Comment Re: The cloud act Does Not apply to the big boys (Score 1) 55
I'm just glad they blurted it out in the first paragraph. Saved me from reading the rest of that shite.
Comment Re:Ask Moscow (Score 5, Insightful) 115
I'm sure the Kremlin would be happy to give them some tips, right?
Ask the Finns. They know a thing or two, just ask the Russians.
Comment Re:He probably knows something we don't (Score 1) 129
Vance will be sidelined as soon as he becomes too uppity for his master the Donald.
Not if The Donald dies, retires with a blanket pardon, or is ousted 25A style before the end of his term.
Comment Re:He probably knows something we don't (Score 4, Interesting) 129
Captain Eyeliner, aka Couchfucker, is the one we have to worry about.
Vance went from "Trump could be America's Hitler" to serving as his VP.
If I were you I'd worry more about who's going to be pulling that spineless nonentity's strings because, unlike Trump, Vance seems to have no convictions whatsoever.
Comment Re:Don't they know how to close a door remotely? (Score 1) 72
And I would argue that it is still a safety issue if the belt ends up being significantly loose around the passenger — just a different safety issue than I thought.
Fair point.
Comment Re:Don't they know how to close a door remotely? (Score 2) 72
That's considered a critical safety failure, because it means that the seat belt won't retract correctly in an accident.
You're conflating two different things.
Attached to the belt reel is a spring, which retracts the belt when it's not being used, and a mechanism to stop the reel from moving when the vehicle jerks suddenly. It doesn't affect safety if the former doesn't work, but the latter is essential.
The thing you're talking about - the pre-tensioner - is usually located where the belt buckles in. In the event of an accident a small pyrotechnic charge is used to tighten the belt to hold the passenger more firmly in their seat. Some manufacturers may put them in the reel mechanism but all the ones I've seen were in the buckle. I've read that some of them even use miniature Wankel engines to convert the pressurised gasses from the charge into rotary motion.
Comment Re:TL;DR (Score 2) 142
Reasonably priced and good quality MP3 players are surprisingly difficult to find now.
No they're not. We just call them "phones" now.
Comment TL;DR (Score 3, Insightful) 142
Buy a fucking MP3 player you pretentious twit.
Comment Re: What about ad abuse? (Score 1) 34
There are no ad-blockers for the YT app.
Comment And...? (Score 1) 44
Presumably being a Samsung it also comes with ads.
Comment And... (Score 0) 16
...nothing of value was lost.
Comment Re: Was there a shortage? (Score 1, Troll) 83
I don't understand how decreasing import to the USA has increased buying in Europe.
Because you have a working brain.
Comment Can someone explain please? (Score 1) 106
How are these traders anything but parasites? If I buy at 10 at midday then sell for 10.00001 a millisecond later just what meaningful investment has occurred? The company whose shares I buy doesn't even notice. What, not to put too fine a point on it, the fuck is the point of HFT besides making money for people who contribute nothing? I mean I've no particular love for traders in general but HFT is something else.
Comment Re:Who are these people? (Score 1) 42
FYI, the word is "drivel".
Comment Re: Well, what a surprise. (Score 1) 139
Every time he pardons someone, all the money that was spent on arresting and prosecuting that person was completely wasted. It absolutely is into the billions at this point.
It's about two billion just for fines that will no longer be paid.
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