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  1. Re:Who eats doughnuts with the doughnut men? on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    Why limit it to 5 under, why not 10 or 15 under? It's funny that YOUR standard is right and everyone else is wrong.
    I can drive for weeks on end and not tailgate anyone at all or get stressed when someone is in a crosswalk, let people merge in front of me at the last minute in a squeeze or wave people on from a side street in traffic, and slow down and cautiously drive around bikes and I am 100% stress free doing that. I do that at 15 under or possibly even 15 over the posted speed limit.

  2. Re:Cool things about economics on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    Do you like Apples? How about them Apples?

  3. Re:sansa story on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    I looked around for my E200 running rockbox (3.7.1) after reading your post. Found it in a the bottom of a drawer in my spare room. Hit the power button, it fired up with 20% battery and started playing from where it left off the last time I used it. I don't know the self discharge rate of the battery but I swear it was at least 2 years since I last touched it.
       

  4. Re:You don't have it straight ... on Former Police Officer Indicted For Teaching How To Pass a Polygraph Test · · Score: 1

    Stand on the corner with a sign that says "You can buy potent illegal drugs in this alley for cheap" and you will be arrested. Stand on that same corner with a sign that says "Bad people are selling cheap illegal drugs in this alley, stay away" and you will be fine. Seems strange, in both situations you are giving people the same factual information, that drugs are beign sold in the alley but in one you are adding some opinion to that fact. Your opinion in addition to facts should not be the difference between illegal and legal.

  5. Re:Some would be well suited. on Why Military Personnel Make the Best IT Pros · · Score: 3, Informative

    From my experience, the "military" or command mentality is this:
    Follow my orders, questioning things is a sign of subordination, obey my guidance because I am right, just do it, and you don't have enough info to make your own decisions.

    We have all worked for those people.

    The one thing I have found without a doubt from every person I have met that has some or all of those characteristics is a person that is not truly comfortable with what they are doing. They are afraid of people digging in deeper into the why and how because they themselves do not know or did not think or care to ask. They do not want to be questioned because it may expose their own weaknesses. It is a mechanism they use to deflect the questions and reasons hoping you will just accept them. I've seen this from both ex military non military people with no more of one than the other. I've also found that if the person really does not know what they are doing or in over their head but is playing the part, they will EVENTUALLY be exposed at some point. It's usually not long for once a few people on both sides of that supervisor or person start really digging until they are gone.

  6. Re:well thank god im at the bottom of the list. on Which Cars Get the Most Traffic Tickets? · · Score: 1

    http://www.roadandtrack.com/ca...

    1000HP Honda minivan. More of a novelty used as a dyno queen and for burnouts. Similar to many 1000+ HP Supras.

  7. Re:Doesn't scale well on When Everything Works Like Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Why do clothes dryers and fireplaces not have a second inlet duct pulling outside air directly into the unit so you are not sucking air from the living space which is then replaced from outside air through cracks and crevices and pulled through your house somewhat defeating the purpose? I could kind of see it with a fireplace that is open because it would be difficult to get a good draw but there is no reason to not have that functionality on a clothes dryer. Maybe with the clothes dryer, it would take more heat to heat up freezing cold air from outside but at least that air is "dry" and will aid in removing moisture once heated a bit. Am I missing something?

  8. Re:Hmmm .... on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    The chain of events was
    1. A cargo door not latched and dogged shut even though it appeared to be shut and its indicator indicated shut and latched.
    2. Door blows off at some altitude and pressure vents off, passenger area vents slower from lack of enough vents and air pressure collapses the floor.
    3. As floor is collapsing and falling into the cargo area, it breaks major hydraulic lines that are run just under the floor.
    4. Pilot no has little to no control of the plane and.....

  9. Re:Modern Television Style - Thanks Beyond Product on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 1

    Understand, on BBC America, it has commercials and those small recaps I was referring to fall in line with what you are describing.

  10. Re:Cut the cable on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 1

    Is this you? Sounds like it.
    http://www.theonion.com/articl...

  11. Re:Modern Television Style - Thanks Beyond Product on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 1

    Top Gear UK does small recaps after the commercial breaks. They do not actually talk and explain what you missed like you forgot from 5 minutes ago, they kind of randomly throw in some replay of quick clips of something that already aired a second time.

  12. Re:I'm shocked! on Netflix CEO On Net Neutrality: Large ISPs Are the Problem · · Score: 1

    The costs of laying wire/fiber are expensive but in the end, the people in the area can and do eventually pay for it regardless of who did it. It doesn't matter if Verizon, Comcast, Joe's Fiber Company, or the city of Whatever did the laying of the wire, the final cost for that wiring project would be the same. The problem with the franchise agreements is the people paid but they paid it to a single company that won't share it. People could have paid a third party or the local government the same amount of money in the end to run those lines and had an "open" line and then picked a carrier for their service on that line. The Verizons and Comcasts could still negotiate and run their own lines in the same area instead of providing service on the existing "public" lines but they won't. Why? Because of the competition and choice people have and they do not see money in doing it.

  13. Re:In other words... on Judge Rejects $324.5 Million Settlement For Tech Workers, Argues For More · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Devolving talent and skills requires time. There is always new people coming in but they do not come in immediately to the higher level positions. They start lower and possibly work their way up. If your top performers are leaving soon after they reach that "top performer" level, you will have less top performers. So, you recognize their benefit to your company and provide better benefits to try to keep keep them happy or you illegally collude with your competition and peers to not offer benefits greater then you or flat out refuse to hire them away from each other at any cost. These companies chose the later method.

  14. Re:Some real estate valuations .... on Oso Disaster Had Its Roots In Earlier Landslides · · Score: 1

    There goes the market for those cheap riverfront vacation properties.

    There is a very good reason that some river front property is very cheap.

  15. Re:Answer needed on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 1

    Using your logic, anyone that has Comcast or Verizon for their internet connection is screwed unless the place they are getting bandwidth from is also a Verizon or Comcast customer. Wow, wouldn't that be an awesome setup for Verizon and Comcast.

    This is what Comcast and Verizon want.

  16. Re:How Can The USMS Sell These? on Winners of First Seized Silk Road Bitcoin Auction Remain Anonymous · · Score: 1

    They could belong to anyone. All that person(s) has to do if file a claim and prove ownership.

    Obviously no one including Ulbright himself attempted to claim them. Therefore, no claim of ownership so it goes to auction. There is a risk involved with claiming property that was involved with illegal activity. At no point were the owners of these bitcoins ever held back or hindered from officially claiming them. If you were doing nothing illegal, there is very little reason not to claim ownership.

    This is standard procedure and has been this way for decades. No different then the local police confiscating stolen car stereos and iPads. If no one claims them, they are auctioned off.

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

    Wait until you get a car from a local person that turns out to not have a good title- or was in an accident and reconditioned. Talk about stress.

    You look at the title before you buy it. If you bought a car with no title or a recon, that was your own fault, anyone can EASILY avoid that situation with a 5 second look at the title. Unless the person forged the title but that is another issue.

  18. Re:Imprint is still allowed? on Clueless About Card Data Hack, PF Chang's Reverts To Imprinting Devices · · Score: 1

    A lot of taxi drivers still do the old school impression method.

  19. True but you can still make your own assumptions from the actual data points they gathered.

  20. Mythbusters had an episode on this, with all kinds of charts and graphs comparing CO2 and pollution for different cars and bikes in different situations.

    Here are some of the results
    http://rideapart.com/2011/10/b...

  21. Re:Why sell a money press? on The Bitcoin Death Star: KnC Plans 10 Megawatt Data Center In Sweden · · Score: 1

    That is the reason most ASIC miners are vaporware. When these specialized mining rigs are readily available and can be sent to your house in less than a week, their RTO will be questionable. This isn't like the California gold rush where you actually had to travel there, set up a camp and then start mining day to day while you also lived there. The actual mining was the work and although there was profit to be made selling the tools to allow other to do that, the tools needed were just a small part of the whole process. With ASIC miners, the tools and electricity do EVERYTHING, you just sit there.

  22. Superbowl? You mean the "Big Game"? on Superbowl Means Time For Spy Cams, Hazmat Squads and Bomb-Sniffing Dogs · · Score: 2

    You can't use the word Superbowl or even Super Sunday without the NFL wanting some money. People have been calling it the the "Big Game", although the NFL is now trying to trademark that term as well.
    http://www.techdirt.com/articl...

    Unless you pay the NFL money, if the NFL has their way, we might have to call it
    "that game that happens at the end of the season that determines the champion in the sport that uses the brown oblong ball in the US"

  23. Re:Good luck seeing a la carte anytime soon. on Cable Lobbyist Tom Wheeler Confirmed As New FCC Chief · · Score: 1

    You laugh, my Comcast bill for internet only just this month went from $49 to $64 for that exact reason. I cancelled Comcast cable about 3 years ago. I guess they just figured that out.

  24. Re:What? on Did Tech Websites Exploit the Boston Marathon Bombing? · · Score: 1

    And in between those news stories are "stories"about what happened on that networks prime time reality show the previous night followed up by a "story" about a movie star or entertainer that just released a new movie or album.

  25. Re:Live by the walled garden... on Why AppGratis Was Pulled From the App Store · · Score: 1

    Borderline?
    Shouldn't the user get to decide if they want to use it or not? If people were downloading it and using it and were getting good use of it, it was of value to them correct?