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  1. Re:What they really need on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    The streets of Seattle were built with Seattle property taxes. For bikes and streetcars. Cars didn't arrive in Seattle until quite late.

    The streets are maintained and built with Seattle property taxes.

    So, stop using my roads, suburban tax-subsidized car drivers!

  2. Re:What they really need on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1, Informative

    In Seattle it is actually slower to drive in the city than to bike.

    That's on purpose.

    Stop driving. Stop expecting the city to pay for your tax-subsidized car lifestyle.

  3. Re:What they really need on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 2

    you guys voted down better transit. So we in Seattle only funded it within the actual city.

    No free ride for the suburbs.

    Sux 2BU.

  4. Re:if you like your soul, you can keep it on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    wow man, 56k dialup forever! the soul of a high tech city. wow.

    makes me pine away for the 4Mbps comcast cable we had in the heart of silicon valley.

    You can get 100 Gbps on campus and 40 Gbps campus-wide at the UW in Seattle.

    Makes your 4 Mbps look like treacle.

  5. More like $650k on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can't really get a decent place for $500k in Seattle.

    Now if only we would permit Tiny Houses in the driveways of retired SFH zoned properties, so they could keep their house, and rent/lease the land, people could easily buy a Tiny House for $30k and have equity in the actual house. This would double population but allow people to keep their older giant houses with unused garages that they no longer use.

    Most of use use transit, bike, or walk to work here. Car driving is something the suburbanites do.

  6. Jail without Bail sharpens the Exec mind on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Just jail all the senior execs in solitary for 90 days, and then hold a public trial, after using their assets for the victims.

    That would help clarify whose responsibility it really is.

  7. Without fossil fuel subsidies, true in US/Canada on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 1

    Without the 95 percent of all tax subsidies and subsidized national and state land lease rates, this would be true in the US and Canada for both Wind and Solar.

    Both would be cheaper than heavily subsidized fossil fuels, including coal.

  8. How to get more women coders on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    1. Hire them. No, I don't care what your excuse is. No, I don't care what your HR execs and your frat brothers on the board tell you. Just do it.
    2. See 1.
    3. See 1.
    4. RTFM. See 1.
    5. Repeat as needed.

    Thus endeth the lesson.

  9. Re: Time to put on the tin foil hats on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I don't.

    Now ask me why you don't have 100 Gbps streaming in your house?

  10. Re: Time to put on the tin foil hats on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Valid point.

    Maybe a combination?

  11. Re: Time to put on the tin foil hats on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Why would I have Wi-Fi on my TV?

    No, why?

  12. Re: Time to put on the tin foil hats on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Behind my TV? RTFM. I said the actual modem/router that provides the Wi-Fi signal.

    But, good point, you could also invest in wall art that is foil-backed on the side where the LTE-U tower is located.

  13. Told you the US uses were illegal on EU Court of Justice Declares US-EU Data Transfer Pact Invalid · · Score: 1

    Next time listen.

    P.S.: Also illegal under the US/Canada Data Treaty. Canadians have constitutional rights to privacy too. They can't sign it away either.

  14. Continuum is great on From Microsoft, HoloLens VR Dev Kit, New Phones, Continuum · · Score: 1

    It's my favorite SyFy show.

  15. Re:Overrun on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or we could just beam signals at your towers, using thousands of transmitters known as wi-fi devices, forcing you to stop being a jerk.

  16. Time to put on the tin foil hats on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 0

    Actually, aluminum foil shields, wrapped around the parts of your Wi-Fi router that face outside your house (e.g. not blocking signals to the rest of the house), will give you a much cleaner signal, and prevent a lot of this interference. Also keep the wi-fi away from windows, where this kind of interception of signal occurs.

    If it looks strange, just take a cardboard box, cut it in parts that shield the same areas, and apply aluminum foil to those. Add pipe cleaners for a decorative touch.

    There, problem solved.

  17. Re:Canada has already rejected it on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 1

    Wrong. CPC acts for their Communist masters in China, not for Canada.

    I see you have never grown up in Canada, and believe the non-translateable labels of "socialist" "communist" etc. Parties, other than the Greens, don't really translate to US versions. For example, in BC the Liberals are the most conservative party, and are run by the right of center Social Credit Party remnants.

    I went to school (Capilano University, SFU, etc) with these people.

  18. Re:Canada on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry, but the other country and their countries, under TPP, can sue you for anything that restrains their trade, like environmental, health, or safety.

    Those get in the way of their profits.

  19. I had this happen with Blizzard and EA on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    Used my credit card to buy WOD, renew my annual subscription, and a gift sub for my son on the same day and they denied the charge, even though I had plenty of credit.

    Same happened with EA when on the same day I bought 2 expansions for the The Sims.

    Yes, I tend to do those ON THE SAME DAY WHEN A BIG DISCOUNT IS ANNOUNCED. Wonder why?

  20. Re:Canada on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 2

    It also outsources auto manufacturing and means Canadians won't be allowed to know the Country of Origin of their meat, chicken, milk, eggs, butter, or chalk substitute pretending to be milk.

    Or Americans.

  21. Re:Great. now we can vote the damn thing down on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 1

    especially lawyers. they're in the "outsourcing" group too.

  22. Canada has already rejected it on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 1

    The outgoing Communist Party of Canada (CPC) made the deal AFTER the election writ was dropped.

    The incoming NDP and Liberals have already announced they will walk away from the TPP.

    Dead trade deal.

    By the way, this will cost the US 500,000 jobs. Are you sure it's "such a good deal"?

  23. Re:will they "cost no more to" buy? on SolarCity Says It Has Produced the World's Highest Efficiency Solar Panel · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's the permits, the electric line hookups (inverters), the batteries and the labor that makes them expensive.

    As an example, I could buy solar panels for my house for $5000. Or I could buy the same quantity as part of the local Zoo, Aquarium, or Low Income Housing Project, where they're installed from the beginning with a few hundred panels, and that costs me $1200 plus I don't need to maintain them.

    Guess which one I chose in Seattle?

  24. Re:In other words: tradecraft on DARPA Is Looking For Analog Approaches To Cyber Monitoring · · Score: 2

    90 pct of all stolen mil data is due to cleared individuals doing stupid things.

    9 pct is due to human ops.

    Only 1 pct is due to technical means.

    Where do you think we should focus our resources?

  25. Re:In other words: tradecraft on DARPA Is Looking For Analog Approaches To Cyber Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Good point. Or we could just realize that Goths are serious. And should not be taunted, because bad stuff happens then.