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Comment It happened to me (Score 1) 756

I'm in the USA, where we drive on the RIGHT side of the road..---right having a double-meaning of the side, as well as "correct" :-) On Feb 6 2011, I was in a 60mph front-end collision with a girl that chose to make a two-lane right-hand turn in front of my lane. Both front airbags deployed and I lived.--duh, obviously. Where were my hands? Prior to thinking "holy $h1t!" and slamming into the girl's car, I had the right hand on the shifter, and left hand at about 8:00--This is how I normally drive. I believe I had enough time to grab the wheel with both hands in order to hold both sides of the wheel as I went for the brake pedal. I don't know if I got that far as it happened so fast. Being 6'1", I sit as far back from the wheel as I can, just to ensure adequate leg-room. In this case, it paid off as I never hit the airbag with my face. The seatbelt restrained me before I could get that far. I don't recall my arms hurting at all from any possible air-bag induced throwback, so it would be hard to say where exactly I had the wheel gripped. At the scene, and for about 4 weeks afterward, my chest hurt dead-center where the seatbelt crosses the breastbone. It felt like someone punched me in the chest HARD. It hurt to sneeze, cough, and laugh while it was healing. Thankfully there appears to be no permanent damage. My vote overall though would be to agree that 10:00 and 2:00 are not the right spots in a modern airbag-equipped car. Also, tell your passenger wife/girlfriend that driving with their feet up on the dash in the passenger front seat to do their toe-nails, or just to relax is also a bad I ideal. I'd hate to see what happens when that passenger airbag goes off and sends their ankles through the windshield.
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Exploit Found to Brick Most HP and Compaq Laptops 294

Ian Lamont writes "A security researcher calling himself porkythepig has published attack code that can supposedly brick most HP and Compaq laptops. The exploit uses an ActiveX control in HP's Software Update. It would 'let an attacker corrupt Windows' kernel files, making the laptop unbootable, or with a little more effort, allow hacks that would result in a PC hijack or malware infection.' The same researcher last week outlined a batch of additional vulnerabilities in HP and Compaq laptops, for which HP later issued patches."

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