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    Tesla Model S Catches Fire While Charging

    Since the media went nuts over the first fires, they updated their warranty to cover fires like this. The warranty is pretty broad and covers everything short of purposeful immolation.
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    Tesla Recalling 90,000 Model S Sedans Over Seat Belts

    Waiting list you say? Odd. I ordered mine a few months ago and had it in 3 and a half weeks. :p
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    FAA Formally Recommends to Loosen Electronics Restrictions

    Indeed. I've never seen anyone attempt to make this argument about passengers for other methods of travel, all of which are more dangerous than commercial air travel. The mental gymnastics performed by individuals with no obvious stake in the unwarranted policy to justify its existence are...
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    FAA Formally Recommends to Loosen Electronics Restrictions

    I can only imagine that the people I see endlessly posting "but, but distractions!" are approaching the issue entirely backward. I must assume that such individuals have decided that people should have to turn off everything, and are looking for any excuse to justify it. Sadly, the distraction...
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    GPS Jammer Accidentally Jams Up Newark Airport

    The only way anything RF works is if no one is blasting noise louder than you are, and it is always easier to transmit noise. In other words, the only reason that any useful RF devices work is that we have such stringent regulations on transmission.
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    $123k Kickstarter Game Cancelled, Money Already Spent

    Since we can't edit, yes there is the bit about the terms of use part saying they're supposed to make it or refund, but they're totally transparent in multiple ways that it's a gamble. Taken as a whole, good luck trying to sue anyone over your $20-$30.... :P
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    $123k Kickstarter Game Cancelled, Money Already Spent

    Where did you folks seem to get the myth that there is any sort of guarantee or recourse if a project doesn't deliver? (Specifically Mr fabricate a "TOS" guy above"). There is literally no guarantee, and no legal recourse. Maybe in an instance of egregious bad faith actions, but a failed...
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    Wearing Google Glass Into A Strip Club

    You do recognize that you pointed out an example of the exact opposite of irony, yes?
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    Apple Just Lost 300M Customers

    The first iphone was the first decent multi-function phone. Since then, it has been caught up to and surpassed. The ipod was the same way, but has been surpassed by other phones. They were first to market with something decent, and have relied on momentum ever since. At the time, those...
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    Firefox Users Pay Less for Car Insurance

    Sounds awfully similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Quotient_(IQ)_and_Browser_Usage
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    Google Reportedly Paid Adblock Plus to Whitelist Ads

    Well, obviously, being ad supported is a proper business model for a product designed to keep you from seeing ads. :/
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    Cable Holding Back Superfast Broadband?

    Eh, I can't really complain about my 100/20 cable connection. 50/10 is only $50-60 a month, and that really is plenty for most people. 100/20 is kind of overkill for me, but I haven't gotten around to downgrading it since they changed it. The only thing that takes advantage of it is steam...
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    Windows 8.1 Lets You Lock Folders With Your Fingerprint

    I've said it before, but biometrics are overrated. Once cracked, your biometric fingerprint (covering fingers, eyes, anything else you might use for identity, down to DNA) can't be changed to something else. A good authentication mechanism needs the flexibility to change if compromised...
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    Motorola Shows Off Tattoo and Swallowable Password

    Biometrics will never replace abstract information for security. The reason being, you have one set of biometric data. As soon as an individual can emulate you, you lose the ability to secure *anything*. Abstract and changeable authentication mechanisms, once compromised, are easily changed...
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    Atari E.T. Game to Be Unearthed on Its 30th Anniversary

    Agreed. Of all the Atari games we had, other than a small few, they all were equally bad.
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    Atari E.T. Game to Be Unearthed on Its 30th Anniversary

    What do you mean "secret" of how bad it is? The game was sold in stores. We had a copy when I was a kid. Beyond being confusing, once you understood it, there was actually more to it then most Atari games. Granted, yes, it was a bad game, but it had a modicum of depth.
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    Bad News for AMD owners with Metro: Last Light

    If you have a fancy logitech keyboard, close the software for it.
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    U.S. Authorities Seize Accounts of Major Bitcoin Operator

    But a "currency" designed to deflate is wonderful! Not really a glowing advertisement for that particular educational institution, huh?
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    U.S. Authorities Seize Accounts of Major Bitcoin Operator

    I know exactly what I am calling real money is backed with. It is backed with relatively stable confidence, with a tiny, tiny fraction of its users being speculators. This fake money is the exact opposite, with the only people who have any confidence in it being the speculators trading...
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    U.S. Authorities Seize Accounts of Major Bitcoin Operator

    It doesn't have to be a threat to enforce existing laws if they were breaking them. Anyone who pretends that a (fake) commodity that fluctuates so wildly in perceived value (value that is only perceived by a small fraction of the population by the way) can actually function as a currency is...
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    Why Intel Picking Up AMD Might Make Sense

    AMD, when it has processors that are as fast as Intel's charges just as much. When they had the fastest consumer cpus, they too charged $1,000 each for them. Your perception is flawed. You get what you pay for.
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    Why Intel Picking Up AMD Might Make Sense

    Exactly, x86 cpu demand, with all factors considered, is *extremely* elastic now. I'm not even sure there is room for any price increase. I actually predict that the effect would be smaller improvements per generation instead of this imagined gigantic price increase that some posters here...
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    Why Intel Picking Up AMD Might Make Sense

    It is funny how the people who are pointing out *why* Intel can't just elevate prices for more profit give actual reasons. The people who don't seem to understand this do not appear to be able to form coherent arguments, but sure are good at slinging insults around. Usually, this is a pretty...
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    Why Intel Picking Up AMD Might Make Sense

    Sure wish you could edit in this forum. "The only way... are". Wow. My brain is not working.
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    Why Intel Picking Up AMD Might Make Sense

    Probably about as much as you do now. The market is utterly saturated. The only way Intel makes money are on replacements, and if the upgrades don't come fast enough and at a reasonable price, there is little to no reason to buy a cpu.
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    Intel Core i7-4770K at 7 GHz

    Things like this don't really mean much. They're just niche stunts. What's bad is if your marketing team gets desperate enough to put on these stunts itself.
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    Leave Six Strikes Alone!

    How dare they use the service they've paid for! :/ Wow, they've done a really good job of fooling you in to blaming the other customers than their inadequate infrastructure for what they are selling.
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    Gun With Real World Auto-Aim

    Likely useless on moving targets though, so of what practical use is it? Auto-aiming for target practice? What's the point in that?
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    Textbuster Technology Latest to Tackle Driving Texters

    You're free to passively block any RF. You cannot actively jam cell signals. No, this should never be overturned. Part of which is safety, the other part is that we do not allow any transmissions on licensed frequencies by devices that aren't part of the licensed use. This is required...
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    Is Showrooming Rude?

    Since my local best buy has started pricematching Amazon, I often just go and pick it up. Sure, I have to pay sales tax at best buy, but it is no more than the use tax I legally owe on amazon purchases anyway.
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    Apple Looking For Ways To Ditch Intel?

    Saying a thing doesn't make it true. Nor can really make such a claim when the performance levels are a decade apart. Arm has yet to hit some of the limits and complexities that x86 already has. When x86 performance was as poor as ARM performance is, it progressed extremely quickly as...
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    Apple Looking For Ways To Ditch Intel?

    Part of the reason the swp to intel happened was performance. If, in 2006, the performance of 2006 intel cpus was needed, then why do people think that 6 years later, something equivalent to 2000-2002 intel tech in performance is magically now good enough? :rolleyes:
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    Best Buy to Match Online Prices

    Umm, my local best buy has done this for at least a year and a half. Just two weeks ago I had them pricematch the Avengers 4 disc set ($10 less) and The walking dead season 2 (slightly over $10 less). I've also bought lcd tvs (~$500 less), etc.
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    Your Right To Resell Your Own Stuff Is In Peril

    Quoting you to maybe bring sanity to the thread. Legal defenses are just that, legal defenses. What the defense says is what they think will give the highest chance of winning the case. Often, this means convincing others that the case is about one thing that no one would argue with when in...
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    Best Buy's New Mascot? The "Y U NO" Guy

    Looks like an individual store's ad. Probably just made by one person there trying to be witty.
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    The Trackpad of the Future?

    The summary is a little misleading. Trackpads have detected the pressure with which you push on them for ages...
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    Corsair Accelerator 30GB & 60GB Caching SSD Review @ [H]

    Using a 500GB black drive in this test v.s. using a 3TB green drive in the other test means they aren't a good comparison. For cache misses, the green is going to be much, much worse and drag the overall score down more than the black will.
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    MPAA / RIAA Want U.S. to Help Quash The Pirate Bay

    The problem is they are spending not only their own money, but our tax money to accomplish their goals.
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    Bitcoinica Users Sue for $460k in Lost Bitcoins

    Good point. If they believe in this "currency" why are they suing for USD?
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    DHS Issuing Its Own DMCA Takedowns On YouTube?

    That's quite the false dichotomy. Neither organization has any business "run[ning] the internet".
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