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  1. WTF? on Uber: We Don't Need a Permit For Self-Driving Cars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber has a simple approach to business: Don't ask for permission, but be prepared to seek forgiveness.

    Is that what passes for a thought-process in hipsters?

  2. Re:Basic small-government argument. on Uber: We Don't Need a Permit For Self-Driving Cars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The concept of having a human ready to take over is bullshit. By the time he's realised that he needs to and reached the controls it's going to be too late.

  3. Re: Basic small-government argument. on Uber: We Don't Need a Permit For Self-Driving Cars (cnet.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    It wouldn't be your fault if the chimps crashed. They're independent contractors!

  4. Re:Or call it treason on China Takes Action On Thousands Of Websites For 'Harmful', Obscene Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The key difference is that when governments do it it's repression, but when corporations do it it's legitimate protection of shareholder value.

  5. Re:So, just what will this solve? on 150 Filmmakers and Photojournalists Call On Nikon, Sony, and Canon To Build in Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    decrypt's

    What belongs to a decrypt?

  6. Re:Just turn off the monitor on California To Adopt First US Energy-Saving Rules For Computers (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Is it a VW?

  7. Re:VMs for Windows on Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    VNC or ssh, dumbass.

  8. Re:Good riddance on Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of the RCMP. They always get their man!

  9. Re:"...who argued that they were employed..." on Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't claim unfair dismissal until you've been working for the employer for two years. So until then it's as close to it as makes any difference.

    https://www.gov.uk/dismiss-sta...

  10. Re:In Other News on Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    NOT every job is meant to be a living wage job, plain and simple.

    Where does it say that? The Bible? Principia Mathematica? K&R?

    This thought that it is, is a pretty new and puzzling philosophy to me.

    Hardly surprising. Sociopaths have an amazing inability to understand that someone else is in a different situation.

  11. Re:In Other News on Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's coming. That nice Mrs May went to India recently and one of the items on the agenda was opening up India's financial services market for her city chums. There'll be a quid pro quo for that, and I have my suspicions what it'll be.

    Mind you, I think Gordon Brown did something similar when contractors complained about IR35 and a lot of them fucked off abroad? Full fruit of their labours my arse.

  12. Re:In Other News on Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    And you got into an industry that's largely immune to competition by the sheer force of your genius, and not even slightly due to luck?

  13. Re:In Other News on Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course a contractor has the right to negotiate a rate. He doesn't have the right to dictate it, because the other party also has the right to negotiate it. If they can't get an overlap, they both walk way - no deal.

    Protip: use the right word for the right meaning. It makes you look less retarded.

  14. evernote warns you "WARNING: We do not store a copy of your encryption key. If it is forgotten by you, your note is lost forever"

    Well if that's what they say it must be true!

  15. Why not have ZUckerberg in there while you're at it? I mean after all, he's accomplished the amazing feat of making a website.

    He didn't even do that. He stole it from some guy called Wienerfloss.

  16. They make as much sense as the climate scientist's equally scientific assertions anyone using fossil fuels is killing babies.

    Whatever the subject, you can always find one scientist who'll say anything.

  17. Re:Bad choice of title? on Uber Self-Driving Cars Hit the Streets of San Francisco (go.com) · · Score: 1

    At least they didn't miss the streets...

  18. Zo vott?

  19. Re:Observation is bad, m'kay? on Apple Removes the 'Time Remaining' Battery Indicator In New macOS Update (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It just shows that "authorized" personnel are not necessarily qualified, and "qualified" personnel are not necessarily competent.

  20. Re:How long will this be supported, I wonder? on Android Things Is Google's New OS For Smart Devices (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I reckon it won't last long enough to get a ui, let alone for them to bugger it up.

  21. Re:Observation is bad, m'kay? on Apple Removes the 'Time Remaining' Battery Indicator In New macOS Update (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to work at a place where if you put an "Out Of Order" notice on something they'd fix it by removing the notice.

    We (well I, they volunteered me because I used to work in a bar) once changed a water container (after waiting four hours for maintenance to do it). Fuck me, the song and dance they made how it could have caused a disaster and so on.

    I will add that, unlike them, I did it properly; I peeled off the hygiene seal rather than leaving it in place so it got rammed inside the container by the spigot. Cunts.

  22. Big fat SO WHAT? on Uber Defends Privacy Practices After Allegations It Spies On Riders (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We have built [an] entire system to implement technical and administrative controls to limit access to customer data to employees who require it to perform their jobs.

    I built a shed once. It fell down.

    Key point: building X and building X right are not the same thing.

    This could include multiple steps of approval -- by managers and the legal team -- to ensure there is a legitimate business case for providing access

    I don't place much faith in "could".

  23. There isn't a "for dummies" book out yet. Not a proper one, anyway.

  24. Re:Education on Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Mmmm . .. the answer on the card is "Don't worry, there'll be a dial and if it gets too annoying you can turn it down a notch or too".

  25. Awesome! on Microsoft To Bring Cortana To IoT Devices With Screens Next Year (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's cortana?