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  1. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the actual tribune article.
    Correction, October 20, 2014: This post originally misstated that Chicago's government had reduced the duration of the city's yellow lights. The timing of the lights has remained consistent overall but can vary in individual instances due to electrical fluctuations. In February the city changed its policy to begin giving tickets in some cases when, due to fluctuation, the yellow signal lasted less than three seconds.

    And the statement is plausible, according to the traffic engineers I work with,

  2. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    You do know it turns out that they didn't right?
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...

  3. Cameras helped those people. on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1, Informative

    Did you read those sites? they do not prove what you said at all.
    The first one was out because they did't know the distance traveld. It ahs NOTHING to do with camera caligration, and it fact it worked, but the SOB got it tossed on a technicality. He even said:
    "And just in case you're wondering: I probably was speeding."
    So there you have a guy who was breaking traffic laws, but wasted ta dollars instead of owning up. Mean he cost his fellow citizens money for somethign he did. Fucking coward.

    The second one:
    "I think it was an oversight more than anything," Yes, a person setting up the light did set it yo country standards. Form the time given, it matches federal standards,
    Again, nothing to to with calibrations.

    The third one is from a letter on reddit. He won because the county would provide up details about the camera. His numbers are not the federal and/or county guiding, they are a recommendation from some else. His math was irrelevant. Again, no evidence or re-calibration due to the camera installation.

    In fact, in every case the cameras HELP the person getting a ticket. Had a police officer just pulled them over, they would have had no record to use. It would have just been cop said, he said. They would have lost.

  4. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Site? no, of curse not.

    The time is based on several factors, not just 3 seconds.

  5. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 2

    So you violated the speeding law, based on an assumption about a yellow light time(which varies both per light and electrical fluctuation), thus jeopardizing others.
    You need to have you drivers license taking away, cut into pieces, and the shoved up your dick hole.

  6. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    He probably means a good citation, not from a biased POS website the refers to it's own articles as proof of whatever cherry picked point they are trying to make.

  7. Just call a dealer on Safercar.gov Overwhelmed By Recall For Deadly Airbags · · Score: 1

    that sells your car. Talk to the garage, they will have notification.

  8. Re:Free Market Solution on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    Wow, that is simple..minded. It's been a long time since I'e seen anything the simpleminded posted on Slashdot.
    By ignoring competition, facts about turn away, logistics, and cost point you've come to a simple solution.

  9. Re: Agner Krarup Erlang - The telephone in 1909! on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    yes, it sure isn't the money the spend studying logistic, inefficiencies, and how to get more customers in line. nope. CEOs are stupid people who just do what some person at a seminar tells them.

    " It's the only reason I can think of."
    Think harder.

    http://www.qsrmagazine.com/ope...

  10. Re: Agner Krarup Erlang - The telephone in 1909! on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    Ordering is the bottle neck, AND it increase turn away.

    http://www.qsrmagazine.com/ope...

  11. Re:How many really make $140k ? on Developers, IT Still Racking Up (Mostly) High Salaries · · Score: 1

    Any that contract for 70 ot more an hour.

  12. Re:Hold on a minute on Developers, IT Still Racking Up (Mostly) High Salaries · · Score: 1

    Degrees have never, and will never equate to salary for any industry.

  13. Re:not the lines you should be worried about on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 2

    The problem with burning man is it became hip and popular.

  14. Re:STOP WHINING ALREADY on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    I see this a lot. Women actually start getting talked about on a site or podcast, and some idiot like you pops out of the woodwork and acts likes that's all that is talked about.
    100's of stories, and a few of the are about women an you freak out.
    WTF is wrong with you?

  15. Re:Outrage! on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    Are you really that stupid? Seriously? While it is outrages that a qualified person was not allowed onto the team ONLY because of their gender. It was a long time ago. No one is outraged now.

  16. Re:I have to question the facts of the matter on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    If it was a physical issue, then how do you explain Valentina Tereshkova?
    You're example will be valid once people run to the Moon, until then you should probably realize you examples is just a unconscious bias.

    She passed all the test and qualified. So the only reason for her not to get chosen is because she was a woman. Probably because a femal death would have been a big blow to the program; which is a form of cultural sexism.

    She was not a military test pilot, but neither was John Glenn.

    Now, to you far more stupider points:
    " I do not believe in advocacy for either of the sexes."
    So no one should have advocated for women to vote?

    "I have no patience for it because it is ultimately dishonest."
    No, it isn't. You're examples are dishonest.

    " It isn't about fair"
    Sure it is, that's why there is a woman's race and a men's race. As I address, irrelevant to being an astronaut.

    " I acknowledge again that women should be given an EQUAL shot at these things."
    and when the entrenched system is actually giving them an equal shot? Something very well documented.

    "You put your finger on the scale to bias the results and I will cut that fucker off and feed it to you."

    So you're argument is so week you have to use physical threats?
    I'd like to see you do that to my face, becasue I have no problem seeing you arrested.

    You're just another dumb ass Internet tough guy.

  17. Re:All about perception on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    " End of story. "
    Ah, I see you're a sharp critical thinker, with such an unassailable argument.

  18. Re:Eh on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    "which also prompts him to promote her game,"
    Nope. Never happened. Gamergate made it up.

  19. Re:Eh on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 2

    Yes, it is sexism. It's also a very real response that would have shut the program down.
    Remember we are talking such high risk the speeches for their deaths were written before hand.

  20. Re:I don't get it... on Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies · · Score: 1

    "I am no expert, "
    clearly. They aren't easy to pitch at all. The people who they are pitched to ask questions like "What separates this from other comic book movies" "how will the enhance are market", "whereismycocaine?", and so on. Most of them won't have heard of the title unless its on of the top 10.

  21. Re:I don't get it... on Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies · · Score: 1

    Comic book films are just sci-fi films.
    And who cares, as long as they are good?
    What is inherently wrong with a story line that started as a comic?

  22. Re:Ugh.. on Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies · · Score: 1

    If they were dead horses, they wouldn't be making any money.
    Fucking hipster.

  23. Re:Hollywood is mentally bankrupt on Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies · · Score: 4, Informative

    you are wrong. Movies have always been like this.
    I'm from the 60's.
    Lets list some great 70's culture, shall we?
    Six Million Dollar Man -from a book.
    Planet of the Apes - Book
    Soylent Green - Book.
    The Godfather - book
    Spaghetti westerns? Many of them are remakes.
    I could go on and on.

  24. Re:Hollywood is mentally bankrupt on Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies · · Score: 2

    every thing suck!
    what about these great things?
    Those don't count.

    Grow up.

  25. Re:To quote TBBT on Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies · · Score: 1

    He saved Superman's ass.