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  1. Re:Speed cameras on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No man mean moving goalposts to a completely different topic to help further my anti-gubbmint agenda. derp derp.

  2. Re:Speed cameras on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of things reduce risk of accidents or sickness. The question is do you want to live with those practices?

    Live with a 100% voluntary tax that only affects the reckless and stupid? Absofuckinglutely. We should implement speed cameras for other parts of life too.

  3. The difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is a means and and end. In a democracy the means matter. People debate and vote on issues and consensus is reached. In a dictatorship the ends matter and you only care about doing what you want.

    This isn't just Trump, many presidents have done this, though I would dare say Trump has done it for the stupidest reasons solely stroking his own ego.

    Not only should no one give into him, but straight after this mess is done this stupid quirk in an otherwise democratic government should be closed to prevent people being held hostage by the president of the so called free world.

  4. Re:Good on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Nope. Try again. That figure was the percentage of people who want modifications to the wall to support their effort. In total Homeland security actually wanted about 5 addition miles of wall and minor modifications to strategic places of the existing one.

    NO ONE on the south supports the monument to Trumps ego, not even the Republican government overlooking the largest part of the Mexican border.

  5. Why do Democrats and rich liberals build huge walls around their houses if they don't work.

    Personally I did it to stop neighours looking in, to keep my dog from getting out, and to add a pretty boundary to my property. The day I make a claim that it would somehow stop someone who wants to get in my property getting in my property, please just shoot me. I'd rather be dead than dumb enough to think a wall would stop someone from getting in.

  6. Re:This might call for some Fox News counterhackin on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhaps there is room on both sides to stop acting like children, and learn to work together.

    One side is upholding the democratic process preserved by the house and senate, the other side is holding a government to ransom for his pet project like a dictator.

    No. Not everything in the world should be compromised on. In fact quite the opposite. Not only should Trump NOT get his way but this stupid issue which allows the government to be shutdown through this legal process should be eliminated like other countries have done for the express purpose of preserving the democratic process.

  7. If I left my front door open with a sign that said 'come take my stuff' I expect the insurance company would fight me too.

    Simplifying the spread of NotPetya like this (incorrectly I may add) serves zero purpose. It doesn't help people understand what went wrong, it doesn't help people understand how it worked, and it doesn't help people at all with the topic at hand given the insurance company is not saying you left your door open, but rather than Kim Jong Un came and broke it down.

    Please keep stupid discussion to the comments in the Daily Mail. This is Slashdot, we like to believe the comments have a minimum standard.

  8. Re:Typical slashdot article on VLC Passes 3 Billion Downloads (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    no actual link to download vlc in the summary.

    Link? Just type VLC into the Windows Store ;-)

  9. Re:Speed cameras on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean like this study which says they reduce accidents and fatalities? http://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Late...

    Or maybe the one that specifically looked at Arizona and found no difference in number of collisions (though didn't look at injuries) and certainly didn't find a negative impact? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

    Maybe you want a wide spread study of some 550 speed cameras which showed a reduction in accidents and fatalities and at the same time directly looked at the very speed cameras that the Daily Mail and some other worthless rags claimed (incorrectly) increased accidents? https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

    Or this one from America that said also accidents are reduced and overall driver behaviour in the area improves: https://www.dailysignal.com/20...

    I would give you result number 5 from my Google search but it's the same study as result number 2 and I don't want to waste your time.

  10. Re:Hit them in the pocket on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Such a large-scale action is not done without some central organization.

    You'd be surprised how like minded people will copy good ideas from each other. Central organisation would be proven if it all happened at once. The yellow vests however have been best described as copycats at every stage of their protest.

    Oooh look 10 people in Paris occupied a toll booth! A day later you hear about gilets jaunes occupying toll booths over the country. It's very much a monkey see monkey do kind of a movement.

  11. Re:Speed cameras = dishonest taxation on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Funny how often that happens.

    It almost sounds like you are making a snide comment about the government rather than the speed cameras. From this we can conclude that the speed cameras aren't actually your problem.

  12. Re:Also cost half as much as the nvidia "flag ship on Nvidia CEO Trashes AMD's New GPU: 'The Performance Is Lousy' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "Their 700USD product is SHIT compared to our twice as expensive product!" - nVidia PR dude.

    They literally compared a $700USD product to the RTX 2080 ... which has an RRP of $700USD.

    I'm more inclined to question their game. I'm sure Nvidia will be doing Intel style benchmarking here.

  13. Re:Waiting for 4K / 60 FPS under $500 on Nvidia CEO Trashes AMD's New GPU: 'The Performance Is Lousy' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not planning on upgrading my video card until I can get 4K video running at 60 FPS for new games.

    I hope you NEVER get what you want. Last time it was possible to use a common high resolution at 60FPS on brand new games it's because the consoles effectively ended the concept of pushing technological boundaries.

    No thanks. I don't want a new game to every run like that on modern hardware. I want new games to push the boundaries on realism while taxing hardware to the extreme.

  14. Re:And Jane face it it's been a while on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks to RedHat's backing

    And Debian. Pretending like this is RedHat's doing is just ignorance.

  15. Re:Pure Poettering inspired incompetence on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    is exactly what no one was asking for

    Except for developers, and distribution maintainers. In fact many of them have attempted at some point to create something like systemd.

    Claiming it was something no one was asking for is speaking out of ignorance, either willful, pretending that there isn't a group that thinks differently from you, or accidental such as never having read a mailing list on the topic.

  16. Re:Systemd: Conflict of interest? on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    the rest is boilerplate.

    Indeed it is. What we should do is strip out this boiler plate and put it in a separate system that can be in charge of doing the all that same boiler plate stuff.

    I always find the dichotomy between people who are happy with copy paste boiler plate code in one place and then get super angry when things like docker or snap ship embedded libraries.

    Dammit I'm making a point, don't use my own logic against me!

  17. At what level is it reasonable, and how exactly do you determine that?

    Ask a jury.

  18. ...from house/white brands that you find in supermarkets and stores around the world?

    It's not. Regulators carefully watch this space and regularly crack down on abuse from companies about this process too.

  19. Re:How long will you have to watch vacation pics.. on 15 Years After Announcing the 1GB SD Card, Lexar Unveils 1TB SD Card (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What's 1080p video? The camera I bought for $300 5 years ago does 4K.

  20. Re:How long will you have to watch vacation pics.. on 15 Years After Announcing the 1GB SD Card, Lexar Unveils 1TB SD Card (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ... at your friend's home after they returned with a full SD card?

    Not long. With cheaparse GoPros shooting 4K at 60FPS that 1TB barely gets you through a single battery charge.

  21. Re:Moore's law confirmed on 15 Years After Announcing the 1GB SD Card, Lexar Unveils 1TB SD Card (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Moore's law is not dead, it just never had anything to do with performance. Fortunately for Flash doubling of transistors literally means doubling the size of the card.

  22. What did you do to break it? Undo that and you have you fix. There's no wide spread issue with SMB speed. Every consider your HDD in your NAS is shitting itself?

  23. Why would security updates be changing so much?

    That depends entirely on the problem right? Does security suck because you left yourself open to a buffer overflow? Or maybe security sucks because your entire protocol or architecture was poorly thought out and you need to change something fundamental and important to fix it.

  24. Re:For anyone wondering why it's only specific mic on New Windows Virtual Desktop Feature Will Finally Make the iPad Useful (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect that the argument for not supporting mice is that they don't want people doing crappy ports of desktop apps that require a mouse and then getting complaints from users that they don't work well with touchscreens.

    Like I said, this tells you everything about Apple's "Pro" strategy: Must be child friendly.

  25. Re:Supply and demand on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    You don't understand how subsidies work. The supply and demand curve are still there, along with it is an additional curve. You see when subsidies are in play the optimal solution is not the intersection of the supply and demand curve, but a point intersected by the new line, in this case to the right of the optimal solution where the financially optimal supply is far higher than the financially optimal demand.

    In economic terms the triangle formed between the optimal solution and the two new points formed by the subsidy line is called "dead weight loss".