Comment Re: cash? (Score 1) 261
America would have done the same a long time ago if it weren't for the zinc lobby. ðY'
Comment And yet... (Score 2) 48
...still no Edit button. *sigh*
Comment Re:Cricket (Score 0) 226
Wut? Cricket is just AT&T rebranded and AT&T gives all your data to the spooks, so WTF would you use them?
Comment Re:Uber killed a BICYCLIST, not a pedestrian (Score 1) 953
The original reporting on ABC15 Self-driving Uber car hits, kills pedestrian in Tempe actually includes a video that has the caption "Self-driving vehicle hits BICYCLIST". The video also shows a crumpled-up bicycle.
Unfortunately, ABC15's text article says "a woman walking outside of the crosswalk was struck" and that is what the rest of the media is regurgitating as their own reporting.
The video also shows a number of bags with the bicycle so she may have been walking with it. Also, some of the bags are black trash bags, which may have contributed to the failure of the sensors (and human) to observe in time.
Comment Re:PayPal not such a concern (Score 1) 48
eBay no longer forces you to use PayPal.
Yes, they do.
Try any other payment method and see where it takes you...
Comment Re:This was one hell of an attack (Score 2) 212
Though here I am using gmail for going on a decade and a half...
Gmail has never been free, it is paid for by advertising.
Comment Consider Nashville (Score 3, Informative) 100
I'm not surprised to see Nashville listed as a "momentum market" in this report, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on there (I lived there for 9 years before relocating in 2014) and for 20-somethings it's an exciting and affordable place to live.
Comment Re:most people already prefer listening to acceler (Score 1) 296
Agreed on entertainment, but for informational videos, a bit of a speed-up is really handy. The Team Treehouse site has nice material, and when you speed up the videos to 1.5x or so, you really feel like you're moving along.
Comment There are limits to GPS (Score 3, Interesting) 306
So what happens when you're in a multi-story building, like the Water Tower in Chicago? You may be in the Lego store, but 3 floors below is Victoria's Secret...
Comment Nothing more than executive puffery (Score 1) 189
You have to remember, tech execs are often falling over each other to make grand proclamations so they can appear visionary. This reminds me of a similarly absurd comment by a tech executive that "78% of small businesses have fully adopted cloud computing".
Um, I think I'd call that number into question...
Comment Re:Good for them! (Score 1) 110
It's just too bad things had to get to this point to have the work done, just another example of how sorely we need to step up our maintenance and development of public infrastructure.
Comment fix it for who? (Score 5, Insightful) 97
Make a twitter for newbies and a news feed if you want, I like my hand curated news sources as they are.
It isn't broken for me.
A bigger fix would be to make twitter a proper platform like it was, not a semi closed app
Journal Journal: I Hurd it on the grapevine
tqft@tqft-hurd:~$ uname -a
GNU tqft-hurd 0.6 GNU-Mach 1.4+git20150409-486/Hurd-0.6 i686-AT386 GNU
qemu-img Not kvm-img as on the documentation on debian which apparently doesn't recognise that as a valid command or program (I looked via synaptic as well).
Running xfce, apparently gnome and kde don't work yet.
Yet to do a proper reboot.
Download dvd iso, follow commands (except as above), click as per usual debian install. Done
Journal Journal: DB Cooper lives? 1
Sorry for the clickbait. Just a write up from a book coming out soon.
I think I just like how the story won't die.
http://dailyreview.crikey.com.au/rundle-the-43-year-old-legend-of-d-b-cooper/16590?utm_source=The+Rundown&utm_campaign=503d1bd720-The_Rundown_Tuesday_2_December2_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_33b9e8bf4f-503d1bd720-81103281
Comment Re:McNulty (Score 1) 8
Not much.
You are still at fault.
If you are still confused I will think of something
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