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In Ontario, they're ridiculously low, too. Generally what I do is double it and add 10, and then you're taking the corner at a reasonable speed for dry pavement conditions, but not pushing really hard.

I've seen advisory speeds for 30 km/h. Yes, 30 _kilometres_ per hour. That's 18.5 MPH.
This corner:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=newbury+ontario&sll=43.260206,-79.932404&sspn=0.472046,1.352692&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Newbury,+Middlesex+County,+Ontario&ll=42.705966,-81.835721&spn=0.007443,0.021136&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.706013,-81.835838&panoid=lC7azMErD58DPgRaFESakA&cbp=12,134.74,,0,16.37

has such an advisory speed.
I've successfully taken it, without undue stress, at 80 km/h in several different full size GM vehicles, none with sport suspension, or any particular handling prowess. And this is without leaving my lane, too.

I'm sure if I took it in a sports car I could easily do it at 100, and an original rubber ball suspension Mini would probably be able to take it at 130 or so. But the legal speed limit on this road is only 80 km/h (50 MPH). So the local government is setting the maximum speed limit at the speed that this corner (the tightest on this stretch of road) can be taken at, then lowering the advisory speed for this corner by over 60%.

"However, only in this certain region in Alberta do they get this rainbowy colour."

This isn't strictly true. The rainbow-like colour is the iridescent shell of the ammonite -- like the shiny mother-of-pearl found in modern-day mollusc shells (clams, snails, nautilus, etc.). Although fossil mother-of-pearl is not common (usually the aragonite of mother-of-pearl alters to calcite), it is found in a variety of fossil shells and locations world-wide (this one is from Madagascar). Is not unique to fossil ammonites, and it is not unique to fossil shells found in Alberta. That being said, species of the genus Placenticeras are large ammonites with a thick shell that, when suitably polished, make particularly nice pieces of iridescent shell material, and these ammonites are fairly common in southern Alberta. They are also known from the northwestern United States (e.g., Montana), where the same Late Cretaceous-aged formations occur. The industrious people that sell this stuff have given it the name "ammolite". It is beautiful stuff, but it is not nearly as rare as the wikipedia page suggests. That's marketing.

The border cuts four of the five lakes more or less in half.

I would be happy to set my google.com background to black. But yeah, no reason not to make it as customizable as iGoogle. Just don't scare folks.

> I recall reading that they would like to remove the "I'm feeling lucky"
> button (because no one uses it), but they can't. Users simply can't
> handle large changes.

I think they also realize that every "cool and viral" news story about Google usually refers to clicking I'm feeling lucky.

The fact that it is disused means that when the top pagerank doesn't give the desired result they can probably get away with fudging results for the lulz. It's possible for a top pagerank to change more than once per day.

I guess the fact that 'remove Google background' was the seventh most searched for phrase today might have had something to do with it.

So we should all search for "why is Google becoming evil?" a couple times a day? So crazy it might work.

Here's one 5-way (light controlled) and one 6-way (stop sign controlled) within two blocks of one another no less. Hooray for diagonal streets running through a grid!

There's also this one. It's called Confusion Corner, but it's not bad at all once you know how it works, which lanes go where, etc.

Here's one 5-way (light controlled) and one 6-way (stop sign controlled) within two blocks of one another no less. Hooray for diagonal streets running through a grid!

There's also this one. It's called Confusion Corner, but it's not bad at all once you know how it works, which lanes go where, etc.

Here's one 5-way (light controlled) and one 6-way (stop sign controlled) within two blocks of one another no less. Hooray for diagonal streets running through a grid!

There's also this one. It's called Confusion Corner, but it's not bad at all once you know how it works, which lanes go where, etc.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=site%3Amicrosoft.com+%22james+hamilton%22+%22internet+scale%22&btnG=Google+Search

I'm in Links right now, so figuring out which links are the best is beyond this browser, but some of those ROCK.

I was actually thinking of starting a "Jesus and Mary Making Out" image contest, to see how Facebook would react to that. My guess is that they would have banned my page as offensive, even while they were defending the Mohammed day contest as free speech -- despite the fact that the Jesus with Mary images (I'm talking about Mary Magdalene here, not his mother) would be much less offensive to Christians than the Mohammed images are to Muslims.

(( One interesting thing about images of Mohammed in Islam is that the rule against having pictures of Mohammed was to prevent the man from being revered -- as opposed to the teachings he wrote in the Koran. Unfortunately, the rule against pictures has now, itself, become a way of revering him. .. ah, silly humans. ))

City folk indeed. Despite being raised in the city I still managed to pick up the 'common knowledge' that

a) Highways are dangerous
b) You walk on the shoulder opposite the flow of traffic (so you can see what's coming).

Hell, my city barely even has a highway in it!

So which was it? Funny, or disgusting? Do you get to have it both ways?

Sounds pretty hilarious to me, so I went and looked it up LOL yeah that is pretty funny.

And yes, I firmly believe that if it's OK for you to make fun of JC then it's absolutely OK for you to make fun of other religions. Why wouldn't you think so? Fair is fair after all. Heck, "Thou shalt have no other god before me" is broken all the time by the various worshippers of Mary in the Christian world, and nobody out there is throwing firebombs or beheading anyone for it.

Maybe you should try calming down a little. The world isn't out to get you, and big bad Google and Facebook aren't stalking you while you're walking home at night.

You're absolutely right. They follow you during broad daylight.

How many parsecs is that? Er, wait ... [head asplode]

More important still, how many beard seconds is that?

"We're very happy to give the money away," said Jason Argent, vice president of marketing for 2K Sports. "This was something innovative we dreamed up and we were really able to make some noise in the marketplace."

Maybe you'll be happy to know there are other alternatives that are very interesting appearing on the CPU manufacturer radar:
1)Godson 3A(4-core) and 3B(8-core).
http://translate.google.ca/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmw.cn%2Fcontent%2F2010-04%2F21%2Fcontent_1099818.htm&sl=zh-CN&tl=en

www.lemote.com will also have a 3A offering in August.

2)Nivida Tegra T20 seems to also be a 4-cores among other cool features.
http://www.clonedinchina.com/2010/01/viewsonic-vtablet-101-android-tablet.html

Or just support independent/creative commons artists. I was living in and out of the box for a while until in the last week I discovered tons of free music here http://www.ektoplazm.com/section/free-music/ and here http://www.jamendo.com/en/ and metlabels http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ei=nsrJS5TbF4jMsgOJr4XxAg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAwQBSgA&q=netlabels&spell=1

Eldrad must live!
Eldred? Oh!... Never mind.

selling 300,000 units on the first day

After 6 months of solid unrelenting hype on TV, radio, blogs, with endless lines of pundits and celebrities proclaiming it the second coming of Christ, that's not a particularly impressive number. And now, of course, comes the let down and the growing chorus of people returning their iPads. Oh, and it is interesting to note that the eee PC, which got NO hype before it was released, sold about 4 million units in its first few months too.

To not show how to have safe sex is pretty much to rely on either teaching the kids nothing and let them learn the hard way, or teach abstinence in the schools. Problem is, abstinence doesn't work. This has been shown many times.

And to not show any safe sex information is worse, as shown in in China where they don't teach much about safe sex and this leads to many unwanted pregnancies. Teens are bombarded with images and messages of sex every day, even in places like the supermarket where the latest issues of magazines like Cosmo, scream sex on their covers for all to see. Then you have ads from companies like American Apparel. These images just play on teenage hormones so teens need to learn this since it's thrown at them so much and so often. And we can already see what happens if we don't.

This photo is obviously hiding her legs and "appendage" http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Naoko_yamazaki.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naoko_yamazaki.jpg&h=3000&w=2400&sz=1224&tbnid=1BPigELKZjoTYM:&tbnh=252&tbnw=201&prev=/images%3Fq%3DNaoko%2BYamazaki&hl=en&usg=__lwSUAKoG3cM5evUWAC5IMSoM6ho=&ei=yL-8S-qBN4jusQOqreCnBQ&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image&ved=0CA8Q9QEwAw

If there is a god, he's not even *trying* to be fair.

I got news for you.

Neither should you underestimate the technological sophistication of the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC"). This is the same court that recently, in R. v. Morelli, overturned a warrant for child pornography on the basis that the contents of an internet browser cache does not constitute possession.

This court also, 4 months ago, decided in Grant v. Torstar Corp. to create a new defence against defamation of "responsible communication on matters of public interest". This new defence allows citizens (including bloggers as well as traditional journalists) to publish critical statements that may not necessarily be true, but are made in good faith towards the public interest. If this defence existed in the UK, then the British Chiropractic Association would not have been able to sue Dr. Simon Singh for scientifically doubting chiropractic claims of success.

A few years ago, the SCC issued a decision in CCH v. Upper Law Society of Canada, that clarified the "fair dealing" defence in Canadian copyright law. That case dismissed an allegation that merely placing a photocopier in a library was an inducement to copyright infringement.

Finally, the SCC itself has incorporated technology into its proceedings. The work flow is paperless; documents must be filed digitally. The court is outfitted with terminals at every station, and the documents are viewed on screens. Selected hearings are broadcast over the internet.

Yes, IAAL, and a GNU/Linux user to boot. It bugs me when people automatically assume that lawyers are technologically inept.

I'd link to the relevant page, but then I'd probably be sued by him. :-)

[Hint: he's a silly person that thinks linking to potentially libelous information about him amounts to actually speaking the libel]

Meh, I'm not that scared, because Google can take the rap for the actual links :-)

Yeah, because industry-funded research groups don't have a history of underhanded tactics for subverting the scientific process that would make scientists want to actively resist those actions.

Yeah, because industry-funded research groups don't have a history of underhanded tactics for subverting the scientific process that would make scientists want to actively resist those actions.

Well, if you have a look at this paper, I think the most telling statistic is simple: folks in the US travel more than double the distance vs. those in Britain, but total time spent travelling is roughly the same. This means our average rate of speed is nearly double that in GB. Double the speed, 1.4x the fatalities.

Well it is limited to your country, and also your home. License simply means to give someone rights, and they are giving you at least two rights, on condition, on the back of (probably) every dvd.
*(disclaimer, i do not buy dvds so cant say for sure)

For reference, take a look at the back of one of these fine dvds right here: Examples

The Pirate Party is platforming on reducing excessive copyright terms. A quick Google search: shows depending on the country of operation values such as 5 and 10 years. I think those are too low, I think a minimum should be 14 years as that was good enough when distribution was primitive and I think with negotiation the magic number should fall between 15-20 years. The Pirate Party is not against copyrights, they are against excessive copyrights.

No idea, I don't have one. All I know is that searches like this indicate it's a real problem for some (well, or, at least, they think it is...).

Though, I must admit, the fact that I can't find specific model numbers is rather... suspicious (I assume it was some model(s) of D-Link, Linksys, etc, router). ie, people definitely blame the routers in various discussion forums, but I've never seen any one router pinned down as a problem. So I could be mistaken. Though the conclusion is often the same: they disable v6, and their problems go away.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of noise in this signal that can make it tough to pin down where the real problems lie. For example, one issue that has definitely bitten people was a bug in glibc where it would attempt to resolve to find a AAAA record for a host before falling back to A, even though the box didn't have v6 connectivity. This kind of issue could easily be blamed on a router, when it's actually a software bug (that, thankfully, is fixed, AFAIK).

The Indian government has instituted a lot of affirmative action policies to address this

http://www.google.ca/search?q=india+affirmative+action&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

The difference between Indian and china is that India is a democracy and the lower castes represent votes. Votes keep the government in power... see where I am going with this?

Actually they do match.

A "fifth" is actually 1/5gal, or "one fifth of a gallon". This is 25.6oz of fluid, which is why in Canada we call it a "26'er"
Google translates this to 757.082357 ml.
Further, I'm not sure where you get your pints, but a 355ml bottle of beer isn't enough to fill a proper pint glass.
A pint is 16oz, 450ml, just shy of 2/3 of a fifth. A standard bottle of beer is 12oz. If you're only getting 250ml when you step up to the bar, I would hope you head back there now and get your change.

All true. However unless you're talking actual chip design and electrical engineering, ROM and firmware have been used as interchangeable terms for over two decades, even long after the firmware stopped being shipped on ROMs.

"ROM" firmware has been shipped on flash RAM on computer motherboards for over a decade. Nowadays, flash has dropped so much in price that only cheap disposable electronic goods still use actual ROM chips.

Things like this don't exactly help keep the distinction in the mainstream either. ROM is easy to say and remember compared to firmware. The fact is that the acronym/word's meaning mutated when it transitioned to the mainstream from its original EE jargon roots.

is there a more full-featured console available in windows 7? CMD feels so clunky after coming from the terminal app in Mac OS X.

Windows 7 comes with PowerShell which is more featured than CMD. You can also try and download a copy of bash for Windows, there sre a few versions.

Buy? Market? Who said anything about a market?

The number of Americans without health insurance is 47 million, according to the U.S. census.

Go and check the methodology for that number, firstly it is not sourced from the census it is sourced from two surveys. Secondly it covers everyone including resident aliens and those on temporary visas. Thirdly when you drill down in to the data you will note a significant number (~30 million) are firmly in the middle classes and can afford insurance but choose not to.

Many people do not want insurance.

Further, according to Paul Krugman, the U.S. spends over 15% of GDP on healthcare, nearly twice that of the U.K at around 8%.

Again you get a much clearer idea with the raw data as compared to the opinion on the issue - countries report healthcare spending in extremely different ways, primarily the US reports on all spending including cosmetic and other quazi-healthcare spending whereas other countries do not.

Besides this I clearly stated that non-medical costs consume 80% of the spend, the expense is largely down to people wrongly assuming that they need full coverage insurance, they don't and until fairly recently insurance didn't cover visits to the dr etc.

Perhaps rather than mandating insurance government should be raising awareness on why the alternatives are often preferable.

According to Google the life expectancy of the UK is 79.3 years, and 78 years in the U.S.

Supportive healthcare is less important then lifestyle, a minority of early deaths can indeed be explained by lack of access to healthcare but as the US already has supportive care for the elderly (not to mention in excess of that in most of Europe) but lifestyle choices such as eating habits and smoking (Both of which are generally higher in the US) have a much larger impact. As an indication of this 8 times the number of Americans have heart attacks compared to Britons yet the survival rate is better then the UK (In the UK 48% die within 28 days of having a heart attack, in the US this is 12%).

The infant mortality rate in the U.S. is higher than the U.K. also (by about 1% I understand).

Again lifestyle choices are in play here as much, if not more, then healthcare access.

All to say this post – like many on this topic with an agenda – is utter, mindless drivel.

You don't have an agenda here? clearly you support socialised medicine of one form or another so clearly you have an agenda as much as I do, the difference being I don't want to force my view on to other people - they can have their single payer system as long as it remains voluntary and doesn't restrict my property rights via taxation.

The U.S. would have a much better healthcare system (among other things) if there weren't so many people like this with baseless yet entrenched positions.

As I mentioned earlier I recently migrated to the US. I have used the healthcare systems in the UK, France, SA and the US. While France was marginally better then the UK (I was able to actually visit a dentist for instance) they are both nothing in comparison to my experiences with the US system. I am middle class earning slightly above average (~2%) for where I live which is precisely the same to my situation in the UK. How many healthcare systems have you used first hand rather than simply reading aggregated statistics that can be used as opinion pieces as much as an article in the Guardian or Washington Post?

Do you just re

The number of Americans without health insurance is 47 million, according to the U.S. census.

Go and check the methodology for that number, firstly it is not sourced from the census it is sourced from two surveys. Secondly it covers everyone including resident aliens and those on temporary visas. Thirdly when you drill down in to the data you will note a significant number (~30 million) are firmly in the middle classes and can afford insurance but choose not to.

Many people do not want insurance.

Further, according to Paul Krugman, the U.S. spends over 15% of GDP on healthcare, nearly twice that of the U.K at around 8%.

Again you get a much clearer idea with the raw data as compared to the opinion on the issue - countries report healthcare spending in extremely different ways, primarily the US reports on all spending including cosmetic and other quazi-healthcare spending whereas other countries do not.

Besides this I clearly stated that non-medical costs consume 80% of the spend, the expense is largely down to people wrongly assuming that they need full coverage insurance, they don't and until fairly recently insurance didn't cover visits to the dr etc.

Perhaps rather than mandating insurance government should be raising awareness on why the alternatives are often preferable.

According to Google the life expectancy of the UK is 79.3 years, and 78 years in the U.S.

Supportive healthcare is less important then lifestyle, a minority of early deaths can indeed be explained by lack of access to healthcare but as the US already has supportive care for the elderly (not to mention in excess of that in most of Europe) but lifestyle choices such as eating habits and smoking (Both of which are generally higher in the US) have a much larger impact. As an indication of this 8 times the number of Americans have heart attacks compared to Britons yet the survival rate is better then the UK (In the UK 48% die within 28 days of having a heart attack, in the US this is 12%).

The infant mortality rate in the U.S. is higher than the U.K. also (by about 1% I understand).

Again lifestyle choices are in play here as much, if not more, then healthcare access.

All to say this post – like many on this topic with an agenda – is utter, mindless drivel.

You don't have an agenda here? clearly you support socialised medicine of one form or another so clearly you have an agenda as much as I do, the difference being I don't want to force my view on to other people - they can have their single payer system as long as it remains voluntary and doesn't restrict my property rights via taxation.

The U.S. would have a much better healthcare system (among other things) if there weren't so many people like this with baseless yet entrenched positions.

As I mentioned earlier I recently migrated to the US. I have used the healthcare systems in the UK, France, SA and the US. While France was marginally better then the UK (I was able to actually visit a dentist for instance) they are both nothing in comparison to my experiences with the US system. I am middle class earning slightly above average (~2%) for where I live which is precisely the same to my situation in the UK. How many healthcare systems have you used first hand rather than simply reading aggregated statistics that can be used as opinion pieces as much as an article in the Guardian or Washington Post?

Do you just re

Sir —

This post is apparently written without regard to widely established facts. For example:

The majority of people in the US do have access to the high quality care, the fact that roughly 10 million US citizens do not have access to regular healthcare and need it is not a reason to penalise the other 300 million.

The number of Americans without health insurance is 47 million, according to the U.S. census.

Further, according to Paul Krugman, the U.S. spends over 15% of GDP on healthcare, nearly twice that of the U.K at around 8%.

According to Google the life expectancy of the UK is 79.3 years, and 78 years in the U.S. The infant mortality rate in the U.S. is higher than the U.K. also (by about 1% I understand).

All to say this post – like many on this topic with an agenda – is utter, mindless drivel.

The U.S. would have a much better healthcare system (among other things) if there weren't so many people like this with baseless yet entrenched positions.

Sir —

This post is apparently written without regard to widely established facts. For example:

The majority of people in the US do have access to the high quality care, the fact that roughly 10 million US citizens do not have access to regular healthcare and need it is not a reason to penalise the other 300 million.

The number of Americans without health insurance is 47 million, according to the U.S. census.

Further, according to Paul Krugman, the U.S. spends over 15% of GDP on healthcare, nearly twice that of the U.K at around 8%.

According to Google the life expectancy of the UK is 79.3 years, and 78 years in the U.S. The infant mortality rate in the U.S. is higher than the U.K. also (by about 1% I understand).

All to say this post – like many on this topic with an agenda – is utter, mindless drivel.

The U.S. would have a much better healthcare system (among other things) if there weren't so many people like this with baseless yet entrenched positions.

Or hertz per diopter

Actually what I was referring to was: Sub-Optimal Solutions. Up to the '90s it was a great matter of debate in economics. Many "learned" professors denied that it existed and that a market would always find the optimal solution. With the introduction of "lock-in" as a concept it is recognized that while markets will find optimal solutions they can become "stuck" with sub-optimal ones for a while. The time-scales are what matter, a market may view a few decades as a blip while to you and I that is quite a while.

If this case is proven true, I can see some new laws on how companies with this kind of information have to structure and protect it.

I think there already is (SoX)

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act may have come about because of financial mismanagement at a handfull of accounting companies, it contained a lot of data access control and auditing requirements. Causing much pain in the DBA community.

So perhaps new rules are not required, simply compliance with existing ones.

The problem is not the police, hands down. They are there to apply the law, whenever they can.

Frankly, the *last* thing I want to see, is a state where the police do not apply the law, because they don't feel like it. That's damned dangerous, in terms of the stability of the state.

Regardless, again, the problem is the way wacky speeding laws are passed. Here in Canada, we have new, moronic laws which (in some Provinces) can cause an automatic suspension of a license, if you are doing more than 50km/hr (30mph) over the limit.

This law includes towing of the vehicle, and entire families have been left at the side of the road -- with no way to get help.

Now, this sort of law makes sense in a 30km/hr zone. After all, generally all 30km/hr zones (here) are school zones. I don't care what your opinion is, screw you -- if you want to drive over 2 1/2 times the allotted speed, where children are running and playing.

However, we also have roads where the speed limit is 100km/hr, and where the *normal* traffic flow is 130km/hr. So, that means if you deviate by 20km/hr over the flow of traffic, you get your car impounded, and lose your license for a week?!

Absurd!

Back to other absurdities.

Take a look at this road:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=45.453542,-75.925224&spn=0,359.996063&t=k&z=19&layer=c&cbll=45.453619,-75.925304&panoid=qZDB8JSv42kTdg16DizW5g&cbp=12,146.26,,0,1.87

Proceed up the hill, and notice what you see. That's right, driveways hidden from view on both sides of the road. Now, the speed limit on this road is 90km/hr. Frankly, that's fine! You need to be aware of your surroundings, and provide additional awareness around such corners.

However, if a road like the above is 90km/hr (and trust me, that's a MILD example in this area), why is this road only 100km/hr?:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=44.888004,-75.567334&spn=0,359.992125&t=k&z=18&layer=c&cbll=44.888031,-75.568744&panoid=0gn7kAXFZ5xIKPY5t7SANQ&cbp=12,349.6,,0,2.61

This is on of the '400' series of highways in Ontario. The speed limit on ALL of them, is 100km/hr. In the above shot, you can see in the distance a mild corner and incline. These roads are all built and designed for speed.

Yet, 100km/hr?!

These roads should be set to 160km/hr at a bare minimum. Or, the 90km/hr road should be set to 40km/hr.

Either way, it makes absolutely no sense.

Further, speed limit should vary defendant upon road conditions, the tires you have, etc.

For example, I live in Quebec, and have spiked tires. I can on icy roads, safely, at a significantly higher speed than people without spikes on their tires.

Why are speed limits so absurd? Well, frankly, it's because most legislators are from a time, when cars were designed quite differently than now.

Have you ever seen someone that is 70 drive a car? Yes, some of that is indeed age, but other parts of it are how the cars were designed, when they were young!

Anyhow... bah.

(sorry about the formatting -- for some reason, my input box is a mere 40 chars wide... someone at /. mangled something)

The problem is not the police, hands down. They are there to apply the law, whenever they can.

Frankly, the *last* thing I want to see, is a state where the police do not apply the law, because they don't feel like it. That's damned dangerous, in terms of the stability of the state.

Regardless, again, the problem is the way wacky speeding laws are passed. Here in Canada, we have new, moronic laws which (in some Provinces) can cause an automatic suspension of a license, if you are doing more than 50km/hr (30mph) over the limit.

This law includes towing of the vehicle, and entire families have been left at the side of the road -- with no way to get help.

Now, this sort of law makes sense in a 30km/hr zone. After all, generally all 30km/hr zones (here) are school zones. I don't care what your opinion is, screw you -- if you want to drive over 2 1/2 times the allotted speed, where children are running and playing.

However, we also have roads where the speed limit is 100km/hr, and where the *normal* traffic flow is 130km/hr. So, that means if you deviate by 20km/hr over the flow of traffic, you get your car impounded, and lose your license for a week?!

Absurd!

Back to other absurdities.

Take a look at this road:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=45.453542,-75.925224&spn=0,359.996063&t=k&z=19&layer=c&cbll=45.453619,-75.925304&panoid=qZDB8JSv42kTdg16DizW5g&cbp=12,146.26,,0,1.87

Proceed up the hill, and notice what you see. That's right, driveways hidden from view on both sides of the road. Now, the speed limit on this road is 90km/hr. Frankly, that's fine! You need to be aware of your surroundings, and provide additional awareness around such corners.

However, if a road like the above is 90km/hr (and trust me, that's a MILD example in this area), why is this road only 100km/hr?:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=44.888004,-75.567334&spn=0,359.992125&t=k&z=18&layer=c&cbll=44.888031,-75.568744&panoid=0gn7kAXFZ5xIKPY5t7SANQ&cbp=12,349.6,,0,2.61

This is on of the '400' series of highways in Ontario. The speed limit on ALL of them, is 100km/hr. In the above shot, you can see in the distance a mild corner and incline. These roads are all built and designed for speed.

Yet, 100km/hr?!

These roads should be set to 160km/hr at a bare minimum. Or, the 90km/hr road should be set to 40km/hr.

Either way, it makes absolutely no sense.

Further, speed limit should vary defendant upon road conditions, the tires you have, etc.

For example, I live in Quebec, and have spiked tires. I can on icy roads, safely, at a significantly higher speed than people without spikes on their tires.

Why are speed limits so absurd? Well, frankly, it's because most legislators are from a time, when cars were designed quite differently than now.

Have you ever seen someone that is 70 drive a car? Yes, some of that is indeed age, but other parts of it are how the cars were designed, when they were young!

Anyhow... bah.

(sorry about the formatting -- for some reason, my input box is a mere 40 chars wide... someone at /. mangled something)

It could end up producing a grey ecology with a distorted space-time just as easily. See the argument given by Paul Virilio in Open Sky: http://books.google.ca/books?id=OF_cPrltMmsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=open+sky&source=bl&ots=6LTgd95t6S&sig=svNqi6GKruEYnHufc1BxMSZtgVE&hl=en&ei=O6KUS-CXHJSSsgPM3eT8Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=16&ved=0CDIQ6AEwDw#v=onepage&q=&f=false

We can't convince them of the dangers of asteroid collisions so how the FSCK are they going to believe about this.

They didn't believe about the dangers of Solar storms in 1989 so why would they buy it now?
http://www.google.ca/search?q=hydro+quebec+solar+blackout

This error can be easily traced back to the first google result (Actually it should be the first bing result in this case).

To be perfectly honest, this is exactly what I would have done too.
It takes 5 minutes to dig out my copy of Knuth.
It takes 1 minute to pirate Knuth and search through the pdf.
But it only takes 10 seconds to copy and paste this one-liner from the first google hit.

That probably explains my lack of success in the job market for the past decade...

Looks like someone at google has noticed and is cleaning their search results. Here's one from the images.google search, which now has been "reported as an attack page".

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://macleans.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/wip091211_02.jpg&imgrefurl=http://piazza.cl/eew.php%3Fq%3Dcheryl-bernard-hot&usg=__C_p_BdyshgstqVmMmo-jrcjNsDM=&h=976&w=800&sz=392&hl=en&start=15&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=5i1jhMgQhHjIwM:&tbnh=149&tbnw=122&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhot%2Brussian%2Bolympic%2Bcurling%2Bchicks%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26tbs%3Disch:1

In that case (as stupid as it is), they knew that they were making the pictures. In this cases, the pictures are being taken without their permission or knowledge. That difference known as Mens Rea, and is a necessary element for someone to be convicted of a crime.

The next digit is 4.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=find+substring+in+digits+of+p

The string 46457 occurs at position 205,231 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted.

this query took 0.001749 seconds

The string and surrounding digits:

09722072920441600174 46457 44857898852191332549

this query took 0.001749 seconds

http://www.angio.net/pi/piquery

Aristotle.

I know that's wrong and I don't even have to look it up, but since others may:

Source: "Modern editions of the Greek text of Aristotle are based on the Greek manuscripts copied in the Byzantine period (mostly during the tenth century and later) from manuscripts derived indirectly from the edition of Aristotle works produced by Andronicus in the first century B.C."