I hate to be nit-picky (but I'm going to anyway). Making an incriminating statement in public is not the same as pleading guilty, which you can only do in front of a judge or local equivalent. This kind of boasting alone would probably not be enough to secure a conviction (claiming that he was lying on the Internet to make his e-peen look bigger would probably be enough for "reasonable doubt"). So yes, the police needed more evidence, which they apparently found (though the article never stated that).
The courts tend to take a dim view of the "street racing" charges unless the person is actually racing another car (I've seen the case law), but of course, most drivers who get their cars taken away for 7 days and automatic roadside suspensions don't know that.
The brag was sufficient cause to place the charges, and the kid pleaded guilty. End of story. Though if further evidence was warranted, I'm sure they could have (and maybe did, the TFA doesn't say) seized the "black box", if there is one, out of the car and gotten some corroborating evidence that way. They also could have canvassed the neighbourhood for witnesses: a beemer doing 150 km/h through a residential area is going to be noticed and remembered. The police may even have gotten complaints from neighbours before they got the tip. The article doesn't say, and we don't know.
TFA says that he was doing 100 km/h over the limit. As far as I know, there are no road conditions in which it's safe to do 140 km/h (minimum) in a residential neighbourhood.
As mentioned above, the class B shares Brin and Page and the other founders and execs hold are worth 10 votes each. I personally can't vouch for the truth of that, but if true it would explain how they can control with such a small proportion of shares.
But it's your culture -- the culture of hyper-independence -- that's exactly your problem. Everyone wants all the benefits of modern civilization, but nobody wants to give up any of their own personal wealth to fund it. Did you read that article in the New York Times yesterday, about the city and state governments who are slashing services, because their voters refuse to allow tax increases? I thought the example of Colorado Springs was most instructive: a city that has to turn off one third of their street lights, and had to auction off police helicopters (and cut police jobs) because the ratepayers voted down tax hikes? It's not like Colorado Springs is a particularly poor city or anything, the people there could probably afford the tax hike, but heaven forbid that they actually pay for the services (and the jobs to go with them) that the city provides!
Your culture is what's killing you, not your politicians. They're only doing as much as the rest of you let them get away with.
Err, there was a post the day before yesterday, here on/. even, that reported the sunspot activity and subsequent prediction for aurorae last night. Guess you missed it.
Did you see the Star-Trek nerdery above? I don't think you have anything to be ashamed of compared to that (unless of course you were one of the participants...)
I have just one question: what exactly is embarassing to a workload about being massively parallel? I can see how that might be embarassing for a sex trade worker, but for a computer chip?
Go read the article. Toyota acknowledges the problems with the sticky gas pedals and the floor mats, but denies there's a problem with the software/firmware. The article covers this thoroughly. The NHTSA, totally independently of Toyota (assuming you trust the reporting), examined some data recorders from cars where the driver claimed that they slammed on the brakes but the brakes didn't respond. The NHTSA found evidence that those drivers were actually pressing the accelerator, not the brake.
The data recorders, which the NHTSA used for their testing, are prototypes. Toyota has never claimed otherwise, and indeed has said that they are not reliable in determining the cause of a crash. This is straight out of the article. AS for Woz' particular problem, it wasn't addressed by the article at all, so I can't comment on it.
Actually, I believe that the recalls included other car manufacturers who used the same gas pedals as Toyota, but of course we didn't hear much about them in the media, did we?
Ahem. I believe the CANDU reactor will accept thorium as fuel, along with uranium, plutonium, and other fuels. CANDU reactors have been online around the world for decades now.
Not good enough. All the GM food producers have to do is use labelling like "all-natural", which is essentially meaningless, and people will be led to believe that the product is not a GM food. If they have to put a label elsewhere saying "this product is made from GM food" on the label, the weasel-words have a much reduced effect.
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If a quip "whooshes" over one's head, and one is not there to hear it, does it really make a sound?
I hate to be nit-picky (but I'm going to anyway). Making an incriminating statement in public is not the same as pleading guilty, which you can only do in front of a judge or local equivalent. This kind of boasting alone would probably not be enough to secure a conviction (claiming that he was lying on the Internet to make his e-peen look bigger would probably be enough for "reasonable doubt"). So yes, the police needed more evidence, which they apparently found (though the article never stated that).
The courts tend to take a dim view of the "street racing" charges unless the person is actually racing another car (I've seen the case law), but of course, most drivers who get their cars taken away for 7 days and automatic roadside suspensions don't know that.
The brag was sufficient cause to place the charges, and the kid pleaded guilty. End of story. Though if further evidence was warranted, I'm sure they could have (and maybe did, the TFA doesn't say) seized the "black box", if there is one, out of the car and gotten some corroborating evidence that way. They also could have canvassed the neighbourhood for witnesses: a beemer doing 150 km/h through a residential area is going to be noticed and remembered. The police may even have gotten complaints from neighbours before they got the tip. The article doesn't say, and we don't know.
TFA says that he was doing 100 km/h over the limit. As far as I know, there are no road conditions in which it's safe to do 140 km/h (minimum) in a residential neighbourhood.
As mentioned above, the class B shares Brin and Page and the other founders and execs hold are worth 10 votes each. I personally can't vouch for the truth of that, but if true it would explain how they can control with such a small proportion of shares.
Go RTFA, there's an anecdote about Page and Brin arguing about whether to implement behaviour-based advertizing in ad-sense.
My impression from TFA was that the document was a Doubleclick Devil tempting Brin and Page in the desert.
(pardon the sacrelicious metaphor, I couldn't resist)
But it's your culture -- the culture of hyper-independence -- that's exactly your problem. Everyone wants all the benefits of modern civilization, but nobody wants to give up any of their own personal wealth to fund it. Did you read that article in the New York Times yesterday, about the city and state governments who are slashing services, because their voters refuse to allow tax increases? I thought the example of Colorado Springs was most instructive: a city that has to turn off one third of their street lights, and had to auction off police helicopters (and cut police jobs) because the ratepayers voted down tax hikes? It's not like Colorado Springs is a particularly poor city or anything, the people there could probably afford the tax hike, but heaven forbid that they actually pay for the services (and the jobs to go with them) that the city provides!
Your culture is what's killing you, not your politicians. They're only doing as much as the rest of you let them get away with.
Well if you're going to go that far back, didn't he get his training and seed money from the CIA?
Err, there was a post the day before yesterday, here on /. even, that reported the sunspot activity and subsequent prediction for aurorae last night. Guess you missed it.
Did you see the Star-Trek nerdery above? I don't think you have anything to be ashamed of compared to that (unless of course you were one of the participants...)
I have just one question: what exactly is embarassing to a workload about being massively parallel? I can see how that might be embarassing for a sex trade worker, but for a computer chip?
Err, that article you linked to is from 2005. Do you have any data that isn't quite so stale? Or are you just trolling?
I believe Google has offered self-service deletion of Google Account information for some time now.
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Go read the article. Toyota acknowledges the problems with the sticky gas pedals and the floor mats, but denies there's a problem with the software/firmware. The article covers this thoroughly. The NHTSA, totally independently of Toyota (assuming you trust the reporting), examined some data recorders from cars where the driver claimed that they slammed on the brakes but the brakes didn't respond. The NHTSA found evidence that those drivers were actually pressing the accelerator, not the brake.
The data recorders, which the NHTSA used for their testing, are prototypes. Toyota has never claimed otherwise, and indeed has said that they are not reliable in determining the cause of a crash. This is straight out of the article. AS for Woz' particular problem, it wasn't addressed by the article at all, so I can't comment on it.
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and while you're at it, go RTFA.
Actually, I believe that the recalls included other car manufacturers who used the same gas pedals as Toyota, but of course we didn't hear much about them in the media, did we?
Ahem. I believe the CANDU reactor will accept thorium as fuel, along with uranium, plutonium, and other fuels. CANDU reactors have been online around the world for decades now.
In other words, seeing stupid people in the mirror.
And now we've made Serak the Preparer cry.
the Beach Boys would never lie!
"How to cook FORTY humans"
Not good enough. All the GM food producers have to do is use labelling like "all-natural", which is essentially meaningless, and people will be led to believe that the product is not a GM food. If they have to put a label elsewhere saying "this product is made from GM food" on the label, the weasel-words have a much reduced effect.