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  1. Re:Who will win? on Uber Office Raided By Police In China, Accused of Running 'Illegal' Car Business · · Score: 1

    As for rear drum breaks, they are only an assist. If they go out, it just makes the front breaks wear faster.

    They're also quite useful when you're not driving the car.

  2. Re:I will never understand on Vizio, Destroyer of Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    The problem is that winning a case isn't entirely dependant on whether or not one is in the right. An expensive legal team could quite possibly prevail and saddle one with massive fees whether or not their client was at fault.

  3. Re:Laugh on Acetaminophen Reduces Both Pain and Pleasure, Study Finds · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doctor: Oh you're feeling suicidal... and so on and so on.

    I'm sorry, but I don't get it. Did they manage to kill the fly in the end?

  4. Re:So, a tricorder? on New Smartphone Camera Could Tell You What Things Are Made of · · Score: 1

    It was undoubtedly done for artistic effect, but consider people who use multiple monitors instead of constantly switching what's displayed on a single one.

  5. Re:Why not let him know what to do on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective? · · Score: 1

    If an employee has it in for you they'd be a damn fool to announce their resignation before they'd done anything.

  6. Re:What Would be a Trivial Amount? on Measuring How Much "Standby Mode" Electricity For Game Consoles Will Cost You · · Score: 1

    This is the new ars, almost entirely unlike the old ars.

  7. Re:What are you saying? on UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE · · Score: 1

    Please, labour were just as quick to use the usual culprits, i.e. Accenture, Capita and EDS.

  8. Re:How is this new? on Scientists Create Permanently Slick Surface So Ketchup Won't Stay In Bottle · · Score: 1

    Even simpler solution: use a plastic squeeze bottle. No mess, and they're probably cheaper than the glass ones to boot. Also, if you get one that dispenses from the bottom, you don't have to deal with that liquid that tends to rise to the top.

  9. Re:Metal Gear on Hideo Kojima To Depart Konami; Metal Gear Franchise Changing Hands · · Score: 1

    Skip Thief 3 and play the new one. Terry Pratchett's daughter was involved in designing the city and it shows: you almost feel like you might be sneaking round Ankh Morpork at times.

  10. Re:At least on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    Better Access than an antiquated, undocumented rats' nest of VBA cruft in Excel.

  11. Re:Maybe for the English, but what about the world on Pi Day Extraordinaire · · Score: 1

    People mainly use yyyy/mm/dd because sorting by name will also put entries in date order.

  12. Re:And the Spinning BeachBall of Death? Sad Mac? on Classic Mac Icons Archive Bought By MOMA · · Score: 1

    Never mind the beach ball, what about Clarus?

  13. Re:its all about the $$$ on Chicago's Red Light Cameras Now a Point of Contention for Mayoral Candidates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To further improve the safety of red-light cameras, consider that almost all rear-end collisions are caused by people tailgating. If each red-light camera were turned into a combination red-light and speed camera, people would slow down when approaching intersections, so someone slamming on their brakes at the last minute would be less likely to be hit from behind.

    Emphasis mine.

    I don't think you were saying that rear-end collisions are the fault of the car in front, even when they brake suddenly, but I think it's important to say that any rear-end collision is the fault of the car behind. It doesn't matter how sharply the car in front brakes, you should never be so close that you can't also stop safely. Suppose that instead of a red light there's a child running into the road; the car ahead may brake very sharply indeed, but if you're behind and you give them another push you might just make the difference between near-miss and tragedy. Tailgating needs to be treat more severely than speeding if you ask me, or at least enforced... at all.

  14. Re:What are they doing to that truck!?! on Delivery Drones: More Feasible If They Come By Truck · · Score: 1

    What about the driver? Drones don't have those. Trucks may be cheap, but they're useless without a person to pick up each package and walk it to the door.

    I picture a hybrid of both: a truck can deliver heavy items and act as a pickup and recharge point for a number of drones dealing with the small ones. This way the number of drops for the driver is reduced and the drones' problem of range is side-stepped.

  15. Re:It has worked on Canadian Climate Scientist Wins Defamation Suit Against National Post · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Eugenics on British MPs Approve 3-Parent Babies · · Score: 1

    Fuck this shit, Lillian Greenwood is getting a letter from me.

    Be sure to use your green pen.

  17. Re:Social solution to e technical problem? on British MPs Approve 3-Parent Babies · · Score: 1

    The figure given in parliament yesterday was around ~2500 people/couples who could be helped by this procedure. It's all there in Hansard, along with the list of who voted which. No prizes for guessing which side the Rees-Mogg gang were on.

  18. Re:Copyright is Now Perpetual on Canada, Japan Cave On Copyright Term Extension In TPP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All land should be rented, never bought, for basically the annual property taxes.

    That's just silly. If something can't be bought then it isn't worth anything, because things are only worth what they can be traded for.

    Just how can you own land anyway? You can certainly go back quite a long time in terms of trades and sales but sooner or later you get to a point where the land was seized by the man with the bigger gun/spear/stick/rock.

  19. Re:Expensive on Telomere-Lengthening Procedure Turns Clock Back Years In Human Cells · · Score: 2

    If it really works people won't give a damn about patents.

  20. Re:500Mb/s or approx 50MB/s on BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom · · Score: 1

    Are the BT routers used now combined router/modem or do they still need the separate fibre box?

  21. Re:Bad comparaison on The American App Economy Is Now "Bigger Than Hollywood" · · Score: 1

    What's the profit of global Hollywood sales?

    About minus $50 trillion... supposedly.

  22. Re:Vote against Ubisoft with your dollars on Ubisoft Revokes Digital Keys For Games Purchased Via Unauthorised Retailers · · Score: 1

    The ballot box has nothing to do with euros, dollars, or what...
    Who am I kidding?

  23. Re:grandmother reference on Ubisoft Revokes Digital Keys For Games Purchased Via Unauthorised Retailers · · Score: 1

    It seems the singularity has been and gone, yet nobody noticed.

  24. Re:Just give the option to turn it off... on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    I imagine it's because the relays are either in the engine compartment or hidden behind so much interior trim that they're inaudible. Either way a separate buzzer would be needed. In older cars the flasher unit was easily accessible and there wasn't nearly as much stuff behind the dash..

  25. Re:Just give the option to turn it off... on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    Call me when you can hack it to sound like George Jetson's hovercar.