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  1. Re:If you need in vehicle infotainment... on The Rise of Linux In In-Vehicle Infotainment · · Score: 1

    > try driving for more than 30 minutes with two smallish kids in the car

    If your kids are so ADD they can't survive a 30 minute car ride without having crap shoved into their faces you might want to rethink your parenting.

  2. Re:Not an amendment - on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 4, Informative

    > The OP could be much clearer.

    Or you could be smart enough to realize that the word amendment isn't defined as "Modifies the US Constitution"

  3. Why? ~nt~ on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ~nt~

  4. Re:US rental industry is insane on Piracy Rates Plummet As Legal Alternatives Come To Norway · · Score: 1

    1. Use my favorite torrent site, or
    2. Check netflix (doesn't have it), check Amazon Instant video (maybe has it), check vudu (maybe has it), find a local Blockbuster store that hasn't shut down (unlikely), Find a redbox (probably doesn't have it), buy it at Walmart (don't want to), return to step 1.

    Or you know, not watch it. Since the content creator has made it clear they dont want you watching it.

  5. And the person with the cookie can still use your account after you log off.

    So the "Log off" feature is the opposite of security--blocking the authorized user but not blocking the attacker.

    So if I login to GMail with my phone and my desktop, if I log off on my desktop it should kill my phone too? How the hell is that better?

  6. Quanity over Quality? ~nt~ on India To Overtake US On Number of Developers By 2017 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ~nt~

  7. Re:Now there's a petition on whitehouse.gov... on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    > It doesn't really matter since the federal government doesn't have jurisdiction anyway.

    Ahahahahahah, they've invoke the Commerce Clause for less.

  8. Why the complaints? on Is Google Voice Doomed To Be 2nd-Class Messaging System? · · Score: 1

    You get what you pay for.

  9. What? on Learn About the FRDCSA 'Weak AI' Project (Video) · · Score: 2

    So he can write hundreds of Perl Modules, but not a single script that can automate the upload process?

  10. it's already reached half the required number of signatures for a response from the Obama administration.

    You're expecting more than "We cannot comment on an ongoing criminal investigation."?

  11. Re:Warrant? on Proposed NJ Law Allows Cops To Search Phones At Crash Scenes · · Score: 1

    IIRC that was the Florida Supreme Court, doesn't really affect New Jersey although it probably gives some good talking points to laywers for a case.

  12. Yes on Proposed NJ Law Allows Cops To Search Phones At Crash Scenes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then he’s got to do what? Subpoena the service to see if the phone was actively used or not?

    Yes. Yes he does.

  13. TL;DR - Make it look like Chrome.

  14. Re:So... on DoS Attack Forces EVE Online Offline · · Score: 1

    > Some people are speculating it's to do with TEST Alliance

    Aahahahahahah, is there nothing TEST isn't blamed for? In Planetscape 2, TEST has been accused of working with SOE to arrange for the servers to crash to help them out.

  15. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 2

    It's not a scam, it depends on your own personal needs. Since I go to the doctor rarely, my premiums are next to nothing, and contributing to my HSA comes out of pre-tax money which lowers my taxable income. In my case, it'd be stupid not to.

  16. Good Idea, Bad Execution on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, while having these perks is nice, the narrative in this story makes the guy sound like an entitled twat.

  17. Certification on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I bet a lot of that $10k fee is due to the software requiring FDA certification.

  18. Summary Fail on Yahoo Buys UK Teen's Smartphone News App · · Score: 4, Informative

    Way to restate the same thing about 5 times to make it looks like there's any real content.

  19. Re:Guns don't kill people ... on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    Oh god, what have they done . . . all those spreadsheet users.

  20. Re:They're afraid of going after downloaders. on Pirate Bay Shifts Connections From Sweden To Ease Heat on Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    It is the most high-profile torrent tracker in the world and that makes it useful for spreading information.

    No it's not, it stopped being a tracker a while back, now it's just an indexer that uses other public trackers.

  21. Re:By all accounts, the Model S is a great car. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    They are selling them faster than they can make them and it has received spectacular reviews from the automotive press--or at least any automotive press that hadn't already made up their minds that "electric cars suck".

    Electric cars do suck unless you own your own home. Since unless you do, there's going to be nowhere to plug it in since you cant exactly retrofit your rental.

  22. Before people freak out without RTFA on Twitter, American Express Letting People Purchase Goods Via Hashtag · · Score: 4, Informative

    First you need to tweet a certain hashtag.
    AmexSync then sees this tweet and then replies to your tweet with a second hashtag you must tweet to complete the purchase.
    You can either tweet this second tweet to confirm your purchase, or wait 15 minutes and the window closes, and it will require you to go back to step one.

  23. Re:will be abused in 3...2...1... on Twitter, American Express Letting People Purchase Goods Via Hashtag · · Score: 1

    Is see this as being ripe for abuse. The first time this goes live, someone is going to link a hashtag of something innocuous (like #wintercoat) to something expensive, and lots of people won't realize the mistake until they read their monthly bill and see a charge for $2000 on it.

    Did you even read the fucking summary?

    Tweeting special product hashtags (i.e., #uselessjunk) will purchase a product via that synced card. American Express will then send a purchase-confirmation Tweet

    If somebody is stupid enough to accidently tweet the two required hashtags in the 15 minute window, then they deserve whatever charges they get since they're too stupid to be trusted with a credit card.

  24. Re:Who cares if we are hungry... on Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production · · Score: 1

    It's not that we'll go hungry, it's the price of meat will go up.

  25. Starship Troopers on Games Workshop Bullies Author Over Use of the Words 'Space Marine' · · Score: 1

    While called Mobile Infantry, weren't they effectively 'space marines'?

    Well lets check wikipedia:

    The earliest known use of the term "space marine" was by Bob Olsen in his short story "Captain Brink of the Space Marines" (Amazing Stories, Volume 7, Number 8, November 1932), a light-hearted work whose title is a play on the song "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines", and in which the protagonists were marines of the "Earth Republic Space Navy" on mission to rescue celebrity twins from aliens on Titan.

    Ah yea, GW can go fuck themselves.