Well I think it is a good legislative response but enforcement is going to be tough.
Of course just because you can't enforce something reliably doesn't mean you shouldn't not pass the law. For the majorityof offenders simply having a law out there that bbans it will cause parentys to crackdown a little more knowing that they can get a point on their license and a large fine.
the funny thing is its actual illegal in many states to sleep in your car. I know someone who got arrested in Georgia for sleeping in his car on the side of the road.
I am all against texting and driving and I only text at stop lights, especially cause I have a slider phone...but how in god's name are they going to enforce this.
How can they tell if someone was texting right before they crashed...I mean what evidence can you hold against someone to show that they were texting and driving?
I know there is some things you could do like phone records but although that might be enough evidence for a insurance company to deny someone's claim its not enough to sentence someone to a possible 15 years in prison.
For drunk driving you can prove unequivocally that someone was driving drunk using a breathalyzer or a blood test without there being reasonable doubt...but if your trying to prove someone was texting while driving there is plenty of room for reasonable doubt.
Don't most athletes who are at the Olympic level have some sort of athletic advantage. Obviously it's about determination and perseverance in training but its also about have really good genes. An average joe/jane will never ever be able to go to the Olympics no matter how hard they train.
I am sick of the federal government overstepping their power by trying to force states to pass laws or lose funding. This is just like what happened with raising the drinking age. The federal government needs to stop sidestepping the system and let the states make decisions for themselves.
If someone wanted to attack a cellphone network why wouldnÂt they just use a windows mobile phone which you can access the baseband, load custom ROMs, and do super low level programming right out of the box. I mean I unlocked my windows mobile phone for $10 and about 20 minutes of my time, and I didnÂt have to do any quirky and unreliable hacks like unlocking through jailbreaking.
Besides all of this is pretty much moot as the Copyright Office has declared unlocking a phone not to be copyright infringement...so if someone were to get sued for jailbreaking they could easily just cite that judgement in thier motion to dismiss.
There is surely the potential for civil liability:
Your device catches fire and incinerates your cousin's $56,000 daysailer. You taser-shock your girl friend. Your faulty navigational display sends your mother-in-law off a cliff.
Ahh gosh darn it, my full proof plan has been foiled!
Honestly Micheal Moore is a pretty massive douche. As a liberal I despise Moore almost as much (if not just as much) as I despire O'Reiley. They are both closed minded idiots that only see one side of the issues.
I am a staunch liberal but I am not afraid of criticizing liberal officials. I also think fiscal conservatism is much better than fiscal liberalism.
On the other other hand, Memorex and Imation-branded DVDs have been around for ages, are reasonably popular, and Toshiba chose to wait it out. IANAL, but I remember reading something about asking for retroactive damages when you know full well that infringement is happening, and how that's a bad idea.
The key question is, why do people even bother buying Memorex and Imation branded DVDs?
I hate CMC (memorex) even more. Their products are terrible wastes of plastic that would probably be slightly more useful as coasters (which they usually end up being anyways).
Their dual layer DVDs are a joke and your lucky if you get one dvd-dl out of a pack of 20 that works and lasts for more than a month or two.
Even their single layer DVDs are terrible. They only last a month or two.
And the worst part is CMC has a near monopoly on DVDs. I went to compUSA and they didn't have a single non-CMC brand. If you don't know who makes it...its probably CMC. HP, Imation, Memorex, Generic Brands, and now even single layer once holy Verbatims.
If CMC is sued out of existence for not paying Toshiba then they had whats coming to them. They certainly make terrible products that are a sheer joke. Who in their right mind would honestly trust their data on a CMC disc?
Maybe with CMC out of the picture we can actually find Taiyo Yudens in stores. (because lets face whenever you need more DVDs you need them right away and don't feel like waiting for shipping)
RAID 6, RAID cards have really gone down in rpice and you just throw 5 1TB drives together and not worry...
now if you want it to be so backed up that if your house catches in fire your data will be fine, get a couple of 1TB hard drives, put them in $10 external cases, and throw them in a storage locker.
Also as an added bonus if the world ever comes to an end and the whole internet goes down in smolderines you can just take your box of hard drives to the fallout shelter along with a netbook and you will be the guy who keeps our culture alive.
People will discover these lost drives and view world changing films such as Beverly hills chihuahua, wolverine orgins, jumper, and twilight.
You know what....just throw the drives in acid, we don't want historians looking at those xD
I've been working as a contractor for Aircell, the company behind the network, and it is not satellite, except for a few points. The network is 100 cell phone towers to T1 to internet. Max bandwidth is 3Mb. And yes VoIP is blocked for obvious reasons.
For more info, check out aircell.com.
Wow, thanks that was truly enlightening. So this is based off of the cellular receivers that they have been working on. That is such a better solution than using satellite. This sure is promising then and probably a lot more affordable and a heck of a lot more reliable than a satellite connection.
I use a cellular internet connection (it works with a little tweak for the HTC fuze, which is built into all of the custom ROMs) for extended periods of times and I never have a problem with it. It is pretty fast and latency is significantly higher than standard connection but no where near enough to be unusable.
It is good to know they are going to keep the cellular connection to internet only (hopefully) and that they blocked VoIP. I mean its already noisy enough on a plane with people just talking to each other, I couldn't imagine a whole business section yapping on the phone.
I just hope more planes get this technology and it is good that it has proven to not interfere with the plane and now its just a matter of investing in the equipment.
Skype and video games will probably never work because of the huge latency of satellite communications. Pretty much anything that is real time is going to be tough over a consumer grade satellite connection. I mean I play video games over the internet with my tethered cellphone and that is pushing it and the latency of cellular connections is lower by orders of magnitude then satellite connections.
But having any internet connection, especially one with decent bandwidth, is a god send to any buisness traveler or slashdot reader =].
Besides I will start taking trains if they allow skype on the plane. I mean how long before you have 50 people talking while your trying to sleep.
Blow their money on hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on super high-end processors, super high-end video cards, and super high-end RAM.
They will probably never learn that all those super high-end cards are such a waste of money. IMO the best thing to do is to shoot towards the middle to low high-end cards at most. In addition SLI is kind of stupid. Your better off using your money to get one high end video card. SLI/Crossfire doesn't double performance, it increases it substantially of course but it certainly isn't double performance.
Also you won't see performance gains on most games for a while on your super-duper high end cards, and by the time you do your card would be a middle-end card.
With how fast prices drop, the best thing to do is get decent stuff and upgrade it ever 1-2 years depending on your budget. Performance wise, Getting a 200 dollar video card ever 2 years is better than getting a 600 dollar SLI set of video cards ever 4 years.
And this is why I choose to get a Clevo laptop when I got a gaming laptop, but I would rather pay a little extra for an upgradable solidly built upgradable laptop with quad core support because it will last longer than a slightly cheaper dell POS.
Well they are taken out of the case anyways to prevent theft. I am all for being angry and hating corporations like Microsoft and apple at times, but meh this really isn't too big of a deal. If you can't tell that its been used than no harm to you.
If they scratch it up and crap than thats a different story.
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Well I think it is a good legislative response but enforcement is going to be tough.
Of course just because you can't enforce something reliably doesn't mean you shouldn't not pass the law. For the majorityof offenders simply having a law out there that bbans it will cause parentys to crackdown a little more knowing that they can get a point on their license and a large fine.
the funny thing is its actual illegal in many states to sleep in your car. I know someone who got arrested in Georgia for sleeping in his car on the side of the road.
Laws tend to contradict with themselves.
I am all against texting and driving and I only text at stop lights, especially cause I have a slider phone...but how in god's name are they going to enforce this.
How can they tell if someone was texting right before they crashed...I mean what evidence can you hold against someone to show that they were texting and driving?
I know there is some things you could do like phone records but although that might be enough evidence for a insurance company to deny someone's claim its not enough to sentence someone to a possible 15 years in prison.
For drunk driving you can prove unequivocally that someone was driving drunk using a breathalyzer or a blood test without there being reasonable doubt...but if your trying to prove someone was texting while driving there is plenty of room for reasonable doubt.
Don't most athletes who are at the Olympic level have some sort of athletic advantage. Obviously it's about determination and perseverance in training but its also about have really good genes. An average joe/jane will never ever be able to go to the Olympics no matter how hard they train.
I am sick of the federal government overstepping their power by trying to force states to pass laws or lose funding. This is just like what happened with raising the drinking age. The federal government needs to stop sidestepping the system and let the states make decisions for themselves.
If someone wanted to attack a cellphone network why wouldnÂt they just use a windows mobile phone which you can access the baseband, load custom ROMs, and do super low level programming right out of the box. I mean I unlocked my windows mobile phone for $10 and about 20 minutes of my time, and I didnÂt have to do any quirky and unreliable hacks like unlocking through jailbreaking.
Besides all of this is pretty much moot as the Copyright Office has declared unlocking a phone not to be copyright infringement...so if someone were to get sued for jailbreaking they could easily just cite that judgement in thier motion to dismiss.
There is a reason why there is no such things as programming mouses...because programmers rarely using mice...
A better solution would be to learn how to use keyboard shortcuts.
HAH! And you thought modchips were just for running *legal* backups of your own games...think again!
At least geeks will have a steady income installing them once every new car has this.
It is perfectly legal to do whatever you fucking want with an electronic device you own, at least in most countries.
Never without qualifications. For example:
Microwave radiation.
Basic electrical safety.
Eavesdropping on protected frequencies. {Cell phones][Radar]
RFI
There is surely the potential for civil liability:
Your device catches fire and incinerates your cousin's $56,000 daysailer.
You taser-shock your girl friend.
Your faulty navigational display sends your mother-in-law off a cliff.
Ahh gosh darn it, my full proof plan has been foiled!
And the whole tasering thing just sounds kinky.
Now THAT is an excellent suggestion. Thank you. I knew there would be one or two gems. :-)
Wow an OP that responds to comments...that is a first. I commend you.
Honestly Micheal Moore is a pretty massive douche. As a liberal I despise Moore almost as much (if not just as much) as I despire O'Reiley. They are both closed minded idiots that only see one side of the issues.
I am a staunch liberal but I am not afraid of criticizing liberal officials. I also think fiscal conservatism is much better than fiscal liberalism.
On the other other hand, Memorex and Imation-branded DVDs have been around for ages, are reasonably popular, and Toshiba chose to wait it out. IANAL, but I remember reading something about asking for retroactive damages when you know full well that infringement is happening, and how that's a bad idea.
The key question is, why do people even bother buying Memorex and Imation branded DVDs?
I hate CMC (memorex) even more. Their products are terrible wastes of plastic that would probably be slightly more useful as coasters (which they usually end up being anyways).
Their dual layer DVDs are a joke and your lucky if you get one dvd-dl out of a pack of 20 that works and lasts for more than a month or two.
Even their single layer DVDs are terrible. They only last a month or two.
And the worst part is CMC has a near monopoly on DVDs. I went to compUSA and they didn't have a single non-CMC brand. If you don't know who makes it...its probably CMC. HP, Imation, Memorex, Generic Brands, and now even single layer once holy Verbatims.
If CMC is sued out of existence for not paying Toshiba then they had whats coming to them. They certainly make terrible products that are a sheer joke. Who in their right mind would honestly trust their data on a CMC disc?
Maybe with CMC out of the picture we can actually find Taiyo Yudens in stores. (because lets face whenever you need more DVDs you need them right away and don't feel like waiting for shipping)
Or in Clinton's case the term "Presidential Adviser"
RAID 6, RAID cards have really gone down in rpice and you just throw 5 1TB drives together and not worry...
now if you want it to be so backed up that if your house catches in fire your data will be fine, get a couple of 1TB hard drives, put them in $10 external cases, and throw them in a storage locker.
Also as an added bonus if the world ever comes to an end and the whole internet goes down in smolderines you can just take your box of hard drives to the fallout shelter along with a netbook and you will be the guy who keeps our culture alive.
People will discover these lost drives and view world changing films such as Beverly hills chihuahua, wolverine orgins, jumper, and twilight.
You know what ....just throw the drives in acid, we don't want historians looking at those xD
I've been working as a contractor for Aircell, the company behind the network, and it is not satellite, except for a few points. The network is 100 cell phone towers to T1 to internet. Max bandwidth is 3Mb. And yes VoIP is blocked for obvious reasons.
For more info, check out aircell.com.
Wow, thanks that was truly enlightening. So this is based off of the cellular receivers that they have been working on. That is such a better solution than using satellite. This sure is promising then and probably a lot more affordable and a heck of a lot more reliable than a satellite connection.
I use a cellular internet connection (it works with a little tweak for the HTC fuze, which is built into all of the custom ROMs) for extended periods of times and I never have a problem with it. It is pretty fast and latency is significantly higher than standard connection but no where near enough to be unusable.
It is good to know they are going to keep the cellular connection to internet only (hopefully) and that they blocked VoIP. I mean its already noisy enough on a plane with people just talking to each other, I couldn't imagine a whole business section yapping on the phone.
I just hope more planes get this technology and it is good that it has proven to not interfere with the plane and now its just a matter of investing in the equipment.
Skype and video games will probably never work because of the huge latency of satellite communications. Pretty much anything that is real time is going to be tough over a consumer grade satellite connection. I mean I play video games over the internet with my tethered cellphone and that is pushing it and the latency of cellular connections is lower by orders of magnitude then satellite connections.
But having any internet connection, especially one with decent bandwidth, is a god send to any buisness traveler or slashdot reader =].
Besides I will start taking trains if they allow skype on the plane. I mean how long before you have 50 people talking while your trying to sleep.
Too bad we aren't allowed to bring any sharp objects or weapons...I guess I will just have to slam my head against the wall till I pass out...
our politicians were immune.
Wow I just turned it on and I got quite a chuckle out of it.
Well the point is that having two top-of-the-line $500 cards in SLI probably won't make a different unless your trying to render WALL-E from scratch.
Blow their money on hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on super high-end processors, super high-end video cards, and super high-end RAM.
They will probably never learn that all those super high-end cards are such a waste of money. IMO the best thing to do is to shoot towards the middle to low high-end cards at most. In addition SLI is kind of stupid. Your better off using your money to get one high end video card. SLI/Crossfire doesn't double performance, it increases it substantially of course but it certainly isn't double performance.
Also you won't see performance gains on most games for a while on your super-duper high end cards, and by the time you do your card would be a middle-end card.
With how fast prices drop, the best thing to do is get decent stuff and upgrade it ever 1-2 years depending on your budget. Performance wise, Getting a 200 dollar video card ever 2 years is better than getting a 600 dollar SLI set of video cards ever 4 years.
And this is why I choose to get a Clevo laptop when I got a gaming laptop, but I would rather pay a little extra for an upgradable solidly built upgradable laptop with quad core support because it will last longer than a slightly cheaper dell POS.
owned compusa I would be screwed. I have returned and exchanged a ton of the stuff I buy there and they never even charge restocking fees.
Good thing they can't suspend people that easily xD
Well personally I have never been a big fan of gamestop. Yea, your right, I wouldn't want to buy a game that has scratches on it.
Well they are taken out of the case anyways to prevent theft. I am all for being angry and hating corporations like Microsoft and apple at times, but meh this really isn't too big of a deal. If you can't tell that its been used than no harm to you.
If they scratch it up and crap than thats a different story.