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Comment Re:All this sounds nice, but there's another side. (Score 1) 1224

by EchoD on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @07:41AM (#25283827) Attached to: Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents

If you can't get out of the way with traction, doing 80, you probably shouldn't be driving. You know, considering that most roads in the US are posted at 65 or lower.
See the chart.

Submission + - Rick Astley Discovers the Rickroll 1

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Pickens

on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @09:39PM

Pickens writes: "Over the last year or so, Rick Astley has watched with puzzled amazement as "Never Gonna Give You Up" has been mocked, celebrated, remixed and reprised, its original music video viewed millions of times on YouTube, all by a generation that could barely swallow its Gerber carrots when the song first topped the pop charts. "If this had happened around some kind of rock song, with a lyric that really meant something — a Bruce Springsteen, "God bless America" ... or an anti-something kind of song, I could kind of understand that," Astley said. "But for something as, and I don't mean to belittle it, because I still think it's a great pop song, but it's a pop song; do you know what I mean? It doesn't have any kind of weight behind it, as such. But maybe that's the irony of it." Astley, who will be touring the U.K. in May with a group of other '80's acts, including Bananarama, and Nick Heyward, Heaven 17, Paul Young and ABC, sums up his thoughts on his unexpected virtual fame with characteristic good humor: "Listen, I just think it's bizarre and funny. My main consideration is that my daughter doesn't get embarrassed about it.""

Submission + - How do I split a directory into CD sized chunks?

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EchoD

on Thursday June 07, 2007 @11:24AM

EchoD writes: "I frequently have a need to split large directories (2 Gigabytes or more) into "chunks" that will fit on a CD-ROM. Every file needs to remain intact, and the exact size of the chunks can vary from one day to the next. Archive formats aren't an option, and neither are DVDs.

The way I've been doing this is selecting groups of files in Explorer and watching the selection size in the Status Bar. While effective, sometimes it's time consuming. I'm looking for an automated way to go about this. Any suggestions?

Any input is much appreciated. Thanks!"

Submission + - Installing java games on LG KG800 CHOCOLATE

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on Thursday March 29, 2007 @09:27PM

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Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight 579

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 25, 2007 @07:35PM from the dare-you-to-cross-this-line dept.

mgh02114 writes "The new US stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor, was deployed for the first time to Asia earlier this month. On Feb. 11, twelve Raptors flying from Hawaii to Japan were forced to turn back when a software glitch crashed all of the F-22s' on-board computers as they crossed the international date line. The delay in arrival in Japan was previously reported, with rumors of problems with the software. CNN television, however, this morning reported that every fighter completely lost all navigation and communications when they crossed the international date line. They reportedly had to turn around and follow their tankers by visual contact back to Hawaii. According to the CNN story, if they had not been with their tankers, or the weather had been bad, this would have been serious. CNN has not put up anything on their website yet." The Peoples Daily of China reported on Feb. 17 that two Raptors had landed on Okinawa.

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