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  1. Re:up to $1K on Tesla Rewards Hackers With Bug Bounty · · Score: 3, Insightful

    yeah, will never happen with their cars. way too much risk.

    never understood why companies don't pay out big $$ for these bugs. has to be worth way more than $1K to them.

  2. Re:Something to hide? on Tim Cook: "Weakening Encryption Or Taking It Away Harms Good People" · · Score: 1

    I am willing to argue that even criminal with evil intent have a right to privacy.

    And if you argue that far, then certainly a criminal WITHOUT evil intent has a right to privacy. Such as your average weed smoker, or Gay person in much of the world, or Pork eater in Israel military, or dude that ties his giraffe to a lamp post on Tuesdays

  3. Re:Something to hide? on Tim Cook: "Weakening Encryption Or Taking It Away Harms Good People" · · Score: 1

    I'm not able to parse your rant/post.

    Are you arguing that an average person must take it open themselves to understand encryption, IT security, best practices, and relevant tools, and be expected to implement a secure setup across all their devices on their network?

    Most people have limited to no ability to understand this, let along allocate the time to maintain a solution.

  4. Re:Top secret Dinosaur government project on How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds · · Score: 1

    Phase 2 of their program remains little known to this day. It involves them splicing in their old DNA into their bird DNA and growing large and menacing in the jungles of South America...and then spreading out in force and with speed to reclaim their planet.

  5. specific and ongoing on FBI Is Behind Mysterious Flights Over US Cities · · Score: 2

    The FBI says they're only used for investigations that are "specific" and "ongoing,"

    glad they're not using them for their nonspecific and already ended investigations.

  6. Re:Trolleys and electric companies on Mercedes-Benz Copies Tesla, Plans To Offer Home Energy Storage · · Score: 2

    I think alot of people don't remember/realize that in the 1920's the most common car was an electric car.

  7. Re:Follow the money. on Carnegie Mellon Struggles After Uber Poaches Top Robotics Researchers · · Score: 1

    the last DARPA car contest was in 2006...but yeah...Google poached a bunch of people following that contest.

  8. Re:Follow the money. on Carnegie Mellon Struggles After Uber Poaches Top Robotics Researchers · · Score: 1

    while it's good to see corporate investment, it's a bit sad to see because CMU is established and has a long term focus on autonomy/robotics, whereas Uber is a new company that recently focused on Autonomy, and it could go under, be legislated away, or shift business focus at the drop of a dime.

  9. Re:CSV on Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent · · Score: 1

    what's a music file...doesn't everything just stream in as needed?

  10. Re:faster than light never violates Relativity on Ways To Travel Faster Than Light Without Violating Relativity · · Score: 4, Funny

    must I do it with a pair if scissors, or can I just use one?

  11. Re:What is the difference of these 2 positions? on Apple Design Guru Jony Ive Named Chief Design Officer · · Score: 1

    I would hate to have unlimited time off. For me that turns into a guessing game of what's appropriate with a race to the bottom in all but the best corporate cultures. I bet if you look at the research, you would find that on average, people at jobs with unlimited time off take less than 4 wks vacation a year.

    Keep in mind though, I do get unlimited PTO for illness. The 4 wks is specifically for vacation. And there's also additional time off for national holidays.

  12. I suspect my local McDs is traveling at 80% the speed of light!!! So I have to drive even faster than that to get to it!!

    I just haven't found the right frame of reference in which I can prove it.

  13. Re:What is the difference of these 2 positions? on Apple Design Guru Jony Ive Named Chief Design Officer · · Score: 1

    totally. i have 4 wks vacation also. i've walked from offers when they couldn't match that.

    everything being equal, i'd take less pay before i'd take less vacation time.

  14. work in europe? on Apple Design Guru Jony Ive Named Chief Design Officer · · Score: 1

    then he can get 6 wks leave...

    but seriously...the 3 wks is probably just notional anyhow...i doubt people in his position ever stop working.

  15. equality on Apple Design Guru Jony Ive Named Chief Design Officer · · Score: 1

    equality with the other C level executives...that's what this is about...giving him a C-level position.

  16. natural learning on Elon Musk Establishes a Grade School · · Score: 1

    This is the natural way in which children learn in society for all of history...until perhaps the past 100 years...by helping to solve problems that needed solving in their family and community, taking on roles that were appropriate for their age and ability...much better than sitting down for rigid teaching lessons...at least for me.

  17. Re:Wow ... no kidding on Elon Musk Establishes a Grade School · · Score: 4, Insightful

    hard to see this as a PR stunt. he's revolutionized online payments, fired rockets into space and built the best car on the market (consumer reports + consumers)...don't think he needs the PR from a 20 person school.

    i suspect he's just doing something that he thinks is cool and could help educate.

  18. due to time dilation, wouldn't those hundreds of millions of years (from our frame of reference) quoted in the summary be a much much shorter time window of from the reference from of the matter circling the black hole and emitting radiation just beyond it's event horizon? So that its' not the length of time that is unexpected, in some real sense, but the degree of time dilation? For all we know, it could have been a few moments of activity from that perspective.

  19. Re:Puzzled on Largest Eruption In the Known Universe Is ~100 Times the Size of Milky Way · · Score: 3, Funny

    it does seem to work like this, with bodies of larger mass being attracted to it with greater force!

  20. way off on your $5K estimate on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1

    I recently sued someone for fraud and was quoted $30K to $50K for going to trial and this wasn't a super complicated case...so $100K isn't so crazy. Consider an average lawyer making $330/hr and you're at $5K with only 15 hrs of work. Enough to start doing research and begin drafting a complaint at most.

  21. sounds like a crowd funded effort is needed on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1

    but 100,000 people could certainly afford $1 to show this fucker the door.

  22. Re:Unless it was part of a contract..... on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1

    Speaking of legalities, wouldn't the right recourse for a principal who thinks the student is intentionally violating school copyright to file a civil complaint and not to suspend them or kick them out of school? Seems like he's using suspending the student as a punishment for "not doing what I want".

  23. Re:Americans have no loyalty on DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect · · Score: 1

    they should bring back public execution or torture for this dude.

  24. upper crust on DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect · · Score: 1

    apparently it was an area of DC where you always find the upper crust

  25. Re:Stupid reasoning. on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    that's a disturbed, confused perspective. i can only imagine you are just provoking and don't actually believe it as you posted as a coward.