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  1. Re:Would be useful in bike shares on Invention Makes Citibikes Electric · · Score: 1

    I'd far rather arrive ON a folding eBike than in one... your sentence implies the bike has folded up on them... ;)

  2. Re:My interest on Radar Expert Explains How To Cheaply Add Radar To Your Own Hardware Projects · · Score: 1

    Most cars round where I live don't bother cleaning their number plates... the chances of actually being picked up by a ploice road patrol that could be bothered to do the stop are pretty slim. And if they were picked up, they have a simple excuse which should not really be allowed to stand as by law, your vehicle is supposed to be roadworthy which includes having legible plates and you're supposed to check certain things daily.

  3. Re:Not plastic, titanium on 3-D Printed Pelvis Holding Up After 3 Years · · Score: 2
    good enough to make bicycle frames out of and be lighter than the equivalent tube solution?

    I consider bicycles to be a pretty demanding application stress wise...

  4. Re:hey guys... on Google's Definition of 'Open' · · Score: 1

    wow, must have run into a couple of Apple fanboys with mod points... :P

  5. hey guys... on Google's Definition of 'Open' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    try making an iOS device and taking on the Apple Empire...

  6. Re:No, he doesn't. on Judge Says You Can Warn Others About Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    there are sidelights... get to fuck... three levels of illumination.

  7. Re:Common sense? In MY judiciary? on Judge Says You Can Warn Others About Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    don't be stupid... tail lights do not go off when you turn your headlights off, they turn off when you turn your sidelights off. There are three positions to the lights switch: Off, Sidelights on, Headlights & Sidelights on. Your main beams are controlled by a second switch... I would suggest to you that you actually familiarise yourself with the controls in your car and their operation and get out and look at the back with the switch in different positions.

  8. Re:For Testing on Facebook Estimates Around 10% of Accounts Are Fake · · Score: 1

    you do realise those competitions where you have to like the page and share it are fake now don't you? No one ever really wins them. It's just a means of harvesting live FB accounts so they can then tag spam others.

  9. Re:What are the questions? on Half of US Nuclear Missile Wing Implicated In Cheating · · Score: 1

    not only that, these are guys who were prepared to kill their bunker mate if he failed to follow the order...

  10. Actually paid for this once... on Former Dev Gives Gloomy Outlook On Linux Support For the Opera Browser · · Score: 1

    to get rid of the adverts... then they went freeware on me... and then they offered server side "rendering" which meant they had records of every page I visited? FFS Opera... you were once relevant, then you blew it...

  11. Re:Pffft on Atlanta Gambled With Winter Storm and Lost · · Score: 1

    well recover the losses off the forecasters. It might prompt them to get their act together...

  12. Fretlight... on CES 2014: Stefan Lindsay Demonstrates the gTar (Video) · · Score: 1

    http://fretlight.com/

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    a real guitar with lights on the fretboard that you can play through an amp normally...

    not a stupid "case" for your iPhone...

  13. Patentable Subject Matter? on Should Self-Driving Cars Chauffeur Shopping 'Whales' For Free? · · Score: 1

    It's an algorithm FFS... just mathematics applied to variables to derive the customer's worthiness... Stupid American Patent Office... should be throwing this rubbish out...

  14. Feinstein? on Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    Jewish by any chance?

  15. Digitised? on Canadian Government Trucking Generations of Scientific Data To the Dump · · Score: 1
    yup, I've seen some digitizing fuckups in my day... whole reams of paper feed through a scanner the wrong way up so only blank reverse sides got scanned... whole reams of double sided copy fed through the scanner in single sided mode...

    and the mistakes weren't picked up when they could be easily corrected either... no double checking was being done of the scanner settings or the operator feeding it in before the button was pressed to start scanning.... It wasn't until the digitised copies were being proof read against the hardcopy after having been OCR'd that the mistakes were being found... :(

  16. fundamental rights for veterans... on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    certain fundamental rights are protected by the Constitution, put outside government's reach, including the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense under the Second Amendment,' wrote U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang.

    right, now get into stopping them from classing returning comabt veterans as having psych issues and forcibly stripping their guns from them as a result of this medical classification.

  17. Re:Works for me on TorrentFreak Blocked By British ISP Sky's Porn Filter · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can claim that the liberals are crying "Censorship!" and "Oppression!" without warrent right now because they can indeed turn the filter off.

    more worrying for me is even if they claim the filter is off, how can you be sure it really is off and is not blocking stuff they don't want you to read like foreign news stories on scandals involving your politicians?

  18. Re:Hey Maria, on World's First Cycle Trip To the South Pole Achieved · · Score: 1

    It just seems insane to attempt such a high-energy feat in such a harsh climate with the limited gear apparent in the photographs.

    that's why I'm very interested in finding out what her dietary regime was for the trip... Low-carb, high-fat fuelling herself from proper pemmican? Not the crap dietary "balanced" formula pemmican that caused the Scott expedition to fail.

    From some quick googling, you only need one pound of proper pemmican per day (that's pemmican made the old fashioned way with just pounded dried meat mixed with rendered tallow)

  19. If these secrets are really that damaging than Snowden should be given full immunity for past acts and the right to testify to congress behind closed doors.

    there would be an "accident" happen to him before he ever got behind those closed doors...

  20. Re:Because SQL is basically dead on Why Don't Open Source Databases Use GPUs? · · Score: 1

    16 gigs of fast RAM as well would be a good boost... but with really big databases, you go parallel... with multiple machines running against small subsets of the data at the same time...

    I'm surprised we haven't seen FPGAs being deployed instead of GPUs...

  21. Browser editing? on Owncloud 6 Brings Collaborative Open Document Format Editing to the Web · · Score: 1

    How well does this work on touchscreens like mobile phones and tablets?

  22. The laws need changing/revoking... on NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking · · Score: 4, Informative

    the problem HERE lies with the National Security Act which allows them to get this data from Google without having to jump through the hoops of having to provide due cause and a proper warrant. National Security Letters should be outlawed...

  23. Re:"effective technological measure" on German Court: Open Source Project Liable For 3rd Party DRM-Busting Coding · · Score: 2

    by their definition, ROT13 is an "effective" DRM scheme...

  24. It's the principle... on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    you have to clamp down on this or else people with these cars would be charging their vehicles for "free" wherever they can find an outlet... I would also include recharging electric bicyles here but not include recharging items such as the light sets for bicycles as they're a safety item.

  25. Re:They found similar structure on insects' wings on Black Silicon Slices and Dices Bacteria · · Score: 1

    1 volt differential across 250 nano metres is a very high gradient in volts per metre... 4,000,000 V/m