Comment Lawsuit (Score 1) 85
Everyone sue the IRS! That'll teach them! Oh wait, you can't. Tough luck, buddy. Just keep trusting your government though-- because you really have no choice.
Comment Re:Options (Score 1) 392
Indeed, although I can see why most american would fear this business model, because it sounds oh-so-much like some weird form of communism applied to automotive.
In no way does "gravitating with their dollars" sound like communism. Quite the opposite.
Comment Re:Bats don't control mosquitoes (Score 1) 89
Sounds like a great idea until they take up residence in your house.
They normally huddle in trees. But the eaves and soffits of your house are much better for huddling in to stay warm, because besides being cozy and secluded, they naturally collect heat during the day. It is a very annoying process to exclude the bats without killing them once they're moved in, and once they're out you have to immediately seal every opening over 1/4 inch in diameter or they'll come back. Yes, that small.
Chrome For Android Is Now Almost Entirely Open Source 51
jones_supa writes: After lots of work by Chrome for Android team and a huge change, Chrome for Android is now almost entirely open source, a Google engineer announced in Reddit. Over 100,000 lines of code, including Chrome's entire user interface layer, has been made public, allowing anyone with the inclination to do so to look at, modify, and build the browser from source. Licensing restrictions prevent certain media codecs, plugins and Google service features form being included, hence the "almost." This is on par with the open source Chromium browser that is available on the desktop.
The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police 161
New submitter Cuillere writes: In the fall of 2014, a hacker demanded the Seattle Police Department release all of their body and dash cam video footage, prompting chaos within the institution. Although it was a legal request per Washington state's disclosure laws, Seattle's PD wasn't prepared to handle the repercussions of divulging such sensitive material — and so much of it. The request involved 360 TB of data spread across 1.6 million recordings over 6 years. All recordings had to be manually reviewed and redacted to cut out "children, medical or mental health incidents, confidential informants, or victims or bystanders who did not want to be recorded," so fulfilling the request was simply not within the department's capabilities. Thus, they took a different strategy: they hired the hacker and put him to work on developing an automated redaction system. "Their vision is of an officer simply docking her body cam at the end of a shift. The footage would then be automatically uploaded to storage, either locally or in the cloud, over-redacted for privacy and posted online for everyone to see within a day."
Asteroid Risk Greatly Overestimated By Almost Everyone 236
StartsWithABang writes: When it comes to risk assessment, there's one type that humans are notoriously bad at: the very low-frequency but high-consequence risks and rewards. It's why so many of us are so eager to play the lottery, and simultaneously why we're catastrophically afraid of ebola and plane crashes, when we're far more likely to die from something mundane, like getting hit by a truck. One of the examples where science and this type of fear-based fallacy intersect is the science of asteroid strikes. With all we know about asteroids today, here's the actual risk to humanity, and it's much lower than anyone cares to admit.
Comment The watch (Score 5, Informative) 74
Since a lot of your folks are too young to remember...
The watch Jobs is wearing appears to be an LED digital watch. Because LED displays drained the battery a lot quicker than LCD watches (which came later), you had to press a button to see the time. In retrospect, this is kind of a feature, because when the display was off the face was completely dark and mysterious. It was like Darth Vader's watch.
Comment Re:Its funny (Score 2) 214
The Qur'an instructs believers to go to war against Jews and Christians.
The Bible records the history of wars.
There's a difference between recording a violent history, and instructions to commit violent acts.
The Qur'an has no order to love your neighbor, to treat others as one would wish to be treated, or to not resist an evil man. The Qur'an's plan for peace is to obtain it by force.
Comment Re:Seems obvious now (Score 1) 214
Starfleet HQ is in San Fran.
So basically, it's Arlington, VA if you compare it to the USA.
Comment Re:Slashdot is dying; mod results confirm it (Score 1) 169
Slashdot is dying. Or maybe I'm just dying. Maybe both. We're all dying.
Not until Netcraft confirms it.
Comment Re:Thanks to reader sleepypsycho for the poll idea (Score 2) 169
I have enough Karma for a bonus, but curiously, the checkbox no longer works and has not for a few years. I post at +1 whether it is checked or not.
Comment Re:Stupid reasoning. (Score 1) 1094
There should be no jobs that don't allow for the worker to be self-sufficient.
How about minors? Do they need to be self-sufficient?
Comment Re:Stupid reasoning. (Score 1) 1094
Many states, like New Jersey, have tightened their "child labor" laws such that it is impractical or prohibited to hire minors. Government has, once again, created a problem, blamed the people for it, and claimed to have the solution.
Comment Re:Stupid reasoning. (Score 1) 1094
It's funny how progressives use percentages when it benefits them. Big Oil has been getting single-digit profit margins for many years, but all the progressives could point out when they wanted to make a money grab was "millions of dollars". Yes, a single-digit percentage of billions in sales is indeed millions.
You really want to hold up Walmart, the leftist's favorite punching bag, as a good example? That's exactly where the ire of the left (mostly for unions, who want in) is focused.
Comment Re:Stupid reasoning. (Score 1) 1094
Ah, the fallacy of the middle.
