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  1. Yeah, it totally has nothing to do with getting the most basic checks that the guy whose car you get into isn't a serial rapist and/or murderer.

  2. Re:Voice Memo huh on 'Only Voice Memos Can Save Us From the Scourge of Email' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    you're* ;-)

  3. Re:Is it real unlimited? on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Increasing the network capacity helps next month, not next second.

  4. Re:"Sharing" on Uber's First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But the cut that is no longer going to the drivers can easily be turned into a bonus for the CEO

    Fixed that for you, it was a common typo to make.

  5. "Sharing" on Uber's First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, they are totally not a taxi company but just two people sharing a ride because they're going the same way.

    Even when the cars have no drivers.

  6. Re:Well seems like the law works. on Nintendo Shuts Down 'Pokemon Uranium' Fan Game After 1.5 Million Downloads (thewrap.com) · · Score: 1

    But how alternative is it really if they can't even come up with a different name? Sure, make a game and call it a "Pokemon-style RPG with unique pets!" but just ... just don't put another company's IP right there in the title. They were BEGGING for a C&D letter with that.

  7. Re:Well seems like the law works. on Nintendo Shuts Down 'Pokemon Uranium' Fan Game After 1.5 Million Downloads (thewrap.com) · · Score: 1

    Suggested, wink wink nudge nudge.

    Even at two dollars each, with one and a half million downloads that amounts to three million dollars. It's not pocket change anymore.

  8. Re:Can we say... MODEM speed? on AT&T Is Boosting Data Plans, Dropping Overage Fees (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In Germany it gets throttled to 64 kbps. Be thankful for the FULL ISDN experience.

  9. But do you run the latest and greatest games on a nine year old PC, which was what the GP was actually saying.

  10. Down from seven when it was actual.

  11. So it's a PC on Microsoft Says Upcoming Project Scorpio Might Be the Last Console Generation (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    to be able to iterate with the hardware

    The whole POINT of a console over a PC is a known quantity for software makers. You don't have to guess at CPU or GPU or RAM or what-have-you, you know the EXACT hardware specs of 100% of your target audience.

    Take that away and what exactly would differentiate Scorpio from a gaming PC? I remember on the N64 when they started making extra RAM for it and you had to check the boxes for whether it required that particular hardware expansion or not. They stopped doing that on future consoles because it was STUPID.

    What is it with Microsoft lately? Windows 10 being the 'last' Windows, everything after coming as patches and service packs, now their console division doing the same? Do they think we have somehow reached the end of the line of creating anything new ever that just won't work with old shit anymore?

  12. Does Verizon test whether any of these apps are actually a rootkit masquerading as an app? If not, I'd say that's pretty cheap for guaranteed delivery to people who don't know how their phone SHOULD be behaving.

  13. Re:BY THE POWER OF CHRIST I COMPEL YOU!! on Canada's Police Chiefs Want New Law To Compel People To Reveal Passwords (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Let's assume for a moment you are stupid enough to first tell the police you know where there's a dead body, then refuse to tell them where it is.

    You are now facing charges including but not limited to hindering an investigation, contempt of court, (accomplice to) murder ...

  14. Re:Phone companies won't invest in infrastructure. on Cable Expands Broadband Domination as AT&T and Verizon Lose Customers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got some very sad news for you.

    When the real high speed super wifi finally comes out, there will be rumors of development on something even faster and the phone companies will wait, and wait, and forever wait for the next even faster technology.

    As it is, fiber solves every known bandwidth issue for all residential connections. At 100 mbps you are unlikely to need to move faster for the foreseeable future, at 1 gbps a 5400 rpm hard drive is probably going to start having trouble keeping up. And fiber can still be made even faster using the same cables.

    I have no clue why the ISPs want to oversaturate the supposedly limited spectrum of over-the-air internet instead of just burying more cables in the ground.

  15. Re:BY THE POWER OF CHRIST I COMPEL YOU!! on Canada's Police Chiefs Want New Law To Compel People To Reveal Passwords (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Well for one thing, the police took your phone - it is reasonable to assume you know how to turn it on.

    On the other hand, the police SUSPECT you killed someone and hid the body - yet without proof that you did it is not reasonable to assume you know where the body is.

  16. Re: Sharks don't breathe on How The Navy Tried To Turn Sharks into Torpedos (undark.org) · · Score: 2

    Immature misunderstanding of how surprise buttsex works.

  17. Re:Inhuman on How The Navy Tried To Turn Sharks into Torpedos (undark.org) · · Score: 2

    At least in the case of cavalry the human involved faces equal risk - this is akin to drone assassinations carried out by some guy sitting in complete safety in a room with air condition while sipping a drink.

  18. Goats?

  19. Re:How are they to know what is allowed on Rightscorp Threatens Every ISP in the United States (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I would like to see Rightscorp prove that all of their data, NO EXCEPTIONS, is valid and accurate.

  20. Re:Whatever happened to "location not found"? on Kansas Couple Sues IP Mapping Firm For Turning Their Life Into a 'Digital Hell' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It should basically pop up on the screen: The target is within 2000 miles of this location. Zoom out to where you show the edges of the uncertainty radius always.

  21. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Two directories and a file name in all caps.

    Domain name already borderline conspiracy theory invoking.

    I'm ... going to need a slightly more reputable source to believe it.

  22. The Edit button is never coming because it would allow people to change their posts after people have replied to them. Without a means to edit you know the post looks the way it did when it was originally submitted.

    This is what PREVIEW is for, check your stuff for typoes before actually submitting.

  23. Re:Whiny Fanboy... but he has a point on Suicide Squad Fan Suing Studio For 'False Advertising' Over Lack of Joker Scenes (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    This wasn't a movie about the Joker, it was a movie in which there was (supposed to be) scenes including the Joker.

    In the same vein, dating sites aren't exclusively filled with beautiful people, but there are beautiful people on the dating sites. Allegedly. .

  24. Re:Time for another round of Anti-Trust oversight. on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Experiences With Windows 10 · · Score: 2

    Which leads to the question of why you have to do MORE work to maintain the choices you've already stated are your preference.

    That's like saying that unless you go to a job interview with your employer every month they will take it to mean you don't want your pay check anymore.

  25. Re: Except he wasn't on Conservative Site Argues Profiting from Snowden 'Treason' May Violate Law (judicialwatch.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because 'Interesting' and 'Insightful' have a lot of overlap depending on the reader's state of mind.