The car insurance folks are just trying to improve the granularity of their risk calculations. The eventual will be marginally lower rates for low risk drivers, and denied coverage for the worst. Soon as that happens, some "progressive" politician would start screaming about driving being a fundamental "right", and risk based insurance rates as an infringement on that "right". I see an "O`bama-care" version of car insurance coming within 5 years.
I'll give it 10 years before some group of liberals manages to force a rule through congress that all new cars must be capable of autonomous navigation. Then 10 more before there's classes of roads (interstates, boulevards, school zones) where non-autonomous travel is banned. Then some entire cities will go driverless. All because a bunch of nanny staters feel "safer" if there's no independently controlled vehicular behemoths bearing down on them. They'll sell it as the cure for road rage, speeding and distracted driving. No Thank-you.
Does that typing test require use of a mechanical interface? Learn how to use a direct Brain-Compuer Interface and bypass the fingers and the keyboard. (Makes the PS2/USB argument moot.)
Just make the data publicly accessible. If the overlords want to create a database of what peons do, like, say, go, wear,.... Just put it online in a publicly accessible database and justify keeping the data to the Legislative and Judicial branches. Further -- no excepting anyone from being included in the database or from accessing it. Public pressure will serve to keep things honest.
Sun has been selling this same design for several years -- Sun x4500 released October 2006. - 6 SATA controllers - 48 top loading SATA drives - 2 x86 CPU.
"very few companies" that benefit from government spending "because they understand the procurement process better than anyone else."
Too many IT contracts are written with overly broad personell and systems security requirements, essentially requiring that the people working on these contracts originally coming from military or government offices to start with. Essentially built-in job security for those leaving government jobs.
Where I live, I don't use air conditioning; I'm not at all concerned with "waste heat" from light bulbs. For at least 9 months of the year I use electric heat at least part of every day. (500Kwh monthly late spring and early fall, 5000Kwh mid-winter). Heat conversion efficiency is the same (essentially 100%) whether I use light bulbs or the electric heat element in my furnace.
During pre-historic times, I would just copy the instructors chalkboard scrawl into my (paper) notebook. It was fast and efficient. Why re-invent the process with purpose built software. Use a touch screen netbook (i.e. Dell Latitude 2100) -- Just open a graphics editor and draw the equation in free hand on the touch screen.
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The car insurance folks are just trying to improve the granularity of their risk calculations. The eventual will be marginally lower rates for low risk drivers, and denied coverage for the worst. Soon as that happens, some "progressive" politician would start screaming about driving being a fundamental "right", and risk based insurance rates as an infringement on that "right". I see an "O`bama-care" version of car insurance coming within 5 years.
I'll give it 10 years before some group of liberals manages to force a rule through congress that all new cars must be capable of autonomous navigation. Then 10 more before there's classes of roads (interstates, boulevards, school zones) where non-autonomous travel is banned. Then some entire cities will go driverless. All because a bunch of nanny staters feel "safer" if there's no independently controlled vehicular behemoths bearing down on them. They'll sell it as the cure for road rage, speeding and distracted driving. No Thank-you.
Does that typing test require use of a mechanical interface? Learn how to use a direct Brain-Compuer Interface and bypass the fingers and the keyboard. (Makes the PS2/USB argument moot.)
Keep the geezer geeks happy. When you're going to rename the whole Slashdot shebang, what better than sh-bang.
Just make the data publicly accessible. If the overlords want to create a database of what peons do, like, say, go, wear, .... Just put it online in a publicly accessible database and justify keeping the data to the Legislative and Judicial branches. Further -- no excepting anyone from being included in the database or from accessing it. Public pressure will serve to keep things honest.
Sun has been selling this same design for several years -- Sun x4500 released October 2006. - 6 SATA controllers - 48 top loading SATA drives - 2 x86 CPU.
Too many IT contracts are written with overly broad personell and systems security requirements, essentially requiring that the people working on these contracts originally coming from military or government offices to start with. Essentially built-in job security for those leaving government jobs.
Where I live, I don't use air conditioning; I'm not at all concerned with "waste heat" from light bulbs. For at least 9 months of the year I use electric heat at least part of every day. (500Kwh monthly late spring and early fall, 5000Kwh mid-winter). Heat conversion efficiency is the same (essentially 100%) whether I use light bulbs or the electric heat element in my furnace.
During pre-historic times, I would just copy the instructors chalkboard scrawl into my (paper) notebook. It was fast and efficient. Why re-invent the process with purpose built software. Use a touch screen netbook (i.e. Dell Latitude 2100) -- Just open a graphics editor and draw the equation in free hand on the touch screen.