Foo! 16:9 isn't invented until 2337!

I'd been on Java for a while but started moving back toward C++ a couple years ago. Between boost, the Eigen math library and the new C++11 standard features, I haven't had to code my own utility libraries unless I want to. I've also started playing around with Qt as an easy-to-use and modern GUI library. The majority of my development has been on Linux, and these tools get me where I need to be.

i think you'll find you're wrong about the C standard library being "nothing compared to what's out there". If it seems that way, you probably haven't learned enough about the C standard library. The C standard library provides an API to all your system resources. You can take full control of the hardware with the library. Things you never thought to ask if you could do. Most programmers, in my experience, never get much past the system("rm ...") stage. I've been doing maintenance programming for 25 years now and every fucking C program I've ever had to maintain has had one of those somewhere in the code. It makes me wish I could reach back in time through my monitor to slap someone.

Neither the summary nor the article says that.

Nether the summary nor the article says that.

Perhaps English is not your native language, but you appear to be functionally illiterate. The summary does not say what you think it does, and you continue to misread it after your error has been pointed out repeatedly by multiple people.

TFA does not say that. I did not read the original paywalled paper, but if it really says that, then that pretty much means the rest of the data is meaningless and the study is garbage. You cannot conclude that "cameras cause accidents" when a far more plausible explanation is "shorter yellow light durations cause accidents".

Indeed. A big problem with these cameras, is that they issue tickets to middle class white people. But a live cop will just pick on teenagers and blacks, and leave the rest of us alone.

No. The summary says that they issued tickets in situations where the yellow light duration was below the federal minimum. But it does not say whether those durations were the same for the before-and-after data sets being compared.

It isn't really that obvious. There was an overall 5% increase in injury accidents at the intersections with cameras. But they did not mention the severity of the injuries. T-bone crashes (which were reduced) are likely to result in more severe injuries than rear-end collisions (which were increased). There were other complications: Most of the additional accidents occurred at intersections that were poorly chosen because they previously had few accidents. So it is possible that cameras improved safety at intersections with a history of accidents, and could improve safety overall if they are only installed at those intersections. Another issue is the yellow light duration. Longer yellows leads to fewer accidents, and some cities installing cameras also shorten the yellow light duration to increase revenue. It isn't clear if yellow light duration was decreased in the intersections studied.

The study shows that cameras can increase accidents, but it doesn't show they always increase accidents. If they are used more intelligently, they could be a net benefit.

What happens when they start unionizing and demanding voting rights?

The Americans are not exactly known of their honesty either. Both are equally liable to be lying.

They gain more by claiming that the Americans are idiots who make wild accusations, and offering their technical assistance. At the same time their primary goal, stopping the release of the film and drawing attention to their displeasure with it, has been achieved.

On the other hand, we know for certain that the US has launched cyber attacks against other countries. They hit Iran with Struxnet, for example, and are suspected of various other attacks. We know that the NSA has infested many, many systems. We know that their British partner agency, GCHQ, hacks other countries on a regular basis.

Any complaints from the US are at best hypocrisy. It's hard to believe US intelligence after all the lies of the past, so I'd say it's equally likely that North Korea is telling the truth. Would be a nice bit of misdirection by the hackers.

It will be interesting to see what the US does. Any retaliation would open it up to similar retaliation over its own hacking.

Sure it is. NK's goal is not to "get" Sony. It is to maintain the reputation of their leader as a psychopathic kook. This will strengthen their hand in future negotiations over important issues. If you act reasonable, your adversaries will insist on an outcome that is "fair". But if act like an irrational psychopath, your adversaries will settle for any outcome that is even halfway sane. The Kim dynasty has been using this strategy since 1950, and it has worked well for them.

Sony. If they release the movie now, a lot of people will see it that otherwise wouldn't have been interested. I am still sticking to my theory that the hacking was staged, the released emails are fake, and the whole thing is a publicity stunt.

Stop being a pedantic ass. To say that a market is only "free" if the customers and vendors are infinite, and all information is instantly broadcast at superluminal velocity is ridiculous. There are plenty of markets that are close enough to "free" that the benefits and drawbacks of free markets are clear. All across the world, many villages have public markets where any farmer can pull up a wagon and sell his produce. There are no barriers to entry, plenty of customers, plenty of vendors, and prices are transparent. How is that not a free market? There are many, many, other markets that are essentially free.

I'd like this, stories like it, to be discussed on Slashdot.

A long time ago, Pascal was a popular language. In 2 years it was dead. How do we avoid wasting time with technology that won't last?