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  1. Re:Rules of the Road on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    So far all this testing has been done in normal traffic environments. It doesn't look to me like they have tried to break it too hard. How does the system react, if there's a car spinning ahead?

    Can the car sense what is beyond the car in front of them presently to know to hit the brakes, should the car in front not be showing signs of needing to slow down? How about rain or snow messing with the sensors?

    This is *way* far from production.

    - Dan.

  2. Re:Steampunk on Electromechanical Switches Could Reduce Future Computers' Cooling Needs · · Score: 1

    640k should be enough for anybody.

    - Dan.

  3. Re:Now to bring them back on Mystery of the Dying Bees Solved · · Score: 1

    Wait! I have an Idea! *Whap*

    - Dan.

  4. Re:Two Words: "Microsoft's trustworthy" on Microsoft Eyes PC Isolation Ward To Thwart Botnets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What this really boils down to is:

    We are sorry, XP is no longer supported and a patch is not available. You will not be allowed to connect to the Internet. Here's a $7 Rebate for Windows 7.

    - Dan.

  5. Re:!surprising on W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree with iONiUM.

    There is no clear advantage or improvement that HTML5 would provide in delivering information or selling goods to our customers on the web. I don't feel like dropping everything I am doing, to re-write or re-implement everything I have now, and the customer is perfectly fine accepting. NO Client ever cared what language the site is presented in, as long as it looks decent. Html 5 is grand I am sure, but I still present websites in php driven html 3. I have enough on my plate with the workload I have now.

    - Dan.

  6. Re:How was it a poor setup? on Best Mobile Computing Options For People With RSI? · · Score: 1

    I have to agree with this. I have been programming since I was 15 and am nearly 40 now and I refuse to use more than a 101 or 104 key straight keyboard. OTOH, I have injured my wrist(s) having sex more times than I can count. *Grin*

    - Dan.

  7. Re:Reclaim Some? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Offering Internet access through a Dialup service would indeed qualify as an ISP. However, being a web portal does not. I am amazed however, that they still offer POTS service... I haven't received a floppy or CD in years.

  8. Re:Can't you simulate a chemistry set with softwar on Safety Commission To Rule On Safety of Rulers In Science Kits · · Score: 1

    Enraging,

    But true.

    - Dan.

  9. Re:Reclaim Some? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    As a matter of semantics, AOL is *not* an ISP. They are a web portal your ISP gives you access to.

    - Dan.

  10. Re:Staff shortages on Cyber Command Will Miss Friday's Operational Deadline · · Score: 1

    And this is different from the rest of the IT industry how?

    - Dan.

  11. Re:What's with this app horsedookie? on UK's Two Biggest ISPs Rip Up Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Yes I agree.

    I call this demographic "The Menopausal Army".

    - Dan.

  12. Re:What's with this app horsedookie? on UK's Two Biggest ISPs Rip Up Net Neutrality · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Way back in 91 they were going nuts trying to get everyone to use the term application when we were referring to a program. Go figure...

    - Dan.

  13. Re:Gotta say, they picked a good one on Microsoft Migrating Live Spaces Users To WordPress · · Score: 1

    Sadly I believe there is a large population of 12~20 year olds that are keeping those sites, along with the blink tag and hoards of animated gifs alive.

    The rest of those discerning adults that have a care about what a prospective employer might find as an example of workmanship, their appearance online is best *not* represented by a website published with a Microsoft product.

    Taking this site as an example. Volunteer work or not, if I saw it, I wouldn't hire. http://www.usstexasbb35.com/introduction.htm

    - Dan

  14. Re:Gotta say, they picked a good one on Microsoft Migrating Live Spaces Users To WordPress · · Score: 1

    Because to the rest of your peers on the internet, your blog would have the appearance of one going to the prom by herself in a home-sewn jumpsuit of the same flower print material.

    It looks horrid, you can't hide it and it just generally should not be done. There are just some things that require certain finesse. Get a facebook page, and be happy.

    - Dan.

  15. Re: Confounded on CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually the *Bible* was assembled from books that the church chose to include and "destroyed" the rest they didn't approve of.

    I for one would like to spend a month or two in the catacombs beneath the Vatican to see if some of those could be found.

    - Dan.

  16. Re:Why didn't you think of this, indeed... on In Case of Emergency, Please Remove Your Bra · · Score: 4, Funny

    I die happy?

    - Dan.

  17. Re:Why didn't you think of this, indeed... on In Case of Emergency, Please Remove Your Bra · · Score: 4, Funny

    So now big boobs can be linked to high chances of survival? Will bra's start coming ratted in CFM rather than by Cup? Time for my Wife to get that boob job, "Think of the children dear!"

    - Dan.

  18. Re: No worries on China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan · · Score: 1

    And then Wal-Mart collapses.

    They have been slowly raising their prices after killing off local stores ( competition ) anyways. If their main supplier of goods gets too expensive who knows where they will buy from?

    Hopefully it means the return of local departments stores and rekindles downtown districts.

    This embargo could be just what the US needs.

    - Dan.

  19. Re:Scary, scary illness on Scientists Find New Target For Alzhiemer's · · Score: 1

    McDonalds!

    - Dan.

    It's a reference, Don't mod me down. :)

  20. Re:Why? on Scientists Find New Target For Alzhiemer's · · Score: 1

    Seriously though, that name needs to be changed.

    - Dan.

  21. Re:This would scare the hell out of me on Airbus Planning Transparent Planes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *Grin*

    I was just thinking the same thing. Give me the seat that faces backwards and a bag of popcorn.

    - Dan.

  22. Re:It hit stores earlier... on The PlayStation Move Arrives — a Hands-On Report · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mod parent funny please!

    - Dan.

  23. Re:Wild Animals Should Stay In the Wild on Opossums Overrun Brooklyn, Fail To Eliminate Rats · · Score: 1

    Unless of course you have an irrational fear of being slapped to death...

    - Dan.

  24. Re:It'll make great TV on Pope's Astronomer Would Love To Baptize an Alien · · Score: 1

    All he has to do is move to Arizona, Or Texas, or New Mexico.

    I would suggest California but lawsuits indicate they have been there performing "Penetration Testing".

    - Dan.

  25. Re:More to the story.. on DRM-Free Games Site GOG.com Gone · · Score: 1

    Too much drama to be real. It has to have been staged by the DRM party.

    Before you tin hat me, this is business, and I have seen more childish plays from much more 'respectable' foundations.

    - Dan.