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  1. Re:Not Published on Why Apple's DUI Checkpoint App Ban Is Stupid · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of twitter and facebook posts about checkpoint locations. I propose that they ban those as well.

  2. Re:Tacoooo on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    That is pi approximation day which was made up for you Europeans and your silly backwards dates.

  3. Re:Hackers can turn your home computer into a bomb on Hacking a Car With Music · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind the source.

  4. Re:The only free country in the world on TSA To Retest Full Body Scanners For Radiation · · Score: 1

    It isn't free! you have to buy a plane ticket.

  5. Re:but unlike analog tv there is no box or headend on Judge Allows Subpoenas For GeoHot YouTube Viewers, Blog Visitors · · Score: 1

    And people see less value in replacing that modem thing than they do in having to get some new box thing so they don't miss the new Jersey Shore.

  6. Re:FINALLY... on Court Says California Stores Can't Ask Customers For ZIP Codes · · Score: 1

    Most credit cards also say that your card is invalid if you write "see id" on the back instead of signing it (or just leave it blank)

  7. Re:Pier1 does that on Court Says California Stores Can't Ask Customers For ZIP Codes · · Score: 1

    Kroger is Ralphs, food-4-less, FoodsCo.
    Vons is Safeway, Carrs, Casa Ley, Dominick's, Genuardi's, Pak n Save, Randall's, Pavilions.
    Albertson's hasn't been mentioned so I don't feel like typing out he list, but here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Albertsons_(SuperValu)#Sale_to_SuperValu.2C_CVS.2C_Cerberus

    There's really only a few supermarket brands out there.

  8. Re:Tried to mistype both, on Auto Incorrect · · Score: 1

    At least with iOS, it depends on your software version. For some reason my phone tries to correct mmmmmmmm to Klingon, budwieser to videotext and several other batshit crazy corrections, My friend's phone with a different version has different quirks.

  9. Re:An even better option... on Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers · · Score: 4, Funny

    My current city: Constantinople.
    But I'm from Istanbul.

    They can use all of my info they want to, it's all lies.

  10. Re:Doesn't everyone? on New App Mixes New Drinks With What You Have · · Score: 1

    I'm still looking for a proper drink app that has the classic recipes in it.

  11. Re:Just more extreme on Thief Posts His Photo To Facebook Victim's Account · · Score: 1

    One night some drunk twat ran into my car. The next day, the neighbor girl who he had been dropping off came over and told me what happened. She came to the police station with me, gave them his name, phone number etc, signed a witness statement. They said unless she had the license plate # handy they weren't going to do anything. How hard is it to look that up in their computer? There are reasons that people have little faith in the police. It's all too often that even when we do their jobs for them, they still can't be bothered to take the last step and actually do their jobs.

  12. Re:delete key? what? on Chrome Does Have a Caps-Lock Key After All · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Start-M to minimize all.

  13. Re:Some People on A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So the choice is to open the cockpit and let them kill the plane full of people + X at their target, or just kill the people on the plane? Seems an easy choice to not open the door.

  14. Re:Old news. on With the Jack PC, the Computer's In the Wall! · · Score: 1

    It can use PoE. I'm also not sure why this is news since these have been out for 4-5 years now.

  15. Re:Small businesses that need to watch costs? on Asterisk 1.8 Released With Support For Google Voice · · Score: 1

    You can buy a preconfigured Asterix setup including the computer it runs on for ~2k. Even for people without an inhouse geek, that still seems better than 3k.

  16. Re:10x on The Effect of Internal Bacteria On the Human Body · · Score: 1

    I should hope they're smaller! I'm just getting over pneumonia and have been on antibiotics for the last 2 weeks. Considering the havoc that antibiotics play on all the good internal bacteria, I might weigh ~20 pounds!

  17. Re:10x on The Effect of Internal Bacteria On the Human Body · · Score: 1

    Hate to quote Wikipedia, but: "Citation needed."

  18. Re:(0.999...)st Post! on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    1/3=0.33333..

    1/3+1/3+1/3 = 1 = 0.33333..+0.33333..+0.33333 = 0.99999..

    Seems pretty simple that it has to equal 1.

  19. Re:I can do better then that! on Chinese 'Apple Peel' Turns iPods Into iPhones · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just so you know, My iPhone dual boots into Android as well. Current release only gives internet/voice/mms functionality (if your SIM is unlocked), but next release should have the Android app store.

    http://www.iphodroid.com/

  20. Re:Oh no. Not again. on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    The Jedi are going to feel this one...

  21. Re:thrusting on The Joke Known As 3D TV · · Score: 1

    I had the same issue. I kept wanting them to have shot the movie with a tiny aperture so everything would be in focus and you could focus where you wanted to. Harder direct the viewer's eyes, but if they wanna look at the computer in the background, make that shit readable dammit!

  22. Re:Cool .... But on Radiohead Helps Fans Make Crowd-Sourced Live Show DVD · · Score: 1

    the Zombie one was better.

  23. Re:12 minute epilogue on UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message · · Score: 1

    It's made of people!

    oh wait, that was something else.. and hollywood never reuses ideas.

    It's made of uhm... midgets?

  24. Re:Poor solution on 'Leap Seconds' May Be Eliminated From UTC · · Score: 1

    Technically, every time they muck with adding a leap second or not, they're adjusting the length of a day. If they didn't, the leap day thing would need maintenance as well. Given, it would not be a particularly big issue for a very long time, without doing the math on it, my guess would be somewhere around 86400 times as long. (I'm aware that with the occasional leap second being added to that number, it's wrong, not to mention that the addition of leap seconds/days don't occur at a scalable interval, and likely several more reasons that are missing due to still being hungover from this weekend. It was supposed to be a joke)

    If we stopped adding leap days, would people notice? would they notice when the equinox was no longer on the correct day? Would they notice when Christmas was eventually actually in July?
    Say we stop using leap seconds. Would people notice that their watch was minutely off? That the sun was coming up earlier than it once did in the past? That midnight is the new noon?

    Leap years are more obvious because it's a big chunk of time that they're adding. Leap seconds are smaller increments of time, but we need to add the proper number of units that make up a day together before we can add a full day. If not, it's still wrong so why bother adding the day at all?

  25. Re:Lets skip to the heart of the matter on The Shoddy State of Automotive Wireless Security · · Score: 1

    New cars have a lot more sound insulation, and louder stereos so it's a lot harder to know when a tire is getting low based on the sound. I've been on plenty of crappy roads where I've pulled over cause it felt like the tire was shot, It's kind of nice to have a little light save be a few min.