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CA City Mulls Evading the Law On Red-Light Cameras
TechDirt is running a piece on Corona, CA, where officials are considering ignoring a California law that authorizes red-light cameras — cutting the state and the county out of their portion of the take — in order to increase the city's revenue. The story was first reported a week ago. The majority of tickets are being (automatically) issued for "California stops" before a right turn on red, which studies have shown rarely contribute to an accident. TechDirt notes the apparent unconstitutionality of what Corona proposes to do: "The problem here is that Corona is shredding the Sixth Amendment of the US Constitution, the right to a trial by jury. By reclassifying a moving violation... to an administrative violation... Corona is doing something really nefarious. In order to appeal an administrative citation you have to admit guilt, pay the full fine, and then apply for a hearing in front of an administrative official, not a judge in a court. The city could simply deny all hearings for administrative violations or schedule them far out in advance knowing full well that they have your money, which you had to pay before you could appeal."
That slashdot outage was terrible. I almost got some work done..
It's WM_PAINT all over again.
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
Making jokes for this OS should be as easy as shooting fish in a barrel...
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
I'm at loss for words... I want to thank my mom, the cat, the postman, my cousin Gill - all those wonderful persons/animals/entities that made this possible. 'Cept Frank. Screw you, Frank.
Please tell me I'm not the only one amused by the whole "best built on Debian or Ubuntu, 'cos thats what we use" part of the README...
When Microsoft wonders why Mac is perceived and cool and Windows isn't take a clue from their naming conventions. Barrelfish vs Snow Leopard. Can you spot the cooler name? After Vista flopped the marketing department went out and got drunk and said "aw fuck it, we'll just call the next one Windows 7". Just kind of feels like they really aren't even trying.
At last a TFA which is actually hosted on the system it's talking about, and it refuses to break so we can make "It must be running Barrelfish" jokes. Maybe it really is efficient.
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
No, but as an Apple fanboy, he's automatically +5.
What does the global cooldown have to do with anything? We're not casting spells here.
How did I end up in the Windows 7 thread from the "CA City Mulls Evading the Law On Red Light Cameras" article? It even shows that in the address bar, so I'm not crazy here...
I don't know, but I suspect the "duct tape programmer" story might be related somehow..
Everyone decided it was uninteresting and now we're talking about Windows 7 and Microsoft instead.
Oh, goody, my account thinks that my previous comment is attached to the Microsoft Releases Prototype of Research OS "Barrelfish story. Brilliant!
I think that somehow /. just got rebooted into single-article mode. All the comments and all the stories are merged together. Maybe it's a cost-saving measure, cutting down on use of electrons and such...
coding is life
World of Slashdotcraft: Cataclysm
Well, this is getting interesting. It's like madlibs, Slashdot edition!
I've seen many spectacular Slashdot screwups over the years, but this is a new one. Well done, guys!
The most rabid believers in American Exceptionalism are the exact same people whose policies are destroying it.
"Look, if you wanted to talk about pet care, you should've called two weeks ago when our show on racism was airing. Okay, I'm doing a show about the elderly right now, which of course, to people watching means: call in about cooking..."
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? -C. Palahniuk
This just goes to show, you can't count on big companies to do what's right. If there were more freedom and openness, we'd be a lot better off. Between Microsoft's FUD and Apple's fanboys, it's a wonder anything gets done.
Hopefully, once people realize what's going on and the Pirate Party gains ground and push back the anti-evolution religious nuts, everything will be much better.
There, that should milk a few karma points no matter what Slashdot article this comment ends up under.
I just assumed it was the regular /. meandering of topics, and I just didn't see the grandparent post.
Is 1563649 a prime number?
What the hell is going here? I see a story about Corona CA evading the law on red-light cameras and comments (and tags) are about some MS story?
Somebody please start some threads about random conspiracy theories - they'll get lots of hits and really confuse the hell out of everybody.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)