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  1. Re:Gun Registry on FAA Sued Over Federal Drone Registry (technical.ly) · · Score: 1

    The supreme court seems to think it's a big deal.

    Why do you refer me as a parts per liter? Is this some new group I'm not aware of?

  2. Re:Gun Registry on FAA Sued Over Federal Drone Registry (technical.ly) · · Score: 1
  3. Ask your doctor for a generic? Sounds like work to me. It's much easier to pass a bunch of complicated regulations to force things to be cheaper so I don't have to do anything.

  4. Anyone remember when Mitt Romney called out Obama for not paying enough attention to Russia, and Obama laughed it off with "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back becausethe Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”

    Good times!

  5. Re:Give some protection to Combetta on Oversight Orders Reddit To Preserve Deleted Posts In Clinton Investigation (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The first link give links to a strategy memo where the author, Penn, suggests that Obama has comparatively weak American roots and that Clinton could make a big point of her middle class middle American roots. It never questions that he is American, or suggests implying he isn't. This is categorically not evidence that Clinton or anyone associated with her claimed Obama wasn't American.

    Isn't that a bit hair splitting? Don't you see how, if we were talking about a republican candidate, this would be labeled, in the very least, as running a xenophobic campaign? The details may differ but the insinuations are the same.

  6. Re:Thats terrible on TV Manufacturers Accused of Gaming Energy Usage Tests (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm sure a horde of lawyers would love to charge $50 for each $0.75 refund check cut in their class action.

  7. So..... on Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Take a taxi?

  8. Deforrestation on Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft In the War Over Classrooms (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    Pretty good simulation of deforestation. If you don't chop down trees and built a fort, the zombies eat you.

  9. I was under the impression that those covenants were unenforceable, as the FCC has direct jurisdiction over all consumer communications equipment and ordinances.

    In other words, if the FCC says you can't restrict the placement of antennas, then nobody can place additional regulations on antennas - HOA or not. This was brought up with DirectTV style satellite dishes, and the FCC stomped all over HOAs, and even apartment buildings, attempting to regulate them.

  10. So part 2: Iceland on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think Iceland generates almost all of it's power from geothermal, to the point where most of the world's bauxite smelting is done there, and there's enough power left over for most citizens to pay a flat rate for electricity.

  11. Re:As Bob Dylan Sang on Raspberry Pi Passes 10M Sales Mark (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's Forevaeah - where the last vowel sound is that weird British thing that's between an Ah and an Eh sound.

  12. Re:Devil's Night... on No Coding in Palo Alto? City Takes On Silicon Valley Growth (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a reason the car industry that remains in America is not in Detroit (some is near).

    GM was the only company of the big 3 that was headquartered in Detroit proper. Ford was in Dearborn and Chrysler was in Highland Park, now Auburn Hills. Most of the original post-war car factories are still open. Pretty much all of the older factories were closed down because they were obsolete.

    The issue isn't that the car companies left Detroit, the problem was the *people* left Detroit. The suburbs are doing fairly well - while roughly 700,000 people live in the city of Detroit, the Detroit Metro Area's population is over 4 million. The 3rd and 4th largest cities in Michigan are suburbs of Detroit.

  13. Michigan is No Fault, so it's nobody's fault.

  14. Re:Epinephrine cost per dose in about 50 cents on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Several years ago Primatene Mist was removed from the market. Our health care system is now fully controlled by corporations that don't give a rat's ass if we live or die as long as their profits continue to skyrocket, at any cost.

    Primatene Mist was banned by the FDA in 2011 because it contained CFCs.

    http://hubpages.com/health/Wha...

    Do you have evidence that Primatene wanted the FDA to pull their product off the market?

  15. Guests in someone else's home do not have an expectation of privacy. I'd say a burglar certainly doesn't.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/su...

    Not to much of a stretch extending that to a thief using someone else's computer/phone/etc...

  16. A burglar in someone else's house has no expectation of privacy. A thief using someone else's property has no expectation of privacy.

  17. Public Relations on WikiLeaks Published Rape Victims' Names, Credit Cards, Medical Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hillary Clinton's PR firm must be in overdrive trying to discredit Wikileaks.

    Time to get out the popcorn, this should get interesting.

  18. Probably not, mainly because an FBI probe is a legal matter, while an IRS audit is a regulatory matter. Both can be nasty for the person being investigated, but in different ways.

  19. Re:So the tax returns aren't public? on Assange Says Wikileaks is 'Working On' Hacking Donald Trump's Tax Return (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    I suppose that's the norm for him, but there's no legitimate reason why he can't provide them. He doesn't want to. that's the sole reason. Which leads to the question why he doesn't.

    Because he's under audit. There's no law stopping him from doing so, but, from a legal standpoint, it's a really bad idea.

    http://www.npr.org/2016/02/26/...

    Basically, if someone he does business with is disgruntled, they can pull up his tax information, find some line item they are somewhat familiar with and tell the IRS he's lying. Then the IRS is obligated to do more investigation into that area of his tax return. The claim could be completely bogus, made anonymously, but it will still hold up the audit while the IRS does it's due diligence.

    Now, when you're talking about a controversial presidential candidate, you *really* don't want to release anything. Nutjobs would be coming out of the woodwork making claims about his tax returns. The IRS would be obligated to follow up on all of them.

    Normally this isn't an issue, as there would be no reason to release your returns. Slightly different situation when you are running for president.

    I can see valid arguments on both sides of the issue. Personally I don't care, but I could see how you could.

  20. So I'm assuming APNGs, MNGs, and WEBMs are OK?

  21. Have DARPA hold one of it's challenges for companies to come up with a process and/or system to validate election procedures. Have the Air Force, the NSA and the State Department vet it. Open source the whole thing and make it available to any municipality who wants to use it.

    I'm *not* talking about E-voting, by the way, but the process and/or software used to tabulate votes. It shouldn't matter what method is used to cast the votes. E-Voting could be included in the design, but it should be input agnostic.

  22. Wow, material breach of contract. Sounds serious.

    All V did was decide not to renew a contract. If they turned off their service in the middle of their cycle, that would be breach of contract.

    What is a "cycle"? Are they under contract or not? The OP I'm responding to is talking about phones under contract.

  23. They *are* two-way. They are, de-facto, in material breach of contract. They agreed to sell you unlimited bandwidth, if they don't you can sue them in court. People have taken cell phone companies to small-claims court for violating these contracts and have won continuation of their service.

  24. Re:Heck yes, on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's fine, all the more for us. Kobe ground prime rib burgers 24x7.

  25. Re:Union played hardball and lost on Hostess Saves Twinkies By Automating, Fires 94% Of Their Workforce (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    To be fair, the teamsters were making concessions, while the baker's union was playing hardball. IIRC it got to the point where the teamsters were actually complaining about the other union, which is pretty unusual.