Solve the problem by applying existing law using common sense instead of making new laws that are easier to apply.
Not everybody has common sense. As it stands now, I'm sure there are plenty who think they are supermen* who aren't "distracted" just because they're texting. Sure, if they cause an accident, the judge won't agree, but it's better that they've heard unequivocally that "texting and driving is illegal", and don't cause an accident in the first place. Just like the way we have drink-driving laws as well as accident-causing laws, because idiots think they can handle driving drunk.
*Nearly everybody thinks they are an "above average driver".
This should be handled by insurance, not Big Brother. If you wreck, you pay higher premium.
Requiring that people pay attention when operating dangerous machinery in a public place is "big brother"? Should it also be possible to drive drunk, provided you have expensive drunk-driving insurance?
The market isn't going to solve everything. Preventing you from getting killed by idiots is pretty much the most legitimate function a government has.
I'm sure someone with one of these would wear a MedicAlert bracelet, just like a pacemaker patient does. I'm presuming paramedics would check those when resuscitating someone, as lots of already widely used heart implant technologies must effect how they resuscitate.
It's a start. Your current balance to the penny is a common bank security question. Making it publicly available removes one step for someone trying to collect enough security question answers to impersonate you.
It is indeed beautiful. And it's very cool that it takes standard hardware Every other commercial case I've seen is either a barebone with a non-removable motherboard, a conventional large box, or a large box with tacky plastic 'round the edges to make it look less like a large box. I couldn't imagine anybody spending this much on a non-standard case which will go obsolete, but a real case stays current for a long time, unless, of course, the PSU is non-replaceable. Anybody know about that?
I would never vote fro Labour or the Tories and indeed any other vote does seem wasted
I would suggest that you to vote for the Lib Dems then (in general elections), almost regardless of what their other policies are at the time, so long as they still promise to put in a PR system. I like a lot of their policies, but I'd vote for proportional representation even if it was for a party I didn't otherwise agree with, because one term of bad government beats the eternity of bad and mediocre government we're looking forward to now.
I think that the election of that BNP MEP was more due to dissatisfaction with real politics (thinking that voting for those bastards was a good way to make a really noisy protest-vote) than actual widespread support for fascism, and that dissatisfaction with real politics would decrease in a less fucked-up system.
As other replies have already explained, the candidate with the majority in each consituency gets to be that constituency's MP. The other person gets nothing. This has the effect of biasing seats in favour of the large parties, since winning 30% of the votes in each of 50 seats gets you exactly 0 seats, whereas 60% would get you 50 seats.
For a nice demonstration of the effect this has on a democracy, have a look at this chart, and compare "Seats %" with "Votes %" (the small parties with more representation than votes are mostly confined to small areas, allowing them a majority in that area without much support outside it). Observe how Labour has about 1.5x the number of votes that the Lib Dems have, and over 5x as many seats.
The Lib Dems are, sadly, unlikely to win an election anytime soon, unless the leaders of the other two parties get caught doing something dreadful in the month before an election. It's a shame, because whatever other policies the Lib Dems have (some good, some bad), having them win and fix the system would produce a much better democracy in the UK. Of course, if they win, then proportional representation is likely no longer going to be in their interests (it benefits the smaller parties), so, being politicians, I wouldn't be surprised if they try and concentrate on every other campaign promise first.
There is an amendment which says "no passing any laws which could possible restrict any freedoms"? While it would be totally awesome if there was a bit of the US constitution which said "and, by the way, anarchy!", I'll believe you when you specify which bit you're talking about.
FreeBSD is also a kernel, presumably developed using similar methods to other parts of FreeBSD.
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The US and UK have two parties each, and the two parties are basically not very different. Barring a few specific situations, votes for other parties or independents have no effect. If you don't agree with the way things are, you can't stand for the major parties, and I'm not too familiar with the US system, but the UK's "first past the post" system makes it nearly impossible for new parties to go anywhere, as the only way for one to become effective would be for large numbers of people to throw their votes away for several elections in a row.
Sometimes, voting is not going to change anything.
1st amendment? What does taxing beverages have to do with freedom of speech? In any case, America already has an awful lot of laws about what slightly harmful, slightly addictive things adults are allowed to consume.
To simplify it a bit: back then, you could do development that was fast but resulting in unstable code, because there was not a nice, working alternative. Now there is, and you can't program like that anymore. Netscape is probably not a good model for who development should be done in most cases.
Of course, the term "wakefulness promoting agent" is used to distinguish drugs like modafinil from traditional stimulants like caffeine. Going without sleep with caffeine usually means you have to catch up, and, in my own experience, doesn't stop you getting stupider after several hours. Modafinil supposedly allows one to stay up all night, functioning normally, and only require the normal amount of sleep the night after they come off it.
Posting without my Bonus cause it's OT: looks like the outage was while/. got some kind of upgrade, and now story URLs sometimes have the story title in them.
Could delaying the inevitable onset of Alzheimer's be the biological function of sleep? Last I heard, the purpose of sleep wasn't entirely clear, and there were anecdotal reports of people basically eliminating it with drugs, sometimes with little ill-effect. I've long been of the opinion that if wakefullness promoting agents don't have short-term effects, there must be a longer-term negative impact, because if there weren't, the body would synthesise something similar, at least in people who are sufficiently well-fed not to mind the extra energy usage. Sleeping is basically a good chance to get eaten.
It's going to be a long time before we find out if regular modafinil users get early Alzheimer's.
P.S. It's been over an hour, and it still isn't possible to reply to this article. I'll post this when Slashdot works. I predict about 30 people claiming First Post.
If somebody shipped a browser as crash-prone as Netscape was today, it wouldn't matter if it was three years ahead of the competition. People would play with it for a bit, and then use something stable. It's possible that the type of programming he's talking about works only in the specific situation that there isn't reasonable competition, yet.
This web page was brought to you by a server running Barrelfish.
At last a TFA which is actually hosted on the system it's talking about, and it refuses to break so we can make "It must be running Barrelfish" jokes. Maybe it really is efficient.
More spurious than cold fusion. Cold fusion is vaguely believable, with the spuriousness coming from poorly-implemented attempts to prove it. Second-law violation is just plain silly.
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How? Who is capable of driving without looking at the road?
Not everybody has common sense. As it stands now, I'm sure there are plenty who think they are supermen* who aren't "distracted" just because they're texting. Sure, if they cause an accident, the judge won't agree, but it's better that they've heard unequivocally that "texting and driving is illegal", and don't cause an accident in the first place. Just like the way we have drink-driving laws as well as accident-causing laws, because idiots think they can handle driving drunk.
*Nearly everybody thinks they are an "above average driver".
Requiring that people pay attention when operating dangerous machinery in a public place is "big brother"? Should it also be possible to drive drunk, provided you have expensive drunk-driving insurance?
The market isn't going to solve everything. Preventing you from getting killed by idiots is pretty much the most legitimate function a government has.
I'm sure someone with one of these would wear a MedicAlert bracelet, just like a pacemaker patient does. I'm presuming paramedics would check those when resuscitating someone, as lots of already widely used heart implant technologies must effect how they resuscitate.
It's a start. Your current balance to the penny is a common bank security question. Making it publicly available removes one step for someone trying to collect enough security question answers to impersonate you.
It is indeed beautiful. And it's very cool that it takes standard hardware Every other commercial case I've seen is either a barebone with a non-removable motherboard, a conventional large box, or a large box with tacky plastic 'round the edges to make it look less like a large box. I couldn't imagine anybody spending this much on a non-standard case which will go obsolete, but a real case stays current for a long time, unless, of course, the PSU is non-replaceable. Anybody know about that?
Just off the top of my head, does Twitter require that one uses HTTPS to access it? MITM.
I would suggest that you to vote for the Lib Dems then (in general elections), almost regardless of what their other policies are at the time, so long as they still promise to put in a PR system. I like a lot of their policies, but I'd vote for proportional representation even if it was for a party I didn't otherwise agree with, because one term of bad government beats the eternity of bad and mediocre government we're looking forward to now.
I think that the election of that BNP MEP was more due to dissatisfaction with real politics (thinking that voting for those bastards was a good way to make a really noisy protest-vote) than actual widespread support for fascism, and that dissatisfaction with real politics would decrease in a less fucked-up system.
As other replies have already explained, the candidate with the majority in each consituency gets to be that constituency's MP. The other person gets nothing. This has the effect of biasing seats in favour of the large parties, since winning 30% of the votes in each of 50 seats gets you exactly 0 seats, whereas 60% would get you 50 seats.
For a nice demonstration of the effect this has on a democracy, have a look at this chart, and compare "Seats %" with "Votes %" (the small parties with more representation than votes are mostly confined to small areas, allowing them a majority in that area without much support outside it). Observe how Labour has about 1.5x the number of votes that the Lib Dems have, and over 5x as many seats.
The Lib Dems are, sadly, unlikely to win an election anytime soon, unless the leaders of the other two parties get caught doing something dreadful in the month before an election. It's a shame, because whatever other policies the Lib Dems have (some good, some bad), having them win and fix the system would produce a much better democracy in the UK. Of course, if they win, then proportional representation is likely no longer going to be in their interests (it benefits the smaller parties), so, being politicians, I wouldn't be surprised if they try and concentrate on every other campaign promise first.
There is an amendment which says "no passing any laws which could possible restrict any freedoms"? While it would be totally awesome if there was a bit of the US constitution which said "and, by the way, anarchy!", I'll believe you when you specify which bit you're talking about.
FreeBSD is also a kernel, presumably developed using similar methods to other parts of FreeBSD.
The US and UK have two parties each, and the two parties are basically not very different. Barring a few specific situations, votes for other parties or independents have no effect. If you don't agree with the way things are, you can't stand for the major parties, and I'm not too familiar with the US system, but the UK's "first past the post" system makes it nearly impossible for new parties to go anywhere, as the only way for one to become effective would be for large numbers of people to throw their votes away for several elections in a row.
Sometimes, voting is not going to change anything.
1st amendment? What does taxing beverages have to do with freedom of speech? In any case, America already has an awful lot of laws about what slightly harmful, slightly addictive things adults are allowed to consume.
That's is my point!
To simplify it a bit: back then, you could do development that was fast but resulting in unstable code, because there was not a nice, working alternative. Now there is, and you can't program like that anymore. Netscape is probably not a good model for who development should be done in most cases.
Most M2s aren't going to read the entire discussion at -1 before M2ing. I know I don't. Sorry.
By the way, the unambiguous word you're looking for is "broken". And please don't say "ppl". This is Slashdot.
Of course, the term "wakefulness promoting agent" is used to distinguish drugs like modafinil from traditional stimulants like caffeine. Going without sleep with caffeine usually means you have to catch up, and, in my own experience, doesn't stop you getting stupider after several hours. Modafinil supposedly allows one to stay up all night, functioning normally, and only require the normal amount of sleep the night after they come off it.
And there I was thinking geeks were clever cause we were born that way...
Posting without my Bonus cause it's OT: looks like the outage was while /. got some kind of upgrade, and now story URLs sometimes have the story title in them.
Could delaying the inevitable onset of Alzheimer's be the biological function of sleep? Last I heard, the purpose of sleep wasn't entirely clear, and there were anecdotal reports of people basically eliminating it with drugs, sometimes with little ill-effect. I've long been of the opinion that if wakefullness promoting agents don't have short-term effects, there must be a longer-term negative impact, because if there weren't, the body would synthesise something similar, at least in people who are sufficiently well-fed not to mind the extra energy usage. Sleeping is basically a good chance to get eaten.
It's going to be a long time before we find out if regular modafinil users get early Alzheimer's.
P.S. It's been over an hour, and it still isn't possible to reply to this article. I'll post this when Slashdot works. I predict about 30 people claiming First Post.
If somebody shipped a browser as crash-prone as Netscape was today, it wouldn't matter if it was three years ahead of the competition. People would play with it for a bit, and then use something stable. It's possible that the type of programming he's talking about works only in the specific situation that there isn't reasonable competition, yet.
At last a TFA which is actually hosted on the system it's talking about, and it refuses to break so we can make "It must be running Barrelfish" jokes. Maybe it really is efficient.
No, they make a great fuel together. You burn hydrogen in oxygen, and get water and energy. The same amount of both that you put in at the start.
More spurious than cold fusion. Cold fusion is vaguely believable, with the spuriousness coming from poorly-implemented attempts to prove it. Second-law violation is just plain silly.