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  1. So, what you have is not a difference in signage---what you actually have is city planner's correct choice that 4-way stops are safer than intersections with two roads of equal width somehow being treated differently, with one set of roads getting stop signs and the other not getting it. So they only use the latter when they have a good reason to justify it.

    My neighborhood is similar (very few intersections where one road that is not larger than the other does not have stop signs), and I would not wish my 4-WAY signage away if I could---it gives me useful information when I drive.

  2. Re:http blocked within 5 years on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, you were on the right track up until you said "especially not in LANs". How often do you load up stuff in your Web browser from your LAN?

    The correct response is "Not everything deserves or has to be encrypted." (Just end with the period; no further qualification needed.)

  3. Um, maybe it's different where you live, but where I live, you do get a warning when the cross traffic doesn't stop. Something like this. 4-WAY stop is a useful indicator letting me know that, after having come to a stop, I can start moving without waiting for the other guy to go, because if I came to a stop first, now I have the right-of-way. Without the 4-WAY stop indicator, I would have to try to look for the other guy's stop sign, before I feel safe to go after having stopped for my own stop sign.

  4. Um, except that the guilty party has already been identified in that case, unless the call was also made from a non-two-party state.

  5. Re:The logic is painfully twisted. on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    So Seattle will have no issue if Amazon choose to no longer profit from its infrastructure. Thank you for the clarification!

  6. I'm so happy for you that you are perfect. I wish I could be as perfect as you!

  7. Yes.

  8. Not to mention alpha rays ionizing the air around to make it fluoresce. Nuclear does glow, if it has high enough activity of right radiation.

  9. Re:A world full of stupid people.... on A Stealthy Harvard Startup Wants To Reverse Aging in Dogs, and Humans Could Be Next (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you don't realize that he lives on as worms.

  10. On my Windows 10, a freshly open Google Chrome with a single tab open on Gmail uses half a gig of memory. Yes, there are situations where it's not really Google's fault, but Google is certainly no longer engineering with resource conservation in mind (there are video editing software that can get by on not much more than half a gig of memory!).

  11. And yet, vast majority of Goguryeo's territory has nothing to do with current Korea. Once again, what an interesting notion, "Korea being ruled by Koreans." And let's not talk of Yi Dynasty.

  12. Even more interesting notion. When has Korea ever been truly independent of foreign control?

  13. I have a plank that measures over 60,000 15-microns. Which is more massive?

    P.S. In seriousness, though, Planck length is such an absurd scale to compare against. We are nowhere near probing physics at the Planck scale for the foreseeable future / generations.

  14. Re:Cornerstone of modern technology? on Einstein's 'Spooky Action' Has Been Demonstrated On a Massive Scale For the First Time (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. You missed the hoverboards and self-driving cars.

  15. Well, in seriousness, I do know professors who were impressed by Bohm's pilot-wave theory (it was more of a throw-away joke about how it is not widely accepted). I frankly don't know which interpretation of quantum mechanics I personally believe in. I think decoherence idea has to play a significant role somewhere, but I don't think there is a single interpretation that has a monopoly on how they use decoherence to explain the quantum weirdnesses.

  16. In his defense, technically I wrote two sentences (the second sentence being my parenthetical remark about Bohm's absurd ideas).

  17. Both A and B were spinning clockwise from the time they were entangled

    You are describing a hidden variable theory, which has been ruled out by Bell's theorem and subsequent experiments (well, the local version has been, and no one but Bohm is kooky enough to believe in non-local theories).

  18. Re:Edit Address Line Is Not Hacking on 19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Unless your conduct then rises to a level of "unauthorized access," because the TOS is what gave you authorization and by breaking it, you were no longer authorized. Rightly or wrongly, there are laws that make this kinds of conduct criminal offense, which is why I said what the "archivist" did was at least very stupid (no lawyer would have advised him to do what he did, at least not without hiding his tracks).

  19. Re:Edit Address Line Is Not Hacking on 19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0

    Violation of TOS is still a violation of TOS.

  20. Re:Edit Address Line Is Not Hacking on 19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Tell that to Aaron Swartz.

    At a minimum, this "archivist" was doing something very stupid and ill-advised.

  21. Not to mention the literal photo shot of the literal screen that you can read. Short of showing the message only in some kind of retina projector (with necessary authentication mechanism to ensure somebody can't just replace the eye with other sets of optics), who are they kidding themselves about these "self-destructing" emails?

  22. Re:Maybe they should try solar on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they would, if they could find a closed solar power plant (in a country that has "so much sunlight" though?).

    It makes sense people interested in money (literally) will do what is most economical, with nary a thought about any other considerations.

  23. Re:Think we're going to get a legal definition soo on Uber Drivers Are Independent Contractors, Not Employees, Judge Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe the whole "gig economy" was just a fad that was not going to be sustainable for anybody---something that could tide you over in 2009 when you were laid off and couldn't find a new job in the "recovery," but nothing you would want to do as a career.

  24. So, if it's provably random but you do not understand the proof, does it matter to you that it was provably random, rather than pseudorandom?

  25. Re:Don't keep sensitive info on your phone on Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know, do you use email on your phone? Cloud storage? All those are exposed through your phone. I guess you can revoke access remotely, but until you revoke access, you have a leak, unless you don't use a smartphone like a smartphone.