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  1. Re:Amazon referer ID on Hard Drives Shipping with Star Trek · · Score: 1

    If referring to HTTP, referer is correct: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.36

  2. Re:All cars already have this system on $1M Prize For Finding Cause of Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    I've had this happen twice to me, too. The first time, I cut the ignition. The second, I used neutral. Clearly, we could have benefitted from additional training.

  3. All cars already have this system on $1M Prize For Finding Cause of Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's called neutral, and it's a feature of your transmission. It disconnects the engine from the wheels. Transmissions, both manual and automatic, are designed to easily select neutral, for emergencies like this.

  4. Re:Hopenchange! on US Gov't. Ending Its Hands-Off-the-Internet Stance · · Score: 1
    Some hard evidence of the flip-a-floppin:

    http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-dems-in-2005-51-vote-nuclear-option-is-arrogant-power-grab-against-the-founders-intent

    Biden: "I pray God when the Democrats take back control we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are doing." Unfortunately, his prayers were not answered.

  5. Bad drivers are still bad drivers? on Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown Ineffective · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Could it be that bad driving causes crashes? So, eliminating cell phone usage results in people still being bad drivers? Or how about a correlation between people more likely to obey laws and those that are good drivers? Enacting a prohibition might make the better drivers less distracted, but leave the bad drivers still bad drivers and still talking on their cell phones.

  6. Re:Use Telco data for better estimation on Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown Ineffective · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps they also log which towers each call was on. If that data is available, you could look for calls which switched towers, thus indicating the phone was probably in motion. I guess you'd get confounding data from people riding the bus, though.

  7. Re:I only hope on Google.cn Has Already Lifted Censorship · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the TFA:

    Jiang Yu, a spokeswoman at China's Foreign Ministry, said ... "The case will be handled in a just and lawful manner." Jiang didn't answer a question on when there will be a trial.

    Gimmie more of that Chinese justice!

  8. Re:What a great idea! on Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases · · Score: 1

    Works for Ferrari

  9. Re:No such thing as bad words. on FTC Says Virtual Worlds Bad For Minors · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more. Along the same lines, it's words that are conveying an idea.... and it's that idea that is appropriate or not. Whether a person says penis, dick, scholong -- or grabs his crotch -- the idea is conveyed. That's why I think bleeping out profanity in TV shows is so lame. The concept of swearing has been conveyed. The fact that you didn't hear it is irrelevant.

  10. Re:HEY DOUCHE CMDRTACO -- atomsmasher IS NOT A WOR on LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure · · Score: 1

    I think that's how we ended up with the entire language, actually. I don't recall a Divine Dictionary in the Garden of Eden... or one assembled from DNA.

  11. Re:Going Nowhere Sort of Fast on Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes · · Score: 1

    ... the computer is good for a limited number of uses. These include calculations, entertainment, information retrieval, image manipulation, and word processing.

    I've got to ask, did you go to the Michael Scott school of business?

    Michael: There are four kinds of business: tourism, food service, railroads, and sales; and hospitals/manufacturing; and air travel.

  12. Re:Why are people getting so worked up on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mount Kilimanjaro today, 20, 30 and 50 years ago. Where have the glaciers gone

    The linked WP article you provided has a couple of theories, including the "shrinking of Kilimanjaro's ice cap is not directly due to rising temperature but rather to decreased precipitation." So, it's possible global cooling/warming/climate change is not related.

  13. Re:Not possible on Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google? · · Score: 1

    Somewhere between $20 and $0.02 is "free" for most people in developed countries.

  14. Re:Not possible on Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just like there will never be a $20 calculator, $20 digital watch, $20 hand-held laser, or $20 digital camera.

  15. Re:What a surprise on Bing Users' Click-Through Rate 55% Higher Than Google Users' · · Score: 1

    You should try the same searches in a blind experiment http://blindsearch.fejus.com/ and see which result set you prefer, to eliminate observer bias.

  16. The author predicted it on Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm · · Score: 1

    Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made. ... [A]lways the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.

    George Orwell. "Nineteen Eighty-Four." 1949.

  17. Re:Coming to America on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Yes, because the stores and cars they destroy also causes physiological to real people. These real people are victims of the rioters' illegal actions, so protecting the innocents (shop and car owners) takes precedence. In short, the rioters should have thought of the possibility of physiological damage before starting the riot.

  18. Re:Coming to America on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 1
    No, you're talking about riots, and I'm talking about masses of people in public, some of whom are rioting.
    Yes, I'm talking about riots, not peaceful protests. Fry the rioters, celebrate the protesters.
  19. Re:Coming to America on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 1
    Sorry, man, but when the first Molotov cocktail or stone is hurled, you've forfeited your Constitutional rights of freedom of assembly. There's a big difference between legal protests and illegal riots, and we're talking about riots.

    Guilt is determined by a court. The job of the police is to bring before that court anyone they determine, in their sole opinion, has broken the law. When faced with a mob of 200, it's not practice to sort out participants vs bystanders. In that case, round em all up, stop the riot, and let a judge sort it out.

    In San Francisco, a friend of mine participated in anti-war protests... which became unlawful. All participants were arrested for unlawful assembly and held for 12+ hours. In the end, all charges were dropped because the police couldn't accurately identify instigators from bystanders.

  20. Re:Coming to America on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Sorry, man, but you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. You're telling me we should let riots roam unchecked because you can't separate the actual rioters from innocent bystanders? That's silly. Riots are dangerous and cause all kinds of property damage (owners of that property are the real victims) and must be stopped.

    (Side note: did you know insurance policy rarely cover riots, insurrections, wars, etc? How'd you like to still be making payments on a car which was set on fire four years ago.)

    Bottom line: if you don't heed the calls to disperse, you're just a guilty as the ones throwing bricks or rolling cars.

  21. So what? on Googling for CIA Agents · · Score: 1
    I could see that the property appears to be in a quiet residential community and looks approachable from all sides. It also offers ready access by car to major thoroughfares.
    Sounds like the description of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC. You know, where the President lives?

    What was the writer's point? FUD? Just becuase you know where someone lives means nothing about how defensible that location is.

  22. Re:Indeed, this is the free market at work. on DoubleClick Warns Against Ad-Blocking Browsers · · Score: 1
    Forget the jargon

    Dude, it's not jargon. These are concepts in Economics, an established science. People have done lots of research and it does work this way.

    You kinda sound like someone saying "gravity, schmavity -- the bigger rock will fall faster."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_goods

  23. Re:I agree... on Inventor of Proxy Firewall Blames Hackers · · Score: 1
    WRONG (in California). Check out section 459 of our penal code:

    http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdoc ID=4623769613+1+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

    Now, if you went in there to just look around, that's okay.

  24. Writing AJAX should not mean writing javascript on AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript · · Score: 1

    If you're writing the javascript for this stuff yourself, you're already broken. You really need a framework which makes interacting with server-side stuff easy. Check out Direct Web Remoting (DWR). DWR allows you call methods ON YOUR SERVER within javascript, using the same names and classes as on the server side. Very cool.

  25. Re:Mod me to hell and back... on What Will We Do With Innocent People's DNA? · · Score: 1
    How is the potential for abuse any higher just because the sample is DNA?

    Can a fingerprint provide a complete genetic map of an individual? Can you clone someone from a photograph?