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  1. Re:Drivers are the real problem on Rear-View Cameras On Cars Could Become Mandatory In the US · · Score: 1
    Well spotted :)

    And he's still an ass, love to see which IP and other accounts he's running.

  2. Re:Cheap, good. It's called progress... on Rear-View Cameras On Cars Could Become Mandatory In the US · · Score: 1
    Plus ever more cars have the (touch) screen already as part of the navigation /entertainment system, the camera and extra wire in the loom will be peanuts.

    Because car manufacturers don't like different versions the cable is probably in your car already because the camera is an option right now.

  3. Re:remarkable on Rear-View Cameras On Cars Could Become Mandatory In the US · · Score: 1
    Yep, weird these 'deforming' mirrors are seen as valuable in the rest of the world where flat glass is virtually unknown...

    About the camera, my neighbour has one in his Nissan and it's really handy when backing up in a close space or to get the hitch close to the trailer.

    The camera is a tiny little hole you hardly see, the screen is integrated with the build in navigator and only comes on when you switch to reverse, distraction is not an issue.

  4. Re:Solved their problems in the building on Google Buys Manhattan Office/Telecom Hub · · Score: 1

    Are you going to tell us here or should we head over to wikileaks?

  5. Re:Better pic on Google Buys Manhattan Office/Telecom Hub · · Score: 1

    Ha there's a Starbucks, at least on the next floor you get free wifi!

  6. Re:China on Environmental Watchdogs Confused By E-Waste Practices · · Score: 1
    Indeed, that's why the EU bans the export of any waste, it's just too hard to control the disposal or recycling once it's out of your jurisdiction.

    That's why when we read about EU filth ending up in the third world it always got there through illegal exports and you can trace it back to the exporter and even harbour that facilitated it.

  7. Re:The watchdogs may be confused by E-waste practi on Environmental Watchdogs Confused By E-Waste Practices · · Score: 1

    For those in the need to know, the recycling industry, this is since many years a well known acronym for Electronics Waste.

  8. Re:Post-landing videos and photos on X-37B Robotic Space Plane Returns To Earth · · Score: 1

    Oh you had a peek at the cargo?

  9. Re:i'm impressed on Kentucky Announces Creationism Theme Park · · Score: 1
    So now Scientology can get a break for their park?

    Just to name another sect...

  10. Re:Plug the leak in Firefox on History Sniffing In the Wild · · Score: 1
    I've been running 4.0b for over a month now without noticing any show stopper problems.

    Except for the user agent switcher the few plug ins I use were compatible .

  11. Not Netflix trafic but customer traffic. on Time Warner Defends Comcast In Level 3 Dispute · · Score: 1, Insightful
    This isn't Neflix' traffic, it's the traffic of Comcast customers.

    And those customers are paying Comcast to transit whatever data they want, not because it's today Netflix and tomorrow YouTube.

    So I would see it as a breach of contract between Comcast and their customers when they try to levy toll on individual suppliers to their customers.

  12. Peta on Tofu Activists Spoof Meat-Based Indie Game · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Peta should stick to their valid core business of fighting ill treatment of animals.

    Vegetarians are a whole different and sad subspecies of humankind, they try to deny we've been eating meat from animals since many millions of years.

    As a matter of fact we've become the creatures we are because we ate animals, for example there is strong evidence of a correlation in humanoids starting to eat seafood and a jump in intelligence that led to the making and use of tools.

  13. Re:*sigh* on FTC Proposes Do Not Track List For the Web · · Score: 1
    Yeah *sigh*.

    Have you read what it's about?
    It's about tracking mechanisms getting smarter, if it only depended on our IP it would only be a simple problem, the newer tracking systems use a lot more variables to follow you across different IP's and even different appliances.

    And where I'm from all have static IP.

  14. Pakistan 2008 on Internet Routing, Looming Disaster? · · Score: 1
    Isn't this somewhat comparable to the problems Pakistan Telecom caused in 2008 with an unauthorized announcement of YouTube's subnet prefix?

    If so not much has been learned...

  15. Re:"Tech" site on Texas A&M Research Brings Racetrack Memory a Bit Closer · · Score: 1

    It seems worry more about copy rights etc. then about technical advances.

  16. Re:Class action suit? on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 1
    It's got nothing to do with math, it's about giving more candidates and parties a realistic chance.

    And that might often mean none of the candidates gets a majority so they'd have to get support from others before a majority government can be installed.

  17. Re:has any fortune 500 company gone Google Apps? on Microsoft Ups Online War, Says Google's 'Failing' · · Score: 1
    Sure but European privacy law is in several countries not to be messed with and the press sees it as an important issue.

    It could be rather bad for a company to be found in breach.

  18. Re:has any fortune 500 company gone Google Apps? on Microsoft Ups Online War, Says Google's 'Failing' · · Score: 1
    It really makes me wonder how European companies can put their sensitive data in a cloud that might extend into places like Chine or the USofA

    In Europe the demands on privacy and data are much different to what the US is offering and forget about China.

    I know some US companies will work under the so-called Safe Haven rules but lets be realistic, once it's in the US there are numerous agencies that claim to have access because they protect the homeland.
    And what happens when the company that gave the Safe Haven pledge goes belly-up or is sold to the higher bidder, who guarantees the integrity of your data?

    I feel there is a market for a cloud service that certifies your data will stay within certain borders or not enter certain countries.

  19. Re:Class action suit? on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 1
    Why compare nations with a very similar 2 or 3 party system?

    Have a look at countries where coalitions are tradition, that's democracy in action!

  20. Re:Class action suit? on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 1
    Read again, mwvdlee writes the US in particular makes minority votes useless.

    Now this isn't limited to the US, there are more countries with a First past the Post system but the US with only two relevant parties is a prime example of what's undemocratic in First past the Post.

  21. Re:Not required, just recommended on Aussie Gov't Decides ISPs Aren't Responsible For Infected Computers · · Score: 1

    That's what a responsible ISP like xs4all.nl does.

    They send you a mail explaining the problem and block most but not all traffic.
    You can call their help desk and access a special page with help topics to resolve the problem and in case you need to download patches that's possible through the proxy server.
    This approach is helpful to the owner of the infected computer and the internet in general.

  22. Re:Administration has zero credibility on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 1

    Diplomacy with other means.

    Or for the less cinical: Armed Conflict.

  23. Re:Why it won't affect the companies.. on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 1
    The Europeans are not so much loaning the money to Ireland but instead mainly guaranteeing the loans Ireland has to take out to prevent their banks from collapsing.

    Because of these guarantees the Irish will pay substantially less interest than they normally would due to their awful credit rating.

  24. Re:Administration has zero credibility on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 1

    I purposely avoided the term 'war', according to international law it takes nations to declare a war, in the case of Afghanistan it's impossible to declare war against the armed groups nor do these groups have the standing to declare war on the US.

  25. Re:Administration has zero credibility on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 1
    You are right in the natural process of plants capturing CO2 not being able to keep up with the present burning of fossil fuel.

    But when someone claims the per area CO2 emissions are a better criteria than per capita he is way off and THAT's what I was commenting on.