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Comment Re:There's a button for that (Score 1) 1146

My very first thought when I heard the story about the police officer in California and his family dying because of the accelerator issue was "Why didn't they put it in Neutral and shut off the key?" Even with the fancy fob, if you hold the "Start" button in, it will shut off. Assisted parking is obviously designed by someone whose kid or wife or husband was backing into cars a lot and didn't want them to have to worry about it anymore. ;-) I've had more issues with ABS and Traction Control in my 12 years of driving than I care to remember. Worst of which was being stuck in my steep driveway in about 4" of snow for 10min. Traction control kept killing the throttle and I didn't realize it. When I woke up from the adrenaline-fused anger, I thought "Maybe I should switch this off?" and up and out the driveway I went in one shot. All because my 4WD was in the shop and I had to borrow my dad's Hyundai sedan...
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Flash Cookies, a Little-Known Privacy Threat 225

Wiini recommends a blog posting exploring Flash cookies, a little-known threat to privacy, and how you can get control of them. 98% of browsers have Macromedia Flash Player installed, and the cookies it enables have some interesting properties. They have no expiration date; they store 100 KB of data by default, with an unlimited maximum; they can't be deleted by your browser; and they send previous visit information and history, by default, without your permission. I was amazed at some of the sites, not visited in a year or more, that still had Flash cookies on my machine. Here's the user-unfriendly GUI for deleting them, one at a time, each one requiring confirmation.
First Person Shooters (Games)

id Software Announces Doom 4 425

spoco2 writes "The id Software site has announced that work has begun on the next sequel to their most famous game, Doom. Will they be able to resurrect the series after what many considered to be a serious misstep with Doom 3? Oh... and they're hiring for the team, so maybe you can steer them in the right direction?"

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