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  1. An exception being if a emissions test was being run

    Yeah, not innocent at all.

  2. Re:Sham legal justice on AT&T Is Paying $7.75 Million in Refunds and Fines Over Sham Calls (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I would actually guess that they took out a phone number for the bust, tried to figure out what this charge was and told the DOJ who tracked it down. Basically, federal bureaucracy at work.

  3. Re: the phone may not always be in possession phon on NIST Prepares To Ban SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    With this new "knife" technology in the hands of the wrong folks, your finger/eye are suddenly much more like, "something you have."

  4. Re:the phone may not always be in possession phone on NIST Prepares To Ban SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it also appears that biometrics are safe under either of two conditions--that you have another factor. Oddly they didn't specify which one. I would think that the biometrics would be the something you have (e.g. your voice, finger, or eye).

  5. Re:No one will be ruled by Trump even if he wins on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    To your founding fathers thought of this argument I would add that they weren't sure that they had gotten it right and I'm not sure that they did either. I think they did a pretty good job, but I'd rather not find out.

    One of the checks is the parties themselves and he has completely overwhelmed one of those (and the more organized one nonetheless). The power of the president is a mix of hard and soft power. So if local police do what he says (or mayors tell them to) then he can control local police. The Republicans have shown that legislators (at least about half of Republicans) are principally concerned about getting elected and so he need only win an election to show that he can flex some might vs them.

    The courts are both the hardest and easiest nut to crack. They have been treated as the final word for a long time now. But they weren't always. Also, they tend to take 5-10 years to resolve where to have lunch and even once they've done that a president can always say, "yeah, too bad, I'm not doing it." No president has done that in a long time, but the court relies (almost) entirely on the executive to carry out its orders.

    I'm not saying it is likely, but I wouldn't completely rule it out.

  6. Re:Why would Putin fear Clinton? on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Putin has stated that he wants to destabilize/topple NATO. Trump has a pretty clear goal of destabilizing/weakening/ending NATO. It's really not that hard to see.

  7. Re:Price of exotic meats will drop on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    eating bald eagle, just like George Washington

  8. Re:Better Business Bureau on Why Tech Support Is (Purposely) Unbearable · · Score: 1

    Even BBB doubts this. They say that the right time to check BBB is before you buy.

  9. Re:Limiting providers fine - kickbacks no on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    this post is about not letting the ISP do all that work. If they want to pull a bunch of cable, why stop them?

  10. Re:Apartment in Cali... on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, FCC hires you a lawyer and they always win.

  11. Re:Apartment in Cali... on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm confused, is the 5 gallon bucket in your apartment or out the window? Does the poll point straight up and down and they attach a mast to that or is it angled out the window?

  12. Re:Limiting providers fine - kickbacks no on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I disagree. The land lord provides access to your front door, water, sewer, electric. While providing all of these things might be inconvenient for them and there may be good reason for the land lord to not provide them... they still have to just provide them. Similarly, providing IT infrastructure is a must. These other services were added to old buildings, some ethernet cable can be too. For new buildings, you're insane if you don't keep some extra conduits for the next thing you're going to want to run and failure to plan isn't really an excuse--it's just a stupid tax that you now have to pay.

  13. Re:Even simpler on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and you've just shown that you realize that's the case. So slow down so you don't smack them.

  14. Re:It Doesn't Matter; It Won't Ever Happen on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. I see too high of chances of something like the car deciding a grocery bag on the freeway is a toddler and sending a family into the ditch with 90% chance of surviving. Or maybe just the car totaling itself and then the family has to decide between food and a new car next month.

    I think this is basically a fun idea for those in the ivory tower to mull over. The only scenario that I see this happening in is sudden break failure with a convenient place to ditch that isn't safe (e.g. an anchored lamp post). But breaks don't fail that way and there is emergency breaks even when the primary system fails.

  15. Re:Even simpler on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    IIRC my drivers ed days, the someone changing lanes scenario is your fault. Basically, if someone is a lane over from you and they can get into your lane before you rear end them, then you need to slow down to the point where you can stop before you rear end them. The other scenario I would describe as someone blowing a stop sign / yield sign. But, I'm still not sure it isn't legally your fault if they manage to get into the lane fully.

  16. Re:85% is good, but it's 85% of zilch on Google Matches Apple's Plan To Give Developers A Bigger Cut of The Revenue (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Of course, most downloaded is not most profitable.

  17. Re:Anti-competitive agreements? on Google Matches Apple's Plan To Give Developers A Bigger Cut of The Revenue (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I am not a lawyer, but it is my understanding that it is legal so long as there wasn't a colluding phone call where they agreed on 85%. Basically, the airlines do this and the courts have said, "meh."

  18. Re: Anti-competitive agreements? on Google Matches Apple's Plan To Give Developers A Bigger Cut of The Revenue (recode.net) · · Score: 0

    if an app on my iPhone crashed or just became horribly unresponsive to the point of being useless, would that count?

  19. When I make a simulation I usually leave out the unimportant shit. Why allow fiction? Why make a rest of the universe? We were supper happy when we thought it was just earth and little bits of light? A single galaxy would be huge. But I'd just make one planet and a sun and be done with it. I'd also probably focus on one thing and make that part work well but let the other parts fall to shit.

  20. Re:Exactly right on Slashdot Asks: Would You Pay For Android Updates? (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm confused. Do you use rsh then because ssh just patches some holes and opens others?

  21. Re:Antibiotic abuse and biodiversity on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Antibiotic abuse and biodiversity on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you read the article in the NYT you see that it wasn't resistant to a different antibiotic (that they presumably treated it with). The issue is that bacteria can swap DNA and so it's now "out there". All that needs to happen is for one bacteria to grab on to this at the same time that it has everything else.

  23. Re:Perhaps not use antibiotics on animals on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    As a living animal who has been helped by antibiotics, I object.

  24. Re:Why not include the financial sector? on Apple, Microsoft and Google Hold 23% Of All US Corporate Cash Outside the Finance Sector (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Quality of education has not spiraled down. the NAEP "the nations report card" results show that we have basically the same or increased math and reading test scores relative to 1971.

    http://nces.ed.gov/nationsrepo...

  25. Re:Why does this matter? on Backblaze Releases Billion-Hour Hard Drive Reliability Report (extremetech.com) · · Score: 2

    If you randomly select drives from a population than it absolutely does tell you something about the unsampled units. Obviously they don't run their drives for one hour an then retire them.