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  1. Re:Doing their part to reduce traffic! on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    We motorcyclists love sitting in a traffic jam with an overheating bike and then getting rear-ended.

  2. Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    Ignoring that "If you can't see anyone, the 65 is a 90" seems perfectly acceptable... A massively wide road with no competing vehicles allows you plenty of leeway and I'd argue 90 with nothing nearby (at least daytime... 65 on my motorcycle is pushing the limits at night if I don't have other headlights around... need more light) is safer than 65 in a crowd. The only reason I don't do it is because I don't want to swallow the potential ticket.

    While having somebody sitting right on your bumper is annoying as hell, and I loathe when people do it, sitting in the left lane while you're not making a pass because "nobody needs to go any faster than the limit" is just being a tool. It's akin to holding your arms out wide when you're going to cross the street and trying to stop runners from crossing intersections on a red light because jaywalking is illegal.

    Simple courtesy that takes little effort... why refuse that?

  3. Re:as a physicist and a canadian it is only right on Finally, a True Green Laser · · Score: 4, Funny

    They say the same thing, but they say it after the Canadian physicist.

  4. Grindstone on Keeping Up With DoD Security Requirements In Linux? · · Score: 1

    You'll probably have to solve it by using build scripts and tarballs. If you're feeling really ambitious, up the ladder and find out why it's only by version. Finding versions for each distro is probably more work for the people who do the list.

  5. I wish we'd dump China on Blizzard Awaits China's Approval For WoW Relaunch · · Score: 1
    Disregarding the fact that Game Theory says we never will, the only effective answer we really have to China is to just drag all our stuff away from them. This could be really interesting if China responded in kind. We'd effectively split the world in half.

    Maybe I'm just disgruntled because I spent all day reading proposed healthcare legislation and have decided that if one person puts something stupid forward, he's an idiot, but if a group do the same, it's "compromise."

  6. Re:As an agnostice... You must admit then... on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    They don't use a two dimensional anchored plane, you insensitive clod.

  7. Re:Since the lawsuit was filed in Florida ... on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 1

    You didn't stop to think of the following decade where we'd have to hear that Bauer played too much GTA?

  8. Re:Not only act of idiocy on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 4, Informative

    That separation is government mandated anti-monopoly work stemming way back from Ma Bell time. The lender thing might be related to SEC rules. The lawsuit is just retarded. I hope the judge fines the plaintiff for wasting his time...

  9. Re:WTF? We're doomed on Recovery.gov To Get $18 Million Redesign · · Score: 1

    Fine, we have the government we deserve. I don't have the government that I deserve, though.

  10. Battle.net, I lose my faith in thee on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I continue to play Warcraft III fairly regularly, mostly in the form of the custom map DotA. My thoughts:

    Battle.net has failed to evolve and I feel is discouraging to communities rather than promoting it. I've seen nothing really appreciable since War-III came out with the sad "clan" system. Bots are officially disallowed, but required to develop any sort of reasonable group. The new Warden service makes running a bot far more of a challenge.

    The necessity of the bots is this: you can't functionally setup an organized game any other way. There's no mechanism for taking a private game public once you get your friends in it. Game names can't be changed. Custom (non-ladder) games without an external mod have no disincentive to them to deal with the burgeoning population of juvenile tools who like to bail on their first loss in a team game, or worse find a way to actively ruin the game. Blizzards clan system itself is lacking and hasn't been improved upon at all. It's nearly useless outside of ladder games. Players end up creating new accounts with clan tags in the name to "fly their colors." Simply being more prominent in displaying the affiliated clan would have gone a long way.

    And come on... the game came out 7 years ago. Fix the damn pathing issues! Blizzard makes amazing games, but their handling of B.net lately has been horribly disappointing.

  11. Re:The summary is missing something... on BD+ Resealed Once Again · · Score: 1

    Some guy in a blue box once showed me how to cram an IMax theatre into a small closet by making the closet bigger on the outside. I swear the details will come back to me in a moment...

  12. Re:unable to pick up the device on Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink · · Score: 1

    Paint ponies on it and sell it as the /. special.

    Profit.

  13. Re:Security Theater on Verified Identity Pass Shuts Down "Clear" Operations · · Score: 1

    +1 to that. I take an empty nalgene, unscrew it and hold it upside-down as I pass through the metal detector.

  14. About those cameras... on Crowdsourcing Big Brother In Lancaster, PA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Many areas use cameras sitting on top of the red lights to activate them. They don't record, they simply detect motion. Those of us who ride motorcycles are rather appreciative of that as induction loop sensors (those cuts you sometimes see in the road at intersections) usually don't work for us.

  15. Re:Adeona on Adeona Warns of Instability; OpenDHT Mothballed · · Score: 1

    But how often do you have a laptop running with a clear view of the sky?

  16. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Door is ajar... Door is ajar... Door is ajar..."

    My door is not a #$^@ing JAR, it's a DOOR, stop SAYING that!

    This line brought to you by the early '90s idea that everything should talk.

  17. Re:depends on Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train? · · Score: 1

    I'm a very healthy & fit guy, if you put a good 200 foot climb in my way over the course of a half mile, I"m going to break a sweat. Same thing on a warm day. I can make a leisurely five mile ride on a 70 degree day and stay fresh, but for the most part if your commute isn't dead flat or it's hot outside, you'll be a mess.

    Any decent employer should have showers ^.^

  18. Same thing with most railroad police on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    ... including private railroad companies. They usually have the effective power of State Police in any state the railroad operates.

  19. The warrant itself isn't nearly this stupid on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some of the info is superfluous, but the officer is only quoting what somebody else told him when he mentions "the regular BC operating system and the other [with a] black screen with white text".

    The officer supports a lot of information with MAC addresses, University logs, comments from the University Director of IT, etc. One witness being technologically inept doesn't really matter. The officer, at least from my understanding of the affidavit, KNOWS what Ubuntu is. I suspect this witness' statement is there just to provide ancillary evidence that links the Ubuntu laptop as owned by the suspect being investigated.

    I've seen a lot of stupid police actions, but this guy seems to be reasonably well-informed.

    If I were in the position of a judge today, and I saw that warrant, I'd sign off on it. Please find & read the whole warrant.

    *Once investigated by the campus police because I used the terminal on OS X, and the other student thought I hacked her laptop. Grrrrrrr.

  20. Re:Actually, you may be missing the point on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Using GET syntax, each of the 100 links must contain all the metadata about the user's current state, etc.

    No. Session information is usually stored server-side, and a key lookup is passed. Whether it be via GET, POST, or a cookie, the same amount of data is transferred. In some cases, the client-side has the information, but there is no magical change that's different between those three methods. Whatever the server doesn't know has to be sent regardless of the method, whether it's a reference to a key value for info on the server side from the last form, or the entire contents of the form.

  21. I give you four in the first article result on Building Your Own Solar Panel In the Garage · · Score: 1
  22. How splits are graphed on Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM · · Score: 1

    These splits are adjusted in the graphs. They note the split, but the if the price shown on the day before the split was $100, that historical price will show on the graph the day after the split as $25. The relative value of the stock on 10/07 is exactly what the graph shows, so it's worth $8. People having stock back then simply had one cert worth $32 instead of four worth $8.

    The split note is really just a historical marker, and you don't need to do math to cross it.

  23. Ignore... on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Drop down menus should come with an ok button. Undoing "overrated," which should have been "funny."

  24. Re:Too right! on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 3, Informative

    No... you missed my point. Eight planets in the solar system, sure. The Universe is much larger, and other planets have been identified. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet#Extrasolar_planets is a start.

  25. Re:Too right! on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are 8 planets in the universe right now, does that make you happy?

    In the UNIVERSE? Might as well say the Earth is flat.