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  1. Whereas "footprint" should be "fingerprint."
    Sorry, blood sugar issues.

  2. Someone who claims that a 3D printer "footprint" is conclusive evidence linking anything to anyone, has no concept of modern manufacturing, utilizing CNC machines.

    Aside from that, unlike a test-firing of a metal firearm, a 3D printer can be adjusted by law enforcement to print in a particular fashion.

  3. Without Repair There IS Not Innovation on Is Repair As Important As Innovation? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    How could you make the next thing without knowing the current thing?

  4. Re:Does magneto-optical tape exist? on The Future of the Cloud Depends On Magnetic Tape (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oddly, either that or DVD/CD tape was used in the 1980s move Brainstorm. It looked really cool, if you think about the density.
    https://reellibrarians.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/brainstorm-closeup.jpg

  5. More Scooters - Less Cars on Driverless Car Hype Gives Way To E-Scooter Mania Among Technorati (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Even gas scooter get 92MPG (Piaggio Liberty 150)
    Many motorcycles get 65MPG.

    Make things safer for pedestrians, bicyclists, scooterists, and motorcyclists.

    Reduction of Preventable Bicycle, Motorcycle, and Small Vehicle Hazards

    Signaling
    No traffic light may ever direct a motorist to drive toward a pedestrian.
    Currently, many traffic lights direct left-turning traffic to cross while the pedestrian is directed to walk. While many drivers yield, often the motorist will false-start when/if they notice the pedestrian.
    All traffic lights must detect even a composite bicycle, or not utilize detection at all.
    Cyclists of all kinds cannot be expected to wait indefinably at an intersection for a traffic light that will never change for them, thereby placing them at increased risk of a rear-end collision.

    Infrastructure and Construction
    The road surface must be safe for 2 wheeled vehicles as well as 4 wheel vehicles.
    Painted and applied lines and markings must have and maintain a non-slip surface.
    The current markings are too smooth. When they become wet, clearly they dangerous to those who ride motorcycles, scooters, and bicycles. A little sand mixed into the marking paint will make them reliable.
    Roads must not be made with groves parallel to the road direction.
    Road cuts should have a minimum angle as not to deflect wheels.
    Curb construction should not meet the road where a bicycle is expected to be ridden.
    This dangerous construction technique is used throughout Campbell and San Jose. Obviously, storm drains must be safe for cyclists/motorcyclists to cross.
    All steel plates used for temporary construction must have a textured pattern on them such as diamond plate to reduce wheel slippage.
    Often, cold-patch asphalt is used to create a ramp at the edge of the plate, which creates an oily surface on a slick metal plate.

    Post-Accident Refuse
    Any accident where a vehicle part touches the road surface must be reported.
    The road area must be inspected and signed off by authorities after an accident has occurred.
    The roads are often littered with fragments from car accidents.
    [In the cleanup of Los Gotos creek trail, volunteers found most of the front end bodywork of a Mitsubishi: nose, signal lights, fenders, ect.

    Dooring
    Drivers must be held responsible for doorings, where an automobile is opened into a moving bicyclist’s or motorcyclist’s path.
    A motorcyclist or bicyclist often cannot see into the car because of a total internal reflection condition exists with the side windows. A cars and trucks have a side mirror, which can be used to see if the way is clear before opening the door. It is impossible to stop a vehicle as fast as someone can open it into passing traffic.
    Accident Violations Should Be Higher for Drivers Who Strike a Pedestrian, Cyclist, or Motorcyclist, who do not have a roll-cage around them.

    Bicycle Theft
    In larger cities, a task force, should be set up to reduce bicycle thieves.
    It would be beneficial if larger cites if larger cities were the place where your bicycle is safer, than more likely to be stolen.
    Moving Vehicle Violations
    The operators of all vehicles who fail to use signals, follow too close, and use cellphones while driving, need to be reduced.

    Licensing
    Drivers need to be educated and tested about cyclists, motorcyclists, and pedestrians.
    Many drivers remain unaware that bicyclists have a right to be on the road.

    Hand Signals
    Bicyclists cannot be expected to use a stop while stopping.
    It is nearly impossible to safely stop a bicycle without having both hands on the bars.
    The current hand scheme better suits drivers than cyclists, scooterists, and motorcyclists. Simply pointing where you intend to go, with coarse arm motions is far more visible than signaling with fine hand motions.

  6. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly on YouTube is Down · · Score: 0

    In all seriousness, I turned it on accidentally, but now I accept that it makes my posts more visible.

    And go take a big steaming crap for yourself.

  7. Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly on YouTube is Down · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any site can experience downtime, but when everyone depends on any one system too much, it's bad.

    I do worry as to the cause.

  8. Never Buy Anything Sony on Sony Tries Using Blockchain Tech For Next-Gen DRM (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't support them, they will find something else to do instead of making DRM and patented media formats.

    Please don't feed the bears.

  9. Tired of Marketing People Designing Computers on Samsung Says Its Foldable Phone Will Be a Tablet You Can Put In Your Pocket (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Curved and folding screens aren't going solve anything. They are just going to make phones and tablets more fragile so people break them and have to buy more.

    I hate the aspect ratio on my Galaxy Note 8 (replacement phone). If you look closely, at the curved edges, you can see a blue line at each side. What an achievement. : P

    Morons!

  10. Ajit Pai Must Go! on FCC Tells Court It Has No 'Legal Authority' To Impose Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    File the attacks against Net Neutrality as "Clear Result of Corporate Payoff."
    Ajit Pai is slime.

  11. Message to Flash-in-the-pan Types on Firefox Removes Core Product Support For RSS/Atom Feeds (gijsk.com) · · Score: 1

    Message to Flash-in-the-pan Developers: Just because it seems cool, or everyone else is doing it, doesn't mean it adds value.

    I still remember when Firefox was a 5mb download.

  12. Driverless Cars Solve No Problem. on Waymo's Driverless Cars Have Logged 10 Million Miles On Public Roads (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    First minutes of a real war, and our GPS systems will be down.

  13. U.S. Should Only Build 100% Metric Rockets on The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built For the Next Decade (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    There is a pyramid of subcontractors that are also feed the prime contractors. No one wants SAE/US-CU based products. Lastly, we cannot have an entire country illiterate to measuring.

  14. Biggest Issue in US! Not! on More Than One Third of Music Consumers Still Pirate Music (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Rearrange those Titanic deckchairs.

  15. People Would Also Repair Broken Phones on Apple Said To Have 'Dramatically Reduced' Multi-Billion-Dollar iPhone Repair Fraud in China (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Come-on people, there are two sides to this coin.

  16. Driverless Cars Cost Jobs, Decrease Safety on Fully Self-Driving Cars May Hit US Roads in Pilot Program: NHTSA (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Ask any elevator operator.

  17. Know anyone?

  18. We're All Beta Testers, Now on Windows 10 October 2018 Update is Deleting User Data For Many (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    It used to be that there were consequences to releasing buggy software, but now 1.x releases are about as good as .1 were.

  19. Seems Reasonable to Discourage DOS Bots on California Bans Default Passwords on Any Internet-Connected Device (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I am sure that the IOT'mania crowd may not like this, but the internet is worth protecting.

  20. What a stupid, brainless, irresponsible option to put on Disk Cleanup, which traditionally, was for cleaning your system files.

    BTW, that last update was 38GB. Really, does it seem reasonable that an operating system would take up 9 DVD's WTF?

  21. Self Driving Cars Solve No Society Problem on Honda Will Use GM's Self-Driving Technology, Invest $750 Million In Cruise Startup (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Self driving cars have not evolved to not do stupid things such as not hit pedestrians, parked cars, and pedestrians.
    Drivers need jobs.
    Many people like driving cars.
    If there is a real war, GPS satellites will likely be destroyed, leaving an entire nation stranded and unable to produce product.

  22. Insurrection Coordination System on New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If things don't go Trump's want he likely will start an uprising against the United States.

  23. Chrome, for Hearding the Ignorant on Google Updates Chrome Web Store Review Process and Sets New Extension Code Requirements (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Just lock people into the internet is yours, Google.

  24. Either Apple Mouse or Low Latency Kernal Switch on Linux Kernel Finally Nearing Support For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2, Thanks To a Google Employee (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I would rather have a single line for low-latency kernel for real-time applications such as recording your music and milling parts for the things you like.

    Right now, a kernel has to be compiled with setting switched on, needlessly bifercating distros.

  25. Facebook is somewhat less than respectable for privacy.