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  1. ???

  2. Re: Crime not Advertizing on Idaho Wants To Establish America's First 'Dark Sky Preserve' (idahostatesman.com) · · Score: 1

    they want to **preserve** that

    And it's supposed to draw tourists, which will mean the end of the dark sky.

  3. Re:Really? on Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I can buy a better computer

    Yes -- but what kind of shitty argument is that?

    I can buy a quieter computer

    In this context, not really. Your better, faster computer will just mine better and faster, maxing out your shiny new CPU and again bringing the system to either high temperature, or high noise, or throttling.

    I can pay with electricity

    You pay with eletricity that you buy with money that you spend by burning eletricity. Hm.

  4. Re:Really? on Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    and my computer works to pay for it.

    And then you work for the money to pay your electrical bill with.

    That, and a working computer is a hot and noisy computer. Fuck that.

  5. Looks roughly equivalent to wearing sunglasses to me, those aren't illegal either.

  6. Re:Autonomous cars expensive and complex on 'Operational Limitations' In Tesla Model S Played a 'Major Role' In Autopilot Crash, Says NTSB (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Self-driving cars have been running on German and Italian roads since the mid-1990s.

    Do you mean that one instance in 1995 where a car went from Munich to Copenhagen with a mean time between human interventions of 5.6 miles?
    If so, that's "cars [plural] have been running ... since the mid 90s [as if it's an ongoing thing since then]"?
    If not, mind sharing a source for your claim?

  7. ...and Firefox 58 will be on Firefox 57 Will Hide Search Bar and Use a Uni-Bar Approach, Like Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Chrome.

  8. ok

  9. grasp of how the www works.

    FTFY

  10. Re:Big trouble for Hollywood on 'No Fire Risk' With New Lithium Batteries (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah I wonder about that too, because movies always depict reality exactly as it is.

  11. Re:Does anyone know on A Platoon Of Networked Self-Driving Trucks Will Be Tested in the UK (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Every vehicle needs to be marked.

    That doesn't conflict with what I said, my challenged special friend.

    Convoy rules only exist for military vehicles. Civilians cant make use of them.

    That's not true, but even if it was, how does it make anything I said wrong? Is your reading comprehension actually this bad?
    Where does it say that in the sources you failed to link? Oh while we're at it, hows the netherlands related?

    A convoy as you have been using the term is illegal.

    How have I been using the term, and how is it illegal?

    Are you "arguing" just for the sake of arguing?

  12. Re:Does anyone know on A Platoon Of Networked Self-Driving Trucks Will Be Tested in the UK (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    No, you just fail at reading comprehension. Let me have one more try at explaining this to you.

    - You may enter an intersection if and only if:
    -- You have a green light
    AND
    -- The intersection is clear to pass (i.e. not blocked)

    - If the front of your vehicle enters the intersection in a permitted way (see above), the rest of your vehicle may also legally follow through, even if your lights turn red meanwhile (which might happen if your vehicle is really long).

    - A convoy is treated as one vehicle spanning from the leading vehicle (marked with a blue flag) to the trailing vehicle (green flag).

    - A convoy is therefore a really long vehicle. If you see a convoy going through and blocking your way through an intersection you have a green light on, you wait the fuck for it to clear it. If by then you're having a red light again, well, sucks to be you. If you in this case are a convoy leader yourself, literally nothing changes.

    Do you get it now?

  13. Re:Does anyone know on A Platoon Of Networked Self-Driving Trucks Will Be Tested in the UK (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    This conflicts with your other post.

    It doesn't.

    Why can some vehicles, when following others, enter intersections on a red light, but other vehicles doing the same cant enter an intersection on a green?

    Because the first set of vehicles is considered one vehicle when going as a convoy, and to it the same rules apply that apply to every other vehicle. I don't see how this is hard to understand..

  14. Re:Does anyone know on A Platoon Of Networked Self-Driving Trucks Will Be Tested in the UK (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    You can't enter the intersection, even if you have a green light, when it's apparent than you can't clear it, simple as that. So yeah, the other cars would have to wait. Needless to say, they will enter the intersection anyway and then have to wait in the middle of it, potentially causing problems for everybody else (gridlock)

  15. Re:Does anyone know on A Platoon Of Networked Self-Driving Trucks Will Be Tested in the UK (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    In Germany, those trucks would go as a convoy, so the whole group counts as one vehicle. If the convoy leader passes the lights while they're green, the rest of the vehicle (i.e. all the other vehicles) may follow through even if the lights turn red meanwhile.
    I guess the USA have something similar.

  16. Re: Can somebody explain... on China Plans To Launch the World's First 'Unhackable' Quantum Communication Network (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    kthnx

  17. ...why diffie-hellman isn't good enough?

  18. And sound goes at a few thousand meters per second...

    Not in solids, generally.

    yeah it's rubbish allright.

    The real rubbish is your comment and its parent.

  19. Some cloud backup solutions ... on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 1

    ... that my recommend does what with, exactly?

  20. Re: Haha on Some Retailers Criticize Amazon's Recall of Eclipse Glasses (kgw.com) · · Score: 2

    And I'm going to watch a shaky vertical smartphone video recording of the eclipse being played back on youtube.

    Better safe than sorry.

  21. Re:dumb machines on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Every individual is way better than the average driver.

    Averages -- I don't think you understand them.

  22. I like this idea for a message in particular

  23. Re: How about people ? on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 1

    huh? i'm not sure you understand how HA HA works.

  24. Re:How about people ? on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is no such thing as a cyanide atom.

  25. Re:I don't trust it on Mozilla's Send is Basically the Snapchat of File Sharing (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use to share videos of my wife

    I really couldn't care less if you do or do not see the point, as long as you keep those videos of your wive coming.