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Comment: Re:My car has a fail-safe device... (Score 1) 356

by Jeffrey Baker (#37841148) Attached to: Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault

I used to own a compact Ford 4x4 pickup with a manual transmission and unfortunately the towing capacity was very low. Automatics are just a lot more heavy duty than the manuals they put into mass market trucks. As I recall the gross combined weight rating for the manual trans was some half a ton below that of the automatic.

Comment: Re:When you can't compete, sue... (Score 1) 178

by Jeffrey Baker (#33474866) Attached to: Texas Opens Inquiry Into Google Search Rankings

But as the state's budget shortfall widens-to as much as $18 billion, or about 20% of the next two-year budget, according to the state legislature's latest analysis released earlier this month-critics are complaining that Mr. Perry's policies have left the state with little room to reduce spending.

From the WSJ's article on Texas's massive budget deficity, which is substantially larger than California's.

Comment: Re:Security issue? (Score 5, Informative) 154

by Jeffrey Baker (#33109094) Attached to: Browser-Based Jailbreak For iPhone 4 Released

Yes, but there has never been a time where Mobile Safari was free of remotely exploitable flaws. If you look at the history of the iPhone OS release notes, you will always find gaping holes that were closed in Safari, and many of them were uncovered by third parties. For example see the release notes of iOS 4.0 which contain nuggets like "Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution" due to CVE-2009-2195 in WebKit.

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