He's only a rapist if you redefine rape

Sure, but he's an alleged rapist by any meaning of the term.

Thirded. I've owned three inkjets over the years and they were a constant source of frustration. I bought a color laser printer and it Just Works every time. If you can afford the initial cost, you'll save money in just a few years. More importantly, printing is no longer a thing I dread.

HP's been a zombie company running on inertia for a long time now. There's no quality behind their products, they're just a brand stamped on crap.

I haven't considered buying HP in over a decade.

I love the /. mod system. +5 Interesting despite literally every response saying I'm wrong.

I'll bow to the collective knowledge of people actually suffering from motion sickness. Maybe there's some other technologies that could be added to autonomous cars to fix it, but simply putting up dark curtains sounds like it won't be enough.

Motion sickness can be caused by the dissonance between the what you see (fast movement) and what you feel (no rushing wind, your legs aren't doing any work, etc).

Autonomous vehicles could eventually allow us to darken the windows, which could prevent motion sickness.

Maybe this is for the other type of PC gamer. The kind that does touch a console, even by mistake.

You know - just about all of them?

I have no idea why you consider your gaming platform to be worthy of such bigotry.

Hell, just make it a bot that nukes any headlines matching "Why X hates Y".

Is that how it works? "App has permissions it was explicitly granted" isn't a great headline.

I was sort of hoping someone on /. would explain this. I've read three different puff pieces, and I still have no idea how these permissions were granted. Have people been tapping "Grant all rights to my Google Account", and being surprised by the result?

The last account I heard of solitary is that it's actually quite loud and there's no escaping the noise. The other prisoners are also alone, but they can shout and scream, and a lot are mentally ill.

It was a second-hand account though, so YMMV.

To me, the most important aspect of aether was is a universal reference frame. Galactic North would certainly imply one.

Actually, it would be a good reason to dust off aether theory. Maybe all these quantum waves really do travel through a medium.

(and before anyone jumps on me, the Michelson-Morley experiment only proved that we can't detect aether using Newtonian models. It never proved aether can't exist)

Really, given the facts on display and a history of the 19th century only a few clicks away, why exactly does Uber still have defenders?

Because the taxi racket has been enjoying its monopoly for too long. Where I am, we have some of the highest taxi prices in Canada while many the taxi drivers are near minimum wage (because the drivers rent the licenses from the people who could actually afford them). An Uber driver told me he makes more money on Uber than he did driving a cab, although I didn't ask if that factored in vehicle wear'n'tear.

Everyone I know had pretty much stopped taking cabs because they were so unreliable. You could end up waiting an hour longer than claimed, or the cab just wouldn't show. Uber has effectively brought taxis back into our lives as a viable option.

From everything I've heard, Uber takes advantage of its workers and uses some pretty shady tactics. I support government regulation to ensure drivers can make a decent wage. But they've disrupted a market that desperately needed disrupting and have noticeably improved my personal standard of living.

So given the choice between Uber and the previous status quo? Yeah, I'm an Uber Defender, if a cautious one.