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  1. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Well we are talking about increasing the time...

    If you are a municipality concerned about safety - increase timer on yellow light.

  2. Shipping companies.... on The Future of Stamps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Shipping companies already do similar things with bar codes etc. So to the question in the summary, yes it should be fine. To the general idea, why? What's wrong with a QR code or a bar code?

  3. Re:I have to question the facts of the matter on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    I should also add, as someone else mentioned, the Mercury Seven candidates had to have a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Jerrie Cobb only had a high school education.

  4. Re:I have to question the facts of the matter on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    John Glenn was indeed a military test pilot. In 1957 (one year before Mercury 7) Glenn was a test pilot at NAS Patuxent River and was the first to complete a supersonic transcontinental flight in the Vought F8U-3P Crusader.

    The other reason she would not have qualified is she had little to no experience flying jets. She flew a jet once.

  5. The article goes too far... on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    Yes she was passed over due to sexism, indirect though since they were only accepting military pilots (who were only male). The article says towards the beginning:

    Although they were certainly deserving, well-qualified and capable, there was a better candidate than many of these men who was passed over for all the wrong reasons.

    Okay, a valid thesis except...

    The Lovelace Clinic was where a series of physical and mental tests...were performed on the candidates to determine their fitness for space. The first crew, the aforementioned Mercury 7, were chosen from among the top performers.

    But about a year later, Lovelace became curious about how women would perform on this same test...

    Thirteen American women...were selected to participate in the three phases of testing. Jerrie Cobb was the only one who passed them all.

    So Jerrie Cobb took the test after the Mercury 7 crew were selected. They weren't picked over her, because she at the time was not known to be as qualified or better.

    Further the last line of the quoted section is false. 19 women were selected to participate in the testing (recruited by Lovelace and Cobb). 13 passed the first phase, which was what the Mercury 7 passed. Three were taken to do additional testing phase II testing, the women excluding Cobb were unable to do the second phase tests due to other family and work commitments. And Cobb was the only one to take the final phase III testing.

  6. Re:Eh on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    When she was tested, was a year after they had already tested and picked the Mercury 7 crew. Who knows what she would've tested at if she was tested a year earlier along with everyone else. If we're going to venture into supposition well, let me counter the article's and your supposition with a different one. With her connections in the aviation community, she could've known about the tests and what they were requiring. And either trained or been prepared for the test when she took it in the following year.

  7. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    But then we couldn't make fun of the French...

  8. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    To be fair, you UK'ers like to mock people the US period though. :P

  9. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Depends on the state. My state says if both wheels are into the intersection (passed the white line on your side of the intersection) before the light is red, then you haven't run the red light. Other states say you can't be in the intersection when the light turns red.

  10. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You're missing the important aspect of the point. Increased yellow light timer, means increase span of time to determine whether it's safe to proceed through the intersection. Whether that means people figure they have more time to get through the intersection is moot. They have more time to decide on a safe course of action before one HAS to be made. So yes, it is that simple, and you've over thought the issue.

  11. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    That's how it generally is. Some cities I've been in though have like a 1-2 second count change. And one place I've been to does it instantly.

  12. Re:Some flavors of agile fight human nature ... on Mixing Agile With Waterfall For Code Quality · · Score: 1

    One of the key tenants for Agile though is that developers pick the tasks they're going to work on in a sprint.

  13. Re:More feminist FUD on How Women Became Gamers Through D&D · · Score: 1

    Because it's not a fact. The study sited says women are 48% of gamers. That's the minority. I'm sure that number shrinks when you take out the mobile phone "gamers."

  14. Re:Straw Man on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 1

    The internet is a network. Apple iCloud is connected to that network, and as such is part of that network. Putting something on iCloud is putting something on the internet. That was the original point in question. The point that you attempted to argue against.

    I'm not sure how you arrived at your incredible assumption there.

  15. Re:Straw Man on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 1

    So you would accept the consequence of death when you went skydiving. Following that logic, Lawrence would've known the risk of putting pictures of herself onto an online storage system. There was an inherent risk, however small, that the photos would get leaked. If this is all true, then Jennifer Lawrence shouldn't be getting so bent out of shape about what happened.

  16. Re:Straw Man on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 1

    Those servers are all on the same network. That is "the internet." They are accessible by anyone with proper credentials via the internet.

  17. Re:But that was not the same! on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 1

    Jennifer Lawrence did "nude" scenes in the X-Men movies as Mystique. Just saying.

  18. Re:In a just world Weev would have a 9mm headache on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    Hunting a troll down and gutting them, while not smart personally, might send a message to the rest of them. You're not as anonymous on the internet as you think you are.

    I'm not advocating this, but come on, it's going to happen. There's already been one story about something similar where the victim hunted down their harasser, and there's been pop culture notions too. Think the Big Bang episode where Wolowitz hunted down that griefer.

  19. Re:Don't over generalize on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    nothing over the line to prosecutable of course

    This:

    calling up my company and my company's customers in an attempt to get me fired

    Is prosecutable in civil court, particularly if it's false.

  20. Re:Travel on Indonesian Cave Art May Be World's Oldest · · Score: 1

    I would think you'd have to find older art in Africa or the Middle east that predated known findings of humans in other parts of the globe. Rough task.

  21. Re:Why send humans now on Proposed Hab Module For Asteroid Redirect Mission Could Support a Lunar Return · · Score: 2

    It's always good to know EMPs could wipe out our species.

  22. Re:boo hoo hoo on Ubisoft Claims CPU Specs a Limiting Factor In Assassin's Creed Unity On Consoles · · Score: 4, Informative

    And back in our days when we wanted to play with our friends we had to trudge 15 miles through 10 feet of snow going up hill both ways!

  23. Re:Blue LED should've never been awarded. on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 1

    Left out relevant context from the link:

    Les diodes mises sur le marché à des fins d'éclairage sont principalement caractérisées par la grande proportion de bleu dans la lumière blanche émise et par leur très forte luminance ( intensité lumineuse ). Les enjeux les plus préoccupants identifiés par l'Agence concernent l'il : effet toxique de la lumière bleue et risque d'éblouissement.

  24. Re:Blue LED should've never been awarded. on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 1

    That's ONE of the concerns.

    La lumière bleue, nécessaire pour obtenir des LED blanches, conduit à un stress toxique pour la rétine. Les enfants sont particulièrement sensibles à ce risque, dans la mesure où leur cristallin reste en développement et ne peut assurer son rôle efficace de filtre de la lumière.

    I said I can't read French well enough, so it's hard for me to find the report referenced by original link I gave. But because you have no clue what a logical argument is.

    https://www.anses.fr/fr/conten...

  25. Re:Argument from authority on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    What you did was exactly what the subject line of the OP was saying.