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  1. Re:Obligatory on Ford Dumping Windows For QNX In New Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Yep, but I was considering standalone devices only. The computer/tablet/whatever did cost you, even if this isn't the primary use.

  2. Re:Obligatory on Ford Dumping Windows For QNX In New Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Ah, you mean the MIL.

    It serves it's purpose. Cars are so complicated these days there's no way you can pack the dashboard with warning indicators and still have room for the essentials. While we can have arbitrary displays now, that's a pretty new thing. The idea with the MIL is/was to tell you something was wrong and to plug in the OBDII for details.

    When you pay at least $18,000 for a car, spending less than $150 for an OBDII reader that can be used on any car is, well, something you should have no problems doing.

  3. Re:Change on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: 1

    Except both competitors here want the other to die in a fire, and wouldn't form any kind of a gentlemen's agreement to slow things down to make it more comfortable for themselves.

  4. Re:How does this benefit the delivery company? on Your Next Online Order Could Be Delivered To Your Car's Trunk · · Score: 1

    Yep, I sure would trust a LaserShip driver with my car. Sure.

  5. Re:How does this benefit the delivery company? on Your Next Online Order Could Be Delivered To Your Car's Trunk · · Score: 1

    Precisely because he has one he's been around long enough to not care.

  6. Re:How does this benefit the delivery company? on Your Next Online Order Could Be Delivered To Your Car's Trunk · · Score: 1

    But I'm not sure that civilian GPS is sensitive enough to tell the driver where your car is when it's in a parking lot with 500 other cars.

    It is. The GPS on my cellphone can distinguish one side of my car from the other, even.

  7. Re:And when it doesn't fit on Your Next Online Order Could Be Delivered To Your Car's Trunk · · Score: 1

    Is there a means to have UPS just leave it at the depot for you, without their attempting delivery first?

  8. Re:Not plastic, titanium on 3-D Printed Pelvis Holding Up After 3 Years · · Score: 1

    er, I should point out it was not cooled quickly, it was let to cool on it's own (the oven was on a timer to cycle it on it's own). Very distinct from heating it up and then plunging it into oil, which I believe is tempering?

  9. Re:Not plastic, titanium on 3-D Printed Pelvis Holding Up After 3 Years · · Score: 1

    I had thought quenching (I think is the term) was specifically intended to fix the crystallization. I've seen it done after forgework - before tempering, the metal is uniformly heated to a quite-high temperature and cooled a couple of times. This was explained in a way that made me think it was causing the crystallization to change in a way that made it less brittle. Incidentally you can demagnetize (or magnetize) things the same way, because things "loosen up" when heated like that, and as it cools they fixate.

  10. Re:Degausse on Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' · · Score: 2

    Yep, because threatening to spraypaint and/or lase someone in the face because they wear Glass isn't violent or out of proportion at all?

  11. Re:Not plastic, titanium on 3-D Printed Pelvis Holding Up After 3 Years · · Score: 1

    Far from an expert on the subject: is there any reason why something that was built with sintering can't be brought up to near-melting and cooled, to restructure the lattice?

  12. Re:Still abusive on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS · · Score: 1

    How long do you think it will take for these cheating applications to implement their own DNS client code?

    From the countermeasures perspective, you couldn't possibly ding someone for connecting to, say. 8.8.8.8:53.

  13. Darwin makes us better cyborgs on Are You a Competent Cyborg? · · Score: 1

    ... with the help of a few garbage trucks, that is.

    Selection pressure is most certainly against those who wander oblivious.

  14. Re:So on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History · · Score: 1

    So, you do know what a transparent proxy is, right? I'd like to cite my daily usage of ssh -D as an example of how you're missing half the picture.

  15. Re:DNS cache really doesn't say that much on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History · · Score: 1

    Doesn't WOW have public test servers? Why didn't you do your work on that?

  16. Re:Browsing history? on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History · · Score: 2

    Last I checked that doesn't do shit about your OS' DNS cache.

  17. Re:So on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History · · Score: 1

    That's not how (most) proxies work.

  18. Re:Posting anonymously for obvious reasons... on Target's Internal Security Team Warned Management · · Score: 1

    If someone has root (administrator) privileges on the box, what's to stop them from injecting packets with VLAN tagging of their choice?

  19. Re:Not from the car? on Tesla Model S Caught Fire While Parked and Unplugged · · Score: 1

    Sure, if by "on" you mean has any current flow in any part of the car whatsoever.

    Newsflash: 99% of the stuff you plug in at home is no different.

  20. Re:Tesla not involved [Re:Not from the car?] on Tesla Model S Caught Fire While Parked and Unplugged · · Score: 1

    1. It's "Jerrycan"
    2. It's offensive (Jerry being a slur for Germans)

  21. Re:Good...? on Ubuntu To Switch To systemd · · Score: 1

    What the hell? How have I not ever noticed this?

    I guess that's a point in Upstart's favor, if I've never noticed the change...

  22. Re:Good...? on Ubuntu To Switch To systemd · · Score: 1

    CentOS 6 doesn't. I know Centos doesn't track RHEL 100%, but that's a significant difference...

  23. Re:TPB legit? on Hyperlinking Is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules · · Score: 1

    TBP doesn't even link to them! All they provide is a number (presented as an alphanumeric string) and a few links to public content-neutral trackers.

  24. Re:Don't write summaries like this! on Japan's Alleged Death Threat-Making, Cat-Hacking Programmer Says He's Innocent · · Score: 1

    No kidding, I have no fucking clue what this is trying to tell me, and the headline only makes it worse.

    He hacked a cat? What? The only other meaning I can get from that is even more incorrect - unless one of his charges is in regards to mutilation of cats.

  25. Re:Useless Article on Hackers Sweep Up FTP Credentials For the New York Times, UNICEF and 7,000 Others · · Score: 1

    "Hey! We found this thing! It's pretty dangerous, so we can't tell you any more."