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  1. Re:I do this on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    1. It's illegal to honk the horn except to warn of danger. If you don't believe me, look it up in your state's driving laws.

    "Yes officer, he was in imminent danger of causing an accident. Yes, because he was using a phone instead of watching the road.

    No, he didn't crash because he accelerated when I hit the horn. He crashed because he wasn't watching the road or the traffic lights. It was the imminent danger of him crashing that led me to use my horn, and it's terribly unfortunate that it didn't prevent his stupidity from getting him killed."

    If I'm on the jury, I'm accepting that defence.

  2. Re:I do this on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    How often do you travel to places you've never been before, anyway? I'm guessing a value somewhere between "seldom" and "never."

    Generally speaking, only a dozen times a year or so.

    If you include the places I only visit once or twice a year and so can't remember the route, 2-3 times a month.

  3. Re:Perfectly Safe on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've accessed the internet while driving. My phone in the glovebox streaming Radio 4 from the BBC website and using audio-out to play Test Match Special on the car sound system.

    That's extremely different to looking at a screen and browsing the web..

  4. Re:"Available for public download" - AT&T and on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    No, he's asking a valid question. You're asking the equally valid one that needs to be answered at the same time.

    Don't stop asking the questions. That way lies tyranny.

  5. Re:Already Exists on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    Ah, you haven't even asked what he's drinking. Ginger Beer isn't terribly high percentage by volume after all.

    Whereas I've had half a pint of Baileys and Butterscotch Schnapps and I can assure it, it's gorgeous.

    Fuck the alcohol effects without the downsides, give me the sugar content and taste without the alcohol effects or the downsides. I drink stuff that tastes nice, not because it makes me drunk.

  6. Re:Falklands are Argentinean territory on GOCE Satellite Burned Up Over Falkland Islands · · Score: 1

    No. They are not. Argentina is no more legitimate a state than the Falklands themselves, and has substantially less capability to defend itself.

    Stop being greedy and lusting after the oil. Or the penguins. Fucking pervert.

  7. Re:British? on GOCE Satellite Burned Up Over Falkland Islands · · Score: 1

    The guys in Gibralter are happy being protected by the UK too. They've voted against becoming Spanish more than once.

    All your quote states is that the UK is respecting the wishes of the inhabitants of the territory in question - in your quote, Gibralter, in the South Atlantic it's the Falklands.

    So fuck off back to Spain and return South America to the natives or stfu.

  8. Re:Learn from history on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 1

    BEF? British Expeditionary Force? They didn't go up against the GVF (whatever the fuck that is) they lost to the Nazis.

    Fucking nazis.

  9. Re:Who's buying these cards? on Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review: GK110, Fully Unlocked · · Score: 1

    More to the point, the poor young professionals that grew up PC gaming have now cleared their student debt, the mortgage is a pitiful percentage of their net pay and the wife's earning as much as they are.

    Gaming isn't just for kids.

  10. Re:Probably not a big deal? on Third Tesla Fire Means Feds To Begin Review · · Score: 1

    Based on expert knowledge derived from playing World of Tanks I can tell you the answer is to better angle the steel plate.

    Give the debris a tough deflection shot, it'll bounce right off.

  11. Re:Wait a second riiight there.... on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    Clearly you missed the part about a 70 minute bus ride.

    Imagine if all 1200 children at that school had their parents drive them in a car. There's a fuckload of unnecessary traffic.

    I think teaching children that they can walk more than 17 yards, that bicycles exist, that public transport is a viable means of getting somewhere is a good thing. I think that the exercise it gives them is a good thing. I think that getting their selfish fuckwit parents off the fucking road at rush hour is an excellent thing.

    I'm not allowed to kill people, so I devise schemes to thwart their stupidity. Like making their children learn some fucking independence and help themselves.

  12. Re:Wait a second riiight there.... on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    I walked to my first school, and my second school. Caught a bus to my third, walked to my fourth. Walked to my fifth, caught a bus or walked to the sixth and caught a bus to my seventh.

    That was a 70 minute journey.

    Walked to my fifth, and cycled, walked or caught a bus while I was at university.

    Cars are not for schoolchildren.

  13. Re: Flagrant Flatulism Posing as Reporting on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but I make frequent 120 mile trips. Fuel efficient vs fast is a significant time difference.

  14. Re:I want to drive on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    That's a bidet. It doesn't actually wipe your bottom.

    If you can invent a machine that can reliably, safely and efficiently wipe adult bottoms then there are a lot of adult care homes looking to become your customers.

  15. Re:Wait a second riiight there.... on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    Personally I'd ban people from driving their kids to school anyway. Make them fucking walk.

    Lazy cunts.

  16. Re: Flagrant Flatulism Posing as Reporting on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    I partly agree with you. A computer will not get me to where I need to be as fast as I can get there myself.

    This is because it will be slower, it'll be less aggressive accelerating/braking, and it'll be far more cautious about risk. It's not so much whether I take unnecessary risks as that my risk appetite while driving is different to how all automated cars will be calibrated. I'm happy to judge fine margins and use them to reduce the need to brake/accelerate/etc.

    And yet.. it doesn't actually matter. If the car is driving, I don't have to. That frees me up to do.. well, whatever I like. Sleep. Browse the web. Play a game. Masturbate. All the stuff I can't do while driving a car.

    I may need to leave home a little earlier, but I'll be able to continue doing stuff while I'm on the journey.

    I'll just keep a second non-automated car for playing in, for when I do want to smell my brake pads burning. Because hell, cars can be fun too.

  17. Re:Passwords are property of the employer on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 2

    Once a job is done, for good or bad, just walk away completely and let it go. Terry had a God complex and could not let his little empire slip away from him

    Divulging the passwords to unauthorised people would be a criminal act in itself.

    He didn't try and access the system. He merely refused to break the law and enable unauthorised individuals to access secure systems.

    That's what fucks me off about this entire case. Childs may or may not be an arrogant cock with a god complex, but I just haven't heard anything that suggests he's done anything actually wrong here.

  18. Re:Relying exclusively on electronic technology on RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch · · Score: 1

    The RAF do train at below-horizon altitudes. Several seconds of clear air in front of you isn't guaranteed in such situations, and that's assuming you stay level.

    Of course, the easy response is to pull up..

  19. Re: Bill is doing the right things on Bill Gates: Internet Will Not Save the World · · Score: 1

    Good. They'll learn faster if they're able to focus on things in which they're interested. The population as a whole will acquire a broader set of knowledge.

    Some of them will gain an in-depth unparalleled understanding of the origins of football and the history of Africa's participation in the world cup but some people just aren't cut out for biology anyway.

  20. Re:When will he be arrested? on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 1

    ..and when it was, he was doing less than 98!

    How do I know? His peak speed was 156mph. Or nearly three times the speed many people drive.

    Unless you think he did that through Manhattan?

  21. Re:This isn't new stuff... on Inmates Program Logistics App For Prison · · Score: 1

    Hmm. If instead of sounding an alarm it exploded, ideally decapitating the prisoner, we could make an Arnold Schwarzegger movie that includes it as a plot element.

    oh, wait..

  22. Re:Anti-Trust on Microsoft, Apple and Others Launch Huge Patent Strike at Android · · Score: 1

    You're a cast iron cock is what you are. Right in Apple's target market.

    I pity your lack of self-worth.

    Btw, Android is available on premium devices too. It's kind of flexible like that. You can buy low-cost devices and gold plated ones. Choice, it's a wonderful thing.

    Even the choice to be hip and fashionable instead of making your own decisions. Enjoy your fashionable life, well dressed little union boy.

  23. Re: A bunch of spineless wimps... on Oracle Shareholders Vote Against Ellison's Compensation Package (Again) · · Score: 1

    I know the tax rate, I don't need fucking reminding every time I walk into a shop. I want to know how much cash I need to take out of my pocket, and avoid factoring the differences between books, food and high grade vodka into a total bill.

  24. Re:No replaceable battery as far as I can see on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    Overpopulation IS a problem.
    People going 'save the planet' then having children - that are going to continue the cycle of using its resources - are THE problem.

    If you want to save the planet, then work to save the planet. If you want your children to have easy access to energy, a comfortable life and children of their own then just admit you're a selfish cunt and stop expecting the rest of us to compromise our lives just to meet your own aims.

  25. Re:Sure! on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 1

    It would already benefit greatly from it. A large fortress needs an awful lot of processing power if you want to speed up time.