into the other direction lane to proceed. Cops all over directing traffic, really it's a pretty chaotic situation with no defined way to navigate it other than taking in what is going on and doing the right thing. No two cops direct traffic the same way, no two construction zones are set up the same way. Each one is a learn as you go, something humans excel at even if it's a 16 year old kid who just got their license. This is the Achilles heel of automated driving and we're quite a number of years away from sorting it all out.