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  1. Re:Redundant keys on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    He could have used that very button for login at least. The shell wasn't up yet at the login window and it could have served both purposes.

  2. Re:Let me translate that into English: on BitTorrent "Bundles" Create Cash Registers Inside Artwork · · Score: 1

    "It's Demoware... IN THE CLOUD"

    Nope. Pretty sure that's already been done.

    It's Demoware...In the cloud....ON BITTORRENT!"

  3. Re:Uh... on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 4, Funny

    If a packet leaves Chicago heading east and a packet leaves New York at the same time, which state will they meet at?

  4. Re:A law for everyone on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Right - and in their broad discretion, they should choose to focus their time and effort on dangerous activity. Selective enforcement is not interpreting the law. You don't see many police pulling over speeders going 1 mph over the limit, either.

  5. Re:Question on Boot To Zork · · Score: 1

    It seems like you're saying in your definition that Zork takes the role of the OS. That's what I said.

  6. Re:The concept of acceptable risk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    I said mostly. And in my state, there's a ban on smoking inside of restaurants, businesses, and public buildings and within 15 feet of entrances.

    Smoking in a car with young children and the windows closed, however, is something I can't stand to see.

  7. Re:Wonder how many of those are overturned on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    A? Really? Stating your case and having a poor argument while not even being belligerent is not contempt.

  8. Re:If you can't control yourself ... on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    It takes even less time to make a hands-free phone call. Why has the phone call died only to be replaced by texting in traffic?

  9. Re:Red light / green light on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    And after one small horn blast doesn't work, just push in the button and hold until they move or the light turns red again.

  10. Re:Which is why I always put my car in [P]ark on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    So if you ever decide to sleep in your backseat, throw the keys out the window and worry about finding them in the morning.

  11. Re:Which is why I always put my car in [P]ark on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    They really should update the laws to require snapping a photo when issuing a ticket. It's almost trivial tech by today's standards.

  12. Re: Which is why I always put my car in [P]ark on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    I would keep my food on the brake to keep the brake light illuminated even in park if I'm at a red light. For safety against oncoming drivers from the rear.

  13. Re:A law for everyone on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    I think that a cop that is trained on safe use of electronic equipment while driving would conclude that doing it at a red light is safe.

  14. Re:Officer dickhead is a dickhead. on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    It's even more important as an early driver. The human mind is very good at discarding the majority of information that enters through the senses. When you're first starting out driving, everything's a distraction - all the details of how to operate a motor vehicle are a distraction because it is information overload.

    Once you get to the point that it becomes "second nature" (i.e. you are efficient at ignoring all but the most important inputs and can drive without much thinking), you can begin to make use of idle time to accomplish a limited number of tasks. BUT, the human mind is so good at discarding information it takes a great deal of effort to make sure that your side task does not become the dominant task. I don't think texting is such a great idea, but peeking at a map or placing a phone call can be done if you are constantly mindful of where your attention is and to lean toward being distracted from the phone rather than distracted from driving.

  15. Re:Question on Boot To Zork · · Score: 1

    And those functions not provided by EFI are being added to the binary. EFI is not an OS, it's more like a BIOS. Unless you're going to be extremely loose with definitions.

  16. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Plus, let's just call it one of the checks and balances our legal system has.

  17. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    They get a lot more coverage by being selective. By being selective you have an impossibly large task and only catch the low-hanging fruit.

  18. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    there is absoloutely no harm in checking a stanav system that happens to be on a phone as opposed to standalone.

    I'm sure the law is written in such a way to make a phone a forbidden device for navigation simply to make enforcement easier. They can blanket assume you're texting if you're holding a phone.

  19. Re:The concept of acceptable risk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Smoking kills far more people than car accidents, but I don't see much of a public push to rid the world of that habit. Why is that?

    Well there's an easy answer to that. Smoking deaths are mostly a slow suicide, but car accidents tend to kill innocent victims who had no choice.

  20. Re:No conservation of responsibility. on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    I don't know the terrain where this happened, but I'll just assume a straight stretch of road on flat ground. In that case, how could you call it a dangerous situation? A car with presumably working brake lights that are lit. If they were somehow obscured or not obviously stopped then I can see that. But really, being annoying is in no way being dangerous. They are not invisible.

  21. Re:Apple needs to go after Sony and AMC for the co on Apple Offers Refund To Stiffed Breaking Bad Season Pass Customers · · Score: 1

    If by still here, you mean until 20 days ago, then sure. The (probably) final finale aired on September 4. Well - and there will also be a crossover episodes in The Simpsons season 25.

  22. Re:Question on Boot To Zork · · Score: 1

    Not really. It's running entirely sans-OS.

  23. Re:Personally... on NSA Posts Opening For "Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer" · · Score: 2

    I think the NSA's cat video program has already had a much higher participation rate. They've been able to track millions of people through views. Who else do you think posts all these videos?

  24. Re:Need to allow this official to be transparent on NSA Posts Opening For "Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The NSA will tell him what whistle to blow. He wouldn't be a very good distraction if he didn't "find" things.

  25. Re:Yuk on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    That's not the point.