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  1. Re:Why pay more? on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point, buying an unlocked phone gets that, but unlocking one yourself would require the extra step.

  2. Automated grape pickers exist. But the vineyards have to be built to allow the machine to ride on tracks between the rows.

    The Europeans built them. Because they don't have Mexican migrant workers to pick their grapes but still like wine.

  3. Terrible example: Think of how many hours have gone into a typical CNC machine, not a hand built space probe.

  4. Most 'creatives' aren't. It's just their excuse.

  5. Re:Onstar compulsory in all GM cars. OK to rp it o on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Easiest way is to disconnect the antenna and leave the rest of the system alone.

  6. Re:garage parking + wifi extender on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Towers, directional antennas and cellular base stations/repeaters exist.

  7. Re:Just drive on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Cars have trunks.

  8. Re:Why pay more? on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The locked phones tethering apps tell the phone company that you are using the phone as a hotspot/get authorization. The unlocked phones just pump data.

  9. Re:Just drive on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly: 'ego' and the closely related 'virtue signaling'.

  10. Re:Just drive on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    That's your ego talking. Can't accept how much you overpay for cars to make yourself feel a tiny bit less empty.

  11. Re:Why pay more? on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Get an unlocked phone. They have no way of knowing, data is data.

  12. Re:Wrong Definition of Neutrality on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You clearly don't know what it means.

  13. Re:Wrong Definition of Neutrality on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Define 'break the net'. It will break any applications that depend on low pings: Gaming, VOIP, database replication etc etc.

  14. Re:Wrong Definition of Neutrality on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's clear cognitive dissonance to ignore wireless data plans just to prove wired duopolies exist.

  15. Re:Shop mentality vs office mentality on Female Engineer Sues Tesla, Describing a Culture Of 'Pervasive Harassment' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI: We don't write it off. We bill it back to the clients (who write it off), plus 20% for the effort. Keeps the contracts flowing.

    I've spent over $1k on dinners for four people. Many times. Works particularly well at companies that watch their own employee's expenses like hawks, those guys appreciate the consideration (bribes).

  16. Re:garage parking + wifi extender on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Skip the car, just get the SIM.

  17. Re:Just drive on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Get an older car and fix it. It's not complicated. The only thing stopping you is your ego.

  18. No matter what, you can't just shoot to LEO. You can at best produce an eccentric orbit with low point at LEO.

    Mass drivers will be pointed in a fixed direction. Point them in orbital direction and the operators would have to do a trick shot (moon's gravity sling inward) to hit the earth. Giving the earth a longer lead time (half an lunar orbit minimum) to nuke the mass driver and divert the projectiles.

    More on point, the moon is a gravity well. Resources would/will be found in the belt by preference. As you say: the belt would be a much bigger threat for earth bombardment. It could come from anywhere, not just one place that could be monitored and nuked.

  19. Re:Read the response... on DNA Test Shows Subway's 'Chicken' Only Contains 50 Percent Chicken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    For clarity: It smells like your mom's crotch.

  20. Most cut and paste code jobs could be done by an old school 'code wizard'. But their aren't enough good programmers to write the wizards. Also having too many of those and it turns into a problem of knowing which one to apply.

    I'm not worried about AI. After it fails to produce a working automatic car expectations will return to earth. People will stop calling CAS tools AI.

  21. Re:Oculus in trouble? on Oculus Cuts Price On Rift Goggles and Touch Controllers (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to attach a PSVR set to a real computer?

    Playstations aren't going to cut it.

  22. I hate all realworld HR people too. Whole department should be a few people in charge of admining benes and keeping everything legal. No part in the hiring process.

  23. Re:Oculus in trouble? on Oculus Cuts Price On Rift Goggles and Touch Controllers (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Running on VC money. Cash flow isn't the issue. They are grabbing market, or at least trying.

    Hopefully they are over trying to own the market. Their API has been subsumed by SteamVRs. For devs, the choice is Oculus or Vive and Oculus. I don't see any reason any dev would choose Oculus only.

  24. It's true. I read 'quick and dirty solution' as 'wa wa wah solution'. Can't help myself, I like solutions.

    But I do go back and check assumptions. Is it a solution? Quick is always good. Dirty is a value judgement, just how dirty? Who says and why? e. g. Has this person _ever_ mentioned database normal forms past 3? Smalltalk purist? Lisp guru?

    There's 'quick and dirty' that will run forever, 'quick and dirty' that will run until something better is built and 'quick and dirty' that will require constant nursing forever and ever. Then there is 'quick and dirty' that will run forever, until it explodes with no warning a month after the person who slung it, quits.

    I ask candidates about how many computer languages they've written, their first real computer, the most painful/awful code they've ever had to read or maintain (letting them omit identifying details if they want) and if they have any questions. Open ended questions, let them run on, most answers are pretty short. Leave the quizzing to others. I'm a grumpy old fart and have better things to do.

  25. Why do Scotsmen wear kilts?

    A sheep can hear a zipper for miles.

    Seriously guys, why don't you pick someone far away to hate on?