My car is highly visible in public. It's not unreasonable to have a smart phone. Why are you blaming the victims? "It's your fault if you get robbed, not only because you were flaunting it / asking for it, but also because only fools buy smart phones in the first place." Are you just trolling?
My pet issue is changing our voting system from "pick your favorite" to "choose all acceptable to you". It would instantly make every third party viable and reward reasonable middle ground positions instead of the extremism we have in Congress now. Pass it on. (Not that I expect it to ever happen.)
Personally i'd ban the use of cellphones while the car is in motion. Most of them now have accelerometers. Use it. Disable the phone if the car is moving. Less distracted morons on the road is good for everyone. Oh you're a passenger? We'll have passenger mode. Get caught driving with your phone in passenger mode? $10,000 fine and a month in jail.
We'll put a stop to driving while distracted real quick. At least for phones. Is it perfect? Nope. But it's a good start.
Why do you include all the accelerometer/disabling/passenger mode steps and not just skip to "Get caught driving with your phone? Huge fine & jail time."? It would require a lot less hurdles.
Personally, I'd prefer taking the device out of the equation, and just stick to "Driving badly? Heavy consequences." Much simpler.
I've been seeing Amber Alerts in Texas for a while now. I find the most surprising part of this that Californians have never seen one before...
FYI, Settings > Notifications > AMBER Alerts (ON/OFF)
At the end of this article, it notes that Chris Sevier has been placed on disability inactive status by order of the Tennessee Supreme Court due to “mental infirmity or illness.”
I'm going to assume you just aren't aware of Mr. Wizard because he's old. His show started before my time, black & white in the 50s and 60s. But Nickelodean brought it back as Mr. Wizard's World in the 80s, so I know he qualifies as a true TV scientist.
It really bugs me when I see these articles describing TMS as "using magnets". These are intricately designed electromagnetic paddles which produce a field of a specific shape which induce a current. The paddles need to be correctly aimed at a particular brain region. In order to do the aiming, you'll need a MRI scan first. They make it sound like rubbing fridge magnets on your temples.
if I get shot in the leg by some person on the street, depending on the situation I think I'm well within my moral rights to hate the person holding the gun, no matter who gave it to them.
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> What's to prevent ... (the wrong person using a killswitch)?
Well, on an iPhone, you have to log in using your Apple ID. So there's that.
Find My iPhone: http://www.apple.com/ios/featu...
As for the Google & Microsoft implementations that the story is discussing, you'll have to wait and see, I guess.
> don't use them in sketchy places
Another option is using an app that will automatically call 911 when needed:
SafeTrek: https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...
> do you usually flaunt valuable possessions?
My car is highly visible in public. It's not unreasonable to have a smart phone. Why are you blaming the victims? "It's your fault if you get robbed, not only because you were flaunting it / asking for it, but also because only fools buy smart phones in the first place." Are you just trolling?
My pet issue is changing our voting system from "pick your favorite" to "choose all acceptable to you". It would instantly make every third party viable and reward reasonable middle ground positions instead of the extremism we have in Congress now. Pass it on. (Not that I expect it to ever happen.)
It would help your "facts" if you could provide some sort of reference or informative links.
Is there some more information since last year?
http://science.slashdot.org/st...
Personally i'd ban the use of cellphones while the car is in motion. Most of them now have accelerometers. Use it. Disable the phone if the car is moving. Less distracted morons on the road is good for everyone. Oh you're a passenger? We'll have passenger mode. Get caught driving with your phone in passenger mode? $10,000 fine and a month in jail. We'll put a stop to driving while distracted real quick. At least for phones. Is it perfect? Nope. But it's a good start.
Why do you include all the accelerometer/disabling/passenger mode steps and not just skip to "Get caught driving with your phone? Huge fine & jail time."? It would require a lot less hurdles.
Personally, I'd prefer taking the device out of the equation, and just stick to "Driving badly? Heavy consequences." Much simpler.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/11/20/017241/texas-drivers-stopped-at-roadblock-asked-for-saliva-blood http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/North-Texas-Drivers-Stopped-at-Roadblock-Asked-for-Saliva-Blood-232438621.html
This American Life covered it in 2010: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/420/neighborhood-watch
Mod this +1 True. The grand parent is thinking of other consoles.
I've been seeing Amber Alerts in Texas for a while now. I find the most surprising part of this that Californians have never seen one before... FYI, Settings > Notifications > AMBER Alerts (ON/OFF)
http://abovethelaw.com/2013/07/lawyer-apple-should-protect-me-from-my-porn-addiction/
At the end of this article, it notes that Chris Sevier has been placed on disability inactive status by order of the Tennessee Supreme Court due to “mental infirmity or illness.”
That's exactly right. Here he is refuting any current or future plans to do this: http://news.msn.com/science-technology/scientist-im-not-seeking-a-mom-for-a-neanderthal It's a misunderstanding of his interview. He just said it was theoretically possible, but would require an adventurous woman.
Apple doesn't allow porn on the app store, despite the fact that people have sex all around the world. How unjust.
That is so good. I'm stealing it.
I got a similar error. The voting page worked after I disabled Ghostery, so I guess part of the mechanism was blocked.
I know it's a bit out, but I'd go for 149,896,229,000m - exactly 500 light-seconds.
It's only 1434 kilometers away from 499 light-seconds.
> > They lost the cases in the UK, Netherlands, Germany but win in the US.
> There must have been some Apple fanboys on the jury.
Or... there must have been some Samsung fanboys in the other juries.
Reminds me of the monitoring enabled by the mesh network from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
Sending email or a text message without even having to use equipment like a cell phone
Sure, all you need to avoid equipment like a phone is equipment like electrodes implanted in your head.
From the methods section of the paper: Electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings were obtained using subdural electrode arrays implanted in 15 patients
I like using whocalled.us to look up phone numbers. If a number is in their top 10 list for the day, they are almost certain a robo call.
The only true TV scientist is Beakman.
I'm going to assume you just aren't aware of Mr. Wizard because he's old. His show started before my time, black & white in the 50s and 60s. But Nickelodean brought it back as Mr. Wizard's World in the 80s, so I know he qualifies as a true TV scientist.
It really bugs me when I see these articles describing TMS as "using magnets". These are intricately designed electromagnetic paddles which produce a field of a specific shape which induce a current. The paddles need to be correctly aimed at a particular brain region. In order to do the aiming, you'll need a MRI scan first. They make it sound like rubbing fridge magnets on your temples.
Google is an advertising company. I think you meant: Google gaming eyeballs
if I get shot in the leg by some person on the street, depending on the situation I think I'm well within my moral rights to hate the person holding the gun, no matter who gave it to them.
Did Apple shoot you in the leg with this patent?
This. It took me a while to find the "great, more support for the platform" post, but here it is. If I had mod points, I'd give you one.
1, 2, 3, 4 ... then 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 1+3=4 ... pretty soon you'd get the pattern and figure out those are numbers
I can see 1, 2, 3, 4 working... but how do you denote the + and = symbols? ASCII?