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  1. So the RFC that defines "standard" isn't a standard? But you didn't mention whether 5906 was a standard.

    Put the crack down and try again.

  2. Re:Easy solution on Not Just Paris: Community Activists Target Data Centers (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah,and people will still complain when the power lines go up. There was a hospital a few towns over that went in. Everyone was happy to have a hospital (before, it was local docs or a long trip to a real hospital). But, by the time it opened, there were hundreds protesting, as the power for the hospital was visible. It doesn't matter if they put it all underground and covered with local flora, completely invisible bunker. The power would still get someone complaining.

  3. Re: Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get inv on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    Many girls have been suspended for "disrupting class" by having a skirt that didn't reach the knees, or a shoulder showing. Though I don't remember any escorted out by police.

  4. Re:Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get invit on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    He put it in a hard case container for safety. Throwing it at the bottom of a soft bag would have been stupid.

  5. Re: Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get invi on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: -1, Troll

    SJWs are for a meritocracy. They are bashed for pointing out that Bill Ford being CEO of Ford is likely not from merit, nor Bush Jr's "legacy" appointment to Yale. SJWs aren't for quotas and the conservative image of Affirmative Action (the lie where unqualified minorities are selected over qualified white males), but are for the elimination of privilege. It's only the lying conservatives who assert that removal of privilege is the same as promoting the incompetent above the competent.

    The anti-SJWs need a catchy name. MRA is sometimes used, but I prefer to leave that to describe the deadbeat dads who go to court and plead to give up custody so they aren't burdened with their children, then spend 25 hours a day whining online how they aren't allowed to see their kids and how the system is out to get them.

  6. Re:See point #2 on Should Japan Restart More Nuclear Power Plants? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Reagan was a communist, does that count?

  7. Re:Fukushima was NOT WORTH IT on Should Japan Restart More Nuclear Power Plants? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 2

    So a plutonium fire would destroy the planet? How?

  8. Much like TV, this will be sorted out in time when someone builds a search aggregator for the various providers.

    Like http://www.rabbittvplus.com/ ? You search for what you want. It embeds it if it can, or redirects you to the lowest-cost content provider that offers it.

  9. Re:The car is great to drive, but... on Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, everyone here drives without taking their eyes off the road.

    no you said watch people, everyone looks away

    I said that *you* don't look away. And everyone reading this doesn't look away. But that if you ride in the passenger seat and watch the driver, you'll see they do look away.

    What kind of insanity is it where the listener swears he knows what the speaker meant, after repeating it wrongly repeatedly and being corrected? Whatever mental illness that is, it seems to be spread through Slashdot. I've never seen a place where so many people correct others, asserting what they meant, even in opposition to the original speaker's clarifications.

  10. Re:Says more about Consumer Reports than the car on Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    So you thought it was fine when Dateline attached explosives to the sidesaddle gas tanks to show they are unsafe as well? Just an innocent test.

    If they have to fake the results, they are fraudster. It doesn't matter whether they are right, it's still unethical fraud.

  11. Re:Related? on First Cancer Case Confirmed From Fukushima Cleanup (nhk.or.jp) · · Score: 1

    http://www.cancerresearchuk.or...

    No need, my numbers are accurate, so long as most of the cleaners weren't retired, called up for a cleaning.

  12. X-Rays on The NYPD's X-Ray Vans (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    They aren't X-rays, they are Freedom-Rays.

  13. Re:Related? on First Cancer Case Confirmed From Fukushima Cleanup (nhk.or.jp) · · Score: 1

    1:44000 cancer rate is much better than the general population. Statistically, it sounds more like radiation prevents cancer. Statistically, there should be about 200 cancer cases in that 44000, and 10 or so of them leukemia.. Or are there 201/11 cases, so the last one is being assigned to the cleanup, and we aren't hearing about the other 200 because people don't understand statistics, so the truth is kept from us for our own protection?

  14. Re:Says more about Consumer Reports than the car on Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    None from the Consumer Reports tests, where they couldn't make one roll. Ever. The photo was a fraudulent dramatization, not a test result and never happened in testing.

    But yes, the statistics show it to be unsafe. It's a cheap car. Cheap cars are more likely to be driven by younger drivers. Real-world crash survival is correlated well to cost of car. Not because of the safety of the car, but the type of driver. But people assume it's the car, and confirmation bias, and we all assume it's "common sense" that a more expensive car is inherently safer.

    That's why the rollover tests were added and such, because the results from Consumer Reports were faked for publicity, and the driver makes more of a difference in real world performance than the car.

  15. Re:Says more about Consumer Reports than the car on Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't drink breastmilk. That doesn't mean I've never done it. I just grew up. Try it sometime, you might like it.

  16. Re:Says more about Consumer Reports than the car on Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is prone to rolling over. That doesn't excuse Consumer Reports' fraud.

  17. Re:The car is great to drive, but... on Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 0

    I never asked what you do. I flatly stated that anyone reading this would assert that they do it without looking. You are only proving me right, but in a very disagreeable manner. But I know, nobody likes you well enough to let you in a car with them, so you have no way of testing this, and that makes you feel bad. I get it. I'm sorry. Maybe one day, when you learn how to not alienate everyone, someone will allow you to ride in the front seat with them, and you can test this.

  18. Re:The car is great to drive, but... on Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    Umm, yes, for the remote control example given, everyone else probably does. Except you, it seems.

    I never mentioned a remote control, so using an unrelated example to prove me wrong is quite silly.

    Next time you are in the front passenger seat of a car, ask the driver to turn the radio down, or turn the A/C up or something, and watch their eyes. 100% of the time, they'll glance at the controls.

    Yes, I know, theeoretically they don't have to, but realistically, they do. Try it and let us know. Go on, stop arguing the (wrong) theory, and try it. The only time they won't is if you start off with "bet you can't change the radio station without looking" or otherwise draw attention to their attention.

  19. Re:alternately: on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Right to work doesn't help the employer abuse employees when your choice is "fire everyone who knows how to make things work" or sit down and talk with them.

    That and why is collective bargaining OK when it's the shareholders collectively bargaining, but not when the employees do it?

  20. Re:In other news, on US Will Clean Area In Spain Where Hydrogen Bombs Fell (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    That's because the Air Force's official story is that there was no nuclear material on that plane, the bomb was filled with a weight to simulate combat conditions, but was not a nuclear weapon. So no great need to find an obsolete broken weight.

  21. Re:subduction ain't happening in the Atlantic on US Will Clean Area In Spain Where Hydrogen Bombs Fell (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The Atlantic Ocean currently has three subduction zones: in the Caribbean, the South Atlantic and the Mediterranean. A new one may be forming off the coast of Portugal. http://www.earthmagazine.org/a...

  22. Re:The car is great to drive, but... on Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 0

    Read again. Slower this time. I know *you* can do it. Any jackass reading this will assert they "can". Now, watch everyone else on the planet. Do they?

    It's not a question of "possible" but a question of reality. When reality and your opinion collide, I'll believe in reality.

  23. Re:Breaking out of the middle of a loop on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    How is that different than a single return at the end, and a GOTO in the loop that points to the return? GOTO return. It's a form of GOTO.

  24. Re:Says more about Consumer Reports than the car on Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 2, Informative

    They deliberately rigged the Suzuki Sidekick to tip, by strapping weights on the side, then used an altered photo to make it look like it would tip without the weights, which never happened.

    Consumer reports is not ethical, and I don't listen to anything they have to say.

    If you want proof that their methods don't work, go look at their reports on dual-badged cars. Ford/Mazda co-ventures, Mitsubishi/Chrysler co-ventures. The cars will score very differently based on who sold them, unrelated to who made them. It proves an inconsistent subjectivity to the whole process, and the worthlessness of their polling methods and results.

  25. Re:The car is great to drive, but... on Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    . I think the touch screen console was a big mistake. You need to be able to manage things like climate settings, radio stations, etc. by touch. Forcing the drive to look at a screen for mundane things was a bad idea.

    Yes, everyone here drives without taking their eyes off the road. Yet I've never ridden with anyone where that was the case. Everyone I've ever watched touch a control in the center console turned and looked at it. Ride with someone. Watch their eyes. They will turn and look at the console, every time. Unless you are explicitly trying to adjust something without looking, you'll glance at it.

    That is, of course, everyone on the planet but those here, who are the only ones in the universe who fiddle with the console without looking.