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  1. Canadians can zipper just fine.

    USA... biggest problem (besides irrational competition when it doesn't matter) is that the current "war on police" means no more traffic enforcement. Drivers have gone from thoughtful to senseless to hazardous.

  2. Except that it's no longer the USA. No megacorp really has a home country any more. They play countries against each other for the best profit.

  3. Re:Title is misleading on The Bizarre Reactor Scientists Hope Will Save Fusion Research (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We blew $5 trillion on useless wars and $20 trillion so that wall street could get some short term bonuses. A billion dollar fusion engine isn't even a rounding error.

  4. You forgot about water for half of the west coast. We had a great place for storage in Nevada until politics killed it.

  5. Re:That cuts both ways on In 26 Hours, Sick Newborns Go From Genome Scan To Diagnosis (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    Crapulence? Methinks you have zero experience with it. I've worked internationally (including several years in Canada) and socialized medicine is better quality yet half the total cost for 95% of citizens. Capitalism doesn't work when you can't shop around... and even if you could, how long will you shop around and ask for quotes while you're child is screaming bloody murder due to a broken arm? Medicine and Capitalism are oil and water.

  6. Re:sTEM on Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law · · Score: 1

    Agreed on the corporate giveaway for slave labor.

    However... few people can effectively program. That's really Software Engineering which is very distinct from Computer Science, though there is more crossover than in other disciplines.

  7. Re:Hipsters fight over limited supplies of juice on Charge Rage: Electric Cars Are Making People Meaner In California · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So let them pay for the charging spot. Running wire is pretty cheap.

  8. Re:Have the FBI or DEA EVER been punished? on FBI and DEA Under Review For Misuse of NSA Mass Surveillance Data · · Score: 1

    Never, because they work for the doj, who in turn work for politicians.

  9. Re:Its all in the taxes and incentives. on How Wind and Politics Pushed the Price of Texas Electricity Below Zero · · Score: 1

    Which is great news! Texas is ahead of the world now in being prepared for the huge increase in electricity usage that good electric cars will cause.

    Cart before the horse - and likely decades and tens of billions of dollars before the need is there. What a waste. And that's the tragic part... wind/solar are currently a massive waste of resources.

  10. Re:I have a feeling that on Apple's First Android App, Move To iOS, Is Getting Killed With One-Star Reviews · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Apple is about toys and status. Android is about work. Most people avoid work.

  11. Re:This subject is work. on EU Court: Commuting to Customer Sites Counts as Work · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What it means is that business processes will change because they finally have to pay for another part of "work" rather than get it for free.

  12. Re:How about take away their guns. on New Tech Puts the Brakes On Bullets Fired From Police Sidearms · · Score: 3

    Both those arguments are false.
    1. Brandishing is a serious offense and punishable with a year of jail (in my state).
    2. You never know intent. Action, OTOH, separates citizens and criminals.

  13. Re:How about take away their guns. on New Tech Puts the Brakes On Bullets Fired From Police Sidearms · · Score: 1, Informative

    The only way to disarm criminals is arm citizens. And let the police do their damn job instead of whining about another thug being shot.

    You can't even guarantee most guns can even consistently fire (except for Glock), this looks like more of the tech-solves-everything blind faith.

  14. Re:Translated on 10 Major Automakers Agree To Include Automatic Emergency Braking On New Vehicles · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a next step, but this one is just another way to interfere with a driver. My traction control system tries to murder me at least twice every winter.

  15. Re:Major disconnect from layers on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Snarky, but that really hits things on the head. Simply put, people smart enough to be in IT can do far better in other jobs (money, social level). Western civilization simply doesn't value engineers (except maybe for Germany).

  16. Re:Expect major BIAS on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 2

    The A-10 flat out works. And its cheap. All units should be shifted to the Army... it's the grunts on the ground that appreciate air cover that works (and doesn't accidentally kill them).

  17. Re:The cars can detect gestures. on When Should Cops Be Allowed To Take Control of Self-Driving Cars? · · Score: 1

    You missed the point - people get pulled over, and not just for traffic issues. Not to mention that AI is far away from being a good driver, as Google causing a dozen accidents can attest to. Sure they followed the law, but not the reality.

    And the "search for money" is politicians, not police. Put the blame on the source.

  18. Re:The cars can detect gestures. on When Should Cops Be Allowed To Take Control of Self-Driving Cars? · · Score: 1

    That could work. Police need the ability to pull over a car - it's a function of their job. However, the other questions are irrelevant to automated cars, instead general questions of search and seizure.

  19. both on Who Makes the Decision To Go Cloud and Who Should? · · Score: 1

    First, "techies" is like calling a manager a "flunky". Insulting.

    Second, this has to be a 2 way conversation. The #1 benefit of "Cloud" is cost scope control - you can't customize it so business has a hard line instead of pushing IT for endless enhancements. As for "can or can't", provide managers rough estimates and high level todo's as to what it'll take to get there. There is never "we can't", there's "it'll cost this much" which will make then choke and chose a wiser path.

  20. Re:Waste Disposal on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    Waste collectors have already dropped by 50% in many places because the garbage can is picked up by a robotic arm. The human drives the truck.

    Problem is, though that guy is now 2x more productive, I bet his wages didn't budge an inch. Even accounting for the $10k robotic arm.

  21. Re:Ulterior motive implied on Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router · · Score: 2

    Why not just add a gb or two for cache on the router? That'll speed up streaming for us, and google could store advertisements on it that would otherwise take more bandwidth.

  22. Re:oh boy here we go. on Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals · · Score: 3

    Those who forget history are doomed to relive the worst parts.

  23. Re: He's got company on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but would he cause another Great Depression like the last war monger?

  24. $10k is extremely cheap when you are looking at speeding up a multi-TB database with a 100+ queries per second 24/7.

  25. Re:Bittorrent "members"...? on BitTorrent To RIAA: You're 'Barking Up the Wrong Tree' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They aren't clueless. They are evil.