As with red light cameras, it depends on the implementation. I won't go near the state of Arizona again without a damn good reason. I went on a southwest road trip maybe five years ago and speed camera vans were everywhere. That would be fine because I've got cruise control and set it for the speed limit (yes, I really do) except the speed on the interstates varied randomly. Cruising along and there's a speed limit sign 10mph slower than the current speed and, shortly past that, a van with a speed camera. If I were coming into a populated area, that would be one thing but it's out in the middle of the fucking desert. Over and over. I kept an eye out for the changes and adjusted accordingly but I was surprised that I didn't get a ticket in the mail. It would have been easy to miss a speed change in an area that has no need for a speed change. A lot of my attention was diverted to scanning for road signs instead of watching the road. I've heard they ditched this program but I don't plan to go back to verify.

If they were using these automated systems to catch people who are already violating traffic laws, that would be one thing but the local governments (or their agencies) often manipulate the situation to create violations from people who wouldn't normally commit them.

What about the impact of apps that can't be transferred to a new device? I have a couple of time-waster games on my first tablet that can't be moved to a new device. A top question on their FAQs is "How do I transfer my game to a new tablet?" "You can't. Too bad, so sad." I wonder how many people are reluctant to upgrade because they spent $50 on crystals in some game and they don't want to throw it away.

It's the same transition television had when going from SD to HD. Makeup, lighting, and set design all had to change because the increased clarity of HD exposed the flaws. It's like turning on the bright lights in the bar at 2am. Raw and ugly.

As filmmakers learn to work with HDR, films will look better. Same as when color hit the market. And sound. And the transition to film itself.

I know the difference between compression and sound disappearing then coming back. And compression doesn't create warbly flanging effects. :rolleyes:

Important people get preferential treatment all the time. I've got a nice chunk of change stored at my bank. Ever since I put it there, my customer service calls have been diverted directly to Executive Customer Service. I don't even have to do anything. My phone number is linked to my account so my calls go straight there, picked up by Frank or Veronica in Texas before the third ring. I rarely need to call them but it's nice not to sit in a queue like a schmuck listening to hold music warble in and out.

And what's the deal with hold music? Why is it always distorted and fading in and out? Shouldn't we be able to fix that by now?

Touchscreens are terrible in cars because you have to look at the screen to see where to touch. Knobs, levers, switches, and buttons can be operated by touch while keeping visual focus on the road. It might take a couple weeks to learn a new vehicle but you can learn to operate it by feel.

You can have electronic communication on an isolated network. And there are plenty of ways to input data accurately with error checking. Add CRC to the input. If they don't match, find the error(s). Or dual/triple/quad entry so that it's only accepted if the fields match. Like when you're creating a password for a new account. Or print a QR code and scan it on the isolated system. You can pack a lot of data and error correction into QR codes.

Of course, this all assumes that the input is legitimate.

Oh, my Lord. They screwed with the yellow light durations to increase the fines issued by the cameras. Without the cameras, nobody would have messed with the timings of the traffic signals.

They did if they were expecting a standard yellow light, then it changed red in 2.5 seconds instead of the federal minimum of 3 seconds and slammed on the brakes to avoid running the red light. And 3 seconds is the minimum. It needs to be even longer on fast roads.

Generally, the yellow light should last a bit more than 1 second per 10 miles per hour. A 45mph road should have a yellow light that lasts about 5 seconds. But it's not required to be 5 seconds. It can be as low as 3 seconds. And many cities got caught going below even that minimum requirement at intersections with cameras. So people who drive that road know they have to stop fast on a yellow even if they can't do it safely. They have to balance the will get a ticket or might get rear ended.

SHOCKED! SHOCKED!

I'm sure that cutting the yellow light times didn't help.

I imagine they'll keep him in a cage like an Oompa Loompa. They'll throw some leaves in his cage and poke him with a stick right before the tour group comes thru.

It's so reassuring to know there are people more pedantic than me.

I'm an American. We do our dates MM-DD-YYYY the way Jebus intended! (Also, I can sort by date with a click on every file manager I've seen in the last 20 years or so. I assume that feature will persist. Since the folders were created in the order the pictures were taken, that'll work just fine for me.)

With minimal snark, how hard is it to look at the file names and figure out which ones will have what I'm looking for? If I'm looking thru my pictures, it's because I want to look at my pictures. I'm not worried about being able to search for a specific picture with optimal efficiency.