Perhaps they take two pictures (from two different cameras): one of the driver, and simultaneously one of the license plate. (I imagine they'd need one pic from behind anyway to see the phase of the streetlight -- otherwise, with just a picture of the driver, how do you even prove the light was red?)

Here in Georgia, they've instead redefined the offense to be an "administrative" or "civil" infraction so that they can cite the vehicle owner without needing the higher burden of proof.

The author of TFA is also missing something even more fundamental and that is the users don't give a damned about free as in freedom all they give a shit about is convenient. Most users of FB that I've watched are using it for the same reason my GF uses it, and that is to keep in touch with distant friends/relatives easier than email. Her old HS buddies and distant relatives can find her in seconds on FB and contact her, no need to know an email address, and they can keep in touch through FB with a minimum of work.

So the ONLY way I could see FB going down is if they did the same dumbass mistake that MySpace did, and that was spamming the crap out of the users. Everyone I know ditched MySpace not because they didn't like it or felt the need for the "freedom" of FB, its just because MySpace started spamming all over the place. With a service like FB its really their audience to lose, and by doing smart moves like buying Zynga (I swear those games are like catnip to females) I just don't see any real dumbass moves happening.

But I don't think something "cool" would be enough because people are basically lazy and FB could just copy whatever the feature was just as Zynga rips off other games. No the only way I see FB going down is if they decide they need to "monetize the users more" and basically crap all over the network but I haven't seen any signs so far they are THAT stupid.

Well I don't have the link anymore, it went to shit along with the HDD but it was written by one of the promoters that worked with Geffen that was basically pissed that Geffen and friends treated the acts like they did. he actually liked Cherry and as the story showed with just some promotion he could sell but to the guys at the top it was just a game, they bragged how they could basically sell anything and make people buy it with their control of mass media.

And I know all about the radio stations as well, I was playing with a popular regional college band in the early 00s and we had a DJ invite us on to play live just to get our fans to quit calling him. The reason we had to play live was because he couldn't play a single song that wasn't on the corporate list or he'd be fired. Its frankly disgusting the way a few old men in a boardroom somewhere can decide what everyone is gonna listen to simply by controlling the media.

Its like the record engineer and producer Steve Albini said "They make you wade through a river of shit all for the "privilege" of signing away everything and if you are lucky when that million selling album comes back you'll "only" owe $50,000 to the labels, even if you recorded it yourself" and he's right, I've seen guys sell a half a million albums and not only not get a dime but get a BILL for $20k-$30k. The whole thing is a massive scam and it isn't the artists getting shit from these copyrights, its just the leeches.

Yes but the bigger question is is this an Ask Slashdot question and the answer is no, it is not. Network engineers get paid good money to set up places like this because it IS complex, difficult, and basically a royal PITA, especially in a high rise. This isn't a question like "Here is the jobs I have, what kind of CPU would be best with this budget?" or some such, frankly the answers he is gonna get are gonna be worthless because you need to know the layout, what kind of lines are in the area, what kind of throughput are they expecting, etc.

This just isn't the kind of question you can just throw onto a form with so little details and get anything but total bullshit back, sorry.

Actually Carmack admits that he built Rage for the consoles and that PC simply wasn't given the same priority so surprise! the PC version is shit. Water is wet, day comes after night, console ports suck balls, film at 11.

Kinda ironic considering that Id "Games" (I'd call a lot of their later stuff fancy tech demos) have never been bit hits on consoles but instead have had the PC modding community make decent games out of their tech demos, but hey! Piss on your core audience and you shouldn't be surprised if you bomb. Maybe he'll remember next time its the PC Modders that actually make his "games" worth playing (like the Doom 3 flashlight so you wouldn't be Ray Charles on Mars?) so he'll actually devote the resources he should have to the PC.

Dude I've been building machines since Win 3.x was the OS of the day and frankly? Drivers have never been better. I honestly can't even remember the last time I saw a BSOD in the shop that wasn't caused by a piece of hardware actually failing.

On the other hand I have seen a LOT of programs, especially games, where it was obvious it was kicked out the door with minimal testing to make some deadline. Quite obviously game related bug, voice sync issues, textures popping in and out, games just slamming the hell out of the system when there is very little actually going on in the scene, just obvious bugs.

So I see no reason NOT to blame the game devs when obviously buggy code is released, hell it isn't like they really have to worry about much besides testing for various graphics cards as nearly all the sound and networking I see now is the same SiS, Realtek, and Via onboard stuff. They should pick one MOR card and one high end from each series and have play testers give them a run and I bet most of the bugs would be found pre-release. Of course that is assuming they care enough to do this, whereas other than a few companies like Valve I have been seeing more and more games released with what before would have been labeled show stoppers.

And you can't claim its having to support so much hardware, because if that were true how would you explain all the buggy as hell console releases we've been seeing lately? Its pretty obvious the SOP for a lot of these games is "Ship it now, we'll fix it later" which hurts the games themselves and the industry as a whole. i know I've been bit without enough crazy bugs I usually wait 6 months before purchase so that the patches will take care of the worst bugs, because there is nothing more irritating than bringing home or downloading a brand new game only to find its so damned glitchy you are gonna have to wait to play it anyway.

Yes, I'm sure Slashdot's readership is a highly sought-after market for $70,000 water purifiers.

That is why I advise my customers to NEVER buy a mobile that isn't already running the OS they desire, because all it leads to is headaches. Frankly i have YET to see a laptop manufacturer that gave a crap about software once its left the factory, I've dealt with $2000+ units and $450 best Buy specials and ALL are piss poor when it comes to driver support. Hell when i bought my EEE netbook I found that right OOTB the drivers were badly out of date and didn't support half of the features I had bought an E350 for, such as hardware acceleration of most video formats. Luckily for me the stock AMD drivers work just fine on it because Asus haven't released a single driver update in over a year.

But if you run into that problem again feel free to shoot me an email at the address i use here, I've had to do driver hunts for so damned many laptops at the shop i'm usually pretty good about finding drivers for most chips. occasionally I've even had to disassemble the driver EXE and rub Windows nose in its location to get it to take, but if anybody has released a laptop with that same chip and the version of Windows you want I can nearly always get it to work.

What I have always found interesting is how much of their rhetoric, especially against the BSDs and those using proprietary software, is very similar to the *.A.A. In both cases they come up with ever more crazy "doom scenarios" that will befall you if you don't do things THEIR way, and both act like any path other than doing things their way is just insanity and "you must be one of THEM!" if you don't agree with them. I always found that fascinating, how you can take a post from a rabid GPLer and a rabid pro *.A.A and change very few words and have the same post.

This is extra funny when you read some of the hoops RMS used to get through flaws in his own philosophy, such as by DISABLING the ability to update the firmware that suddenly magically makes it a "circuit" and thus okay, wait, what? Oh its just old RMS finding a way to wiggle around the fact that a piece of software isn't FOSS by coming up with a loophole to make it still work under GPL when it don't.

Frankly I find all the crazy hoop jumping and rhetoric kinda interesting, as RMS doesn't seem to be advocating classic communism, he doesn't seem to be having a problem with paying electricians or doctors or dentists, just programmers who should all work for free. Oh he says you can sell GPL software sure, but logically its obvious you can sell ONE copy and after that you are screwed. of course there is the support model but again logically it wouldn't make sense to do your best as if it works perfectly OOTB why would you need to buy support?

Logically the entire movement just doesn't make sense to me. a good programmer takes years of schooling and experience in the field, yet somehow they are supposed to be worth less than everyone else, as nobody is is being asked to work for free under RMS' rules, just programmers. What makes the sweat off the programmer's brow worth less than the dentist or mechanic? Do they not just as much education and hard work to achieve quality in the field? Hell maybe I could understand it if RMS were a classical communist or socialist, where everyone should work towards the group doing better but he's not, he just doesn't seem to think programmers are worth anything. Kinda ironic when both projects he gets credit for, GCC and Emacs, are actually forks that he "blessed' to keep from being cut out of the loop.

Just don't download every driver, its as simple as that. I've found that if I stick with the even driver numbers there is no hassles at all, but often their odd numbered drivers are glitchy. Now that we know about TFA it was probably because they were fixing bugs and just shoved the odd ones out the door, but I have 3 ATI cards in my family's PCs as well as an AMD APU in my netbook and by just sticking with the even releases its been smooth sailing all the way.

Oh and if you like AMD you might want to snatch a Thuban while they're cheap, I've seen places selling Thubans for as little as $110 to make way for Bulldozers which as you know Thuban beats BD in most benches so getting a Hexacore for so cheap is a hell of a deal. I'd recommend a coolermaster cooler though, the hyper 212 or N520 as the stock cooler suck, but with the coolermasters you can keep them nicely chilled and if you are in the mood get some crazy OCs as well.

But frankly AMD could go to quarterly driver releases for all I care, as long as the drivers are stable and solid who gives a crap? I've been running AMD/ATI for nearly 4 years now and as long as I avoided the odd drivers everything has been smooth sailing, games play great, no BSODS or bugs that I've seen, just as solid as my Nvidia was, so no complaints here.