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  1. Why not Audi? on Ford, GM Sued Over Vehicles' Ability To Rip CD Music To Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    My Audi does this. Why isn't the VW Group on the defendants list?

  2. Re:But scarcity! on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 1

    Still works for me

  3. Re: Tits and swords on New Zealand ISP's Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves · · Score: 1

    You had me at "tits and swords". Actually, you had me at "tits".

  4. Re: Speculation... on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 1

    Coercive laws forbidding direct sale to consumers and requiring they be sokd through dealerships is the *opposite* of capitalism.

  5. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    No, I'm suggesting one should adhere to the same standard he asks of someone with whom he disagrees. And your claim was made precisely in support of the argument that gun ownership has been declining.

    Which, BTW, is incorrect. Not only is ownership not declining, but new purchases are increasing. So gun ownership is not only increasing but accelerating.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com...

  6. Re:What "ass"tounding value on Priceline To Buy OpenTable For $2.6 Billion · · Score: 1

    "it works without a network connection"?

    Funny then how reservation informatoin about my friend's restaurants aren't available when they lack internet connectivity.

  7. Re:Somewhere in my mind... on Cisco Opposes Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    *They* know the difference. Most people, hearing QoS described, wouldn't.

  8. Re:Somewhere in my mind... on Cisco Opposes Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because several-second delays in video packets will make it unwatchable (or require a lot of buffering) and a drop of a significant percentage of a phone call's UDP will make it unusable, but the effects of neither of those will be noticed by the recipient of that business email.

    To me there's a significant difference between "Net Neutrality" and QOS.

  9. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    Why would you ask for a citation for his statement and not include one for yours?

  10. Re:gullwing doors on Tesla Makes Improvements To Model S · · Score: 1

    Manufacturers are often (usually?) conservative with their performance claims. Still, the " will beat the crap out of any combustion engine" is ignorant and easily shown to be false, even when narrowing "combustion engines" to production automobiles.

  11. Re: gullwing doors on Tesla Makes Improvements To Model S · · Score: 1

    It's quick but not quicker than "any combustion engine". I don't think it's even in the top ten.

  12. huh? on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    This is insane. Forcing someone against his will to sell his team *because you don't like words he said in private and which were recorded, probably in violation of the law and almost certainly without his knowledge* and begrudging him (and his innocent wife) his profit isn't enough - you want also for the other owners to forfeit theirs too because of it?

    He's a doddering, bigoted anachronism. How is that worse than violent felonies that have been committed by some NBA players? Should they be banned from the NBA?

  13. Re: Anti-competitive on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    Maybe they just charged for commercial use? Or maybe I'm confusing it with Mosaic? Either way, I'm certain that at a job I had before 1998, Netscape could be freely and legitimately obtained for use on Solaris.

  14. Re: Anti-competitive on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    Uh, its browser competition was already free - how far down could it push their price?

  15. Re:Global warming on The Shrinking Giant Red Spot of Jupiter · · Score: 1

    My first thought was: too bad they didn't find out in time to include it in the most recent AAAS report.

  16. What about paper/microfilm/fiche/etc on Pedophile Asks To Be Deleted From Google Search After European Court Ruling · · Score: 1

    Can an ebarrassed Eurpoean demand an article be removed from newspaper archives? Or book-form indexes of publications?

  17. Re:Isn't it ... on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    Okay, so both spellings exist, but they're not on equal footing.

    http://grammarist.com/spelling...

  18. Isn't it ... on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "linchpin"?

  19. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    Actually, in NJ they'd love to: as the article mentions, a law was passed a few years ago requiring that once such technology is available, all new handguns in NJ would be required to have it. Stupid stupid stupid.

  20. Re:Jewelry on Japanese and Swiss Watchmakers Scoff At Smartwatches · · Score: 1

    Agree 100%. Also while I'm a geek and appreciate the ever-shrinking and ever-more-powerful computers and that they're now wrist-sized, I as much or more appreciate (also as a geek) the good-lookng watch on my wrist that keeps track of and displays everything from season and moon phase to month/day/hour/minute/second purely mechanically and powered only by incidental movement.

  21. what's the debate? on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    Gravity pulls one side down; pressure pushes the other side up.

  22. Re:Actually it's both. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    Exactly. You beat me to it.

  23. Re:At least someone appreciates work-life balance on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    So if it's part of the original deal, it's okay, right? This law would ... make that illegal.

  24. Re:At least someone appreciates work-life balance on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    No, it's not a "valid point" to simply claim reduced hours = more jobs. Reduced hours with reduced pay = more jobs at lower pay. Reduced hours at same pay = shift burden and expense to employer, who will adjust and scale back work.

  25. Re:At least someone appreciates work-life balance on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    When I've had a job where I've felt that either wasn't what it was promised, or in which I wasn't being compensated for what I was worth, I left and found another job.

    That's what you do when a transaction or arrangement is not (or no longer) acceptable to you.