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  1. Re:Am I the first to call BS? on How Companies Learn Your Secrets · · Score: 1

    Someone in your house hold has been looking up baby/pregnancy stuff.

    So, heads up.

  2. Re:One possibility: Retire! on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    fucking show off~

  3. Re:Start a company? on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    The number 1 downside is then you will be the idiot.

    heh.

  4. Re:Become a Porcine Engineer on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Funny, that's what I call my management managing skills. Pig Wrangling.

    Learn to manage you managers.

  5. well on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 2

    YOu arne't going tlo take a leap AND keep the mortagae and college..unless you have someone who is willing to support you. Rich uncle? investors into a private business?

    In the mean time, take a pay cut, get a city or state programming job.
    It's boring, the tech is boring, but I work 40 a week. This has finally given me time to pursue other interests. Currently I'm learning to play the bass with the goal of getting a gig after a year.

    BY boring I don't mean I'm not doing anything, I'm actually quite busy but there isn't any real challenges since it's older tech.
    Also, I get actual vacation time and sick time and no one whines that I took time off.

    Alternatively, you can get a coding job in a completely different industry. I have worked in pretty much every major industry. Finance, health care, avionics, robotics, tape libraries, etc...

  6. Re:Jaywalker Freindly on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    AS they all take your picture and submit it to the police. When you get home you will have an inbox full of jay walking tickets.

  7. Re:Computer Driver Zones. on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    No it won't. I will eat my hot if a consumer can't by self driving cars in 5 years.
    The shit I've seen in testing? just about mind boggling In 10 years, sci fi movies with peopel driving their own vehicles will start to become laughable.

  8. Re:Link to Proposed Regulation on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    If you knowing lie, you will be disbarred. Any actually lawyer would know that.

  9. Re:Why not put this energy into public transport? on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Not incompetent. They are well designed to meet the goal of the time.

    I love living in the suburbs, and I have never been more the a few miles from store.
    Public transportation, by it's nature, will be far less convient for the vast majority of people regardless of design.

    I avoid the bus. Can not stand it.
    A) Swilling mass of germs. Yuo will get sick more often on a bus
    B) Never a comfortable temperature. Either is 40, or it's 105.
    C) Bus shakes and moves to much for serious reading.
    D) takes for fucking ever.
    E) Expensive.
    F) Very Inefficient. Every one on a bus driving their own high mileage car would use less gas.

    Public transportation is critical to prevent class/wage separation. They are a good thing. They are not Efficient, or greener.

    You will need more the a billion dollars.

    " you just have to look at the number of Slashdotters who are literally scared of the idea of living next to a black person to get some idea of how bad the situation is."
    who? who is afraid of that?

    Stop making shit up. scared to sit next to a black person. Sheeesh.

  10. Re:Why not put this energy into public transport? on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    " In order of efficiency, barge (going down stream), rail, road vehicle. "
    completely false.

    So you are saying its more efficient for a barge to get to my house, miles inland, then ti is for a truck to get to my house?

    You're measure efficiency wrong.

    My car can get more people to the 7/11 then a barge can.

  11. Re:Colored License Plates Scream "Steal Me!" on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    irrelevant.
    Car detects unauthorized passenger. Car takes pictures and then drives to police station.

  12. Re:#1. on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    I'd be tempted to bump it, very lightly.

  13. Re:Too early? on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    especially since the specifically talk to the insurance companies.

    IT's not a hard problem.

  14. Re:Coloured license plates to ID drivers on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Don't derive anything from an 'average' across the country. It's not really a good number.

    And that average has a huge variable from day to day.
    The can will be on days that are above average. Fewer accidents, fewer looky loo's, better organizational driving around road work, drivelers cars using a zipper method of merging.

    All that reduces the top end of the average significanty. So yeah, the average might drop form 26 min to 20 min but all of that will be from the high end being lowered.

  15. Re:Coloured license plates to ID drivers on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    no, it's to get consistent speed. One which the average person can reasonably respond to when there is a change.

  16. Re:Coloured license plates to ID drivers on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    " might attract pranksters "
    hope so. Great way to test response to outside variables.

    also, a great opportunity to try out the laser.

    What do you mean no laser?

  17. Re:Coloured license plates to ID drivers on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    What it means is that the car is driverless capable and in test or production.

    Once some tipping point is reached, it won't matter.

  18. Re:Coloured license plates to ID drivers on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    When someone drives faster then anyone else, it means everyone needs to have better reflexes, not just the 'professional' driver. OR have you not seen a crash at a race track full of profession drivers?

  19. Re:Coloured license plates to ID drivers on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    By the tine we could work something out, we won't have drivers anymore.

    How do you rate someone who causes other people to be in accidents? How do you deal with the old person who is bitching because his plate color changes because his reflexes aren't as good?

    If you really want something like that, then fight for actual driving test, reflex tests and a driving written test.

    If you can't parallel park, use your blinker, drive out of a skid then you shouldn't be allowed to drive.

    And it should be based on car type. Large vehicle, SUVS Truck, 64 cads, should require a different license class.

  20. Re:Hopefully the first of many on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    They can. You use an interrupt that fires when anything outside the predetermined system interrupts the system.

  21. Re:Hopefully the first of many on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Have bicycles rind on the road, the cars can detect them easy enough.

  22. Re:Hopefully the first of many on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    you can add controls to the system that detect whats going on nearby, so as soon as something moves in front of the car, the system adjusts.
    Ad it would sill be more efficient.

  23. Re:Hopefully the first of many on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    better, not optimal.

    Anyways, it allows for better response in an emergency. The vehicle will always pay attention to whats in front of it..and behind it, and to the sides, all at the same time.
    People, and I mean everyone, are not 100% focus on the road most of the time.

    People in routine aren't as attentive; which is why test for driving are almost always horrid. I'm looking at YOU Mythbusters. Because they inevitably use someone who knows they are being watched, so the pay more attention. SO the comparison between actual driving, and driving while on the phone is useless.

    Every wonder why anyone with any distraction is the same as being legally drunk?

  24. Re:Hopefully the first of many on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    no.
    Not driving so you can do something else without sitting next to sick people, dealing with poor environmental controls,and the ability for it to go where i want.

    Buses suck ass.

  25. Re:How well do they handle dangerous situations? on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 2

    Lazy? Stupid in most case. except sports car and large trucks.
    YOU, and I, or anyone, isn't as quick or efficient as any modern automatic transmission.

    Stick wastes fuel.

    That said, I love driving a stick sports car.