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  1. My brain scan on Brain Scans Can Detect Who Has Better Skills, Research Says (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Right here.[NSFW]

  2. Labeling people as managers just gets around overtime and other compensation rules.

  3. Message didn't end with "So sad!" Obviously false.

  4. Most states require you to change to their state plates 30 days after moving there.

    Incorporate.

    We have several local businesses that maintain their vehicle fleets with out of state plates. Florida and Texas seem to be pretty popular. They have done this for a few decades, as far as I can see. I assume that they maintain an office 'front' in these locations to act as the vehicles home for registration purposes. So that's why I said 'lease'.

  5. Re:Manipulating Tiny Objects on Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Prior art.

    The Washington Post and New York Times have been manipulating liberals minds for years.

  6. You could always lease a vehicle from an Arizona company (no front plate required in AZ).

    As far as the subject of the article goes, automated plate readers often can capture both front and rear plate images.

  7. With over 20,000 speed related accidents

    Um. I don't think the DEA is going to concern itself with speed enforcement. Unless, by 'speed', you mean methamphetamine.

  8. Re:Wrong direction on New Zealand Travelers Refusing Digital Search Now Face $5000 Customs Fine (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    None of this matters. Anything stolen or generated in-country illegally will be caught going outbound. They don't check for that.

    If you are on a tourist visa, then if they suspect that you are actually on business

    If I was on business, I'd be more than happy to declare that. And then on my way out, I'd just tell customs that the deal fell through because the regulatory environment in their country was shit. And if they push me, I'll tell them that I'd be more than happy to inform their local press about how a $10 billion investment deal just slipped away.

  9. Shouldn't they be worried about the data that is leaving the country? Not the stuff coming in? Anything from state secrets to kiddie porn, they need the be looking for the stuff on its way out, not in.

  10. Tech support in India is just going to love this.

  11. Re:What do you have against public pension funds? on Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman · · Score: 1

    Did you just want to make a generic attack on pensions? Why?

    An attack on pension funds driven by underlying political agendas, yes. I've got no problems with pensions and other retirement plans aimed at providing their members with a comfortable retirement. But the workers' control* of the means of production died a well-deserved death in Eastern Europe. Marxism in the form of activist pensions needs to go as well.

    *It never really was the workers in control in the Soviet system. Privileged party members had much the same position as fat cat boards of directors do here. But if you pointed that out, you ended up in the Gulag. In this country, exposing the man behind the curtain only warrants accusations of attacking some poor teacher's retirement funds to date. Some day, we might actually have a functioning KGB.

  12. Re:I am not defending him but ... on Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions Rules (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    reducing mercury brings up to $6 million annually in health benefits....

    an additional $80 billion in health benefits from the additional reduction in soot and nitrogen oxide....

    So, just re-label the regulations as soot/NOx reduction. To be honest, $6 million in benefits is a drop in the bucket. We'd be better off economically to just drop the rules and deal with a few more window-lickers. But $80 billion in benefits for $9.6 billion in costs is worth pursuing on its own. Proceed.

  13. Actually, what seems like the flu in these cases is your body's immune system firing up to attack the virus (albeit an inert version). That's what is supposed to happen.

    or you are so utterly weak against colds

    This.

    PP probably has such a small physical reserve to fight sicknesses that, were he to actually come down with a real one, it might kill him. These are exactly the sort of people who need the shots.

  14. Re:Unhackable on What Will Happen When Killer Robots Get Hijacked? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    We begin our counter-offensive on Patch Tuesday.

  15. I really hate this damned PC on Eric S. Raymond Identifies A Common Programming Trap: 'Shtoopid' Problems (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    I wish that they would sell it.
    It never does quite what I want,
    but only what I tell it.

  16. Re:we can do better, but are doing worse on Eric S. Raymond Identifies A Common Programming Trap: 'Shtoopid' Problems (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ah yes. The age-old solution to programming problems: Invent another language to throw at it.

  17. Re:We have to stop on Rechargeable Zinc-Air Battery Nears Commercial Release (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Combustion, no one knows how it works!

    The release of phlogiston.

  18. Re:Just a friendly reminder on Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman · · Score: 1, Insightful

    not to screw with wealthy, well connected investors.

    Like public pension funds. When you think fat, rich, greedy bastards, think CALPERS before you think Rockefeller.

  19. Re:Disband the SEC on Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman · · Score: 1

    the SEC can arbitrarily fine someone 20 million dollars after an admission of no wrong doing

    It's a settlement. Musk and Tesla agree to pay 20 mil. There is no admission of wrongdoing (which could trigger a number of other legal provisions). And Tesla agrees to do some BOD reorganization. The alternative is to fight it, have a court find Musk guilty, impose a fine and be subject to much more damaging penalties. It's primarily the guilty verdict that they want to avoid.

  20. I.e.: they ban the handholding of an electronic device

    What about taking a call using a Bluetooth headset? Or listening to music with headphones? As long as you aren't holding the phone while cycling (or driving): Legal or not?

  21. Seriously, in 2018, how does this happen?

    Because Microsoft.

    I seem to recall an incident back in the last century where they forgot to make a registration payment for microsoft.com. Name resolution failed, but within a few hours one of their admins noticed the mistake, called the registry and put the $35 dollar fee (or whatever it was back then) on his personal credit card to reactivate the name.

  22. Registered by whom? Someone who signed the NDA or provably had a business/personal relationship with them? Stand by to get your ass sued off.

    If it was a lucky guess (or the first applicant was good at covering their tracks), that's the breaks.

  23. Re:All I want to know is how to turn this crap off on Most Drivers Don't Understand Limitations of Car Safety Systems, AAA Finds (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Somehow all this garbage came standard, but I'd have needed to buy a more expensive model to get keyless entry.

    Which models have none of this garbage?

    On the other hand, I will stick with my version of keyless start.

  24. Heck these days most men are oblivious too.

    It involves moving a couple of these levers, IIRC.

  25. Re:Modifing to target wasps instead on Roundup Weed Killer Could Be Linked To Widespread Bee Deaths, Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Certain species of wasps do feed on plant nectar as bees do. As such, they compete with bees for food resources. In some cases, they attack bee hives. And since they are much less efficient pollinators than bees, I'm siding with the bees.

    Nuke the wasps.