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  1. Re:Can't agree more on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    If the helmet was severely damaged, or the person suffered head trauma even with the helmet, you can be fairly certain that the outcome without the helmet would have been much worse.

  2. Re:Can't agree more on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    The US is absurd: you don't have to wear a helmet on a motorbike, but you need one on a pedal bike ?!?

    There's no national law in the US regarding helmets. It's a state-by-state (and in some cases, city) issue, and most state's don't require that adults wear helmets. That said, I don't know where you get off saying "The US is absurd" when the thing you're calling absurd doesn't exist.

  3. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    "Or could we maybe accept that life isn't a completely safe activity?" Yes, and that's why some of us wear helmets.

  4. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    I bought a mountain bike a few years ago, and yes, it's a heavy beast, but so am I. I figured it would be smart to lose the weight off myself before worrying about the weight of the bike. I've already lose about a bike or two's worth of flab.

  5. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    This. I purchased a mountain bike a few years ago to use for commuting (yes, I know, a road bike is a smoother ride, blah blah. We have shitty roads and I wanted something more versatile). I had never really thought about it before, as I had always ridden garage sale mountain bikes since I was a kid, but I decided to see if there were road bike-ish tires for mountain bikes. Of course there are, so I bought a pair of all purpose tires. They were not road bike smooth, but they were also not knobby like mountain bike tires. The difference was amazing. It's so much easier with smoother tires, and they aren't even particularly expensive.

  6. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    Who'd steal a helmet? According to this thread, no one wants to ride a bike with a helmet.

  7. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    Is that really a problem? I'm in Oregon and there's no laws about wearing helmets here.

  8. Re:Problem is lack of importance on 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email · · Score: 1

    That's not just as bad at all. If you didn't notice, people were getting their passwords stolen by using the same one everywhere, including the sketchy sites.

  9. Re:unfair competition on Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad · · Score: 1

    You speak in jest, but I once got a call from a woman who's mother had gotten spyware on her machine and was getting all kinds of porn pop-ups. Her mother's solution was to unplug the computer and put a Bible on top of it.

  10. Re:Logo on Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad · · Score: 1
  11. Re:The blame here is Facebook's. on "Dislike" Button Scam Hits Facebook Users · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be possible if Facebook hadn't cluttered everything up with stupid apps.

  12. Re:Problem is lack of importance on 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's why I use three different passwords. One is for sites I don't care about...like registering for a forum that I only need once. The second is for things that I'd like to be more secure, like forums I visit often, Facebook, my person blog, etc. The third is for critical things like email, online banking, shopping sites like Newegg and Amazon, etc.

  13. Re:Anyone else? on EFF Reviews the Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Deal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >And having two giants acting like they can simply write legislature is balls to the walls wron

    They didn't write any legislation. They wrote up some suggestions that the FCC and the Congress are free to use or discard. They have every right to do that.

  14. Re:So, regulation haters... on EFF Reviews the Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Deal · · Score: 1

    It's working pretty good so far, really. Are you having some kind of problem with your internet provider?

  15. Re:Choices on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    >This is one of the bigger problems caused by the threat of abolishing NN.

    You're talking about something that does not currently exist.

  16. Re:Choices on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    In my town: Charter, Qwest, CVC, FireServe, Clearwire, AT&T, Verizon, T-mobile, Sprint, etc. And this is a small town.

    It's not as monopolized out there as people happen to think.

  17. Re:Question on Adobe Putting PDF Reader In a Sandbox · · Score: 5, Funny

    YEAH! And Microsoft WORD should only let you use WORDS...not crappy images and all that.

  18. Re:Prior art? on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    The crappy software that came with my Lenovo tablet does this.

  19. Re:The Internet as a business on The End of Free · · Score: 1

    Oh ideologues, you never fail to entertain. The internet wasn't invented to enable the freedom of information. It was meant to be a redundant military network.

  20. Re:How Quickly They Forget on The End of Free · · Score: 1

    Let's see you use your DSL while waiting at the DMV.

  21. Re:2010: Year of the Linux Desktop on A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For a lot of people it is, for a lot people it isn't.

  22. I'm pretty sure on 'Robin Sage' Social Hoax Duped Military, Security Pros · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that anyone in Iraq and Afghanistan could tell you where the soldiers are. It's not like they're hiding or something. The "geolocation" stuff is just silly.

  23. Re:An appropriate quote seems to be... on Microsoft Out of Favor With Young, Hip Developers · · Score: 1

    Or they genocide you and your people. But we'll just pretend like history always turns out like it did for Ghandi.

  24. Re:1934 on AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' · · Score: 1

    What does the law have to do with it? The artist signs a contract with the record label, and that contract determines who owns the rights. There's no law that says that the rights automagically belong to the record label.

  25. Re:I seem to have missed why we'd want this on IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas · · Score: 1

    It's HTML5...any retard can go look at the source to see if there's any shenanigans going on.