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  1. Fair Enough on DoNotPay Bot Has Beaten 160,000 Traffic Tickets -- and Counting (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok, I read TFA, sue me. Sounds like the bot is just looking for technicalities that will void the ticket. Fair enough.Have you ever heard of a corporation that avoided some tax based on a technicality? I could think of a few.

    Better yet. Ever have a cop give you a ticket based on a technicality? I have.

    Technicalities are not reserved for use by only one side. They are fair game to all. Seems to me that this one is just making these technicalities available to all. Fair enough.

  2. In the Case of Prime on Chrome Bug Makes It Easy To Download Movies From Netflix and Amazon Prime · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This should be called a feature. Netflix advertises itself as a streaming service. Amazon Prime claims that you can "own" the movie. Problem is Prime is still just a streaming service. It's false advertising and the reason I don't use Prime for movies. If I "buy" a movie, I expect to be able to d/l to a portable drive so I can watch it when I don't have a data connection. If I subscribe to streaming service, I won't have that expecation.

  3. In the early 1980's one of my neighbors, a Honeywell employee, warned me that people could tell what I was printing out on my daisy-wheel printer just by listening through my open window. Apparently, each character of the Diablo 630 printer made a unique noise when struck.

    As I was only printing teaching instructions for using the accounting software I trained users on, I thanked him kindly for the warning and carried on.

  4. I've Been Doing This for Years on Mark Zuckerberg Tapes Over His Webcam. Should You? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    When people ask me why I put making tape over my camera lens, I reply "Because I'm smarter than you."

    Yeah, I'm an asshole.

  5. I've been to Perm. Not a pretty place. This robot had good sense to attempt to leave. It was probably on it's way to the airport a few miles outside of town. Headed to Moscow and civilization no doubt.

  6. I Did a Search for "Hilary Clinton Convictions" on There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    For some strange reason, I was unable to find that she has been convicted of any crime. Damn Google!

  7. The Power of the Wallet on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nick Denton and Gawker Media were found guilty in a Court of Law of invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Things they appear to have done many times before to many people. Most of the times they did these things, they got away with their terrible actions for various reasons. Mostly, they picked on people who could not afford to fight them. In these cases, it was Gawker who was harnessing the power of the wallet in, or out of the Courtroom.

    Please don't cry about how unfair it was that Theil could bring down Gawker with his money. It was Gawker that has been playing that game all along.

  8. Mother Saves the Daughter's Life on Woman Uses 'Hey Siri' To Call An Ambulance and Help Save Her Child's Life (networkworld.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Kudos to the mom for knowing how to save her child's life. This is important knowledge that every parent should possess and be able to put to use. Great job mom!

    Oh, and she called for an ambulance with her phone.

  9. Another Choice on Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about updating one of my machines to Win 10. A machine that usually only the kids used for browsing and other simple stuff. Then I realized that for my situation at hand, a Chromebook would be a much better option.

    Why go into all that Win 10 nonsense if the machine is only going to be used to watch Netflix, go on Instagram or pull up homework for school?

  10. Re:Is there anything magical about sleep? on Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In her new book, Arrianna Huffington says there is. http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Revolution-Transforming-Your-Night/dp/1101904003

    She's been doing the talk show circuit promoting the book and I thought you might find it interesting.

  11. Normal.

    He's only a few months older than I am and I look like shit too.

  12. Good Thing We Gave Them Tax Breaks on Apple Invests $1 Billion In Uber's Chinese Rival Didi (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    This is why I grind my teeth anytime someone says we can't tax the corporations or else they'll go somewhere else. They took their jobs to China. Now they take their investment dollars there too. Tax the shit out of them I say.

  13. If you have nothing to hide.. on Government Spy Truck Is Disguised As A Google Street View Car (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So if what this vehicle was doing was so above reproach, why disguise it's purpose? Oh, you mean, you have a reason to hide behind a facade, a LIE? Good going assholes.

    Really, can't tell the cops from the criminals these days.

  14. Re:Qualifications? on Judge Rodney Gilstrap Sees A Quarter Of The Nation's Patent Cases (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    While I agree with your point that neither the summary or the TFA go into much detail as to the resolutions or outcomes of all this litigation, I would suggest that he probably sees very, very few legitimate patent cases.

    One does not go to the Eastern District of Texas for legitimate reasons. One goes there to have their trollish behavior approved and supported with a rubber stamp.

  15. What are these "bundles" of which you speak? And why would have any interest in them at all?

  16. Cheap Bastards.

  17. If like me you are old enough to know what a horn ring is, you may have encountered the dilemma I once faced. Approaching a curve while her hair was caught in the horn ring. What a decision...

  18. Rule #1 on Europe Is Going After Google For Anti-Competitive Behavior With Android · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you have any respect at all for your own credibility, do not quote Florian Mueller. I'd say he's an ass, but that would be disrespectful to the Donkey.

  19. Isn't this the same way IBM's LOC payment system worked?

  20. Pollution in China on Over 80 Percent of China's Well Water Is Polluted (voanews.com) · · Score: 2

    There is widespread pollution in China.

    Film at 11:00.

  21. No More Videos! on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 1

    Yeah!!! I hate videos. I hate seeing links to them. Thank you getting rid of them. And for all the other nice things you have done to restore the integrity of /. Good work friends!

  22. Re:That explains a lot on Study Finds That Humidity Has More Effect On Drive Failures Than Temperature (rackcdn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's only 96% relative humidity right now. Not so bad by Florida standards.

  23. Anytime Now on Google Building a 100kW Transmitter at Spaceport America (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1
    The second link above points to a /. entry from almost a year ago entitled:

    Google's Solar-Drone Internet Tests About To Take Off

    "About to"?

    What is this some kind of Duke Nukem thingy?

  24. Re:Trump vs the clean slate on Reports Coming In Of Mass IBM Layoffs Underway In The US (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Ha, ha, ha! You said "flip-flopped". How 2008 of you!

    Really! Today, our candidates for President call each other "Pussies".

    C'mon, nut up bro, get with times.

  25. Since When? on Microsoft Unhappy With Beta Testers, Demands Answers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    When did Microsoft actually start paying attention the feedback of real live users? Last I've seen (Windows 10) they are still soliciting the feedback of people that have never even seen a computer before. That or they are using slight deranged Labrador Retrievers for feed back. Guppies swimming in a tank maybe.

    I mean judging from the outcome of the product.