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  1. Re:Escape is easy on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Most modern luxury cars dont have detachable headrests. They may move up and down but dont coma all the way out. In top end cars its not unusual that they are motor controlled.
    Many have seats that form the headrest, such as this:
    http://st.motortrend.com/uploa...

  2. One more reason to not buy a BMW on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Call me strange but I don't want a car where the manufacturer or anyone else can use it to locate you and/or lock your doors.

  3. Its irrelevant these days on Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    Its irrelevant these days, since commercial programming is no longer an art.
    Programming used to be an art. Art implies using innate skill to create something intrisically elegant/beautiful and mostly intended to be around for a while. Since this book was written, most institutions have done all they can to remove all creativity from programming, turn it into a braindead dumbed down repeatable process so companies can get away with hiring even the cheapest most clueless people to write software. Ive seen time and time again that there is no reward or recognition for writing elegant, stable code.
    All the rewards/recognition goes to those who bodge together a quick unstable hack not suitable to be maintained or to last longer than the 10 minutes required to convince the boss to check the "done" box. They move on after blowing their own trumpet and leaving a "TODO: rewrite this" comment for other more careful people to find and repair their damage. But the managers don't see that part.

  4. Re:Nightmare scenario on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or here in Phoenix, any rain at all, even slight.

  5. Re:There is only fake news on The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News (bangordailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not saying you're wrong, just wondering which big corp has the BBC in its pocket.

  6. Re:There is only fake news on The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News (bangordailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I totally agree. Since its inception the BBC have been fastidiously impartial in their reporting, however times have changed and I was disgusted to see how BBC America were so blatantly pro-Hillary, and also how they now allow/encourage their news presenters to make personal off-hand observations on stories thay are reporting. Consequently we now get Katty Kay et al. using BBC America as their personal media channel to push their radical feminist and political views.

  7. Re:That's like trusting theives with your gold on The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News (bangordailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The initiative grows out of a bill authored in March by Portman and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.,

  8. Hollywood context on Alien Life Could Thrive In the Clouds of Failed Stars (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    >> Alien Life Could Thrive In the Clouds of Failed Stars

    Yeah I think they're called Scientologists.

  9. They totally missed a great oportunity. on Four New Elements Finally Get Their Official Names, Added To Periodic Table (universityherald.com) · · Score: 1

    ununoctium should have been called octarine.

  10. I dont get it on Facebook Knows What You're Streaming (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How are Facebook even able to see what other devices on your LAN are doing? Have they made some deal with ISPs or something? Does this shock headline silently presume everyone necessarily controls their Roku or AppleTv through a cellphone with a facebook app running on it?

  11. Re:Still a need for what he was origally doing on Cyanogen Inc and CyanogenMod Creator Steve Kondik Part Ways (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank goodness that Captain Pedantic and his faithful sidekick, Anal Boy are here to save us all from the dangers of possible misunderstandings.

  12. Re:Still a need for what he was origally doing on Cyanogen Inc and CyanogenMod Creator Steve Kondik Part Ways (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    As a sidenote: If the only way you can think of for posting something is "Anonymous Coward", then I probably don't want to read it anyway...

  13. Re:CyanogenMod is the only hope for some devices.. on Cyanogen Inc and CyanogenMod Creator Steve Kondik Part Ways (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    No of course not. They want to embrace, extend, extinguish as usual.
    Apparently Microsoft's share holders are still pushing for Microsoft to do their own mobile.

    https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

  14. Re:Still a need for what he was origally doing on Cyanogen Inc and CyanogenMod Creator Steve Kondik Part Ways (ndtv.com) · · Score: 2

    ...and where did I say he needs to do it for free?

  15. Re:Still a need for what he was origally doing on Cyanogen Inc and CyanogenMod Creator Steve Kondik Part Ways (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu is free to download/use yet Canonical's revenue is somewhere near $30 million/yr.

    >> How do you feel justified in even suggesting it?
    Beacuse this is a forum for sharing ideas, and last time I checked free speech is a thing?

  16. Re:CyanogenMod is the only hope for some devices.. on Cyanogen Inc and CyanogenMod Creator Steve Kondik Part Ways (ndtv.com) · · Score: 2

    He needs to re-start the project under his guidance only and keep it independent. No big corporate interests involved.
    Obviously he cant call the new project Cyanogenmod anymore, partly because it isn't, and also because Microsoft or some other corporate entity owns that name now.

  17. Still a need for what he was origally doing on Cyanogen Inc and CyanogenMod Creator Steve Kondik Part Ways (ndtv.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I knew Cyanogenmod was doomed as soon as Microsoft bought it.

    Steve Kondik needs to go back to his roots and just do better android ports for common devices again. There's still a big need for it.

  18. Re:Anarchic children's show Tiswas... on British Film Institute To Digitize 100,000 Old TV Shows Before They Disappear (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They were indeed good times.

  19. Re:I know this seems bad but it really isn't. on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Me and my whole family killed because someone saw my browser history? Overdramatic much?
    And FUCK YOU for wishing that on anyone.

  20. Anarchic children's show Tiswas... on British Film Institute To Digitize 100,000 Old TV Shows Before They Disappear (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The whole point behind Tiswas was that it actually wasn't a kids show.

  21. msmash = spammer on FBI To Gain Expanded Hacking Powers as Senate Effort To Block Fails (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Can someone please stop msmash submitting all this radical left wing fact-lite anti-Trump propaganda FUD.

  22. What is this paranoid blatant anti-trump bullshit? on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    What is this leftie blatant fearmongering bullshit? This mechanism is for emrgency alerts and was actually put in place by Obama, so yes any President can use it, including both Obama and Trump. Trump won, get over it and move on

  23. Re:Maybe Amazon had a point on Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After Email Note (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Appologies for generalising. I should have said many Americans, rather than imply all Americans.

  24. Re:Maybe Amazon had a point on Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After Email Note (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Then work for yourself or do something to get some education.
    Sorry but as an Immigrant to the US myself, I can tell you it really is the land of opportunity and if you can't do better than a job like that then you really do only have yourself to blame.
    The problem with Americans is they have all been trained to expect everything to be handed to them on a plate.

  25. Re:What they're not telling you on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't go with an Eaton SC, they're Rootes-type. You should go with a twin-screw SC (Whipple or my favourite, Kenne-Bell). The advantage is that it compresses the air inside the screw because the rotos have a conical taper. What that means is that its far more efficient and heats the intake air less, all which directly translates into more power.