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  1. Re:Pffft on Atlanta Gambled With Winter Storm and Lost · · Score: 1

    Tyres are the most important part of a car, since they're the bit that actually interfaces between the mechanism and the medium.

    Normal tyres aren't as grippy in the cold since they harden up. This might be fine 99% of the time since you'll be more careful in these temperatures anyways. The last 1% of the time, the grip you get could help avoid an accident.

    It's cheap enough as a form of insurance; $100/corner if you don't have a monster of a car. And they last for several years.

  2. A Long Time Ago on Life Could Have Evolved 15 Million Years After the Big Bang, Says Cosmologist · · Score: 2

    In a Galaxy Far, Far Away...

  3. Re:Starcraft. on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    Of course! Think about it. A swarming, bloodthirsty race spreads from its blazingly hot, otherwise-lifeless homeland across the sector, devouring or perverting everything in its path. After they destroy a civilized human base, do you know what they do with the remnant? They infest it. They implant their essence into the base's very core, and turn it into a breeding factory - for suicide bombers! Poor, twisted versions of what was once human, with no free will, their only actions for the glory of Mohamm - I mean, the Overmind.

    Starcraft is obviously an Islamic plot to destroy the US and Western Civilization.

    So...Heart of the Shawarma?

  4. Could this be the one slashdot post on First Mammals Observed Regenerating Tissue · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where trolls are actually on-topic?

  5. UI Design on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    Aka figuring out the best text editor, whether it be vim, or notepad.exe.

  6. Re:Just a recorder... on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 1

    [quote]If you think they're too slow, perhaps try riding a bicycle or a donkey or even walking to give yourself a bit of perspective and be grateful that you have mechanised transport.[/quote]

    The advice is appreciated, but most people will just go as fast as they want.

    With that send, most people have enough self interest and dislike of life ending events that the speed they converge on...is quite reasonable for the road and the conditions. Most people I've seen on the road go pretty fast when it's bone dry and nice and slow down in a hurry when it's raining and shitty.

    TLDR: People are intelligent enough to not completely fuck themselves over, most of the time.

  7. Re:Where? on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1

    Uh huh. So these women, you claim, are turned off by operating outside their comfort zone, and that makes the programmers the socially awkward ones?

  8. Re:About time common sense prevailed! on Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies · · Score: 4, Funny

    The solution to this is to have a million terrorists board the plane.

  9. Re:Why wouldn't India develop it's own fighter? on India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's developing it's own light fighter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Tejas

    The Rafale looks like it'll be the strike fighter, while the Su-30 will be used for air superiority.

  10. Re:Wrong demographic on The Future of Hi-Tech Auto Theft · · Score: 1

    Even non luxury cars come with things like bluetooth nowadays. The attack vectors are present.

  11. Re:why is the CD player on the same network? on The Future of Hi-Tech Auto Theft · · Score: 3, Informative

    Depends on the car. The Corvette, for example, has three variants on the engine, each variant costing a different amount of money.

  12. Re:What? on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 0

    Technically there's nothing preventing me from slitting an envelope and reading it, no?

  13. Mars might be the best place to put life, though on Why Mars Is Not the Best Place To Look For Life · · Score: 1

    Certainly it would be easier getting humans there than the outer solar system places.

  14. Re:why not a mule on Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot · · Score: 1

    Not with that attitude, anyways.

  15. Re:Sometimes on Chrome Set To Take No. 2 Spot From Firefox · · Score: 1

    I read through this link. It looks like the author's main complaint is that a freely available open source fork of chromium isn't changing enough stuff?

    And that makes them a scammer?
    I'm a bit lost. Maybe I'm misreading something?

  16. Re:Zero bps. on Sprint Customers Face 5GB Hotspot Data Cap, As of Oct. 2 · · Score: 1

    Android 2.2 onwards has hot spot and usb tethering built in, no?

    Seems to work on my device.

  17. Re:Is that bad? on Russian Resupply Crash Could Mean Leaving ISS Empty · · Score: 1

    You have to start somewhere.

  18. Wait on LHC Data Continues To Disagree With Supersymmetry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Has Netcraft confirmed that the model is dead?

  19. Re:The real question is... on Dashboard Avatar To Replace Car Owner's Manuals · · Score: 1

    How many miles per gallon does your phone get?

  20. Re:113 comments and NOT ONE has thanked Al Gore... on World Wide Web Turns 20 Today · · Score: 1

    This article is about the web, not the internet.

  21. Re:Devil's Advocate... on Car Window Touchscreens · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say the HUD concept went nowhere. The Corvette uses one.

  22. Why would you want to skip the gen ed? on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to skip the gen ed stuff? By the last year they were the only classes I went into because I really wanted to (the engineering/cs classes I could do out of the book if needed).

    Expand your horizons. If you want to do something that is just CS, that's called a graduate degree in CS and that's just fine. But for an undergraduate degree, do the gen ed.

  23. Re:This is a review of a review... on Tom's Hardware Dissects Ubuntu 11.4's Interface and Performance · · Score: 2

    Other than this paragraph, the rest of the review seemed pretty fair. I found myself agreeing with the good and the bad.

  24. Re:Frippen in the jim jam, Frappen in the krotz! on Chinese Military Admits Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit · · Score: 1

    This all reminds me of the funny noises Bill Cosby makes.

    Hello, with the pudding!

  25. Re:WHy are you majoring in CS... on Professor Questions Sink-Or-Swim Intro To CS Courses · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but "gooey" is trendy

    Or, you know, a convenient term to refer to graphical user interface.

    and you've just revealed that you know nothing about user-interfaces.

    I don't see the logic here.