davesbizarre - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Naw, it's Doctors (Score 1) 696

by davesbizarre on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @12:42PM (#50479401) Attached to: Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US

Easy there, big fella. Guess what? If the lane is not wide enough for a car to pass me with (in FL) a three foot gap, then, yes, I do have the right to "block" a full lane of traffic (hey, guess what else? I am traffic, so I'm not blocking it; I'm just slowing it). I also have the responsibility to signal my turns, stop for red lights (and in most states, stop signs; Google "Idaho stop"), and stay within the speed limit.

I don't know about your experience on the roads, but I see a far higher percentage of cars than bikes failing to signal and exceeding the speed limit, and about the same percentage rolling stop signs.

Sounds to me like you're just giving us more reasons to require cyclists to be licensed and insured. If you're using public roadways as traffic, then you should be held to ALL the same standards, restrictions and requirements as motorists.

Comment Neither do I (Score 1) 538

by davesbizarre on Monday April 06, 2015 @11:32AM (#49414541) Attached to: Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet"

I am USian and man- I don't understand it either. Everyone in politics is a crook. I know that's a generic blanket statement but damn. It's to a point where to the rest of the world, we have to look absolutely ridiculous.

Comment Re:Khaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!! (Score 1) 634

by davesbizarre on Friday June 22, 2012 @12:15PM (#40412759) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

I introduced my wife to it by watching the new film that came out a few years back and then had her watch films II, III and IV. The new movie did a pretty good job of including the back stories behind key elements like Kirk's experience with the Kobayashi Maru, etc.

SAP — Open Source Friend Or Foe ? 155

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 12, 2009 @02:44PM from the beer-more-than-speech dept.

pavithran writes "Does SAP, one of the largest business companies offering software solutions, support FOSS as a movement? Why is SAP looking at closed and open source in a similar way? This shows lot of ambiguity in SAP's attitude towards open source software. I found an interesting article in Linux Journal on whether SAP is an open source friend or foe, by Glyn Moody. Here's a quote from the article: 'For an outfit that calls itself "the world's largest business software company," the German software giant SAP is relatively little-known in the open source world. With 51,500 employees, a turnover of 11.5 billion euros ($16 billion) last year, and operating profits of 2.7 billion euros ($3.8 billion), SAP is clearly one of the heavyweights in the computer world. Given that huge clout, SAP's attitude to open source is important; and yet it is hard to tell whether it is really free software's friend or its foe. ... A company that wished open source well would back these ideas. One that really supported free software would also fight against software patents. So, while SAP's involvement in Eclipse and investment in open source companies is welcome — and pretty self-interested, it has to be said, given that it presumably hopes to make a profit on them — it's not really enough cancel out its unhelpful attitude and statements elsewhere. If it wants to be a serious, respected player in the world of open source, as befits its size, it must do better.'"

Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 296

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 11, 2009 @05:47PM from the three-upmanship dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from Neowin.net "Sarah Sharp, a self-styled 'geekess' and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel. This makes Linux the first operating system to support the standard. If you can't wait and have the expertise necessary, she includes instructions on how to get USB 3.0 support in Linux now." Here's Sharp's post.

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