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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."
Anyone else ever do any development on the Inmos Transputer?
The ones I used had four relatively high-speed serial links for message-passing between CPUs.
I suppose that something similar could be done with AMD CPUs on their high speed bus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
I'm so happy /. is back up again, i will even positively comment on microsoft articles! Now after more than an hour i can finally pretend to work again, instead of having to do the real thing.
To check for malware brought in through security holes opened by running virtual machines, hehehe ;)
What do you mean? There are many pills that cure stupidity! Potassium cyanide, saxitoxin.. You can't force people to take a pill though, but simply removing the warning labels on all potentially dangerous products would go a long way towards curing stupidity.
This sounds a lot like a Mach 3.0 uK variant I worked on that ran on the Intel Hypercube. Before Intel canned that project. The interesting thing about that project was that in order to simulate the Hypercube we ran the OS on clusters of i386 machines. To me, this was the real application of the technology, exploiting the power of commodity boxes with a single OS.
Interestingly a lot of the original Mach 3.0 team got hired by Microsoft never to be be seen again (they were sent to some gulag somewhere cold and wet near alaska... Seattle I think they call it).
but i cant shake the feeling alot of what microsoft does in the realm of "research" operating systems is in some font a duplication of work done by other operating systems...
virtually every *nix and BSD variant currently supports multicore functionality quite well, and if a program is compiled properly and written properly it can benefit from multicore architectures through these OS's. for microsoft to "research and develop" applications of technology theyve historically restricted and taxed in their own operating systems is perplexing. regardless of advances, im willing to continue associating redmond with price gouging cores.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I though it was interesting that one of the requirements for building the barrelfish-thing is GHC v6.8.2 (Glasgow Haskell). Although, from a quick look at it, I got the impression that the Haskell-stuff is used for various tools, and maybe not for the kernel itself. Using Haskell to write kernel modules is of course already a possibility for us Linux users (http://tommd.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/kernel-modules-in-haskell/) ;)
Oh no, some user on slashdot marked my account as a foe. Now my entire weekend is ruined.
Slashdot, fix your code or at least hire someone who is competent at it to do it for you.