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  1. Re:continuous vs instantaneous distraction? on Smartphones More Dangerous Than Alcohol, When Driving · · Score: 1

    it also doesn't factor in the increased risk taking of the drunk driver. Reaction times are only half the story; most people texting don't also see how fast they can take a turn in their Toyota Corolla at the same time..

  2. Re:Just a friendly reminder on Airport Queuing Time Measured With Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    Well they can also track you if you have a face. Which most of us do.

  3. Predicted... on Hacking a Car With Music · · Score: 1

    The x-files has come true... does anyone remember the episode where some cars got hacked/unlocked by a 'genius' with a special CD played in the stereo? I remember thinking man, these writers are stupid! ...

  4. Re:Karma Beating.. on Engineer Designs His Own Heart Valve Implant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, it's nice when you can really put your heart into something.

  5. Foursquare on Testing Mobile Phones For Controlling Space Missions · · Score: 2

    .. At least not too many people will be competing with you for mayor of the moon

  6. Carbon monoxide detector on Running Your Own Ghost Investigation? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:While the article is BS.... on Hackers Find New Way To Cheat On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. If distance between NY and London is 10: Scenario A: you are 1 from NY, 9 from London. You will have information about time X from NY in X+1 and London in X+9. Your long to NY will take 1 and your short to London will take 9. That's a total of 18 to get quote and fill in London. Scenario B: you are 5 from NY, 5 from London. Total to get quote and get filled in both markets is equal at 10. The longest path is your latency in a simple long/short arbitrage situation, so being equidistant to all of your liquidity centers is advantageous.

  8. Going rogue on 'Zombie' Satellite Returns To Life · · Score: 2

    An emergency patch was successfully uploaded, ensuring that the conditions which caused it to 'go rogue' will not occur again.

    Sounds exactly like the marketing-speak I use when people find bugs in my code... Sounds better than "we screwed up"

  9. clearly..... on NASA Parodies Reach New Level of Awkwardness · · Score: 1

    ... they need the new version of iMovie (http://www.maclife.com/article/news/imovie_%E2%80%9911_introduces_audio_filters_movie_trailers_mode)

  10. Why? on When You Really, Really Want to Upgrade a Tiny Notebook · · Score: 1

    Why would you need to reball the CPU to install a new one? Doesn't that just reinforce the existing connections?

  11. Windows Mobile 6.5... on AT&T Introduces Satellite-Enabled Smart Phone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doesn't matter if it's satellite enabled or not, you're probably not going to have the patience to make a call!

  12. Wait.... on NYT Password Security Discussion Overlooks Universal Logins · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, so I'll be able to use Facebook Connect to login to my bank accounts soon????? Count me in!!!!!!

  13. Re:I fail to see what is newsworthy on Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing organ donor with victim of organ harvesting

  14. Re:This should happen EVERY DAY, would be good on Stock Market Sell-Off Might Stem From Trader's Fat Finger · · Score: 0

    Sorry but it's the speculators who made the profits today... The algo traders were the only ones that could keep up with the volatility. not all of them made money, but some sure as hell did.. No one gives a crap about the day traders, they're not the ones moving the money.

  15. Re:Except... on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    since the repos are being banged harder than a barn door in a heavy wind.

    Wow, you actually managed to keep things classy...

  16. Who is qualified to do this? on Naming and Shaming Toxic Web Apps · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How is anyone qualified to actually rate a WebApp on its security most of the time??? Certainly not the average user, and I doubt even a security researcher unless they are given access by the developer. Until it's too late, you won't know that the developer set all the server passwords to 'LOL' or is selling your information to criminals....

  17. There's gotta be an easier way on Pigeon Protocol Finds a Practical Purpose · · Score: 0

    Only 4 Pictures of each raft? Satellite internet access has to be cheaper than custom pigeon backpacks...

  18. Rumored way back in 2006 for an '08 release... on Nvidia Rumored To Be Readying X86 Chip Release · · Score: 1, Interesting
  19. To Tech ARP... on Ray Tracing To Debut in DirectX 11 · · Score: 0

    Say it with me: 30 days has September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31, except February which has 28... (someone messed up their April Fools joke, judging by the "industry responses")

  20. Re:LINK? on Apple Sends Cease-and-Desist To the Hymn Project · · Score: 0

    There's not much of a point, it doesn't work in it's current implementation. The author acknowledges a bug in the endian assumptions of the file or something. I ported it to windows just to make sure, and it still has the problem. It is obviously 99% correct, but I think only the author is going to be able to find his bug in any reasonable amount of time, you would have to really understand what was going on in the code to find what the crypto bug is. yoblin

  21. Re:Oh really (Oh really?) on DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not true.. just convert to a non-lossy format like FLAC. You won't get quality better than the original AAC file, but you won't get any worse either...

  22. Re:Cheapest, best way is to build it on Current Recommendations For a Home File Server? · · Score: -1

    Take a look at ZFS and raid-z. Looks to me like a really good option for a cheaper server, you run either freeBSD or x86 Solaris and get better performance than software raid without the cost and troubles of hardware raid.

    when they implement dynamic array resizing into raid-z, hopefully soonish, then I'm jumping onto the bandwagon.

  23. So.. on Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack · · Score: 0, Funny

    Hey! What if terrorists were to discover TIME TRAVEL and went back to prevent us from getting our independence from England! I think I'll hold off on worrying about math-genius terrorists figuring out bugs in encryption hardware until there's some actual evidence of it, thank you.

  24. Actual Report on Custom Trojan Creation Tool Sold Online · · Score: -1

    How about linking to the original article with screenshots and more info?

    http://blogs.pandasoftware.com/blogs/pandalabs/arc hive/2007/07/18/PINCH_2C00_-THE-TROJAN-CREATOR.asp x

    come on digg! err...slashdot

  25. Re:What's a VC? on 20 Tech Ideas VCs Want to Fund · · Score: 1, Informative