Slashdot Mirror


User: Jeng

Jeng's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,638
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,638

  1. Re:Open format? on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 1

    Actually I think it was just last month, but someone I trusted recommended it and it was cheaper than the $100 one I was looking at.

  2. Re:Open format? on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 1

    It has logging features, you can email the logs to yourself, or you can upload them to a website set up by the developer. You can also choose what is being logged.

    You can even set up your phone to video you driving with the OBDII information overlaid on top of the video.

    Here is the developers website.
    http://torque-bhp.com/

  3. Re:Big Brother? on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 1

    If it's a low G crash there is less concern regarding internal injuries.

    If it's a high G crash you might want to keep the person under observation for a night to make sure they are ok.

    It is not intended as a means of of........I'm sorry what you wrote makes no sense. What was the point you were trying to make?

  4. Re:slippery slope on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 3, Informative

    And you immediately jump to the conclusion that the person was talking about abortion and not recreational drug use or one of the many other ways government needs to but the fuck out of peoples lives.

    Also, most people realize that Republicans are far more concerned with the person she is carrying in her womb, than they are for her.

    Best way to stop abortions is birth control.

  5. Re:Open format? on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes you can do that.

    You will need a OBDII Bluetooth adapter and something to read the results, I use the Torque Pro program on my Android phone. I can do logs that I can later email myself, or even upload to a website.

    The adapter I bought was @ $40 from Amazon, and the program I mention is $4.99, add an android device if you don't have one already and it is still cheaper than most stand alone OBDII readers.

    It can record everything from G's pulled on corners to the temperature of the intake.

  6. Re:Naive, because most investors (especially VCs). on Will Write Code, Won't Sign NDA · · Score: 1

    The issue with the hot coffee isn't that it was hot, it was that it was so fucking hot it immediately would cause third degree burns and they have been sited about this numerous times, but it took that lawsuit for McDonalds to keep their coffee at a safe level.

    If you had tried to drink it it would have burned your mouth, it spilled on the ladies genitals causing third degree burns.

    In the same situation wouldn't you sue?

  7. Re:Commodity hardware on IBM Sells Point-Of-Sale Business To Toshiba · · Score: 1

    They were for some time, but not for at least a decade.

  8. Re:Why would they last 20 years? on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    Sell one product 50 times to one customer, or sell 1 product to 50 customers.

    There are tons of products out there that cost substantially more than their competition due to their construction quality and how long they will last.

    If they put a warranty that goes along with their claims of 20 years of use then they will sell, if they don't stand behind their product, like they aren't, then it will not. A 3 year warranty on a 20 year item just does not cut it.

  9. Re:Stay current with vaccines on Scientists Say Spread of Schmallenberg Virus Is 'Warning To Europe' · · Score: 1

    Vaccines, patches, same thing right?

  10. Re:Inadvertently... on GIMP Core Mostly Ported to GEGL · · Score: 2

    Luckily gimps tend to be accident prone.

  11. Re:Why would they last 20 years? on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    They get it in one lump sum instead of nickle and diming you for 20 years.

  12. Re:20 years? on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    That is an excellent excuse to deflect blame with.

    Genius really if you think about it.

  13. Re:If Afghanistan hadn't been so neglected... on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Help doesn't always help.

    If we tried to help, who is to say it would have turned out better or turned out like many African and Latin American countries that did receive help. Symptoms may get treated, but that can make the issues worse.

    America is evil for trying to impose it's will on other countries.

    America is evil for not trying to impose it's will on other countries.

    In a no-win situation doing nothing is often the best course of action.

  14. Re:EQ on Researchers Try To Identify the Intelligence Gene · · Score: 1

    EQ may have a larger impact on a person's success, but pushing it at the expense of IQ would be like pushing advertising more than engineering because advertisers make more money.

  15. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Researchers Try To Identify the Intelligence Gene · · Score: 1

    Just because they find a morality gene that does not mean that it will be used for good.

  16. Re:Read between the lines on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 1

    Employees care more about their paycheck than the companies bottom line. Same thing here.

  17. Re:2 is still broken, but they are coming out with on CryENGINE 3 Updated, Crysis 3 Announced · · Score: 1

    Fixing bugs won't earn them any more money. (their probable reasoning for not supporting a product that is no longer selling)

    Not fixing bugs though will cost them future sales.

  18. Re:US Intel on Iraq Emerges From Isolation As Telecommunications Hub · · Score: 1

    The question is which pipes are not being monitored.

    Kinda funny that them screwing over the person who designed the tap made this public knowledge.

    http://yro.slashdot.org/story/05/09/23/2022243/eminent-domain-applied-to-ip-due-to-state-secrets

  19. Re:Honest Question on Iraq Emerges From Isolation As Telecommunications Hub · · Score: 0

    Depends on where you plan on living.

    They key to a survival compound is your ability to reach it as such having it on adjacent property does sound like a good course of action.

    Black licorice, lots and lots of black licorice, you can never have enough.

    A pea shooter and a very heavy door.

    Solar, and any excess electricity should be stored as hydrogen.

  20. Re:Reminds me of Comcasts DNS Hijacking on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Where in particular are they doing this, cause I don't experience that and I have been a customer of theirs for over 10 years now.

  21. Re:Post of FaceBook, interesting approach. on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Comcast might be tough, but Netflix is more popular, it will not be in Comcasts favor if this issue is being played out in the court of public opinion.

  22. Re:And who/what is "Louis CK"? on Paramount Claims Louis CK "Didn't Monetize" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering that googling still didn't pop up the relevant results, the information was not in the article, and this is not a tech issue in the least I agree that a little bit of background would have been nice.

    Just a little link to a story about his selling direct to customers would have sufficed.

  23. They are already prepared to lose. on Activision Blizzard Sued For Patent Infringement Over WoW, CoD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I see that they made a spinoff company to litigate with so that when they lose they don't lose the shirts off their back when they lose, which they will.

  24. Re:All kidding aside on Pentagon Orders Dual-Focus Contact Lens Prototypes · · Score: 1

    For personal health information there is no need to pump that information into a HUD that then displays it on your contact lens, a simple readout on a watch or phone would do.

    The visual cues mentioned in this short story though would be very easy to do and rather useful.

    http://marshallbrain.com/manna7.htm

  25. Re:Different culture, doomed to failure on China Erases New Internet Rumors, Shuts Down Sites · · Score: 1

    China will become a western style democracy or it will collapse. Their current system of government is grossly inefficient and does not scale.

    There are many more options than that.

    Just because we have witnessed a few options, that does not mean those are the only options.

    China will never be like the US.