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  1. Re:Can still open the car on Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars · · Score: 1

    There is one on the driver-side door only on my 2007 G35x, which is the 2nd gen sedan... Note that there are aftermarket kits to cover it at least for the coupes - did you buy new or used? Pull the handle and look on the inside/tug on the right side (which may be cover)? Which year and model is yours? (I'm genuinely curious, as I've seen many of these cars at meets and haven't seen one without a keyhole that wasn't removed or covered-up on purpose)

  2. Re:Can still open the car on Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars · · Score: 1

    Look at the driver side door handle -- I guarantee that there is a lock there you can place that key into ;)

  3. Re:Only high-end cars? on Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars · · Score: 1

    The upshot is that Nissan will re-design the key so it's not affected by cell-phones, new cars will ship with the redesigned key and owners of existing cars will have to pay a small fortune to replace the keys because it's not a safety recall issue.

    I have an affected model ('07 G35x) and have been contacted by Infiniti with the statement that they will replace my current keys with new replacements free of charge when the new version is available. I cannot speak for Nissan owners...

  4. Re:Yes, but ... on Performance Evaluation of Xen Vs. OpenVZ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps you can harness all of those multiple instances in a beowolf cluster.... Hmmmm!

  5. Re:Linux patches? on Microsoft Patches 19 Flaws, 6 in Vista · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I didn't read anything accusatory or noted a demeaning tone in the summary. I think many here bring their own bias ready to start an argument (either for or against). To me, the summary is just stating that patches are now available, they are labelled "critical", and the users of this site may be interested as many of them own, use or deal with Microsoft operating systems on a daily basis.

    What conclusion is the summary supposedly spoon-feeding me?

  6. Re:Chuck Norris better watch out.... on Steve Jobs Personally Resolves Customer Complaint · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris uses memes.

  7. Re:So... on 'Kryptonite' Discovered in Serbian Mine · · Score: 3, Funny
    Oh yeah? Well, Vin Diesel could pronounce Kryptonite.

    I can imagine that Vin's repertoire of movies is indeed quite toxic to Superman, as well as the average viewer...

  8. Re:Keyboards on Amazon's Lawyers Jerking USPTO Around? · · Score: 1

    This whole thread of replies is patently absurd...

  9. Re:Score.. on Diebold Goes 0 For 3 In Massachusetts Case · · Score: 1

    Somebody should turn a page. Hey, it worked against Clinton.
    Former Florida Representative Tom Foley tried that -- didn't work out so well...
  10. Re:In unrelated news... on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 1

    Since win did teh prevue buton haf a spelcheck funkshun?

  11. Re:Maybe I am stupid but . . . on Data Centers Breathe Easier With Less Oxygen · · Score: 1

    I imagine that the oxygen-deprived environment at 6,000ft would be just like the oxygen-deprived environment at sea level if you're inside...

  12. Re:Yeah, but it's ok on Homeland Security Tests Snoop Computer System · · Score: 2, Funny

    We should be glad that it will only be the crack-trained Stormtroopers Of Liberty breaking down the wrong door now instead of an tank and platoon of nervous teens with M16s?

  13. Re:Success/Failure/______/etc./ (Profit?) on All Microsoft Updates Phone Home · · Score: 1

    Are you polite to telemarketers that call while you're in the middle of your TV dinner?

    I've paid for the merchandise in front of an authorized agent of the business who had ample opportunity to question me about any bulges in my clothing (!?) as I walk up to them. Are they not trusting me the 15 feet from the counter to the door? I mean really -- WTF?

    This does save the business money in terms of shoplifting -- instead of paying for surveillence and guards to secretly watch you as you descreetly pick your ass in a lone aisle, you're just checked once out the exit.

    Oh wait.. they do that as well, so they are indeed putting their paying customers under lock down...

  14. Mod parent up on All Microsoft Updates Phone Home · · Score: 1

    I've got legit installs as well and could care less about the privacy issue (although I realize the two ideas are not necessarily combined). I strongly feel WGA is punishment for the real users as it has caused real problems on my machines at times (including two reinstalls) and the real pirates will be able to side step this most of the time, probably in a way that causes them less grief than us...

    Good call, AC

  15. Re:All I have to say is... on Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars · · Score: 1

    FYI, it's always noon.
    At the north or south pole?
  16. Re:If you're going to blow the whistle on Randal Schwartz's Charges Expunged · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's with the British insistence of misspelling common English words?

  17. Re:Legally Never Happened on Randal Schwartz's Charges Expunged · · Score: 1

    If anyone knows how to fix it (and turn it into a one-liner in the process) Randal Schwartz does. ;-)

    ...using map, no doubt. Congrats on a significant victory, Randall!

  18. Re:Interesting how much was conributed by paid dev on Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20 · · Score: 1

    Providing an opinion in such a way as to be generally disrespectful to one's readership base without providing argument or evidence, on the other hand, is indeed indicative of a level of general incivility which, at large, can reasonably be attributed to deficiencies within the valueset largely provided in childhood.

    Some people become assholes no matter how their parents tried to raise them.

    There are plenty of people in the world; raising more should only be done if one has a substantial certainty as to one's ability to do a substantially better-than-average job.

    Not that I'm comparing "super parenting" with "super breeding" (and any unintended colloquial baggage), but if this was indeed mandated and abided by the public at large I fear we would wind up with a generation in which no one would be willing to mop the floors. Say what you will about your own moral superiority, but if everyone was of the same mindset, I think you would find that the world would slowly but surely become boring (and quite filthy) to live in.

    I do, however, salute you and your wife for your ambitions of trying to improve another's situation in the early stages of life experience - quite noble, indeed!

    Getting back towards the topic -- a substantial component of my job is doing open source work; in previous employment, it's been 100%. I know a nontrivial number of paid folks who do OSS work (far more than I know in person who work purely uncompensated... actually, I can't think of any of those IRL who could be classified as serious), and have long been surprised with the widespread perception that it's primarily an amateur activity. From my perspective, then, these findings are in no way a surprise.

    Your aforementioned widespread perception is very much realized in the upper management level. A study such as does provide useful ammunition to fight uninformed opinion, but doesn't expose the crux of the issue, coming across more like a "Who's who" list that won't amount to anything other than impressing the parents of the process.

    I would like to see more analysis of the reasoning for the "paid" contributions from the mindset of the underwriters themselves. No doubt it would be fascinating and might prod a thought or two in the gray matter of those disparaging CTO and CIOs.

  19. Re:Interesting how much was conributed by paid dev on Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Often it's not easy to relay this distinction to management, as they're mostly interested with the bottom line of how much would it cost to implement x solution compared to the cost of implementing y solution. They mostly don't have time or don't care about the politics underlying either deployment unless they have received a directive that "our shop uses y solution. period."

    Do you have a copy of your parents' breeding license prominently displayed or do you merely inject oppressive language about others into random statements? I fail to understand how your single disagreement with a view of another person lessens their worth as a human being.

  20. Re:oblig ... on Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008 · · Score: 1

    So, trap?
    Trap.

    We going in?
    Only but a few hours out...

    Yeah, but remember the part where it's a trap?

  21. Re:Be carefull Slashdot... on Crashing an In-Flight Entertainment System · · Score: 1

    Like you just did? Ooops! :)

  22. Re:Oh, NO! on New Microsoft Dirty Tricks Revealed · · Score: 3, Funny
  23. Re:This is true. on GameStop Cracks Down on Underage Game Sales · · Score: 1

    While I was in my local gamestop two days ago getting another wireless controller for my 360, there was this just-starting-to-grey man who looked to be in his late 40's early 50's...you know, showing signs of wrinkles, etc. He was picking up a copy of rainbow six vegas, and the guy behind the counter STILL carded him.
    Hey! I'm only in my mid-30's you insensitive clod!
  24. Re:We should look back to the Copyright Act of 197 on XM+MP3 Going to Trial · · Score: 1

    I guess it doesn't matter that MP3 does not provide a perfect digital copy of the master recording and/or the commercially available CDs/DVDA/SACD? In fact, the MP3s obtained from satellite radio are generally inferior to anything circulating over the internet via bittorrent/kazaa/what-have-you.

    I would submit that while technicalities over being copyright infringement or not can be debated, it should not cause nearly the stir that DAT did, as it results in a much inferior product that does not stand up in quality to the original sources. I could compare it to someone making a VHS tape copy of a DVD then being able to make perfect copies of that VHS tape...

  25. Duct Tape on The Dark Side of HDCP - Why is My PS3 Blinking? · · Score: 1
    HDCP is entirely like Duct Tape!

    You know, as in Duct Tape also has two sides: light and dark, and it binds the universe together!

    errm.. well, HDCP doesn't seem capable of tying two devices together reliably let alone the universe... but

    Duct Tape also has two sides: light and dark!

    errm.. well, I guess DHCP doesn't really have a light side as mentioned above... so

    Duct Tape also has a dark side!

    errm.. ok, HDCP can't really have just one "side"... it's a rather all-inclusive "darkness"... so therefore

    HDCP is entirely unlike Duct Tape!