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  1. Re:Written by a middle-class American on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 1

    >speeding is OK because no-one is in front of you still remains invalid because

    That's not what I said. The situation I was presenting also involves people behind you

  2. If you fall asleep, for example, the co-pilot acti on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 1

    > If you fall asleep, for example, the co-pilot activates and keeps you on the road until you wake up again.

    Is there a way to keep the driver unaware of that feature?

  3. Re:Written by a middle-class American on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 1

    >Nothing sociopathic about that, fuck it happens all the time.

    I will just leave this logic as it is.

  4. Re:Summer Light on Solar X-Flare Blasts Directly Toward Earth · · Score: 1

    Is there any chance for Marylandia?

  5. Re:Rich people don't like to go slow? on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 1

    >CA has decent traffic laws.

    I missed that dearly in Maryland.

  6. Re:Rich people don't like to go slow? on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 1

    DC area

  7. since some of them make use of Apple's method for on Russian Hacker Sidesteps Apple iOS In-App Purchases · · Score: 1

    >since some of them make use of Apple's method for validating receipts.

    And now I know who is the employer of that Russian developer

  8. Re:Written by a middle-class American on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 2

    If there are cars behind you and no one is in front of you, you are not rich, you are not poor, you are a sociopath.

  9. Re:Rich people don't like to go slow? on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 1

    >The normal speed of traffic is 10% over the limit

    Not at 55mph highways. Anybody driving below 70mph on the road is considered rightfully as an obstacle.

    During traffic hours there is a short period of time (in the beginning) where traffic is saturated and reaching traffic speeds of 75 mph. At this time cops have enough common sense to interrupt it by even mere appearance on the road. This is a blessed time.

  10. correction on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 1

    >Rich people don't like to go slow.

    1/ People who value their time and the time of other motorists don't like to go slow

    2/ But they will have to, because you only can drive as fast as the car in front of you

  11. Re:Facebook is a public place on Facebook Scans Chats and Posts For Criminal Activity · · Score: 4, Informative

    >So AT&T can listen to your phone conversations and read your text messages?

    That's why UK's Big Brother criminalizes encryption:

    > the UK will send its citizens to jail for up to five years if they cannot produce the key to an encrypted data set.

  12. Re:What a Surprise on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    It does not freeze now?

  13. Re:What a Surprise on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    that the East Sea was often frozen shut in the winter sounds awfully similar to a line from a George Martin novel.

  14. Re:Headline should say... on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    >It is safe to say burning fossil fuels at our current rate probably isn't a particularly great idea.

    Burning fossil fuels won't happen for long anyway

  15. Re:Headline should say... on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    >since they were simple nomads and could just move on

    Romans in Roman times were nomads?

  16. Re:Headline should say... on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    In other words, past humans were tough and modern humans are sissies?

  17. Re:Headline should say... on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    I am not a skeptic on global warming.

    I am just incredibly perplexed that (presumably) the same people who are celebrating progress of humanity so much, suddenly are afraid that we will be plagued by the factor that Romans did not even notice.

  18. Re:Headline should say... on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    You do realize that when someone says that Roman civilization survived higher temperatures, it's an understatement?

  19. Re:Headline should say... on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No matter what the headline says.

    Most importantly, humanity survived higher temperatures in the past.

  20. what crazy stories? on Why Were So Many "Crazy" Higgs Boson Stories Published? · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen any crazy news lines. This could be a problem of your reading preference

  21. public attention to olympics on Cloned Horses Ok To Compete In Olympics · · Score: 1

    I suggest public attention to Olympics should be diverted to a better place by declaring Olympic games as a form of entertainment.

    Why would anyone care about the rules of Big Brother or Jersey Shore?

  22. Re:Why do anarchists hate science? on Trying to Untangle Anarchist Attacks On Scientists · · Score: 1

    >endorse Islamic fascist movements

    Everytime you, whose name is Legion, are using an ideological slur against Islamic political movement by comparing it to an almost universally negatively perceived movement I immediately notice positive things about that movement.

  23. Re:It's SENSATIONAL! But also kind of BORING! on The 300 km/h Superbus · · Score: 1

    >dedicated road

    Yes. That would fly.

  24. Re:First dissent on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Personally, I am for universal health care, like in UK, despite being quite libertarian on many other issues. Doctors should be government employees and should receive salary.

    Any job should carry either some nobility or money. It can't carry both.

    I also think that litigation should be limited in health care. People should not be able to sue doctors left and rights.

  25. Re:well that article sucks on Dark Matter Filament Finally Found · · Score: 1

    >Congratuations are in order indeed.

    So the only difference with 80 year old computations that this time it's more localized?