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  1. Re:Google's self-driving car already does this on New Coating Technology Promises Self-Cleaning Cars · · Score: 1

    I can just picture the google car freaking out while going through the car wash "too close! too close! collision imminent!!!"

  2. Re:My car is already self cleaning... on New Coating Technology Promises Self-Cleaning Cars · · Score: 1

    Same in the UAE. That is often how the "abandoned in Dubai" vehicles look abandoned... at least the ones which are actually in Dubai

  3. Using google to find information on Australian Sex Party May Sue Google Over Ad Refusal · · Score: 1

    Using google to learn more about this political party is not without obstacle... some may even say it's hard. The search results often return an orgy of irrelevant sites.

  4. Re:90% of people who post online Psychopaths on Analyzing Tweets To Identify Psychopaths · · Score: 1

    The use of the period doesn't really surprise me. The biggest internet wankers absolutely relish in using perfect grammar; probably because it makes them feel superior to everybody else.

  5. Re:Narcissism? on Analyzing Tweets To Identify Psychopaths · · Score: 3

    My awesome facebook profile is narcissism free. I only use facebook to show others me doing the awesome things I have done so they can comment in ways that make me feel good... but the band Carcass is good, just not interesting as me.

  6. How about that new batman movie on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 1

    How about that new batman movie: I hear people are just killing/dieing to see it.

  7. Re:Good on Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista · · Score: 1

    yeah yeah I noticed soon as I hit the post button...

  8. Re:"Reliably better" on Unbreakable Crypto: Store a 30-character Password In Your Subconscious Mind · · Score: 2

    Deftones and many genres of music have lyrics which don't follow normal language ordering. How about the song scatman - not many actually like it but the lyrics easily burn into your head.

  9. Re:"Reliably better" on Unbreakable Crypto: Store a 30-character Password In Your Subconscious Mind · · Score: 1

    Parents described flaws: Like only characters being 0-9 a-f? Such a crypto function can be known/modified without you knowing?

    It's not really secure against the decrypt it or people you know die cryptanalysis, only the don't tell us and people protected by the encryption will live but not you situation.

  10. Re:"Reliably better" on Unbreakable Crypto: Store a 30-character Password In Your Subconscious Mind · · Score: 1

    How can you predict which song is used if the person doesn't like it? Also, if the stored hash is small enough, you'd probably sooner brute-force a collision or threaten to kill the persons family.

  11. Re:Problems for both sides on GM Car Owners With OnStar Now Can Be Their Own Rental Agencies · · Score: 1

    You think you are so elite when people with real lives carry on with them. In your fantastical world, you are right and OnStar in its intelligence will:
    -take some liability to determine if a driver is abusing or has abused a car
    -make your vehicle determine such abuse is occuring due to abuse (not preexisting mechanical malfunction not monitored)
    -allow renters some way to enforce that the car is not abused or allow some form of economic recovery if it is
    -ensure a complete diagnostic is done on each vehicle before and after each rental
    Since you have so much faith in this, please, rent out your OnStar equipped vehicle.

  12. Re:Right on Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? · · Score: 1

    Since people keep moding me down because they don't believe or agree - the point is, these people could be radicals under christain beliefs, buddist beliefs or even aliens. I don't make this shit up.
    http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-05/world/pakistan.taliban.children_1_suicide-bombers-taliban-heaven?_s=PM:WORLD

  13. Re:Problems for both sides on GM Car Owners With OnStar Now Can Be Their Own Rental Agencies · · Score: 1

    I'm not. Firmware upgrades are regularly made at a dealership, it requires nothing more than plugging in a properly-programmed scan tool.

    ... and the vehicle to be plugged into a battery charger and the dealer to be liable for making sure the vehicle can still drive away after.

  14. Re:Problems for both sides on GM Car Owners With OnStar Now Can Be Their Own Rental Agencies · · Score: 1

    You don't get it - it would need threshold based optional monitors that aren't there and such that the bus is not saturated with spurious messages. The optional monitors which are there for general purpose diagnostics do not apply as they would be be spurious. Such monitors would need the onstar module or some other module to determine the conditions of abusive driving as if they are sent straight to onstar that would be still a huge amount of data. If you are suggesting onstar can/will reprogram the modules 'over the air' to add such monitors - I highly doubt that.

  15. Re:Right on Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? · · Score: 0

    They relate good things that happen in their life to the blessing of god for working with them and the bad things that happen in their life with hesitation and denial. If there are not enough events like that they create them. These recruiters take children young, drug them, and put them in a room with women milk and honey and make them think they had a religious experience. As they get older, they are shown propaganda like US soldiers pissing on someone's son. This has nothing to do with those with faith in Islam.

  16. Re:Right on Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? · · Score: 1

    Not to ignorant people who know nothing about what they are speaking about... yet they still speak.

  17. Re:I hate jailbreaking on iOS 6 Beta 3 Jailbroken Already · · Score: 1

    But these phones are sold as general purpose smart phones - they list their speed, memory, storage and other low level hardware specifications. I do care that my phone is able to do the things I want to do with it or make it possible to do them. Being able to SCP files to and from your phone and have your media library update, without itunes like applications is awesome.

  18. Re:Good on Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista · · Score: 4, Funny

    My laptop and Windows installation is metric. Do I delete System25?

  19. Re:Lol on Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista · · Score: 1

    With Word, and a database sorce (heck, Access works) you can quickly whip up a few teplates that take your data from a database so you can quickly print personalized coverletters/applications/letters/emails - throw in map-point and you can even automatically mark off the places you mailed them to on a map so that you can visit them and follow up with turn by turn directions and such. MS product integration was awesome (hopefully 2013 is not neutered)

  20. Re:Lol on Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista · · Score: 1

    And outline view

  21. Re:Good on Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista · · Score: 1

    Did you see this on 4chan?!

    Why don't you double check - I remeber someone on 4chan telling me pressing <ALT>+<F4> will bring you to whatever you think about but I wasn't able to try because Arabic keyboards only have 3 <Fx> keys.

  22. Re:Good on Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not about weather or not they can make the DX10 API work with XP, it's weather or not they want to spend the time to do so and deal with the steaming shit it will become- there could be things like the way memory is allocated or cpu-gpu tasks are scheduled in extensions to the kernel - though they could work around them them them have made XP DX10 not as compatible or efficient if it were a seperate addon without kernel changes. Sure, maybe they could have made those kernel changes and included in a service pack. And with no profit on a decade old OS. Then again the FreeBSD guys could have made UFS completely backwards compatible between BSD4 and 5 or Linux could still allow you to run the 2.2 kernel with the latest GLIBC compiled userland.

    Your points about DirectX vs. OpenGL being multi platform are valid, but I have noticed not all OpenGL graphics drivers are compatible with all OpenGL applications. As for the DirectX lock in - the sad truth is many windows developers is they often need the handholding of the IDE and Microsoft environment to be any sort of sucessful. Without them, there would be far fewer. That lock-in is lower start-up cost to see a project through to its release.

  23. Re:Good on Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista · · Score: 1

    Is that what it is called now?!

  24. Re:Problems for both sides on GM Car Owners With OnStar Now Can Be Their Own Rental Agencies · · Score: 1

    Sure, what is the bandwidth on the Onstar reporting and the resolution of all the sensors for brake pressure, vehicle speed, throttle position and steering angle and any accelerometers?! What is the time resolution which they are sent. How much data would it be to determine you are driving the shit out of the car with OnStar.

    The OnStar module recieving a message from the SRS module on the CAN bus when the air bags have deployed is much different then OnStar constantly probing the car "have the air bags gone off". Even with modern vehicles is that not all sensor values are sent across the CAN bus at all time - a particular vehicle module handles the the I/O for a particular subsystem and messages are sent between the modules to request or push values as required for inter subsystem integration.

    When you hook the car up to diagnostics on the OBD port, NAV system, OBC or OnStar often only a limited number of sensor values can be sent across the diagnostics bus at high resolution. If you were to have a vehicle sybsystem to determine if the car is getting the shit driven out of it could tell onstar - but that subsystem would need throttle position, transmission and stability control system information in real time - which is not how cars are usually designed. Just because onstar has access to the information, it doesn't mean it's all available where you want it all the time in real-time.

  25. Re:Yeah the money may be good on Why Junk Electronics Should Be Big Business · · Score: 1

    I sold 500 pentium chips described in the auction as most having bent pins for $200 on ebay... I assume that person somehow made a profit...