Why would anyone want to try this at home? There are a thousand good places to hide stuff in a home. On the road though...

You are not getting a free Mini Cooper. You are getting a free of whatever the owner hid in the secret compartment.

Xkcd had done a chart about Money ( [xkcd.com] ), and among other things, he calculated that a Volt is a good buy over a 5 year period (compared to a Honda Fit) only if gas cost $10/gallon. The really strange thing? The Opel Ampera (Volt's european version) is even more expensive than the Volt.

You are not fooling anyone, Google. We know where you get your storage and bandwidth from.

I think the "zombie region" should be removed, and the cars of "zombie region" be moved into the other three categories. Just because the nameplates of these cars don't exist anymore, it doesn't reduce the value of the cars. Just sayin'

Why not just format shift to MP4 or MKV? Of yeah, the Hollywood studios say it's "illegal" (never mind it's not outside the US, and "gray area" inside the US).

Many MKV-capable smart TVs don't have digital out and so they can't play DTS. And why get a DTS receiver if you don't have a surround setup? IMO it would be better to use AAC, which is an ISO standard, for all kinds of streams (even stereo). That way, MKV-capable players would have one format to support (not AC3, DTS,…

People, this is what you get if you demand more humane conditions in the Foxconn factories. Apple can't whip the Foxconn employees as hard as they used to, so that they 'll work 24hours a day to have the new iThings ready on time.

Way to fight about unimportant things (Xvid aka "avi" vs x264 aka "mkv") when the real problem is that those pirates have yet to define a proper standard for x264/MKV. Their "x264 standard" ( [scenerules.irc.gs] ) is full of ambiguities, as they don't define max bitrates. Plus, they allow the use of lame audio streams…

What I know is that my next PC will be a Vizio, even if I have to import the thing from the US using fed-ex. With Microsoft Security Essentials (free and ultra-light on resources) there is no excuse for OEMs to bundle Norton and McAfee. Third party anti-virus firms need to get the message that they are not useful…

Lesson of the day: You don't have to become like Greece, where real estate records are still kept in paper-only form by the government (=really large books, no computers), but things like voting are better done in paper.

The problem is that nations don't have a stable tax policy, so every time the governments fail in their numbers, we are supposed to cover the damage through "emergency taxes" that are part of every "austerity program". There should be a paragraph in the constitution mandating a stable tax policy that makes "emergency…

I always wondered what kind of people have more than 3 kids. Aren't they aware that most of the cars worth driving have a maximum of 5 seats? (aka 2 for the parents and 3 for the kids)

I actually like Vevo, because it's sticking it to the Record Labels in a legal way. VEVO streams music clips through YouTube, and the law allows you to save a copy of the video to your harddrive (it's done using a tool like Video DownloadHelper for the 3 of you that still don't know it), much like the law allows you…

They are profitable if you are smart enough to sell the printer at a loss and make big bucks from overpriced ink cartridges (HP, Canon). They are profitable if you are smart enough to sell the printer at normal price and let people know it has a cheap ink and cost per page (Lexmark). They are not profitable if you…

*Sigh* I don't even want to think about it.. "This smartphone game requires an 1.5Ghz dualcore processor, 2GB ram to run, your 1Ghz dual core won't do". Someone should force app makers to make sure their apps with 800Mhz CPU, just to avoid the system requirement mess that ruined PC gaming and made laptop gaming…

Big Content fatcat: "Now that we 've got that ACTA thing passed in Europe and Japan, maybe we should consider eliminating the pro-customer options we created as a response to the piratebay. If the Europeans and the Japanese accept ACTA, it will be a piece of cake to pass similar legislation here in the good ol' US".

If she was making her own money, then why you couldn't afford to run her? ("making her own money" doesn't mean making 700 bucks and spending 7000, lol).

"With NHTSA's closure of the investiga into the Chevy Volt"

And this is why you should always make it clear from the start that she has to make her own money. Better not start a relationship at all than start one that's doomed from the get-go, IMO.