Solid Green (any duration)
Green Countdown (10 seconds)
Yellow Countdown (10 seconds)
Solid Red (possibly pulses during the "all-red" segment, but I doubt that information actually results in better drivers)
Red Countdown (10 seconds)
Loop

Red countdown would be a sweep in the reverse direction, to make it distinct and draw attention from drivers at idle - it's purpose is to let people "zone out" a bit more when stopped at a long red. Because, let's be honest, most people do.

All three countdowns are the same length, that way the driver only needs to calibrate to a single length - by having multiple countdowns, the driver has even more information, and more opportunities to calibrate to the timing of the light. Ideally all lights in an area should have the same countdown length, and there'd be a minimum standard length nationwide.

I dunno, "absolute" freedom would let us parade the police and politicians as "potential rapists" too. The end result might be a society where "potential rapist" and "accused rapist" lose their "scare factor". The issue isn't the speech, it's the way the masses interpret it.

http://www.bustedmugshots.com/oregon/roseburg/kevin-michael-cornell/63869711 Chosen totally at random. Please notice the phrase "ALLEGED violation" They sell this magazine in convenience stores here. Pretty sure it's not the slightest bit illegal, given all that...

Agreed!

I'm guessing you're middle class, born, raised, and current. Quite a few of my friends grew up not being able to afford anything more than thrift stores, and some of them are still limited to those for "expensive" purchases like clothing (especially semi-professional outfits). Telling the poor that they don't get to have clothing anymore is the sort of thing I'd expect to lead to riots, not grandpa telling stories about "back in the day"!

I've been to the Sydney Opera House, and then out to eat, in sandals...

There's some slang to get used to, but you're probably going to deal with that anywhere, and it mostly comes up in casual conversation. I visited Sydney for two weeks and didn't have any trouble handling restaurants, hotels, travel directions, etc.. Occasionally ran in to a phrase in casual conversation that gave me trouble, and one lady who had a particularly thick accent, but I was told that even fellow Aussies have trouble with her accent.

If they wanted to be honest, they could just run an ad commenting on what Roger's had done, and then showing the sort of "mock ads" that would lead to, making it "100% clear" that the ads are meant as a joke. (Of course, people being what they are, half of them would still believe the CEO is a paedo, but you can hardly hold the competition responsible when the ad was CLEARLY marked as a joke and word of mouth just happened to leave out that detail...)

"because of health regulations" At least in the US, that's pretty much uniformly false - no state health department cares about whether you wear shoes or not. There is exactly one state that requires you to wear shoes when driving a motorcycle, and zero that require it for a car. I've never even heard of the shirt part being related to health codes.

> It listed what the executable looked like it would do, the calculated probability, and expected the user to actually make a judgment. As I said, a big flaw. Well, yes, actually. A human is just going to run a heuristic ("ignore anything less than 10% odds, flag as a virus if greater than 80% probability of hard drive corruption, or greater than 95% probability of system slowdown, or..."). You could pretty easily clump that in to a Basic mode (which uses your heuristics, or the choice between a set of trusting/neutral/paranoid heuristics), Advanced mode (set percentage cutoffs for each category manually), and Expert mode (actually show each assembly) UI is actually an important part of design - I don't want a program that's going to poke me every 5 minutes when the response could be automated. (Of course, if it's just a "scan this one file I don't trust" then... I really want that program, pretty please :))