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  1. Re:black box on From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car' · · Score: 1

    USA Patriot Act "warrantless wiretap".

  2. Speeding over 70? on From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car' · · Score: 1

    In many states in the US, the speed limit is 70 or more. The device is already analyzing fuel economy, so this feature seems redundant. I'll assume that the article is misleading, and that this value is modifiable to help "lead footers". Fuel economy generally goes down with speed, but 70 MPH is rather arbitrary.

  3. Re:My house, my rules on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 1

    Only a European could display such poor reading comprehension of a language you apparently know how to read.

  4. Re:My house, my rules on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 0

    45 years of brutal occupation of the West Bank

    If life in the West Bank is brutal, it isn't because of Israel occupation.

  5. Re:Is Isreal some small town in the US? on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 1

    Helen Thomas, former mascot of the left wing media, is one of those people who called for Jews to "go back to Poland or Germany"-- the implication, whether intentional or not-- is clear, and I applaud the organizations and people who decided to end their relationship with her.

  6. Re:Is Isreal some small town in the US? on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 1

    A defensive war is defined by how it begins, not how it ends. If you look at a map of Israel before 1967, you'll see how indefensible its geography was. Since they knew they were going to be attacked, it would have put their citizens in peril to NOT make a strategic, preemptive attack.

  7. Re:Is Isreal some small town in the US? on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 1

    Thanks for posting this.

  8. Re:Let's not kid ourselves here on Netflix: 'Arrested Development' Won't Crash Our Service · · Score: 1

    Star Trek.

    That being said, that was the 1960s and it's possible the show was really a victim of both poor scheduling and poor data collection.

  9. Re:But i like to dim my lights on Cause of LED Efficiency Droop Finally Revealed · · Score: 1

    Here in what Europe believes is the backward republic of the USA, I can go to any major home store and get a dimmable LED. They do cost $30-40 for an R30 flood that would normally be $2-3, though.

  10. Re:Looking forward to replacing a bulb... never on Cause of LED Efficiency Droop Finally Revealed · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you're the kind of guy whose only tool is a hammer.

  11. Re:Looking forward to replacing a bulb... never on Cause of LED Efficiency Droop Finally Revealed · · Score: 1

    If you're trying to karma-whore with the ignorant European mods, don't forget to login first.

  12. Re:multiply on Cause of LED Efficiency Droop Finally Revealed · · Score: 1

    Because then the Libyans might shoot you first?

  13. Re:multiply on Cause of LED Efficiency Droop Finally Revealed · · Score: 1

    I know we like a good joke, but first you must be relevant before you can be funny. There's no "imperial" measure involved here, so grandpa Simpson can't tell us how his power plant gets 40 gigarods to the hogshead.

  14. Re:So, it's like augmented reality? on Play Tetris To Fix Your Lazy Eye · · Score: 1

    My father has suffered from double vision since having a brain tumor removed. Being in his 60s, I doubt he'd be a good candidate for the "painful surgery" you're talking about, but I'm hoping your experience with the magic eye pictures and prism will help.

  15. Re:I want to know how it handles returns on Teachable Robot Helps Assemble IKEA Furniture · · Score: 1

    If it's anything like my reaction in that situation, we definitely don't want to be around. Because they're made of metal, and robots are strong.

  16. Re:Correct the spaces and punctuation... on Teachable Robot Helps Assemble IKEA Furniture · · Score: 3, Funny

    And they all flunked because the instructions were to add spaces, not to take any away. They all went to summer school with AC, who eventually dropped out, went on "disability" and started writing articles for Huffington Post.

  17. Re:Why septic is better on Viruses From Sewage Contaminate Deep Well Water · · Score: 1

    I hope you're being sarcastic. I have never lived in a mobile home, yet three homes I've lived in have had a septic system. The square footage varied from about 1,500 to near 3,000. I'll just ignore your idiotic, meaningless "fat American" insults.

  18. Re:This is what happens ... on Viruses From Sewage Contaminate Deep Well Water · · Score: 1

    My neighbors down the road, when I lived in another state 20 years ago, had gas in their water. I don't have any relationship with any natural gas drillers, and there was no drilling in the area. So there's one.

  19. Re:Hiring assholes is never worth it. on Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners · · Score: 1

    But what about the dicks and pussies?

  20. Re:First for banning HFT on Tweet From Hacked AP Account Causes High Freq. Traders To Drop DOW 150 Points · · Score: 2

    I'm sure that will be really convenient for people in retirement... or people who hit on hard times... or people who have stock in companies that are suddenly shown to have acted immorally.

  21. Re:I'm gonna say... on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    That is true, but XP Mode is inherently better because it drivers are virtualized-- including the network stack where vulnerabilities are likely to happen. And it has to work through 7 or 8's firewall, which is far superior.

  22. Re:Helps but not a complete solution. on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    You can just block everything with 7's firewall and only allow outgoing connections by application, instead of port. Don't allow anything except the vertical app to access the network.

  23. Re:Helps but not a complete solution. on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I can't rule out that somewhere out there, someone has a vertical app that allows unsolicited incoming connections-- but that's a problem with the app whether it's running on XP or 7 or 8. Block ALL ports in both directions, and open the ones you need. Run an IDS, just to be sure. That's still less than $10K, and the IDS will protect your entire network.

  24. Re:An Extra Bit of Register on 64-bit x86 Computing Reaches 10th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    They added hyperthreading, integrated memory controllers, and larger caches. And the architecture doesn't need to be "fixed" any more than x86-64 needs to be fixed, because compilers are software! The software is coded to support newer processors. If anything, IA64 is more versatile, since the compiler does more and the CPU has to do less.

  25. Re:Let us give thanks.... on 64-bit x86 Computing Reaches 10th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    As a fan of OpenVMS, I'm happy to say Itanium isn't dead yet. But every day without an announcement that it's being migrated to x86-64 makes me more nervous.