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  1. What are keys? on How Do You Handle Your Keys? · · Score: 1

    I don't drive to work, there's no reason to lock my house, and I have a building pass. The next question would be, what's a wallet?

  2. I'm lost on The Big Technical Mistakes of History · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Where's Microsoft Bob? Novell Groupwise? Lotus Word Pro? Lantastic?

  3. This isn't going to end well on EyeDriver Lets Drivers Steer Car With Their Eyes · · Score: 1

    Don't look directly at that car that's about to t-bone yours.

  4. Re:Learn 2 math on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 1

    You're complicating it too: 206 * 2 / 3 Mathematically, operators of the same precedence are evaluated left to right.

  5. Why debate at all? on EU Conducts Test Flights To Assess Impact of Volcanic Ash On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Just let the market decide with its wallets how safe it is.

  6. I'm just hearing underperformer on How Many Hours a Week Can You Program? · · Score: 1

    Definitions: Typing code, and thinking as a process where typing is the end result, are work. Thinking about something else, which is healthy and necessary, is a break, and shouldn't count against accrued leave or set as unpaid time. I don't have a developer on my staff who doesn't routinely put in 6 solid hours of work. I've also had developers writers-blocked take breaks, one which lasted the better part of two days. I can't imagine a developer putting in only 20 hours and meeting my milestones, but neither would I particularly care if I had one.

  7. Re:Make it universal on South Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts For Youths · · Score: 1

    Which is why alcohol isn't available from 2 til 6, for example. Which is why gaming responsibility laws are passed. Which is why the public has an interest in managing addiction.

  8. Would like more actual references on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    I would like more links to how this is handled state by state, because I look into it every time I drive in a new area, and I have yet to drive in a jurisdiction where it's illegal to be in an intersection before the light turns red as long as there's room on the other side to exit. Stopping in an intersection because of no exit I've seen handled as parking infringements (cops slap parking tickets right on the window and walk away), not as a red light violation In Victoria, Australia, verbatim from VicRoads' web site: Q. If a driver enters an intersection once a light has turned amber and the light turns red before the driver passes through the intersection, is that considered running a red light? A. No. It was identically true in all of California. There is a huge common conception about you can't be in the intersection when the light is red, and I've yet to meet an Aussie who doesn't believe this. The text of a drivers handbook reflects a lot of misinformation!

  9. Re:Crazy Australians. on Oz Pirate Party Tells the Elderly How To Bypass the Net Filter · · Score: 1

    In Victoria, police are compelled to cite you going 1.8mph (3kph) over the limit. If one is out with a radar where everything is logged, or if a radar unit is taking pictures, you can rack up fines in an ungodly hurry. The default speed limit is 50kph (30mph), but the typical long straight 4-lane straight road in an urban area is 60kph (36mph). It's so typical, and citations so frequent, that Aussies in Victoria just get used to driving 60kph everywhere even when the limit is 70 or 80.

  10. Make it universal on South Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts For Youths · · Score: 1

    And society would benefit without question.

  11. Re:Crazy Australians. on Oz Pirate Party Tells the Elderly How To Bypass the Net Filter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oz is a full on unapologetic nanny state. You wouldn't believe the shenanigans that go on here to save people from themselves, along with hand-wringing when people continue to take risks despite living in a nanny state. "OMG we lowered the speed limit to 36mph and yet young people continue to die in accidents even after we installed 17000 cameras." If a 20yo driver blows .01, it's a 1-year license suspension. It's disgusting. Any sane person on an empty straight 4-lane road will do 45mph -- why is that illegal here????

  12. Re:Kidd Of Speed on What Chernobyl Looks Like In 2010 · · Score: 0

    So it's based on a true story. Evaluate it on its own merits and stop sweating the particulars.

  13. Re:Stop bitching and get in on it on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 0

    And so are the corps dumbass.

  14. The ultimate high on Science Attempts To Explain Heaven · · Score: 0

    So odds are, if you off yourself, you'll get the last word in euphoric mind fucks. Best not let this get out. Oh wait it's been /.ed. Nevermind.

  15. Stop bitching and get in on it on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 0

    Buy shares into your 401k, now you're getting a piece of tax-exempt income invested pre-tax. Win win win.

  16. Re:I guess I am 1 in 40... sorta on "Supertaskers" Can Safely Use Mobile Phones While Driving · · Score: 0

    Odds are you also self-describe your intelligence higher than it actually is.

  17. Not comprehensive enough on "Supertaskers" Can Safely Use Mobile Phones While Driving · · Score: 0

    When a person can be cited for juggling a sandwich, drink, chips and the steering wheel between his hands and legs, then the roads will be safer. I'd lay any odds to the availability of fast food being directly related to the accident rate on any particular stretch of highway.

  18. Non issue on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 0

    It's obvious how this is going to play out. If I click on a Family Guy video on YouTube, I haven't broken any laws. That's what takedown notices are for, stopping the guy who did break a law. Clicking on Family Guy: The Movie is no different. All Torrent users have to do is not seed, problem solved. All you IANAL and IALBNYL types can quote anything you want but in the end this is going to hold true.

  19. Perhaps the yanks should tone down their 'concerns on US-Australia Tensions Rise Over Net Filter · · Score: 0

    Apparently the minister didn't receive the objection via e-mail because the obscenity-laced rant didn't get through the Aussie filter.

  20. Guess what they'll do in their offtime? on Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates · · Score: 0

    Create more demand for their service, with any luck converting it into a full-time position.

  21. Watch out on The Technology Behind Formula 1 Racing · · Score: 0

    If the cruise control ever gets locked, it may get dicey.

  22. Re:Strong Math Skills often get dumbed down on Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? · · Score: 0

    That's the trick son -- now I don't have to hire expensive programmers. And don't think I'm blowing smoke out me arse, I have a team of ten and at most I need one expensive heavy lifter, provided of course he tows the line in exchange for his overpriced salary.

  23. Re:Strong Math Skills often get dumbed down on Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? · · Score: 0

    that's called maintainable code, son, and if you don't understand that you'll never stick on a large-scale development team.

  24. In a competetive environment on Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? · · Score: 0

    The broad-based American educated candidate will win over the specialised European candidate in both the short and the long term. Math, psych, philosophy, writing, all are necessary over the long term.

  25. Huh my iPhone can do that on Laptop Computers Detect and Monitor Earthquakes · · Score: 0

    If UrbanSpoon selects a new restaurant, the earth be a shakin'