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  1. Re:Just wait until... on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    Why then do small cars have it? Bigger cars, fair enough, but a two door Fiesta?

    And, no, I'm not making shit up. I've had complete electrical failure in a big ass Volvo at speed. Not remotely funny.

  2. Re:Just wait until... on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that. Most cars, even piddly shit small engine ones have power steering to help against the front wheel drive inertia. You lose electrical power and you suddenly get an unsteerable lump of metal on wheels travelling at 70mph. Unless you've got considerable strength you're going to keep going in the same direction which is guaranteed to be into oncoming traffic.

    Plus your brakes won't work as effectively either. Yanking on the handbrake in panic will cause the rear wheels to lock up and probably put you in a spin. At 70mph. Into the aforementioned oncoming traffic.

  3. Re:Surprised people still use... on AI Reality Check In Online Dating · · Score: 2

    At least he has one...

  4. Re: History.... learn from it! on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that make this even more of a problem? The current system is consistently shit and that is when there are no environmental incidents. We've just got used to it when there is no reason apart from penny-pinching suppliers for an unreliable network. What possible chance of even a semblance of connectivity does it have should something actually happen?

  5. Re:Collusion on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    Apparently *you* didn't read it. She was treated for delusions in 2001. TFA felt that needed mentioning even though it was because of access to her records of being hospitalised in 2012 that she was prevented from travelling. But then I suppose all media outlets with the word Star in the name are tabloid trash, just like in UK.

  6. Re:HMS Bounty? on Comet ISON Survives Perihelion (Barely) · · Score: 1

    "We are going to attempt time travel... time travel... time travel" *bzzrt* *kshhh*

  7. Re:Collusion on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Delusional? No, she was treated for clinical depression after a relationship ended. I guess you've never had a soul destroying break up that leaves you alone and utterly bereft of joy in your life. Be thankful for that because it fucking sucks.

  8. Re:Fax machine on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wait a minute. You're saying that they can call you when *you* don't want them to, and then sue you for *their* wasted time because you didn't want to talk to them? Nice fucked up country you've got there. Here that constitutes misuse of the telephone system and gets them a £5000 fine *for every infraction* at the very least.

  9. Re:Not on FB? Are .you sure? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy These Days? Or Do You? · · Score: 1

    There are no pictures of me on the internet. Or, if there are, I have been unable to find them. You can't tag what doesn't exist.

  10. Re:nothing about Google everything about Monarchs on Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK · · Score: 3, Informative

    Royal Dutch Shell is not British. It's Dutch. They have a royal family too.

  11. Re:So wait, who am I supposed to praise and revile on How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations · · Score: 1

    If you take a simplistic view then US would rather the countries who have Chagas as a major medical problem either die or impoverish themselves for US created treatment. I'd revile the US for that alone.

  12. Re:There are a lot of scams out there. on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 1

    In UK, Distance Selling law stipulates that the time period for return begins when you receive the item, not when they declare it shipped.

  13. Re:"the sales transaction was never completed" on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 1

    Such a clause would never fly in UK. Statutory rights and all that.

  14. Re:Hello Streisand Effect on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 1

    There's also defamation of character by the reporting to credit agencies to basically fuck them over. Oh, and fraud.

  15. Re:Ok this just in on Facebook Patented Making NSA Data Handoffs Easier · · Score: 1

    He's the bastard son. As if Satan has any other kind.

  16. Re:Legitimate FISA request on Facebook Patented Making NSA Data Handoffs Easier · · Score: 1

    There's also an interesting meaning of the word 'legal' of which I was previously unaware as being remotely legitimate.

  17. Re:Money on Journalists Banned From Using Smartphones At 2014 Sochi Olympics? · · Score: 2

    Been to Barcelona recently and seen what has become of the Olympic stadium? That's what is happening to London. That's what will happen again. IOC couldn't give a fuck so long as they get their billions.

  18. THE Ed Miliband? Heaven forfend there should be more than one of them...

  19. There are secrets courts and secret rulings on UK with regard to security matters. US calls it FISA. We don't have a name for it as the secrecy also encompasses Family Court and super injunctions.

  20. Thin crust, thick crust on Study Explains Why Lunar Craters Are Bigger On the Near Side · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anybody else unaccountably hungry?

  21. Re:From rail station to shopping centre...(and bac on UK Town To Get Driverless 'Pods' Mixing With Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    In the snow. And it's dark.

  22. Re:Really? on UK Town To Get Driverless 'Pods' Mixing With Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    If you really like roundabouts, you'll love the roundabout of roundabouts in Hemel Hempstead...

  23. Re:Thick Skulls on Mozilla Backtracks On Third-Party Cookie Blocking · · Score: 1

    Safari blocks third party cookies by default and has done for a while. This is why Mozilla even considered the idea.

  24. Re:Version Numbers on CyanogenMod 10.2 M1 Released · · Score: 1

    Which one? The one Google released to OTA or the one a Google engineer admitted should have been released?

  25. Re:Daylight Saving Time on A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones · · Score: 1

    That's the thing, it didn't help farmers. It was a crap solution to a problem only perceived by ignorant townies (and people who wanted to play fucking *golf* in the late afternoon) that didn't exist that was dressed up to hoodwink.