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  1. If it's the brake that I'm thinking of, not all cars have them and I'm really not sure what sort of "emergency" it would be good for, but I've only heard it called an emergency brake and not a parking brake. Apparently they need to remarket it as such.

  2. That has nothing to do with whether or not they are.currently acting.in their own best interest and is actually the opposite of what is being argued. They need to become experts in their own self interest and vote accordingly.

  3. My mom has started being an Uber driver around the Indianapolis Airport/Greenwood area at about the same age as her mother had to quit driving.

  4. Forbes Article on NASCAR Team Pays Ransomware Fee To Recover Files Worth $2 Million (softpedia.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant
  5. The joke was around for much longer than any movie with that joke in it.

  6. Re: No value on Interview With A Craigslist Scammer (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Criminals are badly trained neural nets.

  7. Re: Rehabilitation on Interview With A Craigslist Scammer (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Right now the so called solution is to make it difficult on people who misbehave and don't teach them the proper way to behave.

  8. Re:why qualify the nightclub as "gay"? on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Correction, the fact that the person was even human, or that it happened on the planet Earth are clearly irrelevant. I used to think the fact that a gun was used was relevant and that's irrelevant as well. The only thing that's important is that something happened that got some critters restless for maybe a week or two, but never fear they'll be back to their usual selves.

    Until that changes, that's what really matters.

  9. If they were collecting information on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    My understanding on the matter is confused, but apparently the CDC is banned from studying gun violence. https://www.bing.com/search?q=...

  10. Do we really need to learn Twitter's technical de on 3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter's Nose (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    This summary seems chock full of details unique to the implementation of Twitter that you would have to know in order to understand the summary. As per Slashdot usual, I can't be bothered to read the actual article. You shouldn't have to read the actual article in order to understand the summary! I don't want to understand this badly enough to see if the article actually explains the summary. Double fault: I don't want to know if the article does explain this enough to read the actual article. Why then am I posting this, you might ask? Because it seemed more fun than attempting to answer the above questions. Bonus darts for anyone who attempts to criticize me on any of these points without getting this far in my post!

  11. Re: Can this chip run GNU/systemd/Linux? on California Researchers Build The World's First 1,000-Processor Chip (ucdavis.edu) · · Score: 1

    Not the original poster, but I used to do a lot of comma ands that have been largely replaced with period ands and semicolons.

  12. Re: Can this chip run GNU/systemd/Linux? on California Researchers Build The World's First 1,000-Processor Chip (ucdavis.edu) · · Score: 1

    I would parse it as the memory modules have that much memory and that it has IO to an external bus at the speed stated.

  13. Re: Can this chip run GNU/systemd/Linux? on California Researchers Build The World's First 1,000-Processor Chip (ucdavis.edu) · · Score: 1

    I could imagine one of these for a desktop.

  14. Both of you started out being pedantic.

  15. What does it say to equate conventions with standards. Dictionaries neither document nor set standards but merely conventions.

  16. Re: Just redefine the word on Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is fun. Two people muddying it up with legal meaning vs. common meaning and theft vs. infringement. Reality appears largely to be ignored as per usual. There is a cesspool of ideas; and patents at the very least are written to try to more as many future developers as possible. There are three dumps of Microsoft OS code on torrents it isn't knocking on my door to get back and legal definitions sometimes only matter when you are actually in court. Except when you can convince the other person legality matters early on and it is in your favor.

  17. Re: Just redefine the word on Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Abuse of the language is the only correct use of the language.

  18. There is no one common definition just a handful of pretty common ones that people throw around as they see fit.

  19. Re: it wuz haxx0rz! on Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people think author-fan constitutes a relationship and the y always tend this side with the fan.

  20. "Something to hide" on Smartphone Users Are Paying For Their Own Surveillance (truth-out.org) · · Score: 2

    I find it absurd how easily people don't realize that if you have a family, you do have "something to hide".

  21. Re: Dear Microsoft on Microsoft Says Edge Browser Is More Power-Efficient Than Chrome (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    To make matters worse, Edge once told me t couldn't handle a page and asked me if I wanted it to hand it off to IE. There were other browsers installed, but Edge would only hand it off to IE.

  22. Re: 4G is fast enough on FCC To Vote On Spectrum For 5G Wireless Networks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I would want the robot to have enough internal smarts to prevent major problems from happening no matter what the connection, or better yet no connection and the robot knows exactly what to do. Scratch telepresence altogether. I'd rather trust the operation to an on site on robot, AI. With redundancies.

  23. Re: Password Managers, people on Citing Attack, GoToMyPC Resets All Passwords (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Both Chrome and Firefox can remember passwords across devices.

  24. Re: easily exploitable software? on New York Criminalizes the Use Of Ticket-Buying Bots (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Always have the customers type their own names in when typing names is required, but you seem to be a little confused about the process at the counter and I may not even have it correct, but I can see how it wouldn't require inputting a name. The system doesn't even require an airline rep. At a kiosk, the customer gives the flight, and swipe. The kiosk gets the name connected with the card and checks the manifest. The kiosk can even take a picture of the customer and print it on the boarding pass, or the picture can be stored in the central database. Or both. There are so many ways security could be less intrusive if that is what they really wanted. My aunt tells me how Israel's security is actually much better in the hat department, which reminds me I've been meaning to ship he some bears. Teddy bears.

  25. Re: easily exploitable software? on New York Criminalizes the Use Of Ticket-Buying Bots (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Not when they are competing with the human customers that also have to input captchas. When you streamline the rest of the process, the bot can still come out ahead most of the time.