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  1. Re: Knee-jerk... on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 2

    >You missed "if they're eventually convicted "from the summary.

    That's because it isn't there.

  2. Re:Sweeeet on 10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial · · Score: 1

    Nope. That was the class action thing. The question begging was still a standardized Slashdot failure.

  3. Re:Stark Raving Mad. on Breath Test For Pot Being Developed At WSU · · Score: 1

    All scholars come with the usual array of biases. It's the methodology that is supposed to ensure a reliable result. Look at the methodology.

  4. Re:Knee-jerk... on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a difference between keeping public records, and publicly shaming people on twitter.

  5. Re:Let it die. on Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools · · Score: 1

    What team? I didn't go to college at a sports infested US university.

  6. Re:Knee-jerk... on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >My knee-jerk reaction is to say, "good, fuck 'em."

    My knee-jerk reaction is to think it's wrong to "fuck 'em" before they are convicted.

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

    Fair enough.

  8. Re:I have been waiting for this on Breath Test For Pot Being Developed At WSU · · Score: 2

    What does "too much" mean to you?

    I'd set that level at "causing actual harm". But I haven't noticed being set upon by horrible pot smokers who are marginally above some well defined blood-THC content limit recently

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

    This one. Curses Slashdot for trimming the tree.
    http://norml.org/library/item/...

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

    Getting high and crashing cars is not the same thing.

    Does active THC make you crash cars? That's a very different question, to which the answer appears to be no given the research pointed to earlier that suggests the answer is no and explains why.

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

    Are you saying they don't do that already? Or are you trying to deflect?

  12. Re:Let it die. on Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools · · Score: 2

    Well it was. Where I went to college, sports was not considered the business of the university. But that was a long time ago in a country far, far away. No tuition fees either.

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

    That would require a comprehensive array of well constructed studies to separate the variables, the causes and the effects.
    However for the past few decades, the US government has proven spectacularly bad at enabling, supporting or funding unbiased research.

    http://www.mpp.org/assets/pdfs...
    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/201...

    So as far as I can tell, there isn't much to go on, which is probably how legislators like it.

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

    So I've just looked at two studies one pointed to by you and one pointed to by someone a bit higher up on the web page and they come to opposite conclusions. However the 'pot bad' result is from a study claiming to be a case controlled one and so cannot possibly be looking at causation relative to accident rates because the people running the study would have been arrested.

  15. Evidence? on Breath Test For Pot Being Developed At WSU · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where are the properly controlled studies showing that a given level of blood THC is causally related to an increase in driving accidents?

    Or will they go the route of cell phones and accidents and only look at the THC blood levels of drivers in accidents so it's impossible to show causation?

     

  16. Re:Just AMD? on Bad Lockup Bug Plagues Linux · · Score: 1

    Nothing. Either I didn't have my glasses on or I was drunk. On balance I was probably drunk.

  17. Let it die. on Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > If football does not change internally, it will die.

    Good.

    Then schools and colleges can get back to academic disciplines.
    If people want group sports, go to the local sports center and sign up.
    Sports fuck up the priorities of schools and colleges to their detriment.

  18. Re:Okay, this is a great idea on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    No it ISN'T!

  19. Just AMD? on Bad Lockup Bug Plagues Linux · · Score: -1, Troll

    > If Will's patch doesn't make a difference, what about reverting that
    > ce9ec37bddb6? Although it really *is* a "obvious bugfix", and I really
    > don't see why any of this would be noticeable on x86 (it triggered
    > issues on ARM64, but that was because ARM64 cared much more about the
    > exact range).

    That's alright then. No one uses AMD any more.

  20. Re:Section 2 of the voting rights act REQUIRES D g on Mathematicians Study Effects of Gerrymandering On 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that the world would be a better place if black voters made up 10% of each district's population: they could swing the election in any of those districts, and each representative would have a very strong reason to listen to their concerns.

    This.

    Gerrymandering is a trade off that trades security in one or more seats on one side against security for the other side in one or more seats. If you can get a massive majority for the other side in one seat, that's good to bias many other seats the other way. This is what gerrymanderers seek to do.

  21. Re:So, in essence, Uber's app is malware on Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission · · Score: 2

    >Besides, XPrivacy, while it requires root, does *not* require a whole custom rom. Custom ROMs are passe compared to what the XPosed framework can do, and XPrivacy is an excellent example of an XPosed module.

    I don't XPect to like programs with an XTremely crappy habit of putting unnecessary Xs in front of words.

  22. Re:The French are the world's Standards Board on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 1

    >So please tell me how I refer to the colour of your skin or your race in general. Whatever has been said in history as managed to offend someone.
    What offended the black British people in the room was being told they were American.

    I now live in the US and I see many American are scared of their own language and overload additional semantics to words which makes their use of language twisted, over complicated and prone to (often deliberate) misinterpretation.

     

  23. Re:The French are the world's Standards Board on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 1

    He succeeded in offending the two black people I was standing next to that I worked with at the time, who were both British.

    From then on we had an early taste of the idiocy of the CEO and later on he did many other things to confirm our initial opinion.

  24. Re:The French are the world's Standards Board on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 1

    Oh dear God.

  25. Re:The French are the world's Standards Board on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I was working in the UK at a wireless product design company, the American CEO of the American corporation that just purchased the company flew in to talk to us. We were all gathered in a big room. In his rambling talk, he referred to all the black people in the room as 'African Americans'.

    Stupidity is not reserved for one nation alone.