Full disclosure: I bicycle, but a motorcycle is my primary commuter vehicle.
I'm not sure about other states, but in California there is no law specifically permitting you to run a red-light in the event that your vehicle isn't detected. Instead, we rely on a bit of a loophole in the law - California requires that all traffic loops be able to detect bicycle and motorcycle traffic. If cited, we make the argument that because the light was unable to detect us as per the legal requirements for traffic lights, the light has failed, and should be treated as if it were a stop-sign with the green light having right of way.
There are two issues with this... The first, obvious issue, is that you may still be cited by a police officer for running the red light regardless of whether or not the light was working. This sort of thing is often up to officer discretion, and officers often won't respect nuances in the law. In court, you are also subject to the Judge's discretion - it's been my personal experience that Judges don't tend to be as open to legal arguments from average citizens as they are to legal arguments from lawyers. Even then, I've seen judges (even at the appellate level) dismiss arguments that would be legal, but highly inconvenient, to the court system. Regardless, going to court carries significant expenses even when you win - all said and done, going to often as much as paying bail and attending traffic court (fuel, time off from work, preparation work, etc.)
The second issue, is that it may not always be *safe* to enter an intersection. If cross-traffic is heavy enough, it's unlikely you will be able to enter the intersection safely.
Often, the best approach is either to find an alternative route, or use a pedestrian cross button.
I am not a lawyer, but I do have a personal interest in CA traffic law.
You're born into ugly, but looking good takes work, no matter how attractive you are. Any film geek could tell you how much time Actors and models spend in make-up, or how much time a professional model spends at the gym.
Sadly once gas got over $1 a gallon it was costing me over $100 to make the 105 mile round trip to the capital so I had to give her up. I miss her...sniff!
So... Did the math here... Just over 1MPG? Must have been a real bitch to make that drive on a 20 gallon tank.
Basing my response on the parent poster and grandparent poster's comments. Someone asked why it would be relevant whether or not a driver was funded by his family. I answered. No idea if it's actually the case for this kid.
Sponsorship does make someone into a professional racer*, but for the vast majority of riders the sponsorship money simply offsets the cost of racing; the most of the costs are still paid out of pocket, and the sponsorship will not cover living expenses. Even in the televised leagues, there are a lot of privateers paying out of pocket (e.g. the AMA national motorcycle series is primarily small teams and privateers, even though it's nationally televised.)
The number of racers who make a net profit on the sport is vanishingly small, especially compared to other televised sports. A few of them pay the bills by training other riders, or providing services. The rest pay out of pocket.
* Sponsorship has some major downsides as well... Racing is a hobby to a lot of us, and having real sponsors usually means real work. It's no longer acceptable to skip a race because you want to go on vacation, or because funds are tight... You are out there to market your sponsor, and you have obligations... So, it can be a bit of a double edged sword.
The short version: Opportunity cost. If you're working 9-5, it's very hard to sit down on the console for hours on end to play racing games. It's very hard to take several days a month off to go drive real cars at your local track. If someone else is paying for your track time, meals, and roof, you have a huge edge over the guys who fund their racing budget with a 9-5 job.
I say this as a person who's done it. My first exposure to Infineon raceway was playing Tourist Trophy on a PS2. I learned the layout of the track thanks to the game. I took a few days away from work to ride the track. I raced 3 events there, finally taking a 3rd place trophy home with me.
Holding a job and racing is very very very difficult. Even if you can afford the track time, do you have a job that permits you to take a day off every few weeks to practice? Will your job tolerate you missing work to recover from injury? Do you really think you can compete with the people who spend their lives trackside, or who have been driving/riding since they were 5?
That's true. And in most cases, having just one of the X number of passwords set on a system is enough to expose further security flaws. Security decreases as the number of users increase, not the other way around. From the perspective of a sysadmin, every user added effectively reduces the time required for an attacker to correctly match a valid password hash - see the birthday paradox.
Password hashes are routinely exposed. Security in layers - any system that relies on the pasword table remaining protected is flawed. Also, it should be pretty obvious from the article, but you're never going to get the kind of throughput mentioned if you're going through the OS authentication stack. This attack relies 100% on the attacker having the password has in question.
The reason that Christopher Columbus had difficulty finding funding for his voyage was that people correctly concluded at the time that he would run out of supplies long before reaching Japan. It's dumb luck that he 'discovered' America before his crew died of starvation or mutinied.
[blockquote]Speaking of failures, I must say the greatest result was Adobe's version of the fish. They were the only one that managed to make the fish more scary![/blockquote]
In Super Mario World, the dolphins appear in the level 'Vanilla Secret 3' and help Mario complete the level and avoid the otherwise unkillable puffer fish by serving as flying platforms. They are not intended to look scary.:)
In California, it's illegal for a county to set a prima face speed limit that is lower than the 80th percentile speed, except under specific conditions (that only permit a 5-10 MPH reduction in speed.) It's also illegal to set a prima face speed that would make violators of the majority of drivers (E.g. the previous exception is over-ruled if the lower speed limit would make violators of 50% or more of the drivers traveling that road.)
This is done under the rather forward thinking idea that the majority of drivers on a road travel the road at a safe speed.
I wonder if the TomTom data could be used to invalidate some of our illegal speed limits?
[quote]Any time you claim that "consumers don't understand..." or "consumers need to be educated about..." you Have A Problem.
Most of the time, you are just engaged in the corporate equivalent of teenage whining about being misunderstood. Sorry. Your product is not, in fact, a special flower, misunderstood by the uncaring public. They just don't like it very much.[/quote]
Consumers didn't understand TiVo until... 2004? 2005? Now, it's a household word, like Kleenex and Xerox. I'm not saying the same is true of the 3DS; from the sounds of it, we may be looking at another virtual boy... I am saying though that sometimes there really is an amazing product that consumers just don't understand.
I had a troll on a guestbook I managed a while ago. I ended up handling them by editing all their posts to say something ridiculous and stupid, and by deleting any comment someone else made in response to the troll.
I think Katrina; and the World Trade Center; and the Coal fires in Centralia, Pennsylvania (burning since '62); and the 1969 oil Spill in Santa Barbara; and the 89 Valdiez spill; and the Heyope tire fire (burned for 15 years;) and the Deepwater oil spill; the Bhopal disaster, etc. etc. etc. all disagree with your statement that nuclear desasters are the only energy/transportation disasters that have a long lasting impact.
Regarding the Centralia coal fires:
"This was a world where no human could live, hotter than the planet Mercury, its atmosphere as poisonous as Saturn's. At the heart of the fire, temperatures easily exceeded 1,000 degrees [Fahrenheit]. Lethal clouds of carbon monoxide and other gases swirled through the rock chambers." - David DeKok (1986)
"5 minutes after it happens, its over" Is a very myopic statement, that could easily be rectified by walking the beaches of Santa Barbara.
Laws are about making sure other people don't do the stuff you want to do yourself... E.g. tax evasion laws. If there is no incentive to do something to begin with, there is no need for a law.
Let me start by saying, flat out, that I'm not trying to troll or start a war here, but what exactly would you have them cut?
Well... It would be nice if we could get out of Iraq and Afghanistan. And yeah, I know it doesn't tend to go over well with conservatives, but do we really need to spend quite so much on the Military? The ROI on military spending doesn't seem so good.
I mean, this is kind of what happened under Clinton... No big wars, cut Military Spending, Invest wisely. Seemed to have worked out well enough.
The real problem is that people want sprawling houses, and are not comfortable living in smaller places.
The real problem is that people who are comfortable in smaller living spaces have driven rent so high in the cities that it's significantly cheaper to commute in from the 'burbs. Out here, renting a room in SF can easily cost > $1000/mo.
(Also, living in the city would significantly increase my commute time, and leave me with a lot of time to spend in city traffic.)
Personally, I enjoy Duke's politically incorrect sense of humour a great deal. But I say this as someone who has seen domestic abuse, misogyny, and racism in life... As much as people need to chill and stop being ultra PC, we also need to remember that we are having fun with some very sensitive issues for some people.
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Full disclosure: I bicycle, but a motorcycle is my primary commuter vehicle.
I'm not sure about other states, but in California there is no law specifically permitting you to run a red-light in the event that your vehicle isn't detected. Instead, we rely on a bit of a loophole in the law - California requires that all traffic loops be able to detect bicycle and motorcycle traffic. If cited, we make the argument that because the light was unable to detect us as per the legal requirements for traffic lights, the light has failed, and should be treated as if it were a stop-sign with the green light having right of way.
There are two issues with this... The first, obvious issue, is that you may still be cited by a police officer for running the red light regardless of whether or not the light was working. This sort of thing is often up to officer discretion, and officers often won't respect nuances in the law. In court, you are also subject to the Judge's discretion - it's been my personal experience that Judges don't tend to be as open to legal arguments from average citizens as they are to legal arguments from lawyers. Even then, I've seen judges (even at the appellate level) dismiss arguments that would be legal, but highly inconvenient, to the court system. Regardless, going to court carries significant expenses even when you win - all said and done, going to often as much as paying bail and attending traffic court (fuel, time off from work, preparation work, etc.)
The second issue, is that it may not always be *safe* to enter an intersection. If cross-traffic is heavy enough, it's unlikely you will be able to enter the intersection safely.
Often, the best approach is either to find an alternative route, or use a pedestrian cross button.
I am not a lawyer, but I do have a personal interest in CA traffic law.
You're born into ugly, but looking good takes work, no matter how attractive you are. Any film geek could tell you how much time Actors and models spend in make-up, or how much time a professional model spends at the gym.
So... Did the math here... Just over 1MPG? Must have been a real bitch to make that drive on a 20 gallon tank.
(I'm guessing $100/week?)
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cab. Where can I take you tonight?"
Basing my response on the parent poster and grandparent poster's comments. Someone asked why it would be relevant whether or not a driver was funded by his family. I answered. No idea if it's actually the case for this kid.
Sponsorship does make someone into a professional racer*, but for the vast majority of riders the sponsorship money simply offsets the cost of racing; the most of the costs are still paid out of pocket, and the sponsorship will not cover living expenses. Even in the televised leagues, there are a lot of privateers paying out of pocket (e.g. the AMA national motorcycle series is primarily small teams and privateers, even though it's nationally televised.)
The number of racers who make a net profit on the sport is vanishingly small, especially compared to other televised sports. A few of them pay the bills by training other riders, or providing services. The rest pay out of pocket.
* Sponsorship has some major downsides as well... Racing is a hobby to a lot of us, and having real sponsors usually means real work. It's no longer acceptable to skip a race because you want to go on vacation, or because funds are tight... You are out there to market your sponsor, and you have obligations... So, it can be a bit of a double edged sword.
Spoken like someone who's never raced.
The short version: Opportunity cost. If you're working 9-5, it's very hard to sit down on the console for hours on end to play racing games. It's very hard to take several days a month off to go drive real cars at your local track. If someone else is paying for your track time, meals, and roof, you have a huge edge over the guys who fund their racing budget with a 9-5 job.
I say this as a person who's done it. My first exposure to Infineon raceway was playing Tourist Trophy on a PS2. I learned the layout of the track thanks to the game. I took a few days away from work to ride the track. I raced 3 events there, finally taking a 3rd place trophy home with me.
Holding a job and racing is very very very difficult. Even if you can afford the track time, do you have a job that permits you to take a day off every few weeks to practice? Will your job tolerate you missing work to recover from injury? Do you really think you can compete with the people who spend their lives trackside, or who have been driving/riding since they were 5?
That's true. And in most cases, having just one of the X number of passwords set on a system is enough to expose further security flaws. Security decreases as the number of users increase, not the other way around. From the perspective of a sysadmin, every user added effectively reduces the time required for an attacker to correctly match a valid password hash - see the birthday paradox.
Password hashes are routinely exposed. Security in layers - any system that relies on the pasword table remaining protected is flawed. Also, it should be pretty obvious from the article, but you're never going to get the kind of throughput mentioned if you're going through the OS authentication stack. This attack relies 100% on the attacker having the password has in question.
It's also obvious that Europeans believe the earth was flat... /sarcasm
The reason that Christopher Columbus had difficulty finding funding for his voyage was that people correctly concluded at the time that he would run out of supplies long before reaching Japan. It's dumb luck that he 'discovered' America before his crew died of starvation or mutinied.
[blockquote]Speaking of failures, I must say the greatest result was Adobe's version of the fish. They were the only one that managed to make the fish more scary![/blockquote]
In Super Mario World, the dolphins appear in the level 'Vanilla Secret 3' and help Mario complete the level and avoid the otherwise unkillable puffer fish by serving as flying platforms. They are not intended to look scary. :)
Well, within my lifetime, people were still saying the earth is flat...
Confused. Wikipedia will accept money to combat inaccuracies, or Wikipedia will accept money to continue spreading inaccuracies?
In California, it's illegal for a county to set a prima face speed limit that is lower than the 80th percentile speed, except under specific conditions (that only permit a 5-10 MPH reduction in speed.) It's also illegal to set a prima face speed that would make violators of the majority of drivers (E.g. the previous exception is over-ruled if the lower speed limit would make violators of 50% or more of the drivers traveling that road.)
This is done under the rather forward thinking idea that the majority of drivers on a road travel the road at a safe speed.
I wonder if the TomTom data could be used to invalidate some of our illegal speed limits?
[quote]Any time you claim that "consumers don't understand..." or "consumers need to be educated about..." you Have A Problem.
Most of the time, you are just engaged in the corporate equivalent of teenage whining about being misunderstood. Sorry. Your product is not, in fact, a special flower, misunderstood by the uncaring public. They just don't like it very much.[/quote]
Consumers didn't understand TiVo until... 2004? 2005? Now, it's a household word, like Kleenex and Xerox. I'm not saying the same is true of the 3DS; from the sounds of it, we may be looking at another virtual boy... I am saying though that sometimes there really is an amazing product that consumers just don't understand.
I had a troll on a guestbook I managed a while ago. I ended up handling them by editing all their posts to say something ridiculous and stupid, and by deleting any comment someone else made in response to the troll.
I think Katrina; and the World Trade Center; and the Coal fires in Centralia, Pennsylvania (burning since '62); and the 1969 oil Spill in Santa Barbara; and the 89 Valdiez spill; and the Heyope tire fire (burned for 15 years;) and the Deepwater oil spill; the Bhopal disaster, etc. etc. etc. all disagree with your statement that nuclear desasters are the only energy/transportation disasters that have a long lasting impact.
Regarding the Centralia coal fires:
"This was a world where no human could live, hotter than the planet Mercury, its atmosphere as poisonous as Saturn's. At the heart of the fire, temperatures easily exceeded 1,000 degrees [Fahrenheit]. Lethal clouds of carbon monoxide and other gases swirled through the rock chambers." - David DeKok (1986)
"5 minutes after it happens, its over" Is a very myopic statement, that could easily be rectified by walking the beaches of Santa Barbara.
Obligatory Zero Punctuation on Motion Controls.
Does that include users who have abandoned the service?
I have a myspace account. I don't think I've updated it in 5 years.
Laws are about making sure other people don't do the stuff you want to do yourself... E.g. tax evasion laws. If there is no incentive to do something to begin with, there is no need for a law.
Well... It would be nice if we could get out of Iraq and Afghanistan. And yeah, I know it doesn't tend to go over well with conservatives, but do we really need to spend quite so much on the Military? The ROI on military spending doesn't seem so good.
I mean, this is kind of what happened under Clinton... No big wars, cut Military Spending, Invest wisely. Seemed to have worked out well enough.
The real problem is that people who are comfortable in smaller living spaces have driven rent so high in the cities that it's significantly cheaper to commute in from the 'burbs. Out here, renting a room in SF can easily cost > $1000/mo.
(Also, living in the city would significantly increase my commute time, and leave me with a lot of time to spend in city traffic.)
No... But I'm sure 2^32 will be sufficient!
Pentium 233 MMX was released in June of '97. Most of us had upgraded to 95 SE 2 by then. ;)
Personally, I enjoy Duke's politically incorrect sense of humour a great deal. But I say this as someone who has seen domestic abuse, misogyny, and racism in life... As much as people need to chill and stop being ultra PC, we also need to remember that we are having fun with some very sensitive issues for some people.