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  1. Re:Uhhh on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    They had the evidence. He refused to refute it. Judge determined there was no reason to conclude he wasn't guilty.

    The end.

  2. Re:Just put fine print sticker on the dash,,,,, on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 1

    No, sorry. Many states require not just being informed, but also consent on the part of one or more parties involved in a 'wiretap'. The reason places you call get away with "this call may be monitored" is that the other party consents, and the most stringent interstate requirements require single-party consent.

    When you're not in your car, you can't be the one granting consent.

  3. Re:It doesn't matter on PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB In New Round of Tests · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was about to get wooshed, and post something about how "web-scale" isn't any kind of meaningful standard, but then I thought better of it, looked it up, and found it's MongoDB's tagline.

    I can only think of one database that isn't "webscale", and that's TinySQL, which I still use for personal web projects regardless.

  4. Re:Uhhh on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    Or...

    Just let this possibility simmer, you can't actually be taken to court without a body of evidence in the first place, and you're dodging your real culpability by pretending that's the same as prosecuting poor-little-criminal-you for no reason.

  5. Re:Opensource remake on Artificial General Intelligence That Plays Video Games: How Did DeepMind Do It? · · Score: 2

    Well, you know what they say, make a proof of concept first, then make it good later(only a few people ever bother to do this).

  6. Re:DeepMind? on Artificial General Intelligence That Plays Video Games: How Did DeepMind Do It? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They have Multi-GPU accelerated map reduced neural nets these days. And their comparative performance is amazingly fast, and cheap. You can even buy physical servers built for that exact function.

  7. Re:Uhhh on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    You don't need to "prove your innocence", dummy. There's a reason the plea is "not guilty." And a reason the phrase "beyond a reasonable doubt" is part of legal proceedings.

    What's wrong here is that instead of "innocent until proven guilty" you want us to treat you as "innocent no matter what". I see no compelling reason to do that, and neither does the rest society. Which is why your contempt is punished.

  8. Re:Just what we need. More compliance! on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It'll certainly make things a little easier on the non-tax cheats who have to pay more to cover these assholes.

  9. Re:Of course it does. on Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun · · Score: 1

    And that's water molecules not on earth, where our lovely biological organisms like to fuck with molecules.

  10. Re:Someone's going to complain on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can in the US. It might be illegal, but so is tax evasion. Pick a remote locality without much enforcement. Build there using under the table labor.

    Then in a few years, die in an electrical fire thanks to illegally poor wiring.

  11. Someone's going to complain on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 2

    But A. this isn't the US with a 4th amendment, and B. There's nothing invasive about doing standard surveying work automatically.

  12. Re:Uhhh on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    Uh, no, those are caused by not showing up, and showing up and being an ass, respectively. Both of which are illegal because flouting the court system undermines the ability of the government to enforce the law.

  13. Re:Uhhh on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 0

    I fucking said you could garnish peoples' wages when it doesn't cause undue hardship. That's not the damn same as debt slavery, wherein you can face punitive actions for nonpayment.

    In no way has any person ever been thrown in jail for nonpayment of alimony Mr. MRA McLieYourAssOff.

    (I don't know about child support, but if you consider "taking care of your children" a debt, rather than a social duty, like not neglecting them is, well, I'm not sure we're going to find common ground ever).

  14. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    Systemic problems of that sort also exist.

  15. Re:"Photorealistic" on Euclideon Teases Photorealistic Voxel-Based Game Engine · · Score: 1

    I am, in no way, endorsing this company. Just that overall level visual impressiveness might not be the primary target.

  16. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 0

    Yeah, no. The argument I'm making is that this induces suffering for unreasonably small business gains. It doesn't have anything to do with rights, except inasmuch as there's an implied right not to be a slave to your creditor.

  17. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except that some percentage of that increased value is going to pay for the devices being installed, and their management. And what they're changing, according to the summary is late payments, not non-payments. Meaning the amount of risk mitigation is on the order of a fraction of a percent.

    Besides, that decrease in cost does little to handle the situation I described above. It only works if you buy into the neo-liberal notion that more liquidity in an economy always benefits all actors of that economy. I don't.

  18. Re:Uhhh on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No it isn't. We made a relatively early decision in this country that debt slavery isn't acceptable, nor are debtors' prisons. We also decided you don't necessarily have full rights to your own money when you have an outstanding financial obligation, and that your wages can be legally garnished.

    But we also have legal protections to insure that punitive and fiduciary measures don't create undue hardship. We have a pretty good system that does alright at balancing the risk-mitigating concerns of the creditor with the basic needs of the debtor, but in no way is failure to pay a debt actually illegal.

    That fact doesn't even remotely justification the mindless advocation for it that the GP has. We don't need to have any Shylocks(and no, I'm not trying invoke the fact that he's Jewish) coming along for their pounds of flesh.

  19. Re:"Photorealistic" on Euclideon Teases Photorealistic Voxel-Based Game Engine · · Score: 1

    Duh, more gpu cores.

  20. Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm glad the finance companies found a way to make "be late on your payment, while you scrounge up money" a worse option for the poor than "let your family starve while you scrounge up money". :-/

  21. Re:"Photorealistic" on Euclideon Teases Photorealistic Voxel-Based Game Engine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The thing about voxel raytracing is that it usually requires less fancy programming and design work to get your graphics up to snuff.

    Rasterization, while extremely efficient, requires layers upon layers of programming cleverness and hours of skillful modeling and texture creation to pull off a "photorealistic" look(let's be honest, it's not that good either). If you could just throw out all the lightmapping and the real-time-self shadowing hacks, and the ambient light simulation, and a bunch of other stuff that's cropped up over the years to make up for the fact that we're not raytracing, you might choose to.

  22. Re:Faecesbook on Facebook To Start Testing Internet-Beaming Drones In 2015 · · Score: 1

    No. And I suspect slashdot won't let me submit a 3 character response.

  23. Re: They're solar. on Facebook To Start Testing Internet-Beaming Drones In 2015 · · Score: 2

    Nice. I love being proven wrong in ways that show promise for the world. Makes me happy.

  24. Re:I'm gonna go with on Why India's Mars Probe Was So Cheap · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Say what you want about the US(and there's plenty to say)

    And you call this covering up US corruption? Look, bro, I know you need the US government to be evil and the worst thing ever, for whatever political beliefs you've got there, but frankly, most of the world is doing worse. We have a lot of really reliable and good institutions to help deal with corruption. We have plenty of problems too, but we're simply not under the evil tyranny your overextended teenage rebellion needs.

    The fact that a lot of what you're saying here is also objectively wrong(Seriously Clinton "killing" stevens?) is kinda secondary to the fact that you're brewing up an image that's unhealthily paranoid in general.

  25. Re:They're solar. on Facebook To Start Testing Internet-Beaming Drones In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Under totally ideal circumstances, how many hours of flight do you think a midsized glider could store in batteries? Just hypothetically. Keep in mind the more battery mass you add, the more power-draw it takes to keep it in the air. I suspect the answer is "quite a bit less than 8 hours".