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  1. What's wrong with a Will? Can't we agree that if I don't write down who I want to inherit my crap it gets sold off, my debts repaid, and if there's anything left it's donated to education?

  2. Re:Gravitational tides will kill you on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    I know somehow I'm going to regret asking this...

    If a black hole is immense enough to pull in light, which is radiation.. or in this case energy since it isn't radiating(?).. wouldn't the energy kill you?

  3. Re:Yep, Like a Vacuum Cleaner on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    you would have to expect there are vacuum cleaners that already exist that run without electricity

    It's kind of pedantic, but there are "carpet sweepers" that are not powered by electricity that many people use to pick up crumbs and for light cleaning.

  4. Re:reductio ad absurdum on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how much it costs or what they want to hide. It sets a bad precedent that everything in your car should be exposed to the police and, frankly, everyone else.

  5. Re:reductio ad absurdum on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    OTOH, the guy is making secret compartments in cars to store "valuables"- what would he expect his customers to be storing in there if not drugs? I suppose there's always guns...

    It could be used to store money out of sight. What if he's using it to hide Christmas presents from his kids? Maybe he uses it to hide his dash cam so someone doesn't break the window when he's in the store. Maybe he's using it to store things like his girlfriend's cell phone so his wife can't find it. Why must all hidden compartments be used to store drugs? What ever happened to privacy?

  6. Self Parking on A German Parking Garage Parks Your Car For You · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While it's a neat idea for a self parking garage. I saw a concept(?) previously where you drive your car into a "single car container" and when you left, your car in it's container would be shuttled off to a compact/secure storage array like a tape in a server room storage rack. Even though it requires more track and sensors, that system seems to be more realistic than a system that requires every car be programmed to understand the signals being broadcast by the garage.

  7. Re:FINANCIALLY viable on Bosch Finds Solar Business Unprofitable, Exits · · Score: 1

    That's like a half million per person ($433,333.33)... if you are building a product or purchasing manufacturing equipment you aren't "losing" that money if it's going to be recouped later (sales of product or equipment) so where exactly does one lose millions of dollars unless they are giving stuff away.

  8. Re:That's great and all on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 0

    For an "internet sales" (whatever that means) tax

    So, what if I buy something from France and have it shipped to Ohio. Can Ohio force a French retailer to pay a percentage of the sale as tax? What about vice-versa? If they can't enforce this across national borders, all it's going to do is encourage business internationally. You can pretty much ship anything UPS to every corner of the globe.

  9. Re:Diesel is the best choice on Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo · · Score: 1

    In a national crisis when the President may have be relocated across several states via said limosine

    You speak of the President like a super hero who can single-handedly save the world... we have fail safes and backups in case something happens to him. It's not like the country would go to hell because the President was stuck in Kansas.

  10. Re:2 years on Google Fiber Expands To Olathe, Kansas · · Score: 2

    I'm perfectly fine with that. I'd even argue to have the local village/municipal put fiber/power/water/sewer to every home and have a central patching building for the service provider to connect to. Part of every bill would then go to the city for further upkeep. This way you don't have to worry about companies having right of way to bury lines and monopoly situations.

  11. Re:2 years on Google Fiber Expands To Olathe, Kansas · · Score: 1

    Which is why the money should go to the company the does the work first. Make the company take a loan to do the project and when it's complete, pay it off for them. If they don't complete the project, make them keep paying off the loan.

  12. Re:Human Nature on EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures · · Score: 1

    It does make me wonder if a strip of rubber around every door/seam could impact fuel efficiency enough to justify the cost though.

  13. Re:Better off enforcing an EA boycott on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop buying games that end in a number too!

    Hah, we will fool them and publish "2014 Madden" next year instead of "Madden 2014"!

  14. Re:silver is honest on SXSW: Nate Silver Discusses Data Bias, the Strangeness of Fame · · Score: 2

    I'm sure part of it is the fact that we like to "celebritise" people. He might have spoken out against something and people will latch on to it because it might also jibe with their train of thought. It's also part self gratification. If they can turn that person into a celebrity, they re-enforce their ideas through this man's "fame."

  15. Re:Wrong lesson. on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 2

    Sadly... if SimCity was on Steam, I might have already bought it.

  16. Re:Not true on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    It's not a fair comparison... If you want a blow job you can get it from pretty much anybody. If you want SimCity, you can only get that from EA. Sure... there are other hoes giving out things that are kind of like blow jobs in this gaming world... but if anyone copies the exact mechanics of the act, you better believe EA will have you in court.

  17. Re:Wrong lesson. on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    I never really considered Guild Wars 1 a MMO, but that's beside the point. Also, you are placed into a city instance where you interact with other players... so the entire game is not single playable.

  18. Re:This is unfortunate. on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    I know it's not GOG, but I do know that the Steam version of Dungeon Siege 2 had it's MP component removed. That's the only example I know of actually modifying a game on a re-release.

  19. Re:leading the speaker on Senior Game Designer Talks About Game Violence, Real Violence, and Lead (Video) · · Score: 1

    Because when you flip a car, it slowly catches fire and explodes. I will admit, that sounds like I was trained by video games.

    Actually, the first thing I thought of was movies/television... although, according to the media, the car will explode almost immediately.

  20. Re:Once free of microsoft on Halo Developer Bungie Reveals Destiny and Its Vision of MMO Gaming · · Score: 1

    I'm also assuming you will be paying for each of those 10 "books" or expansions.

  21. Re:how cares about meteorites? on Residents Report Bright Streak Over Bay Area Friday Evening · · Score: 1

    There are apps like "DailyRoads Voyager" for Android. I'm sure they have them for iPhone too.

  22. Re:how cares about meteorites? on Residents Report Bright Streak Over Bay Area Friday Evening · · Score: 1

    I have a DOD GS600 and have had good luck with it on 10min length and a class 10 SD card. Others have complained, but I know of two of these cameras running right now for over a year.

  23. Re:how cares about meteorites? on Residents Report Bright Streak Over Bay Area Friday Evening · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Russia, they are used as evidence collectors because of all the shady folks trying to game the system. Here in the US, anyone with a dash cam is laughed at by a majority of people. I have a dash cam and people at work assume I have it to catch accidents and think it's a gruesome reason. Also, since people don't throw themselves in front of buses as much as Russians apparently do, the dashcams are not as widely used here.

  24. Re:It's called the key on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    Modified car... lawsuit. I see a short lawsuit unless he's suing the people that modified his car.

  25. Re:Circular Reference on Obama Proposes 'Meaningful Progress' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I thought Louisiana had quite a huge sugar cane operation until the whole HFCS shift. Also, sugar beats can be a source of sugar (for which the US is the #2 producer worldwide...)