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  1. Re:Not that surprising. on New Jaguar XJ Suffers Blue Screen of Death · · Score: 3, Informative

    For instance, before GM had the Passkey system the Camaro was the most stolen car year after year. Once Passkey was introduced it completely dropped off the list.
    GM also stopped making the Camaro from 2002-2010, that will help reduce the number stolen.

  2. Re:Martini on The Vending Machines of the Future · · Score: 1

    Plenty of things break down to formaldehyde (methanal) as part of digestion. Oranges, tomatoes, grapefruit, and especially alcohol,...
    Actually, alcohol if you're referring to the common parlance of ethanol, breaks down to acetaldehyde not formaldehyde. Now, the tiny amount(ppb levels) of methanol in ciders and apple juice does metabolize in the body to formaldehyde if there isn't any ethanol for the liver to break down instead. Otherwise it will just be excreted rather than metabolized.

  3. Re: How does on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 0, Troll

    12% in Sweden against less than 10% of population in USA. So what about find another excuse?
    Bzzt! Wrong try 11.8%(in the US) and we shall see what the latest census figures show before we start quoting that less than 10% number. Oh, and is Sweden's immigrant population larger than the entire population of one of its neighbors? Huh? Didn't think so.

  4. Re:Pandemic? on Gene Mutation Caused 2009 H1N1 Virus Spread · · Score: 1

    Don't forget chicken pox and shingles. The current marketing on those is that they are serious killers.
    I understand from my 80 something year old great grandmother that shingles is painful, but not a killer(you just wish you were dead).

  5. Re:HP board a source of intrigue a few years ago? on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    (Bugging emails to phone home, using social engineering to illegally obtain reporters and their families phone records, and other crazy stuff like that)
    The slimy lawyer term used was pretexting, everybody else knows it as identity theft and fraud.

  6. Re:Lets skip to the heart of the matter on The Shoddy State of Automotive Wireless Security · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't care if you think you can pump the brakes well. ABS can pump them a lot faster, and it can do something you can't ever do without drastically changing the controls design: it can pump the brakes individually by wheel.
    Not sure why parent is a troll, since he is correct modern ABS can brake each wheel individually allowing for maximum control under braking. So unless you're driving the McLaren MP4/12, ABS can do a better job braking each wheel then you can.

  7. Re:Oh noes! on Flash Ported To iOS and iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised you haven't heard of flash player 10.1? Its been out for over a month and works fine on my android phone...
    Except for those ass-clowns running Hulu. wow, so I should sign up for your lame premium service b/c my flash device can also make phone calls?

  8. Re:Haha on Buried By The Brigade At Digg · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am becoming increasingly jaded at the USian right wing...
    Congrats, I am becoming increasingly jaded at /. retards who think they're being clever when avoiding using the phrase American to describe people from the United States of America. Oh and big suprise a left leaning site, sorry a progressive/liberal activist news service finds that the evil conseravtives are silencing their voice.

  9. Re:War Crimes on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If there is justice in this world, everyone who's touched the US's dirty wars - from Colin Powell to Barack Obama, will be imprisoned for life (or worse - I'm looking at you Herr Cheney!).
    Ha, such naivete, yeah, the big scary Hague will prevent some black ops team from snatching Julian, waterboarding him to disclose his sources and then leaving his corpse at the sight of an auto-accident. That is assuming Julian isn't some patsy for a high level spook looking to embarass his coworkers b/c he got passed over for a job like William Felt.

  10. Re:No, you don't on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 1

    This girl must be in her teens now. Imagine that by some unlikely circumstance she was in your neighborhood. She had the blood of her parents splattered all over her from them being killed at a checkpoint by people who invaded her country, crouched, crying while surrounded alone in the dark by the soldiers who did it. Do you find it tiresome that she would be bothered by you blowing away folks in her country on your X-Box, because "Hey, I'm just having a little fun, and I need to unlock this last achievement"? I think any mature perspective of a person able to see outside their bedroom can see the issues involved here.
    Ok, I'l bite, here's another hypothetical scenario. The aforementioned young lady could be enjoying one of the Hussein Brothers' rape rooms instead of living with the memory of seeing her parents shot by invaders.

  11. Re:Completely disconnected from reality on Why NASA's New Video Game Misses the Point · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let the masses fap to what Hollywood feeds them. Get the human DRAMA out of space exploration so we can do _research_.
    Since you expect the masses to pay for your research, you best give them some motherfucking drama else you can research space on a shoe string budget.

  12. Re:After almost 20 years on Android Outsells iPhone In Last 6 Months · · Score: 1

    Pay no attention to the N900 crowd, they're pissed their flavor of linux isn't king. Maemo or Meemo is the only true linux on phones and they can't be told any differently. Hell, my G1 had a command line that was always running in the background, does that make it the more pure linux?

  13. Re:They collected $75,000... on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: 1

    HOA's also prevent your neighbor from putting in a auto shop or painting their houses with pink polka dots..
    Or place flag poles, or grow the wrong variety of grass(damn fescue!), and a whole bunch of other shit that post housing market crash don't do diddly squat compared to the massive deflation of housing prices. And hey, it really is important that everybody's curtains are the correct shade of beige right?

  14. Re:I guess... on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 1

    We used to. In the era of Andrew Jackson and co., you could just walk right on in. You could even attempt to kill him if you wish. Just make sure you get his cane first...
    Are you kidding? I read somewhere on the internet that Andrew Jackson invented gun kata, I don't think stealing his cane is going to help.

  15. Re:Opinions are a crime now? on Tor Developer Detained At US Border, Pressed On Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    Because Canadians, Cubans and Peruvians dont get the same problem.
    Well do any of those countries names have America in them? No? Well then American most probably refers to someone from the United States of America.

    Get over it.
    Quit being a churlish little bitch, and use the proper names for things.

  16. Re:Hybrid - Worst of both worlds. on World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production · · Score: 1

    plus you start running into real problems with air resistance (The Veyron Super Sport is 1200bhp but only 14mph faster than the 1000bhp model).

    I'm sorry this is /. and that reply wasn't pedantic enough. The real reason it is harder to go faster is that the drag force is proportional to the square of velocity.

  17. Re:no-harm no-foul my a** on Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It can be much worse when you are a pedestrian, bicyclist or motorcyclist without a steel cage to protect you.
    Funny thing the vehicle most likely to blast past stop signs without slowing are bicycles. I always stop rather than rolling, and get really pissed at bicyclists who seem to think they don't have to pay attention to traffic signs.

  18. Re:Blood on his hands on Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Flamebait? Since when is citing historical fact flamebait?

  19. Re:Blood on his hands on Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe I am over glamorizing the past, but in the days of WWI and WWII, I would say this guy is enemy #1.
    You're correct and Zombie FDR agrees with you, don't even bother with a messy trial skip straight to the execution.

  20. Re:My wife likes her HTC Magic on Android Users Aren't As Disloyal As Reported · · Score: 1

    A: "What iPhone do you have?" B: "Oh, I have the Apple one."
    Does it have the wifis, I would like the one with more GBs

  21. Re:What an Idiotic Blunder on Android Users Aren't As Disloyal As Reported · · Score: 1

    Idiotic? I would buy a true android phone with up to date specs. No way in hell am I buying an andoid phone with some garbage UI added on by the hardware company, or crapware pre-loaded. The only problem? It does not exist.
    Did they stop selling the Nexus One already?Wow, they did. Wait until they discover howto root the EVO.

  22. Re:Its unfortunate on Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police · · Score: 1

    Kindly explain the mechanism by which a dead assailant can continue an assault? (Zombies are an option I guess...)
    When he loses the court case for shooting an officer, and the state of Md injects a cocktail of paralytics, barbiturates, and potassium chloride into his veins.

  23. Re:Hmm on Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police · · Score: 1

    Why the hell do you think there's a law against speeding? For the fun of it? IT'S BECAUSE IT KILLS INNOCENT PEOPLE!

    Bzzzt! Wrong, b/c it makes the municipalities so god damn much money. Now, I believe doing 120 on public roads is nuts(particularly on a motorcycle where the stray pothole will make you an organ donor).But don't think speeding laws are just about public safety. If they were then given improvements in car and tire design speeds would be raised.

  24. Re:Al Franken on Al Franken's Warning On Net Neutrality · · Score: 0

    Given the margin of victory(~300 votes) and the fact that later evidence showed that ~1000 felons cast ballots in that election, don't blame the lawful voters of Minnesota. Of course it makes Franken's line of how Minnesota proved it wasn't Florida somewhat ironic.

  25. Re:ITS A TRAP! on Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs is going fishing for suckers. Just because the Feds say it's ok doesn't mean he won't STILL sue and WIN.
    Oh, you're more right than you know, I expect to see all sorts of TOS and phone contracts levy heavy penalities for jailbreaking phones, and possibly some lawsuits using "tort inducement" or some such similar legal phrase for providing info on how to jailbreak. Not to mention currently in the US the 3G freqs arent compatible and VZ and Sprint are using CDMA anyway.