Our vehicles don't need to become more complex - automakers need to focus first on making vehicles that dont fall apart while your driving them. Just go to the library and take a look at all the vehicle problems in the Lemon-Aid guides. If automakers can't make vehicles with reliable tie-rods or good quality alternators - then why would i want to ask them to add problems?
They can't. It would be unproductive. To survive, automakers have to make as much cars as possible, and convince people to change them as often as possible, even for stupid reason (hence the absurd amount of money spent on marketing cars). Breaking-down cars will help people want to replace them, of course.
Oh, there are people who make cars which don't fall apart as you drive them because they have reliable tie-rods and good-quality alternators. Trouble is, how many people can afford a Rolls-Royce???
My new BMW was built in South Carolina using American and German parts. My Toyota was built in Ohio using American and Japanese parts.
American cars have high-quality components, and very shoddy assembly.
Japanese cars have low-quality components, and very skillful, high-quality assembly.
Japanese cars made in America have low-quality component and very shoddy assembly...
Honestly, I wouldn't mind that much having a car that could drive itself. You see, the problem with public transportation is that its public. Even in a cab you have that smelly driver and the dingy cab.
Rail can't replace roads. It's much less flexible than pavement, more expensive to maintain and not compatible with the existing transportation.
When there's an accident a rail vehicle can't just drive on the dirt to go around [...]
That rail can be non-intrusive. 160 years ago, urban transit was done with horse-powered tramways that ran on rails, but could be routinely derailed to go to the curb to pick-up passengers right at the sidewalk. Then, the driver would simply drive the horses back to the center of the street on the track, where the tramway re-railed itself and went on to it's journey.
A similar system could be effected for automobiles, with a buried cable that sends high-frequency pulses communicating road instructions.
The car would simply follow the cable, automagically adjusting it's speed according to road conditions and traffic.
In case of obstruction, one would simply manually override the autofollow and drive around the obstruction.
Ditto for secondary roads (and driveways) not equipped with the cables.
I'm not making this up, I must have read something like that some 25-30 years ago.
Until fairly recently, the British government seemed to think among rather similar lines regarding toleration of openly radical Islamists. That didn't stop the latter from provoking a crackdown.
Big difference with canada: Canada is the colony, and not the colonizer. And Canada did not join the war in Irak.
As a matter of fact, the last terrorist bomb blew up 30 years ago in Canada, and it had been planted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
First, Canada is a target as the terrorist attacks.
Canada will never be a terrorist target.
The terrorists are not stupid; they know very well that if they do the slightest thing in Canada, the crackdown will make them lose a very valuable base of operation against the USA...
Yes, it would really suck if we had both laws on the books, but there is nothing even on the horizon that would similarly compel people to give up their passphrases like that here in Canada.
You miss my point -- once upon a time, there was no RIP in the UK, either.
This law is useless without a Canadian equivalent to the RIP. Therefore, the Canadian government will be forced to implement an RIP-equivalent law within a year or two of implementing the "all your connections are subject to permanent sniffing" law.
Except that, unlike britain, in Canada, there is a charter of rights and freedoms which, during the last 25 years, has stuck down numerous laws and brought about tremenduously progressive changes to Society.
From the San Francisco article on Wikipedia:
"The median income for a household in the city is $55,221, and the median income for a family is $63,545. Males have a median income of $46,260 versus $40,049 for females. The per capita income for the city is $34,556."
Wanna bet that some joker already whisked to that Widipedia page and altered the figures???
It's amazing to see the lengths to which some people will bullshit to promote their "libertarian" point of view, whereas they'd be the first to run to their mommies when the kind of hardship government deals with will hit them...
It's frustrating, in the U.S. and in Canada, that the same people suggesting intrusive nonsense like this are still in office.
It's the police. The police always want maximum powers, because their twisted brains see criminals everywhere. For those sick fucks, all what matters in their poor existence is the ferreting out of criminals, real or imagined (when there is an absence of crime, such as in Canada).
Whenever you interact with a cop, the pig is on the lookout for whatever reason to haul you in. Hence the validity of the admonition of never engaging conversation with a cop.
And they will go to great lengths to get what they want, be it scaremongering about policicos ("we don't have the tools to fight child pr0n" or whatever heinous crime du jour is) or the public at large.
And they think absolutely nothing about freedoms and liberty, except as a major hindrance to do their "investigation" of crime.
Cops have no "better judgment". They are poorly educated, trained to obey without question; thence their intellect is seriously challenged, especially that they are trained to view civilians (that is, those poor fuckers who are not blessed with the anointment of policedom) with the utmost contempt.
They would only be happy if they could jail everybody "for our protection", of course.
Not a chance of this happenning. The minority government would not dare to this, especially that there is an election looming within the next 9 months.
- CSS simply adds to the problem by oversending code/data
What a bunch of crocky oxdung!
CSS will streamline webpages much more by sending formating instruction ONE TIME, and by allowing the resulting HTML to be far leaner (one tag replaces dozens of or s used for formatting).
Uh, if you were able to do all that why would you need to send your system to someone else for servicing?
It doesn't take a degree in I.T. to follow the simple instruction "remove disk from caddy whenever the power is off"...
Or it could be for your gay brother who could see his life destroyed because an overzealous cop decided he was fair game because of the gay pr0n on his system, maybe?
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Oh, there are people who make cars which don't fall apart as you drive them because they have reliable tie-rods and good-quality alternators. Trouble is, how many people can afford a Rolls-Royce???
Japanese cars have low-quality components, and very skillful, high-quality assembly.
Japanese cars made in America have low-quality component and very shoddy assembly...
A similar system could be effected for automobiles, with a buried cable that sends high-frequency pulses communicating road instructions.
The car would simply follow the cable, automagically adjusting it's speed according to road conditions and traffic.
In case of obstruction, one would simply manually override the autofollow and drive around the obstruction.
Ditto for secondary roads (and driveways) not equipped with the cables.
I'm not making this up, I must have read something like that some 25-30 years ago.
The competition is about having the glitziest vehicle, nothing else.
Oh!, the irony...
(signed: a card-carrying bloquiste)
As a matter of fact, the last terrorist bomb blew up 30 years ago in Canada, and it had been planted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
The terrorists are not stupid; they know very well that if they do the slightest thing in Canada, the crackdown will make them lose a very valuable base of operation against the USA...
It's a good thing that Brian Mulroney repealed the War Measures Act, eh...
You never had dealt with the pigs before???
It's amazing to see the lengths to which some people will bullshit to promote their "libertarian" point of view, whereas they'd be the first to run to their mommies when the kind of hardship government deals with will hit them...
Whenever you interact with a cop, the pig is on the lookout for whatever reason to haul you in. Hence the validity of the admonition of never engaging conversation with a cop.
And they will go to great lengths to get what they want, be it scaremongering about policicos ("we don't have the tools to fight child pr0n" or whatever heinous crime du jour is) or the public at large.
And they think absolutely nothing about freedoms and liberty, except as a major hindrance to do their "investigation" of crime.
They would only be happy if they could jail everybody "for our protection", of course.
Not a chance of this happenning. The minority government would not dare to this, especially that there is an election looming within the next 9 months.
CSS will streamline webpages much more by sending formating instruction ONE TIME, and by allowing the resulting HTML to be far leaner (one tag replaces dozens of or s used for formatting).
Or it could be for your gay brother who could see his life destroyed because an overzealous cop decided he was fair game because of the gay pr0n on his system, maybe?
Configure temp directories and cache directories to use the second drive.
Better: at least, mount the second drive in a caddy which is removed whenever the system is shipped-out for servicing.
Better yet, remove the caddy and put it in a "safe" place whenever the computer is not being used, so in case of theft, you don't lose the data.
Lastly, if the system is shipped because it won't boot windoze, boot-up with Knoppix and delete all possible temporary files or cache directories.
Hmmmm, this could be something to do: kitbashing a boot Linux distribution that would ferret-out all cache and temporary directories and nuke them.
What's wrong with spandex jumpsuits???
In DUNE, Frank Herbert had his characters use binoculars with "oil lenses"...