Empedocles99

Presumably, one of those Ikea items is made of stainless steel, which is an alloy of steel containing ~10-11% chromium.

There are a lot of coatings, metals, and metal alloys that are not safe to burn, including Galvanized Steel (Zinc), Stainless Steel (Chromium), and Magnesium.

Mapping down to the millimeter is great, but the conditions on track are continually changing. Weather (rain, sun, track surface temperature, air temperature), debris (dirt, grass, marbles, spectator thrown shoes), rubber being laid down on the track, changing condition of the driver's vehicle and other vehicles are all things that need to be contended with. Simulation helps, assuredly, and is used in human based efforts extensively, but you can't exactly just play back your simulation on a real track and expect the car to stay on course at race speed.

Maybe not exactly what you meant, but Raptr employs video game players (including a few pro/ex-pro players), and is a social network for video game players.

You would only be partially correct. See this report we did at Raptr:

http://blog.raptr.com/2011/09/27/zynga-report/

Specifically, ~20% of WOW players also played a Zynga game, and ~30% of XBox players also played a Zynga game.

Reminded me of this, a WWII/Cold War missile test site in San Diego:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/apr/02/--/

"you can get a small 3bdroom house for $300-$350K in a very safe area"

I'm curious where that is? In my area, the only house I saw for sale in that price range was a 1 bedroom house literally behind a strip joint.

The part you are missing is how do you get such an obviously fraudulent company listed in the first place?

A more interesting metric is: # of votes up / (# of times viewed or # of users viewed)

(to normalize against changing userbase size)

How did this person become a US Citizen if born in the UK? She got citizenship to work a summer job?

I'm on my fourth or fifth xbox 360 due to hardware failures. I lost track... that's one reason.

I thought the 40-bit keys were used due to cryptographic export restrictions, and not lack of randomness?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40-bit_encryption

Seems to agree with me.

Too many times has my computer succumbed to malware in ads (mostly flash and java). Noscript for me.

So, they've made it easier for people to launch simple denial of service attacks on hotmail accounts.

Are you referring to the "Rothschild" family?

Google has billions in cash sitting around, I'm sure if they hired a few thousand people to deal with this problem that some significant strides could be made. This, however, may not be the most prudent use of resources (cash).

The phone leaks password data? It tells an attacker that the password contains only numerics?

Songkick requires logging in to a facebook account. This site is doing exactly what we're discussing NOT doing.

It's pretty common for them to have pre-written obituaries for famous people that are likely to die soon.

See: Debate over Britney Spears' Obituary

http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-01-22/news/17150316_1_hollyw...

Except when they went rally racing in WRC, where they got banned for cheating in a really egregious manner.

Premise: a) Many (most?) small software outfits, and software developers don't agree that software should be patentable.

b) Some of us would be willing to pay an insurance premium against patent trolls

Proposal: Form an organization (or convince an existing one like the EFF) funded (donations, I'd presume) by all of us to:

a) Lobby for changes to to the patent process and law.

b) Aggressively challenge obvious software patents as being obvious, or using prior art.

c) Serve as a communal defense fund/legal help for small businesses against patent trolls.

d) Maintain a community database of bad patents and potential prior art (to be used in defensive or offensive legal actions)

If you are in the bay area, check out http://www.techshop.ws

They have woodworking tools and machines. The most awesome of which are: 2 CNC Routers, and a lathe

Also: chop saw, table saw, jigsaw, and some other stuff I don't know about.

I use the metal stuff there, it's a wonderful place to make stuff, plenty of people making interesting projects too.

I'm a member there, and don't benefit (other than getting to see other peoples crafts) from recommending this to you :)

Yeah, sometimes your information gets published to the web in unexpected ways. Like the first time I responded via google groups, google snuck my gmail address on the post (without indicating that it would), or how Amazon Web Services published my real name as a Developer Profile because I had to give a real name and credit card to try out S3.

I'm wondering if the publicity of personal fortunes being made inspired a ransomed attack?

Yeah, I really hate those non-digital optical media that all my software is on.

How to buy a car:

1) Do research, determine a reasonable price for the car.

The cost structure of car dealerships is complicated with incentives, to the buyer and the dealership from the manufacturer (holdbacks, etc.) There are spreadsheets and data available on the internet to compute fair pricing.

2) Call all the dealerships that you are willing to travel to. Tell them your price, ask if they will sell the car to you for that price, "out the door, including taxes and registration"

Many of them will say "we don't negotiate over the phone". That is fine, don't buy from them, they want you to come in and give you a hard sale.

Eventually you will find one or more that are willing to sell to you.

3) If you need financing, get it from a credit union beforehand, unless the dealership has a special deal going. One less thing to negotiate at the dealership.

4) The basic takeaway is: Don't go to the dealership to buy a car without an agreed price. Test drives in the days beforehand are fine. If you arrive, and they don't want to honor the price, just leave. There are more dealerships, dishonest people don't deserve your money.

Can't be that good if they need 40 more keyboardists.

I think you are misinterpreting. The taxpayers are the investors, and the government is holding these (imaginary after we pay for 300 billion in failed mortgages) profits. The poster wishes these profits by the government, which taxpayers have invested in, to be payed out as dividends (tax refunds)

Keep all lights red.

Nobody moves, pretty simple heuristic solves for reducing automobile accidents.

How about turning the light on?

Registration required?