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Comment Re:BMW software, especially mp3 player is total cr (Score 1) 54

The way the car locks and unlocks can be changed in the settings. As you mention, I assume this is a safety issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... was kidnapped and subsequently killed after he unlocked his car, and the kidnapper entered through the passenger door which was also automatically unlocked.

Comment Red Rabbit... (Score 1) 236

I remember reading The Sum Of All Fears in 1993 as my first Clancy book. I couldn't put it down and read it all the way through until 4 am.

Fast forward 20 or so years, and many books by Clancy. Then I started reading his Red Rabbit.

What a horrible book. His whining and rambling about how much worse the coffee is in England than in the US. How horrible the beef in Eastern Europe is as compared to the US. And making the same comments on this, over and over and over and over again. What a load of drivel it became!

Still enjoy playing the Ghost Recon games though.
Apple

Submission + - Steve Jobs superyacht impounded over unpaid bill (reuters.com)

Rogue Pat writes: Reuters reports that superyacht built for Steve Jobs has been impounded in Amsterdam because of a dispute over an unpaid bill to designer Philippe Starck.

Starck has received 6 million euros out of a 9 million euro commission for his work and is now seeking to recover the rest of what he was owed.

Comment Re:And NYT's readership goes up... (Score 1) 127

they got hit by events OUTSIDE the plans (quick name me all of the quakes in that region 0.5 points below what they got hit with and greater)

Nice fallacy there.
Just because you and I don't know the names, it doesn't mean that the engineers designing the plant didn't have to take other quakes into account.
Typical such a plant would have to have to be designed to withstand an event with a 1 in 1000 years frequency.

Comment Re:Sounds like... (Score 1) 232

Apple had a system in place for protecting against in-app purchases from the start (there was already a setting for this under Restrictions).
Also, one could simply sign out of their iTunes account before passing the iDevice on to someone else.

However, over time it became apparent that there were people that were not protected sufficiently by this either because they weren't aware of these options or because they weren't aware of the risk. So Apple included an additional protection for this when they updated iOS.

Simply a matter of progressing insight and now the "loophole" has been closed. No need to blame either Apple or the parents.
Intel

Submission + - Intel to buy smartphone chipmaker Infineon for $2B 1

sylverboss writes: Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, is close to an agreement to buy Infineon Technologies AG’s wireless business, three people with direct knowledge of the discussions said. When it comes to desktop, laptop and server chips, Intel’s pretty much got a lock on the market but everyone can see the writing on the wall: mobile chips and architectures are the future of computing thanks to the popularity of smartphones, but Intel doesn’t have anything to offer in that regard. Don’t know Infineon? You should: they are the guys who have supplied Apple with their iPhone baseband chips since 2007.

Submission + - Gun buy back in Aust --stunning fall in suicides (smh.com.au) 6

Phurge writes: TEN years of suicide data after John Howard's decision to ban and then buy back 600,000 semi-automatic rifles and shotguns has had a stunning effect.

The buyback cut firearm suicides by 74 per cent, saving 200 lives a year, according to research to be published in The American Law and Economics Review.

A former Australian Treasury economist, Christine Neill, now with Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, said she found the research result so surprising she tried to redo her calculations on the off chance the total could have been smaller.

''I fully expected to find no effect at all,'' she told the Herald. ''That we found such a big effect and that it meshed with a range of other data was just shocking, completely unexpected.''

Programming

Submission + - Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-sort Barrier (google.com) 2

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at the University of Virginia have recently open sourced an algorithm capable of sorting at a rate of one billion (integer) keys per second using a GPU. Although GPUs are often assumed to be poorly suited for algorithms like sorting, their results are several times faster than the best known CPU-based sorting implementations.

Submission + - IE worldwide marketshare drops below 50% (statcounter.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: For the second weekend in a row the combined marketshare of all Internet Explorer versions around the world dropped below 50%

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