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  1. Re:What Could Go Wrong on Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars From San Francisco, Sends Them To Arizona (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    We'll find out, but if the answer is nothing, will you admit that Uber was right and California was wrong?

    The cars have already proven themselves to be incapable of driving themselves, Uber even openly admits it, and even used the fact as an excuse to not register them as selvdriving cars.

  2. Re:Propellantless doesn't mean reactionless on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    2a causes reaction against something external like magnetic fields or air.

    3. The law of conservation of momentum is wrong.

    Of the three, I would happily bet my house that it is not the third one.

    I think we're in agreement!

    Wouldn't 2a mean the law of conserved momemtum in its current form is wrong? I mean if you can cause a reaction with an external magnetic field that generates thrust without projecting energy/mass in any direction, that is basically what people are claiming about the EM drive?

  3. Re:so is there a good theory? on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't googled it, but I've always wondered why physicists are so certain that dark matter is a thing

    Dark matter is a placeholder. It isn't necessarily dark, nor matter, or even a thing. Its more of "We're not certain exactly why some aspect of the universe isn't what we think it should be.

    So you could declare everything wrong, and go back to the caves, or put in a placeholder so you can do further research and eventually figure out what the placeholder "dark matter" is.

    True, mostly. We are actually pretty sure dark matter is both matter and dark. It is matter because it affects gravity, and it is dark because we can't observe it so it interacts very little with light, making it dark or simply transparent (which mostly is the same as dark in space). Not much else is known though.

  4. That first video where their car drove through a hard-red light, and with a pedestrian in the crosswalk was scary.

    As a computer expert, autonomous cars are just plain scary. I don't trust computers, I know how they work.

  5. Re:So where's that smug Linux dude? on Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    still smug I fear, he didn't install the bad plugins...

    Or use Chrome..
    Or GNOME

    All three are required for the exploit

  6. Re: Wow how original on Apple Explores Dual-SIM Capability in iPhones, Patent Filing Reveals (ibtimes.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Why didn't you patent it?

    Boy you're a real moron!

    It is generally hard or pointless to patent things other people have already invented and are widely deployed. Of course if you are big enough troll you might be able to get away with it, at least for PR purposes to the faithful.

  7. Re:Shocking on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama's options were:

    A) Either his ideas and presidency were so bad that he personally drove the country to find and elect someone like Trump, or

    B) The Russia-fairy hacked the election.

    I'm shocked and amazed that he picked B. What's even more amazing is that all of his political appointees also picked B, while the career intelligence officers that work for them all appear to have picked A.

    Or major parts of the population has suffered serious disassociation disorder after more than a decade of being feed propaganda bullshit from the large mainstream media (Fox News), and has turned to a pure-bullshit diet of news where no facts can penetrate.

  8. Re:How's Ginny going to gt 25K green cards that fa on IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The "nice" thing about post-fact politics is that you don't need to keep your promises.

  9. What country do you think this is?

    I think that England has had jury nullification since the 17th century. No?

    All countries have, that is the point of a jury. But it isn't a thing that sticks like in the US because acquitals can be appealed everywhere else. It just pushes the case to the next level.

  10. So fire your lawyer and state the truth yourself if they're too chicken-shit to oppose a bad law. Insist on a jury trial. Jurors are getting pretty good at the whole jury nullification thing. BTW, it is NOT illegal to tell the jury they can nullify the law - just that judges don't like it and will punish you for it - and their doing so will make the jury distrust the whole legal system.

    What country do you think this is?

  11. Wifi disconnects after OS updates. My god, they really are copying macOS updates, right down to WiFI bugs.

  12. And if you're really that worried, you buffer ever so slightly (even a few ms will do) and spend more time on sync to make sure you keep the same idea of "now" on both earbuds.

    They probably buffer a lot. Existing bluetooth headsets will keep going for a few seconds after you remove the phone. The issue is likely timing the buffers to microsecond precision.

  13. Thanks. Wanted to make sure I understood... "malicious hypervisor"....

    I had no idea anyone was trying to create a hypervisor that didn't have transparent access to it's guests. It's impressive that they tried. But there are lots of new experimental features in each generation of CPU's that won't necessarily follow in the next design. I doubt they though it would be secure on the first try. We don't have that security now so there is no loss. And even if it does happen in the future it will be 20 years before I even consider trusting it. And even then I would need expert testimony of someone that had reverse engineered the chip under a microscope to ensure there are no back doors.

    Well, they have been trying for a while. And it is not just the hypervisor the protecting against, it is "malicious users". One of the key application of these technologies is DRM, so users can't access protected content.

  14. One of the points of intel SGX is that all pages of memory are encrypted

    As far I understand the SGX scheme, only special memory accessed by special SGX instructions are encrypted. SEV is very different, it encrypts everything and doesn't need special new instructions, but can protect legacy code, which SGX can not.

  15. Why not $30? Heck, why not $50? More is better, no? Don't you want workers to be well paid?

    Because the higher it is, the stronger the negative consequences are. A minimum wage should be a minimum (it is IN the name), it should just be high enough to do its job, which is to ensure people can actually live off the wage.

  16. air is going out of the baloon

    Really?

    https://bitcoincharts.com/char...

    (Note: Log scale)

    Yeap. Thanks for proving my point. It is still not close to the 2014 high where the last craze ended..

  17. It is called ads. Bitcoin is starting to acquire pyramid scheme like traits, though thankfully it is not pyramid shaped, holders doesn't like the fact air is going out of the baloon, and does anything to try to start a new buying craze to reinflate it.

  18. Re:The Reality Distortion Field. on Apple, Which Doesn't Reveal Watch Sales Data, Says Watch Sales Are Great (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Still working as strong as ever despite the death of Steve Jobs.

    Though now for reason, I now read their press announcement as if spoken with a Trump voice.

    The Apple watch sales are HUGE, the numbers are secret, but trust me,
    TRUST ME, they are bigly!

  19. Re:Politically correct madness on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, just misleading headline. They are not banning diesel cars, just requiring old cars to live up to newer standards if they want to drive in the city centers. So ban on really old particularly dirty diesels cars in the city centers, not a ban on diesels in general.

  20. Do that asshole allowed to take days off? Can he take 2 weeks off until all the symptom wear off? Is that even acceptable or realist?

    The symptoms doesn't take 2 weeks to wear off, unless he has the flu or pneumonia.

  21. Re:Sure, why not? on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    With the upcoming AI/robotic revolution, the relevant question would be - what won't be fully automated?

    What would the robot overlords need farms for?

  22. The media will run an uninterrupted series of negative opinion pieces disguised as news for the next 4 years.

    Opinions that all turn out to be true, as even the most hardened republicans realised Bush was a useless fool? Or wait you weren't talking about the BW presidency...

  23. Supposedly there is a 7% difference between the machine tally and the paper tally. They ascribe this to voting machines being hacked. I suggest it might as well be thought that the machines are correct and that the traditional ways of "hacking" paper ballot totals are responsible for the difference.

    One requires one bad person working alone, and the other requires thousands of bad people working coordinated without being detected though their emails were hacked and publicised... Yeah...

  24. Re:The real question is about rights on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Do individuals have the right to pick up people and offer them a ride for a fee

    Do you have the right to perform tax-evading work and willfully break government safety regulations? Sure I repair your electric outlets for a "shared repair-work" fee, and I don't need to stick to housing or education regulation because I am selling my service through an App!

  25. Re:If this is the case, beward companies. on Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyhow, if the EU wants more e-commerce, why not start with something straightforward like selling of merchandise? Or even working on copyright and IP laws which would allow the sale of music, tv shows and movies throughout the EU without being country specific? That would seem to be the low-hanging fruit blocking EU-wide e-commerce.

    Nothing is blocking of that, except companies don't want to do it. If the EU wants to fix this (and they do), then need to make restrictive laws making a lot of standard practices and long term country-specific distribution contracts illegal.

    Anyway. Note the EU isn't targetting Uber, Uber is already illegal under existing rules, and just being sued for breaking the law. No laws were changed, unlike in the US where they intervened and legalized Uber's organized crime.