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  1. Re: Don't expect help from the government. on Entire Federal Government Exempt From Robocall Laws, FCC Rules (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Moron, homeowner's insurance doesn't expect you to protect your house from hurricanes. That's pretty much impossible. What are you supposed to do, pick up your house and move it away when you get the warning?

  2. Re:It's all fun and games on Japan Says Yes To Mirrorless Cars (carscoops.com) · · Score: 1

    It's hard to look over your shoulder while driving down the road at speed. Or do you never bother to look in your mirror before changing lanes?

  3. Re:It's all fun and games on Japan Says Yes To Mirrorless Cars (carscoops.com) · · Score: 2

    States like PA have draconian tint laws that allow only barely minimal tinting unless you have a light truck. I'm pretty sure this is due to whining by the police, who are too lazy to demand drivers to open their windows if they're tinted too dark.

  4. Re:It's all fun and games on Japan Says Yes To Mirrorless Cars (carscoops.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why, when modern mirrors include electronics and thus are wired, they both attaching them to the windshield with the glue that invariably lets loose after 5 or 6 years. It made sense to improve the visibility (and looks) by attaching the mirror to the windshield instead of the roof back in the 1960s, but now you have a cable harness attached to the mirror so it's pointless.

    This is not new. I have a 2004 model with map lights in the mirror, so when it popped off my windshield (twice), it dangled from the cable.

  5. Re:A "miniscule" problem will not get resolved. on 'New Way of Stealing Cars': Hacking Them With A Laptop (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Possibly vain? You're asking for humanity to stop doing evil.

  6. Re:Sometimes... on 'New Way of Stealing Cars': Hacking Them With A Laptop (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    Wow, I didn't know it was only American cars that had tires with poor wet traction, polluted the air, got poor gas mileage, and had no collapsing steering columns or seat belts. Please tell me more about this magical land where cars could be imported into the USA without major modifications despite their lack of safety features or pollution controls. I'd also like to see this land where the tires had 21st century rubber compounds, radial steel belts, low profiles, and advanced water siping in 1970.

  7. Re:The only problem with this is on Uber Hires a Robot To Patrol Its Parking Lot and It's Way Cheaper Than a Security Guard (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's why he suggested pepper spray. Security guards often have to subdue trespassers who won't respond to polite requests to leave. They can call 911, but they can't just hope the cops show up before someone gets violent or destroys property.

  8. Re:Just like the DNC an GOP on Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Correct. She has taken money from Moveon.org and big fat educational institutions like Harvard and MIT, but at least they aren't "businesses"!

  9. The guidelines just say not to use bootleg merch as props or costumes. It doesn't say you can't make your own. Making your own isn't bootlegging if you don't sell it.

  10. Re:Was this before or after on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 2

    To be fair, the ticks could have tagged along on the animals just fine. And stagnant water on the deck or in storage could have harbored plenty of mosquito larvae.

    What a global flood has to do with the meteor extinction event, I don't know. I know people like to inject off-topic jabs at religion every time dinosaurs are mentioned, but it's tired and not even funny here.

  11. For old ST506 drives (MFM and RLL encoding) that was usually because hard disks used stepper motors, and a slight misalignment could cause a track to read incorrectly. The fix was to reinitialize the drive using the drive BIOS. You could fix the interleave while you were there, if it was too high, and get a performance boost.

  12. It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway.

  13. Re:MP3 on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? · · Score: 1

    I bought my Kenwood because it had a rear USB socket (it's attached to a cable that easily snakes out of the dash for access). I spend enough time trying to keep the battery charged in my phone as it is. A 128 GB flash drive holds a lot of 256 Kbps MP3s, and it doesn't take much effort to periodically update it with your latest acquisitions. I guess if I used my phone as a media player for other purposes on a regular basis, have to copy to both would be annoying, but I don't.

  14. Re:MP3 on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? · · Score: 1

    Just to stick with the article topic, probably TuneIn local stations while I'm relaxing on the deck. But in reality, 99% of the time it's MP3s streamed off my Serviio media server to either my smart TV or Kodi media center. I've bought probably 100 CDs from thrift shops and flea markets over the last year for an average price of $1, and ripped them all.

  15. Re:This seems dangerous on Alicia Keys Latest Artist To Enforce No Cell Phone Policy at Concerts (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    And what precisely would you be able to do if your father was dying of a stroke while you were in a venue, particularly a stadium? Teleport to his side?

    Usually, one places one foot in front of the other until one has left the facility. At that point, one enters some sort of conveyance and directs it to the facility where one's relative is currently located.

  16. Re:Wait. What? on KDE Bug Fixed After 13 Years (kate-editor.org) · · Score: 1

    The Alps are the Poconos of western Europe. Or at best, the Aspen.

  17. Re:I stand with Kodi developers. on Canada Federal Court Restrains Sale Of 'Pirate' Boxes (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I love the morons there claiming the Kodi developers designed it explicity as a pirate tool. THEY'RE the tools. I used Kodi years ago when it was called XBMC. Clearly, they're noobs.

  18. Re:I stand with Kodi developers. on Canada Federal Court Restrains Sale Of 'Pirate' Boxes (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I use Kodi to play my music (stored on another media server and shared via DLNA) on the deck. I never even considered that it could be used to access pirated media. It's nice that it's that versatile, but it's as ridiculous to call it a pirate tool as calling your web browser a pirate tool because you can download pirated content with it.

  19. What are you talking about? Most, if not all, states in the USA have a points system. If you are involved in repeated incidents (moving violations, accidents), you'll have your license suspended and sometimes be required to take a course to get it back.

  20. Mythbusters tested the shoe myth, and even though these were MEN wearing women's high-heeled shoes (and we hope they don't wear them often) they had no statistically significant difference in performance between them and any of the other shoes.

  21. Re:Even if this proves to be a meaningless novelty on Samsung To Launch Smartphones With Bendable Screens in 2017, Reports Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So will the 99% of women who insist on putting their phones in their back pockets and sitting on them.

  22. Re:Nest temperature display is backwards on Nest's Time At Alphabet: A 'Virtually Unlimited Budget' With No Results (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, instead of making the still minimal effort to program an option to choose whether the setpoint or the current is prominent, they could just swap the two and make 90% of the users happy. That particular change would take, I dunno, 30 seconds if you type wearing oven mitts.

  23. Re:Ahhhh.. fucking synergy again on Startups Can't Explain What They Do Because They're Addicted To Meaningless Jargon (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't heard it used at my company, but I understand some people use "ask" as a noun. Apparently, "request", "question", "demand", or "inquiry" are not nuanced enough.

  24. Re:Does the submitter even read Slashdot? on Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? · · Score: 1

    If your "tool" is interrupting your work to do what it wants, or it's unavailable for extended periods, it's not a good tool. And the oil still needs changing, but the car drives off to get it done by itself instead of taking you to work like it's supposed to.

  25. Re:In general... on Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if this ever occurred to you or not, but people shouldn't have to leave their PCs on just to install updates. Nor should they have to manually update them when there is an automated process, and SSDs are still not drop-in replacements for the use case of the average user.