So, a typical commute here is about 10km. 99% would be 9'900 metres, leaving 100 metres as the 1%.

Now, I agree that only driving the last 100m would be convenient for many. But that's not the 99% here.

In this case, it's as bad as driving 1m every 100m. It's actually much worse. It's MAYBE driving 1m every 100m.

So, either I'm staring at the road, effectively "driving" without touching anything, so that when the car suddenly beeps, I suddenly grab the wheel, or I'm reading my book and writing an e-mail, and then instantaneously stopping, looking up, grabbing the wheel, and figuring out what the hell is going on -- assuming I heard the car's beep.

This isn't robo-car. This is car-as-train -- with paint and cameras acting as train tracks and train wheels.

It's never been about the perfect highways. You won't find a 10km stretch of highway here without construction, detours, stopped cars, emergencies, and roadkill at any time of the year. Add snow, ice, rain, black ice, debris, fog, sand, salt, and sun, and I spend over a quarter of my driving without being able to see the lane markings at all.

you sound right, but you are really wrong.

it IS about race, for republicans. down deep, they are the modern minority-haters and have been for decades, now. not forever, (things were reversed previous to that) but now, they are the poster boys of 'if you are not white, straight and christian, we're against you'.

no ideology anyone could have would create this much anger in a group of people - it HAS to be race. america never got right about how to deal with race issues and this pretty much proves it.

I find it cute that others deny this. its the (white) elephant in the room that the other side refuses to admit. and of course they won't admit it, to admit such a thing today is pretty much already on the wrong side of history.

the anti-gay trend in the red states is more proof of 'if you aint a christian you're not one of us and we will shun you' belief. again, pure republican minority hatred.

now, I totally dislike obama these days, but its because of how he turned his back on the liberal ideas and has become a push-over for the power brokers who control him and own him. he never did much good for the liberal cause (partly because he was blocked by the R's, but also because he really didn't TRY all that much. not sure if he was lying to us or just ignorant of how little control he'd have as president).

the R's always hated him, and the D's now hate him for betraying them and their principles. he's not going to be remembered well by history. too bad, there was a lot of potential there, but it was all misused.

perhaps this really is proof: no matter who you put in that office, the office will ruin them.

I do think its time to redo our whole system. if your code base is so old, so tangled, so full of exception code and has more exceptions than rules, its time to scrap it and start over. and yes, I'm arguing for a complete re-do of our laws, our government and it needs to come sooner rather than later if we are to salvage what is left of our once great country.

no, just bootlickers like you, fnord. you're the kind of person who is against him. ie, scum of the earth.

I'm waiting to hear if this is truly as described.

I cannot believe anyone can make a law (in the US) that denies the ability of people to donate to the cause of their choice. especially a defense fund.

then again, if snowden is declared 'an enemy' I guess even assholes like our president can get away with murder. and yes, murder is what he's pretty much shooting for, one way or another, with snowden.

one thing amuses me and I enjoy it quite a lot: the fact that our executive is so pissed off and annoyed, along with all the other agencies - I rather LIKE THAT! I enjoy seeing them angry and put into a corner where they cannot defend themselves. and so far, they have not defended themselves one bit; we all know who the real traitors and cowards are.

snowden, you tweaked those in the highest levels of power in the world. for that, I say THANK YOU. I wish I could do more to help you - we all owe you so much.

obama - you're an asshole, if this story is true. shame on you! pathetic loser of a president who cannot admit that he and his cronies were wrong, wrong, wrong.

"state changes"

I see what you did there.

Anyone holding a security clearance is subject to periodic reinvestigation.

so, clapper was investigated and found to be guilty of lying to congress? when does his sentence in prison start?

look, if you want to be taken seriously here on slash, you have to stop YOUR lying.

serpico was also shunned by his peers and bosses...

you just have to wait a while for history to realize who was really a good guy and who was not.

there's my boy fjord! wondered when he would come along.

he's the slashdot equiv of fark's bevets.

only thing missing is the doctored up tarot card...

listen, Dick-head, the boots that need licking are in DC. shouldn't you be there instead of here?

the great Short Attention Span Company(tm) EOLs phones like there's no tomorrow. my older google phone is stuck at android 2.x and will never get updates. I don't care about features, but I'd like kernel, ip-stack and some onboard apps to have fixes for security.

it won't ever happen. we don't really own our phones. and we are suppose to keep landfilling perfectly fine hardware - to keep the monsters in high profit.

even if I ran no apps at all, the os is buggy and full of weaknesses. I'm sure I could be attacked with an old 2.2 android os, probably in just a few minutes time.

this is why I hate phones and have zero interest in spending more money and time on this crap. the ceo's might have gotton it right: use dumb feature phones and be more secure!

OT, but related to your comment: I have been fighting battles with companies in the bay area who want to hire people but only if they can sleaze by via 'contract to hire' (really, its a misspelling: the correct spelling is 'contract to FIRE'). this saves them 3 or 6months of benefits, all the while treating you like an employee (long hours, occasional unpaid weekends, take your work laptop home (yes, contractors are being told this).

companies know its all about denying benefits to americans. mostly its us older guys (ie, the ones who need health insurance the most). and they try to convince you its about 'try before you buy' but that's just a stupid lie. I've known contractors stuck on that role for way more than 6mos. look employers, if it takes you even 3 months to know if the guy you have working for you is good or not, I'd be surprised. 6mos? that's just a cost savings for YOU. lets push the benefits cost down on the employee for as long as we can.

its because none of us in tech have unions anymore. there's no one to fight for our rights. sure, as a kid, you think you don't need them. come back in 20 or 30 yrs when you find that to be untrue for you. its not what you need NOW, its what all of us eventually need. WE NEED UNIONS. and yes, they can be evil, but companies are already the definition of modern evil. it takes a monster to fight a monster and lets have the 2 monsters fight each other rather than one of them fighting ME.

and so, I spend the last 10 years doing contracts, unwillingly, since that is ALL that is offered to me. 30 yrs of software and hardware, doing lots of things, but I have 'dont give this guy a fulltime job with benfits' written all over my forehead. apparently.

the overall name of the american game: become rich, screw everyone you can, deny you are doing anything ethically wrong. seems to be working for the elite. for the rest of us, life was better 20 or 30 yrs ago before all this 'deny you benefits ... becase we can!' shit started happening.

my $7 pint of IPA will make me drunk enough so that I don't care about screan responce time or filewall rulls.

wait - I think I finally understand this IoT thing.

its really the Internet of Towels.

(to wipe up after pussy).

wouldn't it just be cheaper to, uhmm, get rid of the cat?

(I bet there's an app for that, too)

absolutely correct.

in ALL cases - ALL of them - its ALWAYS ok to 'do the right thing' above all else.

there are local laws and rules and so on. transient stuff that changes over time.

but 'do the right thing' is kind of universal. we all know, to some degree or another, what that means. some call it 'sense of right and wrong'.

snowden broke US laws, but he Did The Right Thing, and for that, he is a hero.

history has many examples of those who dared to break rules and DTRT. its too bad that they are often, only appreciated decades later, after the fact.