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Comment Re:Just set it to clock speed (Score 1) 400

While I do agree with most of what you say, I do on occasion punch the throttle to create extra room behind me. Say for instance you're overtaking a truck on a 2 lane, and there's a regular road car behind said truck that is going to want to overtake as well in a second but can't because I'm in the left lane. (Note that this is Europe where one drives on the right lane unless there's a good reason not to).

If I were to overtake the truck at the speed limit, the other car would have to drop his speed significantly and may even cause a dangerous situation. If I put on the gas for a bit he can follow in behind me and everyone ends up better off.

As for the Dunning-Kruger, I know I'm not a better driver than most people ;-) But I do give driving my full and undivided attention.

Comment Re:Attention point (Score 1) 433

I have my GPS mounted on the windscreen, slightly left of center just above the dash. It takes me less time to glance at it than it does to check the rear-view.

Not that it's even necessary, considering the spoken instructions suffice 99% of the time, the 3D map is just a bonus.

Configuring the damn thing while driving on the other hand would be insane. On occasion I'll select a preprogrammed destination while waiting for a red light, but that's pretty much it, anything else I'll pull the car over to do it.

Heck, I got my license about a year and a half ago, and being able to drive by GPS was already a required part of the exam. Knowing the difference between using and configuring it while driving featured rather prominently.

Comment Re:Accidentally, or not? (Score 1) 179

This has to do with not good thought out default settings of the various DNS servers out there, but also has to do with people running too old DNS servers.
You can restrict recursing resolve based on source IP, groups of IP or subnets.
First I do is define an internal mode and an external mode where external mode only sees an authoritive server and the internal mode can do recursed resolving.

Comment Re:Gambling: (Score 1) 308

Sorry, but you clearly don't have a clue. Games such as blackjack (which is what your link is about) are played against the house, and the only difference between playing a dealer or a machine is that the former has a bit more style. The rules on how the casino has to play are available up front, and the dealer has to follow these instructions to the letter.

Poker is played against opponents who are not associated with the casino, and the casino that serves as the host takes a flat cut of the winnings. Therefore the casino has a vested interest in keeping the game fair because in the long run a good reputation beats a quick scam.

Comment Re:A nuclear first strike... (Score 2) 369

I dunno about others but when a site refuses to show content without me unblocking scrips it will just get ignored.
b.t.w. US sites are really the worse with sometimes 15 or more scripts and most of them 3rd party.

Besides, unless advertisers find a way to serve me from 127.0.0.1, they will not do anything as I couldn't care less about their whining because I do not want their bought for web anyway.
They can keep their 80% of their paid for web and stick it where daylight is not showing as it's all cheapo losers crap anyway.

Comment Re:WTF... (Score 1) 522

Proposing any law which is obviously unconstitutional should be considered treason, and prosecuted as such.

That is...just plain retarded. It is so far out of the ballpark you're not even in the same country anymore.

How about all the amendments? If the original constitution was perfect, why the need to change it? For that matter, how do you square prosecuting people who propose a law with the very first amendment?

Proposing laws that are clearly unconstitutional should be considered either a reason to not elect that politician again because he's wasting time and public money, or to amend said constitution.

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