There are too many people on the fracking road! Whether people are braking perfectly efficiently or not, if enough cars are crammed on the road, there's going to be a traffic jam.
Unfortunately, this incorrect premise is what leads to yet even MORE stupid traffic regulations that don't address the root of the problem (bad drivers). In the US, outside of Manhattan and parts of the Bay Area, I've never seen a city that doesn't have enough usable road space to handle 2-10x more traffic than it already has trouble holding. Sadly, cities like mine (Austin, TX) take a hostile attitude towards improving road infrastructure and intersection designs because frankly, they want everyone to ride bikes and take non-existent mass transportation (which I'd be for, if they'd build it).
Although there aren't too many cars on the road like you suggest, I give your premise a bit of credibility because of the SIZE of the cars on the road; too big and completely unnecessary. We need to tax SUVs into oblivion.
I'm with the rest of you. This is hardly a revelation. At Texas Motor Speedway, during a NASCAR weekend with 225,000 fans trying to leave, a person stopping for three seconds causes a 20-minute delay to the last car in line. Until they fixed the number of exits flowing back out to I-35, it usually took 3-4 hours to get out of the parking lot.
Another cause for bad traffic is the ridiculously easy driving test we have in the States. Couple that with law-enforcement only ticketing speeders instead of bad drivers in general, and you get the traffic we have in most of our cities. I also hate how all accidents are chalked up to "failure to control speed", which makes it sound as if speeding were the main cause of all accidents. In reality, failure-to-yield is overwhelmingly the #1 cause of collision accidents, not speed. But the revenue hungry cops would rather sit on their motorcycles with radar guns than actually pull people over for changing 5 lanes at once, or cutting off other drivers by pulling out in front of them and then NOT accelating.
Not to mention, hell will freeze over before they ever ticket a slow driver in the left lane.
I own the King of Fingerprints device; the iPhone. For something that is supposed to be so bad (fingerprints, not the phone), it sure has been one hell of a non-issue.
Same thing for computing. I use my crappy PC to play a game, but for the good porn, I use my Mac. That way all the malware associated with such sites don't do anything to my 'puter.
Wow. Sounds like you put a lot of personal perspective into your post. My wife goes for more porn online than I do by a long-shot, so I don't worry about my browser history too much.
You are missing the point. My company has exteremely strict rules about how we use our computers, such as our development machines are not hooked up to the net and we aren't allowed to introduce any media to it. They have no CD-burners, and USB thumbdrives can get you fired. This is to ensure that our source code doesn't leave the building. We do everything we can to protect our secrets, because the industry in general doesn't protect it for us. However, our software is in version 3 and in use by thousands of government offices, so we are afforded specific copyright protections. What isn't protected, though, is the new ideas we have and are beta testing for the next version. If that leaked, and Lockheed Martin got it, they could push it to market faster than us and take credit for it.
This is why Apple is so secretive...just like you said, "once a trade secret is out, you have no rights to squash it." That's why the squashin' must be done BEFORE the secret gets out. Contrary to popular Slashtdot GroupThink, this is good business, NOT censorship.
I think/. has been all over this before. At the end of the day, there really is only +/- $200-$300 difference between Macbooks and equally configured PC clones. Turkey stock is tasty, btw.
I would expect my company to use every legal pressure available to safeguard our trade secrets. Furthermore, it isn't censorship, because it isn't the government. But I like your sarcasm none-the-less.
I'm not going to bother getting press credentials, and I'll blog about any damned thing I want during their game. And I'll do it as often as I want. Fuck the NCAA.
Maybe I misread the article, but you are free to do exactly what you describe, since you don't have press credentials. No fucking of the NCAA is required. If it were the other way around there'd be a problem (i.e., prohibiting non-credentialed people from phoning/blogging in scores).
This covers only credentialed reporters, which makes this a non-issue. Want credentials? Play by their rules. I guess it could breed a new type of papparazzi...the Uncredentialed Sports Blogger.
It would be hard to make a better product if they are reverse engineering our code and using their much bigger capital to push through our ideas faster than we can. Apple is in the same boat. Anytime Microsoft gets a whiff of what Apple is doing, they can get it to market faster than Apple. Thus the Apple secrecy. Fortunately, the past 15 years have shown that Apple keeps their stuff under pretty good wraps because it usually takes Microsoft about a year AFTER the Apple product has been for sale for Microsoft to start copying them.
So now my admins are responsible for the hundreds of google search results that result from people having problems with newtwork printing and UAC??? I suppose my admins are responsible for all the stupid default behavior of UAC too, because they are too incompetent to go in and remove stupid UAC features like not being able to rename Start Menu items, or not being able to rename files across the network that I am the author of? I could go on, but we only use Vista as a test platform, and I "only" get about 10 or so UACs a day on it. Not bad, I guess, considering I only use Vista about 10% of the time. Maybe if I upped my usage to 90-100% I'd get to the normal 100 UACs a day I referenced earlier.
Not only do they have the right to do so, they MUST do so to survive. My company has a leading software package used the Department of Defense. If our source code and trade secrets weren't protected, the "big dogs" like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrup Grumman (to name a few) would put us out of business in the matter of weeks.
Great. So now instead of 25 minutes of commercials every hour, we'll get 45 minutes of commercials every hour. And all radio stations will switch to Pop/Country format, because those are the only profitable segments to advertise in. Stupid artists complaining about not being rich enough... If these idiots couldn't figure out how to live the rest of their lives in relative comfort after ONE radio hit, then they really don't deserve any more money. I know the guys in a band that had ONE hit, and all three of them can live in BIG houses with NICE cars and stuff for the rest of their lives. They don't care to be compensated 20 years from now if somebody plays their song on an "oldies" station, because they aren't greedy SOB's like most of the industry.
So for every 150000 PCs there is only 1 Mac? Your obscurity argument doesn't hold water. Mac OSX has plenty of marketshare to have at least a blip on the hacker radar. Unless, of course, you are suggesting that a computer system that has roughly 100 million machines online isn't worth anyone's time? Certainly there are enough anti-Mac bigots out there who would love to just hack a Mac one time, just to say they could?
Typical slashdot mentality...of COURSE it's the stupid administrators' fault. Just because YOU haven't had problems with network printing and UAC controls doesn't mean other's haven't. You asked for "one" example and I gave it to you. Of course, you don't want to believe it, because it doesn't fit your argument.
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Although there aren't too many cars on the road like you suggest, I give your premise a bit of credibility because of the SIZE of the cars on the road; too big and completely unnecessary. We need to tax SUVs into oblivion.
Another cause for bad traffic is the ridiculously easy driving test we have in the States. Couple that with law-enforcement only ticketing speeders instead of bad drivers in general, and you get the traffic we have in most of our cities. I also hate how all accidents are chalked up to "failure to control speed", which makes it sound as if speeding were the main cause of all accidents. In reality, failure-to-yield is overwhelmingly the #1 cause of collision accidents, not speed. But the revenue hungry cops would rather sit on their motorcycles with radar guns than actually pull people over for changing 5 lanes at once, or cutting off other drivers by pulling out in front of them and then NOT accelating.
Not to mention, hell will freeze over before they ever ticket a slow driver in the left lane.
...and if you want to read, for reading's sake, buy a physical book?
I own the King of Fingerprints device; the iPhone. For something that is supposed to be so bad (fingerprints, not the phone), it sure has been one hell of a non-issue.
Same thing for computing. I use my crappy PC to play a game, but for the good porn, I use my Mac. That way all the malware associated with such sites don't do anything to my 'puter.
Wow. Sounds like you put a lot of personal perspective into your post. My wife goes for more porn online than I do by a long-shot, so I don't worry about my browser history too much.
This is why Apple is so secretive...just like you said, "once a trade secret is out, you have no rights to squash it." That's why the squashin' must be done BEFORE the secret gets out. Contrary to popular Slashtdot GroupThink, this is good business, NOT censorship.
I think /. has been all over this before. At the end of the day, there really is only +/- $200-$300 difference between Macbooks and equally configured PC clones. Turkey stock is tasty, btw.
I would expect my company to use every legal pressure available to safeguard our trade secrets. Furthermore, it isn't censorship, because it isn't the government. But I like your sarcasm none-the-less.
Misleading enough that, so far, 90% of the /. comments missed that whole part.
This covers only credentialed reporters, which makes this a non-issue. Want credentials? Play by their rules. I guess it could breed a new type of papparazzi...the Uncredentialed Sports Blogger.
You are supporting my point. Apple keeping trade secrets from other companies is not censorship, which was my entire point.
I'd like to see a similar test for OSX, maybe replacing IE with Camino (since I don't think IE will be made for OS X again?). Links, anyone?
It would be hard to make a better product if they are reverse engineering our code and using their much bigger capital to push through our ideas faster than we can. Apple is in the same boat. Anytime Microsoft gets a whiff of what Apple is doing, they can get it to market faster than Apple. Thus the Apple secrecy. Fortunately, the past 15 years have shown that Apple keeps their stuff under pretty good wraps because it usually takes Microsoft about a year AFTER the Apple product has been for sale for Microsoft to start copying them.
So now my admins are responsible for the hundreds of google search results that result from people having problems with newtwork printing and UAC??? I suppose my admins are responsible for all the stupid default behavior of UAC too, because they are too incompetent to go in and remove stupid UAC features like not being able to rename Start Menu items, or not being able to rename files across the network that I am the author of? I could go on, but we only use Vista as a test platform, and I "only" get about 10 or so UACs a day on it. Not bad, I guess, considering I only use Vista about 10% of the time. Maybe if I upped my usage to 90-100% I'd get to the normal 100 UACs a day I referenced earlier.
Not only do they have the right to do so, they MUST do so to survive. My company has a leading software package used the Department of Defense. If our source code and trade secrets weren't protected, the "big dogs" like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrup Grumman (to name a few) would put us out of business in the matter of weeks.
No. It would be eliminating a beta program that has proven to be ineffective.
Since when is "protecting trade secrets" the same as "censorship". I think it's time for /. to abandon the tag feature.
Great. So now instead of 25 minutes of commercials every hour, we'll get 45 minutes of commercials every hour. And all radio stations will switch to Pop/Country format, because those are the only profitable segments to advertise in. Stupid artists complaining about not being rich enough... If these idiots couldn't figure out how to live the rest of their lives in relative comfort after ONE radio hit, then they really don't deserve any more money. I know the guys in a band that had ONE hit, and all three of them can live in BIG houses with NICE cars and stuff for the rest of their lives. They don't care to be compensated 20 years from now if somebody plays their song on an "oldies" station, because they aren't greedy SOB's like most of the industry.
You, as in first person plural, as in you Vista apologists.
So for every 150000 PCs there is only 1 Mac? Your obscurity argument doesn't hold water. Mac OSX has plenty of marketshare to have at least a blip on the hacker radar. Unless, of course, you are suggesting that a computer system that has roughly 100 million machines online isn't worth anyone's time? Certainly there are enough anti-Mac bigots out there who would love to just hack a Mac one time, just to say they could?
Web design should have been turned over to DESIGNERS from day one...
Just in case you still think I'm making it all up... Seems like there are plenty people having the same issue with UAC and network printers.
Typical slashdot mentality...of COURSE it's the stupid administrators' fault. Just because YOU haven't had problems with network printing and UAC controls doesn't mean other's haven't. You asked for "one" example and I gave it to you. Of course, you don't want to believe it, because it doesn't fit your argument.