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  1. Re:Don't wanna be first... on Dispatch From the Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google · · Score: 1

    Not everyone is THAT money-grubbingly corrupt. I used to work with cops and traffic engineers and they care very much about public safety and are willing to spend their budgets to improve it. The press loves to point out the money-grubbers (and they exist) but most people are not that way.

  2. Re:Don't wanna be first... on Dispatch From the Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google · · Score: 1

    I have driven about 250,000 miles in my life and I have been in 6 accidents, 3 of which were at least partially my fault. Google is doing WAYYYY better than me.

  3. Re:I remember when on Students At Lynn University Get iPad Minis Instead of Textbooks · · Score: 1

    After a couple years in university I realized that I didn't actually use about 1/3 of my books. Since the books were always available at the bookstore, I didn't bother to buy them until the professor actually assigned a second assignment from the book (I would just photocopy the first one from a friend, because many professors would make a single assignment just to justify the book's purchase). I saved a lot of money that way.

    If they are saving half over the cost of the books (and you're still getting an iPad), then that's still good.

  4. Re: Proud? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    That's why it's been the best selling book every year since the printing press was invented by about 10 times at least: http://nowthinkaboutit.com/2012/06/why-the-bible-is-the-true-best-seller/

  5. Re: Proud? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    Parents aren't free to home school? Seems tyrannical to me...

  6. Re:Journalists licking Obamas boots on Time Reporter "Can't Wait" To Justify Drone Strike On Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Why revoke it? The actions of the Nobel peace prize committee and Obama's subsequent conduct as president are a perfect microcosm of the unbridgeable gap between progressive and left-wing aspirations and reality.

    We should award the Ignoble peace prize to the Nobel peace prize committee for making this point so clearly.

    Now THAT would be funny.

  7. Re:War rules .. on Time Reporter "Can't Wait" To Justify Drone Strike On Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Saddam murdered a million of his citizens and you think that's better than a car bomb?

  8. Re:Try claiming "Death to the Great Satan". on Time Reporter "Can't Wait" To Justify Drone Strike On Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Wise?

  9. Re:they sure aren't likely to say that they used a on Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All · · Score: 1

    I also have never been in an accident where either party was on the phone.

  10. Re:cognitive science on Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All · · Score: 2

    Cognitive load. Experienced drivers dont spend much cognitive load to drive in normal conditions.

    Agree

    Listening to music, not much.

    Agree

    Listening to someone talking, lots.

    Um, depends. Is it my wife telling me about her day or my co-workers asking me what I coded 2 weeks ago because an installation went bad? #1 No problem. #2 I'm gonna have to call back when I get home.

    Driving fast, heavy traffic, navigating new routes, and poor conditions consume significantly higher load.

    Agree

    All this is why you turn down the radio when looking for an address in the dark.

    Wait, what?!? I have never turned the radio down when looking for an address in the dark. Is that a thing?

  11. Re:cognitive science on Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some people can. And maybe he can. But the law exists because 90% of people can't.

  12. Re:Legally on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The difference is whether he wants to take it to the Supreme Court from outside or inside a prison cell.

  13. Re:Need to Do More on NZ Professor Advocates Civil Disobedience Against Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    No, but on Locked Up Abroad I saw a girl that smuggled a ton of drugs into the US in oversized shoes. I noticed that the timing was right around the shoe bomber. So Richard Reid was the REASON given, but it's all about drug smuggling.

  14. Re:I'm confused on Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip · · Score: 1

    I found an 8 MB(?!?) SD card from my first camera the other day and I could still read the pictures. I'm pretty sure that SD card has not been read in about 10 years, but I was still able to read it. And I can still read EVERY CD that doesn't show obvious physical damage, and they were written with one of the first 2X CD writers in about 1996.

  15. Re:Overpriced, have some slightest creativty? on Wi-Fi Pineapple Hacking Device Sells Out At DEF CON · · Score: 1

    He's not calling himself a black hat. He's saying that he might as well test the same way that a black hat is going to hack.

  16. Re:Why not? on Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you honestly that naive? Do you really think the Brits would have 6 people watching him 24/7 for over a year because of some odd misdemeanor rape charges for a broken condom that don't exist in any other country? Think about it. What you are being told is not the truth in this case because it clearly doesn't make sense at face value.

  17. Re:Troubling quote from the article on DEA Program "More Troubling" Than NSA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At a previous place I lived, the neighbors across the alley had cars pulling up 18 hours a day. Garage door up, guy comes out to window goes back inside comes back out, makes another exchange with driver and driver pulls away. Garage door down. All day, every day.

    It got so bad one day that I couldn't get out and a guy flipped me off. So I called the cops.

    I told them and they said to report it to the complex security guard. I told them that it doesn't work because he's their cousin and the board has been trying to get rid of these people for years (because they suspect the sons go around breaking everything but can't prove it) but legally can't because they know every renter's law up one side and down the other and threaten to sue.

    The cops said, "There isn't anything we can do." I said, sure there is. Send some plainclothes guys to the end of the street. Watch the suspicious transaction. Follow the car out of the complex and pull them over. Search the car for drugs. Once you find the drugs, get a warrant to search the house. Make sure you don't tell the complex security at any time or they'll be notified.

    Sure enough, a couple days later I see a Mercury at the end of the street with 2 obvious plainclothes in it. Clueless druggies roll up and purchase anyway. The next morning, there's a raid and the sons are arrested. Within a month the parents move out and we get a nice, new neighbor.

    Now, based on this thread, we engaged in "parallel construction". I just saw suspicious activity and we manufactured the rest (but it was all legit). (I didn't realize I was so clever.)

    So it's not the parallel construction that's the problem. It's the massive dragnet to find the information to begin with.

    Also, what happens when someone tries to frame someone else by texting them from different people's phones and asking them where to find drugs. Will the cops "plant" drugs because they've already expended the effort?

  18. Re:what's the benefit of privacy from the governme on Snowden and the Fate of the Internet As a Global Network · · Score: 1

    How wonderfully naive. Did Julian Assange rape 2 women (one "previously" worked for the CIA)? They say yes, he says no. He's been (de facto) imprisoned for more than a year in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for it.

    How about former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan? He wanted to take the global economy away from the dollar into the Euro. The next time he was in the US he "raped" his maid and was imprisoned for 3 months, long enough for him to lose his position at the IMF. After a successor was named in the IMF, the case was dropped for "lack of evidence".

    They've done the same thing with Kim Dotcom at Megaupload. They don't have a case but they seized and destroyed all his data because the puppet masters at the MAFIAA companies don't like him. After a couple years, they'll drop the case.

  19. Re:what about the unborn cows??? on $375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday · · Score: 1

    It does make me question the "no killing" in the summary.

  20. Re:Slightly off topic on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 2

    The Swiss made rules that required identities years ago. That's why everyone switched to the Cayman Islands.

  21. Re:Dude's got brass ones on NSA Director Defends Surveillance To Unsympathetic Black Hat Crowd · · Score: 1

    But he's apparently REALLY good at it.

  22. Re:150 at a time? on Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    One of the points that The Passion of the Christ gets wrong is the number of lashes given to Jesus. There were strict rules in those days that limited people to "40 lashes minus 1". Of course, they probably don't have glass and broken pottery in their whip, but you could do some serious damage to someone's internal organs with 150 lashes at once.

  23. Re:All fine and good. on Government Study Finds TSA Misconduct Up 26% In 3 Years · · Score: 1

    I think the bad agents may have as many as 50-100 incidences before they are caught. So the number is probably much lower. (Can't believe I'm defending the TSA here.)

  24. Re:I understand, it is Very hard to leave Windows on A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School · · Score: 2

    Actually, it was the most drastic in the kernel. The 7 kernel is radically rewritten from the XP kernel. That's why it supports multiple processors so much better and is dramatically faster (considering how much more it's doing).

  25. Re:Why not more than a clone of Windows and Office on A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School · · Score: 1

    I think Ami Pro was the first in 1990 or so to get it "exact". I remember that it would actually look at the printer driver to improve the quality of the layout. WYSIWYG in the 1980s involved getting an extra page in your printout because one line rendered onto the 3rd page in real life, when your document was 2 pages on the screen.