The important thing is to avoid death. Everything else is words. The correct and appropriate and only right behavior for pedestrians is to be damn sure the oncoming traffic has stopped for them before stepping off a curb. Blathering about what the driver is supposed to do is a distraction from avoiding death. Instead, focus on avoiding death.
You can say all the words you want, it won't change the laws of physics. Go out in the rain without umbrella or raincoat, blame whoever you want, your still wet. Step off a curb without looking, blame whoever you want, you're still dead.
you seriously arguing that the only time the emissions of vehicles is important is the emissions test itself? That there was no other reason for setting those standards than to have an arbitrary hurdle for an arbitrary test?
Of course that's true! Or at least, true for the difference between CARB emission levels and EU emissions levels, which is (likely) the sort of cheating going on here. US emissions have been about nothing but scoring political points and trying to stamp out the symbols that one political side dislikes, for a while now. We likely reached "good enough" 20 years ago, but the government never stops there.
Ah, that makes sense then for the UK. Did VW do the same there? (I strongly suspect every German brand is doing the same thing in the US, but there's less reason to cheat elsewhere).
".test" is a reserved test domain. There are others, including ".example", and ".invalid". I remember there being a two-letter one (".xy" I think), and a 63-letter one, but I can't find rhe RFC for those.
I've used ".test" for years, both for test URLs and test servers.
The weather is apparently a real problem with these. As is leaving an open drink in the door pocket (which the door will dump all over you, rather than maybe spill.
It's part of the executive. He just needed to tell them "stop snooping on Americans inside America" and done. No congress or courts involved. He can fire anyone he needs to fire until he gets an NSA boss who complies. The buck stops with Obama right now.
Already solved: trees, dammit, trees. Where's my millions?
Convert CO2 to renewable building material? How will we ever do that? Scientists, assemble! Seriously, though, tree farms are pretty good at this, and it's reasonably efficient.
Gated community "security" is only effective vs opportunistic street crime, it's never helped vs a clever, determined thief. While almost all theft is the former, the latter is the guy who spends hours looting everything of value.
The cops do know about Uber, and there's been at least one Uber driver arrested after taking someone to the airport, then going back to rob their place. Anyone doing anything that obvious will get busted, regardless of the delivery service.
I'm guessing Amazon hired the bicycle guys for their Prime 1-hour delivery experiment (which has been a few weeks now), and this is the next step. Not sure why they'd hire the bicycle guys and not the couriers, but perhaps they want to buy the bikes, but not the cars? Hard to say - they definitely bought (or leased) a bunch of trucks for Amazon fresh.
I would care so much more about Carly here if I believed that any of the candidates won't cooperate fully with the NSA. Heck, one of the very few things Obama actually promised as a candidate was to cut back on this sort of thing, and he reversed as soon as he was in office. Either the NSA has some good shit on everyone in power, and/or everyone in power values convenience over the interests of the people. Sorry, I wouldn't even believe Bernie or Rand Paul here. We've created a monster.
"Do not summon that you cannot dismiss" - H. P. Lovecraft
Yes, this literally means keeping a laptop by your side 24/7 from date of purchase in cash until it's retirement from service... IE: In to the bathroom, in to restaraunts, in your carry on luggage, never leaving it in a hotel room, etc.
Bruce Schneier has commented in the past that the most safe approach is buying a laptop from a random brick-and-mortar store, prepping it to be secure, then keeping it locked in a vault whenever you're not physically holding it. Not perfect but security never is - make sure you choose a good safe though.
Everyone? Fuck that. Only the extroverts. The introverts go on to become the scientists and engineers and software developers the modern economy needs. It's no wonder we're falling so far behind Asia in our STEM pipeline.
/. has degraded by so much that a 6-digiter is now invoking the uid.
Almost everyone with a uid less than about 200k was on slashdot from the beginning. Until moderation was introduced, there was no good reason to get an account, so many, perhaps most people didn't. Once moderation was introduced, UIDs shot up to around 200K overnight.
Sheesh, if we're going to indulge in fan-wankery, let's at least do it right. "Dr. Who" was used in the title of the first of the two non-canon 60s Movies with Peter Cushing (I rather like them, and the colorful Daleks, but fans at the time weren't happy with the adaptation), and has never been used since. Everywhere else, it's always spelled out, never abbreviated.
Nice to see more of the early works recovered. I'd especially love to see more of the second Doctor (Patrick Troughton). Troughton had a unique take on the character, and so little of his work survived.
So far, the death toll from the earthquake, tsunami and evacuation is over 4500, and over 130,000 people are still displaced, and deaths among the displaced that wouldn't have happened at home will continue. I'm sure there will also be some increase in cancer rates, but our collective fear of the nuclear boogieman is obviously what people want to talk about here instead of the actual disaster.
Humanity's sense of "risk of harm" when comparing low-risk events is really bad.. We seem to obsess over the risk of particularly graphic dangers, even when that risk is negligible, and ignore the risks of driving, and ladders, and natural disasters in areas where they recur frequently. Evolution clearly shafted us here.
Of all your rant, though, cloud storage is actually a legitimate convenience feature for many users, who don't otherwise have a handy way of sharing/syncing stuff between various devices.
But, yeah, almost everything seems to be going to shit for no good reason. I need to learn to be productive on BSD now - it seems to be the only place the crazy hasn't infected.
Gravity was not a Science Fiction movie, unless you think the genre is "anything with space suits and explosions". Gravity was a period-piece disaster movie. Space shuttles are something from the past, after all. It was more "fiction" than Apollo 13 was, of course, but that one wasn't SF either.
Yes, movies about rockets and space can be historical dramas now. Welcome to the 21st century.
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The important thing is to avoid death. Everything else is words. The correct and appropriate and only right behavior for pedestrians is to be damn sure the oncoming traffic has stopped for them before stepping off a curb. Blathering about what the driver is supposed to do is a distraction from avoiding death. Instead, focus on avoiding death.
You can say all the words you want, it won't change the laws of physics. Go out in the rain without umbrella or raincoat, blame whoever you want, your still wet. Step off a curb without looking, blame whoever you want, you're still dead.
There is no part of driving that can ever be made safer by fiddling with your cell phone.
you seriously arguing that the only time the emissions of vehicles is important is the emissions test itself? That there was no other reason for setting those standards than to have an arbitrary hurdle for an arbitrary test?
Of course that's true! Or at least, true for the difference between CARB emission levels and EU emissions levels, which is (likely) the sort of cheating going on here. US emissions have been about nothing but scoring political points and trying to stamp out the symbols that one political side dislikes, for a while now. We likely reached "good enough" 20 years ago, but the government never stops there.
That's a great point, though that's likely in addition to the lawsuit from the government on whatever excuse can be invented.
Relative to diesel, they're still pretty clean - I'm sure they're running at EU spec or some other big market spec.
the whole intention is for consumers to believe the VW cars they were buying were better for the environment
Nah, only foul stinking hippies care about such drivel, and hippies don't have legal rights - those only apply to humans and the cuter sort of pets.
Yup, I'm sure that was the intent. There will be some sort of tort here, no doubt, possibly with the government as a damaged party.
Ah, that makes sense then for the UK. Did VW do the same there? (I strongly suspect every German brand is doing the same thing in the US, but there's less reason to cheat elsewhere).
What fraud? The car performed as advertised, right? Got the advertised MPG and 0-60 times and whatnot, or at least as much as any car ever does.
".test" is a reserved test domain. There are others, including ".example", and ".invalid". I remember there being a two-letter one (".xy" I think), and a 63-letter one, but I can't find rhe RFC for those.
I've used ".test" for years, both for test URLs and test servers.
The weather is apparently a real problem with these. As is leaving an open drink in the door pocket (which the door will dump all over you, rather than maybe spill.
He certainly could have done so - but it would have been amazingly stupid and likely he saw that. Still, the power was his.
It's part of the executive. He just needed to tell them "stop snooping on Americans inside America" and done. No congress or courts involved. He can fire anyone he needs to fire until he gets an NSA boss who complies. The buck stops with Obama right now.
Already solved: trees, dammit, trees. Where's my millions?
Convert CO2 to renewable building material? How will we ever do that? Scientists, assemble! Seriously, though, tree farms are pretty good at this, and it's reasonably efficient.
Gated community "security" is only effective vs opportunistic street crime, it's never helped vs a clever, determined thief. While almost all theft is the former, the latter is the guy who spends hours looting everything of value.
The cops do know about Uber, and there's been at least one Uber driver arrested after taking someone to the airport, then going back to rob their place. Anyone doing anything that obvious will get busted, regardless of the delivery service.
I'm guessing Amazon hired the bicycle guys for their Prime 1-hour delivery experiment (which has been a few weeks now), and this is the next step. Not sure why they'd hire the bicycle guys and not the couriers, but perhaps they want to buy the bikes, but not the cars? Hard to say - they definitely bought (or leased) a bunch of trucks for Amazon fresh.
I would care so much more about Carly here if I believed that any of the candidates won't cooperate fully with the NSA. Heck, one of the very few things Obama actually promised as a candidate was to cut back on this sort of thing, and he reversed as soon as he was in office. Either the NSA has some good shit on everyone in power, and/or everyone in power values convenience over the interests of the people. Sorry, I wouldn't even believe Bernie or Rand Paul here. We've created a monster.
"Do not summon that you cannot dismiss" - H. P. Lovecraft
thegarbz said
someone paid someone money to look at a code and tell us if it was safe. They said yes, turns out the answer is no.
The audit team said
Overall, the source code for both the bootloader and the Windows kernel driver did not meet expected standards for
secure code
What part of that sounded like "safe" to you? The report is easy enough to read.
Yes, this literally means keeping a laptop by your side 24/7 from date of purchase in cash until it's retirement from service... IE: In to the bathroom, in to restaraunts, in your carry on luggage, never leaving it in a hotel room, etc.
Bruce Schneier has commented in the past that the most safe approach is buying a laptop from a random brick-and-mortar store, prepping it to be secure, then keeping it locked in a vault whenever you're not physically holding it. Not perfect but security never is - make sure you choose a good safe though.
Everyone? Fuck that. Only the extroverts. The introverts go on to become the scientists and engineers and software developers the modern economy needs. It's no wonder we're falling so far behind Asia in our STEM pipeline.
/. has degraded by so much that a 6-digiter is now invoking the uid.
Almost everyone with a uid less than about 200k was on slashdot from the beginning. Until moderation was introduced, there was no good reason to get an account, so many, perhaps most people didn't. Once moderation was introduced, UIDs shot up to around 200K overnight.
Doctor Who not Dr. Who
Sheesh, if we're going to indulge in fan-wankery, let's at least do it right. "Dr. Who" was used in the title of the first of the two non-canon 60s Movies with Peter Cushing (I rather like them, and the colorful Daleks, but fans at the time weren't happy with the adaptation), and has never been used since. Everywhere else, it's always spelled out, never abbreviated.
Nice to see more of the early works recovered. I'd especially love to see more of the second Doctor (Patrick Troughton). Troughton had a unique take on the character, and so little of his work survived.
No one is responding to the content of your post. That's the lesson here.
So far, the death toll from the earthquake, tsunami and evacuation is over 4500, and over 130,000 people are still displaced, and deaths among the displaced that wouldn't have happened at home will continue. I'm sure there will also be some increase in cancer rates, but our collective fear of the nuclear boogieman is obviously what people want to talk about here instead of the actual disaster.
Humanity's sense of "risk of harm" when comparing low-risk events is really bad.. We seem to obsess over the risk of particularly graphic dangers, even when that risk is negligible, and ignore the risks of driving, and ladders, and natural disasters in areas where they recur frequently. Evolution clearly shafted us here.
It's not just you.
Of all your rant, though, cloud storage is actually a legitimate convenience feature for many users, who don't otherwise have a handy way of sharing/syncing stuff between various devices.
But, yeah, almost everything seems to be going to shit for no good reason. I need to learn to be productive on BSD now - it seems to be the only place the crazy hasn't infected.
Gravity was not a Science Fiction movie, unless you think the genre is "anything with space suits and explosions". Gravity was a period-piece disaster movie. Space shuttles are something from the past, after all. It was more "fiction" than Apollo 13 was, of course, but that one wasn't SF either.
Yes, movies about rockets and space can be historical dramas now. Welcome to the 21st century.