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  1. The real question we should ask on Theranos Faces Congressional Inquiry Over Faulty Blood Tests (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is why CMS paid and continued to allow Theranos to accept tests that were being subbed out, basically just scalping a profit.

      There will away be snake-oil sellers where there are buyers with more money than sense but isn't that WHY CMS WAS CREATED??

    It's yet another amazing wholesale fleecing of taxpayer by members of "the club".

  2. Re:DEC Logo as icon? on Man Builds Giant Homemade Computer To Play Tetris (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you bother with icons (options icons)? Ever since /.media reneged on the "thanks click here to reject ads" link, I've reinstalled ABP. Looking at icons? No thanks.

  3. Re:Mirrors on Japan Says Yes To Mirrorless Cars (carscoops.com) · · Score: 1

    -- Bill Gates ... Lady Gaga not like it makes a difference.

  4. So does this mean.. on Interview With An 'NSA Hacker' Published By The Intercept (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    he's turning in his back hat for a white one?

  5. The New York Times | Florida traffic crash on Self-Driving Tesla Owners Share Videos of Reckless Driving (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Did anyone bother to look at the graphic (top of page here: http://www.nytimes.com/interac...) ?

      I would assume that if there were traffic control at this intersection it would show limit lines. Without traffic control, it looks like the truck clearly failed to yield right of way. Many times unsafe truck drivers use their size as intimidation to passenger vehicles, failing to yield right of way and just being unsafe. Try to drive 10 miles over the posted speed limit on the Garden State Pky (even in the "slow" lane) without having a 9 ton tractor 1 foot off your bumper and you'll know exactly what I mean.

      Situations where the opposing traffic makes a left hand turn (stateside) kills many, many human drivers No one can assume that even a human here could have avoided the collision except for the truck driver who clearly failed to yield right of way.

      Smells like media bullshit to me.

  6. Re: Yes, definitely assholes on Self-Driving Tesla Owners Share Videos of Reckless Driving (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "You can't fix stupid yet"

    But somehow / sometimes physics and genetics have a way of thinning the gene pool.

  7. Re:internationallyricdatabase on Google Partners With LyricFind To Display Songs Lyrics In Search Results (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    " How are the licensed lyrics going to be of a higher quality?"

    Simple... licensed lyrics are authoritative and the source can be trusted. Just because you see a correct response in a yahoo or answers.com Q&A page doesn't give it any credibility.

    "Will the licensed version correct grammatical errors?"

    A licensed version wouldn't have errors by nature.

  8. Re:Crap like this on Apple In Talks To Buy Jay Z-Owned Tidal Streaming Service (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    "self-obsessed douche-bag"

    Well put, I couldn't agree more. It's also one reason I refuse to even listen or read anything bearing his name or any of the associated "reality" "talent" the douche-bag is associated with.

  9. Re:internationallyricdatabase on Google Partners With LyricFind To Display Songs Lyrics In Search Results (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is that the provided lyrics are authorized by the license holder and are of higher quality and accuracy than links to unlicensed providers.

      As a result you will probably see licensed results ranking higher than others.

  10. Re:Money from people who want to sell? on Interview With A Craigslist Scammer (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In the state of PA you don't have to be the maker or the payee, a simple endorsement of the instrument will hold you criminally and financially responsible guaranteeing the instrument until funded.

    Any instrument.

  11. Saving credit/debit card data with these people is just plain irresponsible. They would need a ten foot latter to see eye to eye with a snake!

  12. Re:Money from people who want to sell? on Interview With A Craigslist Scammer (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "didn't craft that fraudulent check."

    In the states it doesn't matter, the minute you endorse the back, you're responsible for the validity of the instrument and the return of funds if the instrument is returned unfunded for any reason.

  13. Next we need research on how the flux capacitor works.

  14. BiteMe © on Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    BiteMe ©

  15. Aside from the obvious "all your base are belong to us" great way to alienate users that don't use a mobile platform.

    Or those that don't trust os level permissions allowed on just about any of them.

  16. allowing a pipe as in:

    Format C: | Y

  17. Re:Nornal Maintance on Tesla Suspension Breakage: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup (dailykanban.com) · · Score: 1

    "1996 Camry with 334,000 miles on it - and the original ball joints."

    Bet you can't say the same for the strut bearings;-)

  18. Re:Nornal Maintance on Tesla Suspension Breakage: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup (dailykanban.com) · · Score: 1

    without knowledge of more failures if they are happening.

    Case in point is GMs s10 Blazers of the 90's. Most failed state inspection minimal play spec, GM stated it was normal. They all made noise.

      This specific case is of a Western PA driver who specifically mentions driving on a marginal road. Salt, snow and shitty roads require significantly more maintenance than driving 405 every day. This guy was gifted the repair.

  19. Nornal Maintance on Tesla Suspension Breakage: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup (dailykanban.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So the guy had a ball-joint failure at 70,000 miles. Ball-joints are replaceable maintenance items on suspensions of most cars. Vehicles with loose ball-joints have noisy front ends, unusual tire wear and steering anomalies.

      The real question one has to ask is when was the last time you had your vehicle inspected and had normal maintenance performed on it?

      If recently, you need to be looking at your technician and thanking the manufacturer for the good will repair.

  20. Artists Renderings.... (Smoke meet Mirror) on Passenger-Carrying Drone Gets Symbolic Approval For Test Flights In Nevada (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and animated video is the only thing this company has ever shown. Have they even every flown one for real?

    PS.. Anyone else see a problem with the lower prop locations or are they disposables?

  21. Rot13.

      For real security, use it twice.

  22. And the most bandwidth on Report: Average American Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month In 2021 (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    One can purchase will be 20GB requiring most to pay extra for the 2GB most need.

  23. Re:Charged with believing a story on Miami Money-Laundering Case May Define Whether Bitcoin Is Really Money (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 2

    "Now look at this case. The cops paid him $1500 cash for bitcoins."

      Yes, this story or case stinks. Did the cops offer way over the current market pricing? Why didn't they just buy the coins from Coinbase or any of the other spot based services? Where's "the rest of the story"?

  24. Re:Movies are not real life, but... on Study Indicates Americans Don't Trust AI (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    " Google image search, and probably Google's regular search, are now sophisticated deep learning networks.

    Absolutely. Suggested query completion, not just spell correction are an example. Results displaying, "did you mean", "users also searched for" and the "results also include (a corrected query)" are also examples of AI.

      On the mobile platform, it's much more prevalent. The mobile platform is slowly linking relations between previous and current queries to attempt to provide results useful to the real user intent.

      GoogleNow on mobile displays a good example of the current use. The front page of YouTube also incorporates elements of AI in what it displays as suggested videos.

      The 54% that claimed to never have interacted with AI didn't even realize they already have, just subtly.
         

  25. The new generation on That North Korean Facebook Clone Has Already Been Hacked (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The teenager said he had "no plans" for the compromised site"

      Ah these young'ins, back in the day it would be goatse.cx 'ed or at the very minimum a penis bird!

      Jeeze what's this world become.