qbast - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Oversight and regulation (Score 1, Insightful) 341

by qbast on Friday August 15, 2014 @06:18AM (#47676295) Attached to: Berlin Bans Car Service Uber

So what you are saying is that if the vehicle is clean, has a working AC, and is very cheap.. then its 100% certain to be an official taxi?

Pretty much yes. Official taxis charge regulated, metered rate, which ends up being very cheap. 'Private' taxi drivers live off ignorant tourists that don't even know they are getting fleeced unless driver gets really greedy and charges something like 5x rate.

Have you actually learned to read, or are you just spouting Statist defenses?

Grow up kid and maybe visit the place before you start spouting off crap and make an idiot of yourself.

Comment Re:There's more to EU transport than cheapness (Score 1) 341

by qbast on Friday August 15, 2014 @05:19AM (#47676141) Attached to: Berlin Bans Car Service Uber

Ha! It means that US invented time travel too.

Comment Re:Oversight and regulation (Score 3, Insightful) 341

by qbast on Friday August 15, 2014 @05:16AM (#47676133) Attached to: Berlin Bans Car Service Uber

Have you actually been to Thailand or you are just spouting prejudice? Official taxis there (especially in Bangkok) are great - clean, working AC, _very_ cheap (on meter with official rate).

Comment Re:What about Oregon and Washington? (Score 1) 368

by qbast on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @02:49PM (#47657033) Attached to: Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording

At some point, some of their states will decide they don't like the federal government and want to secede. At that time, the EU will be faced with the same decision that the USA was faced with when the southern states decided to secede from the US. Either lose a large chunk of their political and economic power or conquer the seceding states.

UK is halfway to seceding already (there is supposed to be referendum in 2 or 3 years). However other EU countries trying to keep UK by force is simply unimaginable.

Comment Re:CLASS ACTION TIME! (Score 1) 127

by qbast on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @11:51AM (#47655375) Attached to: DEA Paid Amtrak Employee To Pilfer Passenger Lists

Executive privilege bitches!

Comment Re:Legal pemission? THEY GIVE IT! (Score 1) 368

by qbast on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @11:48AM (#47655359) Attached to: Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording

Wait, if they just need provide *notice* (not ask you) and that's enough to make their recording legal, then you should be able to do the same. Just notify them that you are recording and that's it. Both parties are notified, both can record as they please.

Comment Re:What about Oregon and Washington? (Score 4, Informative) 368

by qbast on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @11:41AM (#47655297) Attached to: Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording

At this point EU is probably closer to original intent of United States than modern USA.

Comment Re:Cmmon bubble, Just pop already. (Score 1) 262

by qbast on Monday August 11, 2014 @05:10PM (#47650769) Attached to: Silicon Valley Doesn't Have an Attitude Problem, OK?

Do your part in bubble popping and start short selling.

Comment Ingrates (Score 3, Insightful) 262

by qbast on Monday August 11, 2014 @04:49PM (#47650607) Attached to: Silicon Valley Doesn't Have an Attitude Problem, OK?

There is just no pleasing this people: 'undesirable element' moves in - they complain about falling property value, 'highly paid tech professionals' move in - they complain about increasing property value.

Comment Re:Patent US 99063520 A (Score 2) 327

by qbast on Monday August 11, 2014 @02:16PM (#47649381) Attached to: Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office

Patent US 9063520 C: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
A method and system for under-performing approval of patents using a computer.

How about cross-licensing deal? Or we could just go straight to full patent war.

Comment Re:Blackphone (Score 1) 164

by qbast on Sunday August 10, 2014 @03:07PM (#47642989) Attached to: F-Secure: Xiaomi Smartphones Do Secretly Steal Your Data

Especially funny is implying that it is Swiss product while it was in fact created by US-based company. Which means that NSA owns their asses and I expect that users buying phone *specifically* for security would be extra-juicy target. In short: honeypot.

Comment Re:JAVA EE is not dead. (Score 2) 371

by qbast on Friday August 08, 2014 @01:18PM (#47631427) Attached to: Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time

Ooooh, they bought themselves an ISO standard. Quick, everybody switch to OOXML.

Comment Re:Troll (Score 1) 371

by qbast on Friday August 08, 2014 @01:17PM (#47631409) Attached to: Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time

Java 8 ... yes, it finally got some long awaited features. But 7 was huge disappointment.

Comment Re:Oh noes! (Score 1) 371

by qbast on Friday August 08, 2014 @01:16PM (#47631399) Attached to: Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time

Yeah, sure. Nobody cares about some 'oracle taint' except for ruby-loving hippies and die-hard open source fanatics. Definitely not the companies that have been using Java EE in first place.

Comment Oh noes! (Score 4, Insightful) 371

by qbast on Friday August 08, 2014 @11:37AM (#47630403) Attached to: Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time

Some random nobody proclaims death of Java. Thousands of companies that do depend on Java EE just vanished in puff of logic.

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