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  1. If owners of self driving fleets want to pass laws that stop people from operating their own vehicles then people will not support self driving fleets.

  2. Re:fireing just leads to people covering up error on Hawaii Missile Alert Worker Fired, Will Sue State for Defamation (khon2.com) · · Score: 1

    firing just leads to people covering up errors and blame passing. or people slowing work down to the point where you need 2-3 people to sign off to get stuff done.

    When it comes to activating state-wide emergency alarms maybe 2-3 people signing off on it would be a good idea.

  3. The entire island was running around in terror with nowhere to go for over half an hour before these schlocks finally managed to say "oops, just kidding."

    Big deal. The country has been doing that for a year now -- still waiting for the "oops, just kidding" part. :-)

    Sarcasm aside I don't see any of the panic we were promised if Trump was elected. Stocks didn't crash, terrorism didn't increase, unemployment didn't increase, welfare hasn't increased, housing prices didn't crash, hate crimes haven't increased, etc. If anything every measurable quantity is doing much better than it was before.

  4. Re:The turn of the century wants its joke back. on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Hillary has lived in NY State for some 18 years now, which is longer than I've had this account.

    You sure about that? Because I am positive I've had my account over 18 years and I'm almost 500,000 above you.

  5. They drive teslas under the speed limit because the faster you drive the more electricity it uses and you have a giant graph reminding you of that at all times. It's not like a ICE with a transmission that can get decent gas mileage at a higher gear, teslas have one gear, so every mile an hour faster results in lowering the range on the battery.

  6. Well, short of making them illegal, there'll always be a market for piston-engined/internal combustion-engined vehicles. They're so much fun to drive.

    Spoken like someone who has not sat behind the wheel of a P95D. Try that, then tell me how much fun ICE cars are to drive.

    It would be difficult for anyone to say they've sat behind the wheel of a P95D considering that model never existed. It went from P90D to P100D. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  7. Re: Thank you! on White House Seeks 72 Percent Cut To Clean Energy Research (engadget.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Remember when we used to be a first world country in the US, and poured resources into science and engineering and education so that we wouldn't fall behind the Commies? Today it seems like our competition is Syria, and as long as we're doing better than Syria that we don't need to work harder to be better.

    This is like Biff from Back To The Future is president, and he gives noogies to any nerdy scientist he runs across.

    Scientists like Solyndra, who stole more than $500 million from the last administration? https://m.washingtontimes.com/...

  8. Re:Republicans Support a known TRAITOR on Facebook Users Cry 'Censorship' After Being Told Which Russian Troll Pages They Liked (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Republicans whine and cry when you point out that Moscow Donald has been caught red handed committing treason, and that the republican party is committing obstruction of justice to cover for Russia's attack on America.

    Source? Because from what I read only the DNC and Hillary herself are working with the Russians https://www.wsj.com/articles/d...

  9. How do you loose a political campaign to a loud foul mouth braggart with zero political experience?

    Well, it helped that a good amount of the electorate decided they did not want political experience.

    After how well all the other "experienced" presidents have done apparently experience isn't all that important. Stocks are up what, 7,000 since the election? 18,000 to 25,000+? Unemployment is down, number of people on welfare is down, number of illegal aliens sneaking in is down.

  10. Re:why fb users are dumb on Facebook Users Cry 'Censorship' After Being Told Which Russian Troll Pages They Liked (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    from the article:

    > Some users argued that they should be allowed to decide what’s “true, fake, or otherwise,”

    yes, your feelings affect the facts

    except they don't

    I FEEL I'm a woman....

    I should be able to compete as a woman in all sports!

    You can, that has happened many times already, men that feel they are women and compete in women's sports and easily win

  11. Re:Yay! on There May Not Be An iPhone SE 2 After All (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I hope they keep manufacturing the iPhone SE as it is, for a very long time with just security updates.

    And just barely enough horsepower to run the most current iOS, please.

    Considering the 2017 iPad has the same CPU as the iPhone SE I seriously doubt Apple would retire that CPU anytime soon. I'd say you have at least 3-4 years before the latest iOS no longer supports it.

  12. Re: I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And morons project unpopular views onto conservatives that they constantly practice themselves.

    Sorry I'm all out of mod points but you deserve some for that

  13. Re: I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure they also hate his views on things like religion, sexual liberty, incest, and so on ...

    Considering Heinlin wrote a story about a man being his own father AND mother I can see why conservatives and anyone decent would take issue with Heinlien's views https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  14. Re:The thing about DuckDuckGo on DuckDuckGo App and Extension Upgrades Offer Privacy 'Beyond the Search Box' (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    In a nutshell, the problem with DuckDuckGo is that it sucks. Or at least it did, a few months ago, when I used as my only search engine for two weeks. In the end, I had to go back to Google - they are just on an altogether different level. I really hope that DuckDuckGo will improve, and will eventually become comparable to Google. It is not there yet.

    I disagree. I started using DuckDuckGo after google asked employees for their opinions and then fired that guy when he offered suggestions on how to get more women into IT. I find DuckDuckGo's results to be at least as good as google if not better because it has fewer spammy sites. Only place DuckDuckGo fails is local search, like if you're trying to find out what time your local Taco Bell closes it doesn't bring up local searches as first, it would give you the corporate website.

    I'm pretty happy not being a Google sheep anymore

  15. Re:Russiaphobic racism taken to new heights (lows) on DuckDuckGo App and Extension Upgrades Offer Privacy 'Beyond the Search Box' (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    It is quite funny to see Russians become the "bad guy" again. After 30 years of not hearing a peep from Russia, some news agencies suddenly reported Russians took over our election and got Trump elected. Arabic country or even China would make more sense, but Russia? It's like a corny movie or video game plot.

  16. Re:Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying ? on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of the Superbowl ads are entertaining.

    Well...they USED to be....

    Last year, however, they thought it would be good to get all political, and slant a lot of them towards immigration (predominately touching about illegal immigration concerns).

    I'm guessing this year, we'll have more than our fair share of #MeToo related ads.

    I'll give them the 1st quarter, if no commercials are funny, I'm switching it off...as that I really don't care much for either team playing.

    The NFL has been losing viewers a lot last year or so...and they keep wondering why...?

    One clue...keep the fucking politics OUT of it, it is supposed to be leisure and escapism.....

    This. And I love how they're blaming it all on trump as if they forgot the football kneeling started in 2016 when obama was president. NFL is slowly committing suicide, like taking a teaspoon of cyanide every week.

  17. Re:if they have more accidents then that's fair on Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Health insurance and car insurance are very different, because there is no "driving safe" or "not driving" that will prevent you from getting sick. But of course you know that. You're just a troll. Sad!

    That is completely untrue. Certain ages, sexes and probably even races participate in activities that may cause more bodily injuries or other health concerns than what others do. Statistics isn't racist, it's just a probability, and they have to charge on the likelihood that something will happen so they can have the money to pay out if it does happen.

  18. Re:More government regulations holding us back on China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Gun control is one of the democrat's fundamental party stances. A democrat owning a gun would be a republican. You can't own something and vote for the people that want to take it away.

  19. if they have more accidents then that's fair on Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    At first glance I feel like this is horrible and unfair, but if they ran the numbers and for some reason hotmail users have more accidents then it's only fair they charge more for hotmail users.

  20. Forget Bill; imagine the forbidden love of Hillary and Donald overflowing, spilling its star-crossed passion all over your screen.

    I can't believe you posted this 6 hours ago and no one has posted a link to Hillary and Trump going at it by now. Come on /.

  21. Re:How Much Was The Pirated Software Worth? on Kim Dotcom Sues New Zealand For $6.8 Billion In Damages Over Erroneous Arrest (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    By that same logic, you should also calculate the "financial damage caused" by Uber (which is also in business by violating the law) to the taxi companies, you might also end up with far more than whatever Uber is worth today.

    True, wonder why they don't raid Uber's offices? They seem to be in trouble with some law somewhere every week.

  22. Megaupload was worth more than that when he was arrested. That's like facebook being shutdown in 2012 and paying zuckerberg 6 million for it.

  23. Perhaps you could make a case for the responsible officials having their assets liquidated to help pay the bill. Also demand the U.S. pay a portion as a co-conspirator. But ethically, the money IS due. Law enforcement illegally destroying a multi-billion dollar business just because some foreign government said "jump" is pretty harsh as well.

    Don't worry, the bills will keep on coming. Plenty of people lost data, money, and opportunities as a result of this illegal action.

    Agreed. I never understood how govt officials seem to do whatever they want, but when caught the taxpayers are held responsible and the officials don't serve a day in jail or pay a dollar towards the lawsuit. How does that make sense?

  24. Well as long as his arrest made Obama happy that's all that matters, right?

  25. If you believe apple. But they are not the more trust worth company. They claimed they where not throttling phones, but lo and behold they were.

    Throttling old phones with bad batteries so the battery would last a few hours longer. That's not a bug that's a feature https://www.macrumors.com/2017...