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  1. Re:Review system on Mayors of Atlanta & New Orleans: Uber Will Knock-Out Taxi Industry · · Score: 1

    Dead passengers don't rate. Driver's former cellmates do.

  2. Any periodic e-mails should be RSS feeds on Krebs on Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails and Blaming Canada · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This law or not, any recurring e-mails are spammy. E-mail should be reserved for one time interactions like order confirmations and of course personal communication. With RSS feeds, user can unsubscribe, suspend and resume viewing updates at their convenience.

  3. I love getting into strangers' cars on Mayors of Atlanta & New Orleans: Uber Will Knock-Out Taxi Industry · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I am sure drivers are perfectly law abiding and safe without any background checks and drug testing. It is completely impossible to have part time and internet enabled taxi drivers who are still checked out and issued a license.

  4. Re:Anyone who knows street parking in San Francisc on San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously suggesting that SF public transit is friendly to visitors unfamiliar with the city? Please explain to me how do I take BART to sunset district.

  5. Re:They hate our freedom on San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App · · Score: 1

    On the subject of holding public spaces hostage, I wonder what you think of occupy movement and all the other protests, which are especially common in San Francisco?

    Practically speaking, if parking spaces are popular, seller will not have to hold them for long. Since the buyer also has the app installed, he/she will have incentive to leave sooner, during prime time, to make the money back.

  6. Anyone who knows street parking in San Francisco on San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will understand that this app is a solution, not a problem. It's much safer to drive to a parking spot that you know will be available and sufficient to fit into than circling blocks for half an hour while paying more attention to the curb than traffic and pedestrians. It's city's fault for not designing streets for both residents and expected number of visitors. They shouldn't scapegoat the app for providing a service that people want.

  7. They hate our freedom on San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App · · Score: 1

    Specific practices like driver using phone while driving, or curb parking time limits can certainly be regulated. But not the basic fact of people exchanging money for information. Dislike it all you want, but people have freedom to do as they want.

  8. Bring in your junk, get a tablet on Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am sure ebay is full of cheap damaged Macbooks which power on and don't have screen cracks or water damage. Buy for less than $650, resell Surface, profit!

  9. Please choose a new instruction set! on Russia Wants To Replace US Computer Chips With Local Processors · · Score: 1

    It is well known that all technological progress comes out of cold war. What else could have motivated Americans to re-enter manned space flight. So, PLEASE choose a new state of the art instruction set rather than old Intel or ARM! Something optimized specifically for compilers and modern programming languages.

    Baring that, I will gladly take an X64-only clone with no 32/16/real mode legacy. Would at least get Intel to stop sitting on their butts and get interested in progress and efficiency.

  10. No different from other patents on The Supreme Court Doesn't Understand Software · · Score: 1

    A patent on some hypothetical one-tap checkout in supermarket is no better or worse than Amazon's 1-click patent for online shopping. I think so long as we need intellectual property, patents in US are better than copyrights, as they last for borderline sane limited time. Software or physical objects, I think the test should be weather an expert in subject area who is not familiar with a particular patent would be surprised after reading it.

  11. Great news! on After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a magazine about computers right? If I was the founder, I would be overjoyed that people are reading on star trek-style tablets and saving trees in process. I am sure there are publications that should not go digital only. Amish Times comes to mind. But online is a great medium for this particular one.

  12. Re:Hybrids are a step on the road on Are US Hybrid Sales Peaking Already? · · Score: 1

    Let's talk when practical technologies for electric cars exist and power plants don't run on coal. From what we know today, a combustion engine running on some type of sustainable fuel (hydrogen, biomass, etc) may well be the way to go.

  13. I am sticking to rated lifespan on Endurance Experiment Writes One Petabyte To Six Consumer SSDs · · Score: 1

    Ability to write hundreds of terrabytes more is nice. But it's reading them back that I am really worried about. Great news for someone deploying a short term cache.

  14. Distribute pieces of the key to a large number of anonymous individuals, such that thousands of pieces are needed for decryption. A popular Linux distro like Ubuntu could run necessary software by default and, in exchange, give users ability to use timed encryption for their own needs.

  15. Re:and you too can be stuck in Apple's hell hole on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with extension USB cords?

  16. Re: Greener than robots? on How LEDs Are Made · · Score: 1

    Actually all of these things WOULD probably be green, if a local forest is not overexploited. You may not have time to do them, but people working in these factories have no better employment prospects. Else they would leave already.

  17. Greener than robots? on How LEDs Are Made · · Score: 1

    Machines may be more efficient, but they would need to be manufactured and run on coal electricity. Perhaps we should encourage handmade electronics for the time being.

  18. Bollocks on The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes · · Score: 1

    A well designed DVD player would only draw significant power when in active use. With streaming, server and internet infrastructure need to be built for peak usage and consume significant idle power the rest of the time. Client boxes also tend to be more complex and maintain WiFi connection for things like software updates.

    Even if power usage when actually watching the disk is much higher, it's hard to complete with a system that can be turned off.

  19. Re:It's the fundamentally wrong approach on Why Not Every New "Like the Brain" System Will Prove Important · · Score: 2

    We don't want to structure it at all. This is too big of a task for even the whole humanity. Instead, we want the system to structure itself based on its experiences, including by modifying it's own hardware for subsequent fast processing.

    But at this point it will be exactly like brain on philosophical level, albeit probably made of different materials. Doubtlessly, there are many optimizations to remove historical evolutional baggage and only serve current requirements.

  20. Before you get too excited on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    Make sure that the person sending the message doesn't have your iCloud e-mail in your contact information. This would be another, and completely understandable problem.

    Or install Hangouts for iOS as a much broader platform with cross platform everything.

  21. Re:Climate change is for pussies. on What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? · · Score: 1

    Temperature? Peace of cake! Nasty insect born diseases and drastically reduced supply of food and fresh water? There will be a much less than 6 billion of us left after it all goes down.

  22. Back end development on Ask Slashdot: Computer Science Freshman, Too Soon To Job Hunt? · · Score: 1

    Just to let you know, it will likely be very hazardous for your back end. You will be put on pager rotation and made to be reachable at all times from Thanksgiving to New Year, when these sites make the most money. By contrast, client software may cause panics at the end of release cycle, but once its shipped it stays shipped for some time.

    If you go this route, try to get into Oracle. There is so much bureaucracy in getting past consultants, support and product managers to get a developer to look at your problem, that you will have days of heads up and be able to work at more convenient time.

  23. Re:HR lies. on Ask Slashdot: Computer Science Freshman, Too Soon To Job Hunt? · · Score: 1

    This implies that every company has an HR department, let alone one that knows about CS jobs.

  24. You should be focusing on building your credentials with prominent open source contributions and publishing your own mobile apps. Chances of landing a very meaningful corporate project with just one year of CS classes are slim, and besides you will have the rest of your life to work corporate jobs. On the other hand, legal and time reasons would leave limited opportunity for open source.

    I can see exceptions like if you are really desperate for money or get invited to join your dream startup, but otherwise what's the hurry?

  25. I for one welcome on Percentage of Elderly In Japan Continues to Grow as Number of Children Drops · · Score: 1

    Our new mother overlords!