Your brakes may one day save some kid's life by the cost of rear end of your car. And you won't have to pay for it! I'm not sure what exactly is wrong with ethics here, from your point of view.
Yes, humans in general are crappy in measuring times and distances. But that's what we have got. People should acknowledge this and drive safely according to human abilities and road conditions. But instead people risk, get injured, die themselves and kill other people - that is where ethics is damned.
Unfortunately I do not know the details about research around longer yellow times, specifically I do not know for how long it was conducted. I would guess that this measure might have positive effect on short/medium term, but in the long term people just accommodate it. And those who run red light would just account for it and push it to the limits again.
Unfortunately there are only two things that stop people from doing stupid things: 1) money. i.e. fines 2) pain, injury
In case of running red light latter induces pain on innocent people, so the real option left is money, i.e. fines.
Yes, there is a percentage of people who run red light occidentally once on their lives, because they are humans, not machines. But there's large part who does this routinely and on purpose - and for those longer yellow, delayed green or whatever measure wont work. Fine, license suspension, double insurance premiums might safe lives of others with the help or RLCs.
It is rather funny how people blame everything and everyone for accidents but not themselves.
Yes, of course, RLC are to blame for collisions, not drivers who speed and follow too close! Drive according to rules and RLC won't cause any trouble.
Moreover, it seems to me that accidents caused by RLC would be minor comparing to accidents caused by running red light.
During this type of collision everybody is already braking, speeds are lower. Rear end collision in most cases hits the front of the car which is design to absorb this hit, also car in front slides forward and in most cases there are only one or two occupants in the front of the car, so they are not hit by car in the back.
But if you look into commissions caused by running red light the story is different. Car running red light is actually accelerating in a hope to 'make it' - the speeds are higher. One of the vehicles is being hit in the side causing much more damage.
So yeah, RLCs are a moneygrab. Just like any other type of law enforcement. And prisons are legitimate form of slavery. Anarchy - the way to go, right.
TFA doesn't tell the whole truth. You cannot get Gnome 2 Look and Feel with Gnome 3. You just cannot.
You cannot have workplaces in a grid, you cannot move and place your applets way you want, you cannot even have sensible task bar - one that is from applets doesn't even have context menus on buttons to allow one to move application to different workplace. It's like you spend couple of days tuning Gnome 3 and still get 'something' that is very far from what you've already had in Gnome 2 for many years.
But that's only for starters. Then one can remember that with Gnome 2 often comes compiz with lot's of features and lots of eye candy.
And that all begs a question - what exactly the purpose of the Gnome rewrite? It seems like their main goal was to copy all bad features from macos.
And it was would have been perfectly fine if they didn't so badly break Gnome 2 with all their library changes. It's like one of the most popular DEs just seized to exist overnight. You upgrade you Ubuntu/Fedora/etc and... your desktop is no more. And you were so much used to it.
I'm not against innovation in any way... But would it be better to perform experiments in the labs, not in schools/factories?
Ubuntu with their Unity is much better in that sense - they did not take your choice away. But Gnome 3 did - and that's main problem.
Isn't cDNA just same DNA but written a bit differently? That is, it contains same information. And it looks like this ruling allows one to patent that information! The very same information that is used to produce proteins in YOUR body.
This ruling sounds like - we cannot allow you to patent your record in MP3 format, but if you transcode it to FLAC - go ahead and patent it.
Doesn't make any sense.
I wonder how long before there'll be well organized 'underground railway' of hard drives with everything one might be interested in? History repeats itself, doesn't it?
..to achieve in court?
This is the thing I truly do not understand. So suppose they get names out of those IPs and the bring those poor people to court. What next?
All they have is the list of IPs from one of those companies that were mentioned on/. recently. I.e companies that are heavily affiliated with copyright owner. Can this list of IP addresses be hold as any sort of evidence? I mean anybody can go to whois service, get block of IPs Tekksavvy is using and randomly choose N IPs from it. Then sell this as 'prof of copyright infringement'. So whoever is producing this list has clear financial incentive to make it long and there is no way he can prove that that list of IPs was gathered in any way that correlates with any sort of copyright infringement.
Will court accept such 'evidence'? This sounds to me like allowing victim's family to find and bring in DNA of the killer - not the thing generally allowed.
Nvidia is creating Linux driver not because of good will, but because Linux gives Nvidia access to very fast growing market. And yes, Nvidia will notice if this market won't be accessible. Everybody else on that market will be just happy without Nvidia.
In short: Nvidia needs good Linux driver more then Linux needs Nvidia at all.
What sort of trade secrets? It's not sarcasm, I'm really curious.
From what I know all 'innovations' that make them competitive should already be patented. What else can they put into driver that they are giving away for reverse engineering by competitors?
Nvidia can go and reimplement (in a 'clean room') Linux kernel and it's APIs - nobody would have problems with that. But it seems like to much work for Nvidia. Instead it takes existing Linux environment, stuffs it with their blob and starts making money on selling chips for smartphones/tablets/etc. And it doesn't give anything back to the community. And that sounds like a violation of spirit of the GPL.
And nobody asks Nvidia billions of dollars, nobody even asks Nvidia to give their chips for free. People just think it would be nice of Nvidia to open source its drivers. Drivers for products customers already payed for! It doesn't seems like to much to ask, does it?
In the most free (as in freedom) country (i.e. US) consumers are made to buy stuff large US corporations decide they should buy. That's the freedom! That's the democracy! That's the thing US should be spreading into all 'non democratic' countries. Yeah, right.
This surveillance will be mostly used to catch people downloading movies from torrent. No, it won't be used to catch people looking for child porn - media industry (which is owned by same people as telcos) is not interested in catching them, they are after 'pirates'.
So, all 'pirates' go to jails (like half of the country), nobody subscribes to the internet anymore, telcos die, PROFIT.
Also, this would probably kill movie industry as well because most of their clients that go to the cinema and pay real cash (i.e. youth) will be in jails.
Piracy would be eliminated because there is nothing to pirate anymore. Isn't this great?
The next reasonable move would be to make all those jailed 'pirates' work on uranium mines. This will solve Canadian carbon emission problems as well.
Great future is coming, cannot wait!
Each time I watch a DVD I paid for they show be this black screen with words 'prison', 'illegal', 'fine'. I'll probably read though this text once or twice. After this - this screen will just affect my subconsciousness making very strong association from DVD I bought in Walmart with words 'prison', 'illegal', 'fine'.
Result - I'll subconsciously feel guilty every time I watch a legally bought DVD and every time I even think about buying a DVD.
Movie industry is putting great amount of effort to make their product subconsciously uncomfortable for people. The purpose of this move is a mystery.
I can install antenna on my roof and receive a signal.
I can hire someone to install antenna on my roof.
My neighbour can offer me to install my antenna on his roof (for money!) and pull wire to my house - because he has better reception.
I can hire company X to install antenna on their roof and send signal to my house over wire.
All this is not content producer's business! I can receive over-the-air signal in any way which is convenient to me. And I'm just hiring anyone I want to provide me with antenna.
Today it is easy and cheap to get interesting shows from streaming providers/dvd. It is easy and cheap (for most people) to get news from Air (free) or from Internet (almost free). It is easy, cheap and fast(!) to get any information you want from Internet without spending hours in front of TV.
So it sounds like that only people that really would subscribe to cable are people that like to watch crap and advertisements. Why should anybody deprive them from this? Let them do it. Let them have their own club.
Everybody else can just pull the plug, save money and live better. I do understand that this is a habit that might be difficult to drop. But it's worth it!
I've dropped my TV subscription when I realised that I do not watch it and my kid watches treehouse to much. And I've never had a second thought.
Why would anyone want to use Windows (Mac OS X) as their everyday desktop (or laptop) operating system?
Really, why?:)
Windows/Mac OS X do not have less problems, they just have different problems, lots of them. And 'they' (MS, Apple) make you pay time after time for a chance to get those problems solved, and new problems created. Why anybody on earth would want this?
The only reason - people are forced to used WIndows/Mac OS by hardware manufacturers vast majority of which doesn't offer OSless options. Imagine what would happen if Windows/Mac OS X would not be included into each PC/laptop price, but sold separately? Right, their market share would go down very-very quickly.
So, it's not an average consumer choice it use Windows/Mac, it's that an average consumer doesn't really have other options.
“To have a passport is privilege, it’s not entitled to you by citizenship,” Priest said. He said the issue may be with a microchip embedded in the back of all new passports. “They have no reason in the world to let you travel if it’s been damaged,” Priest said. “It’s like cutting your photo out or something if that chip doesn’t work.”
Come on, does US hates its citizens that much? I mean they make a document with a chip which can be broken by just sitting on it and then they deny flight? This must be diminishing experience to be a US citizen these days...
Isn't SOCA just a law enforcement agency, i.e. 'police'? They are not court, are they?
Then how can they say "The majority of music files that were available via this site were stolen from the artists." - this have not been proven in court, have it?
Isn't it illegal to call people criminals before they are actually convicted? Or at least unprofessional?
I bet they do not talk like this if son of some politician gets caught trafficking drugs? They just refuse to comment... And here they just shout all over Internet about this. What happened to simple police professionalism, huh?
I tried to disable this 'feature' with bank and they say that Visa is basically forcing them to have wireless thing on the card. So I was thinking - would it be possible to disable this thing yourself?
I'd assume that antenna is run on the perimeter of the card, so a hole in the right place would make the trick. Have anybody tried this? Does this work? Will merchants accept card with a hole in it?
I was thinking about spending vacation in US, like sunny beach in California or Florida... Or visiting Kennedy Space Center. Or God knows what else - US is an interesting country for tourism. I even was offered a job in the US, but that just was wrong timing...
And now I'm regularly readying these scary stories about TSA on/. Would I spend my vacation in US? No! Vacation is not the right time to be harassed at the airport. Would I move to US because of work? Well... nothing is certain here but I'll think more than twice for sure!
What I do not understand is where is that tourism industry lobby when US needs them so desperately?
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Your brakes may one day save some kid's life by the cost of rear end of your car. And you won't have to pay for it!
I'm not sure what exactly is wrong with ethics here, from your point of view.
Yes, humans in general are crappy in measuring times and distances. But that's what we have got. People should acknowledge this and drive safely according to human abilities and road conditions. But instead people risk, get injured, die themselves and kill other people - that is where ethics is damned.
Unfortunately I do not know the details about research around longer yellow times, specifically I do not know for how long it was conducted. I would guess that this measure might have positive effect on short/medium term, but in the long term people just accommodate it. And those who run red light would just account for it and push it to the limits again.
Unfortunately there are only two things that stop people from doing stupid things:
1) money. i.e. fines
2) pain, injury
In case of running red light latter induces pain on innocent people, so the real option left is money, i.e. fines.
Yes, there is a percentage of people who run red light occidentally once on their lives, because they are humans, not machines. But there's large part who does this routinely and on purpose - and for those longer yellow, delayed green or whatever measure wont work. Fine, license suspension, double insurance premiums might safe lives of others with the help or RLCs.
It is rather funny how people blame everything and everyone for accidents but not themselves. Yes, of course, RLC are to blame for collisions, not drivers who speed and follow too close! Drive according to rules and RLC won't cause any trouble. Moreover, it seems to me that accidents caused by RLC would be minor comparing to accidents caused by running red light. During this type of collision everybody is already braking, speeds are lower. Rear end collision in most cases hits the front of the car which is design to absorb this hit, also car in front slides forward and in most cases there are only one or two occupants in the front of the car, so they are not hit by car in the back. But if you look into commissions caused by running red light the story is different. Car running red light is actually accelerating in a hope to 'make it' - the speeds are higher. One of the vehicles is being hit in the side causing much more damage. So yeah, RLCs are a moneygrab. Just like any other type of law enforcement. And prisons are legitimate form of slavery. Anarchy - the way to go, right.
TFA doesn't tell the whole truth. You cannot get Gnome 2 Look and Feel with Gnome 3. You just cannot. You cannot have workplaces in a grid, you cannot move and place your applets way you want, you cannot even have sensible task bar - one that is from applets doesn't even have context menus on buttons to allow one to move application to different workplace. It's like you spend couple of days tuning Gnome 3 and still get 'something' that is very far from what you've already had in Gnome 2 for many years. But that's only for starters. Then one can remember that with Gnome 2 often comes compiz with lot's of features and lots of eye candy. And that all begs a question - what exactly the purpose of the Gnome rewrite? It seems like their main goal was to copy all bad features from macos. And it was would have been perfectly fine if they didn't so badly break Gnome 2 with all their library changes. It's like one of the most popular DEs just seized to exist overnight. You upgrade you Ubuntu/Fedora/etc and... your desktop is no more. And you were so much used to it. I'm not against innovation in any way... But would it be better to perform experiments in the labs, not in schools/factories? Ubuntu with their Unity is much better in that sense - they did not take your choice away. But Gnome 3 did - and that's main problem.
Isn't cDNA just same DNA but written a bit differently? That is, it contains same information. And it looks like this ruling allows one to patent that information! The very same information that is used to produce proteins in YOUR body. This ruling sounds like - we cannot allow you to patent your record in MP3 format, but if you transcode it to FLAC - go ahead and patent it. Doesn't make any sense.
I wonder how long before there'll be well organized 'underground railway' of hard drives with everything one might be interested in? History repeats itself, doesn't it?
In Russia this often called 'thermorectal cryptanalysis' and soldering iron is a tool of choice for this sort of job.
..to achieve in court? This is the thing I truly do not understand. So suppose they get names out of those IPs and the bring those poor people to court. What next? All they have is the list of IPs from one of those companies that were mentioned on /. recently. I.e companies that are heavily affiliated with copyright owner. Can this list of IP addresses be hold as any sort of evidence? I mean anybody can go to whois service, get block of IPs Tekksavvy is using and randomly choose N IPs from it. Then sell this as 'prof of copyright infringement'. So whoever is producing this list has clear financial incentive to make it long and there is no way he can prove that that list of IPs was gathered in any way that correlates with any sort of copyright infringement.
Will court accept such 'evidence'? This sounds to me like allowing victim's family to find and bring in DNA of the killer - not the thing generally allowed.
Hopefully their designs will become more earthy now.
Nvidia is creating Linux driver not because of good will, but because Linux gives Nvidia access to very fast growing market. And yes, Nvidia will notice if this market won't be accessible. Everybody else on that market will be just happy without Nvidia. In short: Nvidia needs good Linux driver more then Linux needs Nvidia at all.
What sort of trade secrets? It's not sarcasm, I'm really curious. From what I know all 'innovations' that make them competitive should already be patented. What else can they put into driver that they are giving away for reverse engineering by competitors?
Nvidia can go and reimplement (in a 'clean room') Linux kernel and it's APIs - nobody would have problems with that. But it seems like to much work for Nvidia. Instead it takes existing Linux environment, stuffs it with their blob and starts making money on selling chips for smartphones/tablets/etc. And it doesn't give anything back to the community. And that sounds like a violation of spirit of the GPL. And nobody asks Nvidia billions of dollars, nobody even asks Nvidia to give their chips for free. People just think it would be nice of Nvidia to open source its drivers. Drivers for products customers already payed for! It doesn't seems like to much to ask, does it?
In the most free (as in freedom) country (i.e. US) consumers are made to buy stuff large US corporations decide they should buy. That's the freedom! That's the democracy! That's the thing US should be spreading into all 'non democratic' countries. Yeah, right.
With this logic every man has to be castrated. Because men have the device that can be used to rape women.
This surveillance will be mostly used to catch people downloading movies from torrent. No, it won't be used to catch people looking for child porn - media industry (which is owned by same people as telcos) is not interested in catching them, they are after 'pirates'. So, all 'pirates' go to jails (like half of the country), nobody subscribes to the internet anymore, telcos die, PROFIT. Also, this would probably kill movie industry as well because most of their clients that go to the cinema and pay real cash (i.e. youth) will be in jails. Piracy would be eliminated because there is nothing to pirate anymore. Isn't this great? The next reasonable move would be to make all those jailed 'pirates' work on uranium mines. This will solve Canadian carbon emission problems as well. Great future is coming, cannot wait!
Each time I watch a DVD I paid for they show be this black screen with words 'prison', 'illegal', 'fine'. I'll probably read though this text once or twice. After this - this screen will just affect my subconsciousness making very strong association from DVD I bought in Walmart with words 'prison', 'illegal', 'fine'. Result - I'll subconsciously feel guilty every time I watch a legally bought DVD and every time I even think about buying a DVD. Movie industry is putting great amount of effort to make their product subconsciously uncomfortable for people. The purpose of this move is a mystery.
I can install antenna on my roof and receive a signal. I can hire someone to install antenna on my roof. My neighbour can offer me to install my antenna on his roof (for money!) and pull wire to my house - because he has better reception. I can hire company X to install antenna on their roof and send signal to my house over wire. All this is not content producer's business! I can receive over-the-air signal in any way which is convenient to me. And I'm just hiring anyone I want to provide me with antenna.
Today it is easy and cheap to get interesting shows from streaming providers/dvd. It is easy and cheap (for most people) to get news from Air (free) or from Internet (almost free). It is easy, cheap and fast(!) to get any information you want from Internet without spending hours in front of TV. So it sounds like that only people that really would subscribe to cable are people that like to watch crap and advertisements. Why should anybody deprive them from this? Let them do it. Let them have their own club. Everybody else can just pull the plug, save money and live better. I do understand that this is a habit that might be difficult to drop. But it's worth it! I've dropped my TV subscription when I realised that I do not watch it and my kid watches treehouse to much. And I've never had a second thought.
Why would anyone want to use Windows (Mac OS X) as their everyday desktop (or laptop) operating system? Really, why? :)
Windows/Mac OS X do not have less problems, they just have different problems, lots of them. And 'they' (MS, Apple) make you pay time after time for a chance to get those problems solved, and new problems created. Why anybody on earth would want this?
The only reason - people are forced to used WIndows/Mac OS by hardware manufacturers vast majority of which doesn't offer OSless options. Imagine what would happen if Windows/Mac OS X would not be included into each PC/laptop price, but sold separately? Right, their market share would go down very-very quickly.
So, it's not an average consumer choice it use Windows/Mac, it's that an average consumer doesn't really have other options.
“To have a passport is privilege, it’s not entitled to you by citizenship,” Priest said. He said the issue may be with a microchip embedded in the back of all new passports. “They have no reason in the world to let you travel if it’s been damaged,” Priest said. “It’s like cutting your photo out or something if that chip doesn’t work.” Come on, does US hates its citizens that much? I mean they make a document with a chip which can be broken by just sitting on it and then they deny flight? This must be diminishing experience to be a US citizen these days...
Isn't SOCA just a law enforcement agency, i.e. 'police'? They are not court, are they? Then how can they say "The majority of music files that were available via this site were stolen from the artists." - this have not been proven in court, have it? Isn't it illegal to call people criminals before they are actually convicted? Or at least unprofessional? I bet they do not talk like this if son of some politician gets caught trafficking drugs? They just refuse to comment... And here they just shout all over Internet about this. What happened to simple police professionalism, huh?
I tried to disable this 'feature' with bank and they say that Visa is basically forcing them to have wireless thing on the card. So I was thinking - would it be possible to disable this thing yourself? I'd assume that antenna is run on the perimeter of the card, so a hole in the right place would make the trick. Have anybody tried this? Does this work? Will merchants accept card with a hole in it?
I was thinking about spending vacation in US, like sunny beach in California or Florida... Or visiting Kennedy Space Center. Or God knows what else - US is an interesting country for tourism. I even was offered a job in the US, but that just was wrong timing... And now I'm regularly readying these scary stories about TSA on /. Would I spend my vacation in US? No! Vacation is not the right time to be harassed at the airport. Would I move to US because of work? Well... nothing is certain here but I'll think more than twice for sure!
What I do not understand is where is that tourism industry lobby when US needs them so desperately?