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Comment Re:When Danica crashed (Score 1) 756

Danica also has tons of racing experience therefore tons of experience wrecking cars. Most likely she did the death grip on the wheel the first few times she crashed and after realizing your hands hurt for days afterwards learned to let go. You can tell people that is the proper way to do it all you want but when the SHTF they will probably just hold onto the wheel for dear life. Most people will only be in a few accidents spread far apart during their lives, not frequent enough to make letting go of the wheel a habit.

Comment Re:Or let the bus drivers handle it. (Score 2) 151

The bus drivers do not but the Maryland Transit Authority has its own police department and most of those cops ride around on buses and trains all day to curb the massive problem Baltimore has with violence on public transit. You most likely had your ticket written by one of them.

Comment Re:For us non-US folk... (Score 2) 272

Actually on Verizon switching phones is as easy as calling an activation number and waiting about 2 minutes for your old phone to be disconnected and your new one to be set up. The last time I had a GSM phone about 5 years ago service was widely unavailable in many rural parts of the Mid-Atlantic region and its still impossible to get GSM signal in underground areas (parking garages, basements, certain bars, etc.)
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North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land 417

First time accepted submitter ToBeDecided writes "A U.S. military reconnaissance plane was reportedly forced to perform an emergency landing during a major military exercise near the North Korean border in March. As revealed by the South Korean defense ministry, a strong signal transmitted from the north disrupted GPS in the area surrounding the position of the RC-7B aircraft. Without information about their position, the pilots were forced to abort their mission and return to South Korea. This raises the question whether the U.S. military would be able to perform operations in North Korea given how fragile their equipment seems to be."

Comment Re:Hope their drivers have improved (Score 1) 240

I have never had anything but problems with AMD products. IMO they make better space heaters than CPUs or GPUs, although I have never had to RMA 5 space heaters in 9 months. I ditched all of my AMD products last year and will never go back. I don't care who has the fastest graphics card in the world, I would still go with the Nvidia for reliability.

Comment Re:Here's why they are doing this (Score 1) 321

Except PFC Manning is allowed visits with family and friends and no one has said that he is staring at a wall for 23 hours a day. The disgustingly biased article in Salon went as far as to claim that he was denied access to newspapers and current events which has been disputed by one of their sources.

I'm not trying to say PFC Mannings imprisonment is all sunshine and rainbows, but to suggest that it is months on end of sensory deprivation and social isolation would be false.

Comment Re:Here's why they are doing this (Score 0) 321

Hello good sir, I work for the Government.

I would just like to thank you for your liberal usage of words such as 'torture' and 'under duress.' You see, every time somebody describes solitary confinement as torture it weakens a word which at one time used to bring up images of POW camps and medieval torture devices. Now thanks to the efforts of people like yourself, when the average person hears somebody is being tortured they can't be sure if an interrogator is driving splinters under their finger nails or if they have been denied access to cable TV. With your continuing support we hope to one day bring water boarding to the civilian population as an acceptable means of interrogation.

Sincerely,
The Man

Submission + - RapidShare Threatens Suit Over Piracy Allegations

Hugh Pickens writes: "PC Magazine reports that RapidShare, named as a contributor to digital piracy by a MarkMonitor report, has threatened to sue for defamation. "This defamation of RapidShare as a digital piracy site is absurd and we reserve the right to take legal action against MarkMonitor," says RapidShare in a statement. "RapidShare is a legitimate company that offers its customers fast, simple and secure storage and management of large amounts of data via our servers." MarkMonitor, a Web site that specializes in "enterprise brand protection," says in their study that the most-trafficked domains engaged in digital piracy included three sites — rapidshare.com, megavideo.com, and megaupload.com — that combined yielded 21 billion pageviews per year. RapidShare acknowledged that copyrighted files do get uploaded to its site, however "these users are in the absolute minority compared with those who use our services to pursue perfectly legitimate interests." RapidShare says that it does not open and view the files of its users, and contains no search function so that other users may look for content."

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