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  1. Anecdote! on Studies Are Increasingly Clear: Uber, Lyft Congest Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Anecdotally I only use Lyft/Uber in place of overpriced/unreliable taxis. I would not even begin to think of using them in place of buses, walking, subway, or whatever.

  2. Re:...and Kim is to blame on North Korea Is Blackmailing Top South Korean Online Retailer For $2.66 Million (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    There are many people other than starving illiterate peasants and Party and military staff. None of those people have internet access except with permission of the Party and military staff, with tight monitoring of what is going on.

  3. If all you are doing is chopping up mono audio files then I am not sure why you need Pro Tools, large number of other products out there including free and or open source ones for Mac.

  4. Re:Statists will not go quietly into the night on Finnish Police: If You See Uber Car, Call 911 · · Score: 2

    In some parts of Romania (my only experience is in Cluj) Uber will not get much foothold because the regular cab companies already do everything Uber does and more (free wifi). They either have their own apps or you can call any time day or night and the fares are reasonable. Outside of Romania? I never use cabs anymore, only Uber.

  5. Re:Black and White? on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 2

    So you want some schools to be separate but equal. That worked wonderfully.

  6. Re:Standards on The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google · · Score: 2

    And Google is happy to let you take your data out of them.

    https://www.google.com/setting...

    Want out of the Google experience? Here is all your data available to take to your new service.

    I can not think of another company that offers anything remotely similar to this.

  7. Re:i'm thinking yet another linux distro on A New Homegrown OS For China Could Arrive By October · · Score: 1

    Red Flag Linux Closure on the exact page you linked

  8. Re:Are people not allowed to have opinions? on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When did marriage become a basic human right? Why is the government involved pro or con with it to begin with? Why is it only limited to two people?

  9. Re:Buddhism on UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars · · Score: 1

    I know you did not write that story but it was quite stupid, they had horses, which they could have killed and given the horse meat to the tiger, it was a valueless "sacrifice."

  10. Already Started maybe on US Postal Service To Make Sunday Deliveries For Amazon · · Score: 1

    I got a Sunday package delivery via USPS from Newegg.

    https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction_input?origTrackNum=4200705492748901015478100001164480

    the 10th(yesterday) was a Sunday, kind of weirded me out when I got a knock on my door and a package was dropped off.

  11. Re:It's not just China.. on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    The official language of China is Standard Chinese aka Mandarin. The official language of the United States is... oh wait, there isn't one.

  12. Re:good on MySQL Man Pages Silently Relicensed Away From GPL · · Score: 4, Informative

    MySQL was always dual licensed, they always required copyright to be assigned to them for contributions so they could monetize it on the side.

  13. Re:Free mobile version costs $500 on Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication · · Score: 1

    Not true, you can run it in an Android development emulator.

  14. Re:Airline security? on High Security Handcuffs Opened With 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys · · Score: 1

    Don't fly to Florida with that key in your pocket

    http://law.onecle.com/florida/crimes/843.021.html

    Could be construed as "Unlawful possession of a concealed handcuff key"

    A homeless man was picked up with a handcuff key on a necklace and charged under that law.

    "including, but not limited to" is pretty broad

  15. Re:Captive Portals Do That You Know? on Some Hotspot Operators Secretly Intercept, Insert Ads In Web Pages · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hint, that is a word. From Merriam Webster

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

    "The most frequently repeated remark about it is that âoethere is no such word.â There is such a word, however."

    Just because you choose to not recognize it, even though you understand perfectly what he meant by it, shows your ignorance. By the way, ain't is a word too, well a contraction at any rate.

  16. Re:Don't honk the horn on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 2

    He did indicate it was in the rain, possibly was skidding after applying the brake and honking was the only thing left to do as a warning that she was out of control.

  17. Re:When I was in High School... on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The bible is one of the most pornographic and violence filled books ever.

    Two of the more pornographic passages, yes the second one is incest, no it is not taken out of context in the least.

    Ezekiel 23:20
    There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

    Genesis 19:32
    Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

  18. Re:Good Fucking Luck on Wil Wheaton's New Show: Tabletop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is mostly only a problem in the US. In Essen Germany there is a yearly games trade fair/convention called Spiel that attracts over 150,000 people a year. Semi comparable conventions in the US get 14k for Origins or 37k for GenCon. Spiel is much more of a marketplace compared to people actually playing games at Gencon or Origins. Just another number to throw in, PAX attracts about 70k gamers.

    Spiel is a family event and the games being marketed there are definitely not your average superstore games shelf fodder like Monopoly, Hi Ho! Cherry-O, or Jersey Shore trivia game. Though some have have gotten better about this and now carry others like Catan, Carcassonne and Race for the Galaxy.

  19. Re:Our whole calendar is messed up. on The Math of Leap Days · · Score: 1

    Every month has 28 days.

  20. Re:and where is exactly the problem? on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Malaysia is a Sharia law country, if you are fleeing from Muslim authorities this is the last kind of place you go.

  21. Re:Leave search alone on Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace To Google: Don't Be Evil · · Score: 2

    add "&tbs=li:1" to the end of the URL, without the quotes of course

  22. Re:I believe it on TSA Makes $400K Annually In Loose Change · · Score: 1

    Never been ripped off by a bank as much as I was when I had an account at a credit union.

  23. Re:Fisher Technik on Ask Slashdot: Entry-Level Robotics Kits For Young Teenagers? · · Score: 1

    Also absolutely expensive

    This post is nothing more than an ad for his ios game.

  24. Re:Tree style tabs on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 1

    Nothing bugs me more than wasted real estate on the sides.Tree view tabs, even opening a ton of sites only go down half way then it is empty space to the bottom, in addition to all the websites that have a sidebar on them, like Slashdot. I much rather run with two browsers open side by side, or a browser and anything else rather than using up 1680 wide just for a browser or even worse 1920 and this is with dual monitors as well. I also find it much easier to eat up top or bottom real estate and scroll up and down than to eat up sides and then either have to expand the browser to the full width of my monitor or scroll side to side, one of which is very wasteful and the other just doesn't flow right for me.