It really is.

You can have more than one source supply power to a light bulb. In the case of the brakes, it's a physical switch. In the case of the hazard lights, it's a physical switch linked to a relay. The ABS only comes into play when the computer detects a wheel lock-up, and it does it by reducing the braking pressure, in pulses. If there is no computer response, then the brakes will apply normally.

My car is ~6 months old (and Japanese). It has a physical switch for the brake lights. As did the 10+ cars before that.

Braking *has* to be a mechanical system. If the computer that controls your fly-by-wire goes up the shitter, then you would be left with a car than cannot be stopped, unless you're lucky enough to be going up a hill. Nobody would sign off on such a thing. There is a chance the brake servo may not work, but it's very unlikely, as there have been brake servos long before there were ECUs, and I can't think of a good reason to try to make a brake servo electronic.

If this womans brake lights came on at all, then all the time they did not come on, she was NOT braking.

What happened with your father in law is likely different. I had a Peugeot that would also rev itself, but only at idle. This was most likely due to a faulty sensor, as it would be alright after a service, and other people I know with similar age peugeots had the same thing. A solution for your father in law would be to take it out of gear and apply the handbrake when he's stopped, like his instructor probably mentioned.

The problem is that 'bad users' may not know any of this, and when a window comes up that says 'enter root password to install software', they will happily type it in. If it says 'You need to enter the root password on initial execution', they will type it in there too, as long as the end result is pictures of Shakira, or whoever the fuck.

Shame there's not a patch for being an antisocial elitist.

Aside from all the porn-deleting goodies, it's actually a fantastic file manager. Options out the wazoo, scriptable, extendable, and configurable down to the pixel.

I don't leave home without it.

You can't respond to quotes you made up yourself, you retarded fucking cretin.

The 'X just called and wants X' meme just tweeted that you need to go back to the nineties when it was only 10 years old.

I'm sure I remember him (mIRC creator) saying at one point that he would be risher if he'd worked at McDonalds.

A shame. If he got even $0.50 per copy downloaded, or had adverts, he'd be as rich as shit.

Agreed. The Windows 7 explorer isn't great for me. It's better than the Vista one, but it's still not enough.

I'm a fan of Directory Opus, an old Amiga throwback that has more options than you'd know what to do with. Price is competetive too. I've been using it since XP. Simply having favourites is enough for most people. The built in viewers and plug in options will be enough for every one else.

Google for it, you won't be disappointed.

To be honest, shitty file explorers are one of the reason I hate my Mac, and can't be arsed to install another release of Linux.

Easy on the rage-tears there, chief. Wouldn't want you to short circuit anything, and perhaps, die. Would we?

Watch out, he'll call you a 'fanboi' next. Or a shill. Those are good counter-arguments around here, right?

TouchFlo was a dog. I was so glad when I disabled it.

People write software for 'Nix because they need to do something, and nobody else wrote a program for it.

People write software for Macs because they need to do something, and think it would be funny to charge a fortune to let other people use it ($20-30 for a tool to unfuck the mouse acceleration)

People write software for Windows because they like money.

On the PS3, it's locked to your PSN account.

The copy you downloaded is locked to your console, but if you get a new console, you can just download it again. This is how the PSN game sharing works.

I have the other consoles, but I have no idea what the DL policy is.