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  1. Re:Me thinks on $1M Prize For Finding Cause of Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    I can drive and prefer brakes that don't lock up (though i agree that they should be strong enough to lock up), providing the most braking power (also newer abs systems are awesome (especially when driving on mixed surfaces))

  2. Re:Way to restate the summary, Cpt. Obvious! on Red Hat Support Continues To Flourish · · Score: 1

    Not really as the windows copy doesn't come with support (OEM copies have no support from Microsoft the support is meant to come from the manufacturer)

  3. Re:Great, still doesn't fix the Houston problem. on The Year of the E-Bicycle · · Score: 1

    I've done the heat and then some (40s at 0600 suck on training days) but not the humidity (only usually got to 60%)

    on an upright bike (dutch style (would be more comfortable to ride plus more breeze as you go)) at 20km/h you could cover that 45 min walk (guestimating 4.5kms) in 15 min and be quite cool for the entire trip

  4. Re:Sounds Hard on UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Every month i transfer funds to my flatmate with reference who then transfers to the account of our real estate agent takes 10 mins

    before i moved out i transferred rent and board to my parents account each month same system 1 min work

    bank transfer again for situation 2 or bank cheque (quite different from norm cheque)

  5. Re:Should they get off tax-free? on AU Senator Calls Scientology a "Criminal Organization" · · Score: 1

    Taxes on consumption are regressive taxes
    Why do you wish to tax the poorest people more than the richest?

  6. Re:Issues with such networks generalize to Mars on The Tech Aboard the International Space Station · · Score: 1

    Antartica most probably
    i don't think there is any fibre down there yet (though iirc the french were looking at running some to Dumont d'Urville)

  7. Re:BUSTED! on Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine For NY Health Workers Suspended · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's that comment about correlation and causation?

    a cheerleader who suffers from a severe neurological issue 10 days after a flu shot isn't that amazing

    One day we might even get real reporting with a real doctor actually discussing the issue

  8. Re:Sick of the anti-gay groups on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 1

    As long as you watch the adjustments along the way

  9. Re:I can see plenty of uses for it. on Apple Blurs the Server Line With Mac Mini Server · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps people who need a small low powered server?

  10. Re:If he's a hacker... on US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except the US Congress have not Ratified the Extradition treaty with the UK
    The UK can not request extradition of people from the USA

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003#US_ratification.2C_2006

  11. Re:"Right" to a private cell phone? on Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court · · Score: 1

    IIRC GPS is made up of 2 repeating signals one repeats every 12 mins but is only valid for 2 weeks or so and the other on a much faster time (can't recall what though)

    the transmission that happens on the slower cycle is needed to determine your location the faster cycle gives you the accuracy

    A-GPS gets the slower cycle off the phone connection rather than waiting for the sat

    IANAGPSE or a rocket scientist so this may be incredibly wrong but it's all i recall

  12. Re:Social or Biological? on The Myth of the Mathematics Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    Yep
    Most people don't want to pay tax and think that teachers earning SFA are already over paid
    when someone working a checkout is earning the same as a first year teacher why would you be a teacher?

  13. Re:Gold digging on Judge Dismisses Google Street View Case · · Score: 1

    Trepass is not automatically a crime
    and in most places you need to be asked and provided the means to leave before it can be considered a crime

  14. Re:Gold digging on Judge Dismisses Google Street View Case · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And when you do that i would get you charged with assault and fucking sue you till all you have left is a pair of pants

  15. Re:How to Falsify Evolution on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 5, Insightful
  16. Re:The AWFUL truth about LEGO on Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks · · Score: 1

    The correct response is to wait until your son has grown up and has his own spawn

    then show up unannounced and tip it on the floor for his kids

    I dread the revenge of my parents

  17. Re:Those Martians are crafty on Mars Rover "Spirit" In Danger · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nasa got 17.138 Billion dollars in 2007
    The US military got 527.660 Billion dollars
    10 Billion dollars is spent on iraq each month

    Pick a fucking better target to aim at

  18. Re:Why not vote publicly? on Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative · · Score: 2, Informative

    Vote this way or get fired, shot, killed, beaten etc.
    That's why we have anon ballots

    simple solution
    machine prints ballot showing who you voted for and preferences and etc. the machine makes no receipt no records only prints one.

    then that Ballot gets folded and put into a box that is in the open such as http://www.nancarrow-webdesk.com/warehouse/storage2/2007-w46/img.75405_t.jpg

    then you have an independent group that does the counting
    not bipartisan independent every party and ind can put reps in there to watch you have 2 people watching it at all times

    also consider preferences and multi-candidate seats (and bin the EC)

  19. Re:How is this a compromise? on Spore DRM Protest Makes EA Ease Red Alert 3 Restrictions · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You have to call to get more activations
    and in .au that's 2.95 a minute to wait on hold while some stupid frakking helldesk tool flips a coin to decide if you get to use your game or not

    plus costing 100 USDish :(

  20. Re:The important question on Europe's Automated Cargo Shuttle Docks With Space Station · · Score: 1

    i think you mean Gordon freeman

    Crowbar > roundhouse kick

  21. Re:How much spam do you actually get? on Most Spam Comes From Just Six Botnets · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just checked this and i think you got the address round the wrong way.

    you need to put it john38+temp@gmail.com for it to work as the other way round just goes to the wrong address

  22. Re:Godwin. on The Register Exposes More Wikipedia Abuse · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately Carrot is just a fictional character :(

  23. Re:Any hope? on California Sues E-Voting Vendor ES&S · · Score: 1
  24. Re:What is with the attitude on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    Ok then.

    Sex ED. Fairy tail believer == abstinence only vs. someone who will look at the reports that show that abstinence only doesn't work and will say if you are going to have sex make sure you have safe sex

    Medical Research.
    Let's completely ignore a field of research because of embryos that were going to be destroyed will be used in it

    Vaccinations? HPV anyone?

  25. Re:What is with the attitude on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    Belief in a fairy tail especially one showing such violence and contempt for other human beings as the bible leads me to doubt that they would be able to govern when issues related to that fairy tail or a competing fairy tail.

    Electing someone from a family(granted the mistake of electing the previous guy was also made) that questions whether an atheist is a citizen of a country. someone who claims that "God" is talking to him(i recommend drugs or psychiatric help) and then attacks another country for also claiming that

    I know that someone who strongly believes in said fairy tail would not be able to accept evidence that questions their particular fairy tail

    Perhaps a better question would be to ask why the current US president didn't just accept he made a mistake, rather than pretend that he is unable to read a map\briefing card\etc.?