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  1. Re:OT Re:legalism is a crap philosophy. on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 2

    Which has f' all to do with the fact that a car travelling at 20mph is not likely to kill someone it hits and a car travelling at 30mph is massively more likely to kill anyone it hits.

    I see nothing in your calculation about the probability of brain damage or death from high speed collisions.

  2. Re:25 mph? on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 0

    Boy racer eh, the fact is you don't care about mowing people down because you want the pleasure of being able drive fast. If you want to speed, hit a race track, there's no reason why side streets should be more than 20mph, only rat-runners would object to 20mph zones.

    2am is irrelevant because 99% of people are not driving at that time of day, if you want to drive 30mph at 2am then drive on 30mph roads, why the fuck would you want to go racing around the back roads at 30mph at 2am?

  3. Re:25 mph? on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 0

    I didn't say suburbs, I said residential areas or to distinguish generally, main roads and side roads. Many roads in London are being limited to 20mph, a lot of the time the traffic wasn't going faster than that anyway.

  4. Re:25 mph? on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is no necessity for you to drive fast around residential areas, you want to go fast, hit a highway or a racetrack or quit whinging, FML.

  5. Re:25 mph? on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 2

    A 25 mph speed limit is unrealistic on any public road I've ever seen, with the exception of roads made of cobblestone. It's difficult to drive a modern vehicle that slowly--it takes concentration on your speed that frankly makes you have much less attention to pay to obstacles and hazards... like children.

    Utter crap. Does this mean you are not capable of driving your vehicle at 15mph or 10mph or 5mph? It must be excruciatingly difficult for you to drive at 5mph eh, god your brain must practically be hemorrhaging.

    I had some kid run out in front of the car and the fact that I was only doing 15mph instead of the limit of 30mph is what stopped the kid from ending up dead or in hospital, the speed difference gave me the reaction time and stopping distance needed to avoid hitting the kid - with all of a few inches spare.

  6. Re:legalism is a crap philosophy. on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps the kid was jumping in front of the car and would have been injured anyway.

    Two things about this, one, slower vehicles are much easier to avoid for careless kids and two, speed kills, every extra ten miles an hour exponentially increases the likelihood of the pedestrian being killed when hit.

  7. Just quietly stick the cheaters together. on Video Game Cheaters Outed By Logic Bombs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Valve should just quietly put the cheaters all by themselves, let them piss each other off whilst everyone else gets on with life.

  8. Re:Why cheat? on Video Game Cheaters Outed By Logic Bombs · · Score: 1

    I can only assume these cheating dimwits actually think they are good at the game and mostly won due to their skill. And of course they assume they are winning, but of course it's not really winning if you cheated - I don't think they understand this.

  9. How does the raspberry Pi know it's not just the servers being slow.

    And if it works, can I have a windows version for my VPN provider PrivateVPN, who suck when it comes to slow downs and strangling torrent uploads.

  10. Re:"Close laptop..." OMG!!! on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    No-where there does it say 'don't reboot without me clocking to confirm it'.

    It's all options to reboot without your say so.

  11. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    It's pretty well known what is going on, Trump is the ignorant one.

  12. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    What's so difficult to understand, he doesn't want Muslims in the country regardless of whether or not they are terrorists, how is that not hateful?

    What if he said no black people in the country, would you be OK with that too?

  13. Re:What's the deal... on First Hidden Electric Motor In Cycling World Championship (cxmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    In football they cheat every game, the ref shows the player a yellow or red card if he catches them.

  14. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Except he didn't say 'hostile countries' he said 'Muslims' he wants to ban one third of the worlds population based upon the religion they practice, that is very much hate speech because yes, it is utterly bigoted.

  15. Nasty treaties on Canadian Government Lobbies Europe To Pass CETA (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    These big treaties coming out lately like TPP TTIP ACTA CETA have nothing to do with fair trade or tarriffs and everything to do with corporations bypassing national legal systems to put in place permanent laws that benefit them but certainly not the consumer or the environment or public services etc.

    Well over 3 million signatures against TTIP and CETA so far:
    https://stop-ttip.org/

  16. Re:Paper doesn't account for successful theories on Math Says Conspiracies Are Prone To Unravel (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So even Nixon's conspiracy to keep the War in Vietnam going until he could be elected president eventually unraveled because we've found out about it and we know it happened.

    Except that it never did unravel, instead the information was voluntarily released by the government - who are the conspirators, up until that point the conspiracy effectively held. And according to the summary conspiracies unravel generally within a few years, that didn't happen.

  17. Re:Doubling the number of nuclear reactors works. on China Likely Cut GHG Emissions In 2015 (greenpeace.org) · · Score: 1

    "The bad news is that the Chinese are going to keep building new coal power plants,"

    The actual news suggests otherwise, they are closing coal plants and installing wind, solar, nuclear, hydro etc. see summary - coal burning is down, not up.

    As they are building more solar panel factories hand over fist and with the prices of panels becoming ever cheaper, I expect the installation of solar panels to continue growing exponentially. Nuclear OTOH is poor value for money and accident prone.

  18. Re:Doubling the number of nuclear reactors works. on China Likely Cut GHG Emissions In 2015 (greenpeace.org) · · Score: 1

    And while they spend the next decade building those, last year they installed 17 to 22GW of solar power, and they will likely be building another 100GW+ in the next 5 years dwarfing nuclear builds. 5 Years from now when solar has halved in cost again, nuclear will look like a pointless mistake.

  19. Re:The chinese are in a great economic recession on China Likely Cut GHG Emissions In 2015 (greenpeace.org) · · Score: 1

    WTF? Their economy is still growing by about 6-8% it's just not growing as fast as before, no surprise for a maturing economy.

  20. And Slashdot looks nicer [ducks].

  21. Re:On Millennia on Hot Potato Exploit Gives Attackers the Upper Hand On Multiple Windows Versions · · Score: 1

    That method of labeling millennium is quite frankly bizarre, When someone says last millennium I and many people will think up to 1999 Dec 31 at 23:59:59, which was pretty much the time when the big celebrations were.

  22. Or indeed £. Preview is your friend, slashcode is not.

    I can preview £ all I like it still comes out £. If you have a suggestion as to how to avoid this I'd be keen to hear it.

  23. Re:Politician-Speak on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I think if Trump gets close enough to presidency the Chinese will assassinate him!!!

  24. Re:Trump just says stuff on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, my bad.

  25. Re:Politician-Speak on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Raise taxes on manufacturing outside the country seems practical!!! How? How on earth would a gov't do that?