Men think the same. So much for women's liberation becoming sexy play things for men...

Gotta love the Italians at Ferrari calling it a little sedan ("berlinetta"), though this name has a long tradition.

The DMCA also makes it illegal to own any equipment used to break DRM, i.e., computers. Therefore all of us are criminals according to American law.

All these laws have but one purpose: to protected the privileged, the publishers. In this day and age, this 18th century creature is ever more meaningless in this communications age, when jurisdictions are non-existent.

"The typical Internet user is liable up to $4.5 billion a year for copyright violations."

You got Texas all wrong! Here's the correct road: [mapq.st]

Who filed this patent, Mr. H. Simpson?

I thought of taking pictures of airplanes touching down at my town's airport, for they fly really low above an overpass. Then I read about an innocent aviation enthusiast being arrested for taking pictures of airplanes at an airport and I figured that, since this is not a free country anymore where your innocence is…

Just like Bimmer drivers in Texas. No big deal, provided the Russians pack as Texans do.

I'm assuming that this 2.0 is the same 140HP version with 8 valves and conventional turbo sold in Europe: [en.wikipedia.org]

VW should get on to certifying the 16-valve, vaned-turbo, 180HP version of this Diesel engine for sales stateside. Otherwise, sorry, it doesn't fool anyone.

Actually, he does. In the 3rd installment of his GPL, the license agreement that accompanies GNU software, all the rights belong to FSF, while all the liability belongs to the original author.

So much so that FreeBSD is aiming at 2014 to be totally GPL-free, i.e., ridding this OS of any GNU software, because rather than essential, GNU tools are toally replaceable.

As someone who contributes to open-source software by trade, I can tell you that the notion of testing in many such developer communities is "it worked on my computer" (or "car" in this case).

Many of the critical functions in the powertrain and chassis (like ABS brakes and ESP) are not processed in real-time, but are actually simple state machines driven by "maps" because otherwise the respective processors would have to be faster, more expensive ones and creating greater costs to guarantee that the…

Carroll Shleby thinks that Obama is sick!

I tried some of these, but always got better results with TurboTax, not to mention that some situations, like having sold ESPP stock or options, make it worth to pay for the premiers edition (but check your financial institutions for TurboTax deals). As a matter of fact, last year the IRS slapped me for a mistake and…

Correlated directly with the loss of value of the dollar relative to the yen over the same period.

"The styling is getting old," said Emerson Fittipaldi about the 911 when testing it for Quattroruote in the mid 70s, a cold reference to the laziest styling department on earth.

Move on!