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  1. A car with doors welded shut would be close to impossible to steal.

    You've clearly never stolen a vehicle. A broken window, or entry with a crowbar through the trunk/back seat would be simple enough.

  2. Re:California pricing itself out on The American Midwest Is Quickly Becoming a Blue-Collar Version of Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Large geographical portions of CA are rather conservative, but the state as a whole is now about as left as it can get. As a conservative, I love a lot about CA except the political climate. It's beautiful...I've been all over, from San Diego, Newport Beach, Palmdale, SF, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, etc...spent close to two years of my life during multiple visits. It's hard not to like the mountains, ocean and sunshine. But, maybe you hang around a different group of people who love the traffic, taxes, and echo chamber that it's become. It seems that a lot of folks there are only interested in the kinds of diversity that they agree with, otherwise you're offending them.

  3. Re: The orange one on Trump Administration Cracks Down On H-1B Visa Abuse (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump was by far a worse candidate, and still is by any objective measure.

    Unless you count the actual objective measure of winning? If he's good at anything, it's getting media attention, and they fell whole hog for him.

  4. Re:I'm still scared. Not of the tech, the security on Study Finds Automatic Braking With Rearview Cameras, Sensors Can Cut Backup Crashes By 78 Percent (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I never said they were, and you hadn't implied that you were specifically talking about brakes in my response regarding American vehicles getting hacked. There are plenty of other hacks out there, and I'm not going to go search them just for brakes just because you've got some kind of problem with American vehicles.

  5. Politicians are supposed to be more diplomatic

    Like it or not, being politically incorrect is one of the primary reasons that he's in office, and why he got ~$2B in free media. Many (myself included, though I did not vote for him) are sick and tired of being told what we can and can not say without some snowflake with a chip on their shoulder taking offense when we had no intention of offending them.

  6. Re:Whoever is leaking this should be prosecuted on Russian Spies Hacked the Olympics and Tried To Make it Look Like North Korea Did it, US Officials Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, another Russian AC

  7. So says the Russian AC again

  8. So says the Russian AC

  9. Re:California pricing itself out on The American Midwest Is Quickly Becoming a Blue-Collar Version of Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    He couldn't even get "non-compete's right. They've been around for decades, long before anyone knew what a "startup" was.

  10. Re:California pricing itself out on The American Midwest Is Quickly Becoming a Blue-Collar Version of Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    " If some "flyover" state becomes the next tech hub"

    It's not gonna happen, and it's been tried with the help of various states in attempts to grow their tech. You've got a chicken/egg problem. There is no tech hub now, and you don't have the talent to start one.

  11. Re:California pricing itself out on The American Midwest Is Quickly Becoming a Blue-Collar Version of Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    To a certain degree...what he said. But then, I do know many people who have, or are leaving CA because of the high cost of living, the overpopulation, the far left attitude, etc. I don't live there, but I manage people in CA, so I hear the reasons. On the other hand, where do geeks typically want to live? You're not going to find outstanding tech centers outside of the coasts, well with very few exceptions. Yes, companies are trying, my own included, to move jobs out of the higher cost areas, but then they're suffering for it because they can't find the talent that actually wants to live there.

  12. Re:The orange one on Trump Administration Cracks Down On H-1B Visa Abuse (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously? You're a "Top Editor"? Maybe you should spend a little less time speculating why your candidate lost, because to date, there hasn't been a shred of evidence to back up your claim. Sure, they interfered, but again, that's not why she lost.

  13. Nothing To See Here on Is Cryptocurrency Threatening Earnings at Bank of America? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    This is standard SEC filing text that is required of every business that trades shares. Think of it like a disclaimer. They're supposed to point out anything that could likely affect their share price negatively. /yawn.

  14. Re:I'm still scared. Not of the tech, the security on Study Finds Automatic Braking With Rearview Cameras, Sensors Can Cut Backup Crashes By 78 Percent (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
  15. Re:I'm still scared. Not of the tech, the security on Study Finds Automatic Braking With Rearview Cameras, Sensors Can Cut Backup Crashes By 78 Percent (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because only American made cars can be hacked. Good luck with that.

  16. Re:No on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Nice. I don't have anything quite so good, but a couple of my prized possessions are HP and TI's first calculators, a Mac 512k (unfortunately sold my original 128k)...along with my Toshiba Beta VCR, Lafayette Quadraphonic receiver, and a five cartridge 8 track player.

  17. Re:Terrifying auto-braking during false positives on Study Finds Automatic Braking With Rearview Cameras, Sensors Can Cut Backup Crashes By 78 Percent (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:do you want americans to liberate your country? on Venezuela Says Its Cryptocurrency Raised $735 Million -- But It's a Farce (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    That turned out quite badly and spawned ISIS as a real power

    ISIS spawned because of the power vacuum left behind thanks to the previous administration, and the stupid Iraq government's refusal to come to an agreement on status of forces.

  19. Re:There's little reason to believe the Venezuelan on Venezuela Says Its Cryptocurrency Raised $735 Million -- But It's a Farce (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice strawman, when's the movie come out?

  20. Re:There's little reason to believe the Venezuelan on Venezuela Says Its Cryptocurrency Raised $735 Million -- But It's a Farce (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There is reason to be skeptical of ANY government. But you can't just paint them all with the same broad brush. There's a big difference between that shithole and it's "leadership", and the vast majority of others.

  21. Re:And so, it has come to this on Venezuela Says Its Cryptocurrency Raised $735 Million -- But It's a Farce (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can revise step 5 when you ARE the country.

  22. Re:Commies are bad with money? Who knew? on Venezuela Says Its Cryptocurrency Raised $735 Million -- But It's a Farce (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, 57 murders per 100,000 people in Venezuela last year. The US rate?...4.88

    Stick it troll.

  23. Re:Commies are bad with money? Who knew? on Venezuela Says Its Cryptocurrency Raised $735 Million -- But It's a Farce (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the only difference being that the odds of anything like that occurring to an individual in the US are miniscule in comparison to Venezuela, so when it does happen here, it's all over the media because it's so rare, unlike the 650 people who were murdered in Chicago last year...that's not newsworthy. CLUE: Stay outta shitholes, and you don't have much to concern yourself with.

  24. Re:I'm still scared. Not of the tech, the security on Study Finds Automatic Braking With Rearview Cameras, Sensors Can Cut Backup Crashes By 78 Percent (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Terrifying auto-braking during false positives on Study Finds Automatic Braking With Rearview Cameras, Sensors Can Cut Backup Crashes By 78 Percent (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Both of our vehicles have warning sensors, but thankfully not the braking. The sensors will go off if I take curve in "spirited" driving...and yes, I do tend to test the limits a bit. Though they've come in handy a few times by warning of suddenly braking traffic ahead before I even saw it, and FWIW, I'm not one to take my eyes off the road for cell phones or other such nonsense. So, I like the warnings, but would never every buy a vehicle with the automatic braking...you're likely to get plowed into from behind, and then you'll be at fault.