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Comment Re: The Driver was Texting (Score 2) 698

I agree. By the time the jaywalker was visible no one would be able to stop. Thirty Eight MPH (according to the police) is over 110 feet in two seconds, even in daylight that would have been hard, http://www.brakingdistances.com/38Mph. But IR could have added more time to react and should always be in play when visibility is limited. Of course then you need rules for things like rabbits along the roadway (it is AZ), small dogs, etc. but if it was easy we would have had self driving cars sooner.

Yes, it does look like the guy was texting but I don't think anything other than much better sensors could have saved that woman...

Comment Re: I've never heard of a FAB losing production du (Score 1) 103

Elon's got your UPS, it's a bit spendy but hopefully they will get some custom versions for fab plants, hospitals, etc...
140 milliseconds... not bad for 100 megawatts...
http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/thats-a-record-south-australias-tesla-battery-responds-to-coalfired-plant-failure/news-story/d9e02c0dbf6774ffea948a1b919f3b7f

Comment Re:face it you RSS dinosaurs (Score 1) 109

I found igHome.com after iGoogle closed. If they don't already have the feed you want, you can create it from an RSS url and then share it as a "gadget". The only issue I see is they need to clean out old gadgets that have died due to a change in url. They also have a "black button" link section across the top of the page that can be configured and the buttons relabeled.
http://www.ighome.com/

Comment Re:Stop putting the operating system in the browse (Score 2, Interesting) 79

So you would prefer a policy such that newly encountered domains default to script off. Under this policy, how would a web application that falls into "the small amount of use case that actually need scripting" demonstrate to the user that it is worthy of "opt in explicit consent"?

Isn't that exactly what the noscript HTML tag is for?
You hit a page that thinks it needs scripting and you get a message asking you to enable it... maybe showing a GIF promising all kinds of wonderful things the site can do for you..

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