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  1. Re:Safety Critical on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 1

    The ebrake won't stop a vehicle or even slow it down particually well. It just a mechinical rear brake, which dosent do much braking anyway.

    I had stop my truck (f250) with the ebrake when I broke a brake line once. It skid and skid with the trans in neutral and finally stopped. A running motor could have overpowered it without much effort.

  2. Re:Spin on Consumerist Says AT&T Site Won't Sell iPhone In NYC, Citing Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's global smartphone market share. Show a graph with global market share of ALL wireless handsets, not just smartphones.

  3. Re:Why did he not succeed ? on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you have had enough interaction with the intelligence community or Al-Qaeda to know what exist and what doesn't.

    What's that? You're talking out of your ass?

  4. Re:Why did he not succeed ? on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    You don't exist. You're created by Al-Qaeda to create disbelief of the CIA in the general populace.

    It's just as possible and just as ignorant.

  5. Re:How do people pay eachother? on UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 · · Score: 1

    That will work great for those without smartphones which is basically everyone I know.

  6. Re:I'm immune! on Sprint Revealed Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times · · Score: 1

    Do you have to have three towers within range to get a triangulation? When I'm home, I'm within range of one tower. When it goes out (it has twice), I have no cell reception.

    There are plenty of places in the U.S. without more than one tower in range.

  7. Re:A load of BS on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    I spend my days in a lab. I can draw chemical structures and rxn's much, much faster by hand then I can enter them on a computer.

    It's all in what you do.

  8. Re:its fair turn around on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    It's a not a shut-up and take it attitude. It's a if you the same asshat strategy, your an asshat as well.

    Confronting and standing up for yourself is not the same thing as pointing the finger back and saying, "well you did this!" As I said before, grow up.

  9. Re:its fair turn around on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    Not the same thing. If someone makes up shit about you, you don't make shit up about them. You confront them, find out what the problem is, and in your case, hit them if necessary. I'm not talking about turning the other cheek. This is equivalent to kindergarten where some kid tell you that you look funny and in retaliation you tell them they smell, even if they don't. You tell them to shut the hell up.

    This Glenn Beck stuff is childish shit. Political mud-slinging is childish shit. Grow up.

  10. Re:its fair turn around on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Two wrongs don't make a right. Be the better person and refrain from it.

    Using the same tactics makes you an asshat just like the other guy.

  11. Re:road trains are stupid. on "Road Trains" Ready To Roll · · Score: 1

    In highschool a deer jumped over the hood of my GF's car while she was going down the road at 35mph. It didn't quite clear the car and went through the windshield. There was cars in front of her and cars in back.

    Yes they do.

  12. Re:road trains are stupid. on "Road Trains" Ready To Roll · · Score: 1

    You assume they would paying attention. From the article:

    "Those in following vehicles could take their hands off the wheel, read a book or watch TV, while they travel along the motorway."

  13. Re:road trains are stupid. on "Road Trains" Ready To Roll · · Score: 1

    I've seen at least half-a-dozen deer on the roads in the last couple of weeks. How is this going to work when one decides to run right through the middle of the train?

    No chance in hell I would be a part of this.

  14. Re:It's called Android.Put #s into gmail contacts on Home Phone System That Syncs To Computer? · · Score: 1

    iPhone does the same thing with Google contacts. I can enter them in gmail and they show up on my phone, or enter them on my phone and they show up in gmail.

  15. Re:US vs UK... on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    The metal the screw threads into is typically linked to the neutral side of the wall-socket, as well as the gang-box it's installed in.

  16. Re:Depends on your criteria on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    My great-grandmother used to tell when she was small they had porcelain light-sockets installed on the walls as power outlets. This was a professional installation by the power company/electricians. You would use those screw-socket to 2 prong adapters to get a regular outlet.

    This would be about 1915 in Kansas.

  17. Re:US vs UK... on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They sell 2-prong to 3-prong adapters because you typically attach the ground to the cover screw via a small prong or wire. Since ground and neutral are tied together in the breaker box, you have the same safety of the a 3-wire system in a 2-wire system, minus the redundancy of an extra ground.

    The problem is people don't hook up ground adapter.

  18. Re:small on What Happened To the Bay Bridge? · · Score: 1

    Or heaven forbid, paying down the national debt.

  19. Re:But why? on Wait For Windows 7 SP1, Support Firm Warns Users · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While Windows 7 is stable, how you can say it's more stable than XP?

    I haven't seen XP crash in years.

  20. Not a chance on Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I go hiking/camping nearly every-other weekend during the summer and even some in winter. Cell signals are poor to non-existent (when they do exist, it's never 3g) and I might have not have access to a power source for a couple days up to a week.

    Good luck with finding a cell-phone that can fit that bill.

  21. Re:Maybe people should be more well-rounded on John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture · · Score: 1

    No, I work in chemistry and pharmacy, and have hired in both. Same ideas apply.

  22. Re:Maybe people should be more well-rounded on John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture · · Score: 1

    Specialization means no ability to think outside the box. Knowledge is overlapping.

    I don't work in IT, but if I had to hire someone that has knowledge of IT and art, or just IT. I would pick the IT and art person. They are most likely more creative and can come up with better solutions.

  23. Re:i'm confused on Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it wasn't instantaneous, or nearly, how can we even use this data? They could have been released minutes or more apart.

  24. Maybe people should be more well-rounded on John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then you wouldn't be pegged with (and the associated stigmas) of a certain stereotype.

    I was heavy into science in high school, as well as sports and other extra-curricular activities. I never had a problem with any group of people.

  25. Re:Not government's job - call the wambalance on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    When I had to take an ambulance ride after a mountain biking accident, the bill was nearly nearly $3000, before insurance. I say that covers it.