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  1. Re:In other news... on Blind Man Test Drives Google's Autonomous Car · · Score: 1

    I am sure I am not the genius who came up with this first. And I am sure I heard it somewhere before voicing it for the first time.

    I can't find a reference to UK proposal. Can you give me more tags?

  2. Re:In other news... on Blind Man Test Drives Google's Autonomous Car · · Score: 1

    My problem with these carrs is that they won't break the laws when necessary.

    Right now every rational person who is not impaired physically is speeding, rolling over stop signs or running over stop signs where they are ridiculous. I am speeding 20-25 mph in my complex when I do not see children around, but if I seen signs of children anywhere close to the road (this happens in the certain time of the day) I slow down to 5mph (the rule here is that one has to assume that at any moment the stupid child will run to the road at its maximal speed). I also maximize the distance between my car and children my crawling on the wrong side of the in-complex road. Autonomous car will continue driving 10 or 15 mph per hour in this situation.

    Autonomous car will be like an old Asian lady who got her driver license 3 months ago. The real old asian ladies already have major impact on traffic.

    What I want from autonomous cars (any cars for that matter) is to be able to form intelligent ad hoc trains able to drive in a very sync manner on the road, with almost no lag in accelerating or decelerating between front car and back car because they all connected and when the front car of the train had to break, the signal goes immediately at computer stock market trading rate to all the cars in a virtual train. (most importantly this happens when the front car accelerates). Only that soultion will ease the traffic.

    If we cannot expand cheaply our roads we need to make them much faster, not 55 mph (speed limit on 270), not 70 mph (actual average speed when traffic is still smooth), but 100 or 120 mph.

  3. Re:Attacking the soul of France... on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    Because you don't no squat on the subject and, ergo, talking to you is useless

  4. Re:Attacking the soul of France... on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    oh. snap. You can deny Islamic belief but you can't deny solid evidence about growing influence of Islam in the world.

    Get lost

  5. Re:Both can be equally bad on Do Women Make Better Bosses? · · Score: 1

    My theory is that when it matters, male and women perform differently. The problem is that this society is highly redundant, the whole structure is geared towards lowering responsibility of an individual and spreading it more equally with high level of overhead among many people, so no one is irreplaceable.

    You are right, both of them fail, but the failure is written in from the beginning.

    I am not even storing of redundancy of 99.9% of human activities

  6. Re:I am underwhelmed by the original video on Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem · · Score: 0

    And you post pretty much invalidates your claim that you can read few sentences and comprehend them:

    I can't wait the moment when Mujahedeen will kick Nazarbaev's ass to London

    Get lost, moron.

  7. Re:Attacking the soul of France... on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    Well, thank you very much for your interesting and educating post. I hope your post will be moderated up, so more people would read it.

  8. this is utterly disgusting on US Mobile Carriers Won't Brick Stolen Phones · · Score: 1

    I am amazed they can go away with this

  9. soil to the wound on Early Exposure To Germs Has Lasting Benefits · · Score: 1

    soil to the wound was a typical street recommendation 40 years ago on my street.

  10. Re:I am underwhelmed by the original video on Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem · · Score: 0

    irfi is not authority or influential resource at all. Check out this:

    http://islamqa.info/en/ref/5000/music

    That covers vast amount of music played and almost all national anthems.

  11. I am underwhelmed by the original video on Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The movie was so mediocre that it has been forgotten by most people, that explains no reaction from the part of the woman.

    Besides, she is ethnically Russian and probably has no particular feeling for both fake or real anthem, or any other ridiculous cargo cult attributes of Kazakhstan.

    By the way, Kazakhs are Muslims and music is prohibited in Islam.

    I can't wait the moment when Mujahedeen will kick Nazarbaev's ass to London - the cloaka of Soviet and post-Soviet has beens.

  12. Re:Attacking the soul of France... on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    >Yes, yes, we all know that "liberty" in Islam

    You are an idiot. I am talking about hypocrisy. I do not give rat's ass about your principles, but every time you step on a rack, shove your own foot in your mouth, etc I feel obligated to point that out.

  13. Re:Attacking the soul of France... on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    "burkas "

    Yeah, I am ignoring your comment.

  14. Re:Attacking the soul of France... on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    >I think on a social level however that a lot of the recent flareups are less about religion and more due to poverty and social inequity.

    You are an idiot. What does this have to do with forbidding Niqab outside and Hijab inside? The Islamic youth is the opposite of the drug dealer youth, only the ethnicity is the same.

  15. Re:Terrorist content detected on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    That's right, a la guerre comme a la guerre

  16. Re:bring it on. on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    1. You are an idiot
    2. You are an idiot
    3. "the west does something you dislike, so you support something far worse"
    You are an idiot: Jihaad goes on no matter what West does. That was the subject.
    4. You are an idiot

  17. Re:bring it on. on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    >what do you think of guys who hold the hair of eight year old girls and execute them?

    What is the relevance to the subject?

    And this is moderated through the roof on slashdot, where making connection with the content and action is ridiculed on the daily basis.

    What is the relevance to the subject?
    What is the relevance to the subject?
    What is the relevance to the subject?

  18. Re:bring it on. on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    Does it make sense to ask a question the answer to which you won't be able to comprehend?

  19. Re:Attacking the soul of France... on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Liberté, égalité, fraternité". Yeah, right. France has been one of the most outrageous violators of it's own principles for a long time now whenever it comes to Muslims.

  20. bring it on. on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bring it on, Sarkozi.

    Jihaad against scum like you has been going on since day one, and your puny laws won't change anything.

  21. Re:You are looking in the wrong place. on How Big US Firms Use Open Source Software · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Open source or not if a third party actively develops something, big company does not want to invest in developing it. It will wait for updates and build their own stuff around 3rd party.

    Developing open software means collaboration of two entities: corporation and open source team that develops it. Even reading this juxtaposition is enough to see how unlikely this union is.

  22. Re:What the bloody goddamned fuck? on Hobbit Pub Saved By Actors Stephen Fry and Sir Ian McKellen · · Score: 2

    "This needs to stop, now "

    Yes, tolerance to alcohol consumption should stop. Alcohol destroys family it's addictive dangerous narcotic, it denigrates a human to a state of an animal.

    Prohibition now!

  23. Re:Pub? Where? What? on Hobbit Pub Saved By Actors Stephen Fry and Sir Ian McKellen · · Score: 1

    Because geeks

  24. Re:Completely inexplicable... on Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer · · Score: 1

    We do have impact on the climate and it happened in the past. Rivers were turned, sparrows were exterminated, seas were dried, butterflies turned black...

    The only question is how much, how much we can do, how fast it is going to happen, what are pros and cons.

    It's stupid to think that climate change will affect the whole population the whole inhabited area in the same negative way. Some areas would become more inhabitable for humans. Rate is the crucial issue. If it happens too fast, no matter how more favorable some areas will become, the impact of some areas becoming uninhabitable will supersede the favors of other areas.

  25. Re:Completely inexplicable... on Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer · · Score: 2

    > at some point you have to say, "Yeah, that's probably right."

    That's not an important point. Important point is "How high is the probability of being right to justify amount of given effort/money/etc"