You only THINK you don't speed. Can you prove it through the entire rental duration? As far as ACME is concerned you speed if the GPS system indicates that you drove their vehicle past the limit they set themselves.
This of course leads to possible charges even if you conscientiously (sp?) keep your speed within the posted limits:
1. As other have stated problems with GPS satellite tracking might exagerate your speed.
2. Are they really setting a reasonable limit? What if someone set the speed limit to 35mph?
3. What if you rent a vehicle with a faulty GPS system (perhaps because it's running WinCE:)?
4. What if the rental car was stolen and taken for a joy ride? As in the case stated in the article, your ATM will be immediately depleted.
5. In some areas if you drive significantly slower than the prevailing traffic you can be cited. Will ACME introduce charges for such behavior in the future? What about rolling stops at stop signs? The wrong way on one way streets? Stopping by the sidewalk at the red light district? Trespassing on Area 51? Stopping near a known crack house? Lovers' Lane? The list is endless...
When renting with most agencies you can do a walk-around inspection of the vehicle prior to accepting it to ensure that you don't get charged for pre-existing damage. Can you do the same with the GPS system?
Will they let you view the prior history of the car so that you can choose the ones that have never been driven past 90mph? If they claim that car has only been rented to little old ladies during Sundays will they put it in writing?
I don't know about the others but American Express makes the numbers expire during the month you use them. Allows for reuse of the same number at a different date.
Perhaps it is not immediately (as in the next few thousand years) applicable to the solar system. But if we find other planetary systems where earth-like planets are in less than ideal orbits (just like Venus) we can apply similar techniques to move them to just the right spot. It may actually be faster than terraforming planets in "bad" orbits. Besides, if we're using generation ships they're probably large hollowed-out asteroids anyway and thus have all the propulsion installed in the first place.
The FAQ for the client states that it only uses HTTP as a protocol and should have no issues with a firewall. If I read this correctly this means it should be able to use a proxy as well as work if you have a masqueraded network. Of course, I haven't tried this yet but will do as soon as I can.
Leonard
Oh yeah, this is great. I can see disaster coming
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First time I read it I thought he meant to write asinine which in this context means the same thing :)
I guess he shouldn't have used the white toilet paper.
I'm not quite dead. I think I'll pull through!
The butler ALWAYS does it.
You only THINK you don't speed. Can you prove it through the entire rental duration? As far as ACME is concerned you speed if the GPS system indicates that you drove their vehicle past the limit they set themselves.
:)?
This of course leads to possible charges even if you conscientiously (sp?) keep your speed within the posted limits:
1. As other have stated problems with GPS satellite tracking might exagerate your speed.
2. Are they really setting a reasonable limit? What if someone set the speed limit to 35mph?
3. What if you rent a vehicle with a faulty GPS system (perhaps because it's running WinCE
4. What if the rental car was stolen and taken for a joy ride? As in the case stated in the article, your ATM will be immediately depleted.
5. In some areas if you drive significantly slower than the prevailing traffic you can be cited. Will ACME introduce charges for such behavior in the future? What about rolling stops at stop signs? The wrong way on one way streets? Stopping by the sidewalk at the red light district? Trespassing on Area 51? Stopping near a known crack house? Lovers' Lane? The list is endless...
When renting with most agencies you can do a walk-around inspection of the vehicle prior to accepting it to ensure that you don't get charged for pre-existing damage. Can you do the same with the GPS system?
Will they let you view the prior history of the car so that you can choose the ones that have never been driven past 90mph? If they claim that car has only been rented to little old ladies during Sundays will they put it in writing?
Does this mean that all the spam I've received from hotmail addresses are owned by Microsoft?
Damn them! Damn them all!!!
I don't know about the others but American Express makes the numbers expire during the month you use them. Allows for reuse of the same number at a different date.
Heh! Now say that 10 times. Very Quickly!
Perhaps it is not immediately (as in the next few thousand years) applicable to the solar system. But if we find other planetary systems where earth-like planets are in less than ideal orbits (just like Venus) we can apply similar techniques to move them to just the right spot. It may actually be faster than terraforming planets in "bad" orbits. Besides, if we're using generation ships they're probably large hollowed-out asteroids anyway and thus have all the propulsion installed in the first place.
How ironic that the Playstation 2 is mostly Japanese technology. But then of course Japan, like Canada, might as well be part of the US.
That's great but is it themeable? Does it come(?) in glow-in-the-dark or extra large?
I think they already tried that :)
The FAQ for the client states that it only uses HTTP as a protocol and should have no issues with a firewall. If I read this correctly this means it should be able to use a proxy as well as work if you have a masqueraded network. Of course, I haven't tried this yet but will do as soon as I can.
Leonard
"Mars needs women!!!"
Leonard
Maybe the International Date Line has already crossed over to April 1!!!
I don't know... everytime I see PIII I keep reading it as "Pill".
I suppose this means that the K6-III can be read as K-Bill? Is that how much you have to pay for one? Or drop the "6" and it becomes "Kill".
And all this before the first beer.