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  1. Re:Of course the majority will be from Android on The Tricky Road Ahead For Android Gets Even Trickier · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would imagine that the opposite is true to, that the majority of users switching to Android are coming from iPhones. And by switching, I'm presuming they mean going from one smart phone to another.

  2. Re:Unfortunate, but could be worse... on Heat Wave Kills More Than 1,100 In India · · Score: 1

    The worst two I've visited were Kuwait and Qatar, both read 140F/60C on thermometers in the shadeThat's one of the numerous reasons people questioned how the hell Qatar won hosting the 2022 World Cup. It's expected that nearly 4000 workers will die just in building the necessary stadiums and related infrastructure necessary to host the games.

  3. Re:Isn't the phrase "kicked upstairs"? on Apple Design Guru Jony Ive Named Chief Design Officer · · Score: 2

    It's the Dilbert Principal at work. Companies tend to promote their least-competent employees to management in order to limit the amount of damage they are capable of doing.

  4. Re:Government Intrusion on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Heaven forbid vehicles that stress the road more should have to pay more to use said roads... You're argument applies the same as those that say it's unfair shifting away from a fuel-based tax.

    The road still needs maintained, maybe even more so due to heavier vehicles. Why should those owners get to pay less of their share because they purchased a fuel efficient vehicle?

  5. Re:Government Intrusion on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't worry. They already addressed this. From the article:

    For those who use the GPS, the state and private vendors will destroy records of location and daily metered use after 30 days. The program also limits how the data can be aggregated and shared. Law enforcement, for example, won't be able to access the information unless a judge says it's needed.

    See. Nothing to worry. No chance the government would abuse this. Besides, I'm sure it's just the metadata of your trips, not the actual details of the trip.

  6. Re:Make it more expensive ? on Why Apple Ditched Its Plan To Build a Television · · Score: 0

    Not to mention make it so that it only is compatible with proprietary signals, has a new "standardized" connector that no one else uses or will use since it's encumbered by patents and licensing fees, and the only remote compatible with it is an Apple Watch.

  7. Re:I don't understand.. on Microwave Comms Betwen Population Centers Could Be Key To Easing Internet Bottlenecks · · Score: 1

    Monster Cable's lawyers called. They'd like to have a word with you regarding their patented business process...

  8. Re:I don't understand.. on Microwave Comms Betwen Population Centers Could Be Key To Easing Internet Bottlenecks · · Score: 4, Funny

    So remove the air from the fiber. Make it a vacuum. God do I have to think of everything?!?!

  9. Re:Disbar. on Prenda's Old Copyright Trolls Are Suing People Again · · Score: 1

    A number of businesses actually had accommodations for him - he would have simply had to ask, which is very much allowed under the ADA.

    That's more or less my understanding of the law. A business doesn't HAVE to install a ramp, make doorways accessible, etc if they have always been that way prior to ADA becoming law.

    If the business remodels or alters the front facade for instance, then that results in the need to bring things up to code/compliance or make alternate accommodations. A front door doesn't have to be made accessible if a side door can be made so at a cheaper price. A restaurant doesn't have to have braille menus if a waiter can read the menu. Etc.

  10. Re:Disbar. on Prenda's Old Copyright Trolls Are Suing People Again · · Score: 3, Informative

    Given that they're all probably not disabled, I'm wondering what grounds they have to sue in the first place.

    I would imagine that most lawyers that file legitimate ADA lawsuits aren't disabled. They file them on behalf of someone who is. From the article:
    Hansmeier registered the Disability Support Alliance in Minnesota in July 2014 and listed himself as the nonprofit's agent. Its members, all of whom live with a disability, include Wong, of Minneapolis, and three Marshall residents.

    He's finding disabled people who get paid to complain, creating the "legitimacy" of the ADA complaint. According to the article, Minnesota in their infinite wisdom made it possible for a plaintiff to file criminal misdemeanor charges against someone for ADA violations with penalties up to 90 days in jail and up to a $1000 fine.

    The goal should always be about accessibility to all, not making money through settlements because of inconvenience. Only the most egregious cases of non-compliance should result in any criminal charges, and even then it shouldn't be done on the behalf of the filing plaintiff.

  11. Re:Cui bono? on Apple Acquires GPS Start-Up · · Score: 1

    Why does Apple feel the compulsion to plow money into an inferior map service?

    Because Google is the competitor, plus they want full control over the experience. Is it a smart decision to rely on your competitor to provide a service to all your customers because you're too lazy and cheap to do it yourself? Whatever they paid for Coherent Navigation was less than couch change.

  12. Re:Meanwhile on Turtle Receives First-Ever 3D Printed Titanium Jaw Implant of Its Kind · · Score: 1

    Your own link states that the turtle was used for meat and is legal game (with limits) where that one was killed. Sounds to me like it's in the same category of hunting deer, turkeys, or any other wild animal that's then used at least in part for food.

  13. Re:Probably a stupid question but... on Galaxies Die By Slow "Strangulation" · · Score: 1
  14. Re:im thinking the discourse was very fox. on Harry Shearer Walks Away From "The Simpsons," and $14 Million · · Score: 1

    ...they've heard that he's an astonishingly talented guy but a gigantic pain in the ass and prima donna - very hard to work with.

    So in other words, just like almost everyone else related to the entertainment industry.

  15. Re:Has 3D-printer already printed itself? on GE Is 3D Printing a Working Jet Engine · · Score: 1

    That's the underlying goal of RepRap Printers, self replication. A decent amount of the components can be self replicated.

  16. Re:$3.49? on New MakerBot CEO Explains Layoffs and the Company's New Vision · · Score: 1

    How much of that goes into R&D and factory tooling / production?

    I would imagine a very very small percent of it. It's similar to other high end brand names where you are paying for a name and marketing, not actually physically superior products.

    Oakley, Monster cable, Bose...you're paying for a name, it's perceived status, and all the marketing that got them to that perception, not a better product.

  17. Re:More hoops before travelling through USA on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Erase your hard drive with a multi-pass secure wiping program before restoring the fresh image on it. Yeah yeah yeah it may not be perfect and theoretically some magical device might be able to pick up variations in temporal magnetic quantum flux in adjacent bits and recover data blah blah blah. But if they go to that level to recover your data, you were fucked anyways.

    If they ask why it's such a fresh install, you just simply state that you access everything via VPN and you only travel with a fresh laptop in case it's lost, stolen, detained, confiscated, etc and you don't lose anything and everything on it while you're traveling.

  18. Re:Lingering effects of our puritanical past on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think there are many guys out there, video game addicts or otherwise, who would prefer masturbation to porn over sex with someone they like, trust, and feel comfortable with.

    I see you aren't married...

  19. Re:Australian here with wishful thinking on Australia: Your Digital Games (and Movies!) Could Be About to Jump In Price · · Score: 1

    I don't live in Australia to know what the practice is there, but here in the US it's not uncommon for a company to advertise one price, but then tack on a variety of fees, taxes, and surcharges to the final bill that actually pay for the service and cost associated with providing it.

    "Oh your rate plan for your [cable|internet|cell phone|whatever] is 19.99. Your monthly bill is $82.45 after adding in sales tax, USF fee, phone number|IP rental surcharge, regulatory compliance fee, capital improvement fee, lobbying surcharge, fee just to fuck you because we can fee, CEO compensation package fee, legal defense fund for when we get in trouble for all these fees fee, fee to make more money fee, fee fi fo fum fee, and finally are you even listening any more fee."

    By making the company include any of THEIR business taxes as part of the service fee, they can't just bury their additonal costs as a line item and pass it on to the customer without affecting the price of the package.

  20. Re:No regard for aesthetics... on A Visual Walk Through Amazon's Impact On One Seattle Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    Is there a requirement that everything has to look as it always has, forever, especially when what's existing never met any standard to begin with?

    You've not lived in a area subject to a draconian home owners association I take it?

  21. Re:let's be real for a second on Why Companies Should Hire Older Developers · · Score: 4, Funny

    They just simply don't keep up and don't have modern college training in the latest security threats and program hacking methods.

    I have a modern college degree, BS in CS from Purdue. I can't recall a single class that discussed security as a topic, let alone dedicated to it. Fuck. I just realized the classes I took were nearly 20 years ago. I'm an "older developer" aren't I...

  22. Re:The Real Question on US Appeals Court Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Not Authorized By Congress · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did you drive to work today? I bet you exceeded the speed limit at some point. Or possibly pushed the limits on that yellowish-red light you ran. Have you ever sang a non-public domain song without paying a royalty (including Happy Birthday)? Jaywalked? Failed to register and/or vaccinate your pet? Not changing your address when you move?

    Guess what. You're no longer law abiding. He doesn't have to change his attitude since he qualified his statement. If he said "the phone records of citizens are none of the NSA's business" then we can talk about his attitude if he were to be elected.

  23. Re:Problem only for now on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 1

    You also have to be careful because of these states where there are "mutual consent" laws about recording. i.e. in some states you can record a conversation surreptitiously, while in others, all parties to the conversation must know it's being recorded.

    Most (all?) states allow video-only recording without two party consent. Two party consent typically pertains to the audio portion of the recording.

  24. Re:PCA, Patient Controlled Analgesics on Researcher: Drug Infusion Pump Is the "Least Secure IP Device" He's Ever Seen · · Score: 1

    If you're going to steal the drugs, you're just going to slip into the room, snip the tube, and walk out with the bottle of narcotics. You're not going to bother to hack the system so that it doses out an extra mg or two for you to siphon off. Even if you did manage to bypass any other hurdles and got the machine to dose out more than it was suppose to, at most you'd get fairly limited supply before they realized they went through a bottle of narcotics far faster than the machine should have been administrating it.

  25. Re:Laws that need to be made in secret on Extreme Secrecy Eroding Support For Trans-Pacific Partnership · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How can any law even be a law if it's made in secret?