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  1. Re:I'm not payiong $60,000 for a $30,000 car on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 0

    Remember please we are talking about electric cars and this is apple we are talking about a Tesla S costs about $70,000

    If apple's phone pricing is any indication theirs will cost at least $100,000 probably more.

  2. Re:Car only compatible with iStuff on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    Icar Base model will only go 10miles and cost $90,000
    for $1000 more you can get an Icar that will go 50miles for $10,000 more you can get the high end Icar that can go 150miles on a charge.

    The battery is not replaceable.

    The built in gps will use apple maps.

    All of your tesla friends will call you silly for paying more for a car that can't go as far and to this you can reply: Oh yeah? Well I got a Icar 6S. Its SHINY! And it works with my Iphone,Iwatch,Ipad,Ipod,Itv and Itoaster. Can your tesla S share photos through air drop? Didn't think so.

  3. Re:Windows? on Lenovo Collects Usage Data On ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs · · Score: 1

    Ill have to remember that one!

  4. Re:Binary Page Delivery on Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web · · Score: 1

    I don't see what your problem with compression is.
    Chrome already supports gzip, deflate and sdch

    Its part of the "Accept-Encoding" header that gets sent to the server by your browser.

    You can check yours here:
    http://www.xhaus.com/headers.

    The server won't send a compressed version if your browser doesn't say it can decode it first.

  5. Re:7zip on Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let it be said that the USA resents being called a developing country.

  6. Re:Vetting of apps? on Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack · · Score: 1

    Does java really need to run as administrator to check if an update might be available? That part is wholly and entirely java's fault. Other software only requires uac prompt when making changes such as update,install or uninstall not checking.

    With air,flash,shockwave,adobe reader,silverlight and java 8 installed the only one to nag to check for updates with a uac prompt is java.

    Then it tries to trick you into installing the ask toolbar after you allow it to run if it finds an update available.

    Annnd back to thread topic.

    Asking a user that doesn't know or doesn't care Is not typically beneficial. It's even worse in a business environment Is xyz.exe supposed to be running? Is it malware? Or did some lazy programmer name their background database manager xyz.exe to save time? support is only by about once a month so risk breaking something? or allow all?

    Allow all and let someone else worry about it is pretty much always the eventual conclusion.

    Ill even quote just for fun.
    "Permissions are not a solution to this problem"

  7. Misconceptions? on Under Public Pressure, India Withdraws Draft Encryption Policy · · Score: 3, Informative

    What misconceptions? It seemed to be a pretty clear F U to anyone that might use encrypted communications as part of standard business practices.

  8. Re:Carly Fiona on Michigan Sues HP Over Decade Long, $49 Million Incomplete Project · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that there are no write in votes in the state of Oklahoma! You get your pick of

    Stupid head A
    War with Canada B
    Independent no one has heard of C

    Somehow A or B always gets picked. Even though C often looks the least nuts.

    The choices don't seem to be improving.

  9. Nuclear. on General Atomics To Build Drone Pilot Training Academy In North Dakota · · Score: 1

    But will it be nuclear powered?

  10. Re:CRAP! I have one of those. on Volkswagen CEO Issues Apology Over Emission-Cheating Software · · Score: 1

    Up next VW cars fuel economy gauge's found to be incorrect......Wait that's really a thing?? http://www.edmunds.com/fuel-ec...

    Crap I thought I was going to be able to make a prediction here but it already happened darn.

  11. Re:How to handle on This Is What a Real Bomb Looks Like · · Score: 2

    Why would you need to? With enough ln2 just make a box around it on the floor and fill that box it will either seep in or chill the internals down to ln2 temperature eventually. Less than a half hour I would think.

    Although I still think the rapid change in temperature might cause enough pressure change to trip the atmospheric switch.

  12. Re:How to handle on This Is What a Real Bomb Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Depends on if the battery was in the bottom or top box,
    If the battery is submerged first there would be no power to detonate anything.

    My question is would the ln2 cause enough of a pressure change to trigger the atmospheric pressure switch?

  13. Re:GIF is relevant on Robots' Next Big Job: Trash Pickup · · Score: 1

    Thanks that was funny.

  14. Re:Vetting of apps? on Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack · · Score: 1

    Java autoupdate aka jucheck.exe.

    http://forums.whirlpool.net.au...
    Here is one example for more just google "java uac"

    Without disabling uac or uninstalling java the only way I am aware of to fix it is to disable java's automatic updates which sounds like bad security practice but afaik no other fixes are available.

  15. Re:Vetting of apps? on Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack · · Score: 1

    Java trains people to click yes.

  16. Re:I can do it in 15 on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 1

    Copy paste required. Otherwise good catch!

  17. Re:I can do it in 15 on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 1

    /. rewrites the urls that does nothing.

  18. Re:Here's a better story.... . on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 1

    Broken link.

  19. Re:Not if it's old enough. on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 2

    Chrome 26, Windows xp.
    Url does not crash browser but hovering over link does crash tab.

  20. Re:Congratulations on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 1

    Someone mod parent up.
    Hashb.in has been around for several months longer.

    Mr fister may have not known about it tho.

  21. Re:Don't take yours in. on Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming · · Score: 1

    +1 to that the toto's are the best residential low flows I have seen.

  22. Re:Moral outrage! on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 1

    One of the things I have wanted to know for years is why none of the local cable companies carry nasa tv. Not that I can't watch it for free on their website. But afaik its free for them to carry and they could use it to fluff their channel count so why don't they?

  23. Re:Who the fuck can remember all those stupid name on NFL Commentators Still Calling Microsoft's Surface Tablets "iPads" · · Score: 1

    Most are willing to accept it's the brand name as an explanation most android tablets have a lot nicer features than iPads.

    Except RCA android tablets your better off with something with no name on it I have never seen one that the screen did not look like crap.

  24. Re: Moral outrage! on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 1

    I really wish they wouldn't spend quite so much on in house content.

    I have noticed I am just not sure what to do about it yet.

    I still have plenty of things to watch on netflix.

    But I know the production of orange is the new black probably cost me several other shows. (no I don't watch that show but its heavily advertised)

    I do not and have never had hbo

  25. Re:Moral outrage! on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 1

    But then they would then have exact numbers of who watched what and I bet they would find the vast majority don't want to watch crap like survivor or ghost hunters.