Out of interest, what was nonsense about it? I saw the unedited version first, not even being aware that there was an edited version and it was objectively the case that the Apache pilots broke various norms of war.
Do you have some sort of source for that? Because I was working directly WITH Apache pilots and maintainers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and they all agree that the pilots did follow proper procedure for the discharge of weapons.
They claimed they needed to fire because the targets had RPGs that could be used against them but their gun cam clearly showed that not only were they out of RPG range, but they were even further out of objective RPG range.
They were providing close air support for troops on the ground that were under active engagement. It does not matter if the Apache itself is under direct threat from any potential RPG. The ground troops were under direct threat. The Apache pilots were tasks with prosecuting those threats and protecting the troops on the ground.
The van they shot with the kid in they completely and utterly failed to determine if it was even actually a threat and fired anyway.
Obviously you do not know what the rules of engagement were at that time in Iraq. The rules specifically dictated that bystanders were not to become involved. They were not to render aid, that the occupying troops would secure the area and provide any aid they could. Anyone who sought to aid the insurgents were treated as insurgents. This is the fault (and no doubt desire) of the insurgency. If they were wearing uniforms there would be no need to treat everyone as potential insurgents
These are not the actions of competent military personnel. The norm in such situations is do not fire until fired upon, but this took it to another level and fired before they could even be sure there was a real actual threat.
This isn't just my opinion, this is objective fact.
Did you have the audio muted on the video? You could hear the ground personnel in contact with the close air support. You could also see these groups actively engaging the troops on the ground. So where do you get this objective fact that there was no threat to the lives of the occupying soldiers? The video speaks for itself here
he transited through San Francisco and apparently US Customs had no interest in him. If US Customs felt that he was a source of useful information about Snowden, they'd have confiscated his electronics there. I'm pretty sure that New Zealand customs does not randomly target backpackers for confiscation of electronics and this is not an example of a police state gone mad. I'm sure he knows the real reason they took his stuff and he doesn't want to mention it because he wants to play the "I'm being singled out for nothing!" angle to the press right now.
The international terminal of the airport is not considered to be part of the US. Until you try to leave the terminal area, you do not need to pass through customs. If all he did was change flights, he likely did not go through US customs at all. It is possible that they became interested in him at US Customs though and asked the NZ customs officials to detain him.
The line you quoted speaks of reserving the right to keep the merchandise. That right there means that you HAVE the right to keep the merchandise already, and your offer to let them come and pick it up is just a courtesy you are offering to the company.
ie: You don't have to return it, but the FTC is telling you how you might want to go about getting the company to collect it if you wished to return it.
No. It means that you are informing them that you have a right to keep unclaimed property. I have a real world example of a similar time I've "reserved the right" to do something. I was renting property from a business. The roof developed a leak. I submitted a request, in writing, to have the leak patched. In my jurisdiction, they have 10 business days to rectify such a problem. If they fail to do so, I have the right to withhold rent. However, I must notify them of my intention to withhold rent 7 days prior to the rent being due. So I wrote them a letter and told them that I was "reserving the right" to withhold rent. At that point in time I had no right to withhold rent. I was putting them on notice that I was holding them accountable to the health and safety codes in my jurisdiction. It is the same thing with unclaimed property. You have the right to claim ownership, but you must make it known to all interested parties. You must provide them with the chance to claim the property. If you found an item on the street, and had no way of knowing who the interested parties are, local law may require you to take out an ad in a local publication to notify the public at large before you can claim ownership rights.
I'd guess that about half the population (IQ below 100) will never get programming no matter how hard you try to teach them.
I don't know... I think I've worked with a few people whose IQs were below 100. And they understood enough about programming to be a bad programmer. I think almost anyone can get the basics down. It's not difficult. The real hard part is being proficient, clear, and concise (while maintaining clarity).
Don't they have already? Isn't that what all those spy satellites do better and cheaper?
Spy satellites do not always do it better. Anyone who can build a radar system, do a bit of orbital mechanics, or can navigate to this satellite tracking site can get a pretty good idea of when your recon bird is passing over. You have no idea when or where an SR-71, U2 or other spy plane will be at any given moment.
You mean like how they currently add acetaminophen to most opiates (check out your next codeine prescription) so that if you take too much you'll suffer liver damage? If you can't lead a horse to water, just poison every other source of water in the area and that fucking horse better damn well drink the right water... if not it's the horses fault its pissing blood.
You do know that they have opioid-based medications with decreased dosage of acetaminophen right? Like 325mg doses, and some medications are sold without any at all? People who are prescribed opioids for long term pain management are usually given lower doses of acetaminophen. It's not in the medication to prevent abuse. It is there to provide pain relief. They specially formulate things like Oxycontin in order to reduce its abuse through chewing, and other such methods that addicts use to get high.
Go to Wolfsburg, Germany and you can see twin towers that do the same thing. I didn't buy a car there, I only visited, so I don't know all the details. My understanding is that you go there, pick out the car you want, and then you go to the tower and watch the robot pick it up and deliver it like a coke in a vending machine. I watched it serve up a few cars. It's pretty cool.
I don't need this device to be considered a "safe driver." My license already says "safe driver" on it. So I want this huge discount they are saying they give to safe drivers.
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this... but am I the only one here who actually likes having a small phone? I guess it's a trade-off. I'm willing to give up the convenience of having the extra screen real estate for having a small phone...
I have larger than average hands (palm width in addition to finger length), and I prefer a larger phone because it feels more secure in my grasp. Otherwise I feel like I am holding a toy phone in my hand. a 5" phone fits perfectly in my pocket, so there is no reason to desire a smaller phone. if I were worried about battery life, then a smaller display would be advantageous.
I kinda wonder if the tires were properly inflated and in good condition
Probably, they were.
When Top Gear took a Bugatti Veyron up to top speed, they said the tires would only last a few minutes, but the fuel would give out slightly before then.
My guess is driving that fast puts a lot of strain on the tires, and even if you started off with no warning lights, you'd end up with a couple.
Depending on the rating of the tires, he is likely not even stressing them that badly. I do not know what the Tesla Model S comes with, but I had a car that came stock with Z rated tires. That makes them rated for speeds up to 186MPH. Indeed the tires on my motorcycle are rated to speeds in excess of 186MPH. Now, they will not last that long if they start out under-inflated, as that will cause them to overheat. However, the tire pressure sensor light should not activate due to high speeds. The sensor most likely either failed (lost communication with the controller), or the tire was not properly inflated.
People act like training is some magical thing. Training is nothing more than guided experience on a schedule. Intelligent people, it may surprise you, have experiences all the time, and being intelligent they can process those experiences into a useful understanding, gasp, without formal training!
I have lots of technical certs which I know a lot of people train for with classes and whatever, but I never took classes or read any books. I had enough unscheduled, unguided real world experience to just get the certs. Training isn't magical, it doesn't represent an exclusive path to knowledge and ability, so stop patronizing people.
You obviously do not understand the purpose of training, especially in the context of a pilot. When you're dealing with whatever issues covered by your technical certs, you are probably not under hostile fire, worried about crashing, while moving through a three dimensional space with potential obstacles, or anything like that. Pilots train so that they do things automatically. When you're 50 feet AGL in a helicopter and you get an Engine 1 fire you do not have time to flip through the procedure book to figure out how to cut the fuel, fire the extinguishers, and determine whether you can continue on with your mission, must abort and return to base, or whether you need to look for a clear spot to perform an emergency landing.
I used to work on helicopter simulators for the military. I can fly a simulator all day long and never have an incident. But I do not have the training I need to handle any sort of emergency situation, especially when my life is actually on the line. There is no comparison. The training is to simulate real world experience that you hope you never have to use. If these people just waited until they got ran into the "unscheduled, unguided real world experience" that you advocate most of them would likely be dead.
So far, kind of useless.
But is only $35.00 Dlls but who would bother to return it?
There is no pandora app for my TV or for any of my other set top boxes, so I just use my Chromecast to stream Pandora into the living room while I do other things. But I got it only because of the 3 months of Netflix (which I did get). I would have never bought it otherwise. It has very limited uses.
Not only that, but I think MIcrosoft would go back and patch a huge issue in XP if it was causing bad press. If there is an XPopacalypse then they would have to be crazy not to address it.
You may think Texas has "good ideas on how to govern a state" but I don't see any in your post.
Withholding pay from legislators for a delay in passing a budget may seem like poetic justice, but I would argue it promotes legislators to rush the budget through, encouraging the very "knee-jerk" behavior you claim it prevents.
They aren't just withheld pay - they are have to pay the salary of the staffers, pay for any food or hotel costs, etc. They have long enough sessions that a budget can realistically be created. It encourages bipartisan collaboration, compromise, and all of the other things you do not see in the rest of the US. Texas is also very fiscally responsible, so I'd say they are doing a good job. And my knee-jerk legislation comment refers to laws being passed to address the top news story of the week, not budgeting in particular.
And a forced hibernation of the legislature until 2015 most certainly does not sound like a good way to govern a state. Rather. it sounds like a way to avoid governing it.
One of the biggest problems in the US is the fact that there are so many laws being passed that no one can keep them all straight. Not to mention the fact that, barring emergency circumstances I doubt that we need someone passing laws 36-46 weeks out of the year (if our US reps actually spend even that much time working).
"The Texas legislature adjourned in June, and it will not reconvene until 2015."
Buwah?!
I do not live in TExas, but I have a relative that lives there in Austin. My understanding is that the TX legislature, by law, can only meet every 2 years (barring some emergency session). It is also my understanding that the representatives must pay their own costs out of pocket if they fail to pass a budget. This helps avoid a lot of the knee-jerk legislation we see in other states. They also have a financial incentive to keep the state's government humming along. While there are many things I dislike about Texas, I do think they have some good ideas on how to govern a state.
Also these "Anti-Tesla" laws they keep talking about in the news have existed long before Tesla was a gleam in Elon Musk's eye. Tesla was just denied when it tried to push through a law that would grant it, and no other car manufacturer, an exception to the dealership franchise laws in Texas. These laws are not unique to Texas, either.
. If you think the terrorist goal is to make everyone arrive an hour earlier at the airport and walk through a metal detector, you fundamentally misunderstand their goals.
They are doing a good job of getting us to destroy our own constitution. Not to mention the fact that we've spent $5B on body scanners that provide absolutely nothing but security theater. We will bankrupt our country with all this stupid crap we're doing. And our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan (plus drone strikes all over the Middle East) is not improving their opinion of us. The result is likely more radicals who hate the US while our debt increases drastically. I'd consider that a winning position for these people.
I don't expect you to read the article. But I do expect you to read the entire submission.
"County officials note that they are stripping out part of the MAC".
Yes but what part of the MAC? That is not enough to guarantee that you have become annonymous. First of all, the MAC has a vendor specific code. So potentially they could know exactly what kind of car it is, down to the make and model, just from the MAC. Secondly, depending on just how many sensors they have networked, they could track all of your trips daily from start to finish and use the aggregate data to determine exactly where you live and work. Finally, how do you actually know that they are being honest with you when they say they are stripping part of the MAC out? Why do they even need to store the MAC at all? They don't. They only need the MAC address kept in memory for a few minutes while they determine how long it took you to get from point A to point B. So if they are storing the MAC at all, there are already privacy implications.
Type 2 diabetes comes with the occasional need for medications, a few doctor visits, and lifestyle changes.
I think you're confused.
Type 2 diabetes can progress to the stage where it is just as difficult to manage as Type 1. Your body can become resistant to medications such as glucophage and then you end up on insulin anyway. Glucophage doesn't even work for all Type 2 patients, some have to use insulin regardless. In fact, they have developed synthetic insulin that is very concentrated specifically for people with Type 2 diabetes. No I am not a doctor, but I know someone with severe Type 2 diabetes and I know an ICU doctor who has to deal with diabetics on a regular basis.
I suspect many Americans would be demanding that Versailles get nuked or we name french fries to freedom fries.
Destroying Versailles would be a travesty. However, a tactical nuke in an RER Station may actually improve the cleanliness and quality of service of Paris's subway system;)
If the system doesn't collect individual data, then it's impossible to get the scope creep you're afraid of.
Your whole premise is that the big evil Man will secretly collect individual data. Maybe they'll secretly implant tracking chips in our molars. Maybe the Pod People will reveal themselves. If you want to worry about every possible outcome of everything, go for it. I actually have a life that I like to enjoy.
THe GP made the mistake of assuming that you knew how BT works. You do know that each BT device has a globally unique serial number, correct? And that they could, through vehicle registration and manufacturing info potentially know exactly where you are on the roads at any given moment? Sure you may not have BT built into your car, or you could spoof your MAC but the average person will have no way of knowing that they are not anonymous, as you just demonstrated.
Are they trying to say through this analysis that your potential maximum life span would be N years and that you are some percentage of the way there?
No. They've figured out the way that Apple generates the serial numbers for their iPhones. Now they are able to age their cell phones and determine when they are eligible for an upgrade with their carrier.
Singapore has done an awful lot in that regard as well. All the trains, stations, escalators and stairs for the underground system (called MRT) is spot less. And I mean absolutely spot less. I had to actually teach myself to look at the seat before sitting in some other metropolitan cities as the trains in Singapore are always very clean. Surely there are drunken people on the train but I guess the SGD 5000 fine goes someway in stopping littering.
A fine? You think all they get is a fine for tarnishing the train? I would not be surprised if they were also caned for it. We all know they are pretty strict with their rules there.
If the seats recline then people should be entitled to use them. I personally can sleep better in a reclined seat although the quality of sleep still sucks.
Hopefully you don't slam your seat back like some people do. As mentioned by others, my knees already hit the seat whether you recline or not. You're unlikely to be able to recline all the way back with me behind you regardless, as my knees with either break or stop the seat. Some people slam their seats back so hard you practically jump onto their laps in pain. In fact, the only reason you don't end up in their laps is their seat kindly (safety first, right?) keeps you from exiting your own.
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Out of interest, what was nonsense about it? I saw the unedited version first, not even being aware that there was an edited version and it was objectively the case that the Apache pilots broke various norms of war.
Do you have some sort of source for that? Because I was working directly WITH Apache pilots and maintainers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and they all agree that the pilots did follow proper procedure for the discharge of weapons.
They claimed they needed to fire because the targets had RPGs that could be used against them but their gun cam clearly showed that not only were they out of RPG range, but they were even further out of objective RPG range.
They were providing close air support for troops on the ground that were under active engagement. It does not matter if the Apache itself is under direct threat from any potential RPG. The ground troops were under direct threat. The Apache pilots were tasks with prosecuting those threats and protecting the troops on the ground.
The van they shot with the kid in they completely and utterly failed to determine if it was even actually a threat and fired anyway.
Obviously you do not know what the rules of engagement were at that time in Iraq. The rules specifically dictated that bystanders were not to become involved. They were not to render aid, that the occupying troops would secure the area and provide any aid they could. Anyone who sought to aid the insurgents were treated as insurgents. This is the fault (and no doubt desire) of the insurgency. If they were wearing uniforms there would be no need to treat everyone as potential insurgents
These are not the actions of competent military personnel. The norm in such situations is do not fire until fired upon, but this took it to another level and fired before they could even be sure there was a real actual threat.
This isn't just my opinion, this is objective fact.
Did you have the audio muted on the video? You could hear the ground personnel in contact with the close air support. You could also see these groups actively engaging the troops on the ground. So where do you get this objective fact that there was no threat to the lives of the occupying soldiers? The video speaks for itself here
he transited through San Francisco and apparently US Customs had no interest in him. If US Customs felt that he was a source of useful information about Snowden, they'd have confiscated his electronics there. I'm pretty sure that New Zealand customs does not randomly target backpackers for confiscation of electronics and this is not an example of a police state gone mad. I'm sure he knows the real reason they took his stuff and he doesn't want to mention it because he wants to play the "I'm being singled out for nothing!" angle to the press right now.
The international terminal of the airport is not considered to be part of the US. Until you try to leave the terminal area, you do not need to pass through customs. If all he did was change flights, he likely did not go through US customs at all. It is possible that they became interested in him at US Customs though and asked the NZ customs officials to detain him.
The line you quoted speaks of reserving the right to keep the merchandise. That right there means that you HAVE the right to keep the merchandise already, and your offer to let them come and pick it up is just a courtesy you are offering to the company.
ie: You don't have to return it, but the FTC is telling you how you might want to go about getting the company to collect it if you wished to return it.
No. It means that you are informing them that you have a right to keep unclaimed property. I have a real world example of a similar time I've "reserved the right" to do something. I was renting property from a business. The roof developed a leak. I submitted a request, in writing, to have the leak patched. In my jurisdiction, they have 10 business days to rectify such a problem. If they fail to do so, I have the right to withhold rent. However, I must notify them of my intention to withhold rent 7 days prior to the rent being due. So I wrote them a letter and told them that I was "reserving the right" to withhold rent. At that point in time I had no right to withhold rent. I was putting them on notice that I was holding them accountable to the health and safety codes in my jurisdiction. It is the same thing with unclaimed property. You have the right to claim ownership, but you must make it known to all interested parties. You must provide them with the chance to claim the property. If you found an item on the street, and had no way of knowing who the interested parties are, local law may require you to take out an ad in a local publication to notify the public at large before you can claim ownership rights.
I'd guess that about half the population (IQ below 100) will never get programming no matter how hard you try to teach them.
I don't know... I think I've worked with a few people whose IQs were below 100. And they understood enough about programming to be a bad programmer. I think almost anyone can get the basics down. It's not difficult. The real hard part is being proficient, clear, and concise (while maintaining clarity).
Don't they have already? Isn't that what all those spy satellites do better and cheaper?
Spy satellites do not always do it better. Anyone who can build a radar system, do a bit of orbital mechanics, or can navigate to this satellite tracking site can get a pretty good idea of when your recon bird is passing over. You have no idea when or where an SR-71, U2 or other spy plane will be at any given moment.
You mean like how they currently add acetaminophen to most opiates (check out your next codeine prescription) so that if you take too much you'll suffer liver damage? If you can't lead a horse to water, just poison every other source of water in the area and that fucking horse better damn well drink the right water... if not it's the horses fault its pissing blood.
You do know that they have opioid-based medications with decreased dosage of acetaminophen right? Like 325mg doses, and some medications are sold without any at all? People who are prescribed opioids for long term pain management are usually given lower doses of acetaminophen. It's not in the medication to prevent abuse. It is there to provide pain relief. They specially formulate things like Oxycontin in order to reduce its abuse through chewing, and other such methods that addicts use to get high.
Go to Wolfsburg, Germany and you can see twin towers that do the same thing. I didn't buy a car there, I only visited, so I don't know all the details. My understanding is that you go there, pick out the car you want, and then you go to the tower and watch the robot pick it up and deliver it like a coke in a vending machine. I watched it serve up a few cars. It's pretty cool.
...is who decides what is safe driving?
I don't need this device to be considered a "safe driver." My license already says "safe driver" on it. So I want this huge discount they are saying they give to safe drivers.
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this... but am I the only one here who actually likes having a small phone? I guess it's a trade-off. I'm willing to give up the convenience of having the extra screen real estate for having a small phone...
I have larger than average hands (palm width in addition to finger length), and I prefer a larger phone because it feels more secure in my grasp. Otherwise I feel like I am holding a toy phone in my hand. a 5" phone fits perfectly in my pocket, so there is no reason to desire a smaller phone. if I were worried about battery life, then a smaller display would be advantageous.
Probably, they were.
When Top Gear took a Bugatti Veyron up to top speed, they said the tires would only last a few minutes, but the fuel would give out slightly before then.
My guess is driving that fast puts a lot of strain on the tires, and even if you started off with no warning lights, you'd end up with a couple.
Depending on the rating of the tires, he is likely not even stressing them that badly. I do not know what the Tesla Model S comes with, but I had a car that came stock with Z rated tires. That makes them rated for speeds up to 186MPH. Indeed the tires on my motorcycle are rated to speeds in excess of 186MPH. Now, they will not last that long if they start out under-inflated, as that will cause them to overheat. However, the tire pressure sensor light should not activate due to high speeds. The sensor most likely either failed (lost communication with the controller), or the tire was not properly inflated.
...an agency of the UNITED NATIONS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization
You don't know who The WHO are? I assure you they have nothing to do with the UN!
People act like training is some magical thing. Training is nothing more than guided experience on a schedule. Intelligent people, it may surprise you, have experiences all the time, and being intelligent they can process those experiences into a useful understanding, gasp, without formal training! I have lots of technical certs which I know a lot of people train for with classes and whatever, but I never took classes or read any books. I had enough unscheduled, unguided real world experience to just get the certs. Training isn't magical, it doesn't represent an exclusive path to knowledge and ability, so stop patronizing people.
You obviously do not understand the purpose of training, especially in the context of a pilot. When you're dealing with whatever issues covered by your technical certs, you are probably not under hostile fire, worried about crashing, while moving through a three dimensional space with potential obstacles, or anything like that. Pilots train so that they do things automatically. When you're 50 feet AGL in a helicopter and you get an Engine 1 fire you do not have time to flip through the procedure book to figure out how to cut the fuel, fire the extinguishers, and determine whether you can continue on with your mission, must abort and return to base, or whether you need to look for a clear spot to perform an emergency landing.
I used to work on helicopter simulators for the military. I can fly a simulator all day long and never have an incident. But I do not have the training I need to handle any sort of emergency situation, especially when my life is actually on the line. There is no comparison. The training is to simulate real world experience that you hope you never have to use. If these people just waited until they got ran into the "unscheduled, unguided real world experience" that you advocate most of them would likely be dead.
So far, kind of useless. But is only $35.00 Dlls but who would bother to return it?
There is no pandora app for my TV or for any of my other set top boxes, so I just use my Chromecast to stream Pandora into the living room while I do other things. But I got it only because of the 3 months of Netflix (which I did get). I would have never bought it otherwise. It has very limited uses.
Paul Thurrot. OK, guess I'll ignore that drivel.
Not only that, but I think MIcrosoft would go back and patch a huge issue in XP if it was causing bad press. If there is an XPopacalypse then they would have to be crazy not to address it.
You may think Texas has "good ideas on how to govern a state" but I don't see any in your post.
Withholding pay from legislators for a delay in passing a budget may seem like poetic justice, but I would argue it promotes legislators to rush the budget through, encouraging the very "knee-jerk" behavior you claim it prevents.
They aren't just withheld pay - they are have to pay the salary of the staffers, pay for any food or hotel costs, etc. They have long enough sessions that a budget can realistically be created. It encourages bipartisan collaboration, compromise, and all of the other things you do not see in the rest of the US. Texas is also very fiscally responsible, so I'd say they are doing a good job. And my knee-jerk legislation comment refers to laws being passed to address the top news story of the week, not budgeting in particular.
And a forced hibernation of the legislature until 2015 most certainly does not sound like a good way to govern a state. Rather. it sounds like a way to avoid governing it.
One of the biggest problems in the US is the fact that there are so many laws being passed that no one can keep them all straight. Not to mention the fact that, barring emergency circumstances I doubt that we need someone passing laws 36-46 weeks out of the year (if our US reps actually spend even that much time working).
"The Texas legislature adjourned in June, and it will not reconvene until 2015." Buwah?!
I do not live in TExas, but I have a relative that lives there in Austin. My understanding is that the TX legislature, by law, can only meet every 2 years (barring some emergency session). It is also my understanding that the representatives must pay their own costs out of pocket if they fail to pass a budget. This helps avoid a lot of the knee-jerk legislation we see in other states. They also have a financial incentive to keep the state's government humming along. While there are many things I dislike about Texas, I do think they have some good ideas on how to govern a state.
Also these "Anti-Tesla" laws they keep talking about in the news have existed long before Tesla was a gleam in Elon Musk's eye. Tesla was just denied when it tried to push through a law that would grant it, and no other car manufacturer, an exception to the dealership franchise laws in Texas. These laws are not unique to Texas, either.
. If you think the terrorist goal is to make everyone arrive an hour earlier at the airport and walk through a metal detector, you fundamentally misunderstand their goals.
They are doing a good job of getting us to destroy our own constitution. Not to mention the fact that we've spent $5B on body scanners that provide absolutely nothing but security theater. We will bankrupt our country with all this stupid crap we're doing. And our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan (plus drone strikes all over the Middle East) is not improving their opinion of us. The result is likely more radicals who hate the US while our debt increases drastically. I'd consider that a winning position for these people.
I don't expect you to read the article. But I do expect you to read the entire submission.
"County officials note that they are stripping out part of the MAC".
Yes but what part of the MAC? That is not enough to guarantee that you have become annonymous. First of all, the MAC has a vendor specific code. So potentially they could know exactly what kind of car it is, down to the make and model, just from the MAC. Secondly, depending on just how many sensors they have networked, they could track all of your trips daily from start to finish and use the aggregate data to determine exactly where you live and work. Finally, how do you actually know that they are being honest with you when they say they are stripping part of the MAC out? Why do they even need to store the MAC at all? They don't. They only need the MAC address kept in memory for a few minutes while they determine how long it took you to get from point A to point B. So if they are storing the MAC at all, there are already privacy implications.
Type 2 diabetes comes with the occasional need for medications, a few doctor visits, and lifestyle changes.
I think you're confused.
Type 2 diabetes can progress to the stage where it is just as difficult to manage as Type 1. Your body can become resistant to medications such as glucophage and then you end up on insulin anyway. Glucophage doesn't even work for all Type 2 patients, some have to use insulin regardless. In fact, they have developed synthetic insulin that is very concentrated specifically for people with Type 2 diabetes. No I am not a doctor, but I know someone with severe Type 2 diabetes and I know an ICU doctor who has to deal with diabetics on a regular basis.
I suspect many Americans would be demanding that Versailles get nuked or we name french fries to freedom fries.
Destroying Versailles would be a travesty. However, a tactical nuke in an RER Station may actually improve the cleanliness and quality of service of Paris's subway system ;)
If the system doesn't collect individual data, then it's impossible to get the scope creep you're afraid of.
Your whole premise is that the big evil Man will secretly collect individual data. Maybe they'll secretly implant tracking chips in our molars. Maybe the Pod People will reveal themselves. If you want to worry about every possible outcome of everything, go for it. I actually have a life that I like to enjoy.
THe GP made the mistake of assuming that you knew how BT works. You do know that each BT device has a globally unique serial number, correct? And that they could, through vehicle registration and manufacturing info potentially know exactly where you are on the roads at any given moment? Sure you may not have BT built into your car, or you could spoof your MAC but the average person will have no way of knowing that they are not anonymous, as you just demonstrated.
Are they trying to say through this analysis that your potential maximum life span would be N years and that you are some percentage of the way there?
No. They've figured out the way that Apple generates the serial numbers for their iPhones. Now they are able to age their cell phones and determine when they are eligible for an upgrade with their carrier.
If I had any interest at all in working for the latest version of MySpace.com, this might be upsetting, but I don't, so who cares?
-jcr
The correct name of Mark Z's company is "FaceSpace"
Singapore has done an awful lot in that regard as well. All the trains, stations, escalators and stairs for the underground system (called MRT) is spot less. And I mean absolutely spot less. I had to actually teach myself to look at the seat before sitting in some other metropolitan cities as the trains in Singapore are always very clean. Surely there are drunken people on the train but I guess the SGD 5000 fine goes someway in stopping littering.
A fine? You think all they get is a fine for tarnishing the train? I would not be surprised if they were also caned for it. We all know they are pretty strict with their rules there.
If the seats recline then people should be entitled to use them. I personally can sleep better in a reclined seat although the quality of sleep still sucks.
Hopefully you don't slam your seat back like some people do. As mentioned by others, my knees already hit the seat whether you recline or not. You're unlikely to be able to recline all the way back with me behind you regardless, as my knees with either break or stop the seat. Some people slam their seats back so hard you practically jump onto their laps in pain. In fact, the only reason you don't end up in their laps is their seat kindly (safety first, right?) keeps you from exiting your own.