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Comment other points (Score 1) 9

what if you're half a mile away from the south pole? i think that works. what about 3/4 of a mile? 7/8? as long as the one mile south gets you to a point on a circle around the south pole whose circumference is 1/2^n of a mile, I think you'd be good. Would he really ask about miles rather than km?

Comment What manufacturer? (Score 1) 384

What manufacturer is this? When I dealt with POS interfacing with Tokheim and Gilbarco pumps (including the MPDs) all the smarts was in the controllers and the modules of our POS software that ran the pumps, card readers (Petrovend units for non-MPD stations) and RF tag hardware. The pumps were relatively dumb and only required software updates when the physical hardware was modified, and we could do the software bit while the pump was down anyway for the physical work. Most "software updates" were just changes to the database tables that told our software how to react to events and what settings to send to the pumps for mix ratios, prices and so on. Your description sounds like you've got a good chunk of the POS system actually running in the pump itself.

Comment Re:Syntax hilighting (Score 4, Interesting) 443

Those of us who are colorblind often struggle with the default colors used in syntax highlighting. If you can (or bother to) adjust those, it can work, but colorized syntax highlighting on a white background can often be near invisible to me. It doesn't highlight at all, it HIDES the code.

Necron69

ps. Colorized 'ls' - red on black? Are you out of your f*cking mind!?

Comment Re:Mixed reaction (Score 1) 328

Why need? Because its required for some other older services so you just assume the regulation makes sense here too because you want them to be the same in every way and you can't admit that an existing restriction may not make sense to continue in a new paradigm?

I see no reason why a person deciding to use his personal car occasionally to make some extra cash should require commercial plates. Hell, I could see a stronger case for requiring pizza delivery drivers to have commercial plates, and nobody requires that.

Comment Re:Mixed reaction (Score 1) 328

Except that isn't the case, individuals are insuring their own cars, and this new offering from the insurance companies is between them and the insurance companies, it has nothing to do with Uber specifically.

In fact, if anything what I don't see is any need for a new law. Existing law clearly already covers it by requiring insurance, and insurance company policies not covering that usage....so where is a law needed where we already have one and already have people working to comply with the ones we have?

Comment Re:Durability concerns valid, but... Tampering? (Score 1) 88

I don't have one, I have a competitors product the RSA key, which has no USB port at all, you type in the numbers it gives you. Little LCD screen and a buttion. I don't keep mine on any chain, I carry it seperately from anything else.

However, I have to say, for what it is, I have been quite impressed with its durability, in fact, I would say it sets a standard that few devices I have encountered have met, but most all really should....has it ever been through the wash?

My wife has unceremoniously washed, and dried (not hanging dry, in the electric dryer) my RSA key no less than 3 times. Each time it has stopped working properly for a few hours, occasionally displaying gibberish, but it has always started working ust fine again, and usually the visible water drops under the screen go away within a few days.

After the first couple of times I paniced, I have since decided this is in fact the standard of quality we should expect from more devices.

Comment Re:Okay, what is it? (Score 1) 88

> And yes, I have heard of that Google thing, but one of the prime tenets of good communication is to not make your audience go elsewhere for fundamental information.

No, I don't think you quite got it there.

However the fundamental tennent of answering a question is actually answering it. If all you have to say is "I know, but I am not going to tell you", you haven't actually communicated anything because knowing that you know is, in every way, equivalent to not knowing at all.

Its not communication at all, its just noise like pans falling down stairs, noise without signal.

Comment Re:America's War On Drugs is a Failure (Score 1) 110

Except for the fact that they were already addicts before they became customers, and that the alternative was that they do what exactly? Tell them to go elsewhere to someone who wouldn't even do that much?

The only evil here is the people who make laws out of ignorance. Idiots who think drug laws work are the true evil and the ones responsible for the entire mess. Its sad that we have to allow prohibitionists to share the clean air and sunshine that the good people of the world enjoy.

They are the ONLY ones to blame here, their policies created exactly the situation they did before. They are the ones who filled our burn units with meth cooks; how many houses went up in flames before prohibitionist scum came along and gave them financial incentive to burn?

Comment Re: America's War On Drugs is a Failure (Score 1) 110

Well actually its because such benefits are assumed rather than always in existance. The real problem comes when this is assumed of policies, like the drug laws, which don't even achieve a small portion of their goals (unless you assume those goals are to create middle class jobs in prison and probation systems, in which case, it succeeds like gangbusters)

In fact, its quite possible for these programs to not have any benefits at all.

Comment Re: America's War On Drugs is a Failure (Score 1) 110

However a murderer has actually harmed someone in a way that denies him his rights. Hardly a realistic comparison. I would compare it more, to having sex with a man behind closed doors. Seems more appropriate of a comparison to me given the lack of a victim in the simple ownership or posession of an object or substance.

In fact, I would even say, his right to own or put what he wants in his body is likely on the level of his religion.

Comment Re:America's War On Drugs is a Failure (Score 1) 110

Actually Crock is making his point for him. Do you know what the really fucking saddest thing about Crock is? Seriously.... do you know?

"Crock" would be safer than most other opiates if it was pharmaceutical grade, because it causes LESS REPIRATORY DISTRESS.

Yes, "Crock" the nasty limb destroying hell on earth drug is itself.... the perfect example of why making drugs illegal doesn't work and causes more problems. Add to this that drug prohibition has failed to change addiction rates and you have....the same rate....consuming less safe drugs..... gee....sounds like a recipe for safety to me!

Yes lets keep creating these situations.

Comment Re:Mixed reaction (Score 1, Interesting) 328

Yet as a member of the public, I have no interest in this. Why does my opinion that the rights of others matter more than your claim of a so-called "public interest".

I say the public has a public interest in regulating the government and making it justify its interests whenever and wherever possible and restricting those interests as strictly as possible.

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