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  1. Re:Echoes my experience on The Hostile Email Landscape (liminality.xyz) · · Score: 1

    Nope. Hotmail still does this. Emails not in spam folder, with no bounce message delivered.

  2. Re:Hipsters fight over limited supplies of juice on Charge Rage: Electric Cars Are Making People Meaner In California · · Score: 1

    Is there a bike rack right in front? I might do that.

  3. Re:Dude-centric on The Most Disruptive Technology of the Last 100 Years Isn't What You Think · · Score: 1

    Then, environmentalists and crony capitalists ruined it by introducing "high efficiency" washers. They need detergent that costs 50% more (although the only difference it that it suds less), take 50% longer to clean a load, and require hours of effort every month CLEANING THE WASHER so that it doesn't grow moldy.

    Back to the washing board...

  4. Re:Stop with the Crapper myth! on The Most Disruptive Technology of the Last 100 Years Isn't What You Think · · Score: 1

    Plus you have to turn around, and look at your Harrington. That's gross!

  5. Re:Effect on Nutrition on The Most Disruptive Technology of the Last 100 Years Isn't What You Think · · Score: 1

    As if I needed another excuse to heap the kraut on my brats at Oktoberfest.

  6. Electricity was common in the cities and most towns by 1915. Such was not the case in rural America until the 1940s, but it certainly wasn't as "disruptive" there as it had been in the cities.

  7. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    Oh, so one glass is OK. Well, who set that arbitrary limit, then? Dr. Oz?

  8. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 0

    Make sure you don't drive with a headache, either.
    Don't drive with the radio on.
    Don't drive with other passengers; they might try to talk to you.
    Don't drive when you're sleepy, even one bit.
    Don't drive if you're emotional.
    Don't drive with any dirt or stickers on your windows.
    Don't drive with any impairment, even if it's just a sore shoulder.
    Don't drive over age 50.

  9. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    It only takes one goon to ruin your life, Pollyanna.

  10. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 0

    I know a lot of people who don't need privacy.
    I know a lot of people who don't care about religious freedom.
    I know a lot of people who don't do anything wrong, thus they have nothing to worry about.

  11. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    Clearly, you are someone who either never drinks or doesn't drive.

    We don't need to keep people who had one glass of wine from drinking. Having a screaming child in the back seat is more detrimental to your driving than one glass of wine.

  12. Re:Hipsters fight over limited supplies of juice on Charge Rage: Electric Cars Are Making People Meaner In California · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can't park within 1000 feet of the supermarket doors in their own parking lot now.
    - 20 Handicapped spaces
    - 6 "expectant mother" spaces
    - 4 spaces to pickup internet orders
    - 4 EV charging spaces

  13. Re:Polite request on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court actually got this ruling right. Otherwise, the police would be responsible for each and every murder (or other crime) that occurred since they obviously weren't there to stop it.

    Um... but they ARE supposed to respond, and when they get there they ARE supposed to try to help. I don't know how anyone can plausibly argue for gun control of any kind in this country when we're clearly on our own to defend ourselves. Because if the police can't protect us, who will?

  14. And then they can go deeply enough to kill if you're NOT wearing a wetsuit.

  15. Exactly. The writer acts like tasers and pepper spray don't exist. Police who are supplied with these tend to use them with impunity, because they are less-than-lethal, so the greatest risk as that someone may sue them. And good luck trying to sue a cop.

  16. Re:Diesel are more eco-friendly than gasoline on Emissions Scandal Expands: Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Mazda, and Mitsubishi (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? You must be too young to remember (and they don't bother teaching) how much damage acid rain did to the environment before we started cutting down on NOx. Oh yeah, and it creates ground-level ozone and NITROGEN OXIDE is a GREENHOUSE GAS.

  17. Neil Harbisson laughs at all of you.

  18. Back to the future on First Successful Collision Attack On the SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm (google.com) · · Score: 1

    It's gotten to the point that, in order to encrypt anything safely for a few years, I have to invent a time machine and steal the technology from the future. And kill the inventor, so that he doesn't independently discover it in the original time stream.

    We just got vendors to stop using MD5 and SSL 3.0 about a year ago.

  19. Absolutely. In other news, when a woman is raped it's her fault for dressing like that.

    Emissions testing is performed on a dyno with a computer attached to the car through the OBD-II port because it's far more efficient to do that driving the car around with a portable computer. I refuse to have to pay more taxes and jack up EPA funding because Japanese and Europeans cheat.

  20. Europe still has trouble meeting American pollution standards without cheating. Many manufacturers had to leave the market in the 80s and 90s, and now it looks like it's happening again.

  21. Trust me, if Congress wakes up and starts working on a bill to protect encryption, Obama will escalate "for now" and suddenly decry Congress for being anti-law enforcement, and vow to veto.

  22. For the moment... on US Government Will Not Force Companies To Decode Encrypted Data... For Now (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The pattern for Obama-- and many other politicians-- is this:

    1. Voice opposition to X.
    2. Announce s/he will engage in discussion with Y, which is a group that is clearly in favor of X.
    3. Come back months to years later, claiming s/he doesn't see any reason why X can't be implemented.
    4. If Congress doesn't implement it, reminds us s/he has a phone and a pen, and mostly implements it through executive regulation and taxation.
    5. Bonus step for Obama: if you oppose X, you're now racist/prejudiced even though you agreed with Obama at step 1.

  23. Re:Are not most prison inmates liberal arts majors on Prison Debate Team Beats Harvard's National Title Winners · · Score: 1

    Cell phones, anyone? And I'd be quite surprised if the store land line didn't allow you to call 911. I mean, a guy with a broken ankle shouldn't be dragging himself to the ER anyway.

  24. Re:Just on Cold Fusion Rears Ugly Head With Claims of Deuterium-Powered Homes · · Score: 1

    The dilithium merely controls the reaction. The reactants are deuterium and anti-deuterium.

  25. Re:Does the real name policy curb trolling? on EFF Joins Nameless Coalition and Demands Facebook Kills Its Real Names Policy · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but imagine for a moment that you're an LGBT (or otherwise marginalised) teen living in a fairly hostile community. You'd want to reach out and communicate with people who could empathise, but wouldn't want to reveal your identity lest it lead to retribution.

    That can be handled with the security settings. And I'm not accepting any friend requests or allowing access to any of my data whatsoever to unknown people.