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  1. Re:Yea, I like a physical knob on Tesla, Ford, Amazon Hint At Cloudy Future For Cars · · Score: 1

    Interesting. But if anyone asks, we were discussing Wittgenstein over a game of backgammon.

  2. Re:NOT STOCK on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    Okay, a heavy smoker who's previously suffered a heart attack then.

  3. Re:NOT STOCK on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    At some point, can't we just say "Don't drive".

    Yes, but just because you think that point lies at "driver has epilepsy," doesn't mean everyone wants to agree.

    Please, not while I'm on the road.

    I don't want a heavy smoker to have a heart attack while I'm on the road, but I'm not going to call for them to be banned. And I don't want a terrorist to blow up the plane I'm on, but that doesn't mean I'll advocate rectal searches for all passengers. Well, maybe on an opt-in basis.

  4. Re:Missing Details... on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 2

    Why is a man who suffers from epilepsy being allowed to drive in the first place?

    Epilepsy is a "reportable condition" here

    Because "there" is not "here," and perhaps they've chosen, rightly or wrongly, to either not make the ultimately arbitrary (albeit perhaps not unreasonable) decision that no-one with epilepsy can drive, or that they take people on a case-by-case basis rather than a blanket ban. For all we know this guy suffers from a rare form of epilepsy that only kicks in when he travels over 120mph (special relativity notwithstanding).

  5. Re:125 mph for 125 miles... on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1
    Apparently the guy suffered two epileptic seizures, although it's not clear if that was during or after the event. What I'm wondering though is whether an epileptic event could have caused his problems in the first place. Is it possible that due to such an event he was convinced he was stomping on the brake the whole time, when in fact he had his foot on the accelerator the whole time? Or something similar?

    If you're still clueless how to shut the engine off with the key after an hour or so of driving

    This car has a key-less ignition.

  6. Re:It's called the key on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    Lecerf has filed a legal complaint after his Renault Laguna, which is adapted for disabled drivers

    A Renault Laguna is a normal car. This particular Laguna isn't.

  7. Re:Good News / Bad News on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    There is no doubt that they sensationalized the filming of it

    No, they fictionalized it. It was staged. As in it didn't actually happen.

  8. Re:Good News / Bad News on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    Aren't, dammit. Aren't the way things work in practice! I'll get me coat...

  9. Re:Good News / Bad News on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    Just as anyone watching Uri Geller perform shouldn't consider him to have psychic powers. But shoulds and shouldn'ts are the way things work in practice.

  10. Re:Security on Unscrambling an Android Telephone With FROST · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is, if I build a secret compartment inside my neighbour's house and camp out there, I can beat him to the doormat in the morning and read all his mail? For free?

  11. Re:Yea, I like a physical knob on Tesla, Ford, Amazon Hint At Cloudy Future For Cars · · Score: 1

    I assume it's not a popular comedy term for a penis in the US?

    Apparently not. I don't think they even know what a bell-end is.

  12. Re:Gimp on For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 · · Score: 1

    [ for the impaired, GIMP does and this version of photoshop does not, and noone outside the print industry gives a damn ]

    From the GIMP FAQ:

    When can we see native CMYK support?

    It is clear from the product vision that GIMP eventually needs to support CMYK, but it is impossible to say when someone finds the free time and motivation to add it. In the meantime it is possible to work with CMYK to some extent using plug-ins, such as the Separate+ plug-in.

  13. Really short time-waster on Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters? · · Score: 1

    I gave Warwick Davis a couple of blintzes to paint my fence, but he never did it!

  14. Re:Yea, I like a physical knob on Tesla, Ford, Amazon Hint At Cloudy Future For Cars · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yea, I like a physical knob

    That's what she said.

  15. Their rendering what? on Opera Picks Up Webkit Engine · · Score: 2

    Opera has announced that they will be dropping their rendering ending

    I'd say something like "are the editors even trying any more?" if it hadn't been so clear for so long that no, they're not.

    They've already submitted patches to improve multi-column layouts even.

    Oy vey, what is dis, submit like an old Jewish man day?

  16. Re:Save millions... on New Zealand Frontline Police Get Apple Devices in Efficiency Measure · · Score: 1

    "Putting an iPhone in your Otter Box" sounds like something you'd have to go to hospital to get sorted out.

  17. Re:Build? on DIY Web-Controlled Robot That Takes 1 Hour To Build · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Aren't they ultimately interchangeable?

  18. Re:Good grief on Turning a Kindle Fire HD Into a Power Tablet · · Score: 1

    Although to be fair, you do finally get instructions on how to root it at the end, so...

  19. Good grief on Turning a Kindle Fire HD Into a Power Tablet · · Score: 2
    To save you some trouble, this is basically "how I like my Kindle Fire HD set up." I particularly enjoyed this gem:

    Caps lock: Just double-tap on the SHIFT key and it'll turn into the caps lock key!

    Oh, and the "little savvy" for improving battery life? Turn off GPS, wireless and Bluetooth when you're not using them. Duh.

  20. Re:Thanks Adobe! on Adobe Bows To Pressure and Cuts Australian Prices · · Score: 1

    There will still be plenty of others dropping hundreds of dollars on your overpriced software.

    Then it's not overpriced as far as Adobe are concerned, really.

  21. Re:About darn time on Adobe Bows To Pressure and Cuts Australian Prices · · Score: 2

    95% of users of Photoshop didn't pay for it either.

  22. Re:For a Fake Pirate? on First Impressions Inside the Project Holodeck VR Game World · · Score: 2

    It'll give them just as much stereo vision as they have in real life, so, kinda.

  23. Re:Ad? on Pepsi To Release New Breakfast Mountain Dew · · Score: 2

    It certainly isn't News for Nerds.

  24. Re:Infallible? on Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is is he infallible now?

    Since religious dogma does not equate to (and is often diametrically opposed to) actual truth, no.

  25. Re:So on Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age · · Score: 2

    Yeah, unless his successor is to be the Papal Mainframe, I'm having a hard time trying to work out why this is on Slashdot.