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  1. Cr*p movie on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The real headline is :Acclaimed director made crap movie, makes lame attempt to justify it.

    But there is no need to justify it. It's just bad. End of story.

    Actually, I don't even know why he is acclaimed. Robocop wasn't that good. Perhaps the real issue is that this director is just overrated.

    The fact that he was unable to read the book because he was bored says volumes about the director and nothing about the story.

  2. "Physics-based attacks"? on Researchers Warn of Physics-Based Attacks On Sensors (securityledger.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I hit something with a hammer, is that a "physics-based attack", or a physical attack?

  3. In related news ... on Trump Administration Wants To End NASA Funding For ISS By 2025 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

    Trump (and the people who voted for him) are driving the USA into the ground.

  4. Re:Why are the owners of the cars unknown? on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The last time* I used a bank loan in the UK to buy a car, the bank just put the money into my account and I wrote out a check to the seller.

    If you want to take the loan for a car and blow it on whatever, there is no need to buy, then sell a car.

    * several decades ago.

  5. Re:Why are the owners of the cars unknown? on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We are talking about the UK, where there are no titles for cars.

    A car loan is an unsecured loan in the UK.

    This page has some useful information on the topic:
    https://www.osv.ltd.uk/registe...

  6. Re:Unless Starcraft strategy is innovative... on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Space travel: Russia
    iPhones: Finland (Derivative of Nokia)
    Commercial space travel: Ariane/Astrium
    Quantum mechanics: Germany (Einstein, 1905)
    Nuclear bombs: basic knowledge was in Europe, much of the original research was conducted in Britain.
    Tang: I'll give you this one. But what about Red Bull?
    Google: USA.

    You were saying?

    Even so, many of those are in the past. Tertiary education is becoming unaffordable for many people, which will limit the future of STEM in the USA.

  7. Re:Why are the owners of the cars unknown? on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    While technically true,

    The best kind of true!

    And I did point out that cars must be registered.

  8. Re:Guess he forgot phone #'s to news media as well on Hawaii Governor Didn't Correct False Missile Alert Sooner Because He Didn't Know His Twitter Password (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    without even looking at the short list of pre-defined messages, are you saying there was NO other possible message that would have been more appropriate than the one that went out initially?

    Yes. There were test messages (which never actually go out, I think). The issue is that the operator selected the wrong message: the "real" message instead of the test.

  9. Re:Why are the owners of the cars unknown? on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So IF I head down to the government office that handles registrations, I can register YOUR car, buy insurance for it and after a couple of years just call it mine?

    Now, I am going to blow your mind. In the past, in the UK, there was no land registry. No registration of who owned a particular piece of land. After the land registry came into force, there was no need to register existing ownership of land. Land only becomes registered on change of ownership. Actually, I am not even sure about change of ownership: I think it may take a sale before the ownership of the land is registered.

    If you squat in a property that is not registered for long enough, not paying rent, etc., then the property becomes yours. This does occasionally happen.

    As for cars: see the links I posted earlier:
    https://www.askthe.police.uk/c...
    https://www.gov.uk/request-inf...
    Note "registered keeper", not owner.

  10. Re:Why are the owners of the cars unknown? on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So...The registration is legal proof of ownership? How do you handle leans when you borrow money to buy a car?

    In the UK, you can't put a lien on a car's title, because cars don't have titles. If you borrow money to buy a car in the UK, it's actually an unsecured loan. Or, at least, that's how it used to work when I lived there.

  11. Re:Guess he forgot phone #'s to news media as well on Hawaii Governor Didn't Correct False Missile Alert Sooner Because He Didn't Know His Twitter Password (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why couldn't his "no attack" message have gone out over the very same system that issued the "not a test" nuke warning?

    Because the system can only send one of a small number of pre-defined messages and "my bad... ignore the previous message" wasn't one of them.

  12. Re:Why are the owners of the cars unknown? on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    A little more info here:
    https://www.askthe.police.uk/c...
    https://www.gov.uk/request-inf...
    Note: "registered keeper", not owner.

  13. Re:Why are the owners of the cars unknown? on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Cars in the UK don't have titles.

    But cars must be registered (with the DVLA).

    The difference is that there is no document that proves ownership of a car in the UK.

  14. There may be, but I'm not a lawyer and have never studied law, so really I have no clue what I am posting about.

  15. Because the latter two are criminal matters and can only be prosecuted by the state. IOW, the victim doesn't get any money from them.

  16. Re: Not sure if this is good or not on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    More than 50% of the price you pay for gasoline at the pump in the US goes to the government in the form of taxes

    Care to provide some support for the claim that 50% of pump prices in the USA are taxes?

    Yes, in Europe, it's well over 50%, but the USA?

  17. Re:Priorities on iPhone X Purchase Leads To Police, Battering Ram, and Handcuffs (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sue Apple for slander also?

    It was presumably Apple that saw the device activation and told the police about the phone and its location.

  18. Re:Which billionaire is funding this one? on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations on citing a prediction which didn't prove to be accurate.

    You are blinded by mindless prejudices.

  19. Re:Which billionaire is funding this one? on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's also the wet dream of everyone in the area desiring it, to be free of the oppressive liberal extremism that pays the bills in California

    FTFY

  20. Re:I am 100% In Favor Of This Proposal on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Honestly most of California has basically nothing at all in common with the coastal regions they want to separate from

    A state consisting of rural California only would be one of, if not the poorest state in the nation.

    The video shows the area around San Jose as part of the New California, which is, I assume an attempt to gerrymander a new state in which San Jose pays the bills, while the rest of the state sets the policies.

  21. Re:Don't buy... on Buying Headphones in 2018 is Going To Be a Fragmented Mess (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially, don't reward Sony for yet another attempt to foist their own proprietary standard on the world.

  22. Re:Two hours at 25mph is a shift? on LAPD Is Not Using the Electric BMWs It Announced In 2016 (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that CARB already classifies the i3 with REx as a plugin hybrid. Those i3s get green carpool stickers, not the white stickers that EVs get.

    https://www.driveclean.ca.gov/...

  23. Had this on an old Nokia phone on 'Text Bomb' Is Latest Apple Bug (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some text messages would reliably cause the phone to reboot on delivery of the message.

    This would cause an almost endless reboot cycle, until the server gave up attempting to deliver the text message (around 10-20 reboots).

  24. Re:Two hours at 25mph is a shift? on LAPD Is Not Using the Electric BMWs It Announced In 2016 (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    These vehicles had the range-extender engine (REx), so daily max range is about 150 - 200 miles (depending on the battery option).

  25. Re:It's their fault! on Salmonella Probably Killed the Aztecs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    According to this summary of the article, it was a local disease that was responsible for the "cocoliztli", not one brought over by Europeans.