Nothing is being reported during the trip, and the minimal information being reported doesn't include any personally identifiable information so there's no opportunity for misuse of the data down the road.
That's a ridiculous thing to say. Prepare for ridicule!
You have to pay for these services somehow. You also will likely ride past various cameras. Your identity can reasonably be correlated with your trip. Your quote doesn't say they're not passing identifiable info, only that it doesn't include specific info.
So this is like Jeep selling the crazy shifter that no one understood and killed a version of Checkov that I loved, and offering a sensible shifter as a $1000 option.
Not just that, but Chrysler corp. had a superior option in the 1960s. I had a 1960 Dodge Dart that had push-button automatic. When you pushed the button for one gear, the previously-selected one would pop out, so you knew for sure what gear you had selected. They actually went backwards for the sake of being different, and as you point out, it killed someone.
Apple has a captive audience: It gives them the apex of rent-seeking behaviour.
Not with iTunes it doesn't, it runs on Windows too and releasing a iTunes for Android/Linux would not be a bad idea either.
iTunes is a dumpster fire. Even my mac-loving friends who won't contemplate switching to another platform say bad things about it on the regular. Who's going to want to run that garbage anyway, just to get easier access to streaming services they can get without it? Answer, no fucking body.
I was just at the hospital and a receptionist there was complaining about their phone service. I mentioned that AT&T was both evil and incompetent and she almost fell over herself agreeing with me.
That AT&T can continue to exist is proof that the whole system is corrupt from stem to stern.
You can get 20 Mbps out of Exede. That's still not 25, but it's pretty close. Upstream is 768k or so, IIRC. I just wish they had RV service. They also throttle streaming video, but I don't care about that. If I want full quality, I'll buy the Blu-Ray.
I had a front right blow out in my fully loaded down 1978 Dodge Sportsman, on the 10. That was exciting. I put a pretty good groove into the road all the way to the dirt, but by then I had bled off enough speed that I could let off and limp it onto the shoulder without going off of the road entirely.
It's a damned shame that cities keep permitting people to build on flood land just because it supports their tax base. We have permitting systems in place specifically to avoid things like this, but instead we use them to keep "undesirables" out.
Yup, this is the kind of shit that should get him booted off the service.
It should not, and will not. Like all ad-supported online services, all YouTube cares about is views. If he's not actually committing a crime himself, he gets to stay.
If he endorses this kind of activity, he might get booted. But not just for it happening.
But what's changed though? Have connections got faster?
For lots of people, yes. For other people, no. But even if it will only work for (let's just say) 20% of the population, that's a lot of potential customers.
The only thing they can do differently from Onlive is 1) offer a netflix model and 2) use the might of the google advertising machine. From a technical standpoint nothing has changed.
That might be enough anyway.
And rumour has it that they aren't using a netflix model so all they've got is advertising.
If they don't use the netflix model, I predict they will fail. But maybe they will, even if not right away.
Microsoft are working on a way to reduce perceived lag by rollback.
I guess they remember quakeworld. That was the last time you could get away with that kind of crap, when having lots of players in an internet game was still new, and we were using dialup modems.
Note that the GP post mentioned gas stations were shutting down because of land costs in cities. This forcing of shutdowns does not apply to rural stations.
All of the other issues still apply, so yes it does. Maybe slightly later.
Batteries also add weight to the buses and have a limited lifetime thus the cost of using them vs. overhead cables would increase cost.
That depends on routes, and number of buses. The catenary wire system has to be built and maintained. Trains can pick up the catenary wires themselves with a simple scissor lift system, but buses have to be able to move side to side, so the contactor arms have to be connected to the wires manually. I'm sure you could make that system robotic, but at the moment that's not how it's done. (How much would that cost, how reliable could you make it, etc.) It therefore really only makes sense to use trolleybuses where there are many buses making many trips. Modern trolleybuses do have onboard battery, but it's only intended for use in emergencies.
For trains, you can reasonably use a hybrid catenary/battery system — plugging in when the trains are in the yard, and charging from the overhead lines as system capacity allows, operating from the battery in between segments where you have overhead power.
It's been a long time since I visited San Francisco, but, if I remember correctly, many, if not most, of the buses were electric using overhead wiring.
A new thing in Vancouver, where many gas stations have shut down as the land is so valuable, is gas delivery. Small tanker trucks driving around in the night, filling up peoples cars.
That's cool in cities, but it won't help people living in the sticks. They're too spread out, and their vehicles aren't conveniently parked along an orderly street. And those are the people who are going to get screwed over. They have the furthest distances to go to get to where they're going, they have the most power outages, and they have the fewest filling stations already.
I wish those tech companies would get out of their fucking california bubble and live like the rest of the world for a year.
California bubble my ass. Most of California (by inhabited acre) has garbage internet options. Outside of the cities it's mostly hopeless, and even inside cities it's often very bad. Californians are very spread out, because most of the state has good weather, and because cities ban upwards expansion — which leads to sprawl.
1. This was tried 10 years ago and it didn't succeed
So what? It's not 10 years ago any more.
2. When players perform actions in these games, there will be a delay before the server can process that action and return corresponding output. If this delay is too long, the experience will suffer.
You had to read an article to find out about lag? Are you new?
It's only going to work for a subset of users, but that's why google is the ideal provider. AFAIK Google is still the best-distributed service around short of perhaps Netflix, and all Netflix has got is some wimpy little per-ISP CDN boxes. Google has bits of cluster all over the place. Lots of that cluster is doing not very much a lot of the time. They're in the best position to provide the lowest-latency service. And since they have the hardware just sitting around doing less than it should, any profit they can make is a win.
If someone is driving drunk, or driving distracted, and they crash, it's no accident.
That's a stupid thing to say. If you don't mean to crash, it's an accident.
By defaulting to the term "accident", we are implicitly absolving drivers of heavy machines of their responsibility to operate them safely and competently.
No, we absolutely are not. We are only differentiating between intentional and unintentional collisions. The driver is still assigned fault based on a number of factors, substance abuse being one of them, and we still have special treatment for people who got into a collision as a result of substance abuse. We do however treat people who intentionally get into collisions differently from people who do it unintentionally, because that's an assault with a deadly weapon — and people who commit such crimes are more likely to commit them again.
This smacks of authoritarianism. I don't think it'll do well here in the States, and ditto for their move to govern the car to no more than 112.
Geely^WVolvo drivers don't want to go that fast anyway, I don't think any of the people in the market for one of those cars will ever notice the limiter. Hell, I had a 115 MPH limiter on my 240SX and it was not a significant issue in normal life, even though that was a sports car. It was gear-limited to about 124 anyway.
These drivers don't want to drive drunk, either, so as long as the car doesn't have to phone home it's not likely to reduce sales at all.
The goal in the USA is zero highway fatalities so this is just a preview of the kind of hardware that will eventually be mandatory in all new vehicles... worldwide, really.
Whether they were stolen or not, it doesn't change the fact that the previous owners should have encrypted and/or secure wiped everything on the drives.
Lenovo stopped supplying batteries for my model thinkpad some time ago but I was able to locate a new-old stock Sanyo battery originally made for my laptop. Has 100% capacity and shouldn't explode.
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Nothing is being reported during the trip, and the minimal information being reported doesn't include any personally identifiable information so there's no opportunity for misuse of the data down the road.
That's a ridiculous thing to say. Prepare for ridicule!
You have to pay for these services somehow. You also will likely ride past various cameras. Your identity can reasonably be correlated with your trip. Your quote doesn't say they're not passing identifiable info, only that it doesn't include specific info.
I don't think Alzheimer's is caused by sugar either, but your anecdote doesn't prove that it isn't.
So this is like Jeep selling the crazy shifter that no one understood and killed a version of Checkov that I loved, and offering a sensible shifter as a $1000 option.
Not just that, but Chrysler corp. had a superior option in the 1960s. I had a 1960 Dodge Dart that had push-button automatic. When you pushed the button for one gear, the previously-selected one would pop out, so you knew for sure what gear you had selected. They actually went backwards for the sake of being different, and as you point out, it killed someone.
Apple has a captive audience: It gives them the apex of rent-seeking behaviour.
Not with iTunes it doesn't, it runs on Windows too and releasing a iTunes for Android/Linux would not be a bad idea either.
iTunes is a dumpster fire. Even my mac-loving friends who won't contemplate switching to another platform say bad things about it on the regular. Who's going to want to run that garbage anyway, just to get easier access to streaming services they can get without it? Answer, no fucking body.
I was just at the hospital and a receptionist there was complaining about their phone service. I mentioned that AT&T was both evil and incompetent and she almost fell over herself agreeing with me.
That AT&T can continue to exist is proof that the whole system is corrupt from stem to stern.
You can get 20 Mbps out of Exede. That's still not 25, but it's pretty close. Upstream is 768k or so, IIRC. I just wish they had RV service. They also throttle streaming video, but I don't care about that. If I want full quality, I'll buy the Blu-Ray.
It's a shame pretty much ALL companies went with this sell the product cheap and gouge it back from the customer over time model...
It's a shame people keep falling for it.
I had a front right blow out in my fully loaded down 1978 Dodge Sportsman, on the 10. That was exciting. I put a pretty good groove into the road all the way to the dirt, but by then I had bled off enough speed that I could let off and limp it onto the shoulder without going off of the road entirely.
It's a damned shame that cities keep permitting people to build on flood land just because it supports their tax base. We have permitting systems in place specifically to avoid things like this, but instead we use them to keep "undesirables" out.
Yup, this is the kind of shit that should get him booted off the service.
It should not, and will not. Like all ad-supported online services, all YouTube cares about is views. If he's not actually committing a crime himself, he gets to stay.
If he endorses this kind of activity, he might get booted. But not just for it happening.
what does he/she do that garners such a large following?
He talks a lot of shit like a super jackhole. Apparently that's all it takes.
But what's changed though? Have connections got faster?
For lots of people, yes. For other people, no. But even if it will only work for (let's just say) 20% of the population, that's a lot of potential customers.
The only thing they can do differently from Onlive is 1) offer a netflix model and 2) use the might of the google advertising machine. From a technical standpoint nothing has changed.
That might be enough anyway.
And rumour has it that they aren't using a netflix model so all they've got is advertising.
If they don't use the netflix model, I predict they will fail. But maybe they will, even if not right away.
Microsoft are working on a way to reduce perceived lag by rollback.
I guess they remember quakeworld. That was the last time you could get away with that kind of crap, when having lots of players in an internet game was still new, and we were using dialup modems.
Note that the GP post mentioned gas stations were shutting down because of land costs in cities. This forcing of shutdowns does not apply to rural stations.
All of the other issues still apply, so yes it does. Maybe slightly later.
Batteries also add weight to the buses and have a limited lifetime thus the cost of using them vs. overhead cables would increase cost.
That depends on routes, and number of buses. The catenary wire system has to be built and maintained. Trains can pick up the catenary wires themselves with a simple scissor lift system, but buses have to be able to move side to side, so the contactor arms have to be connected to the wires manually. I'm sure you could make that system robotic, but at the moment that's not how it's done. (How much would that cost, how reliable could you make it, etc.) It therefore really only makes sense to use trolleybuses where there are many buses making many trips. Modern trolleybuses do have onboard battery, but it's only intended for use in emergencies.
For trains, you can reasonably use a hybrid catenary/battery system — plugging in when the trains are in the yard, and charging from the overhead lines as system capacity allows, operating from the battery in between segments where you have overhead power.
It's been a long time since I visited San Francisco, but, if I remember correctly, many, if not most, of the buses were electric using overhead wiring.
SF has the second-most trolley buses in service in the western hemisphere (behind Mexico City), but they're less than a majority. They have approximately 300 trolley buses, and 500 diesels.
A new thing in Vancouver, where many gas stations have shut down as the land is so valuable, is gas delivery. Small tanker trucks driving around in the night, filling up peoples cars.
That's cool in cities, but it won't help people living in the sticks. They're too spread out, and their vehicles aren't conveniently parked along an orderly street. And those are the people who are going to get screwed over. They have the furthest distances to go to get to where they're going, they have the most power outages, and they have the fewest filling stations already.
I wish those tech companies would get out of their fucking california bubble and live like the rest of the world for a year.
California bubble my ass. Most of California (by inhabited acre) has garbage internet options. Outside of the cities it's mostly hopeless, and even inside cities it's often very bad. Californians are very spread out, because most of the state has good weather, and because cities ban upwards expansion — which leads to sprawl.
1. This was tried 10 years ago and it didn't succeed
So what? It's not 10 years ago any more.
2. When players perform actions in these games, there will be a delay before the server can process that action and return corresponding output. If this delay is too long, the experience will suffer.
You had to read an article to find out about lag? Are you new?
It's only going to work for a subset of users, but that's why google is the ideal provider. AFAIK Google is still the best-distributed service around short of perhaps Netflix, and all Netflix has got is some wimpy little per-ISP CDN boxes. Google has bits of cluster all over the place. Lots of that cluster is doing not very much a lot of the time. They're in the best position to provide the lowest-latency service. And since they have the hardware just sitting around doing less than it should, any profit they can make is a win.
If someone is driving drunk, or driving distracted, and they crash, it's no accident.
That's a stupid thing to say. If you don't mean to crash, it's an accident.
By defaulting to the term "accident", we are implicitly absolving drivers of heavy machines of their responsibility to operate them safely and competently.
No, we absolutely are not. We are only differentiating between intentional and unintentional collisions. The driver is still assigned fault based on a number of factors, substance abuse being one of them, and we still have special treatment for people who got into a collision as a result of substance abuse. We do however treat people who intentionally get into collisions differently from people who do it unintentionally, because that's an assault with a deadly weapon — and people who commit such crimes are more likely to commit them again.
This smacks of authoritarianism. I don't think it'll do well here in the States, and ditto for their move to govern the car to no more than 112.
Geely^WVolvo drivers don't want to go that fast anyway, I don't think any of the people in the market for one of those cars will ever notice the limiter. Hell, I had a 115 MPH limiter on my 240SX and it was not a significant issue in normal life, even though that was a sports car. It was gear-limited to about 124 anyway.
These drivers don't want to drive drunk, either, so as long as the car doesn't have to phone home it's not likely to reduce sales at all.
The goal in the USA is zero highway fatalities so this is just a preview of the kind of hardware that will eventually be mandatory in all new vehicles... worldwide, really.
Whether they were stolen or not, it doesn't change the fact that the previous owners should have encrypted and/or secure wiped everything on the drives.
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Please provide a credible citation which shows that roundup is not carcinogenic.
At that point, nobody knew that there was a design flaw in that system
There's only two sensors and they're not cross-checked. Everyone involved with that system knew there was a flaw, it was inadequate by design.
To be fair (at least as fair as possible given the circumstances), while the plane design is certainly Boeing's fault, the training issue is not.
Some have said (including in a response to one of my comments) that Boeing didn't share the information until after the first crash...
Lenovo stopped supplying batteries for my model thinkpad some time ago but I was able to locate a new-old stock Sanyo battery originally made for my laptop. Has 100% capacity and shouldn't explode.
What was the charge percentage when you got it?