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  1. Re:Accident type is relevant on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If driver-less cars are involved in double the accidents of driven cars, then it is in insurance on driverless cars that will go up.

  2. Re:Not an Infraction on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They specifically talk about merging into traffic. The correct decision in that situation is to speed up to match the traffic's speed, any driving instructor will tell you that.

  3. Re:Not an Infraction on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well either or. Both going faster or slower than the recommended speed is illegal in normal situations. You cannot slam on the brakes and stop dead in the street, without breaking traffic laws. You are still expected to do so if the alternative is running over someone.

  4. Not an Infraction on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not only is it not an infraction to drive in such a way as to save lives and prevent accidents, when you can save a life or prevent an accident, but it requires you to go against the suggested speed, or swerve into the left lane (even when the divider is solid) you are actually required to do so. That is the entire point of cars having a maximum speed of several times the maximum suggested speed is because you are supposed to speed in many situations to save lives.

  5. Re:Accusation is sufficient for fines? on Cox Is Liable For Pirating Subscribers, Ordered To Pay $25 Million (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that something they can just do? Sign some forms, and be a common carrier?

  6. which could probably be said to an even greater degree for dozens of trials per year. For example, we know of Jury members in the George Zimmerman trial who went into the trial with the wish to find him guilty, that that was their sole concern with the whole affair.

  7. Re:Good! on EU Rules Would Ban Kids Under 16 From Social Media (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought they were both rather reminiscent of Hitler.

    "They [Japan and China] belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past"

  8. A floodwall is not a permanent dam. No where on Earth has anyone ever successfully held back the sea permanently. And there are many places where they have tried. There is a big difference between knowing how to build a wall a meter high, and knowing how to build a working sea dam.

  9. What I always Wondered on "Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Do real bombers phone in the time and location of the bombs they plant? Has anyone ever in the history of the universe ever planted a bomb in a school, and then told the authorities that they have done so?

  10. Re: Get an anti bark device on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 1

    So your solution to a, quite likely, mildly neglected dog, is to get the dog put down?

  11. Re:neighbor on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 1

    They also simply like barking at night to mark their territory and communicate with neighbouring dogs. Any healthy dog will prefer to spend an hour or so (on and off) at night barking at squirrels and replying to other dogs.

  12. Re:That's it? on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    If Anonymous (with Capital-A) is anything, it's a mindset to do something that's not entirely socially acceptable or whose means are not necessarily acceptable for reasons that are not necessarily personally beneficial.

    Reading their list of operations, it really looks more like a mob that just attacks whatever villain the liberal media drew up that week to try and sell more page views.

  13. Re:neighbor on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 3, Funny

    With a sound proofed house, "getting rid of the neighbor" is even easier.

  14. Writing Code Writing Novels on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I can see their point. The most important bug finder in software development, the one that cannot ever be properly replaced, is the original programmer. No one else can understand the underlying code well enough to replace them. And they can get lazy, with a big enough safety net they can get complacent and start to think that finding problems with what they wrote is someone else's job. But to write really good code, you also pretty much need an outside editor as well. There are many things that you will simply be blind to, that an outsider will spot straight away. It does not matter what you are working on. A Novel or an Application. At one point you need an outside observer to look over your work, but they are far less important than the original author doing so.

  15. Re:Democracy on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 2

    Umm no.
    Most of their operations are against targets that are currently drawing loads of legal opposition, like terrorists. They just find ways to apply illegal opposition to whatever the current most hated people are. Voting is legal, therefore outside of the purview of anonymous, they must find an illegal way to accomplish the same objective.

  16. How is checking for bugs supposed to add bugs? If you are not modifying the source code, it should be impossible to add bugs to it. Are they implying that these QA people were mistakenly listing features as bugs, and then the programmers were going in an removing features and replacing them with bugs?

  17. Re:Boondoggle and can it combat other ships? on Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing (ap.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ships really are not good at killing other ships, planes and submarines are better. Ships are best to house huge artillery to bombard inland targets with, or as cargo/carrier vessels.

  18. Declare War on the Sea! on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess Caligula had it right, he was just 2000 years ahead of his time.

  19. Re:BLANK noun. on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but in an interstellar community you would still call the variety of coffee available from Earth as Earthiness Coffee. Either because it is all very similar, or because it is the most popular quintessential Earthiness coffee. More than one drink is produced in champagne, France; But many of them are grouped together and called champagne.

  20. Re:Should've used protection. on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a great way to lose out a bunch of money.
    1. Patent faraday cage clothing.
    2. Design a line of faraday cage clothing.
    3. Charge a ridiculous markup.
    4. Profit.

  21. Why Master Lock? on Skip the Picks; Expert Uses Hammer To Open a Master Lock (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sure all the lower end locks are just as easy to defeat.

  22. Let me Get This Straight on New Campaign Features Internet Trolls On Roadside Billboards (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    This group is worried about racist comments online. So they are going to buy huge billboards and post racist remarks.
    I guess we should just be grateful that they are not as worried about Child Porn.

  23. Are these liberal Jews, or orthodox Israeli Jews?

    All Jews I know are not even practising Jews, so they have no reason to respect the law of the bible on conversions.

  24. So, if I am reading this right? on BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns (blackberry.com) · · Score: 1

    All BB devices will just stop working in Pakistan, today? Do the owners get refunds?
    At least, how else will the company stop all Service traffic in the country, other then to stop the traffic.

    This actually seems worse that just complying. At least you would have a working device, and they could plaster the "send message" screen with warnings about the government reading all your messages.

  25. Unimportant countries or no, it is 80% of the population of the planet. That is a fairly important majority.