Or he could be like me. Working from a home office but with sound proofing so that the general noises of your young family don't get heard by clients on the phone. He has webcams setup to realtime monitor but he also has to work. So having the ability of the two year old to hit a panic button that brings you running sounds like a great idea.
Every now and again I hear my youngest scream like she has been dropped in a vat of boiling acid. I don't go running for two reasons, first is I know she is with mum. Second is 99% of the time it is because her big sister wouldn't give her the toy, sticker, food, cup, imaginary friend. A panic button however would cause me to drop everything and run.
I wonder what the range is on Spot. It is significantly quieter than big dog and watching it go up that slope much more agile. If that could go for a 3+ hours it would have a huge number of uses!
The military options are there but civil rescue operations would benefit from these as well.
They stopped carrying what their original customer base wanted. Tandy disappeared, Dick Smiths has got even worse and I don't know how they are still going.
But then JayCar came along. Picked up all of their old customer base and have been making a killing ever since. Jaycar's buzz line is "Better. More Technical" you can go in there an they have bins of components - Love that shop - http://www.jaycar.com.au/
Why do the signs need to be programmed in? Signs in every country are regulated and their design standardised. It just needs to be able to cross reference the image of the sign with its database. That is significantly easier than the facial recognition Google is so good at. It would also likely be better than a human if the sign is hanging at a strange angle.
Personally I think things like road furniture, signage, lights etc is probably the relatively easy part of this challenge. The bigger challenge is likely to be the impact of weather on the sensors, things like low density objects like newspapers or even dust clouds.
Even other drivers on the road are probably easier then the sensor problem.
I think your time frame is probably correct but not for getting to average levels of human but for self driving cars to be on the roads in private hands.
Yes but Romania's PPP is only 40% of the Euro average. And France sits well above the Euro average. This means that every single hour of labour is significantly cheaper.
On top of that the Romanian Government is currently subsidising telecoms in order to get closer to universal access. Not really an apple to apple comparison.
But if that is the case that is a bit dodge. Not uncommon but yeah dodge. Also if that is the case, summary writing fail as I read that as you got the data increase by default.
That is REALLY REALLY cheap! I am on unlimited calls, texts, and 4 Gig of data for $100 / month with Telstra in Australia. I could go a cheaper plan with optus or virgin but their coverage is no where near as good outside of the main cities.
My ISP and Telco have increased my data allowance multiple times over the years. I just get a letter / email / sms saying congrats your plan now has 33% more data!
If I wanted to go to a cheaper plan I would call them.
I know it is cool to hate on the major telcos but isn't being given more for exactly the same cost a good thing? Or am I totally missing something?
One would assume they don't look for stoplight colours. I would be worried if they did. I would assume they would look for the position on the light, exactly the same as that significant section of the population that are red / green colour blind.
Westpac - 1 of Australia's BIG FOUR banks. Market Cap 110b.
Uses 6 character case insensitive, no special characters, no punctuation to log in to internet banking. The only saving grace is you can request an RSA token which can then be combined with an any length any content password when you want to transfer funds out of your account. Note this is a request and is ONLY triggered if you want to go above the daily limit, which defaults at $500.
Full access to your accounts is available via internet or mobile app using this password and the customer number which is printed on all correspondence.
You are talking about a much bigger failing in the system there. And it is only a failing from your perspective.
Laws exist because the elected legislature passed the required laws to criminalise certain actions pertaining to certain drugs. To believe that this would be fixed by people finding someone not guilty of breaking those laws is simplistic at best.
The laws need to be repealed, and for that to happen different people need to be elected. However for that to be the case the majority needs to agree with you. And to put it simply, they don't.
How does the government monitor fraccing activities? Prior to undertaking fraccing activities operators must:
provide details of their proposed fraccing operations, including the location of wells; detail the chemicals to be used and the toxicity of ingredients and mixtures; and
develop a stimulation management plan that must be complied with during fraccing. The management plan ensures that all the relevant matters for each well are considered prior to fraccing activities taking place, and that any identified risks will be mitigated or managed to prevent environmental harm occurring.
Germany is obviously much more regulated than UK, Australia or the US. Certainly around Chiropractics.
But I wonder if your ErnÃhrungswissenschaftler is actually our Dietician. Which is a university degree and regulated.
With regards to Chiropractics, just because you guessed the right answer doesn't mean it should be respected. To be respected you should be able to show WHY your answer was right and achieve that diagnosis repeatedly. Someone shouting one over and over will guess a dice roll correct 1/6th of the time even if they don't even know the dice is there.
As for Simon Singh. He did empirical studies on alternative medicine and wrote a general public accessable book. He holds a PhD in particle physics as well as an MBE.
From wikipedia
Simon Lehna Singh, MBE (born 19 September 1964) is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner. His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem (in the United States titled Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem),[2][3] The Code Book[4] (about cryptography and its history), Big Bang[5] (about the Big Bang theory and the origins of the universe), Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial[6] (about complementary and alternative medicine, co-written by Edzard Ernst) and The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (about mathematical ideas and theorems hidden in episodes of The Simpsons and Futurama).[7]
But the liability for giving something toxic to the firefighters would sit with the overall fire fighting department and then their masters the local government. An argument that "it's covered by intellectual property so we couldn't determine if it was safe" will be met with a "don't use it then response".
Onus rests on the fire department to ensure that they are not using toxic materials without knowledge or training.
I wouldn't expect the firefighters themselves to know. In much the same way I wouldn't expect them to know the specifications of the valve liner in the engine of their truck, or the impeller angle in their water pump.
However I would absolutely expect the organisation to know. To have had someone do a risk assessment on the materials used by the front line operators. The health a safety department should know what chemicals they are going to be exposed to from their own equipment. To not know this is negligent.
It doesn't matter if the material is a proprietary composition or not. I don't need to know how you made it, but I do need to know what is in it and if any of those substances are dangerous and if so at what levels. To use a product without knowing the risks it comes with is gross negligence.
This has nothing to do with a perfect world and everything to do with a world where you can be sued.
I had an awful time at school and am terrified about what my kids school life may be like. But that said this year my eldest goes off to pre-school.
Home schooling sits outside of the norm, so our attitude was that we would keep it as an option for use IF our child struggled or had an experience similar to mine. To homeschool you have to be prepared to take on a burden that is significant. Educating someone is hard and you need to be across a wide selection of material, much of which you haven't touched on or used since you finished school.
Our personal choice was that we would try the school system first. If that didn't work, and if homeschooling addressed some of the reasons why, we would look at it then.
Not according to the article. It is a scare pamphlet about how 3m had a compound in foam that they removed in 2002 due to toxicity concerns and that the replacement must also be toxic because it doesn't have a specific name.
But this isn't the premise of the summary. It may be the premise of the article but hey this is slashdot!
From the summary "researchers don't know the identity of many of the chemicals in the mixtures on the market."
I think trying to argue that we don't know what firefighters inhale when they are fighting fires is a bit of a given, cause we don't know the contents of what is burning. Or at least to me it is and perhaps that sticks me in the dumb and dumber camp.
So now I have had to go and read the article and I stand by my initial point. The article starts by saying "Mystery Foam" which I call complete bullshit on.
So coming back to your comment perhaps there has been a race to the bottom in reading comprehension? As nothing in the article or the summary talks about the results of combustion. Candle or no.
I would have thought that something used by the fireservice in large quantities and knowingly dispersed into the wider environment would have its chemical composition well known.
There are a multitude of environmental, health and liability issues here and I simply don't buy it that the ingredients are a mystery. I'm sure that there are chemicals available which are excellent at fire fighting but also highly toxic and that those chemicals aren't used because of their lethality.
I can just imaging the defence now. "So Mr Government, you're telling me that you gave firefighters this product, to use on fires in public spaces where both trained personnel and the public can be expected to be and you didn't know what was in it?" "Correct" "Prosecution rests its case"
Seriously If I saw THAT taped to a bridge I would suspect it of being something nefarious! That thing looks dodgy as fuck!
I don't think I would think it was a bomb though, mainly because of the placement. It is not near a support it is near a light pole which is bolted too the bridge AND it is below the walkway. Any kind of detonation there is going to waste the vast majority of its force on empty space and knocking over a light pole.
But Chiropractors are licenses by whatever Chiropractors Association is in the area. Chiropractors CAN do things to people which make them feel better, but that is because they have fluked the same type of treated as a physio or an orthepedic specialist.
My issue is that they claim their methods are scientifically based, but they simply aren't. When they get called on their claims they often use the courts.
In 2009 the The British Chiropractic Association spent 15 months suing Simon Singh personally, over a piece in the Guardian where he criticised the BCA for claiming that its members could treat children for colic, ear infections, asthma, prolonged crying, and sleeping and feeding conditions by manipulating their spines.
Neither Nutritionists, Homoepaths or Chiropractors require (in Australia) any form of certification of qualification to call them selves that title. It basically means that you are at the whims of their education and honesty.
There are Nutritionists whose information closely follows that of dieticians and can be very useful to people. But it doesn't change the fact that they could be a complete quack like Gillian Mckeith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... In her case she claims that sprouting seeds contain “all the nutritional energy necessary to make a fully grown plant” and that chlorophyll is “high in oxygen,” and she recommends that you eat “lots of dark green leaves, because they will really oxygenate your blood. As I said Quack.
In 2009 the The British Chiropractic Association spent 15 months suing Simon Singh personally, over a piece in the Guardian where he criticised the BCA for claiming that its members could treat children for colic, ear infections, asthma, prolonged crying, and sleeping and feeding conditions by manipulating their spines. Again Quackery
Currently Queensland Taxis are REQUIRED to have cameras in them functioning and recording at all time. There was a bit of a stink about 18 months ago when the decision was made to add audio to the recording but I haven't heard anything more in a long time.
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Or he could be like me. Working from a home office but with sound proofing so that the general noises of your young family don't get heard by clients on the phone. He has webcams setup to realtime monitor but he also has to work. So having the ability of the two year old to hit a panic button that brings you running sounds like a great idea.
Every now and again I hear my youngest scream like she has been dropped in a vat of boiling acid. I don't go running for two reasons, first is I know she is with mum. Second is 99% of the time it is because her big sister wouldn't give her the toy, sticker, food, cup, imaginary friend. A panic button however would cause me to drop everything and run.
I wonder what the range is on Spot. It is significantly quieter than big dog and watching it go up that slope much more agile. If that could go for a 3+ hours it would have a huge number of uses!
The military options are there but civil rescue operations would benefit from these as well.
I wonder what quantity he was caught with? To get to that type of sentence in Australia he needs to be in possession of at least a kilo.
They stopped carrying what their original customer base wanted. Tandy disappeared, Dick Smiths has got even worse and I don't know how they are still going.
But then JayCar came along. Picked up all of their old customer base and have been making a killing ever since. Jaycar's buzz line is "Better. More Technical" you can go in there an they have bins of components - Love that shop - http://www.jaycar.com.au/
Why do the signs need to be programmed in? Signs in every country are regulated and their design standardised. It just needs to be able to cross reference the image of the sign with its database. That is significantly easier than the facial recognition Google is so good at. It would also likely be better than a human if the sign is hanging at a strange angle.
Personally I think things like road furniture, signage, lights etc is probably the relatively easy part of this challenge. The bigger challenge is likely to be the impact of weather on the sensors, things like low density objects like newspapers or even dust clouds.
Even other drivers on the road are probably easier then the sensor problem.
I think your time frame is probably correct but not for getting to average levels of human but for self driving cars to be on the roads in private hands.
Yes but Romania's PPP is only 40% of the Euro average. And France sits well above the Euro average. This means that every single hour of labour is significantly cheaper.
On top of that the Romanian Government is currently subsidising telecoms in order to get closer to universal access. Not really an apple to apple comparison.
BUT ITS SLASHDOT! Who reads TFA?!?!?!?!
But if that is the case that is a bit dodge. Not uncommon but yeah dodge. Also if that is the case, summary writing fail as I read that as you got the data increase by default.
That is REALLY REALLY cheap! I am on unlimited calls, texts, and 4 Gig of data for $100 / month with Telstra in Australia. I could go a cheaper plan with optus or virgin but their coverage is no where near as good outside of the main cities.
My ISP and Telco have increased my data allowance multiple times over the years. I just get a letter / email / sms saying congrats your plan now has 33% more data!
If I wanted to go to a cheaper plan I would call them.
I know it is cool to hate on the major telcos but isn't being given more for exactly the same cost a good thing? Or am I totally missing something?
And yes it is marketting puff and I'm sure a contrived setup situation. But this one identifies roadworks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
One would assume they don't look for stoplight colours. I would be worried if they did. I would assume they would look for the position on the light, exactly the same as that significant section of the population that are red / green colour blind.
Westpac - 1 of Australia's BIG FOUR banks. Market Cap 110b.
Uses 6 character case insensitive, no special characters, no punctuation to log in to internet banking. The only saving grace is you can request an RSA token which can then be combined with an any length any content password when you want to transfer funds out of your account. Note this is a request and is ONLY triggered if you want to go above the daily limit, which defaults at $500.
Full access to your accounts is available via internet or mobile app using this password and the customer number which is printed on all correspondence.
You are talking about a much bigger failing in the system there. And it is only a failing from your perspective.
Laws exist because the elected legislature passed the required laws to criminalise certain actions pertaining to certain drugs. To believe that this would be fixed by people finding someone not guilty of breaking those laws is simplistic at best.
The laws need to be repealed, and for that to happen different people need to be elected. However for that to be the case the majority needs to agree with you. And to put it simply, they don't.
I find that crazy strange. As in it is totally different here in Queensland where there is also lots of fracking happening.
http://www.ehp.qld.gov.au/mana...
How does the government monitor fraccing activities?
Prior to undertaking fraccing activities operators must:
provide details of their proposed fraccing operations, including the location of wells;
detail the chemicals to be used and the toxicity of ingredients and mixtures; and
develop a stimulation management plan that must be complied with during fraccing. The
management plan ensures that all the relevant matters for each well are considered prior to
fraccing activities taking place, and that any identified risks will be mitigated or managed to
prevent environmental harm occurring.
Germany is obviously much more regulated than UK, Australia or the US. Certainly around Chiropractics.
But I wonder if your ErnÃhrungswissenschaftler is actually our Dietician. Which is a university degree and regulated.
With regards to Chiropractics, just because you guessed the right answer doesn't mean it should be respected. To be respected you should be able to show WHY your answer was right and achieve that diagnosis repeatedly. Someone shouting one over and over will guess a dice roll correct 1/6th of the time even if they don't even know the dice is there.
As for Simon Singh. He did empirical studies on alternative medicine and wrote a general public accessable book. He holds a PhD in particle physics as well as an MBE.
From wikipedia
Simon Lehna Singh, MBE (born 19 September 1964) is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner. His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem (in the United States titled Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem),[2][3] The Code Book[4] (about cryptography and its history), Big Bang[5] (about the Big Bang theory and the origins of the universe), Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial[6] (about complementary and alternative medicine, co-written by Edzard Ernst) and The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (about mathematical ideas and theorems hidden in episodes of The Simpsons and Futurama).[7]
But the liability for giving something toxic to the firefighters would sit with the overall fire fighting department and then their masters the local government. An argument that "it's covered by intellectual property so we couldn't determine if it was safe" will be met with a "don't use it then response".
Onus rests on the fire department to ensure that they are not using toxic materials without knowledge or training.
I wouldn't expect the firefighters themselves to know. In much the same way I wouldn't expect them to know the specifications of the valve liner in the engine of their truck, or the impeller angle in their water pump.
However I would absolutely expect the organisation to know. To have had someone do a risk assessment on the materials used by the front line operators. The health a safety department should know what chemicals they are going to be exposed to from their own equipment. To not know this is negligent.
It doesn't matter if the material is a proprietary composition or not. I don't need to know how you made it, but I do need to know what is in it and if any of those substances are dangerous and if so at what levels. To use a product without knowing the risks it comes with is gross negligence.
This has nothing to do with a perfect world and everything to do with a world where you can be sued.
I had an awful time at school and am terrified about what my kids school life may be like. But that said this year my eldest goes off to pre-school.
Home schooling sits outside of the norm, so our attitude was that we would keep it as an option for use IF our child struggled or had an experience similar to mine. To homeschool you have to be prepared to take on a burden that is significant. Educating someone is hard and you need to be across a wide selection of material, much of which you haven't touched on or used since you finished school.
Our personal choice was that we would try the school system first. If that didn't work, and if homeschooling addressed some of the reasons why, we would look at it then.
Not according to the article. It is a scare pamphlet about how 3m had a compound in foam that they removed in 2002 due to toxicity concerns and that the replacement must also be toxic because it doesn't have a specific name.
Side effects of combustion are NEVER touched upon
But this isn't the premise of the summary. It may be the premise of the article but hey this is slashdot!
From the summary "researchers don't know the identity of many of the chemicals in the mixtures on the market."
I think trying to argue that we don't know what firefighters inhale when they are fighting fires is a bit of a given, cause we don't know the contents of what is burning. Or at least to me it is and perhaps that sticks me in the dumb and dumber camp.
So now I have had to go and read the article and I stand by my initial point. The article starts by saying "Mystery Foam" which I call complete bullshit on.
So coming back to your comment perhaps there has been a race to the bottom in reading comprehension? As nothing in the article or the summary talks about the results of combustion. Candle or no.
I would have thought that something used by the fireservice in large quantities and knowingly dispersed into the wider environment would have its chemical composition well known.
There are a multitude of environmental, health and liability issues here and I simply don't buy it that the ingredients are a mystery. I'm sure that there are chemicals available which are excellent at fire fighting but also highly toxic and that those chemicals aren't used because of their lethality.
I can just imaging the defence now. "So Mr Government, you're telling me that you gave firefighters this product, to use on fires in public spaces where both trained personnel and the public can be expected to be and you didn't know what was in it?" "Correct" "Prosecution rests its case"
Seriously If I saw THAT taped to a bridge I would suspect it of being something nefarious! That thing looks dodgy as fuck!
I don't think I would think it was a bomb though, mainly because of the placement. It is not near a support it is near a light pole which is bolted too the bridge AND it is below the walkway. Any kind of detonation there is going to waste the vast majority of its force on empty space and knocking over a light pole.
But Chiropractors are licenses by whatever Chiropractors Association is in the area. Chiropractors CAN do things to people which make them feel better, but that is because they have fluked the same type of treated as a physio or an orthepedic specialist.
My issue is that they claim their methods are scientifically based, but they simply aren't. When they get called on their claims they often use the courts.
In 2009 the The British Chiropractic Association spent 15 months suing Simon Singh personally, over a piece in the Guardian where he criticised the BCA for claiming that its members could treat children for colic, ear infections, asthma, prolonged crying, and sleeping and feeding conditions by manipulating their spines.
Neither Nutritionists, Homoepaths or Chiropractors require (in Australia) any form of certification of qualification to call them selves that title. It basically means that you are at the whims of their education and honesty.
There are Nutritionists whose information closely follows that of dieticians and can be very useful to people. But it doesn't change the fact that they could be a complete quack like Gillian Mckeith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... In her case she claims that sprouting seeds contain “all the nutritional energy necessary to make a fully grown plant” and that chlorophyll is “high in oxygen,” and she recommends that you eat “lots of dark green leaves, because they will really oxygenate your blood. As I said Quack.
In 2009 the The British Chiropractic Association spent 15 months suing Simon Singh personally, over a piece in the Guardian where he criticised the BCA for claiming that its members could treat children for colic, ear infections, asthma, prolonged crying, and sleeping and feeding conditions by manipulating their spines. Again Quackery
I will leave Homeopaths to their water memories.
Currently Queensland Taxis are REQUIRED to have cameras in them functioning and recording at all time. There was a bit of a stink about 18 months ago when the decision was made to add audio to the recording but I haven't heard anything more in a long time.