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  1. Re:Indeed on Nintendo's Big-Screen 3DS XL Meets Lukewarm Reception · · Score: 1

    you mean component?

  2. Re:Maybe on U.S. Gas Prices Continue To Fall · · Score: 1

    Running lean does make the engine hotter (as I can attest to on my air cooled v-twin.)

  3. Re:The oatmeal was right on the money... on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    What's a Uhunter2 client?

  4. Re:Obligatory YouTube video on Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've seen this video a few times; is a true testament to how people get distracted.

    Yesterday I had 4 others in my car, driving to get lunch after running/walking in the Komen race in Columbus. There was a man in a truck beside us, veering into our lane about 1 foot. Not the biggest deal, I crunched myself up against the yellow line (was a 2x2 road). Later on, one of the passengers asked "Is that guy in front of us drunk?" He kept weaving about a foot on each side, about once a minute in an almost rhythmic motion. Would slowly move into either lane and then after about 10 seconds jerk the wheel back. Driver wasn't texting - he was just talking on the cell and not texting. I'd hate to see what happens if he was texting and actually not having his eyes on the road.

    And of course, my personal anecdotes from riding a motorcycle around this city are many. My biggest problem is there is no good way to communicate with another driver to kindly ask them to be careful with your life while you're on the road; most people beep and take it as a sign of aggression - or worse, just jump to the middle finger. My main issue there is that you never know what someone might do; and with me on a motorcycle and them in a car - even if I'm right - it'll still hurt me worse.

  5. Re:The big fix... on Engineers Ponder Easier Fix To Internet Problem · · Score: 2

    One of the issues with this is that you don't get a choice in the network that packets return on. For instance, let's say I have a comcast circuit and a tw circuit. Let's also say I start a conversation with someone.tw.com. In my limited experience, someone on the tw network will always send their packets back to me using my tw circuit - regardless of which circuit I use to initiate the traffic on.

    There are ways to fix this issue - one way is to make sure the device that issued the traffic out to someone.tw.com is only advertised out of your comcast circuit and not your tw circuit. Usually when having multiple circuits I've not seen this - unless you do something like nat the outgoing traffic on the egress router. That has it's own sort of issues depending on what you're trying to accomplish.

  6. Re:Security blanket on 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies · · Score: 1

    And an additional "a" if we really want to be going to specifics.

  7. Re:Needs high humidity on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 1

    Just because the humidity is low doesn't mean you can't scavenge it out of the air. Is it more expensive? Sure. But expense can approach high levels if it is required for life.

  8. Fair Warning on CIOs Dismissed As Techies Without Business Savvy By CEOs · · Score: 2

    If a CIO is too buried into fighting fires, the CIO should figure out a way to have others fight those fires for him. Obviously, this may require a restructuring and/or more headcount in various areas in the organization, but it should be pretty easy to figure out I would think. And this is coming from a tech in the field, so to speak.

  9. Re:Toyota's had a lot of problems since the late 9 on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    Toyota scion and Lexus brands fit all of those demographics.

  10. Re:Dawin strikes again! on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    Lincoln mark 7 had a similar setup.

  11. Re:At least it should be easy to do on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    That would be the idle air control valve. Bad oxygen sensor should just throw a code.

    Wife had one go when picking me up from the airport. Fifty dollars later, all good.

  12. Re:Because Hybrids Don't Pay For Themselves on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 1

    Every 200lbs should save you 1mpg (well, I'm taking the opposite of what I read somewhere - adding 200lbs decreases mileage by 1mpg.) So, lose 1200lbs, gain 6mpg. Easy!

    Of course, I owned a 99. Was a decent enough car, roomy, nice ride. But a full frame car is going to weigh a lot. Not to mention an undecidedly weak 4.6l v8. Torque was pretty nice on that vehicle, but my newer-to-me car has more torque, horsepower and less weight with fewer cylinders. And it nails 32mpg on the highway (per my actual observations; EPA says 28.)

  13. I had to laugh out loud on Slashdot Asks: How To Best Record Remote Video Interviews? · · Score: 1

    "We'd like to hear both sides" haaahaahahaa

    I'm tired.

  14. Re:Hopefully? on Getting the Most Out of SSH · · Score: 1

    Here is a clue though. Any firewall worth it's salt will do protocol inspection and not just blindly let you use a port.

    Now the question is whether the admins set it up that way.

  15. Re:I delete stuff on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 1

    My DVR points to the local share that houses every digital picture me and my wife have ever taken. We probably started keeping them just before 2000 and have >10GB, and we don't even have kids yet. Some nights when we sit down after dinner, we'll turn on the TV and not actually watch tv - but just watch the pictures go by. My DVR just cycles through pictures at random for it's "screen saver". Brings up a lot of "remember that?" moments.

  16. Re:Chemical contamination ? on Lego Mindstorms Used To Make Artificial Bones · · Score: 1, Informative

    Glad you prefaced this with the fact that you're not a scientist. I'm sure they (being the real scientists) have thought of this.

  17. Re:The ultrasonic remote has come full circle on Reinventing the Clapper With a Knock-Based Home Automation Controller · · Score: 1

    I would guess the part about the resonant frequency being around 3kHz in addition to the part that it has a non linear response curve helps with this. It would be very very difficult to resonate a wall at 3kHz via a sound wave. Judging by the walls in my house, it's typically 150Hz or less (as cars with subwoofers/missing mufflers drive by.)

  18. Re:Kid Icarus on Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard · · Score: 1

    I found top gun to be easy as hell. Peg your plane in a corner through the level. Landing was hard but not impossible, I would say I failed at landing maybe every one in six?

  19. Re:TENS on Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    Holy hell, warn some of us at work before posting that. Not that I mind reading up on it, but one thing I don't want to look at (at work or at home) is another man's junk.

  20. Re:Welcome to our world on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    TPMS on newer cars has made that check somewhat irrelevant.

    I must admit, even riding a motorcycle in to work - there's much more work going into getting to work. About 2 minutes or so extra to get things packed on the bike (laptop/lunch/workout clothes) - then put on gear (Boots, Jacket and Helmet.) Check tires, signals, brake, fire up the motorcycle.

    Also - after a long day at work, I've found riding a motorcycle home is actually the most dangerous thing to do. You're likely tired from a long day, mind isn't as clear - and there's a lot of other irritated/stressed people on the roadway. Makes for a bad combination.

    On a car - it's throw my stuff in the trunk, climb in (with my coffee in hand), start the car, latch the belt and go.

  21. Re:Shale is coming on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    I honestly don't think the Earth cares that we suck the oil out of it. It's not like it was there (in the form of oil anyways) in the first place.

  22. Re:Wiki on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Leaving an IT Admin Position? · · Score: 1

    +1 funny if that was actually an Adventure Time reference.

  23. Re:Market pressures. on Hard Drive Shortage Relief Coming In Q1 2012 · · Score: 1

    I've got 2 400GB drives in my server. My typical upgrade path followed every 2 years to buy new drives, but due to lack of money and then the drive production dropping off, I haven't bought for nearly 4 years. On the good side, I haven't needed much more storage (have 1tb "scratch" drive for junk on my machine that isn't crucial) and I keep everything backed up in two places.

  24. Re:Shared accounts?!? on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 1

    Yeah; I have a tendency to miss the details sometimes as I'm skimming. Nothing to see here :)

  25. Re:Shared accounts?!? on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 2

    I had to combine my accounts when my wife lost her job years ago. Makes planning for the family much easier if one person has a hold of the purse strings, in my opinion.