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Comment Potentially illegal and dangerous (Score 1) 230

Hmm potentially illegal in most jurisdictions falling under the same category as TV's that are viewable from the drivers seat while in motion. Plus it blocks part of the steering wheel which means you have to use an altered hand placement on the steering wheel(as opposed to 10 and 2 or 9 and 3). Also addressing the saving your life issue, is what happens if he does get into an accident which causes air bag deployment? I see either the iPad flying right into your face or if the mount is rigid enough blocking the airbag from deploying and sending your face potentially into the steering wheel and iPad. Plus the first rule of driving, when driving that should be your only task, not talking on a phone, text messaging, or even playing with the radio or heat controls. Save those for a stop light or pull over, or if you really need to use an iPad or cell phone while driving, hire a driver so you can do everything you "need" to do without endangering yours or more importantly others lives while out on the road.

Comment Re:More like a flaw in statistics (Score -1, Troll) 437

There is an important lesson to be learned here. In the UK they have a near completely socialized health care system which involves rationing of the health care. Some bureaucrat somewhere in London decided it was not a priority to deem such falls as non serious which lead to the death of her. If the current Obamacare plan passes in the US, this will start to happen much more often in the US as people deemed too much of a risk or a "low" chance of survival will be put to a lower priority. I know the US Congress members that are pro Obamacare and Obama himself say this will not happen, but it is what we have to look forward to if and when Obamacare becomes law.

Comment But why!?!?!? (Score 4, Interesting) 226

And to think that it seems all the rage is to be upgrading Atari's with an Svideo board as featured on hack-a-day a few weeks ago http://hackaday.com/2009/04/05/s-video-from-an-atari-2600/ . Honestly I don't know why people want to make their TV's look like a 30 year old TV display. The reason for all that bleeding was the circuitry that converted the video and audio signal to RF and then the deconverting of that signal in the TV. It is beyond me why anybody would want to make something look like it did, instead of how it should look. I grew up playing the Atari 2600 and I thought it was fun, but I certainly am not fond of how it looked. I'm just waiting for my SVideo converter board to arrive so I can upgrade my 2600 to look how it should, not how it did. (And I'm still using a CRT TV as well none of these new fangled LCD TV's). - XSS

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