What logic was that? The logic that I'd apply to guns should not be applied to cars at all because cars' primary design goal is not to kill, and they have many other uses which they are used for successfully. Also compare accidents to accidents and murders to murders. You'll see that car murders are far lower than gun murders, and I'd argue that the car's designed purpose, which is used well every day far more frequently than guns, justifies the greater number of accidental deaths.
Way more? The average sedan is around 200hp, more than absolutely needed for cruising at US-legal highway speeds, but enough to allow a heavy load to be hauled, a large object to be towed, and offer decent acceleration.
They can still be used to run people down, but they were clearly not only not-designed for doing this (lacking plows, blades...most don't even have a bull bar), but now have countermeasures to reduce injury in such an accident or prevent it at all.
And cars are harmlessly used for their intended purpose - simple transportation, in the overwhelming majority of non-sporting uses every single day. Can the same be said for guns?
Man what a read. A gay roman catholic who has made sexist remarks against women, college dropout and former director of "Hipster Ventures" who cheered for cops to beat down G20 protestors...this guy is trying to troll us with his mere existence.
I thought they might compare it to the mining deaths from coal, the war deaths from oil, heck even the installation accident deaths from wind and solar...that's impressive.
Firearms are designed for one purpose: to accelerate a small hunk of metal and/or plastic in a linear direction of the operator's choosing, at a very high rate of speed. PERIOD - that's what they are designed to do.
And what use does that function have other than killing animals at a distance? If it were just for recreational destruction at a distance, it would be overpowered, disruptive, costly, unsafe and inefficient compared to the alternatives.
They have top speed limiters, hoods designed to reduce injury to pedestrians, and soon hood airbags and pedestrian avoidance auto-braking systems, and some day full autonomous AIs made to avoid pedestrians. Why would it contain those features if it was built for speeding or running over pedestrians?
Nitpicking. It's made for killing animals, including humans. You could also use it on inanimate objects but that's not what it was intended for, if it was it would not need to be nearly as powerful, you could use a BB/pellet gun for that.
To work around all the problems the sibling posters pointed out, maybe just use a PC with a POTS interface and then connect the phone to that with IAX through an SSH tunnel. You'd have to bum off free wifi though and keep changing your mac address so you can't be tracked.
Yep in most modern PCs if you pulled the battery you'd lose the time and BIOS settings, possibly onboard RAID settings. Some high-end PCs have an onboard EEPROM where you can store BIOS settings but you'd still lose the current settings and have to load them.
I see geeks on Slashdot who complain about political articles in the same way as athletes who say something like "I'm not a politician" when asked how they feel about competing in $oppressive_shithole. It makes me want to facepalm at their narrow-minded focus on the practical aspects of their profession at the cost of everything else.
Came here to ask this, is it the same faux shortage of tech workers (actually a shortage of very cheap tech workers) or is it something I don't know about?
Came here to say this. There's nothing "green" about adding load to an "idle" PC these days, they use more or less power on demand and there's little to no room to take advantage of "wasted" power. In the older days PCs had more of a "static" power load and it would have made sense, just because the computers were so wasteful.
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What logic was that? The logic that I'd apply to guns should not be applied to cars at all because cars' primary design goal is not to kill, and they have many other uses which they are used for successfully. Also compare accidents to accidents and murders to murders. You'll see that car murders are far lower than gun murders, and I'd argue that the car's designed purpose, which is used well every day far more frequently than guns, justifies the greater number of accidental deaths.
Way more? The average sedan is around 200hp, more than absolutely needed for cruising at US-legal highway speeds, but enough to allow a heavy load to be hauled, a large object to be towed, and offer decent acceleration.
They can still be used to run people down, but they were clearly not only not-designed for doing this (lacking plows, blades...most don't even have a bull bar), but now have countermeasures to reduce injury in such an accident or prevent it at all.
And cars are harmlessly used for their intended purpose - simple transportation, in the overwhelming majority of non-sporting uses every single day. Can the same be said for guns?
Man what a read. A gay roman catholic who has made sexist remarks against women, college dropout and former director of "Hipster Ventures" who cheered for cops to beat down G20 protestors...this guy is trying to troll us with his mere existence.
Where cameras and recording devices are ubiquitous but control over them is not held in any single set of hands.
Have you been ignoring the last decade or so of unprecedented growth in curated computing and and centralization?
I thought they might compare it to the mining deaths from coal, the war deaths from oil, heck even the installation accident deaths from wind and solar...that's impressive.
The safety switch is no more an anti-killing feature than a car's brakes are an anti-speeding and anti-pedestrian-murder feature.
Also this year's Mercedes E-class does have the hood air bags ("active bonnet"):
http://www.mersag.com/cmer-31.html
You might be able to get an S-class with pedestrian detection now, not sure if the 2014 model year is available yet:
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1080199_2014-mercedes-benz-s-class-to-feature-pedestrian-detection-tech
See this post:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3606837&cid=43339061
Firearms are designed for one purpose: to accelerate a small hunk of metal and/or plastic in a linear direction of the operator's choosing, at a very high rate of speed. PERIOD - that's what they are designed to do.
And what use does that function have other than killing animals at a distance? If it were just for recreational destruction at a distance, it would be overpowered, disruptive, costly, unsafe and inefficient compared to the alternatives.
They have top speed limiters, hoods designed to reduce injury to pedestrians, and soon hood airbags and pedestrian avoidance auto-braking systems, and some day full autonomous AIs made to avoid pedestrians. Why would it contain those features if it was built for speeding or running over pedestrians?
Nitpicking. It's made for killing animals, including humans. You could also use it on inanimate objects but that's not what it was intended for, if it was it would not need to be nearly as powerful, you could use a BB/pellet gun for that.
Why does it matter if the phone has GPS? The location tracking is normally done using the cell towers, GPS isn't necessary.
They wouldn't get your call records or contents but the location tracking would work just as before.
To work around all the problems the sibling posters pointed out, maybe just use a PC with a POTS interface and then connect the phone to that with IAX through an SSH tunnel. You'd have to bum off free wifi though and keep changing your mac address so you can't be tracked.
Yep in most modern PCs if you pulled the battery you'd lose the time and BIOS settings, possibly onboard RAID settings. Some high-end PCs have an onboard EEPROM where you can store BIOS settings but you'd still lose the current settings and have to load them.
On a phone you'd just lose the time.
That's the safe way to be sure but many phones let you turn off the GSM transceiver with "airplane mode" or something like that.
...is that sometimes you find it.
I see geeks on Slashdot who complain about political articles in the same way as athletes who say something like "I'm not a politician" when asked how they feel about competing in $oppressive_shithole. It makes me want to facepalm at their narrow-minded focus on the practical aspects of their profession at the cost of everything else.
He could have been a nazi-affiliated toddler:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn
Graphics aren't terrible, somewhere between SWAT4 and Ghost Recon.
So where can I download it?
LOL mod funny XD
By the way, what bloody crisis?
Came here to ask this, is it the same faux shortage of tech workers (actually a shortage of very cheap tech workers) or is it something I don't know about?
Well then call it not putting all your eggs in one basket if you like.
It gives you two slightly different wheels to choose from, that's a good thing. Apparently some people feel like working on different wheels.
And if monocultures aren't a problem than what's with all this Windows malware?
You say "needlessly duplicative" like it's a bad thing.
Came here to say this. There's nothing "green" about adding load to an "idle" PC these days, they use more or less power on demand and there's little to no room to take advantage of "wasted" power. In the older days PCs had more of a "static" power load and it would have made sense, just because the computers were so wasteful.