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  1. Re:Check out the 07 MINI - it has this stuff alrea on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 2, Informative

    What!? Most fuel in the US contains 10% ethanol? Only 1/8th of the Gas in the sates has ethanol.

    http://www.eere.energy.gov/cleancities/blends/etha nol.html

  2. Re:Call the IRS and the FTC on Major Broadcasters Hit With $12M Payola Fine · · Score: 1

    I sure it was put down as marketing expenses.

  3. Re:i'm not a fan of microsoft but... on MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain · · Score: 1

    My Iriver plays WMA and vorbis. The current ones seem to as well.
    http://www.iriveramerica.com/prod/ultra/clix/clix- 4GB-white.aspx

  4. Re:It's their business. on Walmart Rejects Firefox and Safari · · Score: 1

    Walmart is not privately held. It is one of the largest (by market capitalization) companies. Ticker symbol WMT.

  5. Plummeting prices make NAND appear almost free on All Flash iPod Line-up on the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml ;jsessionid=B2PRBFV3QLFISQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=1970 02923
    This article was in My EE times yesterday. It talks about the rapidly falling price of Nand flash.

  6. Re:Kneejerk reaction on Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't remember the schools doing abortions. Have things changed?

  7. Re:Wi-Fi vs 3G on Apple Turning Cell Phone Market Upside Down? · · Score: 1

    3g is available in the states it has been for years.

  8. Re:My god... on Lack of Innovation in IT Holding Companies Back? · · Score: 1
    Can someone explain this to me? My wife and I have bought three cars so far. One is 17 years old, has about 250K miles on it, and is still in use (though by her parents, not us). Another is 8 years old, the third 2, and we'll probably have each of them for 10-15 years. Do people like sinking so much of their income into cars, or feel insecure without a new car, or buy crappy cars and so have to replace them frequently, or what? I don't get it.

    It is nice to drive around in a new car. I recently replaced my older car with a newer car. Guess what, I find that it is more pleasant to drive the new car. I really can't believe that you find it hard to understand that new cars in general are nicer than older cars. It is also easy to understand that you might find that you would rather put your money toward something else other than new cars. But saying you don't understand why people like to have new cars shows a surprising lack of empathy with other people.
  9. Re:You're kidding, right? on What is Apple Without Steve Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Edimicate me. Can they do that?
    Yes, Apple is currently under investigation for back dating options. This is not legal if Jobs is found to have known about the practice and approved it there is the very real possibility that the board will be forced to fire him as part of the settlement with the SEC.

  10. Re:Consumer "confusion"? on No Ceasefire in DVD Format Battle · · Score: 1

    Beta was not the clearly superior format. You could not record a whole movie on a beta tape when you could record a 2 hour movie on VHS. By the time the 2 hour beta tapes came out the war had been lost.

  11. Re:I agree on NIST Condemns Paperless Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    In the last election in California. The last step in voting was for the voter to verify that what was printed on the tape is what the voter wanted did they do it differently in Maryland?

  12. Re:YFI on Lego Christmas Production Shortage · · Score: 1

    Don't let some corporate marketing drone tell you how to speak. Take a stand call them legos.

  13. Re:1137out of a total of how many? on Census Bureau Loses Hundreds of Laptops · · Score: 1
    It has to do with physical security - you can store a laptop in a high-security safe when you're not using it. It costs more than a desktop PC but less than hardening the building ;-)

    In the olden days (early 1990s) people had to remove the hard drive and place it in the safe when they left the office. We did not have the convience of putting the whole thing in the safe.
  14. Laptops will be lost or stolen on Census Bureau Loses Hundreds of Laptops · · Score: 1

    Laptops will be lost or stolen there is not much you can do about it. If the security depends on these not being lost or stolen the policies need to be changed.

  15. Re:Putting the master password in the manual? on Googling for ATM Master Passwords · · Score: 1

    Where else would you put it? You have basically two choices. 1) no default password or 2) a default password.

  16. Re:Ease of use vs price? on Wal-Mart Leaks Zune Price · · Score: 1
    No its ability to play "Play For Sure" is well known.

    It can't. Microsofts even been on record saying it, which goes into why they sold it off to another company and why a lot of the sites who used it are pretty PO'd at M$.
    Is this really true? The only place I have seen this leads back to the EFF saying this based on their interpertation of a marketing sheet.
  17. Re:Yeah, but... on How To Fight Spam Using Your Postfix Configuration · · Score: 1
    What do you think SPAM stands for?

    SPAM stands for SPiced hAM.
  18. Re:Who pays? on Battery Recalls A Blow to Sony's Recovery · · Score: 1
    Does Dell and Apple pay for this or Sony?

    NPR was talking about the Apple recall and said that Sony was paying for the recall or at least part of it.
  19. Re:Pluto demoted? on IAU Demotes Pluto to 'Dwarf Planet' Status · · Score: 1
    Walt Disney is turning over in his grave...

    Freezer. He is turning over in his freezer.
  20. Are they reaaly big in Japan? on Ladies and Gentlemen, the Electronic Toilet · · Score: 1

    You always here about this sort of crazy Japanese shit. But do the Japanese really buy this crap in any sort of volume?

  21. Re:PSI, pounds, etc. on Flash Drives Go To Work · · Score: 1

    The pressure is not equal to the inflation pressure. Tires have stiffness in the sidewalls so the pressure will be somewhat greater than the inflation pressure.

  22. Re:Cool, where can I get the source? on The Keyboard That Could Phone Home · · Score: 2, Insightful
    On a more serious note though..
    I always thought it was easier to just torture somebody for the password?

    Often times it might be nice to get the password without the victim's knowledge that the password is compromised.
  23. Re:Thievery on Hoboken, NJ vs. Giant Parking Robot · · Score: 1

    How many years do you think it will take to develope this software? $66,000 is at most 6 months of developer time probably closer to 3 months.

  24. Re:What happened to MP3 phones? on What Happened to Media PCs? · · Score: 1

    He is not talking about the US he is just clueless. Most of the new phones have mp3 players on them.

  25. Re:Bonobo apes fence in the wild ... on Swimsuit Design Uses Supercomputing · · Score: 1

    All animals but humans have sex for pleasure.