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  1. Re:Worse if you need an air ambulance on Passengers Who Call Uber Instead Of An Ambulance Put Drivers At Risk (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Granted he was pretty dumb trying to snap a photo of a rattlesnake.

    This is what telephoto lenses are for. Stop using your phones.

  2. Re:Why should ambulance be so expensive? on Passengers Who Call Uber Instead Of An Ambulance Put Drivers At Risk (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The salaries (and equipment costs) of ambulances and medic units cover mostly idle time. Uber drivers are busy picking up rides to the airport and so are able to spread their costs.

  3. Re:...but it saves passenger's lives on Passengers Who Call Uber Instead Of An Ambulance Put Drivers At Risk (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    That article point out that it's primarily black and Hispanic males that seek private transportation following a shooting or stabbing. So what they may be doing is avoiding a police interrogation on the scene while they bleed out.

  4. Bag of sugar on Nokia, Vodafone To Bring 4G To the Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Love these new units. They leave no room for ambiguity.

  5. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting. What do you do if your car is licensed/insured in another state?

    I ask this because we (in WA State) have a company that does utility contracting. And all of their vehicles are licensed in .... Texas*. I doubt these cars have ever actually been to Texas. They have local dealership stickers. So I wonder how they even get plates, renewals, inspections, etc.

    *Used to be Florida. But I think they had a rules change and the company just moved their fleet office to TX.

  6. Mouse-shaped pencil holder. User cups holder in hand and manipulates it much like a computer mouse. Buttons to raise lower an assortment of pen/pencil tips.

  7. Fine on German Cities Can Ban Diesel Cars, Court Rules (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    No food for you!

  8. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    My DMV has never asked to see my insurance card. Only cops when I get pulled over. And it's not the car's insurance card they want to see. It's the one with my name on it (in the event I borrow a car).

  9. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's odd. In my state, I carry an insurance policy. I can borrow or rent a car and still be covered.

  10. Re:Good luck with that ... on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There simply is no way in hell that the remote monitoring and operating will be fast enough to respond to a real world accident until after it's happened.

    True. But I suspect there are other reasons for remote monitoring and control. Autonomous cars already will not evade or outrun law enforcement. That has to be a primary function in their control system: Pull over to the right and stop. And there has to be a failsafe in the event of an onboard problem. Again, pull over to the right and stop.

    I suspect that the remote monitoring and operation regulations are for population control. This is California, after all. You will be confined to I-5. The coast highway is for rich people only.

  11. Re:This may cause the price of it to go up on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you would have to pay the tax on the gain.

    Or receive a credit for the loss. Depending on the value of whatever I traded to receive the Bitcoin.

  12. Re:This may cause the price of it to go up on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you could just buy stuff with it.

  13. Re:Must regulate because ... on We Will Regulate Bitcoin if Risks Are Not Tackled, EU Finance Head Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    they are worried about institutions big enough

    The beauty of Bitcoin (and one of it's design goals) is that it doesn't depend on institutions. Big or otherwise.

    That might be who they are actually trying to protect (like buggy-whip manufacturers). But they said "retail investors". No thanks. Don't use me as an excuse. I'm fine on my own.

  14. Re:Smells like a shakedown on Volkswagen Settles Diesel Emissions Lawsuit Right Before Trial Set To Begin (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    My car wasn't as green as I was told

    Don't care. In fact, I'm taking my settlement money and having a performance chip put in my car.

  15. lid-off attacks where the chip is disassembled

    This is the case where I've done something Really Bad and they've recovered my phone from my dead body. And since I'm not a complete moron, it's unlikely that I'd use my phone while doing Evil anyway.

    If they sneak in and lift my phone from the gym locker, all I have to worry about is stuff that they can put back as it was before I'm done on the treadmill.

  16. Re: Is this some kind of joke? on Mozilla Removes Individual Cookie Management in Firefox 60 (ghacks.net) · · Score: 3

    Who's the other guy? I need to buy him a drink.

  17. Must regulate because ... on We Will Regulate Bitcoin if Risks Are Not Tackled, EU Finance Head Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In order to make sure that retail investors do not fall prey to market manipulation and fraud

    Between the manipulation, fraud and the government's incessant need to continually probe my financial orifices, I'll take the fraud. Thanks anyway.

    Why not just let the market decide? Yeah, Bitcoin is risky. But you bastards are snoopy.

  18. I thought the newer iPhones were supposed to have hardware-based encryption and security.

  19. So it's an infrastructure problem, not a water shortage per se. It's just that the population growth got out ahead of the utility system.

  20. I suppose it will just have to be a hand wash [NSFW] then. The sacrifices we have to make for our technology. [Sigh]

  21. in Iztapalapa, that number goes down to 235

    And it's being delivered by trucks. So it means that they have the water (somewhere). It's just their distribution system that has broken down. I'm guessing that the truck solution is less economical than decent pipes. They just can't float the necessary financing in one chunk without the funds disappearing into various pockets.

    Time to send in the army, line up a few crooked politicians against a wall who are diverting maintenance funds and shoot them. Or if the army won't do it, maybe Sinaloa will.

  22. Re:Increased competition ... on Is Cryptocurrency Threatening Earnings at Bank of America? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    They have to disclose

    Admittedly, I did not read through their actual annual report. Did they disclose that wells Fargo is a looming threat to its business model? Or that Citi Bank might create pressure to lower prices or credit standards on our products and services. Or Key Bank might reduce our market share, or affect the willingness of clients to do business with us?

    Because if they didn't disclose those material risks, I'm going to complain to the SEC.

  23. Increased competition ... on Is Cryptocurrency Threatening Earnings at Bank of America? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    ... may negatively affect our earnings

    Welcome to the free market. Did you BofA execs actually study Adam Smith in college? Or were you sleeping off a drinking binge at the frat house that day?

  24. ... is for consumers to 'repair' their devices by disabling the phone home features. Or in the case of IoT devices with a legitimate need to be connected; to redirect the connection to a competing service or home server. So the vendor won't be able to monetize the collected data.

  25. Re:Really "no way to discern"? on Two More 'SWAT' Calls in California -- One Involving a 12-Year-Old Gamer (ktla.com) · · Score: 1

    So how does my phone company know to bill me $5.99 per minute for calling that "Hot and Sweaty Sex" 1-900 number? And how does the sex service know who to go after if the money isn't paid? I assume that phone companies have some method of blocking or flagging VoIP number spoofing from entering their system so as not to be on the hook for an hour of heavy breathing owed to the phone sex service.

    In the case of a VoIP call to 9-1-1, I know I had to register my IP address with my home location to get emergency services to show up. So it would be a simple matter of the phone company spotting the incoming IP call and, upon not finding it in it's IP to home address map, provide a flag to law enforcement that this call came from some mystery IP address. Go ahead and respond to the call, but the source might be fake. In addition, IP geo-location can give some idea that the VoIP call came from a location far from the spoofed PSTN number (California instead of Kansas).