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  1. Wrong story headline on The GPS Wars Have Begun (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Begun, the GPS wars have...

  2. Re:Adaptation to Change - What a concept! on Climate Change Drives Fish Into New Waters, Remaking an Industry (wsj.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Which islands are the ones going bye bye? Real, rock-based islands, not sand jetties off the Carolina coasts...

  3. Re:ebay is the dinosaur in the story on Rare Amiga Bought on eBay For $2,500 (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    They did about $11 billion in revenue last year; given that they typically make about a 9% commission. that's $100 billion in total sales revenues through eBay. I'd say they are still a pretty important player...

  4. Re: P.S. Possible fail in traffic light detection? on Self-Driving Car Company Zoox Is Now Allowed to Carry Passengers (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They are using the Unreal game engine, holy fuck! As if a game engine which is designed from the ground up to only handle the bare minimum necessary to play shooter games is appropriate for the real world of not getting people killed.

    So they are admitting their hardware will not run Crysis?

  5. Glitter and fart-spray? on A Delivery Robot Spontaneously Burst Into Flames (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That is so December 18th.. REAL people make their package carrying robot blow the fsck up and burn the thief to a cinder!

  6. We have proof! on Tim May, Father of 'Crypto Anarchy,' Is Dead At 67 (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only will cryptocurrency bankrupt you, cryptography in general will shave 11 years off your life! Avoid anything related to privacy at all costs - it WILL kill you!

    Signed, The Powers That Be

  7. Re:So let's apply the same legal standards to Hill on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The President doesn't prosecute cases; the Department of Justice does. It's hardly going to countermand one of its leaders (the Director of the FBI) now, is it? We'll see what happens in the future with a more independent Attorney General.

  8. Re:so one more lane, solves the traffic problem? on Elon Musk Unveils 1.14-Mile Boring Company Tunnel (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Those trains run every 2-3 minutes; Musk's tunnel will need cars leaving every 7 to 10 seconds to support the same volume of people. A 120 second spacing can handle a few seconds of delay; a 10 second spacing cannot.

  9. Re:THERE WAS NO ELECTION MEDDLING on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem was that Mr. Rather didn't admit he got it wrong; in fact, he went so far as to claim "fake but accurate", and while it could never be substantiated he claimed the information was 100% correct. With no way to prove it as such. That jumps from the realm of factual to the realm of advocacy and lying (knowingly stating something as true that you know cannot be proven). That is what led to his downfall - refusing to admit he made an error, and doubling-down on a complete fabrication as "fake but accurate" - with nothing to substantiate his position.

  10. Re:So let's apply the same legal standards to Hill on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No, she wasn't put on trial because there is one set of rules for you and me, and another set for the powers that be...

  11. Are you a ninja? on Forget Dot Com, 2019 Will Finally be the Year of Weird Domain Names (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I have my .ninja domain...

  12. Yo dawg, I heard you like dots in your slashdot, so I got a slashdot dot so you can dot your slashdot when your slash dotting!

  13. Re:eCommie on Inside the Unrelenting Scams of the Amazon Marketplace (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Newegg? Seriously - they're a fast growing competitor in the Consumer Electronics space, not just computer parts. And they have a "Shipped By Newegg" competitor to "Fulfilled By Amazon" that's quite a bit lower cost. Between that and Jet (which is Walmart), you're looking at some pretty large market (Newegg is the 82nd most visited website in the US - that's not inconsequential).

  14. Re:Mark my words. on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That's how it is in Communist China. They have elections - you just have to be a member of the Party, and there is only one candidate on the ballot who's approved by the CPC and thus who will win.

  15. Re:So let's apply the same legal standards to Hill on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So? Clinton was found innocent.

    No, she wasn't. She's never been tried because Comey claimed that her blatant breaking of the law was just a "stupid move" and thus he went above and beyond his own authority and said she shouldn't be tried. That's not the job of the FBI - that's the job of the prosecutors.

  16. Re:THERE WAS ELECTION MEDDLING on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    A few things you need to learn...

    Citizens United v FEC was to keep "the government from restricting independent expenditures for communications by nonprofit corporations, for-profit corporations, labor unions, and other associations". Not just corporations. But your selective choice of words speaks volumes...

    President Obama topped the list of Saudi arms offers, more than any other Administration. Yet you conveniently left him out of your list, skipping from Trump to Bush - why?

    California is suing the Federal Government about the border - specifically about their right to control their border, rather than the Federal Government. This is contrary to what you state.

    The IRS apologized for targeting conservative groups, because it did. Yes, there were some non-conservative groups targeted, but they were overwhelmingly conservative.

    Shall we continue?

  17. Re:THERE WAS NO ELECTION MEDDLING on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 2
  18. Re:THERE WAS NO ELECTION MEDDLING on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    every clueless fuck that voted for trump should be forced to at least re-take (and pass) junior high (lets get real here, most never did pass and graduate high school, so we have to go back a few grades) civics and american history.

    Hillary Clinton won CA by 61% to 31% over Donald Trump - 2nd only to Hawaii. Yet, if you dig into the statistics, you'll find that California is number 1 in percentage of residents 25 and older who never finished 9th grade, and ranks 50th in terms of high school graduation rates.

    Seems to me that you should change your perspective about who actually passed...

  19. Re:THERE WAS NO ELECTION MEDDLING on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Would that mean that Dan Rather was guilty of election meddling?

  20. Re:so one more lane, solves the traffic problem? on Elon Musk Unveils 1.14-Mile Boring Company Tunnel (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Just remember, though - these tunnels do not have flood pumps, fire suppression, air-flow systems, emergency walking egress, etc. So a backup, with a big accident in it, and we're going to see mass fatalities. Now, Musk can add all that legally-required stuff - but then the cost is just as much as the subways currently under construction in LA, so... Musk?

  21. Re:so one more lane, solves the traffic problem? on Elon Musk Unveils 1.14-Mile Boring Company Tunnel (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Ever ridden a subway at rush-hour? One person holds up a train, the entire system stumbles for 45 seconds - and now you have twice the people at a platform because they missed their connection. And it cascades from there, as people try to push on to the next train, delaying it. Not to mention that Musk's tunnel has cars coming in and out of the system...

  22. Re:so one more lane, solves the traffic problem? on Elon Musk Unveils 1.14-Mile Boring Company Tunnel (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    For those who live at that one destination point? Absolutely. For everyone else? Not so much. Yes, I know the plan is to have thousands of cars zipping from station to station underground - but then you'll get gridlock down underground as well as above ground.

  23. Re: And they will respond ... on France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    GP stated "You do business in a country, you pay tax in that country. Period." How does that apply to products ordered from outside the country, via the Internet? Is that doing business in the destination country or not?

  24. Re:Oh Trump, silly Trump on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yep. And asylum is sought at legal entries only; this father chose to illegally enter by not using a legal point of entry.

  25. Re: And they will respond ... on France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So when a customer in France orders a product from me (in the US), I should pay French corporate income taxes on that product?