I don't want to spill my beverage or hurt my dog when my car decides I need to brake more quickly than I actually need to, nor do I want to be rear ended when I see a clown coming in hot behind me and needing another foot to stop while I've got 3 feet in front of me.
When the automatic emergency brake activates, you already don't have that foot. You might have an inch, if you're lucky. If that other guy then still rear-ends you, at least your back is probably quite a bit more damaged than your front, which leads to the assumption that he pushed you into the car in front. That way, he gets to pay the whole accident. He probably was tailgating you anyway.
I see it often too, just the other way around. Most cars are doing about 120 km/h (which is the speed limit) and some people are overtaking them at 140 km/h at least. They don't know about velocity matching nor speed limits.
Overtaking at a significant speed difference is ok. However, when you want to join another lane, you should match velocities, not force everyone else to match yours.
Replying to the grand-parent:
While we're talking about driving.. what the hell are they teaching new drivers these days, that they don't know you're supposed to match velocities with the rest of the traffic when entering a freeway? I'm serious, they're getting on a freeway that's humming along at 70-75mph, and they're doing it at maybe 60mph. I see this every single day, too. Do they think they're going to break their cars or something, if they stomp the accelerator pedal?
A while ago, I was watching a video from a trucker, who was also mad at idiots not accelerating on the onramp. In the comments, a person just having gotten his driving license spoke up and said he was trained to gently accelerate when joining the freeway, to save fuel.
Apparently, the trainer never considered it saves much more fuel when the truck coming up from behind doesn't have to brake and accelerate again...
Disclaimer: what I described happened in Germany, with a truck speed limit of 80 km/h, the person merging doing maybe 70. (70 km/h == about 44 mph)
That is true, but Linus was still being an ass, and unfortunately, seems to be doing his utmost to establish a reputation as a geek bully who uses his success as a club to beat up enthusiastic volunteers. He should know better. And this is not the first time, far from it.
I don't think Linus was being an ass here. From what I could see, this email was just the last in a fairly long discussion where someone introduced an unexpected behaviour that manifested itself in a whole lot of places as a bug. Mauro then claimed it was the userspace apps' fault. After debating for a while, Linus blew his top and told the guy to stop making excuses.
I can certainly relate to that.
I wonder, though, what's the procedure for introducing incompatible changes that will break userland, e.g. if there is some design error that causes a security flaw...
I'd love to see someone try to make a career out of this! Pick a game like WOW and then advertise that you will make the game hell for whoever for a fee in an attempt to get them to quit. Two main clients I'd image: dad's and girlfriends. Wonder how long before Blizzard or lawyers step in.
I think, no lawyers at all. I don't know the TOS, but in Eve Online, this is considered Grief Playing (deliberately destroying the game experience for someone else) and can be prosecuted by kicking the offender out of the game. No lawyers needed.
(Hint: I own a Galaxy Nexus too, it does have a barometric sensor. Btw, the proximity sensor has only two values: 0 inch and 2 inch. It's used to lock the and unlock the screen when you put your phone on your ear during a call)
I've never met a Mexican or Canadian who was offended by referring to citizens of the USA as "Americans".
I have. She lives in Mexico and preferred to call the folks north of the border "USians". Not sure what they're called in Mexican, we were talking English...
Once I have been there a couple of times, I can usually remember the route and drive without GPS. I still use GPS when driving on the highway so I don't miss the exit, but if the receiver was not working, I still could go to my destination
Same with me. An additional reason for me using GPS on long distance trips is traffic jams, or rather, getting warned of them in time, getting them evaluated about impact on route, and if necessary get an alternative routing.
I agree in principle. But if the US told ICANN to try and shut down the net, what do you think would happen? I'm not up to date on the operation of the root nameservers, but I suspect there would be trouble.
You will hate it, because all of a sudden all that freedom, all that flexibility, you'll find it shipped away for one good reason after another,' Schmidt said. 'I cannot be more emphatic. Be very, very careful about moves which seem logical, but have the effect of balkanising the internet,' he added, urging everyone to strongly resist the moves.
Just curious - in what way would that be different from the situation we have now? I didn't RTFA, but IMHO, such a move is long overdue.
IMHO, handing over the governance of the internet to some UN mandated body would probably be a good idea, further removing the net from the influence of a single nation. I'm not sure the ITU would be a good body, since I think they have a history of being a body to regulate in favor of the large telecoms providers (in fact, I think that's what the ITU is made up out of).
I didn't read the patents themselves, but what tomhudson is saying about them. Now I did, at least in part - replacing 682 by 652...
682: a small application I had on my desktop (ctwm, I think) in 1994 to automatically raise a flag when mail arrives in my mailbox.
The patent is narrower, though, including the ability for the sender to specify the importance as well. I don't know if xbiff could do that. A whole bunch of RSS readers should be able to do it.
314: (this is about a device not necessarily connected to the computer) what about a cellphone stand beside your monitor, with a cellphone sitting in it, the cellphone lighting up when a text message arrives?
507: Slashdot. However, the patent seems to describe how to automate the process.
What the patents describe is something I can't see on the various websites - no idea how they got the idea the other companies might be infringing. If they do, it's hidden pretty deep, IMHO.
I could have misunderstood the patents, too - maybe the same happened to the examiner that granted them.
I recently had to use the Sun Diagnostics CD to find a problem with a controller on one of the Sun boxes at work.
For testing the hard drives, it offers, amongst others, a non-destructive and a destructive write test on the drives.
When you try to use the non-destructive one, it requires you to type "YES" in capital letters before the test proceeds.
When you try to use the destructive write test, it requires you to type 8 random capital characters (basically, it says something like "QOWEJFAS" has has you type that back in) before the test proceeds.
I think that's a pretty good example of stopping a casual user from overwriting their data...
Actually much nicer than just using 5xx codes is sending Delivery Status Notifications because that provides a standard machine-usable way to determine which original mail got bounced. That's what's called backscatter. Use 5xx codes and let the sending eMail server worry about generating a DSN - that's what the 5xx codes are for.
I don't know why, but it seems nobody mentioned HP calculators yet.
Their notation was a bit weird (RPN), but after you got used to it, you wouldn't want to miss it. Up to the HP48 the machines incredibly well made - they even felt like high quality...
No - the Death Star is a space vehicle, so it would use the metric system. Defense would be impaired however, when they try to fire ground-supplied cal.50 ammo from a 12.5mm machine gun...
SCNR, Ulli
. . . yeah, and when they finally DO pass you, THEN they slow down. They didn't need to get where they're going any faster - they just want to be IN FRONT. That REALLY pisses me off, because if you pass them, then they tailgate you again, so you're almost compelled to drive 20 over for an extended period, or stop and eat lunch, just to lose the bastard.
Happens to me all the time, too. OTOH, sometimes I exhibit a similar behaviour - when the person in front of me "feels" unsafe to me - i move up on them very slowly, but don't have a real reason to pass - they match my speed pretty closely. I usually overtake them, then slow down to my previous speed. The reason for doing that, IMHO, is that I don't want to have to keep watching out for them - I want lots of free space in front of me. I think that way, I don't have to concentrate on not hitting them, should they suddently slow down and can concentrate on not hitting other things...
Slashdot Mirror
I don't want to spill my beverage or hurt my dog when my car decides I need to brake more quickly than I actually need to, nor do I want to be rear ended when I see a clown coming in hot behind me and needing another foot to stop while I've got 3 feet in front of me.
When the automatic emergency brake activates, you already don't have that foot. You might have an inch, if you're lucky. If that other guy then still rear-ends you, at least your back is probably quite a bit more damaged than your front, which leads to the assumption that he pushed you into the car in front. That way, he gets to pay the whole accident. He probably was tailgating you anyway.
I see it often too, just the other way around. Most cars are doing about 120 km/h (which is the speed limit) and some people are overtaking them at 140 km/h at least. They don't know about velocity matching nor speed limits.
Overtaking at a significant speed difference is ok. However, when you want to join another lane, you should match velocities, not force everyone else to match yours.
Replying to the grand-parent:
While we're talking about driving.. what the hell are they teaching new drivers these days, that they don't know you're supposed to match velocities with the rest of the traffic when entering a freeway? I'm serious, they're getting on a freeway that's humming along at 70-75mph, and they're doing it at maybe 60mph. I see this every single day, too. Do they think they're going to break their cars or something, if they stomp the accelerator pedal?
A while ago, I was watching a video from a trucker, who was also mad at idiots not accelerating on the onramp. In the comments, a person just having gotten his driving license spoke up and said he was trained to gently accelerate when joining the freeway, to save fuel.
Apparently, the trainer never considered it saves much more fuel when the truck coming up from behind doesn't have to brake and accelerate again...
Disclaimer: what I described happened in Germany, with a truck speed limit of 80 km/h, the person merging doing maybe 70. (70 km/h == about 44 mph)
That is true, but Linus was still being an ass, and unfortunately, seems to be doing his utmost to establish a reputation as a geek bully who uses his success as a club to beat up enthusiastic volunteers. He should know better. And this is not the first time, far from it.
I don't think Linus was being an ass here. From what I could see, this email was just the last in a fairly long discussion where someone introduced an unexpected behaviour that manifested itself in a whole lot of places as a bug. Mauro then claimed it was the userspace apps' fault. After debating for a while, Linus blew his top and told the guy to stop making excuses.
I can certainly relate to that.
I wonder, though, what's the procedure for introducing incompatible changes that will break userland, e.g. if there is some design error that causes a security flaw...
Time to move to Belgium. :-)
SCNR.
Ulli
Disclaimer: planning to move there anyway. ;-)
I'd love to see someone try to make a career out of this! Pick a game like WOW and then advertise that you will make the game hell for whoever for a fee in an attempt to get them to quit. Two main clients I'd image: dad's and girlfriends. Wonder how long before Blizzard or lawyers step in.
I think, no lawyers at all. I don't know the TOS, but in Eve Online, this is considered Grief Playing (deliberately destroying the game experience for someone else) and can be prosecuted by kicking the offender out of the game. No lawyers needed.
I think WoW has something similar in their TOS.
Cheers,
Ulli
Install AndroSensor and check out what you phone supports.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fivasim.androsensor&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5maXZhc2ltLmFuZHJvc2Vuc29yIl0.
(Hint: I own a Galaxy Nexus too, it does have a barometric sensor. Btw, the proximity sensor has only two values: 0 inch and 2 inch. It's used to lock the and unlock the screen when you put your phone on your ear during a call)
Not having any moving parts helps reliability, though. Good when you set them up in remote conditions and/or large numbers.
I'm also imagining having these collectors in fairly humid conditions, where you have lots of dirty or salty water out in the open.
Imagine having these collectors along the coast, collecting all the water e.g. LA needs, or Houston, or New Orleans.
Another added advantage: you can build it decentralized, reducing the dependency on the big pipe from the Colorado River...
Interesting. Well, who needs youtube when you have the Internet Archive:
http://archive.org/details/1933-ParteitagDerNsdap-SondersendungDerFox-wochenschau
http://archive.org/details/1937-09-30-Fox-Toenende-Wochenschau-XI-40
The second link even shows the name Fox in the header.
+1 to parent. -1 to story. I think I've just about had it with the patently false summaries and articles from slashdot. Peace out.
Noob.
SCNR. ;-)
Ulli
There's no magic $6600 in my budget, so we're uninsured. Senator Shaheen can kiss my uninsured ass.
Watch out, you might catch someting!
SCNR...
I've never met a Mexican or Canadian who was offended by referring to citizens of the USA as "Americans".
I have. She lives in Mexico and preferred to call the folks north of the border "USians". Not sure what they're called in Mexican, we were talking English...
Once I have been there a couple of times, I can usually remember the route and drive without GPS. I still use GPS when driving on the highway so I don't miss the exit, but if the receiver was not working, I still could go to my destination
Same with me. An additional reason for me using GPS on long distance trips is traffic jams, or rather, getting warned of them in time, getting them evaluated about impact on route, and if necessary get an alternative routing.
In theory? Also to your government. It's their job to try and keep the UN from issuing bad policies.
In another theory, if you're not a citizen of the US? Well, your government has less weight now than it would if the net were under the UN...
In practice? As another poster said, nowhere - working as intended.
Ulli
I agree in principle. But if the US told ICANN to try and shut down the net, what do you think would happen? I'm not up to date on the operation of the root nameservers, but I suspect there would be trouble.
Ulli
Just curious - in what way would that be different from the situation we have now? I didn't RTFA, but IMHO, such a move is long overdue.
IMHO, handing over the governance of the internet to some UN mandated body would probably be a good idea, further removing the net from the influence of a single nation. I'm not sure the ITU would be a good body, since I think they have a history of being a body to regulate in favor of the large telecoms providers (in fact, I think that's what the ITU is made up out of).
Anyone care to shed some light on this?
Ulli
I guess I should mention Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.
It describes a very similar scenario. Has a happy ending, though. :-)
They do, at least partially.
I didn't read the patents themselves, but what tomhudson is saying about them. Now I did, at least in part - replacing 682 by 652...
682: a small application I had on my desktop (ctwm, I think) in 1994 to automatically raise a flag when mail arrives in my mailbox.
The patent is narrower, though, including the ability for the sender to specify the importance as well. I don't know if xbiff could do that. A whole bunch of RSS readers should be able to do it.
314: (this is about a device not necessarily connected to the computer) what about a cellphone stand beside your monitor, with a cellphone sitting in it, the cellphone lighting up when a text message arrives?
507: Slashdot. However, the patent seems to describe how to automate the process.
What the patents describe is something I can't see on the various websites - no idea how they got the idea the other companies might be infringing. If they do, it's hidden pretty deep, IMHO.
I could have misunderstood the patents, too - maybe the same happened to the examiner that granted them.
Ulli
Cheers, Ulli
I recently had to use the Sun Diagnostics CD to find a problem with a controller on one of the Sun boxes at work.
For testing the hard drives, it offers, amongst others, a non-destructive and a destructive write test on the drives.
When you try to use the non-destructive one, it requires you to type "YES" in capital letters before the test proceeds.
When you try to use the destructive write test, it requires you to type 8 random capital characters (basically, it says something like "QOWEJFAS" has has you type that back in) before the test proceeds.
I think that's a pretty good example of stopping a casual user from overwriting their data...
Rgds, Ulli
It doesn't look at all.
If I can read the shadow file, i can also write the password file, which might gain an entry:
noot::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
Which should allow me to log in with root privs...
Ulli
So this "collision" will be quite soft in terms of energy density: One feather landing on an area the size of the earth.
Right at first, yes. But there will be collisions, there will be gravity interaction.
There also is the fact that (1000000 suns x 2e30 kg = 2e37 kg) of mass coming in at 150 miles/second contain a *lot* of energy...
Some of that mass will combine with the gas in milkyway and push some areas over the threshold into collapsing and forming stars.
Hope this helps ;-)
Ulli
P.S.: I might have gotten confused with the numbers for the suns...
I don't know why, but it seems nobody mentioned HP calculators yet.
Their notation was a bit weird (RPN), but after you got used to it, you wouldn't want to miss it. Up to the HP48 the machines incredibly well made - they even felt like high quality...
I just wanted to mention them...
Ulli
No - the Death Star is a space vehicle, so it would use the metric system. Defense would be impaired however, when they try to fire ground-supplied cal.50 ammo from a 12.5mm machine gun... SCNR, Ulli
Happens to me all the time, too. OTOH, sometimes I exhibit a similar behaviour - when the person in front of me "feels" unsafe to me - i move up on them very slowly, but don't have a real reason to pass - they match my speed pretty closely. I usually overtake them, then slow down to my previous speed. The reason for doing that, IMHO, is that I don't want to have to keep watching out for them - I want lots of free space in front of me. I think that way, I don't have to concentrate on not hitting them, should they suddently slow down and can concentrate on not hitting other things...