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Comment Correlation != Causation (Score 2, Interesting) 207

The article cites statistics that 18% of those drivers involved in fatal crashes were speeding.

I don't speed a lot but could it possibly be the case that uncautious drivers ignore multiple safety factors (seat belts, tires, brakes, following distance) due to a general lack of giving a fuck and that lack correlates with fatal crashes? Seems like a clumsy correlation.

Comment TANJ (Score 1) 528

As an American Felon, you don't get to serve on juries. They'll still make you come in to tell you that though. You don't get paid for that but you do have to miss work.

Oh well, still better than the nullified civil rights thing.

Comment Re:Stephen Fry's previous good stuff: gnu bday (Score 1) 126

Freedom *is* the ability to do things. A phone that I can compile a kernel module for lets me do a lot more things than one where I may purchase pre-approved entertainment centric apps.

1700s: "Give me freedom or give me death!"

2000s: "Give me freedom or... oooh, is that an iPhone?"

/me slowly turns into RMS.

Comment Re:Ok, but (Score 1) 1138

I certainly meant no disparagement. The OP implied that if you were even 10% below average intelligence, you could never pass a Calculus class. I think the deal with calc is that it's pretty hard to teach but once you understand it, it can seem fundamental and simple.

I'm not sure if there are different kinds of intelligence. I'd like to think that the human mind is at least equivalent to (and likely a super set of) a Turing machine. Then the difference would really be one of inclination. People excel at what they are actually interested in. I probably couldn't pass a Business class to save my life.

Comment Re:Here's the world's smallest violin... (Score 1) 249

Not all felons have caused actual damage to society. Felonies are handed out to enemies of the state as a way of labeling them, keeping them out of the middle class no matter how hard they work. People are denied lawyers. Cops and other witnesses sometimes lie.

Or would you rather believe that we have 1/4 of the world's prison population because Americans are just more likely to be criminals?

Sincerely,
A Felon

Comment NoScript (Score 1) 747

NoScript supports javascript surrogates now. So you could actually run replacement versions of commonly used scripts. There's not much of a ui to it yet but I just checked about:config and it looks like I'm already doing this.

Stallman is once again unpopular but correct.

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