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  1. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    You clearly took my statements out of context, and so I also purposefully took yours out of context. The only difference is that I didn't need a box of tissues to recover from the event afterwards. Chin up sunshine. You're going to live through this.

  2. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 0

    Thank you for making my point. You're advocating that we hold back any form of change and therefore any form of progress simply to protect the habitually unintelligent. You further advocate violence by inferring that unanticipated change should result in a bite. I think you need help bro. We love you; you're going to be okay.

  3. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you're the type of person that buys a 3500 pound object that can go 100+ MPH and fail to read the manual which results in the injury of another individual, you're an idiot.

  4. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 2

    Eat better? So solving America's obesity problem requires earing with a higher level of skill? No, the solution is to EAT LESS: less high calorie foods, less junk food, less junk drinks, less less less. The Impy the Impiuos Imp can find 472 different "better" ways to shove Mc Donalds into his face, but none of them will help him solve his obesity problems.

  5. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 2

    I am sorry you're obese, but the solution is indeed eat less.

  6. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    Love it!

  7. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    If spending 30 minutes to RTFM would save a few hundred individuals from injury, I would happily read the manual. In fact, I recently bought a fully loaded vehicle that drives itself. Despite 20 years in the IT industry doing stuff with the manual, I read the vehicle's manual, and I've been driving it ever since without issue.

  8. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    And if you're never allowed to move their cheese, you could never effect "progress" could you. Sometimes you have to move their cheese, and sometimes you have to let "this kind of stuff" happen. Sometimes you even have to do it with very small incremental changes. Since you used the helpdesk reference, perhaps just like the small incremental changes in every iterations of Windows.

  9. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 0

    Clearly, there was no real progress here. The original comment was "hold back" progress. This issue sets a precedent. If the car manufactures fear change because a few idiots cant RTFM, then it will affect all future progress. Nobody said that the gear shift modification was progress.

  10. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well... instead of taking action one time with one lever, they "simplified" it, and now you have to actuate the same mechanism several times in order to achieve the same result. This would definitely be considered "progress" in the eyes of Apple.

  11. It's difficult to find vehicles that even have a manual anymore. I love driving them! 'Merica... fuck yeah!

  12. Re:Emergency Brake? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    I know right?

  13. So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Should we hold back progress in to protect people from injury, should we penalize the RTFM challenged individuals, or something else?

  14. Re:Might be illegal on Elon Musk Cancels Stewart Alsop's Tesla Order Over Complaints About Launch Event · · Score: 1

    If he decides to sue, I'm sure it will be Slashdot's next big "technology" headline.

  15. Negative Feedback is Important on Elon Musk Cancels Stewart Alsop's Tesla Order Over Complaints About Launch Event · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Negative feedback is important to understand the areas of opportunity where your business might be improved. I think setting the precedent that you'll be stung by Tesla if you complain isn't sending the right message.

    From a marketing perspective, free advertising!

  16. Re:This is a bug on iTunes Radio Is Now "Apple Music" (and You Need a Subscription) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apple bashing is the only reason I come here!

  17. VMware on iTunes Radio Is Now "Apple Music" (and You Need a Subscription) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think the news about VMware is a little more important than this trivial junk.

  18. Re:Take back Slashdot on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for making Applehu Akbar's point for him. Very kind of you AC.

  19. Nothing a pair of snips cant take care of on 1 In 3 Home Routers Will Be Used As Public Wi-Fi Hotspots By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Time to rearrange some wires!

  20. Ubiquiti mPower 8-Port Power Strip Ethernet WiFi on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Hardware For Remote-Booting USB Devices? · · Score: 1

    Ubiquiti mPower 8-Port Power Strip Ethernet WiFi. Turn on or off any device from anywhere in the world. $98 for 8 devices = $12.25 per device.

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/121863...

  21. Theoretical Evidence

    Evidence, by definition, are facts. You either have evidence to support a theory or you don't have the evidence. The observations and calculations (evidence collected) are facts. They cannot be refuted, however the existence of a ninth planet is clearly theoretical and it was clearly stated that way in the original article. At no point did anyone proclaim that the planet definitely exists.

    The morons that wrote the article rebuttal and the brilliant staff at dice who regurgitated it have completely wasted our time. They attempt to refute the existence of something so massive as a planet, yet they can't even master something as simple as grammar. "Theoretical Evidence", ridiculous.

  22. Well Duh! on EU Companies Can Monitor Employees' Private Conversations While At Work (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    9 years later, we have a court ruling on common sense.

  23. Re: What the fuck has happened to Slashdot?! on How We Know North Korea Didn't Detonate a Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 2

    My workstation at home has never had a BSOD, never any data corruption, and never any issues at all for over 2 years. But I also make it a rule to not buy my computers from Walmart. I also implement configurations to mitigate code execution from the user profile. Windows is an exceptionally stable and powerful platform assuming you didn't install it on top of complete garbage for hardware and assuming you don't run it using an administrator account - just like on Linux.

  24. Re:Trading on tragedy on Following Data Leak, HIV Dating App's Developers Threaten Infection (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Following Data Leak, "Cancer" Dating App's Developers Threaten Infection

    Ugh...

  25. Re:That is a resonance on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed: clearly this is resonance. The bridge was observed oscillating at several different frequencies since it construction. However, it was only when the wind speed reached 42 miles an hour did the bridge oscillate at 1 cycle per 5 seconds. This particular frequency caused the bridge oscillation to gain energy, and the bridge tore itself apart.

    "resonance is a phenomenon that occurs when a vibrating system or external force drives another system to oscillate with greater amplitude at a specific preferential frequency.

    There couldn't be a more perfect example of resonance.