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  1. Re:No, they won't. on Lyft Says Robots Will Drive Most Of Its Cars in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Any object? A blowing leaf? A plastic bag?

    Kids will throw balls into highway traffic just to watch the fun.

  2. Re:Mercenary without ethical purpose on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    For any third graders out there.

    Maslow was a navel gazer who stated that navel gazing was the highest form of human achievement. Other navel gazers agree with him. That is all there is it: Philosophical fapping.

  3. Re:...too many people on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    Singapore has a population density of 8000 people/km^2 you halfwit.

  4. Re: Hackaday Prize on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    You must be a terrible mechanic. $25k/year wrenching? Work for a junkyard doing disassembly?

    That is seriously below average, not even close.

  5. Re:What's undignified about rats? on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Support legalizing 75th trimester abortions!

    In my plan it would fall to the school guidance counselors. Parents make the call and the little shit just doesn't come home.

  6. Re:Not a nice way to die on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The secret service will be along shortly to discuss your plan of locking the doors of congress and dropping a couple of metric tons of dry ice in the rotunda.

  7. Re: Not a nice way to die on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Hunter cats definitely kill rats.

    Mine bring me a half rat about twice a year (fruit trees and a drainage ditch).

  8. Re:No no no. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? · · Score: 1

    You really should learn to use an instrument before telling people what it does.

  9. Exactly.

    Don't forget MySQL, the biggest POS in use today.

  10. Re:Surge pricing disabled on Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Uber matches cars to rides by proximity. Once out of the no surge pricing zone why would you go to a place that is paying less?

    As to the rules...made to be broken.

  11. Re:Surge pricing disabled on Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uber drivers all leave Hell's Kitchen (aka Chelsea) to get surge rates in rest of Manhattan.

  12. Re:"Frogs" - Fremde Rasse ohne galagtische Signatu on SciFi TV Series 'Space Patrol Orion' Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    'Frog' was coined by the Brits.

    Also: http://www.rsdb.org/

    Missing a lot.

    Dutch: missing 'Swamp German'

    SF Bay area citizen: no entry, missing 'Bay Aryan'.

    Disappointing Belgian entry. Half from Monty Python.

  13. Re:SInking SHip on 21st Century Fox Sues Netflix Over Executive Poaching (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In the classic historic cases (Standard oil, MS) the 'monopoly' fell apart in the marketplace well before the regulators could do anything about it.

    The problem with monopolies has always been extracting a monopolist's price. A monopolist's price plus healthy capital market equals no more monopoly.

    Markets need some regulation, that predates Marx. As always read Smith.

    Marx stated, with a drunken arm wave, that all markets go to monopoly. He was wrong for many reasons.

  14. Wikipedia puts the blame on the Czechs...

    In any case; German's should in no case be allowed to dance. At best, it looks so much like marching, the French surrender.

  15. Re:Two thoughts on SciFi TV Series 'Space Patrol Orion' Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Have you ever seen Germans dance? They danced like that in 1966.

    Germans do great science and engineering. But give us musical instruments and you get Polka or Techno.

  16. Oracle's DB does large clusters like no other.

    _Everything_ else Oracle makes/owns is garbage.

    If Oregon uses Oracle for any database that doesn't need that power they are morons.

  17. Look around.

    We are shitty with VOIP companies, none of them interoperate. Skype was among the worst, but somehow got 'critical mass'. It might be losing it.

  18. Re:Moles too? on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody for a mile? Nice, plenty of room for Bond villain stuff...Bandwidth costs must suck.

  19. Re:SInking SHip on 21st Century Fox Sues Netflix Over Executive Poaching (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    How many times has it happened? Marx said it without any historical evidence. It hasn't developed sense.

  20. Re:Moles too? on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Get a shotgun. Then you can shoot squirrels without having to worry about where the round will land.

    Squirrels will also strangle themselves on loops (big enough for their heads but too small for their shoulders) of strong chord nailed to trees. They never backup and always turn in the same direction. Once their head is caught in the loop, they are done.

  21. Re:Even in light of this, we're self congratulator on Air Force Grounds $400 Billion F-35s Because of 'Peeling and Crumbling' Insulation (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    SU-30 is a single prototype.

  22. Re: Did the contracts have a "Key person" clause on 21st Century Fox Sues Netflix Over Executive Poaching (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    INAS (I am not a shyster), but working in CA for decades.

    Non competes are only binding in California when the people involved are 'business principles' and the non compete is narrowly structured.

    A CEO's non compete is binding (if narrow) a regular employees is not.

    These are 'executives' so maybe, but odds are low.

    Long term employment contracts in the USA cannot be held for 'specific performance' as that gets close to slavery (history: Indentured servants), but damages can be assessed.

  23. Re:SInking SHip on 21st Century Fox Sues Netflix Over Executive Poaching (latimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Every industry ends in monopoly is an axiom to leftists. Because Marx said it.

  24. Re:Definitely not humane on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I shot Bambi's mother.

    If I had gotten an any deer tag, I would have shot Bambi and had his head mounted.

  25. Re:Why will the computers want biological organism on The Sixth Mass Extinction Will Hit The Biggest Animals The Hardest, Says Stanford Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Once you get to a level of 'quite difficult' that amounts to 'can't do before the heat death of the universe if you turn the entire milky way into idealized quantum computers' you're not very far from 'impossible'.

    More on point (and something I have professional experience with): The human brain is a chaotic system. You will never be able to 'model' it as it is non-deterministic. e.g. The best you can do is run multiple simulations of her brain and give you a best probability line of bullsht to feed her. No guarantees.