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Comment: Re:It's called the key (Score 1) 1176

by Baloo Uriza (#42924449) Attached to: Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph
You seriously need to get your emergency brake adjusted, then. I had a service brake failure at turnpike speeds (~75mph) about two years ago and successfully stopped my Chevy Malibu with the e-brake. Emergency brake is exactly the right term. Can the engine overcome it? Yeah, if the throttle is stuck, but it at least gives you something holding the brake down a bit while you find a way to kill power.

Comment: Re:Awesome (Score 1) 1176

by Baloo Uriza (#42924411) Attached to: Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph
Steering wheel locks engage when the key is in the OFF or ACC position, regardless of what the transmission is in, on every car I've ever driven that even has a steering wheel lock. That said, wait for a straightaway, kill the engine and listen for it to stop, then go back to the ON position without going to the START position.

Comment: Re:potentially worth... (Score 1) 361

by Baloo Uriza (#42913263) Attached to: OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office

Out of those 138,928 downloads per day, how many people actually continued to use Open Office and how many used it briefly, discovered that it is crap and downloaded a pirated copy of Microsoft Office.

Want to know how we know you've never used OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

Comment: Re:Wow (Score 5, Insightful) 331

by Baloo Uriza (#42776511) Attached to: Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries'
Thank you for explaining why McDonald's is not only popular, but thriving, in the American midwest. I was surprised to discover that, unless you live in a big city like McAlester, Claremore or Lawton, indoor plumbing is still a "maybe." Want basic landline phone service? That's a very real maybe. Want electricity? That's almost definitely a solar panels on your roof thing. Want indoor plumbing? Then you're stuck on a water cistern or a well, both of which depend on electricity. Whether you go well or cistern largely depends on whether or not fracking has destroyed the water table yet. And if you're on a cistern in rural Oklahoma two years into a drought, well, a shower is a five gallon bucket of water heated with a bucket heater, once a week, and you're happy to have the luxury of water to spare for bathing at all. (No, your coworkers and clients don't complain, they're in the same boat).

Comment: Intel already does this (Score 1) 1009

by Baloo Uriza (#42101631) Attached to: Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs?
There's a few CPUs Intel already makes that has this situation. The pins go on the socket side and are spring loaded instead. Dell seems to be a big fan of this design on the Optiplex line, even though RMAing the boards requires stick-on plastic caps that, as often as not, don't stay grippy through shipping...

Comment: Re:The Most Secure Mobile OS (Score 1) 291

by Baloo Uriza (#39487797) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS?

Android Trojans might be found in dodgy third party app sites, but are quickly squashed in the Android Market (now called Google Play after one of the dumbest re-names in memory).

Clearly you weren't around during the .com bust when KPMG was renaming itself to something stupid every eighteen minutes. Or missed the rapidfire Pacific Northwest Bell > US West > Qwest > CenturyLink stupidity.

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