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  1. Re:But... the Woz on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 2

    Different problem. Read the Woz's description. His complaint is only about the cruise control.

  2. Re:How does the actual system work? on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If your car suddenly accelerates and you cannot shift into neutral or press the brakes to stop it, you are not qualified to operate a motor vehicle.

  3. Re:wait what? on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 2

    Which is easily accounted for with them selling a huge percentage of cars sold, and their incompetent 60+ target demographic.

  4. Re:Mostly true, but slightly spun summary. on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 2

    No, this is a simple user error. Besides mechanical linkages get stuck all the time. I used to have a 1987 corolla that had that problem in its old age. As I am not incompetent I was able to unstick it by popping the gas. If I could not have unstuck it I would have put the clutch in or shifted to neutral.

  5. Re:seems to be the norm on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 1

    A far simpler thing to do that will leave the power steering working is to shift into neutral.

  6. Re:Control System Design Flaw, Root locus anyone on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 1

    Simple answer even highway patrol fucks up. He could have just shifted to neutral.

  7. Re:wait what? on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It can be all kinds of things, the design of the pedal or which brand of idiots by what car. What I do bet is that this does not happening in stick shift vehicles. I suggest banning slushboxes as a solution.

  8. Re:Reminds me of the WKRP turkey drop on Samsung Rains Paper Airplanes From Space · · Score: 1

    Wild turkey can fly quite well. They also can see very well. They are however incredibly stupid, I have shot at one, missed it and called the same bird back in.

  9. Re:impact force? on Samsung Rains Paper Airplanes From Space · · Score: 1

    It has about the same surface area as a coin, and the coin masses much higher. Thus I postulate the terminal velocity of an SD card will be quite low, much like a coin.

  10. Re:This won't work on Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation · · Score: 1

    Nope, never will odds are. The XBOX stuff is only in the black on the current year. The 360 will never pay for itself, much less the debt left from the first one.

  11. Re:What's taking them so long? on Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation · · Score: 1

    And as we all know money is the only thing that matters in this life.

    People who can afford MS shares can deal with a 4% drop.

  12. Re:SD cards survie trip in paper planes...Great... on Samsung Rains Paper Airplanes From Space · · Score: 1

    We have several people in the office using them for swap on netbooks and they work fine. This whole SD card death thing seems to be a myth near as we can tell.

  13. Re:Remember on NASA's Ares 1 To Be Reborn As the Liberty Commercial Launcher · · Score: 1

    Pretty much all commercially produced hydrogen is made by reformation of fossil fuels.

  14. Re:/. Armchair Rocket Scientists Were Wrong?? on NASA's Ares 1 To Be Reborn As the Liberty Commercial Launcher · · Score: 1

    is it also stale and outdated?
    So now you post as anon, why do you cower, or whatever it was you used to post?

  15. Re:This won't work on Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To "interface" with?

    You mean deal with or talk to or what? It sounds like you have some brain damage from being too near business school product.

  16. Re:Personal vs commercial infringement. on Takedown Letters For WP7 Tetris Clones · · Score: 1

    Linux clones UNIX, a real operating system. To suggest it clones Windows is a huge insult.

  17. Re:Copyright and Innovation on Takedown Letters For WP7 Tetris Clones · · Score: 1

    The real solution is Disney should come up with something new. Copyright exists solely to induce creators to make works for society. It does not exist to insure that Disney owns the rights to a talking rat, or to give someone the ability to prevent anyone else from making a similar board game forever.

    These things all should be in the public domain, if they still have value that is even better. The public domain could use it.

  18. Re:Copyright and Innovation on Takedown Letters For WP7 Tetris Clones · · Score: 1

    30 fucking years is reasonable?

    Not to even mention that game rules are patentable not copyrightable. We need to go back to the original dates for copyright.

  19. Re:WTF? on Takedown Letters For WP7 Tetris Clones · · Score: 1

    Nope. Game mechanics are not copyrightable.

  20. Re:This is called... on Takedown Letters For WP7 Tetris Clones · · Score: 1

    http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html

    That should cover it for you.

  21. Re:Fair Enough on Last.FM To Require Subscription For Mobiles and Home Devices · · Score: 1

    The last part is the only one I would care about.

  22. Re:Fair Enough on Last.FM To Require Subscription For Mobiles and Home Devices · · Score: 1

    Great point, for you and the one other guy that bought a zune. To this day I still have not seen one in real life.

  23. Re:Accomidation on Are Flickr Images Abused By Foreign Businesses? · · Score: 1

    Just email it, or make a facebook page that is private. Those are things the average person is already doing.

  24. Re:Out of print, now what's the value? on Nearly 100,000 P2P Users Sued In the Past Year · · Score: 1

    It should be 0. Refusal to sell should be an immediate loss of copyright protection. Copyright exists to entice creators to produce works for society, if you are not going to share them with society you have no right to such protection.

  25. Re:So what's a "victim" to do? on Nearly 100,000 P2P Users Sued In the Past Year · · Score: 1

    Netflix.

    They will mail you discs, if you rip them no one would ever know. You should never do that though, it would make you almost as bad a person as the MPAA executives.