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  1. Re:Fit to drive? on Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    All that's needed is for a sect to define that as "wearing a modest amount of clothing".

  2. Re:Brilliant? on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    Stolen from HG Wells.

  3. Re:No, you don't have to have root access. on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    Yep. This is actually another thing that Microsoft actually started to get right then pulled defeat from the jaws of victory.

  4. Re:Amended quote on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only problem is, if you're doing things which are unconscionable, your only choice is to hire someone without a conscience. And there goes your trustability.

  5. Re:Ambitious on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Do you count infiniti?

  6. Re:Something that bothers me with... on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    You think the unions would allow it anyway?

  7. Re:The main obstacle isn't technological on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    We have high unemployment because the government has become an overwhelming drain on the economy.

  8. Re: Interference? on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    The remote start on a coworker's car would set off the panic alarm on a different vehicle. Wouldn't want that happening at 70mph

  9. Re:Interference? on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Just like the use of SSIDs eliminates problems with wifi signals interfering with each other.

    (To the sarcasm impaired, go lick a brick).

  10. Re:You're the problem, not them. on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    I agree. When I speed, it's mostly because the drive is kinda boring otherwise. If I could occupy myself with something other than driving, I'd happily do so.

    Of course, even better would be eliminating the drive completely and telecommuting. Why isn't that being encouraged more?

  11. Re:Annoying on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    If traffic is heavy enough that "no one is going to let him change lanes", that's probably a fair tactic and is fairly unlikely to cause issues since heavy traffic tends to be slower anyway. If he's doing it 1-2 miles early on an empty road (as I see some do), that's bad driving.

  12. Re:Annoying on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    As is "Slower traffic keep right" (depending on jurisdiction).

  13. Re: Good on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Slowing down traffic during congestion appears to work for human drivers. Presumably it gives them more time to react and discourages people from changing lanes (a major cause of traffic slowdowns and something with positive feedback - when the lane has to stop because someone barged in, someone 50 yards back will barge into the next lane).

    With automated vehicles, faster speeds means shorter journey time so less cars on the road at any point in time. So slowing down during congestion may not be indicated (except where necessary to ensure safety).

  14. Re: Good on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    This is true except that they are greatly exacerbated by people not merging in an orderly manner and people changing lanes unnecessarily causing flowing traffic to have to stop.

  15. Competitiveness. on New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Take that, Yale!

  16. Re:I hope somebody does. on Afraid Someone Will Steal Your Game Design Idea? · · Score: 1

    Back in the 8-bit days, there were text-adventure toolkits (Quill for example). What with Scumm-vm out there, it's surprising something similar hasn't turned up for graphic adventures.

  17. Re:He's right... on Afraid Someone Will Steal Your Game Design Idea? · · Score: 1

    I still mourn for QAOP. I don't think that works too well with a mouse though.

  18. Re:Grow a fucking spine on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    I mean they need to be ignored. Which will lead to the arrest and trial of those breaking them and then a run up the appeals process. Very messy and unpleasant.

  19. Re:Key exchange? on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    It's an interesting question. The simple answer is that for most purposes, you probably can exchange a little security for convenience and allow automatic key exchange. As long as there is a more secure option available should one need it, that may be enough as long as expectations are managed. Maybe have emails be indicated as semi-secure unless a public key has been manually verified.

    As to verification, it may just need work on some encoding. An MD5 fingerprint is 16 hex pairs. Make each pair represented by a specific picture say and it would be easy to verify over the phone or via a printed picture.

  20. Re:Why worry about Category 5 or 6? on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 1

    That's US Americans FWIW. ;)

  21. Re:Why worry about Category 5 or 6? on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 1

    I actually quite like NYC. But Americans have a provincialism that tends to scale as some power of the population density.

  22. Re:Why worry about Category 5 or 6? on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 1

    People resident in York who just moved in?

  23. Of the 12,000 on Security Community Raises $12k For Researcher Snubbed By Facebook · · Score: 1

    How much of that is "Screw you, Facebook" dollars?

  24. Re:Why is jet blue not paying the extra $700? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    Well, I believe the contract is "best effort" but this sounds like it went against that.

  25. Re:Why? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    Someone's been sitting in his chair and they've broken it all to pieces