They don't want to get their car damaged, fine. But if the car is damaged, then it's covered by insurance. You could write into the contract that the driver is liable for 20% over the cost of repair in the event of damage. Driving 10 miles per hour over the speed limit on the motorway at 3:00am with no other cars in sight is not going to do any damage. It certainly does not warrant a fine IMHO.
I support the idea of making speed cameras very obvious, by the way. I take it from your description above that you were speeding, and thus should have been fined. Did you, after avoiding being fined, go to your local police station and pay in a speeding fine because you had broken the law?
True enough - but I agree with the decision here - it's not right for a private company to fine people for breaking public laws provided no damage is done to their property. What happens if you've got the rental car on the German autobahn where there's no speed limit?
Seriously - I personally value my privacy. The fact that you're parked outside an off license at 9:33am on Tuesday 3rd of July 2001 is absolutely none of their business.
Seriously though - why not do this with scarecrows? A driver travelling at a fast enough speed is unlikely to be able to determine that the "person" by the road is in fact a scarecrow with a plastic radar gun!
Of course that won't help with locals - but on country roads or whatever, it might do the trick. Though I fear that the cameras actually used are more effective.
Approaching a motorway exit on the north side of dublin, there are five speed limits signs. The order of them is as follows: 30-50-30-40-30. There are no other turnoffs in the interim.
These limits are enforced by speed cameras, meaning there's a dangerous speed restriction from a 50 zone down to 30... an accident waiting to happen.
There are cameras all over the building where I work. There are also cameras everywhere inside the business park in question.
What privacy am I entitled to? If any?
Is line of sight (for example wireless internet, which is offered here) affected much by bad weather? Anyone know?
Given that they're launching it in Ireland, it can't be that bad...
I like the idea of having a wireless LAN of any description.
However, I hesitate - for much the same reason as my concern over mobile phones - I am not convinced that having a transmitter - even a low powered one, in the case of a radio LAN - beside your work environment is good for the brain.
Though an optical one requiring line of sight is probably fine...
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They don't want to get their car damaged, fine. But if the car is damaged, then it's covered by insurance. You could write into the contract that the driver is liable for 20% over the cost of repair in the event of damage. Driving 10 miles per hour over the speed limit on the motorway at 3:00am with no other cars in sight is not going to do any damage. It certainly does not warrant a fine IMHO.
I support the idea of making speed cameras very obvious, by the way. I take it from your description above that you were speeding, and thus should have been fined. Did you, after avoiding being fined, go to your local police station and pay in a speeding fine because you had broken the law?
It's MPH here, too.
Acme was the detective agency in the Carmen Sandiego games. So *that's* how they found Carmen...
True enough - but I agree with the decision here - it's not right for a private company to fine people for breaking public laws provided no damage is done to their property. What happens if you've got the rental car on the German autobahn where there's no speed limit?
Erm, I do?
Seriously - I personally value my privacy. The fact that you're parked outside an off license at 9:33am on Tuesday 3rd of July 2001 is absolutely none of their business.
Provides valuable employment I'm sure!
Seriously though - why not do this with scarecrows? A driver travelling at a fast enough speed is unlikely to be able to determine that the "person" by the road is in fact a scarecrow with a plastic radar gun!
Of course that won't help with locals - but on country roads or whatever, it might do the trick. Though I fear that the cameras actually used are more effective.
While we're on the subject...
Approaching a motorway exit on the north side of dublin, there are five speed limits signs. The order of them is as follows: 30-50-30-40-30. There are no other turnoffs in the interim.
These limits are enforced by speed cameras, meaning there's a dangerous speed restriction from a 50 zone down to 30... an accident waiting to happen.
Only in Ireland.
Sure it is - but then it's not, in my view, up to anyone but the police forces to enforce fines for speeding.
...does anyone really use these anyway, apart from grandparents of Slashdot readers? :-)
Internet set-top boxes for TVs are sold over here, but I don't know anyone under the age of 50 that has one...
There are cameras all over the building where I work. There are also cameras everywhere inside the business park in question. What privacy am I entitled to? If any?
...no Mac built in the last three years or so has a floppy drive.
Dunno about that. Toast 4.x was tempramental, but I must say that Toast 5 has been reliable for me...
...what are the odds of producing an Open Source build for anyone to compile on Linux? The data files of course could be available for sale only...
Is line of sight (for example wireless internet, which is offered here) affected much by bad weather? Anyone know? Given that they're launching it in Ireland, it can't be that bad...
I like the idea of having a wireless LAN of any description. However, I hesitate - for much the same reason as my concern over mobile phones - I am not convinced that having a transmitter - even a low powered one, in the case of a radio LAN - beside your work environment is good for the brain. Though an optical one requiring line of sight is probably fine...