Re:really, what is the point of this
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aauu
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· Score: 2, Informative
Did you see the reference to the camera and the brooktree driver. He is capturing video while he rides. This seems to be an extremely ornate solution to the need for a camcorder mounted on the bike. On the other hand a camcorder wouldn't be on the front page of/. like a UNIX implementation. It is possible for him to upload the video via wireless when he finds a hotspot so perhaps this is more functional than a camcorder in that respect.
-- When I was young, I had to rub sticks together to compute.
Re: New Mirror
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Informative
Re:Watching a live slashdotting
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Toast
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· Score: 4, Informative
FWIW the reason the box died so quickly was due to gallery and uberperformanceful PHP. Once he got the images on a static page apache happily served up 40mbps. We have a NetScreen firewall in front of the box and it hasn't even blinked yet. 3% CPU usage and less than 1% of the sessions used. Is this the best slashdot has to offer?:(
Re:That's a shame...
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Nimrangul
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· Score: 2, Informative
Supposed to be a joke, for you see whenever there is a post about any BSD there are dozens of "BSD is dying" posts.
I thought I would mock the people that post them by making one of my own.
The part that should have made it relatively obviously a joke was my David Hasselhoff and piss in the snow parts, not to mention there being a couple of the BSD trolls already made.
-- I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
a lot of states that's 100% legal (on a bike)
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caveat
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· Score: 4, Informative
"lane splitting" is legal in quite a few states (no, i'm not going to check...i do know it's ok in NY, it'd be insanity to ride the LIE otherwise). it's usually pretty safe to split two cars side by side, since the drivers won't go swerving at each other; trying to zigzag through a passing situation is much stupider, i knew a kid who got pasted on the LIE when the guy in the left lane cut right (in front of the other car) a little earlier than he was expecting...i guess the fall didn't hurt him that badly, but the bumper-to-bumper traffic going 45, well, that was a different story...
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
Re:I wouldn't post those videos if I were him
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Polo
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· Score: 3, Informative
Now you got me curious, and I watched all the videos.
I just didn't see it the way you did. He didn't seem to be speeding, he didn't run any red lights (although I might have seen a pause on red), and as for passing people -- "lane sharing" is legal in california. It's pretty much accepted that motorcyles pass cars on the freeway and pull up to the front of intersections. I expect to someone from another state it would be something to get used to.
Re:Bikeshed?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Informative
LOL! The sad part is that very few of the moderators even know what that reference is to. I think that it is the funniest of all the comments. For those of you that lack understanding, here is what the bikeshed is referring to.
Re:We all know that motorcyles are dangerous...
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richie2000
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· Score: 2, Informative
...they have a higher fatality rate than other vehicles.
I know you were making a NetCraft/BSD dying joke, but fact of the matter is that motorcyclists have almost the exact same fatality rate as cagers (in Sweden). The trend has gone from approximately 25 deaths per 1000 motorcyclists 20 years ago to 5-6 deaths per 1000 motorcyclists now and those are the same numbers as for cars.
Yes, I realize that the numbers for the US are drastically different (both are higher), but still. It goes to show that it does not have to be inherently more dangerous to ride a bike than drive a car.
Incidentally, the deaths for bikers show a much larger ratio of drunk rider/stolen bike than for cars, meaning that if you stay sober and on your own bike, you're actually safer than in a car - statistically speaking.
Re:I wouldn't post those videos if I were him
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edinho
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· Score: 2, Informative
You can be totally legal, or arguably legal, and can still ride like an ass. This guy rides like an ass.
Overtaking in a turn, into a parking lot with people walking around, maybe grabbing a prime parking spot. Lane splitting and squeezing just to get ahead of a queue that is three vehicle deep. These actions tend to annoy cagers. I am a daily motorcycle rider, and I would have sighed and shook my head if I had seen any rider doing that. He does no one no favor.
Slashdot Mirror
Did you see the reference to the camera and the brooktree driver. He is capturing video while he rides. This seems to be an extremely ornate solution to the need for a camcorder mounted on the bike. On the other hand a camcorder wouldn't be on the front page of /. like a UNIX implementation. It is possible for him to upload the video via wireless when he finds a hotspot so perhaps this is more functional than a camcorder in that respect.
When I was young, I had to rub sticks together to compute.
Mirror (Semi, still trying to wget): http://tmorton.dyndns.org/~taj/bsd-bike/bike.owns. com/
FWIW the reason the box died so quickly was due to gallery and uberperformanceful PHP. Once he got the images on a static page apache happily served up 40mbps. We have a NetScreen firewall in front of the box and it hasn't even blinked yet. 3% CPU usage and less than 1% of the sessions used. Is this the best slashdot has to offer? :(
I thought I would mock the people that post them by making one of my own.
The part that should have made it relatively obviously a joke was my David Hasselhoff and piss in the snow parts, not to mention there being a couple of the BSD trolls already made.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
"lane splitting" is legal in quite a few states (no, i'm not going to check...i do know it's ok in NY, it'd be insanity to ride the LIE otherwise). it's usually pretty safe to split two cars side by side, since the drivers won't go swerving at each other; trying to zigzag through a passing situation is much stupider, i knew a kid who got pasted on the LIE when the guy in the left lane cut right (in front of the other car) a little earlier than he was expecting...i guess the fall didn't hurt him that badly, but the bumper-to-bumper traffic going 45, well, that was a different story...
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
Now you got me curious, and I watched all the videos.
I just didn't see it the way you did. He didn't seem to be speeding, he didn't run any red lights (although I might have seen a pause on red), and as for passing people -- "lane sharing" is legal in california. It's pretty much accepted that motorcyles pass cars on the freeway and pull up to the front of intersections. I expect to someone from another state it would be something to get used to.
LOL! The sad part is that very few of the moderators even know what that reference is to. I think that it is the funniest of all the comments. For those of you that lack understanding, here is what the bikeshed is referring to.
I know you were making a NetCraft/BSD dying joke, but fact of the matter is that motorcyclists have almost the exact same fatality rate as cagers (in Sweden). The trend has gone from approximately 25 deaths per 1000 motorcyclists 20 years ago to 5-6 deaths per 1000 motorcyclists now and those are the same numbers as for cars.
Yes, I realize that the numbers for the US are drastically different (both are higher), but still. It goes to show that it does not have to be inherently more dangerous to ride a bike than drive a car.
Incidentally, the deaths for bikers show a much larger ratio of drunk rider/stolen bike than for cars, meaning that if you stay sober and on your own bike, you're actually safer than in a car - statistically speaking.
Money for nothing, pix for free
You can be totally legal, or arguably legal, and can still ride like an ass. This guy rides like an ass.
Overtaking in a turn, into a parking lot with people walking around, maybe grabbing a prime parking spot. Lane splitting and squeezing just to get ahead of a queue that is three vehicle deep. These actions tend to annoy cagers. I am a daily motorcycle rider, and I would have sighed and shook my head if I had seen any rider doing that. He does no one no favor.
Cheers,
e.
It's not a link to the law. But chp.ca.gov is pretty close ;). I wonder if you could reference this if you were taken to court for it...