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  1. Re:Ritz Digital Camera on Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked · · Score: 1

    There are no terms of service at all on the package.

    "Camera price does not include processing" - 'price', not rental fee...

  2. Re:Theft of the camera? on Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked · · Score: 1

    No fine print at all.

    What comes closest would be this construct:

    "Return To Big Print Central Photo Lab for:
    * High-resolution prints in minutes
    * FREE Photo CD
    * FREE Index Print"

    On the back it says:
    "Camera does not connect to home computers. Return camera to a participating Big Print Central location for processing."

    Of course, if I'm not interested in the prints, I have no cause to return it... and it obviously does connect to home computers (with the now available software and a special cable)

    The packaging also says: "Camera price does not include processing"

    "price", not rental fee.

  3. Re:Not A Good Idea on In-Dash DIN-form-factor Car PC · · Score: 1

    Here in Europe you are forbidden to call while driving, unless you use a carkit (handsfree)

    TWIAVBP and Europe a chunk of it.
    Europe is not, yet, fully unified and in for instance Sweden it is still allowed to use a mobile phone, even without handsfree. They're debating if requiring use of handsfree - most studies indicate that the occupied hand isn't the problem - it's the occupied mind...

  4. Re:Unit of ego on ESR Recasts Jargon File in Own Image · · Score: 1

    So where would a RMS come in under this plan? 1/sqrt(2)

  5. Re:SAAB on Automakers and Crash Data Recorders · · Score: 1
    I know, bad for to reply to self but I had a quick google for some info on the SAAB black box.

    Apparently collects the following parameters the last 7 seconds before a crash:

    • Speed
    • Throttle position
    • Brake useage
    • Impact forces
    • Blinker useage
    • Steering wheel (unclear if position for tires or height/length adjustment of wheel)
    • Engine RPM
    • Gear
    • Use of belts
    • Seat position
    • Break light (unclear; functional or not?)
    • Date & Time
    • Temperature (unclear if inside/outside or both)

    Didn't find much in english on the issue, but

    • http://www.itsa.org/itsnews.nsf/$All/5D288676F414A CA885256C6800068EB0?OpenDocument
    is one.

    Here are some links to info in swedish:

    • http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/bil/story/0,2789,2 12917,00.html
    • http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,27 89,212807,00.html
    • http://www.2stad.se/nyheter/02/41/tisdag1.shtml
    • http://www.2stad.se/nyheter/02/41/onsdag2.shtml
    • http://se.news.yahoo.com/021008/58/wb6e.html
  6. Re:SAAB on Automakers and Crash Data Recorders · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, as I understood it, the police actually have the data (bits) - SAAB is just refusing to tell how to interpret them... On grounds of privacy - they will use the data anonymized/in bulk for statistics - and they hadn't really informed the buyers about the feature (mentioned somewhere in the manual though) I'm not sure exactly what a company can be ordered to do, by the courts, here in Sweden...

  7. Re:okay, I'm in the air... on Personal Jet Pack for X-mas! · · Score: 1
    now how do I *land*?

    Keep the fan going to take up most of the weight, the move over to the stand or have people move stand to you. Could get dusty though...

  8. Re:It inflates the price on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control? · · Score: 1

    Which shows that if people want it, they'll get it. The WOSD only enriches the smugglers/pushers. For a criminal, more money can always be obtained by committing [more] crimes.

  9. Re:We need to change the constitution on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control? · · Score: 1

    According to Scotland Yard the availability of black-market arms is way up compared to before the handgun ban...

  10. Re:No need for confiscation on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control? · · Score: 1

    Ever considered what usually happens when an item in demand is prohibited or heavily taxed, while available cheap elsewhere? Take a look at the prohibition and the war on (some) drugs...

  11. Re:What difference does it make? on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control? · · Score: 1
    the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto ... "Well, they ended up losing anyway,"

    A lot of that was due to the Red Army stopping, to just stand and look, enabling the German army to pull front line troops and move them into Warzaw...

  12. Re:Guns don't protect democracies, people do on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control? · · Score: 1

    But the German army did run into problems when the people in Warzaw got their hands on military weapons (and were desperate enough). Had the Red Army not decided to stop and watch, the Germans probably would not have had enough resources to quelch the uprising.

  13. Re:"Supports common audio formats" on Hardware Review: Rio Central · · Score: 1

    There's a mod player hack for the empeg. Could probably be adapted to the Central without too much trouble.

  14. Re:TV Out on SonicBlue's Digital Audio Center · · Score: 1

    IIRC from previous comments on the empeg and Receiver BBS's, Dell had a lot to say in the design of the Receiver...