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  1. Re:WTH is arbitration? on Uber Drops Arbitration Requirement For Sexual Assault Victims (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I believe it only works against civil suits as its the DA's office that prosecutes, not an individual.

  2. Maybe if you pay cash for your home. It's closer to 20k over 30 years and i really doubt they'll be installing these on average for the cost of a pretty used civic.

  3. The real reason on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Googles business re-enforces the very stereotypes they'll tell us we shouldn't have. It's profiling its users based on race and social status and showing them ads for pay day loans and bail bonds. How un SJW of them.

  4. Glass houses on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The anthropology professor/major has been the but of more than one joke on a pretty useless profession. And I do understand they fill a niche.

  5. Re: Sadomoralism on FBI Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Criticized For Sex-Related Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Backpage has plenty of massage parlor ads. And plenty of fake bait and switch ads where lord knows who shows up. Get your head out of the clouds. Backpage was a great place to meet crack whores, meth heads, and catch some great STDs while helping funding organized crime. It didn't create some sort of safe Amsterdam like environment.

  6. Re:Sadomoralism on FBI Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Criticized For Sex-Related Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Things like "talk to any sex worker" are all that needs to be said to make you the delusional one. I don't say all sex workers are equal and treated the same. Whether a majority or not I don't think anyone knows, but the numbers of people forced into the situation is high. I've seen it first hand. Pretty sure Lawrence Taylor found his under age prostitute via backpage.

  7. Re:Sadomoralism on FBI Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Criticized For Sex-Related Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    That's where you're wrong. The vast majority of Johns don't pay out hundreds for a romp. They pay very little, so little that the only way women would take it is because they have no choice. We're talking well under $50 range. That is the real sex trade industry that is built around lower income clients and exist in the seedy underbelly of society. And there are WAY more people in that income bracket that those willing to throw hundreds for an hours romp.

  8. Re:Sadomoralism on FBI Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Criticized For Sex-Related Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    You wrongly believe that the sex trade is Pretty Woman with a bunch of young women just doing what they do like any other 9-5 job. The reality is its pimp beatings and getting people hooked on drugs or brought to this country as a sex slave in some parlor or under ground brothel so they have no choice but to sell themselves for a few bucks to survive, whether under age or not.

    You can argue all that goes away if its just made legal. I don't know if it would or not, but that doesn't really matter as the FBI and cops have no say in that matter. They are playing the hand dealt them, and its ugly.

    I have no problem with the true 'independents' that are out there. But as a whole its an ugly business and you have no way of knowing what things really are.

  9. Mind boggling on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 1

    I'll stick with my embedded military/aerospace world that actually creates products of real importance using the same basic tool sets and ideology for the last 30 years. The rest seems to be have become some chaotic rat race that seems completely unappealing to anyone over 30.

  10. Don't rely on some internet that you don't trust and just tether your phone. Unless you're in the middle of the desert somewhere in this day and age the transfer rate is probably more than adequate. Or VPN into work.

  11. Re:Pressured to proceed despite poor test results. on Uber's Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    This isn't an IT project though, it's the real world. Failed IT projects seldom costs lives, just money. This is what the app IT world needs to understand when moving into the real world of engineering. Rushing to market has real consequences.

  12. Re:I probably would have hit her on Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe if the woman who was supposed to be watching what was going on were not half asleep we'd know the answer. I think in a situation like that a person who wanted to be more aware would have been. This is exactly why auto pilot is dangerous. Everyone wants to blame it on it being dark, the car shouldn't care. It's not relying on visible light.

  13. Re:"came from the shadows?" what? No LiDAR? on Police Chief: Uber Self-Driving Car 'Likely' Not At Fault In Fatal Crash (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have to agree, fault has little to do here. The fact is the sensors failed to pick out a hazard. I highly doubt that the car goes into super sensitive mode when approaching a known crosswalk. If it were a kid chasing a ball people would not have the same reaction. They'd say the car needs to do better.

    However there's still a lot to know. Mostly where the car did start to react, if at all. Talking about lighting and shadows to me makes little sense.

  14. Its not he physics, its the p ushing someone close to the edge over it.

  15. Re:Having worked at a Chevy dealer... on Tesla Employees Say Automaker Is Churning Out a High Volume of Flawed Parts (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that you are kept busy in the parts department is not relevant unless you consider the total number of cars shipped which is in the 80M+ range. And my experience for the last 3 cars I've bought is the vast majority need nothing but an oil change for the first 3-5 years.

  16. Wonder why on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    My son was looking for a new book, went in and got him Hitchhikers Guide. Brought it to the checkout, $16???? for a 150 page book?

  17. But I did a quick glance at the wiki, etc, and still have no idea what the purpose of this thing is.

  18. Re:Entrapment on Apple Adds Medical Records Feature For iPhone (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure you know what Entrapment means other than it was a movie and CZJ has an amazing ass in it.

  19. Re:full time boomers vs. part time millenials on The Rise Of The Contract Workforce (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Keep playing with your email and phone while the old timers who got us to the moon using slide rulers continue to do the work.

    I'm half joking here, but the problem isn't so much the older employees as much as companies do a terrible job passing knowledge.

  20. The Sopranos on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything you need to know is in Adriana's farewell episode.

  21. What about consoles? on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they inherently less prone to cheaters? If so then that is the real death knell for pc games as consoles get more powerful.

  22. Re:Not a Constitutional issue on US Supreme Court Will Revisit Ruling On Collecting Internet Sales Tax (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Only tricky if you are a simpleton. This has been a solved problem for decades. If you want to sell your wares to more than the people who walk through your door then you have to invest a bit of your expected money for the proper software that will handle such things.

  23. How is this a good thing on Circuit City Is Coming Back (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Circuit City was about one step above Crazy Eddies. The salesmen on the floor were the worst group of sales bros I've ever seen.

  24. Software has the luxury that you can be behind the curve in development and still manage as an alternative. That doesn't work in hardware. If you are late to the game nobody supports you. And people aren't going to spend money making hardware that nobody wants supports.

  25. Everyone knows only the man of the house touches the thermostat