2.3=2.3 last time I checked meaning it's the same level of impairment. Also, 2.4 is negligibly more than 2.3 so it's exactly what I said.
You conveniently skipped this part of the article [quote]Note: Teen passengers don’t have the same helpful effect with teen drivers.[/quote]
And this part about audiobooks: [quote]radio measured 1.2 and the audiobook measured 1.75[/quote] Again, 1.75 is almost 2.3.
Obviously you didn't bother to really read the article, you just took your pre-set conclusions, read the headline, and assumed the data supported them.
According to The Washington Post talking hands-free is the same level of impairment as talking to a passenger and holding the phone is negligibly more distracting. Listening to an audiobook is almost as distracting as talking.
1) This is dangerous, regardless if it is done hands free
Talking to a passenger is dangerous. Changing the radio station is dangerous. Having a screaming child in the car is dangerous. Driving is dangerous, get over it.
2) A car radio with Bluetooth is much cheaper if it is not already implemented.
My experience (not personal, but second-hand) is that new parents--both male and female--seem to get next to no sleep for the first couple of months and don't get a heck of a lot accomplished at work. Staying awake seems to be the biggest challenge. Programs like this will go a long way to improve morale and employee health and might be a net gain (in profit) by the time employee retention and productivity are figured in. I'd like to see a study in a couple of years.
I'm also betting not everyone is going to take the full 20 weeks. I'm betting these new parents may want to go to work (or, more accurately, get out of the house) one or two days a week for a bit of a mental health break.
When you were in school, how often did the teacher / professor run out of space on the blackboard? And then either started writing super-small or started erasing what you were still halfway through copying down?
This is a never-ending zoomable, scrollable whiteboard that saves everything you're writing down.
You just described the Smartboards and Mimeos that have been in use in schools and universities for the past 15 years. Oh, and the projector versions cost a lot less (although the LCD display versions run around $8500 for just the display.) And you can upgrade the attached computer whenever you want.
4 inches is quite a bit smaller than the 5/5s--it's iPhone 4/4s sized. I would suggest holding one in your hand before ordering. I can pretty much guarantee you'll think it's too small.
I couple of years ago I received an iPhone 4s as a work phone. I had been using a (what I consider) reasonably sized Galaxy S3 as a personal phone for a few months before getting the iPhone. I HATED it. I spent more time scrolling the screen around than I did reading whatever was on the screen.
I'm all for having choices but I'm willing to bet anyone going back to a 4" screen is going to regret it within a day or two.
Really? Netburst was a total fail for Intel. Especially in the later years of the architecture. The Athlon 64 and Athlon64 X2 were way more efficient and could more than hold their own. This is what forced Intel to abandon Netburst and release the Core series CPUs. Sadly, AMD hasn't really been able to keep up since.
Yup, installed correctly. Wiring was all fine. It was like the relays got stuck (they are solid state, I know) and kept the heat/ac/whatever on constantly. I woke up to a 50 degree F house in July when it was in the 90s outside.
The house was a rental or I would have been all over the insulation, windows, etc...
Oddly, my old Honeywell thermostat had way more problems than the Nest that replaced it. It would frequently turn on heat or AC and leave it on regardless of temperature. Replacing the batteries did not help. Replaced the thermostat and about a year later the new one did the same thing. Junk.
I chose a Nest for one reason. The job I had at the time involved lots of travel, sometimes with limited or short notice. I also live in a climate that gets very hot in the summer and *VERY* cold in the winter. A regular programmable thermostat is utterly useless in that situation as I didn't have a regular schedule to program. You end up either leaving the temperature set to whatever is comfortable all the time or else coming home to a hot or cold house. Since I got the nest 3 years ago, my utility bills have gone down 25% and I have the ability to, from my phone, turn off "Away" mode an hour before I get home and the house is comfortable when I get there. If I forget, it's no biggie and the heat or AC turns on when I walk in the door with no buttons to press or no manual mode switch to accidentally leave on.
I'm not terribly fond of the cloud control aspect of it, but I solved the problem by putting it (and other untrusted IoT things) on a dedicated VLAN with a dedicated SSID with firewall rules preventing access to the rest of my network. The cloud isn't going away, so I figure I may as well protect myself and enjoy the convenience it provides.
Islam is no different than Christianity..... Read the old testament and you find some really gruesome things, it's just that most people ignore those parts.. (there by actually ignoring large parts of their own religion)..
Most Christian denominations teach that the old testament was deprecated by the new.
More and more injustices are happening all over, and a large part is indirectly/directly caused by religion or the abuse of power by people within that religion.
I'd say, overall, that injustices are down worldwide compared to, say, 250 or 500 years ago. We don't have giant wars lasting decades sweeping entire continents. I'd also like to see your sources showing that religion is in any way related to abuse of power. Most religions don't advocate for abuse.
You did get one thing right though. Injustice is often caused by the pursuit of personal power at the expense of others. Religion is frequently used as an excuse. Political philosophy is used as well. Stalin was an atheist but he is recognized as one of the most brutal dictators of the past few hundred years.
People need to think for themselves instead of listening when someone else says "God says this" or "The state demands that."
If the dark ages, caused by Christianity, in Europe would not have taken place imagine where we would be right now.. Probably 100 years more advanced..
The dark ages were caused by the feudal system which was the response to the collapse of the Roman Empire. Injustices and wars during this time were, as usual, the result of the quest for personal power and wealth by feudal lords, soldiers, clergy, etc... Any even remotely detailed study of this time period would reveal that, once in power, a feudal lord would have to exploit (to one degree or another) his serfs in order to pay his soldiers in order to protect his holdings. If he did not, someone else would move in and do the same. Even after the Renaissance, this system continued in one form or another but on a larger scale. See the 100 years war for an example. It wasn't until the common people gained more education and were encouraged to think for themselves did the situation improve.
And, don't forget, it was the Christian church during all of this time that preserved the knowledge that was preserved, made (and in some cases denied) many scientific advancements, and provided what little medical care was available to the people of the time.
The other advantage is that ZFS replication, unlike RSYNC, doesn't need to calculate diffs because ZFS it already keeps track of what blocks have changed since the last snapshot. This makes the entire process much faster less resource intensive.
Imagine the following scenario:
You are the sysadmin at a 24x7 company. You have a few hundred user's home directories (shared over NFS or SMB) on a fileserver that needs to be upgraded/replaced for some reason. You are tasked with migrating these home directories to a new file server with a minimum outage window.
ZFS replication procedure:
1. Snapshot, send. 2. Repeat 1 until the entire process takes less than a couple of minutes. 3. Shut down the NFS and SMB processes on the old server. Shanpshot and send one last time. 4. Bring up NFS and SMB on the new server. Make appropriate IP and DNS changes.
Total outage for the users: 10 minutes or less.
RSYNC replication procedure:
1. Sync 2. Sync again. Wait forever for diffs to be calculated. 3. Realize it's hopeless, Shut down NFS and SMB, Sync again. 4. Bring up the new server.
True. Again though, cars are shaped the way they are because they are expected to go around 60mph on average. Cars meant to go faster (sports cars for instance) often have a more aerodynamic shape. A change in speed limits would likely result in a change in body shape as well.
Holy crap, I forgot all about Geary. I donated to the project a few years back hoping to help get PGP support going. I gave up a after a while. I'll have to give it another look.
Fuel consumption is just a function of gear ratios. 60mph is the best speed for fuel consumption right now because it is a good average of common highway speed limits. If speed limits change (up or down,) car makers will compensate.
Please, please don't judge North Carolina by these rubes. This dumb little town is about 100 miles from Research Triangle Park, the largest concentration of PhDs in the world. North Carolina is a progressive and beautiful state with the best climate in the eastern US. It has traditionally had the best public education system in the South.
Yes, we are currently in the clutches of a backwards Republican state government so there are lots of headlines about regressive policies. But this is an aberration ( the first Republican government in over 100 years) and it will not last long.
What is insightful about this? The stupidity of people participating in a direct election (not indirect, where political party would actually matter) is being blamed on the Republicans currently in power in the state. If anything, this should be blamed on the Democrats in power for the last 100 years for having such a horrible education system. If this truly is the output of the best education system in the south, I really hope this town is an aberration.
FWIW, I'm not defending either political party here, I'm just appalled that people actually modded this comment insightful.
Research has asserted that most weapons and arms trafficked into Mexico are not from gun dealers in the United States, but as a matter of fact, come from either government personnel who defect to the cartels, or are sourced from Central American black markets.[180][181] Most grenades and rocket-launchers are smuggled through Guatemalan borders[182] or stolen from the Mexican police or military.[183] DHS officials have stated that that statistic is misleading: out of approximately 30,000 weapons seized in drug cases in Mexico in 2004–2008, 7,200 appeared to be of U.S. origin, approximately 4,000 were found in ATF manufacturer and importer records, and 87 percent of those—3,480—originated in the United States.[185][186]
And no, a very large percentage of the guns used in mass shootings are legally obtained.
Legally obtained by who? The person doing the shootings? In most instances that have made the news (real mass shootings as indicated by the FBI's definition, not shootingtracker.com's) the guns have been stolen (although sometimes from a family member.)
Many guns used in crime were legally owned by people such as yourselves, but were subsequently stolen and entered the black market.
That, by definition, makes them illegally obtained.
Gun control is about stopping that up-until-now-a-"Good Guy with a gun" from flipping out about the bad news at work or his wife's infidelity and shooting a bunch of innocent people.
If you look back at my original comment, you would notice that I said the real solution would be to find the societal issue that would make someone flip out and shoot a bunch of innocent people. In your example, there are clearly mental health issues at play. In countries with gun control, this stuff still happens. See the London tube stabbings from a few days ago as an example. Dealing with the mental health, income inequality, and racism issues in this country would be a far better use of time and money and would decrease instances of violence overall far more than any gun control legislation ever would. It would have the added benefit of not taking away other peoples freedoms/rights.
It's also about making it far more inconvenient and expensive for a premeditated crime (robbery, assault, whatever) to rely on one.
As far as the premeditated stuff goes, criminals are already breaking the law. They aren't going to be bothered by the fact that by using a firearm they are breaking another law. I also seriously doubt most criminals who intend to use a firearm in their premeditated crime are obtaining them legally. They are far too easy to track.
The fact you don't seem to understand why gun control exists and how it works doesn't reflect too well on you. You are arguing against something you clearly don't understand. Weird.
The fact that you are willing to resort to personal attacks instead of facts doesn't help your argument in any way. It is obvious that you have a very limited world view (guns=bad) and aren't willing to approach the overall issue of violence with an open mind.
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2.3=2.3 last time I checked meaning it's the same level of impairment. Also, 2.4 is negligibly more than 2.3 so it's exactly what I said.
You conveniently skipped this part of the article
[quote]Note: Teen passengers don’t have the same helpful effect with teen drivers.[/quote]
And this part about audiobooks:
[quote]radio measured 1.2 and the audiobook measured 1.75[/quote]
Again, 1.75 is almost 2.3.
Obviously you didn't bother to really read the article, you just took your pre-set conclusions, read the headline, and assumed the data supported them.
According to The Washington Post talking hands-free is the same level of impairment as talking to a passenger and holding the phone is negligibly more distracting. Listening to an audiobook is almost as distracting as talking.
1) This is dangerous, regardless if it is done hands free
Talking to a passenger is dangerous. Changing the radio station is dangerous. Having a screaming child in the car is dangerous. Driving is dangerous, get over it.
2) A car radio with Bluetooth is much cheaper if it is not already implemented.
Cheaper than a free watch?
Wow, you just described 25% of the population of Small-Town USA!
My experience (not personal, but second-hand) is that new parents--both male and female--seem to get next to no sleep for the first couple of months and don't get a heck of a lot accomplished at work. Staying awake seems to be the biggest challenge. Programs like this will go a long way to improve morale and employee health and might be a net gain (in profit) by the time employee retention and productivity are figured in. I'd like to see a study in a couple of years.
I'm also betting not everyone is going to take the full 20 weeks. I'm betting these new parents may want to go to work (or, more accurately, get out of the house) one or two days a week for a bit of a mental health break.
I wonder why the feds aren't pursuing RICO charges. This is racketeering plain and simple.
Oh wait, follow the money.
When you were in school, how often did the teacher / professor run out of space on the blackboard? And then either started writing super-small or started erasing what you were still halfway through copying down?
This is a never-ending zoomable, scrollable whiteboard that saves everything you're writing down.
You just described the Smartboards and Mimeos that have been in use in schools and universities for the past 15 years. Oh, and the projector versions cost a lot less (although the LCD display versions run around $8500 for just the display.) And you can upgrade the attached computer whenever you want.
THIS. I wish my mod points hadn't expired this morning...
4 inches is quite a bit smaller than the 5/5s--it's iPhone 4/4s sized. I would suggest holding one in your hand before ordering. I can pretty much guarantee you'll think it's too small.
I couple of years ago I received an iPhone 4s as a work phone. I had been using a (what I consider) reasonably sized Galaxy S3 as a personal phone for a few months before getting the iPhone. I HATED it. I spent more time scrolling the screen around than I did reading whatever was on the screen.
I'm all for having choices but I'm willing to bet anyone going back to a 4" screen is going to regret it within a day or two.
Really? Netburst was a total fail for Intel. Especially in the later years of the architecture. The Athlon 64 and Athlon64 X2 were way more efficient and could more than hold their own. This is what forced Intel to abandon Netburst and release the Core series CPUs. Sadly, AMD hasn't really been able to keep up since.
Yup, installed correctly. Wiring was all fine. It was like the relays got stuck (they are solid state, I know) and kept the heat/ac/whatever on constantly. I woke up to a 50 degree F house in July when it was in the 90s outside.
The house was a rental or I would have been all over the insulation, windows, etc...
I expect the real answer is much simpler. Trump is entertaining. Trump is controversial. Trump pulls in ad revenue. So they cover Trump.
FTFY
Oddly, my old Honeywell thermostat had way more problems than the Nest that replaced it. It would frequently turn on heat or AC and leave it on regardless of temperature. Replacing the batteries did not help. Replaced the thermostat and about a year later the new one did the same thing. Junk.
I chose a Nest for one reason. The job I had at the time involved lots of travel, sometimes with limited or short notice. I also live in a climate that gets very hot in the summer and *VERY* cold in the winter. A regular programmable thermostat is utterly useless in that situation as I didn't have a regular schedule to program. You end up either leaving the temperature set to whatever is comfortable all the time or else coming home to a hot or cold house. Since I got the nest 3 years ago, my utility bills have gone down 25% and I have the ability to, from my phone, turn off "Away" mode an hour before I get home and the house is comfortable when I get there. If I forget, it's no biggie and the heat or AC turns on when I walk in the door with no buttons to press or no manual mode switch to accidentally leave on.
I'm not terribly fond of the cloud control aspect of it, but I solved the problem by putting it (and other untrusted IoT things) on a dedicated VLAN with a dedicated SSID with firewall rules preventing access to the rest of my network. The cloud isn't going away, so I figure I may as well protect myself and enjoy the convenience it provides.
Oh for Christ's sake (see what I did there.)
Islam is no different than Christianity..... Read the old testament and you find some really gruesome things, it's just that most people ignore those parts.. (there by actually ignoring large parts of their own religion)..
Most Christian denominations teach that the old testament was deprecated by the new.
More and more injustices are happening all over, and a large part is indirectly/directly caused by religion or the abuse of power by people within that religion.
I'd say, overall, that injustices are down worldwide compared to, say, 250 or 500 years ago. We don't have giant wars lasting decades sweeping entire continents. I'd also like to see your sources showing that religion is in any way related to abuse of power. Most religions don't advocate for abuse.
You did get one thing right though. Injustice is often caused by the pursuit of personal power at the expense of others. Religion is frequently used as an excuse. Political philosophy is used as well. Stalin was an atheist but he is recognized as one of the most brutal dictators of the past few hundred years.
People need to think for themselves instead of listening when someone else says "God says this" or "The state demands that."
If the dark ages, caused by Christianity, in Europe would not have taken place imagine where we would be right now.. Probably 100 years more advanced..
The dark ages were caused by the feudal system which was the response to the collapse of the Roman Empire. Injustices and wars during this time were, as usual, the result of the quest for personal power and wealth by feudal lords, soldiers, clergy, etc... Any even remotely detailed study of this time period would reveal that, once in power, a feudal lord would have to exploit (to one degree or another) his serfs in order to pay his soldiers in order to protect his holdings. If he did not, someone else would move in and do the same. Even after the Renaissance, this system continued in one form or another but on a larger scale. See the 100 years war for an example. It wasn't until the common people gained more education and were encouraged to think for themselves did the situation improve.
And, don't forget, it was the Christian church during all of this time that preserved the knowledge that was preserved, made (and in some cases denied) many scientific advancements, and provided what little medical care was available to the people of the time.
The other advantage is that ZFS replication, unlike RSYNC, doesn't need to calculate diffs because ZFS it already keeps track of what blocks have changed since the last snapshot. This makes the entire process much faster less resource intensive.
Imagine the following scenario:
You are the sysadmin at a 24x7 company. You have a few hundred user's home directories (shared over NFS or SMB) on a fileserver that needs to be upgraded/replaced for some reason. You are tasked with migrating these home directories to a new file server with a minimum outage window.
ZFS replication procedure:
1. Snapshot, send.
2. Repeat 1 until the entire process takes less than a couple of minutes.
3. Shut down the NFS and SMB processes on the old server. Shanpshot and send one last time.
4. Bring up NFS and SMB on the new server. Make appropriate IP and DNS changes.
Total outage for the users: 10 minutes or less.
RSYNC replication procedure:
1. Sync
2. Sync again. Wait forever for diffs to be calculated.
3. Realize it's hopeless, Shut down NFS and SMB, Sync again.
4. Bring up the new server.
Total outage for the users: Hours.
True. Again though, cars are shaped the way they are because they are expected to go around 60mph on average. Cars meant to go faster (sports cars for instance) often have a more aerodynamic shape. A change in speed limits would likely result in a change in body shape as well.
Holy crap, I forgot all about Geary. I donated to the project a few years back hoping to help get PGP support going. I gave up a after a while. I'll have to give it another look.
Once the key gets out (and too many people know it for this not to happen) option 1 becomes option 3.
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Fuel consumption is just a function of gear ratios. 60mph is the best speed for fuel consumption right now because it is a good average of common highway speed limits. If speed limits change (up or down,) car makers will compensate.
Making something useful and possibly learning something along the way seems like the perfect solution to most first world problems.
Please, please don't judge North Carolina by these rubes. This dumb little town is about 100 miles from Research Triangle Park, the largest concentration of PhDs in the world. North Carolina is a progressive and beautiful state with the best climate in the eastern US. It has traditionally had the best public education system in the South.
Yes, we are currently in the clutches of a backwards Republican state government so there are lots of headlines about regressive policies. But this is an aberration ( the first Republican government in over 100 years) and it will not last long.
What is insightful about this? The stupidity of people participating in a direct election (not indirect, where political party would actually matter) is being blamed on the Republicans currently in power in the state. If anything, this should be blamed on the Democrats in power for the last 100 years for having such a horrible education system. If this truly is the output of the best education system in the south, I really hope this town is an aberration.
FWIW, I'm not defending either political party here, I'm just appalled that people actually modded this comment insightful.
From the Wikipedia article on the Mexican Drug War:
Research has asserted that most weapons and arms trafficked into Mexico are not from gun dealers in the United States, but as a matter of fact, come from either government personnel who defect to the cartels, or are sourced from Central American black markets.[180][181] Most grenades and rocket-launchers are smuggled through Guatemalan borders[182] or stolen from the Mexican police or military.[183] DHS officials have stated that that statistic is misleading: out of approximately 30,000 weapons seized in drug cases in Mexico in 2004–2008, 7,200 appeared to be of U.S. origin, approximately 4,000 were found in ATF manufacturer and importer records, and 87 percent of those—3,480—originated in the United States.[185][186]
And no, a very large percentage of the guns used in mass shootings are legally obtained.
Legally obtained by who? The person doing the shootings? In most instances that have made the news (real mass shootings as indicated by the FBI's definition, not shootingtracker.com's) the guns have been stolen (although sometimes from a family member.)
Many guns used in crime were legally owned by people such as yourselves, but were subsequently stolen and entered the black market.
That, by definition, makes them illegally obtained.
Gun control is about stopping that up-until-now-a-"Good Guy with a gun" from flipping out about the bad news at work or his wife's infidelity and shooting a bunch of innocent people.
If you look back at my original comment, you would notice that I said the real solution would be to find the societal issue that would make someone flip out and shoot a bunch of innocent people. In your example, there are clearly mental health issues at play. In countries with gun control, this stuff still happens. See the London tube stabbings from a few days ago as an example. Dealing with the mental health, income inequality, and racism issues in this country would be a far better use of time and money and would decrease instances of violence overall far more than any gun control legislation ever would. It would have the added benefit of not taking away other peoples freedoms/rights.
It's also about making it far more inconvenient and expensive for a premeditated crime (robbery, assault, whatever) to rely on one.
As far as the premeditated stuff goes, criminals are already breaking the law. They aren't going to be bothered by the fact that by using a firearm they are breaking another law. I also seriously doubt most criminals who intend to use a firearm in their premeditated crime are obtaining them legally. They are far too easy to track.
The fact you don't seem to understand why gun control exists and how it works doesn't reflect too well on you. You are arguing against something you clearly don't understand. Weird.
The fact that you are willing to resort to personal attacks instead of facts doesn't help your argument in any way. It is obvious that you have a very limited world view (guns=bad) and aren't willing to approach the overall issue of violence with an open mind.