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  1. Re:A couple of points. on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 1

    2) Older people are not as strong. A twenty-year-old may be able to stop a runaway by hitting the brakes where a seventy-year-old can't.

    personally I fail to see how anyone who has the strength to stand up can fail to have the strength to slam on the brakes in a modern car.

  2. Re:Queue The DRM Critics on Seeking Competitive Advantage, For Malware · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if either of these 'kits' infects the computer that runs it? Would the authors ever infect their customers?

    oh, don't worry about that... that's just their handy, no fuss zero-click payment system.

  3. Re:Remember the privacy policy? on Farmville, Social Gaming, and Addiction · · Score: 2, Informative

    not only that, but how many of those accounts actually play the game?
    I had a look at it a while ago and half the people who 'play' it.. well appear to have planted a few crops and then never touched it again.

  4. Re:Too late on RIAA Seeks Web Removal of Courtroom Audio · · Score: 1

    Sure it does. You've just got to somehow manage to fit the entire Internet in the bag with the cat.

    oh well that's easy done.
    turn bag inside out.. tie up bag... taadaa, the cat is back in the bag along with almost everything else.

  5. Re:Please, end the meme on 3 Ton Meteorite Stolen · · Score: 1

    No more "in Soviet Russia" jokes. They're not funny. oh sure... they're not funny when someone else makes them... but they're supposed to be funny when you make one?
  6. Re:Other way around? on New Kind of Spam 'Un-Training' Filters? · · Score: 1

    I was actually doing a little test with yahoo recently, and found that the IP of the orginating smtp server had alot to do with if the email got dumped in the bulk folder or not.

    ie. I had just setup a email server at home and was testing it by sending emails to my yahoo account and found that they were being dumped in the bulk email folder with the following header attached to them.

    X-YahooFilteredBulk:

    I also sent some there through my isp email account and half of those also ended up in the bulk folder with the same header.
    The only difference between any of these emails was which server actually sent the email of to yahoo. (the email through my isp having gone through 2 different servers)
    hmmmm... spf records maybe? (I certainly don't have any on my domain)

  7. Re:Rarely on Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers · · Score: 1
    As a technical-type guy, I should add that machines of any kind (indeed, any things of any kind) rarely can be made to operate any better by slamming one's fist against any part thereof.


    yer... everyone should know that you kick it.
  8. Re: Bill Gates Response! on MS Patches Go For Quality Over Quantity? · · Score: 1

    first and so far only time I have seen a BSOD on my XP box is after installing the recent WMF patch and forgeting to reboot... though I forget how long afterwards it happened.

  9. Re:Physics of car crashes aren't intuitive. on The Physics Behind Car Crashes · · Score: 2, Interesting
    There's a massive amount of energy in a car collision, more than most people would expect given how much we take moving a tonne or two of steel from one place to another daily.


    well the best way to drive home just how much energy it takes to move a car is mandantary push starts(and pushing it downhill is cheating).
  10. Re:It is like car insurance on Does Faster Broadband Matter? · · Score: 1
    the biggest delay I find now is the serving of ads not content


    indeed... this is actually one of the main reasons that I block ads.
  11. Re:Makes me laugh. on Sweden's File Sharing Debate Becomes Mass Brawl · · Score: 1

    yeah... well I don't think you did read the whole thing and instead saw that and only that.

    here is my take on the actual context of that quote. What she is saying is that if you are going to make money off distributing songs you share that income with the artists that made those songs, but don't even think about 'sharing' it in the same way as the major music labels do at cents on the dollar with all the expenses charged to the artist. If the new guard does the same thing as the old hated guard did the old guard might as well be still there.
    (my opinion only, what she actually thinks has no connection to it)

  12. Re:The "New" has an initial capital for a reason on Trigonometry Redefined without Sines And Cosines · · Score: 1

    it refers to both really seeing as it's part of the university name and the name of the state that the university is in.. would kind of be like leaving the 'New' of New York City

  13. Re:Oi! Spelling in the post! on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 1

    let me guess... your 'n' is broken.. or should I just be breaking out the sarcasm warning flags

  14. Australiam on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 1

    gee.. that sounds like a neat place to live..
    huh.. wuzzat?..
    oh Australian.. nevermind I'm already there ;)

  15. Re:I think.. on Windows Vista Faces Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    Quite frankly, I'm amazed they didn't find a way to work DRM in there. ;)


    Well I suppose that you would have to be

    Down
    Right
    Mad

    to want it.
  16. Re:Debugging impossible? on Cockroach-Controlled Robot · · Score: 5, Funny
    Debugging the project is inherently impossible.


    That's not a bug!.. that's a feature.
  17. Re:I will help YOU get a JOB! (Programming puzzles on Programming Puzzles · · Score: 1

    15. Go outside and meet girls.


    oh well I've been told that's easy, (uh.. you dont have to get the girls to talk back, right??), now if I could only remember how to get this damn door open.
  18. Re:How about a Free Software Friendly Audio Card? on Free Software Friendly Graphics Card? · · Score: 1

    my case doesnt have a PC speaker you insensitive clod...

    Not to mention that how much better real speakers sound, when the sound card works properly that is.

  19. Re:ragdoll physics on Max Payne 2 Shows Bullet Time Squared? · · Score: 1

    I dont know... you complain about fake physics and then use an example of a "guy" from a HL2 video who is infact a ragdoll and not meant to act like a real body.