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  1. Re:Uh, what? on Hacking a Car With Music · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've never seen a keyless entry system connected to a CAN bus.

    I have in no way worked on all cars out there, but that would be what we with common sense call 'poor system design'.

  2. Re:Uh, what? on Hacking a Car With Music · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even from the CAN bus your largest attack would be messing with fuel economy. The communications on the CAN bus are usually quite secluded from any form of digital engine control.

    For example, the Oxygen and MAP sensors might broadcast on the CAN bus, and you may be able to spoof them so in the ECU it causes an engine light or bad fuel economy. Beyond that, the CAN bus is pretty much just information being sent about the status of things. There is usually no control taking place via those connections. All control based on those messages comes from the ECU directly.

  3. Re:how much of a loss? on King Wants To Sell Out Ham Radio · · Score: 2

    I'm curious why you say it's dying out?

    I actually just got licensed, and have been building the tech for over a decade. I love being able to communicate over huge distances using only what I built myself.

  4. Re:Bittersweet indeed on A Bittersweet Finale For Discovery Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    It's fun that everything you said is in the past tense...

    Sure, they were useful and did beneficial research. Before. When they still had money and cared.

  5. Fuck the Government and it's bogus system on A Bittersweet Finale For Discovery Space Shuttle · · Score: 2

    US Government's Plan for Nasa - 2011 to 2031:
    -Gradually close down the US space program and subcontract all spaceflight to private sector companies
    -Sell off the shuttles so we can finally pay off our pawn loan and get that sweet guitar back
    -Lose edge on space-based achievements and discoveries to other more honest nations that don't have need to over-fund stealing oil from the middle east
    -Divert all space funding to an illegitimate war for control of a doomed source of fuel
    -Gradually divert all science, math, reading, arts, and education funding to the same false war
    -Lose all respect from your citizens
    (Present)
    -Give up once China, the UK, and various other countries with their shit together own our giant slab of faux democracy, only to be turned into a hovercar parking lot by the Japanese

  6. Terrible Article Title on Leslie Valiant Wins 'Nobel Prize' of Computing · · Score: 1

    There is nothing having to do with the Nobel Prize whatsoever. The little quotes don't make it forgivable.

    This is purely a trick to get more eyes on the story, and is quite despicable.

    Turing had the award named after him for his achievements and success. In that respect, calling it a 'Nobel Prize' of computing is rather insulting. Anyone who would normally be interested by this award knows who Turing is, and probably (rightfully so) has more respect for that award than the Nobel Prize.

    It should say that the Nobel Prize is an award like the Turing award, in non-computational areas of science.

  7. Wow, really? on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 0

    For some reason, I wasn't at all surprised to see R- in front of every legislator's name in the article. It would take a redneck know-nothing conservative to try and push some stupid shit like this when there are important things to tackle, like budget and transportation.

    When will hard-right republicans and other douchebag conservatives realize that they're wrong, unlikeable except by other righty douchebags, and living at LEAST 15 years in the past?

  8. A little redundant... on Book Review: Arduino: a Quick-Start Guide · · Score: 1

    Yes, the Arduino is ubiquitous.

    It is also a microcontroller with the training wheels invariably built-in for everything.

    It is, itself, already a Quick-Start Guide to real microcontrollers.

  9. Re:Nice, but it's not properly "organic" on The World's First Flexible Organic Microprocessor · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, gold was naturally-occurring - and therefore organic.

    I don't think they're trying to say it has 0 chemical or carbon footprint for manufacture, but that all the materials it is made of are natural/organic.

  10. I sense a great disturbance... on Google's Fight Against 'Low-Quality' Sites Continues · · Score: 1

    It was like thousands of Search Engine Optimizers cried out, and then suddenly were silent...

  11. Elegant Simplicity on Erdos' Combinatorial Geometry Problem Solved · · Score: 1

    For being such a complex problem, the solution seems rather simple.

    Guess it's one of those "Right in front of us the whole time" answers.

  12. Oh Apple! on Apple in Talks to Improve Sound Quality of Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    You never cease to amaze me with how you can squeeze extra pennies out of your already-overpaying customers.

    A normal tech company would have moral qualms, like the human ear's inability to distinguish between a 16- and 24-bit audio file, but not you! You proudly flaunt it and just dive right in misleading your customers that it is somehow 'better quality' because now your volume increment is 1/16777216 instead of 1/65536 of max volume.

    Never mind that many of your source files and master copies are nowhere near that quality, speakers that normal people use(specifically the ones in your computers and earbuds) are not capable of reproducing that fine of a detailed sound, and loss from wires and digital transmission far exceeds any quality improvement of your extra bits.

    You just go on with your bad self!

  13. Re:Obligatory on Biodegradable Sneakers Sprout Flowers When Planted · · Score: 1

    Clearly... ...so this Indica is totally legal, right?

    If the seeds in the tongue are also 'hemp' I may just get a few pair of these to start a....garden, yeah, that's it.

  14. Re:Apple have officially lost me... on Apple To Unveil Light Peak, New MacBook Pros This Week? · · Score: 1

    You're not even a good troll.

    Intel is delaying their new updates because they just lost a couple hundred million dollars in bad Sandy Bridge chipsets that they now have to retool and remanufacture. That was SATA Rev2 that caused that problem, but if I were Intel I'd avoid trying to rush anything out the doors following that fiasco.

  15. Re:How about QUAD-CORE i7? on Apple To Unveil Light Peak, New MacBook Pros This Week? · · Score: 1

    For those of us building our own computers, the i7 9__ Extreme was 6-cores...and the Xeons are up to 8-core versions.

  16. I'm thinking... on Apple To Unveil Light Peak, New MacBook Pros This Week? · · Score: 0

    it's probably going to be a fiber-connected SSD technology.

    They could be cool and use the standard TOSlink/Optical Digital Audio cabling/connectors, but knowing apple it will be some stupid freaking double-latch gold-plated trendy-white cable that can only be used with this one rendition of the computer and changes every time a new computer is released so you have to buy all over again.

  17. Re:Only one reply possible for the Minister on Late Night Gaming Banned In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    Several popular MMOs are designed to be used over dial-up connections. I usually run EVE Online via my cell phone tether at about 5KB/s without any issues at all.

    Last I heard WoW was using stupid low bandwidth because everything is pretty much clientside.

  18. Re:This is important? on Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly · · Score: 1

    They're only 46 here.

    Having lived here for over 25 years, I can say that the company most certainly doesn't order their channels by popularity or quality, but by the order in which they were added to the service.

    The additional discovery, history, natgeo, and science channels were added to a nice little gap between QVC and the Disney Channel. Hell, 49 is still empty if they ever find something worthwhile to fill it with that can safely border Cartoon Network and TV Land.

  19. Re:This is important? on Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly · · Score: 1

    Plus Morena Baccarin has her own new show where she's still an alien, but now she's in CHARGE of a bunch of huge ships...

    I don't think you're gonna get that money-grubbing space whore to give up her huge destructor fleet on V for some junker in Firefly.

  20. Re:Huh? What? on The Death of BCC · · Score: 1

    Complaining about top-posted replies vs inline replies is just stupid. Top-posting the reply is standard practice now. Every client I use does it, from generic school mail to GMail.

  21. Re:BCC? Borland??? on The Death of BCC · · Score: 1

    Did you forget a sarcasm tag? Because while I know what the Borland CC is, I sure wish I didn't. Most horrible compiling experience I've ever had.

  22. Re:my other me on The Death of BCC · · Score: 1

    It's blind in the US also. OP is just dumb, or trying to be witty.

    PS: I BCC'd him on this.

  23. Re:BCC still existed? on The Death of BCC · · Score: 1

    I think the best solution is just to not use Reply All unless you know who all is on the list, and actually have a valid reason to send it to them.

    It's not the stupid use of BCC that's the issue, it's the stupid use of Reply All.

  24. Re:Likely more prevalent an issue than we realize. on Feds Pay Millions For Bogus Spy Software · · Score: 1

    In any kind of merit-based organization that would mean firing and replacing every decision-maker who chose to invest in this software. That's how they could regain credibility, by showing that they won't tolerate such gross incompetence within their ranks

    Somehow, I think I could live with this.

  25. Re:Fuck that on FBI Complains About Wiretapping Difficulties Due To Web Services · · Score: 1

    Being as serious as I can about the matter, this isn't entirely impossible.

    If we can reverse-engineer the spinal neurotransmission protocols we should be able to use the larger of the spinal nerves to conduct a TEMPEST-style interception of their transmissions in real time...

    Too bad the human nervous system is mostly black-box technology, or I could just download the datasheet.