My thinking is that it's the abstract thought that happens when you're in a phone conversation, sometimes you visualize the person's face, or something they're describing, or you're trying to remember something - and maybe this interferes with the driver's attention or ability to watch what's going on on the road.
A good control would be to test cognative abilitity while driving with a handsfree (wired) - this would eliminate the variable of how many hands are on the steering wheel, and electromagnetic radiaion on the brain.
It just makes me sick to hear people STILL having to have this explained to them, for knowledge that has been pretty much self-evident since the internet began. Where is this "google is getting their stuff out there for free" crap coming from? FoxNews?
If we don't do something about it like yesterday, then we're all going to fucking die. As in extinct.
Do you want to continue to assassinate the character of the scientists who are trying to do something about it? Or do you just want to sit in your air conditioned H2 and hope you don't run out of gas?
I'm not allowed to keep mice, rats, guinepigs, or hampsters as a pet at home, or keep any animal as a pet that eats any of the forementioned rodents as its normal food (cats are okay, even though they might occasionally catch mice). The fear is that someone could introduce a parasite, virus, or bacterial infection into one of the mouse colonies,
That's funny, I'm a systems engineer, and I'm allowed to use computers at home, even though someone could introduce a trojan, virus, or spyware infection onto our corporate network. . .
Congress will care about it when a laptop full of THEIR personal data gets stolen.
BS. In 2000, Republican aides hacked into the Windows server shares of Democratic members of congress due to an error in how the share permissions were set up (aides from both sides were "administrators" and so were able to take ownership). Strategy memos were stolen and given to Republican congressional leadership.
*NOBODY* did a damn thing. Nobody was punished. Just "tough" politics. These are our representatives. These are our lawmakers.
I had an interesting discussion with a doctor a few weeks ago, who claimed that one can EAT poison oak leaves, in the springtime, and desensitize yourself to the poison. He said that you can't contract the rash by touching them with non-follicle-bearing skin (palms of hands, undersides of fingers, etc. or mucous membranes, inside of the mouth, etc.) Supposedly, it tastes like lettuce.
He said that the local indians (Chumash) would make a tea from the leaves, for the same effect.
I respect the guy's professional smarts and all, but I'm not sure I'm brave enough to try eating that shit. I say this as I'm scratching the hell out of a patch I contracted over the weekend while I was camping.
If you guys were cracking open hard disk drives in there, I'll bet it was the Argon.
Argon has a tendency to cause allergic reactions in some people. Other than that, it's a nice noble gas that doesn't react with much, and therefore, is a better environment than just "air" inside a hard disk drive.
What I don't get is; where the FUCK is USAF Range Safety with this issue?
They have the privilege of overriding NASA management if NASA hands them an unsafe vehicle. It's their duty to protect range personnel, and the populated cities over which the vehicle flies. Nobody on the ground died when Challenger and Columbia remnants impacted. But that was luck. Especially for the Columbia situation.
A foam impact on launch could just as easily rip off a wing, and cause the whole vehicle to veer off course on the way up. It's not just the astronauts lives that are at stake. I've seen launches cancelled due to high upper-atmospheric winds and the safety hazard they pose (very common).
Net Neutrality is the trade for the telecoms handing over our call registers.
The Bankruptcy Bill was the trade for the Credit Card companies handing over our spending records. (I'm sure that there are certain high-end clients that are exempt, of course).
While "having a bomb" was certainly a great excuse to use against people who suggested we invade Pakistan to liberate them from a military dicatator, and capture Osama bin Laden, and bring a hotbed of terrorism under the rule of law, it only served as convenient cover against the REAL excuse: Pakistan has no oil.
That's only a real problem if your lockout has an auto-reset.
If you're configured to lock an account after 3 bad attempts (like most systems I've ever been on), with the only account reset possible being a manual reset with administrator intervention, how can someone guess 3 billion (or whatever) times?
Well, anyway, in Windows, the SID-500 account (built in Administrator) can't be locked out. So I suppose someone could sit and hack away at that password all day long. Which is probably why it's a good idea to set that password to some impossibly long super-complex string, lock that password away somewhere, and have your admins use non-builtin admin accounts. Or even disable the SID-500 account - (not sure if that's possible either).
Wow. Reading this thread is really depressing. It's a perfect description of my career in the software/systems engineering business for the past 15 years. You seem to capture one of the really KEY problems well:
But when you find a set of good leaders in the civilian world, in my experience it is a rare treat. Even the juggernauts of the Information Age have a great deal of employee churn, and they seldom devote necessary resources to adequately training leaders (mid-level managers in particular). That's where the Dilbert Factor is nurtured and brought to full bloom.
Bingo.
And I don't get it. I don't understand WHY they do this. Most ironic of all, at my company, there IS a specific program that college grads can get into, for developing leaders (mid-level managers), and they're all doing a lot of cross-training, they move from site to site for 6-month stints, and they're working on their masters on the company dime as well. And every single one of them is a completely incompetent fuck. Just total idiots, utterly incapable of independent thought or action. I just don't understand why these individuals were picked to be our company's future managers and veeps. I do understand how our current crop got to be how they are though.
I think we already don't use Li-Ion AA's and AAA's because they're cost-prohibitive, and the packaging is wasteful of space. I already wince at paying about US$2.50 per individual AAA for NiMH.
That cost savings for alkaline AAA over Li-Ion AAA does not include the disposal/recycling cost, which is significant, yet consumers don't pay it at the cash register. It's a hidden/deferred cost. I'm not discounting the benefits that this new capacitor technology could bring (if it works) - but the benefits of rechargables are crippled, economically, by the cost-deferrment of standard AAA's.
I don't know - if the titanium car had airbags (and/or a foam-bomb like those cars in Demolition Man) then the passengers would be less likely to die in the titanium car. The frame-give of a steel car with crumple zones is great for absorbing energy, and if the crumple zone is well designed, then there isn't even as much danger of intrusion into the cabin (which is another killer). But not all crumple zones are well designed, and they only perform optimally if the crash is at a certain speed, and the impact a certain geometry. I'd rather have a frame that didn't give, and something soft in the cabin that did give, and not end up with my feet trapped and crushed between the dash and front wheel well because I had an offset-headon.
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My thinking is that it's the abstract thought that happens when you're in a phone conversation, sometimes you visualize the person's face, or something they're describing, or you're trying to remember something - and maybe this interferes with the driver's attention or ability to watch what's going on on the road.
A good control would be to test cognative abilitity while driving with a handsfree (wired) - this would eliminate the variable of how many hands are on the steering wheel, and electromagnetic radiaion on the brain.
Well, you're falling for the "Appeal to authority" fallacy.
:)
But you're right anyway.
It just makes me sick to hear people STILL having to have this explained to them, for knowledge that has been pretty much self-evident since the internet began. Where is this "google is getting their stuff out there for free" crap coming from? FoxNews?
But human caused climate changes are not going to be on the list of things that remove us.
Tell that to the thriving civilization that used to exist on Easter Island.
Dear Voice;
If we don't do something about it like yesterday, then we're all going to fucking die. As in extinct.
Do you want to continue to assassinate the character of the scientists who are trying to do something about it? Or do you just want to sit in your air conditioned H2 and hope you don't run out of gas?
Signed,
Reality
I'm not allowed to keep mice, rats, guinepigs, or hampsters as a pet at home, or keep any animal as a pet that eats any of the forementioned rodents as its normal food (cats are okay, even though they might occasionally catch mice).
The fear is that someone could introduce a parasite, virus, or bacterial infection into one of the mouse colonies,
That's funny, I'm a systems engineer, and I'm allowed to use computers at home, even though someone could introduce a trojan, virus, or spyware infection onto our corporate network. . .
This is really starting to sound like a bloodletting in response to the Vista release debacle.
Who knew that *consequences* could find the folks in Microsoft's executive suite.
Well, at least if the DOJ, FTC, and SEC can't effectively regulate monopolies, their natural hubris can bring them down. . .
Honestly - for some of my coworkers, I think that my "bond" would be better if I never see them face to face.
Frankly, some of them get away with so much slacking in the office, under the noses of their managers, it's a wonder how they get away with it.
Congress will care about it when a laptop full of THEIR personal data gets stolen.
BS. In 2000, Republican aides hacked into the Windows server shares of Democratic members of congress due to an error in how the share permissions were set up (aides from both sides were "administrators" and so were able to take ownership). Strategy memos were stolen and given to Republican congressional leadership.
*NOBODY* did a damn thing. Nobody was punished. Just "tough" politics.
These are our representatives. These are our lawmakers.
I had an interesting discussion with a doctor a few weeks ago, who claimed that one can EAT poison oak leaves, in the springtime, and desensitize yourself to the poison. He said that you can't contract the rash by touching them with non-follicle-bearing skin (palms of hands, undersides of fingers, etc. or mucous membranes, inside of the mouth, etc.) Supposedly, it tastes like lettuce.
He said that the local indians (Chumash) would make a tea from the leaves, for the same effect.
I respect the guy's professional smarts and all, but I'm not sure I'm brave enough to try eating that shit. I say this as I'm scratching the hell out of a patch I contracted over the weekend while I was camping.
If you guys were cracking open hard disk drives in there, I'll bet it was the Argon.
Argon has a tendency to cause allergic reactions in some people. Other than that, it's a nice noble gas that doesn't react with much, and therefore, is a better environment than just "air" inside a hard disk drive.
There is not very much you can do to control the Bufo's except to remove sources or food and water.
We could activate Halo and wipe out all sentient life within 3 galactic radii. . .
What I don't get is; where the FUCK is USAF Range Safety with this issue?
They have the privilege of overriding NASA management if NASA hands them an unsafe vehicle. It's their duty to protect range personnel, and the populated cities over which the vehicle flies. Nobody on the ground died when Challenger and Columbia remnants impacted. But that was luck. Especially for the Columbia situation.
A foam impact on launch could just as easily rip off a wing, and cause the whole vehicle to veer off course on the way up. It's not just the astronauts lives that are at stake. I've seen launches cancelled due to high upper-atmospheric winds and the safety hazard they pose (very common).
Net Neutrality is the trade for the telecoms handing over our call registers.
The Bankruptcy Bill was the trade for the Credit Card companies handing over our spending records. (I'm sure that there are certain high-end clients that are exempt, of course).
I wish that the 5 lines of documentation (on average) that I do for each line of code were also counted as a measure of my performance.
I think he also hates sauerkraut.
He's an organ all right.
Where do I sign up to beta test?
While "having a bomb" was certainly a great excuse to use against people who suggested we invade Pakistan to liberate them from a military dicatator, and capture Osama bin Laden, and bring a hotbed of terrorism under the rule of law, it only served as convenient cover against the REAL excuse: Pakistan has no oil.
Iran has oil.
They will be invaded. Bomb or no.
That's only a real problem if your lockout has an auto-reset.
If you're configured to lock an account after 3 bad attempts (like most systems I've ever been on), with the only account reset possible being a manual reset with administrator intervention, how can someone guess 3 billion (or whatever) times?
Well, anyway, in Windows, the SID-500 account (built in Administrator) can't be locked out. So I suppose someone could sit and hack away at that password all day long. Which is probably why it's a good idea to set that password to some impossibly long super-complex string, lock that password away somewhere, and have your admins use non-builtin admin accounts. Or even disable the SID-500 account - (not sure if that's possible either).
Depressing because the human race then lobotomized itself and we practically went back to living in caves.
Even more depressing, is - maybe it's not the first time the human race lobotomized itself. Still more depressing: it may not be the last time.
Wow. Reading this thread is really depressing. It's a perfect description of my career in the software/systems engineering business for the past 15 years. You seem to capture one of the really KEY problems well:
But when you find a set of good leaders in the civilian world, in my experience it is a rare treat. Even the juggernauts of the Information Age have a great deal of employee churn, and they seldom devote necessary resources to adequately training leaders (mid-level managers in particular). That's where the Dilbert Factor is nurtured and brought to full bloom.
Bingo.
And I don't get it. I don't understand WHY they do this. Most ironic of all, at my company, there IS a specific program that college grads can get into, for developing leaders (mid-level managers), and they're all doing a lot of cross-training, they move from site to site for 6-month stints, and they're working on their masters on the company dime as well. And every single one of them is a completely incompetent fuck. Just total idiots, utterly incapable of independent thought or action. I just don't understand why these individuals were picked to be our company's future managers and veeps. I do understand how our current crop got to be how they are though.
Apple is rumored to be in talks to buy my balls.
I think we already don't use Li-Ion AA's and AAA's because they're cost-prohibitive, and the packaging is wasteful of space. I already wince at paying about US$2.50 per individual AAA for NiMH.
That cost savings for alkaline AAA over Li-Ion AAA does not include the disposal/recycling cost, which is significant, yet consumers don't pay it at the cash register. It's a hidden/deferred cost. I'm not discounting the benefits that this new capacitor technology could bring (if it works) - but the benefits of rechargables are crippled, economically, by the cost-deferrment of standard AAA's.
I don't know - if the titanium car had airbags (and/or a foam-bomb like those cars in Demolition Man) then the passengers would be less likely to die in the titanium car. The frame-give of a steel car with crumple zones is great for absorbing energy, and if the crumple zone is well designed, then there isn't even as much danger of intrusion into the cabin (which is another killer). But not all crumple zones are well designed, and they only perform optimally if the crash is at a certain speed, and the impact a certain geometry. I'd rather have a frame that didn't give, and something soft in the cabin that did give, and not end up with my feet trapped and crushed between the dash and front wheel well because I had an offset-headon.