Comment Re:So-to-speak legal (Score 1) 418
Regardless I would press charges (which is more accurately said than "sue them")
IANAL either, but suing (civil) and pressing charges (criminal) are two different things.
Regardless I would press charges (which is more accurately said than "sue them")
IANAL either, but suing (civil) and pressing charges (criminal) are two different things.
I would sue them for defamation, if I were one of their Tor-using customer.
It's a grave offence to imply someone is engaged in criminal activity, without actually having evidence of such activity.
And in what public venue did they announce this scurrilous rumor?
And what are the actual damages that you suffered from said announcement (and being butthurt is not a valid damage)
And assuming that you can satisfy the above, how much $$ do you have upfront to pay for a lawyer to take on your defamation case?
You may get the EFF interested, but I don't think that the case would even go anywhere unless there was actual damages involved.
The choice is yours. Upgrade or die.
I would
I am not going to buy a sealed-in iMac or MacBook, I can't afford a Mac Pro and I am hanging out for a new Mac Mini model (and have been for 12 months)
Switching to 64 bit builds means that they will have to drop OSX 10.6, right? It's about time this one is left behind!
No, 64 bit builds run on 10.6 just fine. You may be confused here: 10.7 requires a 64 bit processor. So if you don't support 10.6, then supporting 32 bit is pointless - anything running 10.7 upwards supports 64 bit.
But there is also the corner case of machines like I have with a 64 bit capable CPU but only 32 bit EFI for which I am endlessly trapped on Lion (10.7). Which probably doesn't count in this case, but is always a source of endless bitching for me.
Company tries two things, chooses the one that is better. News at 11.
Nope
News at 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 AND 11
And I say this typing on a MacBook with an iMac to my right, my iPad downstairs, my Nano in my gym bag and my iPod touch in a drawer.
Does anyone know which financial institutions have their data protected against a Carrington Event-sized CME hitting the earth? I'd hate to lose all my money because my bank's customer records were destroyed.
A certain right wing talk show host in the US recently made a big fuss about he has bought an "EMP-proof" car. I guess that this means either pure diesel or spark plugs and points IC engine (he never did elaborate on what model it was) . However he made no reference to stockpiling fuel for the vehicle so I am apt to wonder what will happen in his post EMP world when everything else electronic around him will have died.
Supercaps aren't even really out of the early lab stage, their commercialization curve is at least a decade out.
Given that super caps are currently being used in F1 racing (Tackling KERS in Formula One) I'd say that they are a little more advanced than "early lab stage". Although 10 years from F1 to commercial does seem reasonable.
If you are at a normal intersection (not a roundabout), and you cross the intersection, have you 'changed lanes'? Any sane person would say no.
I was equating a roundabout to turning right, not crossing an intersection.
Regardless what you call them a roundabout have multiple lanes of traffic. I have driven on roundabouts in the UK that are a good 1/4 mile in diameter with significant distances between on/off ramps. Do you consider that those roundabouts do not have a left and right lane?
No, they are not the same at all, and your insistance that they are says to me you don't know how to use a roundabout.
The only thing you have right is that curved or straight does not matter.
On a freeway, your major direction of travel is ALWAYS parallel with the travel lanes, even when getting ready to exit. In a roundabout, it is not. You do not 'change lanes' in a roundabout, even temporarily. You cross lanes.
When you change lanes on a freeway you are driving at an angle to the direction of travel - albeit very small.
When you cross lanes in a roundabout you are driving at an angle to the direction of travel - but at a much larger angle than in the freeway case.
In both case you are driving at an angle to the direction of travel. The topology is the same
The hard part is that the car must absolutely be able to read the horizontal markings on the pavement.
And how is that different from any other form of driving? Why is it only in a roundabout that you are concerned about the car needing to read markings on the road?
Do actually know how to use a roundabout?
Yes
There are NO 'lane changes' involved.
The lane crossing in a roundabout is just a special case of lane changing in which time spent within the lane is minimized as you merge into or out of the roundabout. The fundamentals and topology are still the same.
Many locales have different roundabout rules.
Many locales have different rules in for driving in general. Such as passing on the right. A fully fledged autonomous car will have to take all of those differences into account. But this was a limited test in a limited locale for which google pre-mapped the route, and probably tuned the car so that it would behave accordingly to the situations it encountered.
Where do you drive that is acceptable to do that (drive in the left lane and cross the right lane to exit)?
As I said
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
