Don't you suppose the congestion would be discouragement enough? If you suddenly need to pick up your child from across town, you can either sit in traffic with everybody else, or be there quickly using your shiny new high speed trains (that you were willing to pay the tickets for in your emergency). Sin taxes are a bad idea in general - if the alternatives aren't great enough to stand on their own merits, all they do is bring everybody down to a lower common denominator.
It's not the holes that are the problem, but the wire routing to them... Cable routing means potentially stirring up a lot of dust that otherwise would not have been moving. "Two tiny holes per school" is seriously understating the effort involved in wifi deployment for a large building or campus...
Nobody is saying that mold is a definite cause here, but it's a hell of a lot more likely than the few milliwatts a wifi transmitter sends.
To be fair, I had no clue until there was some discussion about it when my sister was pregnant. I never would have considered going on such a homogenized diet without doing some research first, however...
Well, the funny thing about GP's post is that the very things he complains about are the only advantages to ABS systems: The car retaining its ability to steer and avoiding tire lock-up - if he'd had ABS, he would have slowed down *faster* than he did with all wheels locked up. I'm not a fan of ABS, but society has clearly placed a low priority on teaching driving skills (threshold braking, evasive maneuvering, etcetc) instead using technological solutions like ABS, adaptive cruise control, cameras and sensors.
You're right, a *good* driver can correct a car faster without ABS - but how many drivers out there are good enough not to just lock up all four brakes and slide into the next guy? I sure as hell don't trust the guy behind me to stop in time in an emergency...
Just wait until you open up your laptop to ease the time on a 5 hour plane trip and get a "can't connect to b.net" error followed by a "can't enter offline mode because you didn't connect to b.net error." Yeah, there may have been a work around but I was too infuriated to try to find it.
Evidence in trial? I'm trying to think of a scenario here where a hijacker either killed people or put peoples lives in danger where photographic evidence of him in a body scanner would have made a difference at trial. Assuming there is a trial... As I recall, the entire reason we have these damn things is to make sure people end up at their destination in one piece and you can't take a pile of dismembered meat to prison now can you?
I'm sure the "If only we had photographic evidence of him sneaking the gun through!" excuse is going to come up an awful lot in the future. On the bright side, they can be DAMN sure you're not sneaking any contraband bottled water through security, now!
So when the government pays me to build solar panels on my roof, or I receive money from the government as part of the first time homebuyer's credit. Does that make my home NOT private property?
No, it makes you a person who can't pay their own way.
Ah - this is a point I see harped on all the time by some folks I know - attack evolution because nobody has seen any inorganic chemicals begin self-replicating. That's the thing about science - currently we have no solid model to show how the process starts, so feel to "insert God here." If and when we figure *that* part out the reasonable (and I'll go so far as to say "free thinking") religious man will say "Hey neat, we've figured out more of your Plan, Mister God!" However, the problem is the small vocal minority of religious folks that feel their God is being attacked and get defensive, attacking the new theories in unproductive ways. Yes - attack the theories, but do it by observations and not faith.
The theory of evolution doesn't address "the beginning." It only really states that once organisms got started, they are subject to selective breeding which will cause their forms to evolve. It's been observed in action and so far we haven't come up with a better model or disproved the process.
My point here is that science in general doesn't claim to know everything right now, but given enough time, effort, and observations - it might.
Honestly, if dozens of bones were found, scientists really wouldn't consider it a problem. They'd consider it a really freaking exciting development and start working on the models to explain it. The glory of science: "Oh shit, we can't explain this one guys!" Start coming up with and *testing* new explanations. One bone? That's possible to explain any number of ways... Maybe Dino was burying it in Fred Flintstone's backyard. Part of the process is making sure your tests are valid.
He did just tell a bunch of people that if they buy an HTC phone, they might not need to buy another one for four years... That sounds pretty good to me!
This is the exact same conversation that takes place regarding the iPhone closed platform - Somebody lists some restrictions they don't approve of and somebody else says "So? Don't buy one if you don't like it!" This misses the point entirely. The proper response to seemingly arbitrary restrictions on my (hypothetical) device is to not buy one, and then tell other folks who might be interested *why* I chose not to buy one. A handful of lost sales probably won't be noticed on a popular device, but some lost sales coupled with as much bad press as we can make might force some change. We first have Apple placing arbitrary restrictions on their device, now the primary competitor is doing the same - How many times does this story need to repeat itself until we're out of options?
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I'm honestly curious to know your rationale, care to elaborate?
That can't be right... most /.ers are *sub*urban, and apparently really mad about it ;)
Don't you suppose the congestion would be discouragement enough? If you suddenly need to pick up your child from across town, you can either sit in traffic with everybody else, or be there quickly using your shiny new high speed trains (that you were willing to pay the tickets for in your emergency). Sin taxes are a bad idea in general - if the alternatives aren't great enough to stand on their own merits, all they do is bring everybody down to a lower common denominator.
Sort of depends on your insurance I suppose... Are they cheaper for you than a reasonable intake of beer?
Poit.
No, I'm betting it's just Cory Doctorow.
It's not the holes that are the problem, but the wire routing to them... Cable routing means potentially stirring up a lot of dust that otherwise would not have been moving. "Two tiny holes per school" is seriously understating the effort involved in wifi deployment for a large building or campus...
Nobody is saying that mold is a definite cause here, but it's a hell of a lot more likely than the few milliwatts a wifi transmitter sends.
Oh so it's the water companies dashing my dreams of growing up to be British!
To be fair, I had no clue until there was some discussion about it when my sister was pregnant. I never would have considered going on such a homogenized diet without doing some research first, however...
I think you would find the roaring lack of surprise to be quite deafening.
That is downright terrifying... Can you imagine an entire cabin of an A380 sitting there *without* their entertainment? Shudder to think...
Well, the funny thing about GP's post is that the very things he complains about are the only advantages to ABS systems: The car retaining its ability to steer and avoiding tire lock-up - if he'd had ABS, he would have slowed down *faster* than he did with all wheels locked up. I'm not a fan of ABS, but society has clearly placed a low priority on teaching driving skills (threshold braking, evasive maneuvering, etcetc) instead using technological solutions like ABS, adaptive cruise control, cameras and sensors.
You're right, a *good* driver can correct a car faster without ABS - but how many drivers out there are good enough not to just lock up all four brakes and slide into the next guy? I sure as hell don't trust the guy behind me to stop in time in an emergency...
Seriously... Why does everybody always forget Poland?!
Just wait until you open up your laptop to ease the time on a 5 hour plane trip and get a "can't connect to b.net" error followed by a "can't enter offline mode because you didn't connect to b.net error." Yeah, there may have been a work around but I was too infuriated to try to find it.
...And apparently needs to have its touch screen recalibrated
Out of points, but please mod parent "Concise and correct."
I suppose "Informative" would do.
Evidence in trial? I'm trying to think of a scenario here where a hijacker either killed people or put peoples lives in danger where photographic evidence of him in a body scanner would have made a difference at trial. Assuming there is a trial... As I recall, the entire reason we have these damn things is to make sure people end up at their destination in one piece and you can't take a pile of dismembered meat to prison now can you?
I'm sure the "If only we had photographic evidence of him sneaking the gun through!" excuse is going to come up an awful lot in the future. On the bright side, they can be DAMN sure you're not sneaking any contraband bottled water through security, now!
So when the government pays me to build solar panels on my roof, or I receive money from the government as part of the first time homebuyer's credit. Does that make my home NOT private property?
No, it makes you a person who can't pay their own way.
...Because it wasn't stated factually, it was stated trollishly without any hint that it might be a known technical issue.
Ah - this is a point I see harped on all the time by some folks I know - attack evolution because nobody has seen any inorganic chemicals begin self-replicating. That's the thing about science - currently we have no solid model to show how the process starts, so feel to "insert God here." If and when we figure *that* part out the reasonable (and I'll go so far as to say "free thinking") religious man will say "Hey neat, we've figured out more of your Plan, Mister God!" However, the problem is the small vocal minority of religious folks that feel their God is being attacked and get defensive, attacking the new theories in unproductive ways. Yes - attack the theories, but do it by observations and not faith.
The theory of evolution doesn't address "the beginning." It only really states that once organisms got started, they are subject to selective breeding which will cause their forms to evolve. It's been observed in action and so far we haven't come up with a better model or disproved the process.
My point here is that science in general doesn't claim to know everything right now, but given enough time, effort, and observations - it might.
Honestly, if dozens of bones were found, scientists really wouldn't consider it a problem. They'd consider it a really freaking exciting development and start working on the models to explain it. The glory of science: "Oh shit, we can't explain this one guys!" Start coming up with and *testing* new explanations. One bone? That's possible to explain any number of ways... Maybe Dino was burying it in Fred Flintstone's backyard. Part of the process is making sure your tests are valid.
I'm just glad the 00's are over. I never knew what to call that decade. Eighties, nineties, double-oh-zeroes, tens, twenties...
Correct, the only *true* heir to the Battlestar Galactica dynasty was Galactica 1980!
He did just tell a bunch of people that if they buy an HTC phone, they might not need to buy another one for four years... That sounds pretty good to me!
This is the exact same conversation that takes place regarding the iPhone closed platform - Somebody lists some restrictions they don't approve of and somebody else says "So? Don't buy one if you don't like it!" This misses the point entirely. The proper response to seemingly arbitrary restrictions on my (hypothetical) device is to not buy one, and then tell other folks who might be interested *why* I chose not to buy one. A handful of lost sales probably won't be noticed on a popular device, but some lost sales coupled with as much bad press as we can make might force some change. We first have Apple placing arbitrary restrictions on their device, now the primary competitor is doing the same - How many times does this story need to repeat itself until we're out of options?