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Comment Re:700 pounds -- goodbye safety standards! (Score 0) 319

A car that will never sell anywhere in the US due to total inability to pass crash safety test.

I'm not sure I agree. While I am not a materials or composite engineer, I'm pretty confident (based on my experience with bicycles) that composites are frequently much stronger and safer (more crash-resistant) than steel. I raced steel frames on bikes for a long time. A light, built bike was considered one that hit the 20lbs mark. That fell to 18lbs with Titanium, but these frames were more brittle in a crash. I wrecked plenty of both. Today, I can get a carbon bike down to under 14lbs depending on component build. I still crash, but the frames have a much higher survival rate even though they are significantly lighter. So I see no reason a properly designed composite car frame would not equal or improve crash safety standards.

Comment This is not about WINE at all.... (Score 0) 701

WINE is irrelevant to the issue, I believe. WoW EULA explicitly prohibits the operation of any application that interacts with WoW while you are connected. This is more or less how they define bots. Its why, for example, they outlaw mods that let you control iTunes from within the game, but let you log off and report your gathering data to Thottbot. The programmable keyboard with its macro environment creates exactly the sort of executables that the EULA prohibits. Which is something of a pity, because I love playing WoW but I absolutely hate farming. On the other hand, I certainly get pissed when I see some automated toon farming my herbs out from under me like clockwork...

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