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  1. Re: So Uber doesn't let drivers defend themselves on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Generally the one pulling the gun first is the nutter, whether they are cops or a constitutional militia . 99.999% of people with guns don't use it to go out hunting for other people they don't agree with. Sadly, you seem to be one of them.

  2. Re: So Uber doesn't let drivers defend themselves on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You're going to pull a gun on someone that's openly carrying in a store because you feel 'threatened'? Either that or you're creating a straw man.

  3. Re: So Uber doesn't let drivers defend themselve on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He's an independent contractor, not an employee. He violated his contract, perhaps, so Uber can sue him, but he did not break the law like OP stated/implied.

  4. Re: Why are unprofitable companies worth so much? on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not necessarily. A lot of companies will acquire and keep running losses on those just to keep the market share, account information or some integration or whatever is actually "valuable" in the grander scheme of things. Some things just aren't expressed in money.

    Microsoft has been chasing developers since Ballmer got forced out. With low cost or free development cloud infrastructure and free dev tools, hardware and software. They think the future is going to be in custom middleware in the cloud and they're betting big on it.

  5. Re: So Uber doesn't let drivers defend themselves on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Company policy doesn't trump your legal right. Unless you're working for eg Walmart you have the right to carry (open or concealed) regardless of store policy. They do have the right to refuse you service if they can consistently and without discrimination apply the policy but no store manager is going to risk their job refusing off duty cops or military from entering the stores just so they can refuse the occasional second amendmenter.

  6. Re: This is sexism I actually believe on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Discrimination is indeed illegal, that does not mean you have the right to an equal paycheck though.

  7. Re: This is sexism I actually believe on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    My boss makes more than me, she thinks otherwise.

  8. Re: This is sexism I actually believe on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What rights? Last I checked getting a paycheck is not a right. You want equal pay? Ask or sue.

  9. I personally think that people should have the right to do as they see fit when it comes to their own body as long as they don't harm or burden others in the process.

    I do think good governance is necessary when it comes to advertising a drug though. So people shouldn't be claiming untested drugs have any quality or benefit. As long as people can operate with all the available facts, I think freedom is paramount to protection.

  10. I saw Solo last night on A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    Quite honestly the story is predictable from beginning to end. It's Star Wars but Disneyfied. It's far from a "good" movie, it's got some forced humor predictably out of the droids like the previous backstory movie, a princess story like the previous backstory movie, some explosions like the previous one, distressed youth like the previous one, some minor predictable plot twist like the previous one. The only difference/problem is that it doesn't wrap up the characters neatly like the previous story - it creates a potential new story line into the existing movies which should have people wonder "where is she in the old movies" and unless she turns out to be jar jar, it's going to cause some continuity issues. It's no Harrison Ford and George Lucas movie and it shows. The story is very shoddy.

  11. Re: Common Factor: US Embassy on First Cuba, Now China? A Worker In US Embassy In China Experienced 'Abnormal' Sounds, Brain Damage (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Could also be a case of mass psychosis. When you have hundreds of workers and you start warning them both internal and give credence through the media, you get these sort of results. Anticebo effect.

  12. No, but they cannot order the post office not to deliver your messages. Whether or not someone reads or listens to your message, you still have the right to your soap box.

  13. Re: Interesting implications on President Trump Can't Block People On Twitter, Court Rules (knightcolumbia.org) · · Score: 1

    Plenty of people do not have access to TV or radio or newspaper and lack the funds to travel to Washington DC as well.

    I think the point made is that this Twitter account is an official government account (either established by law or by its use) and thus US citizens cannot be blocked from using it, if a particular person is not a US resident they could technically still be blocked from it.

  14. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Space is far, far away, even satellites won't have nearly the influence of earth's magnetic field. You'll also need a lot more power just because of atmospheric drag and even if you went well beyond that and somehow you had some power, solar wind and interstellar dust particles would probably produce more force.

    The "interesting" part about the EM drive was that it hardly produced any force at all, it wasn't nearly enough to be a serious driver. If the source of thrust however were found to be real (and against the laws of physics), scaling it up was going to be the next step.

  15. Re: Best Practice on Most GDPR Emails Unnecessary and Some Illegal, Say Experts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    IP addresses are considered private information. Not just to GDPR but HIPAA too. That's how far reaching these regulations go, everyone in the world can receive or query your IP address.

  16. Three laws are useless for healthcare on Ask Slashdot: Could Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Ensure Safe AI? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    Hey, I refuse further care.
    - The robot complies, further harm is inflicted by inaction, first law is broken
    - The robot does not comply, complies with the three laws but it is illegal.

  17. The USPS has never been bringing in lots of money, it’s a service operated at a loss to benefit the tax payer and that hasn’t changed in the last few years.

  18. USPS is giving Amazon a lot of perks that no other company gets. Sunday delivery, 2 day shipping is forcing USPS in a model that UPS/FedEx is much better at resulting in massive costs to the USPS.

    The problem is that the true cost is shifted from Amazon to the tax payer, while the politicians and unions got to save some local jobs for the time being. USPS debts have skyrocketed, not just because snail mail is dead but because it’s never been profitable for USPS to deliver packages.

  19. Re:Don't raise income taxes on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends. What you see, especially in foods/wines etc is a lot of subsidies in Europe. Sure, the US has exorbitant taxes on alcohol but France gives its wine farmers huge subsidies or they wouldn't be in business.

  20. Re:Won't do nothing on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That is primarily advertising BS designed to maximize the streams of new programmers that will work for peanuts in the hopes of getting it big. If Google were so dependent on a single programmer, they would be out of business by now.

  21. Re:Gravity works! on Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think at those depths, buoyancy and currents has much more forces on the bag than gravity. Even above water a plastic bag is quickly overtaken by those.

  22. Re:If the hack was primitive, where is the backup? on Hacker Shuts Down Copenhagen's Public City Bikes System (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    and deleted the organization's entire database

  23. Depends on Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    The kernel is Linux, the toolset is GNU. So if we're talking about Android or VMWare or Cisco or HPs line of SDN switches it's just Linux.

    If we're talking about Ubuntu and RedHat I would say it's GNU/Linux.

    The reason isn't necessary political there are huge technical and legal differences between just using the Linux kernel and using the GNU or other toolsets that may not even share the same license as Linux.

  24. If the hack was primitive, where is the backup? on Hacker Shuts Down Copenhagen's Public City Bikes System (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Or was the IT department rather primitive as well. In the worst case, a rather primitive deployment like this should lose 15m-1h of data and perhaps another 1-4h of downtime. There are setups that are better with continuous logs and high tech breach detection which would either prevent this or have virtually no downtime.

  25. Re:Why not jokes? on Richard Stallman Demands Return Of Abortion Joke To libc Documentation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So it ended up being a good thing for you. You moved out of a bad environment and look at what happened to HP