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  1. Re:Best of both worlds on FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights · · Score: 1

    They do not do this to 1st class assholes. The airlines are afraid if upsetting them. I personally want to see the air marshall put a pistol in the guys face and take the phone.

  2. Re:Best of both worlds on FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This comes from people not smacking them or publicly ridiculing them. When an asshat in first class refuses to get off the phone, yelling "Hey moron! hang up the phone, are you too stupid to understand what the lady just said?" is the proper response instead of just sitting there. If there are no consequences they will never change their behavior.

  3. Re:Add Mail Recall as a feature on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    I had a script that broke that. I wanted a copy of everything sent to me no matter what, recall all you want if my workstation was on, I had a copy made for later blackmail uses

  4. Re:The interface F*CKING SUCKS: no news here on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 2

    "I hate to admit it, but I see a hosted Exchange account in my future."

    And an epic amount of spam that you never knew you were not getting because Google has been blocking most of it.

    Please buy an exchange host elsewhere, you really need to see what it's like running a naked email server in the wild west of the internet. Hope you don't have clients that get upset when your server spams the hell out of them.

    If there is one thing I do not miss doing, it's managing an email server let alone an Exchange server. I'll work at subway making sandwiches before I go back to dealing with email servers...

  5. A Giant "DUH" to the rest of us. on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    If you want full control then you run your own server and maintain it. Everyone knows that.

    but I can tell you that Gmail works great with Lookout and other 3rd party clients in fact it works as good as an Exchange server. and many smaller businesses use them for the company email because it's dramatically cheaper to pay $25 a year each user for 100 users than it is to even pay for the electricity for running your own exchange server. let alone maintain, hardware upkeep subscriptions to anti spam, paying for someone to maintain it, etc... In fact it scales up to 1000 users and is still dramatically cheaper than running your own exchange server.

    Google's name holds more weight with businesses than Microsoft does.

  6. More sensational junk... on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 1

    "Taking into account the types of places where these devices are usually deployed (shops, mall, offices, etc.) this scenario is more than feasible."

    Yes if they have a lock picking set and gain access to the inside of the device to do the modification first.

    Heck stealing all the gold in Fort Knox is easy as they have the gold bars just laying there, all you have to do is get inside!

  7. This isn't normal? on Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine · · Score: 1

    I though all Dell's had that smell lately. Honestly their quality has gone way down hill....

  8. Re:Can I get one? on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 1

    It's called printing up a bunch of "I shoot cops" bumper stickers and just put on on the back of their car. The first cop that sees it will do multiple cavity searches.

  9. Re:The first time one of these misses the car and on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 0

    You must not be from the USA. Police can kill or do anything they want without recourse. It's illegal to sue a police officer for anything, even outright homicide.

  10. Jammin that GPS will be trivial... on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 0

    You can already buy GPS jammers that work perfectly inside a car to jam GPS badly by splatting the band with noise. Some of the china cheapies splatter with enough noise and power to wipe out GPS for 100 feet around the car.

  11. Re:Good on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    The fact you have to be licensed to drive is proof enough.

    You have no rights except for those which your master gives you. Your government is your master, you had better do what they say.

  12. Re:Not, however, if it's handsfree on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 2

    "so it's not the san diego PD being google haters or anti-technology, they're just enforcing existing laws about monitors viewable to the driver. nothing to see here."

    So why are they not ticketing everyone with a GPS, or other screen in the dashboard? All Prius owners should be ticketed over this right now as they have screens facing them, Also everyone with a double DIN car stereo with touchscreen are also flagrant violators of this law.

  13. Re:30 feet not enough? on Car Hackers Mess With Speedometers, Odometers, Alarms and Locks · · Score: 1

    No it hasnt. stop reading into what is nothing more than a rolling code exploit.

  14. Re:nothing ot see, move on on Car Hackers Mess With Speedometers, Odometers, Alarms and Locks · · Score: 1

    This is a blatent lie. there is no "maintaince mode" for ABS brakes, not even my BMW, my BMW motorcycle, my honda or my jeep have such a "mode" for changing break pads. and yes I have the same tool they use at all the high end shops, the Snap-On Solus is what is used by 99% of all repair shops out there, there are no magical, "retract the pads please HAL" mode to make brakes easier...

    Whoever told you this knows nothing at all about cars and made that up.

  15. Re:Good! on Car Hackers Mess With Speedometers, Odometers, Alarms and Locks · · Score: 1

    No matter how badly the armchair hackers here want to sound like they know something, you cant hack the canbus via the bluetooth audio channel in the car stereo.

    A lot of them learned all they know about hacking from TV shows and movies.

  16. Sensationalist... on Car Hackers Mess With Speedometers, Odometers, Alarms and Locks · · Score: 1

    So if you see a hacker hiding under your dashboard you need to worry, as NON OF THIS CAN BE DONE without physical access of the vehicle from inside.

    Call me when they can hack Any car wirelessly from 300 feet away using their laptop, until then all of this is nothing but fearmongering.

  17. Re:I have a easier answer... on Even the Author of the Patriot Act Is Trying To Stop the NSA · · Score: 1

    They are every Single person who is elected in washington And the scumbag sitting on the Supreme court that refuse to uphold the Constitution.

  18. I have a easier answer... on Even the Author of the Patriot Act Is Trying To Stop the NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just repeal the damned PATRIOT act. IT was supposed to be a temporary measure and it needs to go away now.

    Why dont these senators have any backbone or honestly left in them and just repeal it?

  19. Real answer... on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    Unregulated greed.

    There is no other reason for it.

  20. Re: still doesn't compute on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    No not really, Try again. Or are you one of those that think they only have just enough for a town ran to it... If so how cute.

  21. Re:Really doesn't compute on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Because the world revolves around him.

  22. Re:Not about government, about economics on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 2

    "what makes it impossible or insane in the rest of the country?"

    From what I can see, the rest of the country has a lot of really really stupid people.

    I blame high fructose corn syrup.

  23. Re:Really doesn't compute on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    "But it's totally unrealistic to think anything justifies the expense of putting an electric charging unit into every single parking spot."

    It is? Let's look at some numbers.

    50 spots with $900 charging poles. Let's call them $2000 each to round up. 50X2000 = $100,000
    a standard 8 pump gas station install for tanks, pipes, etc is $250,000

    It's not only completely realistic, but if I was a oasis owner, I'd install over 100 parking spots. Because they have minimal costs compared to gasoline storage and delivery systems cost just to maintain. They have to dig up and replace the tanks every 7 years to meet regulations, that is a gigantic cost.

    with 100 charging spots, I have 100 captive customers that will be in my oasis spending money. But that's pretty unrealistic, nobody would ever buy electric cars. In fact none have ever been sold. Nissan and GM cant give them away, every one made is sitting on the lots unsold.

  24. Re:still doesn't compute on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 4, Informative

    It costs tens of thousands to add more gasoline pumps. An electrical charging spot costs less than $900 and are trivial to install.

  25. Re:At what speed? on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    Blows a tire? who in their right mind will have air tires on their auto drive car? airless tires are already here.