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  1. Re:So I was gonna rant about your lack of detail on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Unreasonable Companies? · · Score: 1

    Expecting Avast to work with it right now or refund you for a beta-product is unreasonable.

    Marking a paid product as "beta" is a clever loophole to prevent dissatisfied users from getting a refund!

  2. Re:I believe it on A Bit of Cash Can Keep Someone Off the Streets For 2 Years or More (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    We offered food to someone who said they NEEDED money for food. They rejected the kindness with cursing.

    How would they know whether you had spit in it first?

  3. Re: Very Basic Income on A Bit of Cash Can Keep Someone Off the Streets For 2 Years or More (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm in favor of...well maintained roads as long as they are funded by a voluntary tax on anyone who supports funding them.

    So tolls then.

  4. Re:While It Sucks... on FCC Loses Court Battle To Let Cities Build their Own Broadband (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    in many cases the amount of investment needed to wire a city in competition with an established provider is very large, and the expected rate of return just doesn't justify a second private company making it, so passing a community bond issue is really your only option short of praying to Google to come to your town.

    Why can't you require the company that owns the wires to lease it at a fair rate to other ISPs?

    Better yet, prohibit the company that owns the wires from also being an ISP.

  5. Re:Activism on Earth's Resources Used Up at Quickest Rate Ever in 2016 (france24.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    in terms of breathable air, pollutants in it are a local problem, not global.

    False.

  6. Re:WE need unions also why train your h1-b replamn on Immigration Attorneys: Industry Pushes Foreign Labor, Claiming 'US Students Can't Hack It In Tech' (breitbart.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is it the unions' fault when the government sanctions them? Why isn't it your fault for electing that government?

  7. Re:Of course it's not unstoppable on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The VOIP gateway doesn't know who you are?

  8. Re:Of course it's not unstoppable on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    whoever provides your phone service doesn't have a clue where a call originated from.

    Really? They can't tell whether the call originated from one of their customers or outside of their network?

  9. Re:Which is why we need a gross receipts tax on Stiglitz Calls Apple's Profit Reporting In Ireland 'a Fraud' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The value you get from the government running the military...isn't based on how much you made last year...

    That's correct. The value you get from the government protecting your money is proportional to your net worth, not how much you made last year.

  10. Re:"What Difference Does It Make?!?!?!" on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    the alternative is President Trump

    Hopefully with a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, rendering him powerless.

    Then, his behavior is likely to get him impeached and tossed out quickly, leaving us with President Pence for three years.

    Meanwhile, the DNC is more likely to learn its lesson from a Trump victory than a Clinton victory, and the public might start to become more supportive of election reform. We need ranked or single transferable voting where we can write a "1" and "2" next to those we really want, and a "3" next to the lesser of two evils in case neither #1 nor #2 have a chance at winning.

  11. Why should I continue working when I could quit and get paid less?

    What are you talking about? You get an unconditional basic income, then if you want more money (not less as you claim), you work for it.

    This would be good for startup owners who no longer have to worry about where their next meal is coming from.

  12. Re:Try Upgrading on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    Try upgrading your networks.

    Does that always work? Are 10 wifi access points in a building 10x faster in total than 1 access point?

    It's what every network admin worth their salt inevitably does, because it works.

    Before doing so, do they do a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether the upgrade is a better use of the company's money than spending it on something else?

  13. Re:The Republicans want to make everyone work on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the founding mantra of the USA is "equal opportunity,

    A level playing field like that sounds good to me. That means eliminating the cognitive load caused by not knowing where your next meal is coming from and not knowing how you're going to pay the bills, because that cognitive load is a burden on the poor that the wealthy don't share and prevents the poor from climbing out of poverty.

    So the "equal opportunity" you seek requires some form of welfare.

  14. Give them several keys, they cannot compel you to say which one is correct and cannot prove there are more keys.

    Can I give them 2^x keys, where 'x' is the encryption key size?

  15. Re:No, they "saved" corp profits by Union busting on Hostess Saves Twinkies By Automating, Fires 94% Of Their Workforce (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    no American should EVER support Union Busting.

    But should we support state laws that require employees to pay union dues? Isn't private ownership but strong government control over the means of production an aspect of fascist economies?

  16. Re:And it'll only get worse on Amazon's Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    RTFA. Other than the headline, it is not about counterfeits.

    RTFA yourself:

    Birkenstock has seen dozens of stores at a time hawking its Arizona Sandal for $79.99, a full $20 below the retail price. The names of the online storefronts change all the time... On a single day in mid-June, CNBC sent notes to seven sellers on the list, asking how they're able to price the product so cheaply. Every response was the same: "It is a secret."

    Those are obviously counterfeits.

  17. Well the problem was that the vote was too simple - in or out...

    They ought to have provided several different options, like when electing a person, then held a runoff between the two most popular choices.

  18. Now when there's too much sunlight we can have Teslas not recognise traffic lights, and drive straight through intersections causing T-bone accidents and pileups.

    Or pull over until visibility conditions improve as you're supposed to do in heavy fog.

  19. Re:Alleviate bandwidth concerns on 73% of Subscribers Would Download Netflix Content, Says Survey (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    Couldn't this help to reduce overall consumed bandwidth?

    Reduce overall bandwidth by downloading during quiet times when there's less possibility of collisions? Yes, that seems plausible.

  20. Well, then you're a...moron who expects people who dedicate the hours necessary to write and create pretty much anything to do so and not need food, a house, or any other basic necessity.

    You're making a good case for an unconditional basic income. Artists and entrepreneurs would be free to take risks that they can't take today with our almost nonexistent social safety net.

  21. - Yes but that require the car being able to realise that it doesn't see.

    My camera knows when it's missing details such as the edge of the "white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky". When the histogram clips either to the left or the right, a self-driving car should determine whether each blank area of the image is big enough to conceal a hazard (unlike glare on a piece of chrome, for example), and if so, slow down and be prepared to stop.

  22. Re:Best router ever made... IMO on The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps Router From 2005 Still Makes Millions For Linksys · · Score: 1

    Similarly, I replaced my WRTSL54GS with an Asus RT-N16 (both running Tomato) because I wanted gigabit ethernet. Two years later, the Asus died, and the Linksys took its place once again. So hold on to your 54GL as a backup!

    Since then I upgraded again to a Mikrotik RouterBoard RB951G-2HnD. I like it a lot because it's solidly built and the wireless signal seems to be better than both the Linksys and the Asus.

  23. Re:Data Driven? Bullshit. on Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you say "I've previously been convicted of a crime" during a job interview, you might as well tell the hiring manager "Never hire me, ever."

    That's another artifact of our revenge-driven prisons where they keep you locked up for pretty much your whole prison term even if you rehabilitate early, and they let you out at the end of your term even if you don't learn your lesson at all. With such little incentive to rehabilitate, is our recidivism rate any surprise?

    If every penalty were the same (stay locked up until you've learned your lesson), wouldn't taxpayers save a lot of money on corrections (revenge) while lowering crime rates from repeat offenders?

  24. Re:There had to be a first case... on US Regulators Investigating Tesla Over Use of 'Autopilot' Mode Linked To Fatal Crash (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied," Tesla wrote.

    Why couldn't it see the tires, undercarriage, and side reflectors? And if the image was so washed out that it couldn't make out the outline, then because it couldn't see clearly, the car shouldn't have been moving so fast. It violated the Basic Speed Law just as surely as if it had been driving the speed limit in heavy fog, and that's a programming error.

    It would also help to upgrade the camera to one with a wider dynamic range and/or more resolution so the image is less likely to get washed out again.

    So there's a software fix and a hardware fix that will prevent this from happening again in the future. Unavoidable, my foot!

  25. Re:Atari 2600 on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 1

    A C64 does it better.