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  1. Re:Good. on Poachers Are Trying To Hack Animal Tracking Systems (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And the rednecks are still surprised that others consider them stupid. Wolves are generally not a danger to people. There are exceptions, but they are so rare that they are borderline apocryphal. I blame red riding hood for the notion that wolves consider humans prey. Bears, on the other hand, are indeed dangerous but normally tend to avoid humans, so the probability to be killed by a lightning strike is higher.

  2. Re: Rank reputable sources on Google's Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    You assume that farming in the north yields less only due to lower temperatures. It is a dumb assumption because north gets less sunlight as well. Even in a greenhouse the yields up north aren't even close and when you can get two-three harvests in the south, you will only get one in the north, with extensive greenhouse use maybe one and a half. The summers are short, the winters are long and dark. Even in autumn or spring you go to work and it is still dark and when you return from work it is dark again.

  3. Germany is rainy enough as it is.

  4. Re: So let's dig deeper.... on The City of Munich Might Stick With Linux (fsfe.org) · · Score: 2

    Why do you assume that just because you personally prefer linux, everyone else either does as well or is unwilling to learn? I personally develop for linux at work, but use windows at home mpst of the time even though i obviously know my way around linux. I simply prefer windows workflows, windows ui and windows font rendering.

  5. Re: Streisand Effect on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Handle A Bogus Copyright Infringement Notice? · · Score: 1

    Mine has two, one is actually a bluray writer. The one i use at work has one. My notebook has one in the docking station. My home server has one, although it might be replaced with another hotswap bay in the future.

  6. Re: Way to attack a strawman on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    This is actually how Germany is supposed to trade arms. But the situation escalated before any army got involved, in shootings between riot police and nationalists, and later when armed nationalists stormed government buildings despite a peaceful solution that was agreed upon by all sides - these people insisted on violence and still do, hence the continuing civil war despite, once again, a peaceful solution agreement. If the current government tries to implement their part of the agreement, the nationalists will rebel once again. And since their president owns some defence contractor business, he actively profits from a war.

  7. Re:One bitcoin is worth more than gold to idiots on One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:One bitcoin is worth more than gold to idiots on One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a box of 9x18 surplus where some corroded and leaked brownish crap.

  9. Re:facts vs sterotype on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    The hypocrisy is strong with this one. Raving about "full of shit liberal progressives" using "alt-right" as an emotional laden insult without even realising that you are using "liberal progressives" as the same kind of an insult. Screaming about left wing and right wing how they were supposed to be originally, but in fact stating that left wing were all the kinds of people you don't like and right wing are the kind you worship, which is certainly not how it used to be: communists, socialists, nazis, libertarians and anarchists did not exist at the time of national constituent assembly in 1789. The ideologies were founded in the 19th and the 20th centuries (1789 is the 18th century, in the very probable case you don't know that). The left side wanted a change from a monarchy to a republic (hence progressives), the right side were monarchists who wanted to keep things as they were (hence conservatives) and the centre which wanted both sides to get along (moderate constitutional monarchy). Last but not least, you want to forcefully imprison mentally ill people so they won't roam free in a free society (which is an oxymoron on its own) but you aren't institutionalised despite clearly suffering from a psychosis.

  10. Re:Way to attack a strawman on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    You do realise that the situation in the Ukraine escalated in first place because of firearm use? And then continued to escalate by people like you?

  11. Re:That org is garbage on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    A large amount of illegal firearms in the USA consists of stolen legal firearms. The abundance of legal firearms and the irresponsible carelessness of their owners seriously helps criminals.

  12. Re:That org is garbage on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    You both are talking about different branches of police. Beat cops prevent crime and disorder, criminal investigation police (aka police detectives) solves crimes and catches criminals.

  13. Re:If you can't mandate English in England.. on Uber Loses Legal Test Case Over Language (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously not forcing anyone to speak it privately, but I think it would go a long way towards ensuring a cultural assimilation and stamping out the kind of cultural ghettos that Europe seems to have problems with.

    Except most European countries do have official languages. Why do you think it would help in the USA if it doesn't help in Europe? Especially considering how USA has failed to integrate black people for over a century?

  14. Re: Newspeak is real on Uber Loses Legal Test Case Over Language (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe in your country, but not in mine. Here a taxi is a legally a car that transports a customer to place of the customer's choice for a fee. Livery service is, hence, a subtype of a taxi

  15. Re:One bitcoin is worth more than gold to idiots on One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They only last if stored under ideal conditions. If subjected to moisture, bullets and casings corrode, primer decay leading to hang fires and complete duds. Nitrocellulose degrades with time, leaking nitric acid, leading to dead primers and, well, spontaneous combustion. The propellant is usually mixed with a stabiliser, but the stabiliser tends to deplete after a while. Subjected to warmth all this happens a lot of faster.

  16. No it doesn't. Capitalism is just fine with a handful of people owning most of the wealth of the mankind which does not ensure the greatest possible wealth for mankind, but only for a small part of it. It also not nearly as efficient as your religious beliefs make it appear to you because concentrated wealth removes a large part of it from the economy. Less wealthy people don't sit on their money, they consume and that is what keeps an economy afloat.

  17. Re: What is their time when they are fired? on Fed Up Indian IT Professionals Want To Be Able To Leave Their Jobs Sooner (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    This is completely unrelated to severance time and happens in Europe just as well because trendy managers love to copy American bad habits.

  18. Re:One bitcoin is worth more than gold to idiots on One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    But bullets magically would continue to work, right?
    And no, they aren't a good commodity - they have a limited shelf life and the technology to make new ones for the same kind of firearms would not be possible in a non-industrialised world. Bullets for an arquebus, on the other hand, is just cast lead. Salpeter would become a strategic chemical again.

  19. Re:One bitcoin is worth more than gold to idiots on One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Given that gold has been valuable for thousands of years, way before industrialisation, I'd say you are wrong. Gold has several properties that make it useful - it is non-reactive, corrosion resistant, quite biocompatible (has been used by dentists for centuries), an excellent conductor and so on.

  20. Re: People still use AIM? on AOL Is Cutting Off Third-Party App Access To AIM (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't login to my icq account anymore because I kinda stopped talking to other people about two years ago, but still remember my uin by heart :-)

  21. Re:Uber need to get a clue. on Uber Says Thousands of London Drivers Threatened By English Language Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. A majority is over 50%. Merkel was not appointed as chancellor because CDU had a majority of seats - these days are long gone. A coalition of CDU and SPD had a majority. In case of Hitler there was no majority, but back then a president had much more power.

  22. Germans tend to rent because a house can easily be worth a decade of salary even in the less expensive areas, partly because the wages aren't as high as they used to be. Germany is doing fine on paper, but only a third of the population actually profits, the rest has as much, or less than 20 years ago.

  23. It is negligence per definition in absence of a technical problem or driver falling unconcious due to a sudden medical problem. How else one is supposed to lose control of the car?

  24. Re: Overboard, Sad! on Man Gets 30 Days In Jail For Drone Crash That Knocked Woman Unconscious (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The drone operator got lucky that the boyfriend of the injured woman acted quickly. People routinely die when they fall to the ground and hit their heads. Hence only 30 days, not a few years of prison. A car driver losing control and injuring a pedestrian would serve more time.

  25. Re: Should have listened on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    More like they didn't want you, considering that you are so butthurt about it.