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  1. Re:not same as a train; race to market on Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Woman in First Fatal Crash Involving Pedestrian (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, we need more info. Was she walking and intersected with plenty of notice, or darting into the road? From what I understand of the current autonomous systems, if she stopped in the road and stared down the car, it would hit her.

    The cars are designed to assume stationary items are small and no problem. That's why the Tesla hit a firetruck with it's lights on.

  2. I wonder if uber's cars use lidar or radar? That one Tesla hit the firetruck. It was explained to me that the radar systems tend to assume anything stationary and in front is a small obstacle like a hubcap in the road, or they would be stopping all the time.

  3. I tend to agree, but I wonder how long it would take for some "patriot" group to start leaving some sort of poisoned water caches.

  4. Re:an anecdote from a Comcast technician on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 1

    The company lies about its internet speeds but all of my customers know that and still subscribe to them.

    The company lies about its internet speeds but all of my customers know that and unfortunately have no choice but to subscribe anyway.
    FTFY

  5. Re:Prioritizing speed test servers a NN violation on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 1

    If you have access to a server elsewhere, you can use iperf. That's usually my gold standard for testing links.

  6. Re:Alternatively: on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 1

    You can also try a speed test specific to the service you want to use.
    Netflix has one:
    https://ispspeedindex.netflix....

  7. Re: This is a "Breach"? on Did Cambridge Analytica Harvest 50 Million Facebook Profiles? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if any "shadow" profiles were included. I don't do facebook, but I'm pretty sure facebook still does me.

  8. Obviously your immersed in the fear culture that stoke the imagination of gun nutters. I avoid conflict without a gun. I do carry a knife, that is mostly for utility.

    I'm also bulletproof, so I've got that going for me. ;)

  9. Re:How can this possibly be true? on Android Is Now as Safe as the Competition, Google Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a Verizon s5, this thing seems to be locked up tight and I can't get my own OS on it.

  10. Or are you talking Amazon Women who are attacking the US?

    The ones on the moon?

  11. Re:End of Petroleum Taxes on US Utilities Have Finally Realized Electric Cars May Save Them (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Freeports are a thing too.
    https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21590353-ever-more-wealth-being-parked-fancy-storage-facilities-some-customers-they-are

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

    Don't believe this, there are plenty of examples of undercover agents participating in crimes. This would probably fall under the same umbrella.

  13. Re:Not surprising. on Largest US Radio Company iHeartMedia Files For Bankruptcy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I said "complex explanations" as a shorthand for "talking points". In depth reporting is the opposite.
    I'm talking about the way some right wing hosts will patiently explain to their listeners how this means that and that leads to this and suddenly people are marrying donkeys.

    Sorry for the misunderstanding.

  14. Just pointing out your spin, keep it up.

    I would rather be shot with a .30-06, but I try to avoid both.

    I doubt anybody is confused by a gun, then or now. They are pretty simple to use. I would prefer someone be able to carry less ammo and have a harder time readjusting after aiming, if they are shooting at me.

    I personally think we should limit high capacity magazines (require additional licensing or tax stamps), severely limit hand guns, and outlaw the carry of loaded weapons, especially in a ready-to-fire state.
    I'm astounded by how many dumb-asses think they need to carry with a hot round in the chamber. If it was really about safety they would be wearing a helmet and carrying a fire extinguisher, not a gun.

  15. You want to make it possible for them to round us up at their leisure. You are a suicidal idiot. Its a common malady among your kind.

    Guns don't stop this, they usually act as an excuse.

  16. The m-16 entered service in 1964 and started being sold to civilians that same year.

    Guns have become more accurate, lower recoil, and easier to use.

  17. Sims is clinical in it's violence.
    My daughter said this to me once:
    "My sim wouldn't listen to me so I set them on fire."
    I've also heard plenty of accounts of walling sims into pools or other rooms where they will die.

  18. Show me the video game as realistic as film and you might have a point.

    I like to play a destructible racing game, flat-out 2, I've never sideswiped someone into a tailspin in real life.

  19. Re:This isn't news on Linus Torvalds Slams CTS Labs Over AMD Vulnerability Report (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there is some sort of lojack for computers that would reinstall itself at least two or three years ago. It did only work on Windows, if I remember correctly, but that had more to do with the software design.

  20. Re:Don't need exploit if you have admin on Linus Torvalds Slams CTS Labs Over AMD Vulnerability Report (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This depends on the size of the organization. Many smaller orgs only have one or two guys and their fingers are in everything. Larger orgs should definitely compartmentalize. A good sysadmin will self compartmentalize and put auditing systems in place. A bad sysadmin complains about sudo and just uses root everywhere or makes his account a domain admin in the windows world.

    A guy I work with was telling me that his last company just added the "domain user" account to the local admin account on all their windows machines. I was appalled.

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

    Receipt of delivery does not indicate a non-compromised endpoint. The feds play the long game.

  22. Re:The reason for success is right in the descript on How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Walmart is an IT company disguised as a retailer. They really do good IT, but they did not seem to pivto to web quickly enough. They are more old school IT, databases and automation.

    I wouldn't count them out. They seem to be pivoting quickly now and building up momentum.

  23. Re:Not really always..... on How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they "customer experience" stuff is bullshit marketing fluff that this article writer bought into. The real threat and reason the keep customers is low friction. It's so simple to just find it on Amazon, or use AWS. That's the danger.

  24. Re:Logistics on How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber does it.