Wow, so one of only two reasons to choose Ubuntu is if you don't plan on using Windows? It's either-or, their users hopefully aren't stupid enough to realize that. This puts Ubuntu at a disadvantage since it is portrayed not as an equal choice but as something you use if you don't want to use Y, rather than a product useful on its own merits. Lame
This is not a particularly groundbreaking development, and Audi/BMW definitely are not geniuses for implementing it. I had this idea two or three years ago (except the part involving cruise control changing.) My brother and I, in highschool, did a science fair project and implemented the algorithms, with interfaces and communications to let the light know there were cars coming. Guess where the project ended up: 3rd place at regionals. Turns out judges are not interested in projects without the proper scientific terms and mandatory use of laboratories. Bonus points if you manage to solve cancer in a way that has already been done.
It's doubtful that you could show an appropriate chain of evidence with the GPS. It's easily argued that you tampered with any such evidence.
Not exactly. Chain of evidence only applies to state-aquired evidence. Your evidence does not need a chain of evidence to be brought into court(or else no defense evidence would be available -- No one has the police officer or access to an evidence locker that is required for appropriate chain of evidence). Now, that doesn't mean that you can't be cross-examined on the veracity of that evidence or whether you had the opportunity to tamper with it. But establishing that you had opportunity to tamper with it is a far cry from establishing that you did. You're still better off with that evidence, especially coupled with a respectful attitude and appropriate demeanor at court.
The time was once when slashdot articles were properly vetted and *edited*.
"Work towards MythTV 0.24 is in full swing, and has be progressing..."
'be' rather than 'been'? Really slashdot?
https://common.law.upenn.edu/Pages/default.aspx also works(go to the "Fun" tab at the bottom) and choose the "Goat Story".
My previous link worked for me though, maybe it's only accessible from the US or something.
This case illustrates very clearly the "Goat Problem", where an open and defined process is perhaps considered more important than the right answer. The "Goat Problem" is actually an ancient Chinese legend and the University of Pennsylvania's law school has this as their mascot[1]. Is it the right call? Perhaps, for accepting this kind of technology is a slippery slope down to the all-knowing goat.
[1]: http://www.jstor.org/pss/3311295
I'm not surprised at all by this article. I did research in Southern New Jersey on this and I've found the same thing, though to a larger extent. From my data&analysis(if you want it, I can give it to you), at least 50% of the lights were short, and there was a strong trend(95% of the variability in the data can be explained by this trend) that as the speed of the road went up, the lights became more and more short and more and more lights got short. It got so bad that at 50mph, 100% of the lights were over a half a second short.
What I've started doing is going through lights at 5mph slower than the posted speed limit.
Getting the fundamentalist nutjobs out of the public schools and into their own little inbred communities where they can't do any harm to the rest of society would just be a bonus, as far as I'm concerned.
They already have this, its called home schooling.
The statement that homeschoolers are fundamentalist nutjobs who harm society is wrong. Homeschoolers, by and large, are those who are dissatisfied with the public school system(perhaps because the system is not designed to educate, but rather to dictate) and seek to better their children's education. As others have mentioned, a college degree in education is not necessary to be an effective or excellent teacher, only having a passion for a subject, transferring that passion to the student, and being able to help the student apply that passion to learning.
I personally am a home schooled senior and am graduating to attend one of the nation's top 10 mathematics universities with significant academic scholarships, and I wouldn't consider myself different from many of the home-schoolers I am friends with(yes, we have friends too!). We have the ability to attend community college classes as many of my friends and I do, and can participate in many extracurricular-yet-educational activities(I contribute to, and am a developer for, severl OSS projects).
We simply are not fundamentalist nutjobs who harm society; we contribute to it, invariably more than the average public or private schooler.
First, I think any time you consider writing some clever one-liner in real production code you should rethink long and hard. Is the hypothetical 6 fewer lines of code really worth it? Unless you're doing it for absolutely required performance reasons, the 6 lines of code you save won't buy you anything but the wrath of whoever has to come along in 3 years and refactor your code.
Given your inability to properly subtract I think you've had performance problems not just in your code, but in school as well.
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I can't wait to see pictures/videos of police officers flouting the law, which is what this will surely turn into.
Wow, so one of only two reasons to choose Ubuntu is if you don't plan on using Windows? It's either-or, their users hopefully aren't stupid enough to realize that. This puts Ubuntu at a disadvantage since it is portrayed not as an equal choice but as something you use if you don't want to use Y, rather than a product useful on its own merits. Lame
This is not a particularly groundbreaking development, and Audi/BMW definitely are not geniuses for implementing it. I had this idea two or three years ago (except the part involving cruise control changing.) My brother and I, in highschool, did a science fair project and implemented the algorithms, with interfaces and communications to let the light know there were cars coming. Guess where the project ended up: 3rd place at regionals. Turns out judges are not interested in projects without the proper scientific terms and mandatory use of laboratories. Bonus points if you manage to solve cancer in a way that has already been done.
Revolutionary research is not appreciated. Sigh
It's doubtful that you could show an appropriate chain of evidence with the GPS. It's easily argued that you tampered with any such evidence.
Not exactly. Chain of evidence only applies to state-aquired evidence. Your evidence does not need a chain of evidence to be brought into court(or else no defense evidence would be available -- No one has the police officer or access to an evidence locker that is required for appropriate chain of evidence). Now, that doesn't mean that you can't be cross-examined on the veracity of that evidence or whether you had the opportunity to tamper with it. But establishing that you had opportunity to tamper with it is a far cry from establishing that you did. You're still better off with that evidence, especially coupled with a respectful attitude and appropriate demeanor at court.
Well, no one actually ever means "The time was once", at least not in my time here. I guess I should stop using it :p
The time was once when slashdot articles were properly vetted and *edited*. "Work towards MythTV 0.24 is in full swing, and has be progressing..." 'be' rather than 'been'? Really slashdot?
https://common.law.upenn.edu/Pages/default.aspx also works(go to the "Fun" tab at the bottom) and choose the "Goat Story". My previous link worked for me though, maybe it's only accessible from the US or something.
This case illustrates very clearly the "Goat Problem", where an open and defined process is perhaps considered more important than the right answer. The "Goat Problem" is actually an ancient Chinese legend and the University of Pennsylvania's law school has this as their mascot[1]. Is it the right call? Perhaps, for accepting this kind of technology is a slippery slope down to the all-knowing goat. [1]: http://www.jstor.org/pss/3311295
I'm not surprised at all by this article. I did research in Southern New Jersey on this and I've found the same thing, though to a larger extent. From my data&analysis(if you want it, I can give it to you), at least 50% of the lights were short, and there was a strong trend(95% of the variability in the data can be explained by this trend) that as the speed of the road went up, the lights became more and more short and more and more lights got short. It got so bad that at 50mph, 100% of the lights were over a half a second short. What I've started doing is going through lights at 5mph slower than the posted speed limit.
Getting the fundamentalist nutjobs out of the public schools and into their own little inbred communities where they can't do any harm to the rest of society would just be a bonus, as far as I'm concerned.
They already have this, its called home schooling.
The statement that homeschoolers are fundamentalist nutjobs who harm society is wrong. Homeschoolers, by and large, are those who are dissatisfied with the public school system(perhaps because the system is not designed to educate, but rather to dictate) and seek to better their children's education. As others have mentioned, a college degree in education is not necessary to be an effective or excellent teacher, only having a passion for a subject, transferring that passion to the student, and being able to help the student apply that passion to learning.
I personally am a home schooled senior and am graduating to attend one of the nation's top 10 mathematics universities with significant academic scholarships, and I wouldn't consider myself different from many of the home-schoolers I am friends with(yes, we have friends too!). We have the ability to attend community college classes as many of my friends and I do, and can participate in many extracurricular-yet-educational activities(I contribute to, and am a developer for, severl OSS projects).
We simply are not fundamentalist nutjobs who harm society; we contribute to it, invariably more than the average public or private schooler.
First, I think any time you consider writing some clever one-liner in real production code you should rethink long and hard. Is the hypothetical 6 fewer lines of code really worth it? Unless you're doing it for absolutely required performance reasons, the 6 lines of code you save won't buy you anything but the wrath of whoever has to come along in 3 years and refactor your code.
Given your inability to properly subtract I think you've had performance problems not just in your code, but in school as well.
BadSummary(TM) The dead woman clearly couldn't contest the accident. The clarity in writing these days is deplorable.