An acquaintance who worked for one those agencies for forty years assures me that the primary consideration in setting speed limits is revenue. The bureaucrats ask the engineers what the optimum safe speed is and then set the limit as far below that as they think the voters will tolerate. He says that unrealistically-low limits increase accident rates by increasing the speed dispersion.
> They'll probably use an e-ink display and embed a long life battery in the > plate, otherwise you'd have to retrofit a lot of vehicles with power > connections.
>...it's designed to display warnings for local traffic conditions so it > presumably has built-in GPS to know where you are.
Short-range roadside transmitters would suffice for that (paid for by the company so that they can sell local ads). However, this is an opportunity to get state-owned black boxes onto every car in the state. Initially, of course, Californians will be assured that no information will be gathered. Then the exceptions will start creeping in. Finally, a connector will be mandated and the plate plugged into the vehicle CAN bus.
It will be a felony to meddle with the plate in any way, including suppressing the ads.
I always thought that one of the main strengths of PDF was that the author
has 100% control over how it is presented. Or am I misunderstanding that
feature?
> Then there is fonts. Heck there are web browsers that run on text terminals. > Fonts are likely to be substituted depening on the platform and the > particular install which will also affect the sizing of stuff.
Font sizes are also sometimes much larger than the 2pt that Web designers adore because some of us have less than perfect eyesight.
Civilized societies distinguish between impoliteness and crime, only punishing the latter with extreme measures such as imprisonment. Only when someone suffers actual objective harm should they punished in any way more severe than by being avoided by those who find their behavior offensive.
> Google has a camera trained on the convex mirror...
No. Google is driving its StreetView car around and happens to accidently catch such a mirror in one of its photos when someone's PIN is visible in it (the mirror having been installed by the person entering the PIN).
Slashdot Mirror
> Kill the fuckers.
19th century anarchists tried that. Didn't work. To many of them.
Libertarian != Republican.
> It's very disconcerting to see brake lights @ 110 on a freeway and it can
> (and does) set off chain reactions.
If you weren't tailgating it wouldn't bother you.
An acquaintance who worked for one those agencies for forty years assures me that the primary consideration in setting speed limits is revenue. The bureaucrats ask the engineers what the optimum safe speed is and then set the limit as far below that as they think the voters will tolerate. He says that unrealistically-low limits increase accident rates by increasing the speed dispersion.
> They'll probably use an e-ink display and embed a long life battery in the
> plate, otherwise you'd have to retrofit a lot of vehicles with power
> connections.
They already require a light for the plate.
> Average Joe cannot be required to know how to maintain an "eAd plate"
Of course not. The ticket the cop gives you will require that you have it fixed by a state-licensed mechanic at your expense.
> ...it's designed to display warnings for local traffic conditions so it
> presumably has built-in GPS to know where you are.
Short-range roadside transmitters would suffice for that (paid for by the company so that they can sell local ads). However, this is an opportunity to get state-owned black boxes onto every car in the state. Initially, of course, Californians will be assured that no information will be gathered. Then the exceptions will start creeping in. Finally, a connector will be mandated and the plate plugged into the vehicle CAN bus.
It will be a felony to meddle with the plate in any way, including suppressing the ads.
> By the way, in my country you would be laughed out of court if you tried to
> sue the owner of a stolen car
In mine too (the USA).
> ...the fact that I'm using a web browser is kind of enough.
Real browsers can do more than "http://". "file://", for example. Or "ftp://". Or "gopher://".
Yes. That is not a feature. That's a bug.
> Then there is fonts. Heck there are web browsers that run on text terminals.
> Fonts are likely to be substituted depening on the platform and the
> particular install which will also affect the sizing of stuff.
Font sizes are also sometimes much larger than the 2pt that Web designers adore because some of us have less than perfect eyesight.
...or did he behave irresponsibly and publish the bugs without giving the vendors time to issue patches?
Not yet. These thinga are best done gradually. First suitable laws must be put in place under various guises...
Because it is illegal to not have Google and Facebook accounts.
> As far as I can see the directive would require ISPs to record what sites I
> visit, not what I do on them. Isn't this what they already do?
Perhaps in the EU. In the USA they merely log your IP number.
> On the other hand, it is unusual that the U.S. would agree to agree to
> another country's intellectual property regimen: It doesn't have to.
I guess that must be why the USA never signed the Berne convention, which would have drastically expanded copyright owner's rights.
Oh. Wait...
...is a much more serious bug than any possible printing problem.
You just don't grasp the concept of a cool hack, do you?
"Screwed over Tesla"? How do you figure that?
Do you seriously believe that it has not been digitized by many people and stored in hundreds of different places?
> Copyright of a radio interview is more likely owned by the radio station.
By whoever made the recording.
"If you can't piss in your own front yard you're living too close to town."
Civilized societies distinguish between impoliteness and crime, only punishing the latter with extreme measures such as imprisonment. Only when someone suffers actual objective harm should they punished in any way more severe than by being avoided by those who find their behavior offensive.
There are no civilized societies, of course.
> Google has a camera trained on the convex mirror...
No. Google is driving its StreetView car around and happens to accidently catch such a mirror in one of its photos when someone's PIN is visible in it (the mirror having been installed by the person entering the PIN).
> Basic politeness and good manners?
Being impolite should be a crime?