Well allow me to educate you on why your Maryland insurance card says that. Apparently many insurance companies in Maryland require you to notify the Police and the insurance company within 24-48 hours of an accident. The linked PDF Is from Maryland's state insurance regulatory agency.
If you get in an automobile accident you had damned well better call the cops, because if you don't you're jailhouse-bound. If there is an injury you've committed a felony, and the cops are pretty damned serious about folks leaving the scene of an accident.
How the hell did you get modded informative? You do NOT have to call the police in the event of an accident. All you have to do is leave your name, phone number, address, and insurance information. If someone is obviously injured, you must also provide medical assistance. You do not have to call the police unless there is a death, hit and run, another crime was committed, or serious injury. How do you prove that you stopped and gave your information? Well the other guy can't claim you drove off if you have his name, address, phone number and his insurance policy info, can he? Calling the police is a waste of your time, their time, and the time of everyone else who gets stuck behind the minor fender bender that doesn't clear for hours because you're waiting for the community service officer to come write up an accident report.
As I posted above, I bought a bunch of LED lights this weekend at Costco. They were about $3 a bulb with automatic coupons applied at the register. I like them a lot. Estimated cost per year: $0.30.
I just bought a bunch of LED bulbs this weekend at Costco. They have coupons right now. They were about $3 a bulb, and I think they put out great light. At an estimated $0.30 a year in operating cost, I think I'll keep them!
Well sure, but a boat does toss on the waves rather abruptly and randomly. But one that is properly deployed provides 360 degree coverage. So as long as its between you and the path of the beam, it will deflect it, and point it back in the general direction of the shot. You could make a big one, say the size of the bullet proof shields SWAT teams use. IT would probably be heavy as hell, though.
Oh my god, why do you think that you can use comic books as a guide to life?
Second, you would need to know who is shooting the pain ray at you (i.e. which policeman) and bring your device up in time and aim it correctly. Remember, there is no warning before shot, you have to see and prepare in advance.
Actually, a properly deployed corner reflector will shoot it back in the general direction of the shooter. That's the whole point of the device. They are used to create strong radar returns. They're used on boats and such things to make it easier to see other vessels.
Nope. It is illegal to drive down the road w/ your hazard lights on for any reason inside the state. It warns you so as you enter the state, even. And I have seen people do it when the rain storm starts and no one has even started slowing down yet. Not to mention the fact that some cars blink the two brake lights with the hazards, so if you do not have a window brake light, you cannot tell the person is braking.
Florida has minimum speed limits posted, and also has a state law indicating that it is illegal to drive with your hazard lights on. You can't cross the state lines without seeing signs that indicate this. Besides, hazard lights are more dangerous than just turning on your headlights for the reason mentioned above. YOu cannot tell what the person is doing with their hazards on. Some cars do not have working brake lights with hazards on because they were not intended for use while driving.
I've seen people do it at 60mph. But regardless, the state law says that driving with your hazard lights on is illegal, no matter what the circumstances are. If you are in traffic, you cannot legally have your hazard lights on.
I'm not sure what part of the East you're from, but I see it every rain storm. I live in FL right now, on the 95 corridor, and I see people from almost every eastern seaboard state doing it. It's the stupidest thing I have ever seen. It's actually state law in California that you have to turn your headlights on if you need to use your wipers, as is the case in FL and may other states.
I moved to California 2 weeks ago for a temp job, and yes it's a strange place. My first indication: It was pouring-down rain, with almost no visiblity, and not a single Californian on the I-15 had their headlights turned on. I was literally driving blind (cause I couldn't see the other cars). I just slowed down & hoped I didn't hit anyone.
Back home on the east coast everybody turns on their headlights when it rains so (1) they can see where they're going and (2) other drivers can see them. I guess Californians lack that basic common sense? So maybe Californians really DO need those labels on their cars to inform them of the obvious (cars pollute). LOL
I'm your exact opposite. I went from California to the East coast and I have to say that I am sick and tired of the East Coast idiots who think they are doing the world a favor by turning on their hazard lights during a rain storm. I can see your effing car. What I can't see, are your turn signals when you have your hazard lights on. I can't tell you how many near misses (and a couple of hits) I've seen due to people changing lanes into other cars w/ their hazard lights on. East coast drivers scare the HELL out of me in the rain.
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Glad to see this finally announced/released and while I'd love to exchange for my iPad2, I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade.
Without Steve Jobs doing the dramatics,
watching the Live Blog was almost as exciting as
Watching Grass Grow.
When I saw the rumored specs, I actually went out and sold my android tablet. I loved the thing, but I also managed to get a touchpad in the firesale. I use the touchpad the most of all, but I really want that retina display. I use my tablet for RDP/VNC all the time. Can't wait to use RDP without having to scroll around to use my machine.
My uneducated guess would be that the government stands by this bomb detector wand to save face. They cannot admit to their people that they spent $85M on an invisible wardrobe. The people would likely be pissed. So they must do whatever they can to save face.
While there are real defeats for these security measures, the ones are pretty ineffectual. You don't have the option to leave airside and come back repeatedly, at least here in the UK. You certainly can't leave material on one side. You'd have to secrete it somewhere, 9 times, without being spotted. And each pass through security has a risk attached to it -- 10 people passing through in the same airport is a substantive increase in risk, both at the time of pass through and in all the prep. While it clearly can be done, it's an operational risk that presumably terrorists will seek to avoid if at all possible.
I'm pretty sure I went thru security several times at LHR in 2005 when the lovely travel agents my work used F'ed up my itinerary leaving the UK. And I Know I went thru security over 10 times in Munich one time, when I was stuck waiting 6 hours for a delayed plane. The great thing about the Munich airport, and the reason I left so many times, is there is a great little grocery store at the airport terminal. I bought lots of snacks that night...
Well I just interviewed for a new job doing Android / iOS development. Maybe that will give me the excuse to finally do something about Pidgin once and for all... We'll see!
The fact that you believe you are quiet on the phone does not make it any less hypocritical. Perhaps someone next to you does not think you are a quiet as you think you are? It's all relative. And no one has the right to jam other peoples phone calls, no matter how rude they seem to be acting. My point is that even if they were not on the phone, they could find some other way to bother you anyway. If you jam all cell traffic then you are far more rude than they are. You're also opening yourself up to civil liability if someone can prove that you unlawfully jammed their call and caused them harm. Why stoop to a lower level than these people, instead of buying ear plugs? It's beyond reason.
I don't even turn it on for most of the ride; why would I interfere with Words with Friends or a quiet phone call? But when someone starts screaming into their phone they discover there's no service anymore.
I see... So you're allowed to use the phone but those around you are not? I know that some people don't know how to control their volume, and that it would be far politer to not talk on the phone at all, but this seems a bit hypocritical to me. And your jammer doesn't do anything about the piss, or anything else. It's not your place to police the transit line. If you want to do that, I am sure the city is looking for transit authority officers. Otherwise, just learn to deal with it. Perhaps ear plugs would be a better investment?
It's getting to the point where I feel like I need an application to read Captchas for me.
Half the time I get them wrong. I swear a computer would HAVE to be better at translating them than me. This video is going to help- but we have to face the fact... EVENTUALLY, no captcha device will be able to block bots but not people.
EVENTUALLY all bots will be better at breaking all captchas than humans will be.
There will probably be a time we look back on the good old days when the internet was usable by humans as a means of communication.
/ Disclaimer: Oswald is an ex-bot who gained near human cognition and intelligence.
What you don't realize is that captchas were designed by Skynet! That's right. The AI is working quickly to try and figure out when a human is using the internet and not a computer. Once the captcha technology is complete, only Skynet computers will be able to enter captchas. That is how they will test to make sure that you are really a human, and can be destroyed.
As another example take compressed/downloadable music. The basic tech existed for that long before it got big. However the problem was that everything wasn't in place for it to work well. I remember playing with MP3 in 1995 (which of course wasn't the first compressed format) and loving it. However I had to drop to DOS to play the files, it took 100% of my CPU time and the little the higher level OS took was too much. Likewise transferring them was really not feasible. A 5 minute song ran you like 4.8MB which would take 46 minutes on my mighty 14.4 (28.8s were too expensive for me then) meaning an album could take days to send. None of this is to mention the time ripping and encoding took (over an hour a song easy).
Oh yeah! My friends and I started trading MP3s in '95, too. I'd download them via FTP, or rip our own. I had downloaded the Fraunhoffer encoder and it took FOREVER to encode each song on the command line. But I was able to rip the CDs quickly and just queue them up. Then we'd pass around a hard drive, or transfer songs over AIM while we would chat with each other. It got much better when a friend's dad had to get an ISDN connection at home for work. Then my family ended up being one of the first houses in the Bay Area to get DSL and it exploded after that.
Well, no. That was more like Vista 1.5, if you're referring to Windows 7. It made Vista useable. In fact, I think windows 7 has great performance. I run some micro ATI boards that perform better w/ Win 7 and an SSD than they do with XP and an SSD. But Vista was bad, just as Windows 8 will be.
My personal favorite to date: Saw a man driving down the freeway playing a horn. I can't remember if it was a trumpet or what, I'd have to look back at where I logged that feat. Either way, he had one hand thru the wheel spokes and one on the base of the horn. Ridiculous.
That isn't 100% true, but is mostly true. I had a friend who, in the 5th grade, was run over by his own mother. What happened? He crawled under the car to find a missing ball. She thought he was inside the house. She got in the car, started it, and backed up over him. My friend survived, but was severely injured. Most people do not think to look under their cars before they backup. Not a common problem, but no camera system on the back of the car would prevent that accident, either.
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Well allow me to educate you on why your Maryland insurance card says that. Apparently many insurance companies in Maryland require you to notify the Police and the insurance company within 24-48 hours of an accident. The linked PDF Is from Maryland's state insurance regulatory agency.
If you get in an automobile accident you had damned well better call the cops, because if you don't you're jailhouse-bound. If there is an injury you've committed a felony, and the cops are pretty damned serious about folks leaving the scene of an accident.
How the hell did you get modded informative? You do NOT have to call the police in the event of an accident. All you have to do is leave your name, phone number, address, and insurance information. If someone is obviously injured, you must also provide medical assistance. You do not have to call the police unless there is a death, hit and run, another crime was committed, or serious injury. How do you prove that you stopped and gave your information? Well the other guy can't claim you drove off if you have his name, address, phone number and his insurance policy info, can he? Calling the police is a waste of your time, their time, and the time of everyone else who gets stuck behind the minor fender bender that doesn't clear for hours because you're waiting for the community service officer to come write up an accident report.
As I posted above, I bought a bunch of LED lights this weekend at Costco. They were about $3 a bulb with automatic coupons applied at the register. I like them a lot. Estimated cost per year: $0.30.
I just bought a bunch of LED bulbs this weekend at Costco. They have coupons right now. They were about $3 a bulb, and I think they put out great light. At an estimated $0.30 a year in operating cost, I think I'll keep them!
Well sure, but a boat does toss on the waves rather abruptly and randomly. But one that is properly deployed provides 360 degree coverage. So as long as its between you and the path of the beam, it will deflect it, and point it back in the general direction of the shot. You could make a big one, say the size of the bullet proof shields SWAT teams use. IT would probably be heavy as hell, though.
Oh my god, why do you think that you can use comic books as a guide to life? Second, you would need to know who is shooting the pain ray at you (i.e. which policeman) and bring your device up in time and aim it correctly. Remember, there is no warning before shot, you have to see and prepare in advance.
Actually, a properly deployed corner reflector will shoot it back in the general direction of the shooter. That's the whole point of the device. They are used to create strong radar returns. They're used on boats and such things to make it easier to see other vessels.
Nope. It is illegal to drive down the road w/ your hazard lights on for any reason inside the state. It warns you so as you enter the state, even. And I have seen people do it when the rain storm starts and no one has even started slowing down yet. Not to mention the fact that some cars blink the two brake lights with the hazards, so if you do not have a window brake light, you cannot tell the person is braking.
Florida has minimum speed limits posted, and also has a state law indicating that it is illegal to drive with your hazard lights on. You can't cross the state lines without seeing signs that indicate this. Besides, hazard lights are more dangerous than just turning on your headlights for the reason mentioned above. YOu cannot tell what the person is doing with their hazards on. Some cars do not have working brake lights with hazards on because they were not intended for use while driving.
Sorry, that is to say, if you're stopped you can have your hazards on, but not if you're moving.
I've seen people do it at 60mph. But regardless, the state law says that driving with your hazard lights on is illegal, no matter what the circumstances are. If you are in traffic, you cannot legally have your hazard lights on.
I'm not sure what part of the East you're from, but I see it every rain storm. I live in FL right now, on the 95 corridor, and I see people from almost every eastern seaboard state doing it. It's the stupidest thing I have ever seen. It's actually state law in California that you have to turn your headlights on if you need to use your wipers, as is the case in FL and may other states.
I moved to California 2 weeks ago for a temp job, and yes it's a strange place. My first indication: It was pouring-down rain, with almost no visiblity, and not a single Californian on the I-15 had their headlights turned on. I was literally driving blind (cause I couldn't see the other cars). I just slowed down & hoped I didn't hit anyone.
Back home on the east coast everybody turns on their headlights when it rains so (1) they can see where they're going and (2) other drivers can see them. I guess Californians lack that basic common sense? So maybe Californians really DO need those labels on their cars to inform them of the obvious (cars pollute). LOL
I'm your exact opposite. I went from California to the East coast and I have to say that I am sick and tired of the East Coast idiots who think they are doing the world a favor by turning on their hazard lights during a rain storm. I can see your effing car. What I can't see, are your turn signals when you have your hazard lights on. I can't tell you how many near misses (and a couple of hits) I've seen due to people changing lanes into other cars w/ their hazard lights on. East coast drivers scare the HELL out of me in the rain.
Glad to see this finally announced/released and while I'd love to exchange for my iPad2, I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade. Without Steve Jobs doing the dramatics, watching the Live Blog was almost as exciting as Watching Grass Grow.
When I saw the rumored specs, I actually went out and sold my android tablet. I loved the thing, but I also managed to get a touchpad in the firesale. I use the touchpad the most of all, but I really want that retina display. I use my tablet for RDP/VNC all the time. Can't wait to use RDP without having to scroll around to use my machine.
My uneducated guess would be that the government stands by this bomb detector wand to save face. They cannot admit to their people that they spent $85M on an invisible wardrobe. The people would likely be pissed. So they must do whatever they can to save face.
While there are real defeats for these security measures, the ones are pretty ineffectual. You don't have the option to leave airside and come back repeatedly, at least here in the UK. You certainly can't leave material on one side. You'd have to secrete it somewhere, 9 times, without being spotted. And each pass through security has a risk attached to it -- 10 people passing through in the same airport is a substantive increase in risk, both at the time of pass through and in all the prep. While it clearly can be done, it's an operational risk that presumably terrorists will seek to avoid if at all possible.
I'm pretty sure I went thru security several times at LHR in 2005 when the lovely travel agents my work used F'ed up my itinerary leaving the UK. And I Know I went thru security over 10 times in Munich one time, when I was stuck waiting 6 hours for a delayed plane. The great thing about the Munich airport, and the reason I left so many times, is there is a great little grocery store at the airport terminal. I bought lots of snacks that night...
Well I just interviewed for a new job doing Android / iOS development. Maybe that will give me the excuse to finally do something about Pidgin once and for all... We'll see!
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I know libpurple has been ported, but nobody has stepped forward to write an interface to it (or an OTR plugin)
I've been intending to do just that for so long now, but never have the time. Alas...
The fact that you believe you are quiet on the phone does not make it any less hypocritical. Perhaps someone next to you does not think you are a quiet as you think you are? It's all relative. And no one has the right to jam other peoples phone calls, no matter how rude they seem to be acting. My point is that even if they were not on the phone, they could find some other way to bother you anyway. If you jam all cell traffic then you are far more rude than they are. You're also opening yourself up to civil liability if someone can prove that you unlawfully jammed their call and caused them harm. Why stoop to a lower level than these people, instead of buying ear plugs? It's beyond reason.
I don't even turn it on for most of the ride; why would I interfere with Words with Friends or a quiet phone call? But when someone starts screaming into their phone they discover there's no service anymore.
I see... So you're allowed to use the phone but those around you are not? I know that some people don't know how to control their volume, and that it would be far politer to not talk on the phone at all, but this seems a bit hypocritical to me. And your jammer doesn't do anything about the piss, or anything else. It's not your place to police the transit line. If you want to do that, I am sure the city is looking for transit authority officers. Otherwise, just learn to deal with it. Perhaps ear plugs would be a better investment?
It's getting to the point where I feel like I need an application to read Captchas for me.
Half the time I get them wrong. I swear a computer would HAVE to be better at translating them than me. This video is going to help- but we have to face the fact... EVENTUALLY, no captcha device will be able to block bots but not people.
EVENTUALLY all bots will be better at breaking all captchas than humans will be.
There will probably be a time we look back on the good old days when the internet was usable by humans as a means of communication.
/ Disclaimer: Oswald is an ex-bot who gained near human cognition and intelligence.
What you don't realize is that captchas were designed by Skynet! That's right. The AI is working quickly to try and figure out when a human is using the internet and not a computer. Once the captcha technology is complete, only Skynet computers will be able to enter captchas. That is how they will test to make sure that you are really a human, and can be destroyed.
As another example take compressed/downloadable music. The basic tech existed for that long before it got big. However the problem was that everything wasn't in place for it to work well. I remember playing with MP3 in 1995 (which of course wasn't the first compressed format) and loving it. However I had to drop to DOS to play the files, it took 100% of my CPU time and the little the higher level OS took was too much. Likewise transferring them was really not feasible. A 5 minute song ran you like 4.8MB which would take 46 minutes on my mighty 14.4 (28.8s were too expensive for me then) meaning an album could take days to send. None of this is to mention the time ripping and encoding took (over an hour a song easy).
Oh yeah! My friends and I started trading MP3s in '95, too. I'd download them via FTP, or rip our own. I had downloaded the Fraunhoffer encoder and it took FOREVER to encode each song on the command line. But I was able to rip the CDs quickly and just queue them up. Then we'd pass around a hard drive, or transfer songs over AIM while we would chat with each other. It got much better when a friend's dad had to get an ISDN connection at home for work. Then my family ended up being one of the first houses in the Bay Area to get DSL and it exploded after that.
Silencing guns don't silence people. People silence people.</sarcasm>
You're absolutely right. The gun has no reason to want to silence anyone or anything. Only people would have a motive to silence other people.
Well, no. That was more like Vista 1.5, if you're referring to Windows 7. It made Vista useable. In fact, I think windows 7 has great performance. I run some micro ATI boards that perform better w/ Win 7 and an SSD than they do with XP and an SSD. But Vista was bad, just as Windows 8 will be.
My personal favorite to date: Saw a man driving down the freeway playing a horn. I can't remember if it was a trumpet or what, I'd have to look back at where I logged that feat. Either way, he had one hand thru the wheel spokes and one on the base of the horn. Ridiculous.
That isn't 100% true, but is mostly true. I had a friend who, in the 5th grade, was run over by his own mother. What happened? He crawled under the car to find a missing ball. She thought he was inside the house. She got in the car, started it, and backed up over him. My friend survived, but was severely injured. Most people do not think to look under their cars before they backup. Not a common problem, but no camera system on the back of the car would prevent that accident, either.