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Comment Re: Will you just rename the site already (Score 1) 105

Did you read the article it linked to? I'm guessing not... Here you go:

On Dec. 16, about 600 employees were notified of the pending layoffs. Most of those were across mid-west states, with some of those including higher-skilled workers. Other layoffs by the company include "more than 700" DirectTV home installers across the country. Additionally, in December, AT&T fired 215 technicians in "nine Southern states" according to the New York Post, with another 700 reportedly coming in Texas and Missouri in February.

Comment Re:Absolutely nuttin' and no one (Score 1) 180

Your reply convinces me that you haven't bothered to comprehend contract law. If I am not a party to your contract, it does not matter what the clauses in your contract states. I didn't sign it, I didn't agree to it, so I am NOT beholden to it.

Your contract may state that you "indemnify and defend" them in the case of a lawsuit, but that just means that you pay for their lawyers and pay for any fines levied on them. But if you can't pay, that's an issue between YOU and the corporation, because YOU signed the contract. It is not binding on me in any way. Hope you have umbrella insurance that covers indemnification lawsuits!

Comment Re:Absolutely nuttin' and no one (Score 1) 180

It doesn't matter what your EULA says about the car you purchased from Microsoft/Google/Tesla/Apple. I was not party to the agreement, and if your car hurt me or my property, I can sue whoever I want, including the car manufacturer, the dealership that sold it, and you. I can sue all three at once if I want. And there's nothing anyone can do about it, unless there is a law that restricts me from doing it (like they did with gun manufacturers).

Your EULA may have a clause where you agree to indemnify and defend the corporation, but that only means you're paying for their lawyers. I can still sue them. The jury decides liability.

Comment Re:Yes, definitely assholes (Score 1) 440

To be clear: Tesla AutoPilot is an emergency collision avoidance system, NOT an automatic driving system. Regardless of what its name is, and what plans may be for future completely autonomous driving, the AutoPilot feature set in its current incarnation is only about collision avoidance. It did that quite well from the video shown, that Elon Musk retweeted and that I am responding to. It did not do it so well in a case where a white painted truck against a bright sky turned in front because it wasn't designed to detect that - because it's not a general purpose driving machine yet.

Comment Re:Yes, definitely assholes (Score 1) 440

And if there was a car to the right, do you think the Tesla would have swerved into it? You are just making up shit to claim that you're a superior driver. You see, that's something a HUMAN driver might do, because it might only see the threat on the left and not realize another vehicle is on the right. The Tesla very easily knows where all the cars are around the vehicle and can make various adjustments. I don't know what it's programmed to do for all situations, but you obviously don't either. Perhaps if there was a car 3 feet on its bumper and a car immediately to its right and it saw the thread on the left coming over, it couldn't do anything. Maybe it would core dump. Maybe it would just blare its horn. Maybe it would decide the tailgater is going to be at fault and apply the brakes. I don't know, but to assert that the Tesla would have caused a collision if a car was to the right is just... dumb.

Comment Re:Yes, definitely assholes (Score 1) 440

Your #2 and #3 are incorrect. The driver uploaded a video of Autopilot saving him from a collision, but never states in the video itself that he was driving hands-free, never states in the description of the video that he was driving hands free, and the camera does not show the steering wheel at all. The only thing the person states is that he wasn't watching that direction -- which was a utility truck coming from the left side on an on-ramp and crossing a lane of traffic and then coming into his lane. Here is the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Ridiculous fluff (Score 3, Informative) 109

Ridiculous fluff article. Wal-mart's revenue is more than twice that of Apple's, but no one would claim that Wal-mart is beating Apple.

Microsoft's profit in one quarter is greater than the sum of all profits ever achieved by Amazon through their entire existence. To claim that Amazon has somehow "won" some battle is ridiculous when you're talking about revenue, not profits. They have to do something about their profit margins if they're going to turn revenue into profit...

Comment Re:"mass market affordable car" (Score 1) 430

Elon Musk DID cut it in half. An S-series is $65k base, and this is $35k base. Sure, the car is a little smaller, the interior probably won't be a luxury interior, but the tech is mainly the same (smaller batteries, but maybe more efficient, is still 5-star safety ratings, has all the safety sensors and can upgrade to auto-pilot if you're willing to pay for the software). As economies of scale come into play, it will become cheaper. But he did just cut the price of an EV in half, and it looks damn good.
The Almighty Buck

Exploit Vendor Zerodium Puts $100,000 Bounty On Flash's New Security Feature (softpedia.com) 57

An anonymous reader writes: Zerodium, the company that buys zero-day bugs from security researchers and then sells them forward to government intelligence agencies, has put out a new bounty, this one on Adobe's Flash Player. The exploit vendor is offering $100,000 to the first researcher that finds a similar zero-day bug, capable of avoiding Flash's newly-released isolated heap memory protection feature. Previously, Zerodium offered $1 million to a security researcher for a zero-day bug in Apple's iOS 9 operating system.
Government

NSA To End Bulk Phone Surveillance By Sunday (reuters.com) 139

An anonymous reader writes: The White House announced today that the NSA will be shutting down the program responsible for the bulk collection of phone records by the end of tomorrow. The program will be immediately replace with a new, scaled back version as enumerated by the USA Freedom Act. "Under the Freedom Act, the NSA and law enforcement agencies can no longer collect telephone calling records in bulk in an effort to sniff out suspicious activity. Such records, known as "metadata," reveal which numbers Americans are calling and what time they place those calls, but not the content of the conversations. Instead analysts must now get a court order to ask telecommunications companies ... to enable monitoring of call records of specific people or groups for up to six months."
Programming

Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise (dice.com) 161

Nerval's Lobster writes: When Apple rolled out Swift last summer, it expected its new programming language to eventually replace Objective-C, which developers have used for years to build iOS and Mac OS X apps. Thanks to Apple's huge developer ecosystem (and equally massive footprint in the world of consumer devices), Swift quickly became one of the most buzzed-about programming languages, as cited by sites such as Stack Overflow. And now, according to new data from TIOBE Software, which keeps a regularly updated index of popular programming languages, Swift might be seriously cannibalizing Objective-C. On TIOBE's latest index, Objective-C is ranked fourteenth among programming languages, a considerable drop from its third-place spot in October 2014. Swift managed to climb from nineteenth to fifteenth during the same period. "Soon after Apple announced to switch from Objective-C to Swift, Objective-C went into free fall," read TIOBE's text accompanying the data. "This month Objective-C dropped out of the TIOBE index top 10." How soon until Swift eclipses Objective-C entirely?

Comment Re: Just take it in (Score 1) 479

For me, $5/mo to rent the cablemodem from Comcast. $80 to buy the router. So it pays for itself in a little over a year. Definitely worth it.

When I got Comcast, I had previously had DSL, and the plan there was they gave you the DSL modem after the first year or something, so they did not charge a per-month fee. I stupidly thought this was true as well for Comcast, and never checked the bill. When I noticed the charge, I went right out and bought my own and haven't looked back.

Comment Re:call me skeptical (Score 2) 190

The article says:

Roberts had been sitting in seat 3A and the SEB under 2A, the seat in front of him, “was damaged.”

So he tried to get at the one under his seat (which was "tampered with"), but since he couldn't get it opened, he tried the seat in front of him (which was "damaged"), and he succeeded.

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