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Comment Re: Efficiency. (Score 4, Insightful) 937

You think the govt needs to hack the car to kill you? I'm more worried about the govt being able to track where every car is, since once they're driverless the next step is to allow them to communicate with each other, and if they can talk then the govt can see where the cars are.

As for who's responsible when a driverless car crashes it will probably be the same as when a dog kills someone, the owner of the dog is responsible. Just because the owner wasn't operating the wheel doesn't make them any less responsible, but just like we have learned to trust cruise control and drive by wire gas pedals to not suddenly accelerate, we will learn to trust driverless cars.
But how will cops be able to tell drunk drivers if the car is driving? And does it even matter if they're drunk if the car is driving them home?

Comment Re: Secure safe. (Score 1) 381

So simple: put passwords in safe with three combo lock. Give one number to three different people you trust to be around for life. Don't tell them who the other ones are. Tell them if something happens to you to come forward and tell you that they have one of the numbers. One all three numbers are known figuring out the order shouldn't take too many guesses. Or laptop with fingerprint reader, hopefully you don't lose memory and fingers

Comment Re: Won't happen (Score 1) 259

No. Actual poor or people on welfare can't even get a free phone from a carrier because their credit score is too poor. So they're left with prepaid phones. Prepaid phones usually do no have data plans or they're so horrible expensive that they're unusable. However texting is rather cheap on prepaid plans, so I could see how someone would be txting, and there are prepaid smartphones for about $50 now days.

Comment Re: Reading and comprehension skills (Score 2, Informative) 141

For those that don't want to RTFR (read the fucking reference) some band use to put at the beginning of the contract that they wanted M&Ms in their room and then at the end of the contract put all the brown M&Ms must be picked out. If they arrived and saw the brown M&Ms they knew the contract was not read and would check to see what else was forgotten and/or cancel the show since the contract was not followed.

Comment Re: All the news that matters (Score 2) 894

No. Army has learned that a test can determine what role is best. Those with low scores are given bullet catcher infantry roles. Those that score best are given roles that are more mentally demanding like nuclear submarine engineer. It's not IQ, but it does say a lot about what kind of mental tasks a soldier can complete.

Comment Re: Cable Cutters don't care (Score 3, Insightful) 169

This. Been a cable cutter since before it was cool. Without the constant bombardment of "omg look new episode look look LOOK!!" you don't care when it comes out. Days, weeks, months, they mean nothing. Same goes for movies. Now I usually wait until the entire season is done before getting episodes, because its just easier to get everything at once then one episode at a time. While I'm waiting for a season to finish I usually find something good on Netflix. Netflix gets me so they get my money. Why pay money to some network that makes one or two good shows when I can pay Netflix and they give me thousands of shows and movies?

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