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  1. Re:Alternatives to pissing money away... on Dial P for Privacy: The Phone Booth Is Back (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Better yet, the active shooter instructions at my office say to hide under your desk or take shelter in a conference room. A conference room either made of glass on 4 sides, or an all glass wall on one side.

    brilliant..

  2. Depends on what you need... on ESR's Newest Project: An Open Hardware/Open Source UPS (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    If you just want 30 seconds to shut down a PC, you are better served with a basic, certified UPS. Newegg has several under $75, and a 255 watt one that starts at $39.95.

  3. "Don't think that works as a long term strategy."
     
    Why not? If you can't beat them, join them. Hooks into and inter-operability with into Linux makes perfect sense. If the enterprise can avoid converting existing Linux and Windows servers and manage both relatively seamlessly, without expensive retraining, it will protect MS server marketshare and maybe even increase it.

  4. oh it's not that. google just underestimated, again, how hard it can be to break into an industry with players deeply entrenched in all levels of government. they just kind of gave up, but you can't really blame them. big as they are, they are just one company against the several giants.

  5. The old classic... on Uber CEO: We Could Be Profitable -- We Just Don't Want To Be (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    "Sure I sell them at a loss, but I make it up in volume!"

  6. You can get ahead of it... on Bill Gates: Tech Companies Inviting Government Intervention (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can get ahead of it, or you can get run over by it. You may get away with shenanigans for a long time, but once you cross the line, the government hammer is going to hit you hard. Unfortunately a lot of companies have no restraint. They will creep up to the edge of legality, pretty much guaranteeing government intervention.

  7. Re:Idea for the US on German Authorities Are Considering a Ban On Loot Boxes (heise.de) · · Score: 2

    In-Game loot boxes that require no purchase are one thing. Paying real money for a box with a random chance of getting something is something else. It's most definitely assigning a monetary value to the box and its contents.

  8. Re:The Answer is Unique Titles on Nintendo Switch Outsells Wii U In 10 Months (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    battery life seems ok for me. Put it in airplane mode to cut all the uneeded power drain and I get at least 3.5 to 4 hours play time. Now, maybe for my kids that would be too little, but for me, that's about the most I can squeeze into a single sitting.

  9. Who cares? Installation... on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    When pricing solar, it's been my experience that installation costs stayed static as panel prices have gone down. The overall cost of an install that covers all my electrical needs has hardly varied. If panel prices go up, expect installation to go up to protect the margins installers have gotten used to.

  10. Not just wires... on Car Manufacturers Sued Over Rodents Eating Soy-Insulated Wires (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    My new Jeep Cherokee had to go back just a day after I bought it. Rodents had chewed into the top of the coolant reservoir while it sat on the lot. Coolant stink and fluid all over the engine bay. Service guy said it happened a lot...

  11. "Feeling blue? Need a pick-me-up? Get VitaRise! Cocaine in a pill! From GlaxoSmithKline."

    Funny, but getting from a known, regulated source, without the danger of unknown contents or getting killed trying to make a purchase would be big selling point. With a ready recreational market, drug companies might be inclined to research how some of these drugs could be made safer or less addictive.
    Nevermind that when you subtract suicides, drug (gang) related homicides are far and away the largest source of gun related deaths in the US. The consequences of a regulated, controlled recreational drug market in the US could be huge.

  12. Re:That's what I love with modern society on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A bit over the top... TFA says NEW commercial drivers. So, if you become an Uber driver after this policy is in place, you have no-one to blame. In any case, people should never have had the expectation that Tesla would subsidize the fuel costs for their Uber business indefinitely. As usual in 'modern society', a small subset of users, intent on pushing the absolute limit of any arrangement, screws things up for everyone else. Complain to those Tesla drivers, not to the company that provided a pretty cool ownership perk and trusted people not to abuse it.

  13. Re:Any Republicans Going to Vote to Reverse? on 'There Will Be a [Senate] Vote' To Reinstate Net Neutrality, Schumer Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd agree. Supporting this is an easy way to get points for the next elections. One of those times where politicians can buck the party line with very little risk involved. Except to see GOP congresspeople in places with a legitimate Democrat threat voting to roll back this asinine FCC decision. How many of them do that will determine whether Trump signs off.

  14. Re:How about... on Ban Sale of Mini Mobiles, Says Justice Minister (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "You know, the 4th Amendment is a thing."
     
    I think you give that one up as soon as you go to U.S. prison. You can be searched at any time for any reason, your cell can be inspected, your communications with the outside world are subject to inspection/eavesdropping. If there was ever a place where use of stingrays was on reasonably solid ground, it would be in a prison setting. If you're worried about employee/visitor privacy, how hard would it be to have the stingray reject connections by their phones? A list of cell phone numbers and/or IMEI should do the trick and you don't even have to associate a name to the number. Anything else connecting to the stingray should be considered fair game. If an employee is using more than one phone, or refuses to provide number, that might be a bad sign.

  15. Re:It's a Mid Term Campaign issue! on Lawmakers Are Fighting For Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The bottom line is the democrats chose what might have been the only person that could possibly lose to Trump... I think Kim Jong-un might have been more palatable to a lot of voters than Hillary.

  16. Well no surprise here... on San Francisco To Restrict Goods Delivery Robots (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    California, and SF in particular never came across something they couldn't restrict. Except wildfires apparently.

  17. Karma... on The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    that's why...

  18. Re:DC Takes itself too seriously on DC Fans Angry Over Rotten Tomatoes 'Justice League' Ratings (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    I agree... Marvel movies seem more hopeful. Yeah the world may be in peril, again, but it seems like a world worth saving. DC is stuck in the same dystopian storytelling that led to Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner and all those damn zombie apocalypse movies. It's hard to see WHY anyone would want to save those worlds sometimes. Audiences don't want to be depressed every time they go see a movie. Dystopian series have passed their sell buy date.

  19. Re:BitTorrent vs. Guns on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    and you win the award for fucktard that can't understand that actions have consequences. suicide is a conscious choice as is earning your living in a criminal manner. tell me again why the much larger number of non-suicidal and law abiding members of the population should be punished for the actions of these groups? And yes your "millions" comment has no meaning unless it's pointed out that it's over a span of decades. FAR more people die from smoking and auto accidents. Go ahead and tally those numbers up for the same period, I'll wait. Chose any span of years you want. Non gang/drug related homicides by firearm are a mere blip compared to those.

    Have you ever even SEEN a real firearm, in person? Stop demanding your nanny state protections.

  20. Re:BitTorrent vs. Guns on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "kills millions of Americans"
     
      over how many decades? When you subtract suicides and gang bangers gang banging, the number of firearms deaths in a year are negligible. And before you say something about if they didn't have a gun they wouldn't have committed suicide, see Japan. Virtually impossible to own guns, highest suicide rates in developed world. Unless you are suicidal or regularly sell drugs in bad neighborhoods, your chances of getting killed by a firearm are significantly less than dying of lightning, fire or auto accident. More guns than people in the US and yet somehow, we're not all getting shot. Take a look south of the border where Mexicans are dying left and right at a rate that makes ours look like a non event.

  21. Re:Rocket failure consequences..? on NASA Funds Designs for a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Rocket (space.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe there's a way to ship the fuel component into orbit in a basically indestructible container then install into the engine/ship in orbit.

  22. "I hope you're not legitimately having trouble differentiating structures built thousands of years ago to celebrate gods with statues built a little over 100 years ago to remind black people that the whites were still in charge."

    I hope you're not legitimately suggesting that those confederate statues were built to frighten the blacks. Might as well say that statues of JFK were built to glorify womanizing and to terrify women.

  23. "If the power goes out on the space station - in SPACE, you need hard copies for emergency procedures."

    Wait, if the power goes out and you do not already have hard copies, then how does having a printer help you? If you need to print the whole thing you're screwed. Likely it's so they can print updated pages and insert into hard copy.

  24. Re:Key word here is "pledged" on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly...every other city that tries municipal broadband was just as sincere. I don't see anything here that shows SF has a solution to the ISP lobby. Although this being California, there is every possibility that there will be an ISP subsidy OR that the ISPs will be some sort of "partner" and get kickbacks...

  25. Or the free alternative... on Amazon Key Puts Deliveries -- And Delivery People -- In Your Home (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    sign up with UPS / FedEx to have all packages for your address held for pickup at a local UPS / FedEx store. I have mine setup to default to this. UPS is a block away, FedEx is 3 or 4 miles and on my way home from work. No more worries about packages exposed to weather, curious kids, thieves etc... works for me.