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Comment Re:Great idea! (Score 2) 938

by rivaldufus (#38365836) Attached to: NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers
You've never honked at someone who's veering off into your lane? I'm not talking about a sudden shift... just a gradual motion.

I find it hilarious that no one here understands the problem with the conclusion, "there is no difference between using a hands free device and continuously holding a cell phone to your head." Sure, you can drop the phone and then your hand will be free, but I really doubt everyone would do that.

I forget, though - this is slashdot; everyone has to argue everything from the perspective of "I never have that problem - I don't know what you are talking about. No one else's argument is worth thinking about." Oh well, at least it's not another article about something Apple related.

Comment Re:Great idea! (Score 2) 938

by rivaldufus (#38361778) Attached to: NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers
If you've got one hand on the wheel and one hand is holding a cell phone, are you going to be using turn signals? They're not optional, as much as some drivers seem to think.
What if you need to honk at someone who's moving into your lane? Sure, you can drop your cell phone or use your hand with the cell phone in it, but I doubt most people do that.

Comment Re:Since when... (Score 1) 487

by rivaldufus (#37986458) Attached to: In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop
This is the "Ubuntu" vs "Mac" site. If you're not running one of the approved religions - I mean OSes, you need not comment. Sure, there are "protestants" here who run Debian, Fedora, or some other linux, but they're still running linux. There used to be Windows people, too, but they were eventually purged. Not too too long ago, there was a large group of slashdot ubuntists who converted and became die hard Macolytes. The great irony is that several people here are complaining that FreeBSD users are too "religious." Apparently, if you're not running linux or OS X, you're a religious zealot.

Comment Re:Well duh (Score 2) 391

by rivaldufus (#35290760) Attached to: Why Google Wants Your Kid's SSN
Not necessarily the state you were born in, but, rather, the state where the SSN application was sent from, at least from 1972 on. More here. Notable:

Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSNs and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number assigned has been based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. The applicant's mailing address does not have to be the same as their place of residence. Thus, the Area Number does not necessarily represent the State of residence of the applicant, either prior to 1972 or since.

They even say (you can choose to believe them or not):

Note: One should not make too much of the "geographical code." It is not meant to be any kind of useable geographical information. The numbering scheme was designed in 1936 (before computers) to make it easier for SSA to store the applications in our files in Baltimore since the files were organized by regions as well as alphabetically. It was really just a bookkeeping device for our own internal use and was never intended to be anything more than that.

Comment Re:Great! (Score 1) 327

eethoven 4 and 8 are definitely under 40 minutes... IIRC, he was aiming for a classical style symphony in 8. Beethoven 5 is usually well under 40 minutes... mainly because of the breakneck tempo in the first movement. Those late Sibelius symphonies are unearthly long. I think Sibelius was getting paid by the minute by his publishers. I can't imagine they're performed much these days... I have recordings of them, but I don't often seem them on concert programs - usually only 1 or 2.

Comment Re:Great! (Score 1) 327

I agree. Though these might not be entirely all professional, $13,000 doesn't go very far. If they were paid union scale, that would probably fetch you a few symphonies, with no rehearsal time. Of course, quite a few people on slashdot would assume that the musicians will work for pennies (the love of music and all that.)

However, as to the length of the symphonies, I'd be willing to be the majority of symphonies are under 30 minutes. I don't think any symphony reached 40+ minutes in length until the Eroica.

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