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  1. Re:That is so not absurd. on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead, automated license plate readers would scan the cars driving down streets known to have a prostitution problem, and the letters would be sent to the address associated with those vehicles.

    Automated iris recognition scanning software should then be used to identify all milk drinkers as children, as a very high percentage of pedophiles drank milk as children.

    And what about the people who live there? Often elderly respectable people are left in areas which have become red-light districts, Sharia zones, or other undesirable areas through no fault of their own,

  2. Re:It reminds me on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    . false positives are guaranteed to happen.

    Like the Paediatrician attacked by semi-literate vigil-antis who thought that it meant the same as Paedophile!

  3. Re:Just checking on Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    It's still illegal to shoot patent trolls on sight?

    It infringes my patent on means to destroy vermin .... oh wait, put that gun down!

  4. They will implement it on Italy Invests 150 Million Euros In Surveillance, With Emphasis On PS4 Chats (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    They will implement it ... just after the PS5 comes out

  5. Well the muslims have their filthy prayer to satan on Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode (thenextweb.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well the muslims have their filthy prayer to satan in unicode. That'smuch worse than a condom

  6. Re:just use cash and no cell phone on It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 1

    in NYC you can find a basement to rent in a private home for cash and a lot of times a minimal background check.

    Can you really? In the UK the checks that landlords must provide are far form minimal. I'm pretty sure you could find places to rent that didn't do this, but I don't think they'd be in the best parts of town!

  7. Re:Sounds like a good idea. on Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is pretty much what university students in the UK have had since the early 2000's, but without offering different terms for different fields. Instead, some career paths, e.g. nursing, are incentivised with bursaries.

    It comes at a cost though. The UK government believes that around 45% of university graduates will not earn enough to repay their student loans. Of course almost all will pay some, and a lot will pay most of it - but there is an outstanding bill. In the UK the government (i.e. taxpayers) underwrites student loans and will pick this up ,,, I'm not sure what will happen in the USA - or if they will just charge a lot more to those who earn more to make it cost neural.

  8. that's strange - everygets one worse than official on VW Officials Knew Since Last Year of Misleading Fuel Economy Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    everyone I know who has a VW, or has had one in the past 10 years (around 8 or so) has all gotten BETTER than advertized MPGs.

    Its funny, maybe it is a US vs Europe thing but I've never known anyone get anything near the official MPG. There is an interesting paper from the European Federation for Transport and Environment which shows that the average difference is now 36%, and that despite real world MPG scarecly improving since 2012 the manufacturers claims continued to reduce. Strangely VW is far from the worst, being bang on average with a difference of 36% from real world figures, whereas Daimler manages a 48% difference.

  9. Re:"Incorrect" MPG numbers on VW Officials Knew Since Last Year of Misleading Fuel Economy Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In the United States, it is illegal for a car manufacturer to advertise any fuel efficiency number other than the one determined by the EPA.

    Even running an ad campaign to the effect of "Hey, the EPA says that this car gets 45 MPG, but our testing says it's more like 42. Just thought you should know." would be a crime.

    TTIP will put that right. You will have to accept figures determined by the appropriate agencies of any TTIP signatory.

  10. I'm sure horse dealers avoided selling cars... on Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Im sure horse dealers avoided selling cars for the same reason. Much less after-sales in terms of feed, medicine, and other supplies.

  11. Muslim engineers are MANY times more likely on Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected To Become Terrorists (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Muslim engineers are MANY times more likely. How many non-Muslim engineers have become terrorists?

  12. Re:When guns are outlawed on Australian State Bans Possession of Blueprints For 3D Printing Firearms (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 5, Funny

    When guns are outlawed

    Only outlaws will have guns.

    Worse. When technology is outlawed, only outlaws will have technology. It will probably be illegal to develop an injection rifle for a wildlife doctor as well.

    I can't help wondering .... if laws were outlawed would only outlaws have laws?

  13. I suspect that the "anonymous" attacks are .. on How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I suspect that the "anonymous" attacks are the intelligence agencies. My thoughts were that they can find thousands of accounts with maybe a 5% error rate. They cannot get a warrant with that, and don't want complaints of "you brought down my legitimate site" so they just have an "anonymous" announcement that they will do it.

  14. Misread title as "underwear drones" and already got excited that for once there's something new to read. Such a shame, underwear drones sounds like a much more fun topic than underwater drones.

    You are obviously not the first person to find this topic fun.

  15. Re:Quicker on Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks · · Score: 1

    As usual, Anonymous members are quicker to respond to threats than investigators

    That's because they don't have any requirement to perform due diligence or, well, investigate anything. Investigators do. Anonymous are more like instigators.

    I'm rather hoping that since a Jewish owned theatre was targeted Mossad will get revenge too.

  16. They've been saying this since the 1970s, with all sorts of forecasts of 15 hour weeks. Yet there are many millions now in work compared to the 1970s and everyone's working longer hours than ever.

    In the 1970s they assumed that everyone would work less. What happened is that some work more than ever and others don't work at all.

  17. I hope this doesn't compromise overall performance on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 1

    This optimisation caters for a niche (admittedly a relatively large one) where there are relatively few queries but large ones. A more typical usage is where there are many smaller queries. I hope that this does not compromise the total throughput, so that the total parallelisation of multiple concurrent queries is not slowed to allow parallelisation withing individual queries. Either that or it should be a switchable option.

  18. Re:Tech jobs aare perfect for women on Boot Camps Introducing More Women To Tech (dice.com) · · Score: 0

    No physical labor required and they can spend 90% of the day being unproductive gossiping with cube-mates.

    ... while their male colleagues spend 90% of the day being unproductive and posting to Slashdot .... oh wait, back to work!

  19. Re:And asks them on Boot Camps Introducing More Women To Tech (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    And asks those women, DO YOU LIKE MY GREAT BIG COCK?!

    No, that's the poultry farming boot-camp.

  20. I think there is a whole other space race on The Two Modern Space Races (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    India, China, and possibly Japan have a definite competition going on.

  21. Re:Whereas this can be seen as a good thing on Persian Gulf Temperatures May Be At the Edge of Human Tolerance In 30 Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Whereas this can be seen as a good thing I worry that the same thing could happen to non-Muslim areas too like India

    Good as long as we stop them from coming here!

  22. Re:Horrible name, still 15-20 years out on British Spaceplane Skylon Could Revolutionize Space Travel (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    1. Skylon? Terrible name, sounds stupid 2. Great idea and hope they get it off the ground, but it's going to take another 15-20 years before this thing is doing anything but R&D and test flights. Getting the funding is going to take them half that time.

    It's even older than that

  23. Re:All Robocalls should be illegal on Senators Attempting To Remove Robocall Loophole · · Score: 1

    It is only illegal to spoof the Caller ID for calls originating in the United States. Most debt collectors use offshore call centers and are therefore not required to transmit Caller ID.

    E

    Seriously? And are most American's happy to send money to an agency that contacted them via an offshore number?

  24. Why would anyone go for a Holiday in a Muslim coun on UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why would anyone go for a Holiday in a Muslim country? I mean going dresses as a Westerner is like walking through Harlam wearing a "KKK" badge, you know that everyone is going to hate you and someone could attack you.

  25. Maybe all top universities should study on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe all top universities should study Perfection Wasted by John Updike, and encourage online discussion. Just watch the demographic change and the measurement become useless.