A rear end collision happens when the person doing the colliding can't stop in time to avoid hitting the car before them. This means that they were following too close or were driving too fast.
Excessive speed and insufficient following distance are the problems, the camera merely makes it more apparent. It's the fault of the bad driver, blaming the camera is stupid. "Oh I am suddenly being forced to obey the traffic laws! I'm not used to this!"
If all traffic lights had the cameras, people would get used to them and start driving better.
1. Because tickets are sent to the wrong people? 2. Because tickets are assessed to the owner (not the driver) of the car? 3. Because you have no accuser to confront in court?
These three are irrelevant, because a picture of the driver is included with the ticket in the mail. If you don't look like the picture, then it's pretty easy to contest it.
4. Because rear-end collisions increase at intersections with red-light cameras? Citation needed.
5. Because yellow lights may be shorter in duration to increase revenue? Good point.
6. Because government and for-profit private companies collude and share the income from what is normally law enforcement (government-only) fines? Good point.
As far as I can tell only two of your concerns are valid. These can be remedied by not allowing the camera company to define the yellow light duration, and by agreeing only to a fixed fee for camera maintenance rather than a percentage of the income.
You don't throw away a good idea just because it doesn't work perfectly the first time, you figure out what you're doing wrong and fix it.
Do you have any idea of the sheer volume of code that gets submitted to wine everyday? Of course rejections are going to be short and to the point.
Wine is a huge project and it is only natural that code should be perfect before it's allowed in.
BTW, if you submit your code to the developer list before you send it to the patch list you can usually get comments from a few people telling you what to fix.
The god thing was a major cop-out for those of us that don't believe in magic.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. You can believe they were uber-advanced aliens if you want. Probably the original series' "Beings of Light".
I'm curious what they should be using beside Silverlight? Flash is just as "non-free" as Silverlight, isn't it?
Sigh. The entire point of this article is that Silverlight only runs on Windows. If they had chosen Flash then people on Mac/Linux/FreeBSD/whatever could watch it.
You should pay attention to the conversations you're in.
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So in other words, if no one else is going to obey the rules, why should I have to?
A rear end collision happens when the person doing the colliding can't stop in time to avoid hitting the car before them.
This means that they were following too close or were driving too fast.
Excessive speed and insufficient following distance are the problems, the camera merely makes it more apparent.
It's the fault of the bad driver, blaming the camera is stupid.
"Oh I am suddenly being forced to obey the traffic laws! I'm not used to this!"
If all traffic lights had the cameras, people would get used to them and start driving better.
1. Because tickets are sent to the wrong people?
2. Because tickets are assessed to the owner (not the driver) of the car?
3. Because you have no accuser to confront in court?
These three are irrelevant, because a picture of the driver is included with the ticket in the mail. If you don't look like the picture, then it's pretty easy to contest it.
4. Because rear-end collisions increase at intersections with red-light cameras?
Citation needed.
5. Because yellow lights may be shorter in duration to increase revenue?
Good point.
6. Because government and for-profit private companies collude and share the income from what is normally law enforcement (government-only) fines?
Good point.
As far as I can tell only two of your concerns are valid. These can be remedied by not allowing the camera company to define the yellow light duration, and by agreeing only to a fixed fee for camera maintenance rather than a percentage of the income.
You don't throw away a good idea just because it doesn't work perfectly the first time, you figure out what you're doing wrong and fix it.
And how does he get the GPS coordinates without a computer?
Will his phone send them by TCP over carrier pigeon?
Why would anyone be against red light cameras?
All you have to do is not drive like a jackass and you have nothing to worry about.
The driver quality has improved noticeably since they were purchased by AMD.
Also, the open source drivers are progressing nicely. http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature
Are there websites that publish papers with free access? If not, sounds like a good wiki idea.
Do you have any idea of the sheer volume of code that gets submitted to wine everyday? Of course rejections are going to be short and to the point.
Wine is a huge project and it is only natural that code should be perfect before it's allowed in.
BTW, if you submit your code to the developer list before you send it to the patch list you can usually get comments from a few people telling you what to fix.
None of them. I follow the mailing list, and none of them are calling for a fork.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. You can believe they were uber-advanced aliens if you want. Probably the original series' "Beings of Light".
Unless you live in reality, with the rest of us.
Oh snap!
Too many servers at launch? What warhammer are you talking about?
For the first month there were queues every time I tried to login.
You seem to have confused the word 'stupid' with the phrase 'something I'm not used to'
The people running the prisons might give kickbacks to the people running the courts.
You know, like what happened in this story you're commenting on.
When you're being that vague any computer fits that description.
Also, you are implying that you can't print from a netbook.
I have a desktop system. I don't print.
Sigh. The entire point of this article is that Silverlight only runs on Windows. If they had chosen Flash then people on Mac/Linux/FreeBSD/whatever could watch it.
You should pay attention to the conversations you're in.
Does anyone know WTF SOA is?
Maybe computer illiterate people shouldn't be using computers. We don't let people behind the wheel without a drivers license...
and they are all to slow to run windows 7 anyway. what's your point?
Show me a cpu made in the last three years that doesn't support 64 bit
"loosing"? twice?
Come on, the English language is not THAT hard.
I just can't believe people whine so much about idle. Like it is SO hard to scroll past a story you don't want to read.
Yeah! Why should anyone have to know the slightest details about the tools they use?
You mean like it already has? The fact that you couldn't click on the System menu and select Synaptic doesn't mean that ubuntu isn't ready.