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  1. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Typically there is a sensor plugged into the transmission to determine speed, remove or disconnect the sensor no miles tick on the clock.

    https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=disconnecting+transmission+sensor+to+stop+odometer&oq=disconnecting+transmission+sensor+to+stop+odometer&gs_l=hp.3...457.11852.0.12179.59.55.1.3.3.1.187.4977.40j14.54.0.msedr...0...1c.1.64.hp..21.38.3392.0.WutKJjb3JYs

  2. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Logic dictates a vehicle that does more damage should pay more, when was the last time logic was applied to law making? Why charge a Prius less than an 18 wheeler when they can charge the same for both?

  3. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Yet we still get their policies rammed up our asses.

  4. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 0

    Only everyone not on the left.

  5. Re:Arduino to the rescue! on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    Petro-tech, asking about servicing gas pumps, doesn't mean the guy has the skillset to build out and program arduinos or anything we suggest as well as the ability to debug it to make it rock solid.

    It's like giving medical advice to someone over the phone.

    The laptops while not elegant are the easiest for layman to implement with the least amount of "dafuq just happened" involved.

  6. Re:It's not a networking issue. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you like many are missing the main question and would in fact be the only question I'd ask him and it would determine if you should continue or stop right there.

    Are you paid by the hour? If yes, what the actual fuck are you thinking?

  7. Re:Communication - above all else on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 2

    Bullshit, it just means they are fit for management.

  8. Why would ISP's want to upgrade to provide us with higher speeds? They've already been heard saying what we have is enough?

    They will continue business as usual overcharging us for their wares and delivering nothing.

  9. Re:Not to worry on Four Quasars Found Clustered Together Defy Current Cosmological Expectations · · Score: 2

    Given we haven't seen 1% of what's out there, what we are seeing with the 4 could be the norm. It's entirely possible everything we know so far is the exception.

  10. Re:Only Two Futures? on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    Bill, couldn't one argue that laws based on a religious book would be more similar to a Muslim theocracy?

  11. Re:Only Two Futures? on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    If you cast your vote for the candidate of choice regardless of party affiliation how exactly is that throwing away your vote?

  12. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 2

    Planes typically yaw in flight all the time, it's called dog tailing. There is a number of reasons why, the main is thrust typically every aircraft dog tails, the second is a change in wind direction, could cause the yaw to change. It's possible he is misinterpreting flight dynamics with something he was attempting to do.

  13. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 1

    Name 1 reason an active port under an uncontrollable passengers seat needs to have access to avionics or any critical system?

  14. Re:America's War On Drugs is a Failure on Silk Road's Leader Paid a Doctor To Help Keep Customers Safe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While I agree it's time to end it, I don't think those in power will want to give up their stranglehold on the cash cow it's become.

  15. Re:Ruining it for the rest of us on Drone Flying Near White House Causes Lockdown · · Score: 1

    Once airborne it really doesn't need a radio signal.

    I have a 250mm quad that can be programmed to fly a route without my interaction once launched.

    I could also go as far as to hack the software and the bit of code that is told "Return To Home" on signal loss I could input my own coords say the WH, if signal is then lost the device would continue to it's destination as it's programmed to do.

    An ECM may or may not work against it. Depends, if it's close enough an ECM may not matter, these things tend to freak out and do very odd things when the GPS goes haywire.

  16. Re:Come on, that's across the street on Drone Flying Near White House Causes Lockdown · · Score: 1

    Answering that question is above my pay grade.

  17. Re:Ruining it for the rest of us on Drone Flying Near White House Causes Lockdown · · Score: 1

    This is very true.

    While the proliferation of equipment is great, it's also leading to tons of issues.

    You must enjoy the hobby, like me.

  18. Re:Come on, that's across the street on Drone Flying Near White House Causes Lockdown · · Score: 2

    True, but the DC FRZ includes toy rc aircraft.

  19. Really on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    declared that still using an AOL email address is counterproductive, to put it mildly. But is that actually true? Do the people in your life and work actually care whether you use AOL, Hotmail, Gmail, or a custom address, or is the idea of 'email bias' an overblown myth?

    Anyone online during the 90's and that saw the piece of crap that was the AOHELL interface knows, it's not an overblown myth.

    It took me 2 years to get my father to stop paying a monthly fee for AOL service when he got high speed internet at first, he swore he needed to keep AOL for his email.

  20. Re:Wait, what? on Film Consortium Urges ISPs To Dump Ineffective "Six Strikes" Policy For Pirates · · Score: 4, Informative
    Also of note is this tidbit

    However, on "Expendables 3,"in the period of September through November 2014, per data collected by CEG-TEK International, an internet security firm: 0.3% percent of thieves on these five ISPs received a notice. By contrast, Charter Communications and Cox Communications (who are not part of the CAS) do forward notices to customers who infringe. The difference in results is substantial. On "Expendables 3" in the period of November 2014 through January 2015, per data collected by CEG-TEK : Cox and Charter ISPs posted a 25.47% decrease in infringements Copyright Alert System ISPs abetted a 4.54% increase in infringements.

    So really it's not about the number of notices it's the fact the ISP's that composed the CAS aren't forwarding the letters.

    Citation: http://www.prnewswire.com/news...

  21. The Real Question I Hope That Gets Asked... on Film Consortium Urges ISPs To Dump Ineffective "Six Strikes" Policy For Pirates · · Score: 1

    The Internet Security Task Force (ISTS) is calling for American ISPs to abandon the “ineffective” Copyright Alert System (CAS), which sends up to six warnings to ISP users identified as sharing copyrighted works via BitTorrent and other means, before potentially taking sterner action against the end-user. The CAS system was enacted in 2011 by the Center for Copyright Information following three years of initial research into an approach to online movie piracy, though it was not taken up by ISPs until 2013. ISTS claims that the system is ineffective, and cites a growth of 160% in piracy of movies, TV shows, software, video games and music over the last two years, and an assertion that such piracy accounts for 24% of global internet usage.

    The question is then, how much of that 160% growth is US infringement? Is that percentage high enough to merit a change or is this some bullshit number (I'm sure the number is real) but they make no mention if it's 160% growth of US infringers.

  22. Re: News for nerds on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    If you believe for a second "aliens" for religious explanations, which is more plausible, beings that could exist and are far more advanced vs omnipotent being.

    At least with aliens it's not magic as science, with the omnipotent being it's magic.

    I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was.

    I'd be more inclined to believe aliens.

  23. Re: News for nerds on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    NOPE, NOPE, NOPE!

  24. Re: News for nerds on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Far as I know modern science has neither proven nor dis proven existence of .

    Until we find that rock stamped "Made By God", I'll trust science.

  25. If it has a sense of self preservation though it's instinct it's aware enough to attempt to survive.

    While it may not be as self aware as "I think therefore I am", it's self aware enough to know "DANGER WIL ROBINSON".