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  1. Re:775 fine for permanently disabling two people?! on Texter Not Responsible For Textee's Car Accident, Rules Judge · · Score: 1

    In my city, you have to keep the sidewalk clear of ice. You can get a $100 penalty for not doing it. It's rarely enforced unless they're trying to lay pressure on an absentee landlord, or if you live in a wealthier area.

    Anyway, if somebody slipped and hurt themselves because I didn't maintain my sidewalk, I would totally get slapped with a $100 fine. The city wouldn't pursue it further because that's all I've done wrong. On the other hand, the person who slipped could sue me for medical bills, etc.

    In this case, it seems that he got a typical penalty for distracted driving. Probably closer to the maximum, given the circumstances, but I'm not sure. He'll still end up paying the injured couple more directly in a different court.

  2. Re:Good ruling in THIS case..... on Texter Not Responsible For Textee's Car Accident, Rules Judge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't you understand why? If you watch a youtube video with a song in it, you're depriving the artist of money for their work. It's just like cutting off the hands that played the instrument. But in today's society, these rights are held by corporations which are made up of thousands of people. That's thousands and thousands of hands that you cut off on purpose. Of course there's a higher penalty than smashing off two legs accidentally!

  3. Re:Good ruling in THIS case..... on Texter Not Responsible For Textee's Car Accident, Rules Judge · · Score: 4, Informative

    IMHO, $775.00 USD is way too small compensation for two innocent victims

    That was a penalty, not compensation. They're still sorting that bit out.

  4. Re:No Pictures? on IBM Researchers Image Electrical Charge Distribution In a Single Molecule · · Score: 4, Informative
  5. Re:No Pictures? on IBM Researchers Image Electrical Charge Distribution In a Single Molecule · · Score: 2
  6. Re:Pffff, whatever. on Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS · · Score: 1

    The real hipsters are into bluray. They were into it when everybody else wasn't even over it yet.

  7. Automote, patent pending on System Recognizes Emotions In People's Voices · · Score: 1

    How long until we have the emotional equivalent of autotune?

  8. Re:Don't force us to use the phone in the first pl on System Recognizes Emotions In People's Voices · · Score: 1

    sometimes a second brain is needed in a transaction.

    Sometimes just the one would be nice.

  9. Re:Not good for society on Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons · · Score: 1

    If it's cheaper to the government, then it's also less profitable for the prison. I think that roboguards would lead to a reversal of that trend, and therefore not catch on in the US.

    Also, you can still shank a robot, you just need a sharper toothbrush. Maybe something made out of robot parts.

  10. Re:Something the academic forgot on Designer Creates "Euthanasia Roller Coaster" · · Score: 1

    Worse than that, if any gets loose it could have a range of up to a kilometer!

  11. Re:Not censor, an opt-in filter on Wikipedia May Censor Images · · Score: 1

    2 days... slashdot, what's happened to you?

    I know! I love how quick they've become too!

  12. Re:Ruling doesn't affect Internet blocking on Feds Settle Case of Woman Fired Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    I think you are wrong.

    Putting something in print is "publishing" it and thus you extend that to "putting something on Facebook is publishing because it uses text and it is observable by the public". This is IMO false. A status update on Facebook isn't publishing, at least not in the same way that putting an ad in the paper or writing a newspaper article is publishing, nor is it like writing a lengthy blog post. It is more like saying something in public, only you are doing it with text.

    The employee isn't necessarily publishing, but they are making criticism available.

    </RIAA>

  13. Re:Horrible. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    want to find out?

    Let's do exactly that!

  14. Re:If you're not going to read your forum ... on Why Creators Should Never Read Their Forums · · Score: 1

    Much like letters to congressmen, which really only benefit stationary companies and the post office, but placate the sheep.

    Wouldn't that be most companies? I don't remember seeing very many companies moving around very much.

    Then you must have missed this story.

  15. Re:Work around on Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell? · · Score: 1

    I am constantly irritated when I copy a link, only to paste a wall of text in my little IM window.

  16. Re:Are they joking? on NSA Director Says the US Must Secure the Internet · · Score: 1

    Our planet is already secure — you cannot escape it.

    Then you aren't going nearly fast enough.

  17. Re:Already secure on NSA Director Says the US Must Secure the Internet · · Score: 1

    Practical attacks or merely theoretical "well, it's broken under mathematical rules" attacks?

    Over time, these converge.

  18. Re:Not all bloggers, just those that make money on Philly Requiring Bloggers To Pay $300 · · Score: 1

    I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

    This certainly applies to code and, I'm sure, law as well.

  19. Re:Security through obscurity? on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    It's in the same place. Ground Zero is a park, with a monument marking where the bomb hit.

  20. Re:-1 False Assumption on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    And in Ohio. In my city, there's no way you can make a left turn otherwise.

  21. Re:info on Facebook's Plan To Automatically Share Your Data · · Score: 1

    Maybe my post wasn't as humorous as I had expected, but I've never seen somebody put so much effort into not getting a joke!

    Also, who am I framing for what now?

  22. Re:Cannonical is just trolling us on Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they did it in that order. You are now 11.

  23. Re:facebook, myspace, friendster, orkut on Facebook's Plan To Automatically Share Your Data · · Score: 1

    I don't understand what is wrong with everyone on the internet. You cry about privacy but willingly give out your real-life information to these websites.

    I absolutely disagree with this, but I don't have time to discuss it now. If you want to discuss this further, you can reach me here:

    Dan Cruz
    656 Maple Ave.
    San Diego, CA
    Home: (901) 271-5342
    Work: (901) 887-4040 x523
    Cell: (901) 279-8601

    You can reach me at my $65k/yr job from 8 to 2, and then I go to the gym for an hour. If you have to reach me next week, I'll be on vacation with my wife Julia for six days, so call my cell. Also, this reuben sandwich is dee-licious!

  24. Re:I saw the problem when I saw the name kdawson. on Interview With Jeremy Howard of FastMail.fm · · Score: 2, Funny

    1a. Help & Preferences -> Dynamic Index -> Exclusions: Put a check next to "kdawson"
    or
    1b. Help & Preferences -> Classic Index -> Authors: Uncheck "kdawson"
    2. ????
    3. Stop crying yourself to sleep every night there is a kdawson story

  25. Re:Graduate Record Exam on Computers To Mark English Essays · · Score: 1

    Unless the essay is brilliant to two humans, in which case the computer is corrected. The computer only really decides whether a second opinion is needed.