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  1. Background check != safety on Taxi Companies Sue Uber For False Advertising On Safety · · Score: 1

    Live Scan is just running a fingerprint to look for a match in a criminal justice system. It's a part of running a background check. I fail to see what that has to do with safety.

    For fuck's sake, why not just advertise that you run an MVR on a taxi driver's CDL?

  2. Why not indefinitely? on California Floats Conditional Approval For Comcast/TWC Merger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    5 years? Seriously? Sounds staged, like it's merely to give the APPEARANCE of being tough on Comcast instead of actually being tough when being tough is warranted.

  3. Yes. on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    End of discussion.

  4. Re:Not for new users of FreeBSD on Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials · · Score: 1

    ZFS is a filesystem, not an operating system.

  5. Re:Explain this to a non-Americal please.. on Republican Bill Aims To Thwart the FCC's Leaning Towards Title II · · Score: 2

    The President is not a part of the lawmaking branch of government. Presidents can't pass laws.

  6. Re:a better question on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    Macs ARE PCs.

  7. Re:I don't want VR entertainment on Ars: Samsung Gear VR Is Today's Best Virtual Reality · · Score: 4, Informative

    My Oculus Rift DK2 does ALL of this already. And it's not even the consumer version. We aren't decades away. It's here. Literally. Right now.

  8. Re:NO DRM! on Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand · · Score: 1

    So don't use "services". Use "stores". I have no problem at all buying non-DRM music from Apple, Google, Amazon, Bandcamp, Beatport, et cetera.

    And yes, lots of other things have DRM. But we aren't talking about other things. Stay on topic.

  9. Re: Time for a revolution on Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts On Suspicion, No Crime Required · · Score: 1

    Germany's current government seems pretty damn good if you ask me.

  10. Re:This is a Good Thing (tm) on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    Apple and Google aren't managing our money. They're just giving us another option for how to hand it to people we're already doing business with

  11. Re:No thanks. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    Good to know...

  12. Re:Good luck with that. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    7)Not all credit cards have 15-20% interest rate. My Visa Platinum with a $10,000 limit is only 8.9%.

  13. Re:Good luck with that. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 2

    No it is not. Disputing a credit charge and dealing with a bullshit checking account withdrawal are just so different. With the latter your money is already gone and you may never see it again, where with the former you're not out anything but the reduction in your available credit while the dispute processes.

  14. Good luck with that. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    CurrentC seems way too involved for most people to ever give a shit about.

  15. Re: Time for a revolution on Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts On Suspicion, No Crime Required · · Score: 2

    Bad government is bad for all of us.

  16. Re: Non-story? on AT&T Locks Apple SIM Cards On New iPads · · Score: 1

    But it IS reality with every other carrier mentioned above who doesn't do this shit.

  17. Re:I'm still waiting... on Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk · · Score: 1

    You don't find the idea of fertilizing an egg just so you can harvest the embryo creepy, and morally dubious?

    No. Not in the slightest.

  18. Re:Moral Imperialism on Manga Images Depicting Children Lead to Conviction in UK · · Score: 1

    In the mind of the pedophile they all serve the same purpose: to arouse lust towards children. I don't think stimulating sexual lust towards children is something society finds acceptable.

    I don't know about you but I would very much prefer that a pedophile sate his or her urges with fictitious material than to actually molest children or add to the actual child pornography market.

  19. Re::%s/Teslas/Leafs/ on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    Tesla makes a DAMN fine automobile

    The dealers are not what they seem

  20. I'm really glad I'm gay on Online Creeps Inspire a Dating App That Hides Women's Pictures · · Score: 1

    This shit just isn't an issue for me. ;>

  21. Re:Second the recommendation on Could We Abort a Manned Mission To Mars? · · Score: 2

    Seconded. Fantastic book

  22. Re: I never thought I'd say this... on FCC Chairman: Americans Shouldn't Subsidize Internet Service Under 10Mbps · · Score: 2

    Why shouldn't we subsidize internet service, at least for people that otherwise couldn't afford it?

  23. Re:Umm... WHY??? on Report: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Studio For $2bn+ · · Score: 1

    I want a Rat Thing

  24. Re:I like... on U.S. Senator: All Cops Should Wear Cameras · · Score: 1

    The squad cars at the police department for which I work all have solid metal DVRs. You need a key to access SD cards. The same concept should be able to work for wearable cameras, just use lightweight metals or durable plastics or whatever. Make them tamper-proof.

  25. Eames lounge on Ask Slashdot: What Recliner For a Software Developer? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pick up an Eames lounge chair and ottoman. Yes it's expensive. Yes it's worth it. You'll thank me later.