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  1. Re:Possible redundancy... on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    People would tend to do not care about speed limit on cars, because, except in Germany and Ireland, there is no country where you can go up to these 90 Mph legally.

    And in the United Arab Emirates, better known as Dubai. One highway there has a top speed limit of 160kmph, which is 100mph. And many highways have a minimum speed limit of 60kmph.

  2. Re:Untrue on Casino Insider Tells (Almost) All About Security · · Score: 1

    ... especially when you have 4 hungry children and a crop in the field.
    Oh, is that what the line is? I always heard it as "...four hundred children a-crappin' in the field" It never made sense to me, but then, country music seldom does.
  3. Re:agreed on Taliban Demands Downtime on Afghanistan Cellphone Networks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Women don't drive in Traditional Islamic Countries; a few dared to in Saudi Arabia after the shooting started but not after the shooting stopped.

    They certainly do, in the UAE, in Oman, in Kuwait, in Syria, in Iran, in Iraq (even before you guys invaded it).

    In fact the only country where they are not allowed to drive is in Saudi Arabia.

    And what do you mean by "in Saudi Arabia before the shooting stopped.." I am aware of no such incident, and I live here.

  4. Re:Social API, pthtptpptpththt! on Google's Plans for a Social API · · Score: 1

    Next time you should offer to plug into HER public API.

    The convention is that an offer to plug into her public API should be acompanied by an offer of payment. If she's not that kind of girl, you should avoid insulting her and instead offer to plug into her private API.

  5. Re:well... on Why is Microsoft Patching XP? · · Score: 1

    definitely not the de jure employee
    "De jure"? Do you really mean "by law"?

    Excreta taurii cerebra vicit.
  6. Re:On the Compulsory License on RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio · · Score: 1

    Right, but SoundExchange forbid their members from negotiating separate licenses,

    SoundExchange only forbids you being a member of another collective, not from negotiating separate licenses. This is logical, because if you, as an artist, belonged to two different collectives, both could claim fees on the same instance of your songs being played, and it'd be a nightmare for the radio station and the collectives to sort it out.

    This story is all FUD.

    Ram
  7. Re:No more ISO 80? on Open Source Image De-Noising · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was thinking about this recently, and I think what we need is a digital camera which can somehow take multiple short exposure shots one after the other and then combine them into a single photo. This guy http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dy namic-range.htm tells you how to do what you want, with Photoshop.

    Oye
  8. Re:Clearly, evolution as a system has failed... on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 1

    It is implied, and obvious to everyone except for pedantics like yourself,

    Pedants like myself, please. Being pedantic is what we do.

    O
  9. Re:Priorities on India Brings Back Orbiting Satellite to Earth · · Score: 1

    Every once in a while, someone posts a comment on slashdot that reminds me why I still read through most comments everyday.

    Very well written indeed. Thank you.

  10. Re:Wooden houses? on Arson Science Rewritten · · Score: 1

    Besides, what is going to hold up your concrete second floor? Or is it that all houses in your country have no cellars or second floors? The cost of constructing a house made entirely of mortar, brick, and stone is immense. Thus, wooden houses.

    This must be a regional thing. It's exactly the opposite in India, for example. Wooden houses (or at least wood paneled and floored houses) are for the rich, and the middle class live in concrete boxes. And yes, second, third and whatever floors are reinforced concrete, cast in situ. It takes a long while to build, especially in wet places, because the form has to be made, the concrete poured and cured. What holds it up are the rcc pillars and beams.

    Sometimes the walls are also poured concrete, though nowadays they tend to be hollow concrete blocks. Makes it hell to deploy wireless networking - you need routers in every room.

    RS

  11. Re:Maybe, but on Is Google Too Smart For Its Own Good? · · Score: 1

    Like a parson with a BS In Computer Science with a 4.0 GPA and a highly skilled programmer

    Wow! I must confess that I haven't met a programmer-priest geek yet!

    RS