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Yeah, it is strange to break. Then again, I have no idea if this event makes for a failure rate that's any higher than the industry overall. I've seen cars stopped on the highway with a wheel jammed up into a fender, so I know 1st person that it happens in general. Suspension does wear out...

I like how they do things in [Norway/Sweden/Finland/whichever of those dog shaped clump of countries it was] - where you're left alone until after conviction. No jail, no assets frozen, no whatever until after the verdict is in. You're innocent until proven guilty. -scheherazade

I assume it's a smart enough law to allow for cell-phone as navi? In any case, I'd rather they punish 'crashing your car into other people and causing harm', instead of punishing personal behavior that in in no deterministic way causes harm to other people. -scheherazade

Getting to Mars is not "hard"-hard. It just takes a long time. Landing on mars is a bit tough, on account of the low atmospheric density. Parachutes are almost useless, so you need a powered landing. Getting back from the surface of Mars is IMMENSELY difficult. Gravity is substantial, and...

I'd prefer it if lawmakers would stop making personal behavior laws, and start making laws that punish 'harm'. Texting? Whatever. Your damn fingers. Collide with someone and kill them? If you caused it, you're in BIG trouble (texting or not). I'm tired of the exceptionalism surrounding harm...

^^ Note that I realize this was in France. -scheherazade

10 months of not paying rent (probably losing his place), not making income (no job on way out), not paying bills (credit destroyed), arrest record (nearly unemployable in any professional establishment) - plus, you know, you can't get that life time back. ... Because of what is ultimately...

Sorry, I'm not familiar with what all the connections are. In regards to the ribbons plugging the panel into the board, is it a bunch of wires with binary address info (pixel location), and a few wires with voltage levels for the pixel value? If so, can you put a set of NPN transistors on the...

I assume that's rhetorical. More often I see the government trying to convince the public, than I see the public affecting the government. -scheherazade

That's not even salient. Democracy is 'people's rule'. Representative democracy is 'people's rule via an intermediary party that does as the people would do, in the people's stead'. How you come up with a representative is irrelevant. They could be elected, appointed, born, whatever...

If I had to worry about being drafted, and I didn't want to go, I wouldn't want to play games that remind me of what might happen to me IRL. If I didn't have a problem with doing it IRL, I doubt I'd have a problem doing it in-game. -scheherazade

Would you accept someone putting strips of masking tape down your normal single monitor? Soon as we can get bezel-free monitors, eye-finity will finally be more than a curiosity. (ati user) -scheherazade

Pretty much the definition of why 99% of exploits target windows (install base). -scheherazade p.s. Where is the edit button? Seriously, I'm blind or something...

THANK YOU. So tired of people watching porn on their windows box, running "SexyGirl123.jpg.exe", and then crying about how "windows sucks because it's so vulnerable to viruses". And you can't even explain to them how "it's their own fault", because they're too undereducated [about...

What kills me with plasma and DLP is the flashing. I get a headache watching those displays. LCD doesn't flash, and I'm so much more relaxed while viewing. That alone is why I prefer LCD - even though I don't think that LCD looks the best. -scheherazade

Why not just compare : http://www.digitalversus.com/duels.php?ty=6&ma1=52&mo1=671&p1=7773&ma2=88&mo2=570&p2=6292&ph=6 -scheherazade

libel... slander... an array of 'sensitive speech' prohibitions... (you cant urge a mob to action, for example) incitement... there's laws about speech. it's not 'free'. The internet started as a government entity - its a long way from arpanet. Trunk carriers are multinational...

While that sounds good, it doesn't apply. There is no variety in what ISPs sell. They have one product. Every ISP is selling "IP packet routing service". That's it. No other items for sale. That's all they have to offer. A better comparison would be : You go to rent a car. Rental...

Which should be a non issue since you are buying UNLIMITED internet access. You can use your XXXX KB/sec for whatever and whenever you want. (even though the isp will fine you if they consider your usage 'excessive' - because unlimited really isn't unlimited...) If the telecoms are...

Or neither... with a law saying that : no communications provider can differentiate access based on the content being communicated. If you let the government in on the act : you get censorship If you let the corporations do what they like : you will get reduced service, and the...

Some copy protection methods put 'bad/weak sectors' on the disk to foil a cd reader. The reader will get tripped up. A good 2-sheep burner will be able to read those bad sectors in most cases. On a 0 or 1 sheep burner, you'd either never or hardly ever be able to make that ISO. -scheherazade...

yeah... at work we've been using the tyan 5380 motheboard based systems since the core2 xeons were out... my reaction to intel's demo was : "whaaaa???? you're doing a closed door demo of something that's been released for going on a year?!? bah???" -scheherazade

I really hope it's a 2-sheep burner. I'll have to go with IDE LiteOn SHM-165H6S for my next purchase if i can't copy protected disks with the samsung :-\ -scheherazade

My aplologies about mis-describing the ping command functionality. What I had in mind was sort of what you said (in spirit), where the hardware ping and software ping are black boxed. (specifically that the software latency isn't overt, and the 'actual' benefits of killer nic are real, but hard...

see, that's the issue. it's not a matter of hardware ping, it's a matter of software latency. I.E. how long will it take to send a packet given that it has to be scheduled to go out among a bunch of other packets. what is happening is that you have : 3 packets to send out... packet 1)...