darksoulz - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Real ID (Score 1) 315

by darksoulz on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @03:19PM (#21270961) Attached to: REAL ID In Its Death Throes, Says ACLU

If you insure a car and then let illegals use it, then you'd be liable for any damage.

Not true at all.
Most insurance plans allow for 3rd parties to drive your on occasion.
It would be very difficult to prove that you KNOW someone is illegal. In absence of that proof, insurance companies would have to fulfill their obligation.

I work for one of (if not the) largest auto insurers in the US, and to us it would not matter if you knew they were illegal or not. If you give someone permission to drive your car, they are covered regardless of age/licensed or not/illegal or not. As far as I know, all major insurance companies have the same policy.

Submission + - Historical Look At First Linux Kernel (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by LinuxFan on Thursday July 26, 2007 @04:59PM

LinuxFan writes: KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel "Freax", and in his first announcement noted, "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." He also stressed that the kernel was very much tied to the i386 processor, "simply, I'd say that porting is impossible." Humble beginnings.

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