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  1. Re:Tell that to my Beloved! on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1

    I didn't know the FBI drove trucks! Imagine that..

    Hopefully the only female body beloved is inspecting is mine. Maybe I need to visit VS for some insurance.

  2. Re:Tell that to my Beloved! on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1

    I get uncomfortable when things approach too much tech

    Er, what are you doing here, then? And with a truck that big, you really NEED horsepower (and lots of money for gasoline)

    Oh, paleeze! It is not a /. requirement that every person on here have a 3D HUD in their vehicle. All that horsepower will come in really handy when I tow something really heavy with that tow thingie in back. If you can't afford the gas, you can't afford the truck ;)

    I can't wait for spring, I need to wax the bed.

  3. Re:You forgot rims. on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, it'll be replaced by an even stupider craze.

    Like when the electric cars are required to make noise to warn pedestrians and people start using sounds from their computers and phones instead of fake engine noise?

  4. Re:Tell that to my Beloved! on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1

    He likes working on Explorers in his shop, just not in his own driveway :) Oh, we are not married yet but hardly anybody can tell the difference these days.

  5. Re:You forgot rims. on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1

    Big, fat, 25" rims... as in, "yo, we herd u like rimz, so we put rimz inside your rimz" rims.

    I still see spinners more often than I should. Glad the neon craze has passed.

  6. Tell that to my Beloved! on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1
    I like all the comforts of home in my F250 (no, I do not own a farm, but I am a truck gal) and my guy makes sure everything works, even things I did not know were broken :)

    I get uncomfortable when things approach too much tech, like Gunkerty Jeb notes. Over the life of this relationship, I have learned a lot that I should have known anyway about vehicles. Like "the good old days" when a wire went to a switch that controlled a solenoid or a motor, instead of going to a computer that controls everything until it doesn't and you still have a switch and a motor to replace when they die.

    Him, horsepower is king. He cares about the shine, heat and AC in his trucks and is always messing with something to get more horsepower.

  7. Re:Ahhhhhhhhh on 'SMS of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    You have the button, but this is better : you have the EXCUSE

    My iPhone behaves that way without touching a button or getting a message. Well, I do have to actually power it off myself, but otherwise the effect is identical. Apps just close, the internet just drops, calls end on their own, all with a full signal!

  8. Arthur C. Clarke on Russian Team Prepares To Penetrate Lake Vostok · · Score: 1

    I think it's similar to this mission at Lake Ellsworth.

    It sounds like one of those Space Odyssey books, without leaving earth.

  9. Re:40 minutes on Honeywell To Sell Miami-Dade Police a Surveillance Drone · · Score: 2

    Ehh, no joke, the most dangerous neighborhoods in Miami are right around police HQ. And the courts. It's kind of sad.

    Maybe Fergie needs to be made aware of this so she can raise awareness.

  10. Re:40 minutes on Honeywell To Sell Miami-Dade Police a Surveillance Drone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    doesn't sound like a very long time, do they launch it with an elastic band or something ?

    That was my observation too. Also, what is the point of being able to go to 10,500 feet if you only have a 40 min. of flight time?

  11. Re:Anybody hear the Imus take on this? on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    That's an excellent point. I do hope she's willing to consider the new information in the article. I'd hate to see all the haters in this post and their peers get their way and see her give up.

    Who cares about her? Why the hell aren't you facing the music that this study was crap and your own whole idea was hanging on it?

  12. Re:Anybody hear the Imus take on this? on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    That's not true. She's done things to/with/for her child based on her beliefs. She believes further that she can demonstrate results.

    Perpetuating this lie, that was begun by a bunch of crooked lawyers who could not extort a bunch of money from honest businesses with the help of a crooked scientist is no way to help anybody's children.

  13. Re:Anybody hear the Imus take on this? on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    Imus? How about Jenny McCarthy? At what point did people think that following celebrities for things that are scientific was a good idea?

    I think that has been around for a long time. My take on Imus and McCarthy on this is revulsion, not admiration.

  14. Anybody hear the Imus take on this? on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    Here's Brian Deer's publication at the British Medical Journal. Although lengthy (and apparently the first of a series to come), it has a lot of critical details about how this was fixed. It also has 124 citations through the article -- now that's journalism! This guy tracked down subjects all the way over in the United States:

    Child 11 was among the eight whose parents apparently blamed MMR. The interval between his vaccination and the first "behavioural symptom" was reported as 1 week. This symptom was said to have appeared at age 15 months. But his father, whom I had tracked down, said this was wrong. "From the information you provided me on our son, who I was shocked to hear had been included in their published study," he wrote to me, after we met again in California, "the data clearly appeared to be distorted." He backed his concerns with medical records, including a Royal Free discharge summary. Although the family lived 5000 miles from the hospital, in February 1997 the boy (then aged 5) had been flown to London and admitted for Wakefield’s project, the undisclosed goal of which was to help sue the vaccine's manufacturers.

    Sadly, CNN couldn't even bother to have a single citation to the actual source text that is uncovering this. Of course they have all sorts of links internal to their site ... gotta keep those page clicks up, don't want eyeballs over at the BMJ.

    Don Imus' wife has been beating this junk science trashcan lid for years, and making loads of money off of the Wakefield fraud too. If anybody listens to that show I am curious to know if it was mentioned.

  15. Re:Tablets on Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011 · · Score: 1

    Yes. Otherwise the list of things to anticipate in 2011 would be much shorter.

    That was my answer and I will add, if there are no flying cars on that list I am not looking.

  16. Re:Primary Programming. on Greed, Zealotry, and the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    All the other planets and stars were created on that "heaven and earth" creation day. Since the topic of the passage is the earth, the details of the earth assembly are covered. The rest is outside the scope of that document. duh

  17. Re:Sellout on Assange Has Signed Book Deals Worth $1.5 Million+ · · Score: 1

    He says he was *forced* to write a book, for $1.5M? I helped on several series and nobody forced me! Maybe I need to get involved with a more Dominant publisher. Trying to get a fatwa to boost sales seems like a dead end.

  18. Re:Without specifics, I think we should be wary... on Assange Has Signed Book Deals Worth $1.5 Million+ · · Score: 1

    Innocent until proven guilty.

    All we know is that a controversial figure is being charged with "sex by surprise" after being accused by two women who didn't decide to report him until after they met each other. Even then, charges were filed, then dropped, then filed again.

    He may be guilty, but I don't see any evidence. If this is all they can put in front of the jury, he should be found not guilty.

    Quite similar to the Mike Tyson rape accusation and conviction. In Tyson's case, it was not two women getting jealous of each other, it was a woman who complained days later after talking to her friends.

  19. Breathing on Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? · · Score: 1

    I think breathing counts now too. Eating sugar, fat and salt are in a whole different area.

  20. Re:Is opening a spouses mail a crime? on Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? · · Score: 1

    Is email perceived to be a letter or a postcard?

    I prefer to think of it as those jumbled up knots of wire and other assorted junk sent to Wired.

  21. Be that as it may, Cooper is a lamer on Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Prosecutor Jessica Cooper is totally lame and would not know what a real hacker is if she said "he had wonderful skills" vs he had mad skillz. Typical know-nothing government official.

  22. Re:Maybe we will know in the future. on Did Stuxnet Take Out 1,000 Centrifuges At Natanz? · · Score: 1

    From the way this administration acts toward Iran and Israel, I personally doubt it was us helping Israel. Still going with Israel did it on their own.

  23. Re:It is still different HW on AMD Radeon HD 6950 Can Be Unlocked To HD 6970 · · Score: 1

    "when rubber hit the anus", I see a titl

    that made me lol too. Now, how to fit one of these cards in my iPhone . . .

  24. "IDF’s Military Intelligence Unit 8200" on Did Stuxnet Take Out 1,000 Centrifuges At Natanz? · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's interesting how US was jabbing so much about cyber warfare and how they need to defend themself, and still they're the first one to attack.

    From TFA, the rumored culprit is not the USA, it is "IDF’s Military Intelligence Unit 8200".

  25. Maybe we will know in the future. on Did Stuxnet Take Out 1,000 Centrifuges At Natanz? · · Score: 2

    If this is for real, this targeting sounds like a big step in the cyber attack side of the world. I wonder how cyber defense will counter it.