Back in high school, the passenger would nonchalantly bump the floor shifter into neutral when the driver was stopped at a red light. If you did it right, the driver wouldn’t realize for a few seconds why their car wasn’t moving, and get honked at by the people stuck behind them. Dangerous? Yes. Hilarious? Also yes.…

This is true. I know a few people who live on a winding single lane county road that it's far too easy to speed on. Almost once a month an officer will come and knock on their door, asking if they can catch speeders from their driveway.

Isn't that why the insurance companies who insure cars like that have coverage for diminished value in the case of an accident?

I was stuck in incredibly slow moving traffic on a long exit ramp. Bored, and trying to keep myself occupied at the 2mph pace, when rolling foward I would sharply steer left and right, so that even though I was in the same lane, I'd be rocking the car left and right. Then the car behind me started doing it too. And so…

Someone in the other page addressed this comment, but basically it would be close to impossible to implement for at least the next generation of mail trucks. The problem is the power grid. Putting in enough chargers(and ones powerful enough to get the trucks charged for the next day of deliveries) would be the…

I was going to argue that there would be some people who would care, but seeing as they would first have to own an odyssey to care, they must have already given up on life.

My 02 Subaru has DRL's that are on whenever the handbrake is disengaged. Headlights are manual though. (although the headlights turn off when you turn the car off, so you could supposedly always leave your headlights switched on).

Hola unblocker sometimes stops working for bbc iplayer. I signed up for www.privateinternetaccess.com for other reasons(mostly to conceal my torrenting, etc.) for $40/year and it works great for all sorts of "tv-on-the-internet" things, as well as torrenting. when you click connect in your menu bar, you choose the…

Philly gets enough snow for it to not be an issue. It flurried here all day today, no big deal. It takes a really heavy storm for anything to stick on the streets; they stay nice and warm from the steam pipes, subways, etc.

If you're building a PC, here's one thing that might NOT pay for itself over time: Spending the extra money to get an i7 processor over the i5. For instance, you can compare the $219 Intel Core i5-4670 vs the $309 Intel Core i7-4770. These processors are nearly identical in performance. The only major difference is…

A cheaper option for those just looking for a daily pair of sneakers, look no further than the $85 Chrome Industries, Particularly the Timur. Instead of most shoes where the rubber sole is glued to the top of the shoe, these are forged, where the rubber is pressed through the top of the shoe(which is fire hose…

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I'm just going off of what it took for me to get a CableCard from comcrap. Because it was that ridiculous. They even said they had to send a technician out to "install the CableCard" into the cable box. I can update this with the Comcast experience come Thursday though...

+1 for SSD. They're fairly cheap nowadays, if you have PC running Windows and has a second gen core i processor(sandy bridge) or newer, you can pop in a 64GB SSD and get a huge boost with a 3 minute configuration using Intel Smart Response.

This. I got rid of my cable boxes with an HDHR Prime. With Comcast your first M-Card is free. I have high throughput wifi equipment, plus a gigabit wired network. I can watch TV on my phone, tablet and PC. Even better, I have an old Core 2 Duo equipped HP workstation PC with half a GB of ram. I have Windows Media…

Comcrap charges $10 for their pretty terrible modem/wifi gateway. I actually just bought the Motorola Surfboard on Woot. It comes in Thursday, but I suspect that it will take 11 phone calls and some tech to come to my house before it works, and then another 4 months before the rental fee is no longer applied to my…

I have always heard that especially for a high mileage car, if it has dino oil, stick with that. If it has synthetic, stick with that. It's not necessarily a bad thing to switch, the residual oil mixing with your new oil could slightly change the viscosity or otherwise make the oil not as effective. But this was info…

A lot of scripting deployment options for cloud services use RoR. Seeing as everybody is moving to the cloud, it makes sense.

You took that car, to THAT Wal-Mart? I drive a third hand econo car and even I worry about somebody smashing it with two or three hundred shopping carts and some panther platform car...

The thing that sucks about these web cams, from cheap no name ones, to several thousand dollar ones, is that security looks to be an afterthought, and firmware is shared across multiple brands and cameras. most of these cameras have very simple flaws that allows an attacker to get your credentials, or even the…