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  1. Re:Just turn off the car? on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    If you cannot stop a runaway car by shifting into neutral, then I dont think you should have the RIGHT to operate a 5000lb death machine on the same roads I drive on, regardless of who you are.

  2. Any Different? on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    If parents don't want their children exposed, they can chose to not let them play the game. However, I fail to see how the game is going to portray anything different than their peers in school. No, instead, these idiots want regulation and law to enforce their standards and ideals on others. Have some personal accountability.

    In other news, its not like they force the LGBT encounters on you in the game. You pretty much have to consciously chose them.

  3. Re:Not an issue on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    Holy shit!? 1GB or ram? /sarcasm

    Sir, web browsers are not just web browsers anymore. The average web page has so much multimedia content and scripting, its quite impressive that, after running for 8 hours or more, it maintains only 1GB footprint.

    Also, you can buy 2 GB of ram for less than a tank of gas.

  4. Re:Because everyone needs a gullwing suv on Tesla Reveals Its Model X Gullwing SUV · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe if you are comparing it to your grandpa's vette...
    And then only for ~22 miles till it runs out of juice.

  5. Re:What are they thinking? on Sprint Bets Big On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    iPhones don't support connecting to remembered networks automatically?

  6. Re:I have personally been waiting for this day on PS3 Enjoys Retail-Wide Sales Spike After Price Cut · · Score: 1

    Why? My old QXGA CRT would like to inform you that I have been gaming in higher-than-hd resolutions and refresh rates since before halo came out. That's right, 2048x1536.

  7. Re:no dark matter... on CERN Physicist Says Dark Matter May Be an Illusion · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So, one untested theory turning out to be true means all untested theories are true?

  8. Re:Suits are to blame! on The Case For Surrealism In Games · · Score: 1

    If you completely ignore games like Call of Duty, Mass Effect, Halo, Diablo, Half Life, Final Fantasy --heck even mario-- I'm sure you would have a point.

    While some of those games have non-narrative multi-player modes, they all have strong story-driven campaigns.

  9. Re:That's how bad the situation is... on Drought-Stricken Texas Town Taps Urine For Water · · Score: 1

    The problem is only being exacerbated by this extremely warm summer this year as well. There aren't many lawns left in my neighborhood anymore. I haven't had to cut my grass in almost a month.

  10. Re:Interesting maybe kinda but not really on PlayStation 3 Controller On Android Devices · · Score: 2

    Most likely you will be able to find it in many places, most obviously Google, when its released. You know, like all the previous versions of android.

    Oh, I'm sorry, you wanted to be bitter.

  11. Re:Wait for it... on Online Parody Cartoon Targeted For Prosecution · · Score: 1

    Sounds like just the thing a hipster would say.

  12. Re:Dang. on Activision Trying To 'Reinvent' Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    You can pick up used equipment cheap on ebay and craigslist.

  13. Re:No one routinely gets a list of local calls on Customer Asks For Itemized Bill, Verizon Tells Her To Get a Subpoena · · Score: 1

    This is about verizon land-line service, not verizon mobile or t-mobile. They are different entities within the company.

  14. Re:Question on Bitcoin Mining Tests On 16 NVIDIA and AMD GPUs · · Score: 1

    Assuming it was substantial enough of a cluster, it would push the difficulty of generating them even higher.

    Essentially its setup so that there is a set number of them created in a given time. The more people trying to make them, the more computer power required to make one. So, if you double the amount of people trying to make coins, you also double the amount of computer time needed to make one. Thusly, the more people who join this fad, the less anyone is going to make.

  15. Or Not on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 5, Insightful

    China is poised to become the worlds largest non-native English speaking population in the world. They are learning English at a much faster rate than any Americans can learn Chinese.

  16. Perhaps instead of such a large prize... on Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should have considered spending some of it to upgrade their hosting.

  17. Re:Commercialise?!? on Google and MIT Enable Task Transfer Among Devices · · Score: 0

    As the worlds largest English speaking population, The United States of America would like you to know that we do not give a flying rat's ass how you spell your antiquated version of our language.

    Thank you and have a nice day.

  18. Re:How did you come to that conclusion? on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1

    If Clarkson had written it, it would have stated "Tezzzlah roadsters have ceased production. Why? Because they are the worst sports cars..................... in the world."

  19. STR on Mac OS X Lion Has a Browser-Only Mode · · Score: 0

    These days, it is nearly impossible to find a computer that doesn't support suspend to ram properly. Do people really shut down their computers so often that this feature would actually be useful? I just don't understand it.

  20. Not FWD? on Peugeot EX1 Sets Electric Car Lap Record At Nuerburgring · · Score: 1

    Very impressive feat. I'm just amazed its no FWD, being a Peugeot and all.

  21. Re:Waton's Wagering and HAL 9000 on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Battery life is crap on Early Hands-On Preview of Dell's Streak 7 Tablet · · Score: 1

    Also,

    In early benchmark testing, the Streak 7 is looking pretty strong versus the Galaxy Tab, which comes in neck-and-neck with the Streak 7 in Neocore, at around 54 FPS."

    Despite the self-contradictory way this sentence was worded, they benchmark nearly the same.

  23. Re:2GB is far too little for "unlimited" on Verizon To Throttle High-Bandwidth Users · · Score: 1

    The android app actually has a "high quality" option, which IIRC sets the stream to 96kbps.

  24. Re:No on Are Gamers Safer Drivers? · · Score: 1

    Or have to dodge a driver who pulled out in front of you, avoid a child running into a street chasing a ball, correct a slide on black ice so that you don't spin the car into a tree, etc...

    Knowing how to handle those situations is admirable. Claiming you shouldn't have those skills because you shouldn't be in the situation is not what I would describe as "driving defensively". Full disclosure, I have played GT series since the first one came out and I have been driving for 8 years now, 0 accidents, 0 tickets.

  25. Re:10 years? on Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk · · Score: 1

    Yet we have been expecting self-driving cars since the 70's. Man is driven by the irrational fear of being not in control. Our minds are programed to think we can do better for ourselves than relying on another to not screw up.

    Self driving cars = public transit. I highly doubt we will see self driving cars for individuals for at least another 50 years.