How does he know the drivers are using Waze? I was taking shortcuts through neighborhoods a decade before there were any commercial navigation products.
Waze's route calcluation includes historical traverse times. For a road that was only opened a few weeks ago, it might route many vehicles down it and cause a jam, but it will soon learn that's a slower route and stop using it.
So yes, I suppose you can say Waze has advanced knowledge of traffic behavior.
Waze volunteer editors really do want to make the map accurate. They go off Google Street View, which is only updated every few years on secondary streets. So if your signs were added more recently than that, they will not have a good way to know unless you tell them.
You can contact map editing volunteers directly in two ways:.
1) If you have Waze, while somewhere on the street in question, tap the orange Report button in the lower right of the screen, tap Map Issue, then select the correct category and in the comment section type in what you want done to the map.
2) Join the local Waze forums, find the forum for your state, and post there.
Ultimately, I hope this affects your decision on whether to purchase a home on a through street in the future.
Actual headline should be: "Decades Later, We're Still Underestimating the Enemy"
This reaction implies law enforcement and citizens think terrorists will stamp "TNT" on their bombs, run around in unusual clothes, attack in the same way they did last time, and name their detonators "remote detonator".
The truth is terrorists are way smarter than that. When doing the act, they will blend in. I'd feel much safer if everyone was ready for that.
So if human driver could have avoided the fatal crash, why not a human pedestrian?
They could have:
1) Worn brighter or reflective clothes while walking at night on a major roadway.
2) Crossed at a crosswalk, where a driver might actually expect and yield to a pedestrian.
3) Illuminated their bicycle with lights and reflectors.
4) Crossed at a location with better lighting.
5) Kept an eye out for oncoming traffic.
Pedestrians have the same brain drivers do and thus the same responsibilities of due diligence.
I don't feel current technology is sufficient to handle self-driving. But this is a clear case where the pedestrian is in the wrong.
Waze sells its driving data, which includes driver speed. Even if it's aggregated or anonymized, it would tell the police exactly where drivers are speeding (within 50 feet!) and at precisely what time of day.
"Deputy Fife, I just got the Waze history download. Set up speed radar at 10:03 AM at 980 Main Street, then at 11:19 move over to 833 Orchard Avenue". Force multiplication.
I'm talking about modern FPS games. I am aware on Unreal Tournament (circa 1999) you could replace enemy skins with a glowing nuclear color and see them from a mile away.
In modern games, if you make the mods you mention the game or VAC/PunkBuster will either "repair" them on startup or kick you from the game.
Cheaters are out there to look like they "pwn" and so are going to give themselves everything it takes to make up for their sorry gameplay ability. Yes, there are cheats that allow you to only turn on radar, autoaim at the feet, and the like, but that's only useful to a player who can also react and fire at the right moment. In other words, not your typical cheater.
But thanks for the compliment on my anti-friend button. Steam, please send me a million dollars.
The correct way to identify a cheater is by what they DON'T do.
Cheaters don't: 1) Check common hiding spots. 2) Hop. 3) Dive. 4) Dodge / strafe. 5) Voice or text chat. 6) Reload until they're out. 7) Do anything with thrown weapons (knives, grenades, etc). 8) Go into the center of the map (they stay on edge where no one can get behind them and thus not be seen by the wall hack).
Statements like cheaters trace you through walls is ridiculous. I can trace you through walls because I have 7.1 sound and hear you.
EASY TO MAINTAIN LOW-TECH SOLUTIONS IMHO, the best way to deal with cheaters is every game should have a "weapon" like Modern Warfare's shield. Aimbot cheats focus on the center mass where you are invulnerable using shield. I love using shield to pwn cheaters and mocking them for having hacks and still dying. They go away very quickly.
Also, for forced matched games like Modern Warfare 2 & 3, there should be a "I never want to play with this person again" button. Kind of an "anti-friend" button. Once their client can't find anyone to match with they won't be back.
Hear, hear on the subsidization. In my county, for every dollar spent by a rider, the taxpayer pays two dollars. And it would be worse if we had rail. That's an absurd ratio. If you want to get somewhere, shouldn't you have to pay for it? Sure, public transit is good for the environment, less wear and tear on infrastructure, relieves traffic, etc, but paying TWICE what the rider pays?? No.
You'd see more public support for mass transit if the subsidization rate was under 50%.
Comcast's WiFi Location Map is the hot new burglary tool. Thieves are so thankful for the time savings. Soon we will hear old crooks lamenting to their children how when they were kids they had to break into half a dozen homes just to find one with laptops and tablets.
Love the map available without credentials (hotspots.wifi.comcast.com). Comcast just told everyone in the world, "Hey! There be laptops and tablets in this house!"
This law has only been on the books a couple of years. Like the old Georgia law prohibiting carrying an ice cream cone in a back pocket on Sunday, I hope sane(r) minds will prevail and repeal this one too. Texting or using GPS at a red light is not a threat to public safety. And before I get flamed - I do not text whatsoever.
As a citizen of the county mentioned in TFA I hope I have some pull to ask the officer to instead spend time preventing 800 crimes where someone could actually be harmed. He could be doing something like, oh I don't know, patrolling a neighborhood! He can start with mine, where I've never seen a cop on patrol in 10 years. Where late one night I called 911 for two men walking around in my back yard and the responding officer never got out of the car much less did a welfare check on us. Cops: we know you're just doing what your badged PHB tells you, but this is why people resent you when you pull them over for minor traffic offenses.
Our county maps crime online. Undoubtedly the crime maps don't have an icon for texting while driving because this cop has done such a fantastic job getting the texting vermin off the streets. But feel free to peruse all the other crime roughly a million residents generate: Gwinnett County on crimemapping.com
I'm self-taught with no 4-year degree. This is what I did.
I got "general" IT experience. I got a job with a small company (less than 10 employees) where I was the staff geek. While not in my official job description, I built PCs, set up networks, designed MS Access applications, and built a company website. I created a resume where I emphasized this and not my "real" job.
I then leveraged my MS Access skills to get a serious database development job in PeopleSoft / Oracle. I'm now a.Net development manager.
You will not enjoy neglecting your first love, but it's important to demonstrate that you can design and support projects and systems from inception to user acceptance. And you will become a better IT person for it. When your website is down, it's always good to be able to have an intelligent argument with the network engineer.:-)
Just keep in mind you've chosen the hard route. It will require patience. Most IT managers understand that experience is more important than education or certifications. Especially with major changes in technology every couple of years. However, they don't have the time to sort through thousands of resumes, so they count on human resources (HR) to do that. HR is the gatekeeper and HR's job is to keep THEIR joibs. If you don't have a college degree, you will not even get through the HR resume syndicate without 5+ years of experience. The only alternative is to attend conferences and user group meetings. Be social, friendly, and outgoing: an opportune meeting with a developer or manager may get you over the wall HR has built.
P.S. SAVE ALL YOUR CODE. You may need to do a demo. Make a website with some examples of your work.
Why is no one complaining about having electronics on during flight and so near the avionics? Shall we also assume a pilot who can't figure out scheduling software knows how to disable his laptop's WiFi transmitter?
I completely trust that the government and airlines have nothing but my best interest in mind and are completely honest with me about electronics aboard planes. Usually I get this feeling when they tell me to turn off my i-Pod and offer some $10.00 headphones to listen to their piped-in music.
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Waze gives verbal turn instructions and alerts, so if the drivers are staring at their screens, they're not using Waze!
I hope in the future you will think harder about purchasing a home on a public through street.
How does he know the drivers are using Waze? I was taking shortcuts through neighborhoods a decade before there were any commercial navigation products.
Waze's route calcluation includes historical traverse times. For a road that was only opened a few weeks ago, it might route many vehicles down it and cause a jam, but it will soon learn that's a slower route and stop using it.
So yes, I suppose you can say Waze has advanced knowledge of traffic behavior.
Waze volunteer editors really do want to make the map accurate. They go off Google Street View, which is only updated every few years on secondary streets. So if your signs were added more recently than that, they will not have a good way to know unless you tell them.
You can contact map editing volunteers directly in two ways:.
1) If you have Waze, while somewhere on the street in question, tap the orange Report button in the lower right of the screen, tap Map Issue, then select the correct category and in the comment section type in what you want done to the map.
2) Join the local Waze forums, find the forum for your state, and post there.
Ultimately, I hope this affects your decision on whether to purchase a home on a through street in the future.
Actual headline should be: "Decades Later, We're Still Underestimating the Enemy"
This reaction implies law enforcement and citizens think terrorists will stamp "TNT" on their bombs, run around in unusual clothes, attack in the same way they did last time, and name their detonators "remote detonator".
The truth is terrorists are way smarter than that. When doing the act, they will blend in. I'd feel much safer if everyone was ready for that.
At some point, the car should have realized it was about to collide with something and applied the brakes. It did not. Fault = Tesla.
Apparently this is not on the programming flowchart: Not Crashing > Staying in Lane.
So if human driver could have avoided the fatal crash, why not a human pedestrian?
They could have:
1) Worn brighter or reflective clothes while walking at night on a major roadway.
2) Crossed at a crosswalk, where a driver might actually expect and yield to a pedestrian.
3) Illuminated their bicycle with lights and reflectors.
4) Crossed at a location with better lighting.
5) Kept an eye out for oncoming traffic.
Pedestrians have the same brain drivers do and thus the same responsibilities of due diligence.
I don't feel current technology is sufficient to handle self-driving. But this is a clear case where the pedestrian is in the wrong.
Seriously... is there anyone who thought that slogan was anything but self-aggrandizing P.R. that goes on everywhere?
...it's the stopping. Pretty sure the tree is to blame here, not the car.
Then again, I own a 4.2 second car and when I've done that kind of acceleration my car has never steered toward the nearest tree.
So maybe it's the driver.
I use a Cirago NUS1000. Simple, tiny, but does run warm. Bonus: it's a print server.
I have to reboot it 5-6 times a year. That's the extent of my "maintenance". But it's not in a crawspace.
You may also consider that many consumer network backup drives can act as media severs such as the Buffalo LinkStation 220
Clearly Chewbacca was not at the helm.
Vulcans live hundreds of years, but Leonard Nimoy will live forever in our hearts.
Waze sells its driving data, which includes driver speed. Even if it's aggregated or anonymized, it would tell the police exactly where drivers are speeding (within 50 feet!) and at precisely what time of day.
"Deputy Fife, I just got the Waze history download. Set up speed radar at 10:03 AM at 980 Main Street, then at 11:19 move over to 833 Orchard Avenue". Force multiplication.
I'm talking about modern FPS games. I am aware on Unreal Tournament (circa 1999) you could replace enemy skins with a glowing nuclear color and see them from a mile away.
In modern games, if you make the mods you mention the game or VAC/PunkBuster will either "repair" them on startup or kick you from the game.
Cheaters are out there to look like they "pwn" and so are going to give themselves everything it takes to make up for their sorry gameplay ability. Yes, there are cheats that allow you to only turn on radar, autoaim at the feet, and the like, but that's only useful to a player who can also react and fire at the right moment. In other words, not your typical cheater.
But thanks for the compliment on my anti-friend button. Steam, please send me a million dollars.
NO.
The correct way to identify a cheater is by what they DON'T do.
Cheaters don't:
1) Check common hiding spots.
2) Hop.
3) Dive.
4) Dodge / strafe.
5) Voice or text chat.
6) Reload until they're out.
7) Do anything with thrown weapons (knives, grenades, etc).
8) Go into the center of the map (they stay on edge where no one can get behind them and thus not be seen by the wall hack).
Statements like cheaters trace you through walls is ridiculous. I can trace you through walls because I have 7.1 sound and hear you.
EASY TO MAINTAIN LOW-TECH SOLUTIONS
IMHO, the best way to deal with cheaters is every game should have a "weapon" like Modern Warfare's shield. Aimbot cheats focus on the center mass where you are invulnerable using shield. I love using shield to pwn cheaters and mocking them for having hacks and still dying. They go away very quickly.
Also, for forced matched games like Modern Warfare 2 & 3, there should be a "I never want to play with this person again" button. Kind of an "anti-friend" button. Once their client can't find anyone to match with they won't be back.
Sorry, I can't finish this post. I have to go yell at the &#@* neighborhood kids on my lawn!!!!!1111
Hear, hear on the subsidization. In my county, for every dollar spent by a rider, the taxpayer pays two dollars. And it would be worse if we had rail. That's an absurd ratio. If you want to get somewhere, shouldn't you have to pay for it? Sure, public transit is good for the environment, less wear and tear on infrastructure, relieves traffic, etc, but paying TWICE what the rider pays?? No.
You'd see more public support for mass transit if the subsidization rate was under 50%.
Comcast's WiFi Location Map is the hot new burglary tool. Thieves are so thankful for the time savings. Soon we will hear old crooks lamenting to their children how when they were kids they had to break into half a dozen homes just to find one with laptops and tablets.
I'm 100% sure that in the Land of the Free (tm) this would get you arrested. Just ask Shane Becker.
The only answer is Netflix's business model relies on rewind fees.
Love the map available without credentials (hotspots.wifi.comcast.com). Comcast just told everyone in the world, "Hey! There be laptops and tablets in this house!"
Reminds me of pleaserobme.com.
This law has only been on the books a couple of years. Like the old Georgia law prohibiting carrying an ice cream cone in a back pocket on Sunday, I hope sane(r) minds will prevail and repeal this one too. Texting or using GPS at a red light is not a threat to public safety. And before I get flamed - I do not text whatsoever.
As a citizen of the county mentioned in TFA I hope I have some pull to ask the officer to instead spend time preventing 800 crimes where someone could actually be harmed. He could be doing something like, oh I don't know, patrolling a neighborhood! He can start with mine, where I've never seen a cop on patrol in 10 years. Where late one night I called 911 for two men walking around in my back yard and the responding officer never got out of the car much less did a welfare check on us. Cops: we know you're just doing what your badged PHB tells you, but this is why people resent you when you pull them over for minor traffic offenses.
Our county maps crime online. Undoubtedly the crime maps don't have an icon for texting while driving because this cop has done such a fantastic job getting the texting vermin off the streets. But feel free to peruse all the other crime roughly a million residents generate: Gwinnett County on crimemapping.com
Worth watching: Student video - all lanes driving the speed limit.
Fast forward to 3:25 for the best image...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B-Ox0ZmVIU
I'm self-taught with no 4-year degree. This is what I did.
I got "general" IT experience. I got a job with a small company (less than 10 employees) where I was the staff geek. While not in my official job description, I built PCs, set up networks, designed MS Access applications, and built a company website. I created a resume where I emphasized this and not my "real" job.
I then leveraged my MS Access skills to get a serious database development job in PeopleSoft / Oracle. I'm now a .Net development manager.
You will not enjoy neglecting your first love, but it's important to demonstrate that you can design and support projects and systems from inception to user acceptance. And you will become a better IT person for it. When your website is down, it's always good to be able to have an intelligent argument with the network engineer. :-)
Just keep in mind you've chosen the hard route. It will require patience. Most IT managers understand that experience is more important than education or certifications. Especially with major changes in technology every couple of years. However, they don't have the time to sort through thousands of resumes, so they count on human resources (HR) to do that. HR is the gatekeeper and HR's job is to keep THEIR joibs. If you don't have a college degree, you will not even get through the HR resume syndicate without 5+ years of experience. The only alternative is to attend conferences and user group meetings. Be social, friendly, and outgoing: an opportune meeting with a developer or manager may get you over the wall HR has built.
P.S. SAVE ALL YOUR CODE. You may need to do a demo. Make a website with some examples of your work.
Why is no one complaining about having electronics on during flight and so near the avionics? Shall we also assume a pilot who can't figure out scheduling software knows how to disable his laptop's WiFi transmitter?
I completely trust that the government and airlines have nothing but my best interest in mind and are completely honest with me about electronics aboard planes. Usually I get this feeling when they tell me to turn off my i-Pod and offer some $10.00 headphones to listen to their piped-in music.