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  1. Re:Convinces me Uber is at fault because of 1/R^4 on Police Release First Video From Inside the Uber Self-Driving Car That Killed a Pedestrian (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Hitting deer at night is pretty common. And in this case, it's a two lane road with very little traffic. If the pedestrian had even been paying the slightest attention, she could have paused for a second, then continued after this car went by.

  2. Re:Convinces me Uber is at fault because of 1/R^4 on Police Release First Video From Inside the Uber Self-Driving Car That Killed a Pedestrian (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    What is relevant is that the pedestrian was not paying any attention whatsoever to traffic.

  3. She clearly wasn't paying attention to oncoming traffic. At night you don't cross in front of oncoming traffic and hope that they spot you in time.

  4. She wasn't just crossing outside a sidewalk, it looks like she was crossing outside the area lighted by streetlights. She was only illuminated by the cars headlights. Seems like the car should have at least attempted to avoid but if a human had been driving the car, she would be just as dead. No human would have reacted in time.

  5. Re:Moscow Donald - History's pee smellingist trait on China's Anti-Pollution Initiative Produces Stellar Results (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 0

    The USA is under attack from Russia. Donald Trump, sworn to protect the USA, is deliberately ignoring that attack, and actively preventing the government from responding. Sure sounds like treason to me.

  6. Re:Musings from selfish people on What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    If only I could do something important and mod you up a couple of times.

  7. Re:Bad title... on Report Says Radioactive Monitors Failed at Nuclear Plant (apnews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Alas, the "nuclear power is perfectly safe, it will be too cheap to meter" nonsense of the pro-nuke crowd has made everyone who can think justifiably suspicious that maybe nuclear reactors aren't such a great idea.

  8. Re:What could possible go wrong? on Google's Slack Competitor 'Hangouts Chat' Comes Out of Beta (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh? There's NOTHING wrong with informal communication. Just don't act like a jerk and you don't have to worry about harassment / hostile workplace issues.

  9. Re:Too bad slashdot used to cause these on GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    How am I going to post in Klingon w/o Unicode support?

  10. Re: Too bad slashdot used to cause these on GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Dang I wish I could mod you up.

  11. Nothing to see here on Is Cryptocurrency Threatening Earnings at Bank of America? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    These financial statements have to list all kinds of contingencies that may or may not affect earning: "an asteroid may strike the earth, wiping out all life and reducing profits". Just because it MAY happen doesn't mean it WILL happen.

  12. Re: Killed themselves on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    And with that attitude, I'm sure you have many happy customers.

  13. Re:Killed themselves on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. One of the defining characteristics of a "senior developer" is that they understand that there are benefits and costs to everything. The solution is not always "use this cool new technology".

  14. Have you heard of not wanting to be on call with customers 24x7?

  15. And yet there often are (gasp) reasons as to why things are the way they are. Maybe you need to be in the office 8 to 5 because customers expect to be able to reach you? Or co-workers who want to talk to you can? Or there's an early shift because the UPS truck comes at 4pm to pick up product and producing something at 4:01 is worthless?

  16. I heard a proposal on Car Talk for what you want. It's call "Daily Savings Time" . Each day, at 2pm the clock is advanced an hour, so you lose an hour of work. Each day at 2am the clock is moved back an hour, so you gain an hour of sleep. Presto!

  17. Re:Must all vendors support Linux? on 'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux' (gnome.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm sure Razer is terrified at losing the massive Linux desktop market. After all, 2018 is the year of ...

  18. Re:Must all vendors support Linux? on 'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux' (gnome.org) · · Score: 2

    Right. Because all it takes to release internal documentation is for some support guy to grab the doc and mail it out to whoever asks. Brilliant.

  19. Right. Unlike all other forms of videos, commercials, etc, which are purely informative.

  20. No. Think. He's pointing out that allowing the carrier to artificially slow down traffic is a really bad idea.

  21. Irridiculous!

  22. Re:Just. Fuck. Off. on Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Windows used to allow you to completely customize the UI. Way back when it was easy to set the colors for just about every UI element. It was great, you could get something that looked the way you expected and actually made sense. I only found out it was missing when I was working on something where the active title bar didn't stand out and I couldn't find the customization tool.

  23. Re:Rough road ahead. on Montana To FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    State contracts are the Montana's domain... not the FCC's domain.

  24. Re:This may explain the Montana.gov timeout errors on Montana To FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The LAST thing the big ISPs want is to encourage competition. They've essentially got monopolies. You think they want to encourage states to look for alternatives?

  25. Re:That might not stop them. on Montana To FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Wrong.