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  1. The test for Witches is MUCH more accurate. on Veteran FBI Employee Accused of Trying To Beat Polygraph, Suspended Without Pay · · Score: 1

    One can plainly tell a witch by throwing them in water. Everyone knows witches float and swim, the innocent drown.

      You would figure the FBI would know better?

  2. Re:What's the difference? on California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors · · Score: 1

    Major differences are (at a minimum):

    Employees have state, local, federal tax, FICA, and unemployment insurance tax, withheld from their compensation. Employees are covered by unemployment insurance. The employer has other liability issues they must cover themselves for (such as workman's comp).

      Additionally, the employer matches dollar amount of the FICA withheld and generally pays the majority of the costs associated with unemployment insurance.

      Most of the time an employee costs 30%-50% more than the amount you directly compensate them for.

     

  3. How is this on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 0

    News for Nerds?

  4. Jeeze on Science Teacher Arrested After Crashing Drone At US Open · · Score: 1

    It it was a DRONE, it probably wouldn't have crashed and wouldn't be flying manually controlled. Title should be "Numbnut crashes his quadcopter at the Open" with a photo of the him titled "Would you let this man teach your children?".

  5. What a patient on Completely Paralyzed Man Walks In Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 4, Informative

    FTA

    "In the latest study, the researchers treated Mark Pollock, who lost his sight in 1998 and later became the first blind man to race to the South Pole. In 2010, Pollock fell from a second-story window and suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down."

    "âoeStepping with the stimulation and having my heart rate increase, along with the awareness of my legs under me, was addictive. I wanted more,â he said."

      Sounds like a pretty strong dude.

  6. Re:No hyperbole? on The Speakularity, Where Everything You Say Is Transcribed and Searchable · · Score: 1

    "Certainly would promote responsible speech (or at least greater caution)"

      And new legislation. Depending upon what state you are in, recording audio undisclosed is against the law. Third party disclosure of undisclosed recordings is another matter in itself.

      How long before the fist lawsuit (or arrest) over undisclosed text copy of a conversation? I hope soon, if I hear one more done story, I'm going to barf!

  7. Long term storage on Police Body Camera Business All About the Video Evidence Storage · · Score: 1

    So they've spent $180k a year including 5 years of storage. Doesn't sound too out of line and there's third party validation. I bet there's added expense for verifying and exporting data for prosecution and expert testimony fees.

      So when does the public get access to data we paid for?
       

  8. Re:So what? on Wikipedia Blocks Hundreds of Accounts Doing Paid Editing · · Score: 1

    " which is causing it to become highly untrusted even by laymen."

      I have to disagree here. Over the past few years the overall quality of result pages have become much higher in quality. Given the model of general non-authority for any given published "fact", overall there are many high quality, well referenced and verifiable results.

      What you have to wonder is how many know how to verify the authenticity and reliability of the data and that's where the problem exists.

  9. Poor example on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "One Google car, in a test in 2009,..."

    One would think that in 6 years some improvements would have been made. Do we have a more current example?

  10. Re:And if they screw up, good luck getting it fixe on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    They will jerk you around forever. T-mobile consistently makes "errors" in billing backed with totally untrained staff that allows the company not be he held liable. You will receive a forever circle jerk from them trying to fix their billing "errors".

      Best way I've found is to write an exact dialogue of the issue and post it in their forum. Be specific about the issue and your attempts to fix it. Normally a moderator will get it fixed, then dump them.

    They are total criminals.

  11. Feedback? on Arro Taxi App Arrives In NYC As 'Best Hope' Against Uber · · Score: 2

    " real competition with Uber or Lyft would require some seminars on good customer service."

      And a user driven feedback and rating system. It kills rude and poor performance by design.

  12. Adapt or loose rank on The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player · · Score: 1

    With the mobile emphasis placed by search engines, the fact is it doesn't matter if they do or don't adapt. Currently,
    pages whose main content is flash dependent, fail to provide a useful (and usable) results for mobile users and are replaced by others that do. Take a look some time and see how many of the top 10% for basically any query don't have mobile friendly landing pages.

      They'll die or they won't. You just won't see them in the top results of a search.

  13. Re:Old News but IMPORTANT on AT&T Helped the NSA Spy On Internet Traffic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Exactly, the title should read "AT&T Helped the NSA Spy On Internet Traffic now confirmed".

  14. FTA on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: -1, Troll

    "All that is to say that shooting drones is probably a bad idea and we don't recommend it. But let's set that all aside for just a second and ask a different question: What's the best way to do it anyway? "

    But what the heck, let's cater to our knuckle dragging redneck readers because we figure if we start to talk about directed RF or other more effective means, we'll loose you at the first multisyllabic word.

  15. Re:Oh Great! on Tilting 4WD 'Spider Car' Makes Light Work of Bizarre Terrain · · Score: 3, Funny

    No need to worry, it's French. If it ever makes it stateside it's pretty much guaranteed to be in the shop more than in service.

  16. Re:Quantum computing on Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer · · Score: 0

    " primarily for use by NASA, the FBI, "

    Surely sounds like there will be a source for funding and research for computation significantly different than our current methods. Qubits or what have you..

  17. I dont want your APP! on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    I don't want your flash enabled or video/audio streamed content shoved down my throat.

      Fuck.. so much of the time I just want to load up Lynx to mandate a better S/N ratio

  18. Verizon??? on Cell Service At US Airports Varies From 1st Class To Middle-seat Coach · · Score: 1

    "You can download an episode of your favorite show in less than a minute and a half on Verizon Wireless at Atlanta's airportâ""

    Except if you are an international traveler, in that case your GSM world phone won't talk to Verizon's CDMA nightmare.

  19. Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a on Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat · · Score: 2

    "STILL the automakers shipped defective product...is the problem."

    Chrysler has been doing this for years. Perfect example is the head-gasket on the Neon. They produced an upgrade repair but NEVER upgraded the product.

  20. Re:Future of free hosting at Sourceforge? on A Note On Thursday's Downtime · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think ever since the bundleware fiasco the revenue is generated by ads.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. He's got a right on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    To make sure the consumer is getting 100% of his product. He's was endorsing a digital player earlier this year. He's pissed that the consumer has NO IDEA what the compression is doing to the art.

    http://nypost.com/2015/01/11/d...

    He's still got it.. Incredible!!

  22. An easier solution on Anonymizing Wi-Fi Device Project Unexpectedly Halted · · Score: 2

    It's pretty trivial to make a Yagi from a Pringles can to point at an open AP. Change your MAC id and connect to a TOR node.

      Mission accomplished

  23. Re:Might make sense on Macon-Bibb County Government Wants $5.7 Million Drone Fleet For Emergencies · · Score: 1

    Especially when they find out how easy it will be to subcontract out to other interests.

  24. Re:Ad formats on Facebook's New Chief Security Officer Wants To Set a Date To Kill Flash · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Even if flash is "officially" killed, Google will still index it. Pages dependent upon Flash for their main content will take a quality hit (actually they already are), hence a rank loss

      Android doesn't support it, and if you cant render content for that platform, well you just lose the ability to meet the needs of the user (or a major percentage of them).

  25. Re:Basic Engineering! on The Missile Impasse In the Iran Negotiations · · Score: 1, Insightful

    At least someone steps up to do the dirty work.

      Do you think that a country that thinks it's progressive with it's recent legislation permitting woman to attend sports matches should be allowed to have nuclear capacity... in this day and age?

      Think about this, woman got the right to vote in 1920 in the US, when the cutting edge was a biplane.

      That's almost 100 years and they haven't even figured out how to be civil, much less have access to 70 year old technology.