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  1. Re:SI vs. US customary? on Israeli Firm Makes Kilomile Claims For Electric Car Battery Tech · · Score: 1

    my car has $186k miles on it. you mean I would be replacing the plates 200 times over the course of the cars life? that sounds like a lot of work...

    Done right, no more work than filling the tank 200 times.

  2. Re:but the EU and others will not like the app sto on Major UK Retailers Mislabel Windows RT As Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    but the EU and others will not like the app store lock in and app store censorship

    Which would explain why they've slammed Apple (whose tablet marketshare is many times that of MS) for doing just that.

    Oh, wait...

  3. Re:For Example... on Major UK Retailers Mislabel Windows RT As Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    There wasn't significant confusion between the Windows CE and 95/98 or Windows Mobile and XP/7.

    Well, that was primarily because nobody *used* Windows CE or Windows Mobile.

    Acer did, for sat-navs. Others probably did too.

  4. Re:Really? on Major UK Retailers Mislabel Windows RT As Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I think you meant suit. A strong suite would be a sofa made from purest diamondium.

    Pah! My diamondillium will beat your diamondium any day!

  5. Re:HUD on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    Fair enough :-) I was including the table.

  6. Re:HUD on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    Loving how you're arguing with me while quoting an identical table.

  7. Re:How many licks does it take to get to the cente on Building Better Body Armor With Nanofoams · · Score: 1

    But the main difference between gas and liquid is compressibility.

    Not denying that :)

  8. Re:Are they from the Muslim Brotherhood ? on Egyptian Forces Capture 3 Divers Trying To Cut Undersea Internet Cable · · Score: 1

    They were probably trying to steal the copper.

    From an undersea cable? I admire the ambition, but...

  9. Re:How many licks does it take to get to the cente on Building Better Body Armor With Nanofoams · · Score: 1

    I think you'd first have to invent a compressible liquid.

    How about gas?

    Gas is a fluid, but is isn't a liquid.

  10. Re:Watch your clauses, people! on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 1

    Are we all copying our usernames into the bodies of our posts now? Oh wait, no, it's just you, because unlike the rest of us you're a very special narcissist.

    That sound you hear is the sound of the joke going in one ear and out the other. You see, there was nothing in between to stop it.

  11. Re:Really? on Another Way Carriers Screw Customers: Premium SMS 'Errors' · · Score: 1

    It's a .org, moron. If it doesn't end in a country abbreviation, it's a US site. Learn your internet history.

    I have several domain names that don't end in a country abbreviation, yet are British sites.

    Oh, almost forgot to type 'moron'.

  12. Re:Any communication channel on Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year · · Score: 1

    Yep, that's why only Gmail is referenced in the summary

    And the article.

  13. Re:HUD on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    Incorrect unless the highway code has changed since I took my test (a possibility, I admit).

    https://www.gov.uk/speed-limits - about as definitive a reference as you can get ;-)

  14. Re:HUD on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. When traveling to Florida on business, I encountered a stretch which had 15 speed limit changes in 9 miles. I counted after being pulled over for speeding, having thought I was correct for the segment I was in at the time.

    Limit change every half-mile - that sounds like the authorities are in it for the money.

  15. Re:Sigh on Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String · · Score: 1

    not on mac. just tested it.

    OS X doesn't use backslashes in file paths, so it's no surprise.

  16. Re:HUD on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    Cars heads up displays don't include emails and google+ messages. Don't be obtuse.

    You've obviously not driven in some of the newer luxury cars.

    Where checking your e-mail would be blocked while in motion. The logic extends to other features in an obvious manner.

  17. Re:HUD on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    but not always so clear in cities if you don't live there or drive there often

    For the UK, it's 30mph unless signed otherwise. I would assume other countries have similar limits.

  18. Re:And it still looks like on Windows Blue 9364 Screenshots Show Feature Enhancements · · Score: 3, Informative

    I got used to launching stuff very rapidly by hitting Winkey + R + command + Enter

    Still works on Vista, 7 and 8. Even better, the 'R' is optional.

  19. Re:Sigh on Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String · · Score: 1

    The day that the first website was able to detect what client was being used to view it, we were in trouble.

    You haven't needed to do that ever if you want to detect IE.

    IE automagically turns backslashes in a URL into forward slashes. AFAIK, no other browser does this.

    Firefox does - just tested it.

  20. Re:Sigh on Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String · · Score: 1

    NatWest, in the UK, had a website that refused to work with anything but ancient versions of IE or Netscape - yes, it actually said Netscape even in the era of Firefox - and they refused to fix it "for security reasons", so I moved on. Presumably they've fixed it now, but I don't really care because the damage was done by not being able to log into it at my convenience

    They haven't. You still have to fake UA strings to use most browsers with their online banking site.

    Bollocks - the website works perfectly fine in Firefox without having to fake anything. I bet if I tried it in Chrome, it would also work fine.

  21. Re:Charging points on Where Can You Find an Electric Vehicle Charging Network? Estonia · · Score: 1

    I was talking about the production of the batteries vs the refining of oil, and you counter with an emissions comparison. It follows my rebuttal should focus on the use of animal products in the interior.

  22. Re:Charging points on Where Can You Find an Electric Vehicle Charging Network? Estonia · · Score: 1

    EVs are great except for one big problem - the batteries. They're too expensive for not enough capacity.

    Not to mention the large amounts of pollution from the production of them. Oil's far from clean, but it's not as bad.

    Personally, I think EVs will only take off (and over) when we sort out a hydrogen infrastructure.

  23. Re:The Netherlands on Where Can You Find an Electric Vehicle Charging Network? Estonia · · Score: 1

    Dude you are wacked, WTF does global warming have to do with fucking ELEVATION?

    Everything, when you're below mean sea level.

  24. Re:OUTRAGE! on UK Bloggers Could Face Libel Fines Unless Registered As Press · · Score: 2

    A bad law gets torn apart until it's good.

    Like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the endless ways in which it is twisted and abused.

  25. Re:OUTRAGE! on UK Bloggers Could Face Libel Fines Unless Registered As Press · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hey Limeys, what do you think of our First Amendment now?

    I'll let you know when Congress actually starts respecting it.