YoungSaint - Slashdot User

Comment Re:This Is A Bad Idea (Score 1) 516

by YoungSaint on Monday March 26, 2012 @01:36AM (#39471885) Attached to: NHTSA Suggestion Would Cripple In-Car GPS Displays

Not really. The interstate near my house randomly switches between 70 and 60 a couple of times in a 10-15 minute stretch. The end result? Not a single fuck is given. Everyone travels 70-75 on that road. Including the cops. Hell I've had cops pass me on that road. I've never seen anyone get pulled over for speeding on that road unless they were going upwards of 75. 15 mph over the speed limit.

Comment Re:Screen (Score 1) 516

by YoungSaint on Monday March 26, 2012 @01:30AM (#39471865) Attached to: NHTSA Suggestion Would Cripple In-Car GPS Displays

If you want to eliminate distractions, make handheld cellphones inoperable while moving.

Great. So what happens when there is an emergency while I'm driving? I'll have to Physically stop the car and turn it off in order to call Emergency services? "No, honey, I know your giving birth, but I have to turn the car off in order to arrange for an Ambulance to meet us." bad example, but it makes you think about the kinds of situation where this could potentially be dangerous. I'm sorry, that is a fucking terrible idea on every single layer. The only way that would ever happen is through laws, and we all know that what you just mentioned would cause far more problems than it solved. If you can even say it solved everything.

Comment Re:Here we go (Score 1) 89

by YoungSaint on Saturday March 24, 2012 @08:53PM (#39463541) Attached to: NASA's Kepler Discovers 11 Systems Hosting 26 Planets

Seriously. I have asked a few of the local ministers in my area when I was a christian. The de facto answer was always "The bible says absolutely nothing about whether or not intelligent aliens exist, but personally I think if God is really infinite then there is no reason why he wouldn't have many, many children.' It seems to be mostly the Catholics who believe weird stuff like that. (just an observation, Catholics aren't common here.)

Comment Re:Get used to it (Score 1) 288

by YoungSaint on Saturday March 24, 2012 @08:44PM (#39463511) Attached to: Brazilian Schoolchildren Tagged By Computer Chips

Right because everytime I skipped class it was for the sole purpose of shooting some heroin, snorting some crack, and spray-painting buildings. I would make a guess that most of the kids just go to the mall, or whatever the local hangout happens to be. Hell, even kids just need to take a day off now and then.

Comment Re:RH/Deb/BSD/Slack/Gentoo + Gnome/KDE/GNUSTEP (Score 1) 101

by YoungSaint on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @02:26AM (#39423895) Attached to: Tom's Hardware Tests and Reviews Fedora 16 and Gnome 3

Same here. I used fedora with Gnome3 for a while, but it doesn't like multiple monitors, and I don't like the way it's laid out. Also what is going on with rpms? Every time I play with an rpm-based system I get burned. Badly. Either the repositories are almost completely empty aside from the basics, or after installing a few packages I end up with a broken system somehow...

Comment Re:Buy a faster modem (Score 1) 577

by YoungSaint on Sunday September 23, 2007 @10:06AM (#20718803) Attached to: What To Do When Broadband is Not An Option?

Buying a faster modem might help, it might not. where i live, there is no dsl, and the fastest i have managed to get out of my dail-up is around 16.8kb.... at that rate, its not even usable. not with all todays flash, and crap. I have satellite. much much better than anything else i could have gotten. (no reliably cell service either) except that the caps on data transfer are killing me.

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