You can't compare the stats of gun deaths at schools with stats of deaths of other causes at all locations.
You will probably find that if you compare the number of school deaths caused by guns to the number of school deaths caused by lightning, or to the number of school deaths caused by sharks, or to the number of school deaths caused by box cutters, the guns would have killed more people.
I think the issue is that the pinch-to-zoom patent that Apple has is more limited than most people think. Here is a write up on the patent: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/13/apple-awarded-limited-patent-on-pinch-to-zoom/
So the patent seems to be for pinching and zooming, then letting go and pinching and zooming again as one action. I'm no patent expert, but I'm not sure if that's the same as doing those two things separately as two actions.
I would argue that the biggest benefit of using free services (like GMail) is they offer no or crap phone support! Thus making it very difficult for a hacker to social engineer their way into your account.
Can someone explain how knowing where the DUI checkpoints are lowers the number of drink drivers? I'm not questioning it, it's just that I don't get the logic and I haven't seen any explanation of it anywhere.
Question: where speeding is (in most cases) not criminal, and the purported goal of speed traps is for safety, not revenue collection, drivers flashing their headlamps achieves the oft-stated goal: getting drivers to slow down.
I have to disagree with this. Flashing the lights only gets drivers to slow down for 5-10 seconds. For example, they are going 100 in an 80 zone, someone flashes coming the other way flashes their lights, so the driver knows there is a speed trap and they slow down to 80. Then, right after they pass the police, they'll start speeding again. So, like I said, flashing your lights at oncoming drivers only causes people to stop speeding for about 10 seconds max.
However, if that speeding driver were to get caught speeding, there is more of a chance they won't speed at all next time since they'll be concerned about a fee or loss of license. So not knowing where speed traps are acts as a deterrent.
Spideroak is a better choice. All data is encrypted on the client side and sent to the server. The Spideroak servers do not store your passphrase, thus it is impossible for them to access your data . The obvious downside is you can't afford to forget your password as you cannot reset it.
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You can't compare the stats of gun deaths at schools with stats of deaths of other causes at all locations. You will probably find that if you compare the number of school deaths caused by guns to the number of school deaths caused by lightning, or to the number of school deaths caused by sharks, or to the number of school deaths caused by box cutters, the guns would have killed more people.
I think the issue is that the pinch-to-zoom patent that Apple has is more limited than most people think. Here is a write up on the patent: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/13/apple-awarded-limited-patent-on-pinch-to-zoom/ So the patent seems to be for pinching and zooming, then letting go and pinching and zooming again as one action. I'm no patent expert, but I'm not sure if that's the same as doing those two things separately as two actions.
Indeed. As always, it's the weakest link that will screw you over.
I would argue that the biggest benefit of using free services (like GMail) is they offer no or crap phone support! Thus making it very difficult for a hacker to social engineer their way into your account.
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I guess that makes sense. I'd be interested to know what studies have been done on this and how they were conducted.
Can someone explain how knowing where the DUI checkpoints are lowers the number of drink drivers? I'm not questioning it, it's just that I don't get the logic and I haven't seen any explanation of it anywhere.
Question: where speeding is (in most cases) not criminal, and the purported goal of speed traps is for safety, not revenue collection, drivers flashing their headlamps achieves the oft-stated goal: getting drivers to slow down.
I have to disagree with this. Flashing the lights only gets drivers to slow down for 5-10 seconds. For example, they are going 100 in an 80 zone, someone flashes coming the other way flashes their lights, so the driver knows there is a speed trap and they slow down to 80. Then, right after they pass the police, they'll start speeding again. So, like I said, flashing your lights at oncoming drivers only causes people to stop speeding for about 10 seconds max. However, if that speeding driver were to get caught speeding, there is more of a chance they won't speed at all next time since they'll be concerned about a fee or loss of license. So not knowing where speed traps are acts as a deterrent.
Spideroak is a better choice. All data is encrypted on the client side and sent to the server. The Spideroak servers do not store your passphrase, thus it is impossible for them to access your data . The obvious downside is you can't afford to forget your password as you cannot reset it.