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  1. Re: How about mandatory felony sentences instead? on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    My numbers were a little off two (just double checked), a grown man can get past the first two or three drinks before being illegal (but after five would need to wait a long time).

    My understanding of the cheap ones (including police field operated ones) is that they are good at detecting the presence of alcohol, but the actual number is pretty suspect.

    Essentially each drink adds a little bit to your blood based on your weight and gender, and every hour your body cleans up about. 01 I think it is.

      If you had just done the shot, then you probably had alcohol in your mouth still (police observe you for 30 minutes to make you you don't burp) before the official test (done at the station after arrest).

    In my observations,. 12 (based on charts) is where it starts to feel shaky to drive. Also, like many things in the brain,. 12 when sobering up feels a lot different than. 12 when getting drunk, I don't know if this is because the brain coped better after a while, or an illusion, either way, going by feel after a lot of drinking can be dangerous (legally) because thehsake level can feel very different.

  2. Re: Considering how few boys graduate at ALL on School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees · · Score: 1

    Any male I knew that went into k-12 education was actively sought after by every school they applied to. Many private schools even offering signing bonuses.

    The k-12 education system is actively working to counteract the poor balance if teacher gender.

  3. Re: Considering how few boys graduate at ALL on School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees · · Score: 1

    It's not that the truth isn't important, it's that good feels can reduce the amount of pay required to do the work.

    If you can pay low, but make the secretaries title fancier, if it keeps people at the company for less money, of course it will be done.

  4. Re: How about mandatory felony sentences instead? on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    .08 to fail, for a grown man that's two shots on an empty stomach or so.

    Your first test was probably residual alcohol from the test, and your second was probably accurate, but your level still probably rising as it gets absorbed into the blood.

  5. Re: not your problem... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Companies With Poor SSL Practices? · · Score: 1

    I'm more disturbed that they know my password than that they send it over email.

    Doesn't the fact that they can even send my password mean it's saved in plain text within their database? This is how the massive breaches happen.

  6. Re: Library Science was and is a true profession on Librarians: The Google Before Google · · Score: 1

    Isn't library science focused a lot more on databases than curating a library?

    The program my ex wife was looking into was (Drexel university)

  7. Re:Resellers on To Fight Currency Mismatches, Steam Adding Region Locking to PC Games · · Score: 1

    Are you serious?

    I've stopped playing games on disks because it's so annoying. I definitely prefer Steam over a disk check.

    Though I play primarily indie games, so most of my Steam games are non-DRM anyway.

  8. Re: Joe Biden for President? on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 1

    I dont remember that, I remember "well spoken and clean cut" or some such.

    He represents Delaware accuratelyaccurate I'm embarrassed to say.

  9. Re: Stupid on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Also to rent an ip address isn't free.

  10. Re: Loudness race on Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand · · Score: 1

    I had both a first generation Rio (or was it diomond?), and a disk Man I'd used in my car via aux in back then.

    If anything was released commercially, I swapped disks. The mp3 player was used purely for bootlegs and b sides I couldn't easily get on disk.

    The 64 megs held less than a CD at high bitrate, and transferring music over serial was slllllooooowwwwww.

    I was middle class, disposable income teen (hs senior), I was the only person I knew with an mp3 player until the iPod, and not the first gen, the one with the touch wheel and clicker

    Yet I did know audio nerds, I'm very skeptical that mp3 players were used by many at all at that time.

  11. Re: Loudness race on Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand · · Score: 2

    That's not how I remember 1999. Mp3s that's weren't garbage were hard to come by, syncing large collections was super slow, even disk space was somewhat relevant back then.

    The flash based long life players had essentially no storage.

  12. Re:HD4, HD8, HD16 on LG To Show Off New 55-Inch 8K Display at CES · · Score: 1

    The 4k is the width though, so it'd be HD1 (1280), HD2 (1920), etc. etc.

  13. Re: Riiiiight. on Ford Ditches Microsoft Partnership On Sync, Goes With QNX · · Score: 4, Informative

    The focus I rented with sync was horrible.

    To use ad2p audio, I had to connect the phone, and would get a message "to play music through Bluetooth, go to audio settings". There we're two audio settings headings, one two levels deep, the other three levels deep, and I could never remember which one to go to, or what the path to it was.

    It would forget this setting every time I restarted the car.

    The setting forgetting, the two menu items with same name, and the message telling me where to go leaving out the path to get there are all thing's I would consider terrible ui design.

  14. Re: How to get a Comcast hotspot in trouble on Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots · · Score: 1

    I assume they have client isolation. Hotels do it. Some home routers do it and can't be told not to. I can't think of a reason Comcast would decide to not do so on a public ap.

  15. Re: This lawsuit will be dismissed. on Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots · · Score: 1

    I wish xm was that nice. I politely asked three times before I started getting belligerent.

    After about the fifth time (8th call) when I asked them if they had heard of the Internet yet, and why they thought I'd pay for what I already paid for (Internet radio and podcast donations) they stopped.

    It was so strange to talk to them, asking if oh enjoyed their radio stations.

    I never had even listened, I highly doubt they match my tastes for a particular moment as well as Pandora, Spotify, or Google, and suspect that they are at best with the same variety per station as Pandora.

  16. Re: Apple cult on Woz Downplays the Significance of Apple's Startup Garage · · Score: 1

    I actually don't mind the deals at all.

    That is how I think advertising should work, relevant, and discount.

  17. Re: Apple cult on Woz Downplays the Significance of Apple's Startup Garage · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know, but I hate those underline things.

    That's why I stopped going to phoronix.com.

    I hate the popover adds on my phone, at least the /. ones seem to close easily.

    the blue underline ads are always terrible and useless, and I click them by accident when scrolling via touch, they really annoy me.

  18. Re: Apple cult on Woz Downplays the Significance of Apple's Startup Garage · · Score: 1

    Apperently so. The new Slashdot.

    I'm also getting those blue underlain word ads, and popover ads on my phone.

    Between the people leaving, and this, I may be leaving myself.

    I just haven't found exactly the right fit.

  19. Re: they must hate cash, too on MasterCard Rails Against Bitcoin's (Semi-)Anonymity · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the cash discounts are about taxes. Places that have them usually have them well above the fees.

    Large businesses have other ways to avoid taxes, so they don't need to preferentially accept cash.

  20. Re: they must hate cash, too on MasterCard Rails Against Bitcoin's (Semi-)Anonymity · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure they hate MasterCard gift cards too.

  21. Re:Let me guess on Hawking Warns Strong AI Could Threaten Humanity · · Score: 1

    That's what I was thinking, reminds me of this:
    http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id...

  22. Re:Well on A Mismatch Between Wikimedia's Pledge Drive and Its Cash On Hand? · · Score: 1

    I always find it weird that somehow donations are looked at as being less influencing than ads.

    You can get ads through a network where you have no communication with the buyers, and place them on the front page only (to make sure no ads show up near articles that may be controversial). The only possible influence is the ad network, so we can look for evidence of that as the public.

    Clearly mark the ad, and it should all be fine.

    I don't see how a large donation is any less prone to influence than an advertiser.

  23. Re: The lesson on Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber · · Score: 1

    I suspect that in at least some jurisdictions this will fall into a close enough to taxi to be taxi category.

    Similar to how Aero lost the lawsuit where it was determined that they were functionally a cable company, not a rental of equipment (which is what they were technically).

  24. Re: Evidence? on Breath Test For Pot Being Developed At WSU · · Score: 1

    Which has absolutely nothing to do with my questioning that active THC remains in the body with a similar pattern to its matabolized parts.

    I have no idea the reasonableness of the limits set, but it does look like they are talking about people that currently have THC in them, and are actively trying to test that, unlike employers.

  25. Re: Evidence? on Breath Test For Pot Being Developed At WSU · · Score: 1

    I would think that active THC by definition makes you high. If it doesn't have effect it's inactive.