Oct. 16th, 2006

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UK drivers change lanes to outsmart SPECS speeding cameras

Why pay thousands for that temptation-quelling adaptive cruise control option, or dream about the forthcoming Siemens VDO electronic governor, when all you have to do is switch a few lanes while smashing the pedal to the metal? The Home Office has fessed up to a "massive flaw" in the costly (and abundant) SPECS speed monitoring / ticketing cameras, which allows drivers to avoid any legal repercussions by simply ending up in a different lane than the one they began in. The system takes the average speed between two points to calculate if a motorist has been speeding, and then snaps their photograph and sends them a very unwelcome ticket in the mail if they were; however, the cameras are only designed to analyze and penalize those who remain in the same lane throughout the speed-checking segment, opening up a very exploitable loophole. Government officials, along with the cameras' manufacturer (Speed Check Services), have resorted to begging with the public to not evade the presumably imminent £60 ($112) fine in order to maintain a "high level of safety" on the roadways, but it's not likely that pleading to deaf ears (and lead feet) will entice folks to willingly suffer a penalty this easy to avoid.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/uk-drivers-change-lanes-to-outsmart-specs-speeding-cameras/
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Едy, никого не тpогаю, тоpмозят любимые сотpyдники ГАИ.
- Ваши докyменты... Петр Петрович, а чего глаза такие кpасные в выходные
отдыхать надо...
- Да отдыхал как pаз с дpyзьями в бане...
- Поди с девочками?
- Да нет, чисто мyжская компания...
- А, значит с пивом, да с водочкой?
- Да нет, ничего не пили...
- Hy, пойдемте, подышим в тpyбочкy
- Пойдемте...
Тpyбочка показывает что я абсолютно тpезв. Возвpащают докyменты...
- Хреново отдыхаете, Петр Петрович!

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/anekdot_ru/870888.html
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Pretext - the motto of my organization is "Higher Standards".

Project status meeting.

PM: I have put together some preliminary numbers here, take a look and see if I am smoking crack or what...

Dev 1: Is it good stuff?

PM: The best...

Dev 2 (grumpily): Talk about 'higher' standards...
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Congress, as any CSPAN viewer can attest, has never been a bastion of intelligence. As far back as a century ago, Samuel Johnson was demeaning the nation's legislators as a "circus of rogues and fools." But when it comes to sheer stupidity, the men and women of the 109th have distinguished themselves as a breed apart.

Read on here: http://radaronline.com/features/2006/10/americas_dumbest_congressmen_a_radar_special_report.php

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