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Comment: Re: Citations? They need to be sued heavily (Score 2) 505

Can you not see that a certain width of intersection and slowness of speed that, if the yellow goes off just as you enter the intersection, then you can easily be IN the intersection when your light turns red and it goes green the other way? You have done nothing wrong, but are not "running a red light" and in danger of getting hit by cross traffic. Does this sound right to you?

Comment: Re:Citations? They need to be sued heavily (Score 1) 505

I recently worked for years in the highway safety sector,
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May I ask a question then? From the fine article it provides a list of speed limits and yellow light durations. Why do the YLDs increase with speed? It takes less time to clear an intersection if you are travelling faster, so surely a shorter yellow makes sense.

Take an extreme case (to simplify the calc. and more dramatically show how wrong this yellow light thing must be):
- 1/10th mile long intersection, and 2 speeds - 10 & 60 mph. At 10 mph it takes (1/10 / 10) or 1/100th of an hour (36 seconds) to clear the intersection. At 60 mph it takes (1/10 / 60) or 1/600th of an hour (6 seconds) to clear. A factor of SIX less time is needed to clear an intersection at 60 vs 10 mph, yet the table in TFA clearly shows yellow light times increasing with speed.

By the way, for those thinking they need a longer yellow at higher speeds for safety, this is where it has been traditional (in Canada anyway) to increase the length of time where ALL lights are red as speed goes up.

Also, FWIW, the width of the intersection _must_ be considered when setting yellow light time. The yellow light is saying "Stop if you can, but if not I will cover for you as you clear the intersection". Wider intersection == more time needed to clear it.

Comment: Re:Cool web site (Score 1) 224

by justthinkit (#43740465) Attached to: Federal Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Complaint
(1) running Opera, (2) redirects have their place -- a page has moved, then just send me to the new one. Still, I understand it is an arms race and I may have to stop redirects at some point. I've been on the 'net for almost 25 years (worked at an .edu back then and got them using Nupop, whooo!) and have never run into this particular set of roadblocks before so I'll probably just black list them.

Comment: Re:Cool web site (Score 2) 224

by justthinkit (#43732301) Attached to: Federal Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Complaint
What I meant by 'no "back" from their site', is that the "clear screen" then Javascript message must be conditionally served over their content as part of the original web page (because there is no available 'back' arrow from that tab in my browser). So people are going to go there, get the turn on javascript message, turn it on and then have no way of reloading the content (as the url showing in the address line is one with "nojavascript" in it).
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All in all they have done a very effective job of (1) forcing me to see one of their ads, (2) making it very difficult to actually serve their content to the average viewer, (3) making me never want to go to their web site again (the behavior will continue across their whole web site until you enable Javascript), (4) causing me to re-disable Javascript for their site after reading the article and (5) encouraging me to add them to my hosts file so that I don't accidentally go there again.

Comment: Cool web site (Score 1) 224

by justthinkit (#43732217) Attached to: Federal Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Complaint
Thanks, mailtribune.com. I go there, get the article for 5 seconds, then a cleared screen with a message "Please enable javascript". No other way to view article so I do so and reload the page (from /., there is no "back" from their site, strangely). I then get the article and right where the screen cleared before I get? An ad.
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The full message:
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