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Comment Re:nothing ot see, move on (Score 1) 159

all they could do with the brakes is turn off and on any "skid control" systems, the brake system on cars is STILL a mechanical/hydrochloric system , link from steering wheel to steering rack is not fly by wire in the EU, and cars still have "butterfly" valves for air intake, that is linked to pedal postion .. via mechanical cable

Wow, the EU must be a pretty backward place. From a performance stand point, I know when they unveiled the new 2005 Mustangs in America a lot of people griped that the throttle is electronically controlled, there is no direct linkage. Not to mention, luxury brands like Lexus, Range Rover, etc all use electronic throttle control. Hell, do you remember all of the "unexplained" acceleration problems that Toyota had? It was because of electronic throttle control. PS, they lost the lawsuit that dealt with a 2005 Camry.

Comment Re:Life, Liberty, or Property? (Score 1) 183

What next? Complaining about hidden compartment in desks?

I was thinking that the court can just order all paper to be made un-burnable. Because what's to stop me from writing a juicy secret on a piece of paper, handing it to you and when you're done reading it, you burn it? Sounds like either candles should be outlawed or loose leaf paper should be made out of asbestos and kevlar.

Comment Re:Bull Shit! (Score 1) 584

The problem is that the survey doesn't matter what level of privacy invasion is acceptable. "Some" invasion is okay. That means a lot to different people. Phone calls, internet monitoring, GPS tracking, car license plate readers and even grocery store receipts all count as privacy invasion but I'm betting more people get pissed at internet monitoring than grocery store receipt data mining. Of course, I would like to know how many terrorisms have been identified and prevented by any of the privacy invasions. Ultimately though I have to give a well thought out "Fuck you" to anyone that wants to start or continue privacy invasions for safety anyway.

Submission + - Internet Explorer Best At Blocking Malware 1

An anonymous reader writes: NSS Labs released the results and analysis from its web browser security comparative evaluating the protection offered by five browsers — Safari 5, Chrome 25/26, Internet Explorer 10, Firefox 19 and Opera 12 — against malware downloads. While Chrome’s malware download protection improved significantly — rising to more than 83% from 70% in NSS’ October 2012 comparative test — Internet Explorer 10 continues to outperform the other browsers with a block rate of 99.96%. Safari, Firefox and Opera continue to lag far behind Chrome and Internet Explorer with overall block rates of 10.16%, 9.92% and 1.87% respectively.

Submission + - Microsoft reads your Skype chat messages 1

An anonymous reader writes: A Microsoft server accesses URLs sent in Skype chat messages, even if they are HTTPS URLs and contain account information. A reader of Heise publications notified Heise Security (link to German website, Google translation). They replicated the observation by sending links via Skype, including one to a private file storage account, and found that these URLs are shortly after accessed from a Microsoft IP address. When confronted, Microsoft claimed that this is part of an effort to detect and filter spam and fishing URLs.

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