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  1. Re:Retaliatory measures based on no evidence. on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Doesn't matter- it doesn't take an idiot to notice paying $800 one month and $1200 the next month.

  2. Re:Retaliatory measures based on no evidence. on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think Obamacare Sticker Shock explains the election far better than any influence of hacking from Russians.

    Once people started seeing their increases in October, an inanimate carbon rod could have beat Hillary.

  3. Re:No. It didn't "predict" anything. on Tesla Autopilot 'Predicts' Accident Before It Happens (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And the car directly behind was not unaware- he attempted to evade, but didn't quite make it, which is why the rear-ending hit the corner of the SUV and the red car only had damage on the driver's side

  4. Re:The Tesla is psychic - it knows when all accide on Tesla Autopilot 'Predicts' Accident Before It Happens (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Not even particularly impressive. The autopilot was allowing plenty of following distance, even a human could have reacted in that timeframe. I could see the back corner of the black SUV stop the same second in the video that the beeping started. I would have reacted in exactly the same way.

  5. Re:Will marriage still be a legal construct? on Humans Marrying Robots? Experts Say It's Really Coming (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Heck, you can't even back up Windows with precision without a virtual machine.

  6. Re:thinning the weak from the gene pool on Humans Marrying Robots? Experts Say It's Really Coming (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Japan will be first

  7. Re:The days of high taxes on corps are numbered on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    These days, with corporate espionage as easy as google, I'd expect "design once, copy everywhere" to be the standard, not the exception.

  8. Re:The days of high taxes on corps are numbered on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If the tax affects all companies equally, there's no competition. Everybody raises prices, cuts dividends, and cuts wages as a group.

  9. Re:The days of high taxes on corps are numbered on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why have we lost the idea that the only taxes on the individual should come from the township, town, city or county? Let higher governments tax lower governments instead.

  10. Re: The days of high taxes on corps are numbered on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    He mentioned Berlin- that might give you half a clue if you had a brain. Seemed quite obvious to me he was talking about Germany.

  11. Re: human race wiped out? on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Damned right. The worst code comes from people with graduate degrees.

  12. Re:Tundra Farming on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Still need to build houses on pilings- sea levels going up, remember?

  13. Re:Tundra Farming on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Frost goes away, global warming, remember? So do the freak snow storms, eventually; it's really hard to have snowstorms when even at the poles your minimum temperature is above freezing.

  14. Re:Snowden is a patriot on Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We elected Trump. Putin is no longer an Enemy, but is now a Trusted Ally. We are no longer at war with Eurasia, we are now at war with Eastasia

  15. In Soviet Russia, KGB is in contact with YOU!

    I completely agree, there's very little difference between "having contact with" and "being interrogated by" intelligence agencies.

  16. Actually, it was a training accident that killed the idea of the bat bomb. Though carpet bombing is a good solution too. Better yet, carpet bomb the region with edible desert plants and MREs. Make it so that there is no way to control the slave population.

  17. Re:Tundra Farming on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If global warming is real- the permafrost will go away, and what is currently tundra will quickly (like within a year or two) rot into very rich loam, which will soak up much of that water. The greater CO2 concentration in the atmosphere will provide the necessary fertilization so that the shorter growing season won't be a problem.

    There's a reason why in the lower 48, we raise cranberries in bogs.

  18. Re: human race wiped out? on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've been a software engineer for 20 years, and I see people with "more education" as being just academic sycophants. The only accomplishment in graduate degrees is how much of a slave and a yes-man you can be to the degree mills.

  19. Re: human race wiped out? on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These days, a degree just means "I agree with the politics of the doctrinal committee"

  20. Re:The seas are NOT going to boil. on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't need to fake a low id....

  21. Re:Anti-science bullshit is the new normal here on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me know when the "Climate Change" scientists start buying farms in Greenland and the Northern Territories. That tundra should be very rich soil for growing wheat if they are correct.

  22. I'm not so sure of that. I think that releasing fruit bat bombs over Iraq and Syria at 3am would give ISIS a pretty bad day.....

  23. Re:America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I did say the combination of the two. And given the hatred expressed in immigrant communities under Donald Trump, one could expect a surge of undocumented migrant voter registrations taking advantage of motor/voter bills in blue states.

    Not enough to swing the real election though, which everybody (except perhaps stupid people in the leadership of the DNC) is all about the electoral college, not the popular vote. Had it been about the popular vote, Mr "tell everybody what they want to hear and then retroactively change the contract" Trump would have stayed true to form and told the majority of people what they wanted to hear, instead of just the majority of certain vulnerable populations,.

    There's a reason I didn't vote for either of these bozos- voting is a rigged system based on perception rather than reality, and the reality is there wasn't enough difference between the two liberals from New York to be worth voting for one over the other.

  24. Re:Why they are slow? on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 1

    I can beat any inline script with a native compiled desktop application.

  25. Re:America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1