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  1. Re:EPA rules? on You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't drive a VW. I drive a THUMPING V8 that takes about 30 hours of work every time I have to smog it.

    Keep that sweet butthurt flowing, makes me want to buy a pre-smog diesel truck so I can roll coal on you.

  2. Re:Kickstarter for source code and tools for my ca on You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    4 program switch out boards were common back in the day when you had to physically change out chips (for Ford Mustangs anyhow).

    These days you just reflash the bad code before the smog check, then fix it again after passing.

    Not all tunes will necessarily make the car fail smog.

  3. Re:EPA rules? on You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    You're not disagreeing.

  4. Re:This is a good thing. on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless the person being forced to undergo a procedure is a fetus. Then it's just dandy.

  5. Re:This is a good thing. on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Selecting the recordings that best present their propaganda might technically be 'not editorialized' but it's still yellow journalism.

    Would you trust Trump's people to present Hillary's argument? Then why are you doing the same thing?

  6. Re:Like fear of the brown people... on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Americans: There is a Boston in England. The description would have fit the American Boston, so posting for clarity.

  7. Re:Kickstarter for source code and tools for my ca on You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Google 'Subaru ECU tuning'. Not everything you want, but mostly.

    The laws against this, haven't been stopping anyone. Thank dog for racers.

  8. Re:EPA rules? on You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    You realize the old code passes smog checks?

    I don't believe OBD2 even has a check version# function. Even if it does that will be easily hacked up to version FFFF.

    The truth is: I wouldn't drive a water cooled VW if you paid me. I might make a side business of making diesel VWs run better again, than sell them. The problem would be how do you tell prospective customers you've unfucked the ECU without drawing heat.

    There just isn't enough money in it for me, could just Creative commons a project (torrenting the ECU image to avoid legal problems) so people can fix their own. I bet the butthurt in the comments on sourceforge for that project would be epic.

  9. Industrialized nations with lower corporate taxes generally have higher capital gains.

    Nations compete for capital based on after tax return on investment (ROI), that being: (NominalROI * (1 - CapGainsRate) * (1 - CorporateTaxRate)). If that number is not competitive the nation will get no investment.

    Of course ROI is noisy in time and not uniform across investments, but generally higher ROI corresponds to higher risk. 'Risk free' ROI is 0 or negative these days.

  10. I bet if I put the good code back into a diesel VW ECU someone will be butthurt.

  11. Re:What is an "African-American sounding name"? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 0

    The real question: Why aren't any of the crazy trailer trash names being used in studies like this?

    The answer: The people doing the study are looking for a particular result.

  12. Because capital controls have such a long history of success and lead to economic prosperity?

    Nations implement capital controls when they have already fucked up their economy and they can't stand people 'voting their money' with their feet. Not generally useful, capital has a million ways of sneaking across borders.

  13. Re:I forget, why is this relevant? on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Young, enthusiastic and low paid implies either outright stupid or fully in the tank for Hillary (outright stupid).

  14. Re: Why aren't Julian Assange's e-mails public? on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    They only became 'date rapes' when they found out about each other.

  15. Re:and yet... on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    One of your own examples is liberals. Hillary has been caught read handed sending plants into Trump rallies to do violence on camera.

  16. Re: There were some engineering failures in those. on Where Does Jeff Bezos Foresee Putting Space Colonists? Inside O'Neill Cylinders (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    The center also has angular momentum (assuming light from the ends) or there is no center (assuming light through windows in the floor).

    How much layering do you really expect if the mean free path of a molecule of air is on the order of the height of the space?

  17. Re: The evidence is wrong... on NASA Scientists Suggest We've Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I will add that the grave of FDR will, no doubt, be used as a public toilet when his debt bubble finally goes pop. It falls on all presidents and congress people sense that bastard was in charge. None of them even tried to stop the train headed for the cliff.

  18. Re: The evidence is wrong... on NASA Scientists Suggest We've Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There was never a federal surplus. You are repeating a big fat lie.

    Go check the national debt graph. It never went down.

    There was one year with a projected surplus (if you include the SS trust fund accounting tricks), it went pop with the .com bubble.

  19. Re:African-American sounding names? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 0

    You've never met someone with a legal name of 'Billy-Bob'? They exist, you just don't run into them much in professional environments. Can't get taken seriously with a trailer trash name.

  20. Re:African-American sounding names? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    If you worked with a LaTrina and told her what her name meant you would surely be fired and unemployable.

  21. Re:It's just a coincidence on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Violent crimes are not like drug sales.

    If anything black violent crime is _undercounted_ because the victims don't report. We all know most crime is within a race.

  22. Re:Worth being pedantic on this one on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't choose the culture they are born to either. But at some point they are all grown up and are responsible for their own life. Which isn't to say changing yourself is easy, most should hope to change themselves a little and make the big change in the next generation.

    As a group 'people of color' are wallowing in their fucked up culture. Most are ignorant and proud.

    Which isn't to say that trailer trash culture is much better. Those people are the most fucked in America. Trailer park culture has almost as bad as inner city culture, but they don't get any benes (contract set asides, scholarships, quotas etc) and have no advocates.

  23. Re:African-American-sounding names on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe true, maybe an excuse. All you are doing is examining why they are acting like dumbasses, not disputing their dumbassness.

  24. Republicans don't get to make public policy regarding abortions. Have you been paying attention?

  25. Re:Worth being pedantic on this one on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 0

    One is OK the other is not.

    It is wrong to discriminate based on things people have no control over, like their skin color.

    It is fine to intelligently discriminate based on things people do/believe, like their culture.