Actually, this is also why I stopped using Waze. Coming back from Heathrow once, I could have just taken the M4 and South Circular, but Waze claimed it would save me more than seven minutes on 25-35 minute journey, so I thought I'd give it a go. It took me through Hounslow and the back streets of Isleworth before crossing the A316 bridge in to Richmond. It ended up taking at least 15 minutes longer than the easy route and a vast amount more effort, in the dark. Much of that extra time was either reversing in to a gap between parked cars to let somebody by, or waiting for an oncoming car to do the same for me.

This has been one of my biggest frustrations with Waze for years - it has no understanding of how difficult a road is to drive. It'll happily send you off an easy, fast, well-lit motorway onto a difficult, narrow, unlit B road if it thinks it can save two minutes on a two-hour trip.

The stupid thing is that in the UK, road types already hint at how easy or hard they are to drive. Motorways (M roads) are the easiest, then A roads, then B roads. You could even go further by looking at the number of digits - single-digit routes tend to be simpler than three-digit ones. Sure, there would be exceptions (like the M25 compared to the M6), but overall it would make routing far more sensible than what Waze does now.

Every time I see a goofy new feature from Mozilla, I'm reminded how Firefox started as Netscape without the bloat. That was a great product. I wonder what happened to it.

The original Tron was fantastic... if you were an '80s computer geek. If your experience with computers starts in the '90s or later, it's hard to relate.

Tron Legacy went all metaphysical. Metaphysics is where science fiction goes to die, and die it did. Tron Ares is a fitting sequel to Tron Legacy, which is to say: hot garbage with nifty special effects.

Not sure what Intel contributes that they could change to closed source without harming themselves. Closed source doesn't make it into the Linux kernel and with very few exceptions doesn't make it into the Linux distros. I can think of few Intel product lines where that wouldn't be destructive to their market share.

Wow, you can click the link to my web page and make a veiled threat to dox me. I guess my estimate of your intelligence was... right on target.

The diagnoses were merged because the evidence had begun to suggest that they were different severities of the same ailment. If the evidence has begun to suggest that we're dealing with fundamentally different ailments then the diagnoses should be split accordingly. If not then you're shuffling names for the sake of politics and it's not a good day in science when that happens.

I've always wondered how well Slashdot's moderation system actually works. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to find out.

It is a mental defect to mistake popularity for trustworthiness.

Your numbers support a conclusion. Just not the conclusion you wrote.

Two words: Fox News. They're trustworthy? Yeah right.

I used to trust the Washington Post but they've made so many exaggerations and just plain errors in the last 5 years, and their censorship in the comments section has gone nuts. Earlier this year I canceled my subscription.

You don't need an excuse. Doing a U-turn when you see a DUI checkpoint is almost always legal.

You'll catch the cops' attention but the courts have ruled that solely turning around is not sufficient to generate reasonable suspicion of a crime which would justify stopping you. They might follow you a little while to see if you do anything that would generate reasonable suspicion, but if the cop pulls you over immediately he's probably breaking the law.

https://www.findlaw.com/legalb...

Bullets don't cause large Internet providers to suffer wide-scale outages. The failure to implement and maintain industry standard N+1 redundancy does that. Bullets can only cause component failures in a system that either is or is not robust to single points of failure.

They're programmed to avoid delays from high congestion.

Musk is a doofus. There's a reason NASA launches from Florida instead of Texas. Nothing east of Florida but a big, big ocean where no one and nothing is in the way. But could anyone tell Musk that before he built his launch facility in Texas? No. No they could not.

Are we quite sure it was illegal? That's what was reported, but doing a u-turn prior to a DUI checkpoint is not typically unlawful. If this was a pretextual stop to check for drunk driving, and it really sounds like it was, they might not have had the reasonable articulable suspicion needed for a lawful stop. It happens more than you think. And clearly the "driver" was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs. If they go impounding the car, the deep pockets who own it are going to figure out the legality right quick.