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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://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... 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

by Rogue Pat (#45017431) Attached to: Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66
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.

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

by Rogue Pat (#35650332) Attached to: New York Times Paywall Goes Live, Loopholes Abound

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

by Rogue Pat (#35513852) Attached to: Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills
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

Submitted by sylverboss
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.
Programming

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

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
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.
Apple

Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes 1079

Posted by kdawson from the life-after-jobs dept.
Phil Schiller delivered the keynote at MacWorld, the first after the Steve Jobs era of keynotes. Here is Engadget's live blog. The big news, predicted by many rumor sites, was the introduction of the unibody 17" MacBook Pro. As rumored, the battery is not removable, but it's claimed to provide 8 hours of battery life (7 hours with the discrete graphics): "3x the charges and lifespan of the industry standard." $2,799, 2.66 GHz and 4 GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive, shipping at the end of January. There is a battery exchange program, and there is an option for a matte display. The other big news is that iTunes is going DRM-free: 8M songs today, all 10+M by the end of March. Song pricing will be flexible, as the studios have been demanding; the lowest song price is $0.69. Apple also introduced the beta of a Google Docs-like service, iWork.com.

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