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  1. Re:(some) cars are gadgets now on Tesla Teardown Reveals Driver-facing Electronics Built By iPhone 6 Suppliers · · Score: 1

    Arguably also to control the fuel injectors (though they could be controlled mechanically I suppose)

  2. Re:(some) cars are gadgets now on Tesla Teardown Reveals Driver-facing Electronics Built By iPhone 6 Suppliers · · Score: 1

    In the cold yes.

  3. Re:Some Sense Restored? on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    Systemd is the Poochie of the Linux world?

  4. Re:wondered why it took so long. on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    Crap. I thought the "Ex" was for "Extreme"

  5. Re:Jails are easily repurposed on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 1

    The root cause of many being homeless is not not having a home.

  6. Re:Programmer Cubicle Alternative on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 1

    Man, that would be a dream compared to this cubicle farm. Sign me up!

  7. Re:Well on The Guardian Reveals That Whisper App Tracks "Anonymous" Users · · Score: 1

    If you visit one of the forums dedicated to your vehicle, you can frequently find fixes for potential problems that others have worked out. For one of my own vehicles, it is recommended to replace the fragile plastic cam chain tensioners with improved metal ones. You can either do it yourself or pay someone to do it but someone else was able to do the heavy lifting of working it out in the first place.

  8. Re:Say what? on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 2

    Or perhaps they saw that when the politicians declared they were going to "get tough on crime", they totally missed the kinds of crime people were concerned about and ended up jailing a lot of people who weren't particularly doing much harm (and were largely black).

  9. Re:Racists on Journalists Route Around White House Press Office · · Score: 1

    But they're British.

  10. Re:incremental backups on If Your Cloud Vendor Goes Out of Business, Are You Ready? · · Score: 1

    Never mind going out of business, they can't even provide virtual machines while they're in business. Every now and then, especially around this time of year as we head into the holiday season and e-retailers are taking more capacity, they will have "insufficient capacity" and you can't get the systems you need, not even one. So much for the auto-scaling as-many-resources-as-you-need wonder that is the Amazon cloud. Lies.

  11. Re:Cost of Production on The Great Robocoin Rip-off · · Score: 1

    List I heard, $113 but that sounds a bit low to me.

  12. Re:Not Air-Traffic, but Surface-Traffic Control on Designing Tomorrow's Air Traffic Control Systems · · Score: 1

    That would seem fairly obvious. But I can say that as a passenger, I prefer to be away from the gate as soon as possible even if it means waiting in line and that may be why they do it.

  13. Re:A good idea on Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated · · Score: 1

    Meh, I'd always start pawing through the in-flight magazine anyway. Once you've heard the spiel once, you've heard it for life and truth is, if anything happens you're probably dead anyway.

  14. POTUS on Who's In Charge During the Ebola Crisis? · · Score: 1

    "The bug stops here". I saw it in a photo once.

  15. Re:For everything there is a season on Pentagon Unveils Plan For Military's Response To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    The point is not to apportion blame.

  16. Re:symbols, caps, numbers on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    Best one: Favorite sports team. I don't care for sports so this has no valid answer. Whatever I picked, I don't remember it anymore.

    Another great one: Favorite color. Minimum four letters. Guess red isn't a color then.

  17. Re:typewriter pi on Raspberry Pi Sales Approach 4 Million · · Score: 1

    Except you actually have two computers...

    Is there not an editor you can install directly on the Kindle? I rooted mine a while back but didn't play with it much beyond poking around the file-system in a shell.

  18. Re:Smart devices on Raspberry Pi Sales Approach 4 Million · · Score: 1

    I think it's cool because with a transparent case, it looks like a mini Orac.

  19. Re:Fantastic! on Raspberry Pi Sales Approach 4 Million · · Score: 1

    Heh, unfairly marked down in my opinion :) Too many projects, too little time.

  20. Re:poor choise of packaging on Feces-Filled Capsules Treat Bacterial Infection · · Score: 1

    They could color it.

    Then you could eat shit and dye.

  21. He had a coffee named after him...

    (yes, I know where the name comes from).

  22. Re:Yea, best form a comitee to consider all option on Experts Decry Randomized Ebola Treatment Trials As Unethical, Impractical · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But randomized trials were designed to be used in a certain set of circumstances. The question is whether these circumstances fall outside of what those would be applicable to and what would be the appropriate protocol if they're not. Being too rigid can be a bad thing but also things should not be done in a knee-jerk fashion.

  23. Re:Problematic for Linux too on How Poor Punctuation Can Break Windows · · Score: 2

    There are many interpreted languages for which this is also true. The problem is with the laxness of the shell scripting interpreters which have been stretched way beyond simple task automation. Though even the simple task automation has issues.

    It's understandable, having to rm 'file.txt' seems like an imposition when it's clear you're talking about just file.txt but as soon as you start having ambiguities caused by things which have semantic meaning to the shell being allowed in file names, you open things up for screwiness. Interpolation (as useful as it is) also introduces similar issues.

  24. Re:Seems incorrect on NVIDIA Presents Plans To Support Mir and Wayland On Linux · · Score: 1

    NVidia know the capabilities and interfaces for their cards. They just need to expose that.

  25. Re:Claim is BS. on Liking Analog Meters Doesn't Make You a Luddite (Video) · · Score: 1

    Ridiculous on at least two levels.