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  1. Re:So they're just using contrast? on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Been wondering what it would be like with 10s of cars, across multiple lanes and in both directions, having LIDAR and/or RADAR actively sweeping their surroundings....

  2. Re:Because on The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps Router From 2005 Still Makes Millions For Linksys · · Score: 1

    Every manufacturing plant I've done wireless for had to go 5G because the 2.4 interference given off by the equipment. It's allowed to spew 2.4 (under incorrect reading of the ISM rules that are largely unenforced), so someone must have taken that as a challenge.

    I've actually only seen that in a couple of US/MX plants, and it was usually due to older equipment, especially USW.

  3. Re:Congratulations on Sweden Tests World's First Electric Road For Trucks (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    I've noticed that there's a lot of things America cannot do because it is larger than e.g. individual European countries. Thinking the individual states should figure out some of the infrastructure, they are separately small enough to be able to do stuff ...

  4. Re: Technology can't stop these on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    The last shooting w/ multiple victims in Denmark (that I'm aware of), used a stolen assault rifle, that wasn't subject to the full extent of the gun-control laws. That particular oversight was/is being addressed.

  5. As a German citizen who cares about rudimentary quality control

    ...this seems redundant ....

  6. Re:Hi Blackberry on BlackBerry Really Struggling In Android Market (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd say "Get a Jolla and a TOHKBD", but seems the guy making the keyboard went on vacation to Chile and not been heard from since.

  7. Re:Ransome-ware on Microsoft Removes the 'X' From Windows 10 Update Leaving No Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    OSX: Spend 25 USD to upgrade the OS
    Windows: Spend 30 USD to NOT upgrade the OS

  8. Re:One-issue voter (re: Trump) on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    But out here in the non US, he's generally quite liked. Basically, he's not Bush.

    Didn't they give him a Nobel prize for not being Bush?

  9. Re:who decides what is "hate speech"??? on Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Others Agree To Remove Hate Speech Across the EU · · Score: 1

    Which country? Because, what you describe violates chapter 10 of the ECHR, which applies to all 47 countries in the Council of Europe, and even as a Guest Worker you would be covered by it (IANAL).

  10. Re:I would like a simpler electric car on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Main wiring-harness for a decent sized modern car is easily in the 100-200 piece range - yes, that's the most complex component (followed by dashboard and center-console).

    Source: A decade in the automotive industry, working in US, EU, Middle East, Africa and east Asia.

  11. Re:Sad to see this happen to Moto on Lenovo: Motorola Acquisition 'Did Not Meet Expectations' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately these virtues seem to have fallen by the wayside to an extent, and the dominance of Samsung, (LG?), and Apple has pushed them out of the market it seems.

    Those virtues reduce profit and/or increase costs, which both executive managers and customers hate.

  12. Re:It causes other issues too - on Facebook Could Be Eavesdropping On Your Phone Calls (news10.com) · · Score: 1

    If I could afford one, I'd have ordered it - would definitely have been awesome to have a keyboard option, but stores positively hate them due to higher return-rates and lower profit.

  13. Re:It causes other issues too - on Facebook Could Be Eavesdropping On Your Phone Calls (news10.com) · · Score: 2

    I bought a Jolla phone - no native Google or Facebook app, no eavesdropping :)

  14. Re:I guess... on Rovio's Desperate Push For 'Angry Birds' Movie (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Rovio will transform itself into a third rate animation company rather than a third rate mobile game company

    Is it a third rate company? I've not played Angry Birds in a while (I quite when I managed to nuke it and lose my progress), but I though it was a very well done game. Why do you think it's third rate?

    I'd suspect he/she is the kind who doesn't accept something being a game, unless its minimum hardware requirements include a 400 USD mouse.

  15. Re:Of course Paramount and CBS are nervous on Abrams Says Paramount Will Drop Star Trek/Axenar Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That was the increasingly preachy-and-tedious new stuff. The original was a good mix of thought and action.

    From what I've seen, the Jar-Jar trek movies have been a horrid mix of action and, uhm ... something ...

  16. DIY libraries? on Ask Slashdot: Can You Have A Smart Home That's Not 'In The Cloud'? · · Score: 1

    Incidentally, when I got into IoT and "that stuff", the first thing I did was starting to write my own software to control lights. So far only made it to a generic library, with a reference implementation etc, partly because all the smart-home equipment is too expensive ... and companies don't always share (local) APIs .... and I'm lazy ... but at least I got it pushed to Github.

    But really, only buy stuff that has a local API (i.e. can be accessed directly via (W)LAN), so you're not 100% dependent on cloud-stuff.

  17. Re:Serious question: on Google Assistant and Google Home: Amazon Echo, But From Google (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So your complaint is Siri doesn't understand that you want to use military time?

    Why you call it "military time"? Pretty sure a 24 hr clock is default for most western civilians and civil governments.

    Disclaimer: I've only been to little over half of those western countries, and only the larger ones, so there may be significant groups using a 12 hr clock, and I only know the 4 most-common languages in the west, and a couple of minor ones.

  18. Re:Wow, they really are stuck in the past on Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates, via the Bill&Melinda foundation, is allegedly trying to improve living-conditions for some of the poorest people on this planet - this runs counter to the goal of extremist Islamic leaders.

  19. on it's skin...

    "on it is skin", "on it has skin", or "on it was skin" ?

  20. Re:Perfect! on Amazon Introduces $20 Dash-Like Button For IoT (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a problem: If this requires sending data of any kind to Amazon in order to turn on my lights (see: examples above), then it WILL fail eventually, and it wont score a sufficiently high WAF.

  21. Pretty much every large company I've ever seen has had core business logic built in Excel :)

  22. Re:Who Cares? on Jeremy Clarkson's Amazon Show To Be Called The Grand Tour (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, Matt LeBlanc will carry the show .... /me coughs gently

  23. That would be the "best" way to expose an insecure voting system...

    "And the numbers are in from Florida; Hillary gets 13% of the votes, Trump manages 19%, and Putin wins the state with 71%"

  24. Re:Great video. on NVIDIA Shows New Doom Demo On GeForce GTX 1080 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    ya, an HDMI splitter + high-end capture-card would have interfered with the rendering....

  25. Re:Not if HBO wont let us subscribe on The Pirate Bay Now Blocked In Chrome, Firefox, And Safari (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm in Belgium, on Proximus, and not heard of this - not saying it doesn't exist, might have been on a different network :)
    But yeah, 25€ for GoT is not an option, and I'd rather just buy the BDs.