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  1. Re:Cyclists DON'T obey the law! on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    Let's see you say that while someone is taking pot shots at you with a rifle. Hey, none of the shots actually HIT but I'm sure you would rather be without hearing the bullet whistle past your ear.

  2. Re:Drivers, cyclists and pedestrians: idiots on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    You were doing SO WELL until that last snide comment.

  3. Re:Drivers, cyclists and pedestrians: idiots on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Responsibility in proportion to your vulnerability? That's a dangerous precedent to set in a legal system, it will inevitably end up with victim blaming. It is not far from that to saying "Then don't dress provocatively if you don't want to get raped."

    Do we apply more responsibility to people that have a gun pointed at them than the guy holding the gun? If not, why should the pedestrian about to get run over have more responsibility than the driver of the about-to-be-a-deadly-weapon car?

  4. Back to Firefox on YouTube Reportedly Bypassing Ad Blockers On Google Chrome · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, that's how you kill your own browser off, Google.

  5. Re:Lessig is Runnig? on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 1

    Because on Slashdot we are all luddites that don't trust technology to automate anything, let alone checking for proper spelling of words!

  6. Re:Maybe it's time to tax intellectual property on TPP Scuttles Attempts To Fix Orphan Works · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, when they sell their products.

    What about all the stuff they used to sell but don't want to compete with the new stuff, so it just gets locked away? How much tax do they pay on being allowed to do that?

  7. Re:Jane the virgin on Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? · · Score: 1

    Marti Noxon, the showrunner for Lifetime's "UnREAL" and Bravo's "Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce," says there has been a "sea change" in the last five years. "I couldn't have gotten those two shows on TV five years ago," says Noxon.

    Jane the Virgin is an entirely different show than what he's working on according to the summary.

  8. Lies, big lies, and statistics on Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sadly there is no scientific consensus on whether this method of determining a consensus works or not.

  9. Re:What a patient on Completely Paralyzed Man Walks In Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    Also sounds like a guy the universe is desperately trying to kill. Do we ... really want to make him mobile again? ;-)

  10. Re:That happens when graphists are put in charge . on UK Health Clinic Accidentally Publishes HIV Status of 800 Patients · · Score: 1

    Someone the OP has a personal issue with, I assume.

  11. Re:Worth noting on Soyuz Heads To Space Station With New Crew · · Score: 1

    I'm Danish, thanks. So yes, I have been there.

    Have you grown up there? You seem to think the so-called Jante law is an actual written law the courts take into consideration and not just an antiquated ideal.

    Have you watched Danish television in the past week leading up to the launch, all the interviews with Mogensen and his family?

  12. Re: Programming on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    Wow.

    I never realized the cure for anxiety of any kind was to just 'suck it up'.

    I would like to read your Ph.D. in Psychology focusing on this method of treatment. Link, please?

  13. Re: Poor example on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1

    Maybe it marks me as a bad driver, but I consider the speed limit to be what people smarter than me in the areas of visibility, road safety and so forth have decided is a safe speed.

  14. Re:Slashdot - only halfway there on Google Changes Logo · · Score: 4, Funny

    This raises the important question of whether the comma in that slogan means "and" or "or". Discuss.

  15. Re:Worth noting on Soyuz Heads To Space Station With New Crew · · Score: 2

    Holy crap. What do you have against Denmark?

  16. Re:Poor example on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1

    Well, to play devil's advocate, the guy that gets drunk and kills someone with his car is taken off the road for a very long time. The problem is that in the case of self-driving cars, that same guy is driving millions of OTHER cars all the time.

  17. Re:Poor example on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1

    I was always told that a single flash of the headlights counts as a signal to the car in front of you to go first.

  18. Re: Poor example on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1

    So, if the speed limit is 55 MPH, why is 'everyone' doing 85?

  19. Re:Poor example on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 2

    Not necessarily useless.

    In the school zone, let's say 80% of the kids need to cross the road. They then spread out from there, and just the next road over maybe only 20% of them need to cross, if they aren't staying in the school zone to wait for a bus at which point perhaps they won't be crossing the road at all.

    The school zone says that a LOT of children are likely to be present, and extra attention and lower speed becomes required.

  20. Worth noting on Soyuz Heads To Space Station With New Crew · · Score: 4, Informative

    Other than the 500th launch, it's also worth noting that Andreas Mogensen is Denmark's first astronaut in space.

  21. Re:Not really ... on Smartphone Malware Planted In Popular Apps Pre-sale · · Score: 1

    Let's take the Facebook app as an example. If you buy a smartphone, and it has the Facebook app pre-installed, and you WANT to use the Facebook app ... what reasonable person would assume the pre-installed app is malware, and they should uninstall it then install the official one straight from Facebook?

  22. Re:And? on Gaming Computers Offer Huge, Untapped Energy Savings Potential · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the energy savings from using the treadmill to power the computer make up for the energy spent heating the water for the shower you need after.

  23. Lenovo on Smartphone Malware Planted In Popular Apps Pre-sale · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does Lenovo make ANYTHING anymore that isn't full of malware?

  24. Re:Quote on Netflix Is Becoming Just Another TV Channel · · Score: 1

    Those were well-known examples.

    Here's the full list of movies that vanished from Netflix' stock:

    http://www.epixhd.com/all-movi...

    At a glance there are a LOT of titles I don't recognize, with covers that suggest they're from the 70s or 80s. I spot a recent animated movie (Alpha and Omega), a geek classic at least for a popular quote (Apocalypse Now), and a definite geek classic (A Conversation With Leonard Nimoy) - and that's just in the A section.

    Please don't think Epix ONLY has control of Hunger Games and World War Z.

  25. Re:Douchebag Editors on 3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Race to the bottom, people. This is what it looks like in action.