All in all, I believe they reduce the risk of fatal accidents but do cause more non-fatal ones (there are probably some statistics floating around but I cba looking them up...)
Statistics seem to claim the opposite, according to Wikipedia they are actually safer, with up to 90% fewer fatalities because most collisions occur at an indirect angle.
Things that move are way more impressive than Printf("Hello World")!
Lego Mindstorms are a good start but the first thing that got me into engineering was playing with microcontrollors, AVRs are probably easiest to start with, dev kits like the Arduino (www.arduino.cc) are readily available.
They are easy and fun to code for and you can light up some LEDs or make small robots with ease.
Another little kit is a nice AVR based robot (code is a little out of date and references needed updating last time I used it)www.arexx.com
Say you have a friend named Martin. How much more likely are you to open emails saying they're from Martin and a FYI that his email address changed, which could (in a followup email) lead you to opening a trojan/virus?
I get these all the time from muppet friend who have had their password stolen, but it is definitely easy to tell... I got this from a friend
Hey How are you doing?,I ordered one white 3gs apple iphone from one good website www.aofenl.com , much cheaper but brand new,agenuine , You can check it if you would like . Cheers
That was with full access to facebook information and from her actual address. WOW thats good social engineering.
My letter to my MP
Dear Dr Alan Whitehead,
I would like to inform you of my intentions to vote for the liberal democrats in the upcoming election primarily because of your support for the digital economy bill recently passed in the commons. I had been, and still am a labour supporter but cannot vote for a party, and an MP that is not prepared to object to a bill that is clearly ill thought out and counter productive. Whilst I accept that piracy is a huge problem for British industry, a person cannot be made responsible for their internet connection when it is nearly impossible - and beyond the average user - to properly secure. People may even be encouraged by this bill to use others WiFi around them rather than their own, creating further problems and encouraging illegal activities.
Yours sincerely,
SpacePigNinja (used my actual name)
Everyone should do the same! (feel free to copy!)
See that Mandelson? that's called sharing!
"Do you want your DNA to be stored indefinitely on a national database?"
a more useful question might have been 'would you be prepared to have your DNA on a database if it would act as a deterrent for crime and help bring criminals to justice'.
I realise this does not apply to Google, who seem to have brought new meaning to the phrase
'information is power'
lets just hope the don't blackmail me with my porn habits (over 60s is normal right?)
Slashdot Mirror
Finally! I guess it was pretty obvious really, I mean, how else are Gingers supposed to survive the years of school yard bullying?
I bet if they ran a "Browser vs Ability to talk to girls" you'd get the opposite result.
When I leave the freezer door open and everything melts I don't blame the cooling system for not working well enough, I close the fucking door!
All in all, I believe they reduce the risk of fatal accidents but do cause more non-fatal ones (there are probably some statistics floating around but I cba looking them up...)
Statistics seem to claim the opposite, according to Wikipedia they are actually safer, with up to 90% fewer fatalities because most collisions occur at an indirect angle.
I would have thought there were more obvious benefits to using hydrogen fuel cells:
lower heat produced during electricity generation means lower heat signature(not sure any missiles use spectrometry to find targets).
lighter than a internal combustion engine I think... also more joules per kilogram from the hydrogen.
quieter.
green :-P
Teach the kid how to program in BASIC
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BASIC is evil!
Things that move are way more impressive than Printf("Hello World")!
Lego Mindstorms are a good start but the first thing that got me into engineering was playing with microcontrollors, AVRs are probably easiest to start with, dev kits like the Arduino (www.arduino.cc) are readily available.
They are easy and fun to code for and you can light up some LEDs or make small robots with ease.
Another little kit is a nice AVR based robot (code is a little out of date and references needed updating last time I used it)www.arexx.com
Say you have a friend named Martin. How much more likely are you to open emails saying they're from Martin and a FYI that his email address changed, which could (in a followup email) lead you to opening a trojan/virus?
I get these all the time from muppet friend who have had their password stolen, but it is definitely easy to tell... I got this from a friend
Hey How are you doing? ,I ordered one white 3gs apple iphone from one good website www.aofenl.com , much cheaper but brand new ,agenuine , You can check it if you would like . Cheers
That was with full access to facebook information and from her actual address. WOW thats good social engineering.
My letter to my MP Dear Dr Alan Whitehead, I would like to inform you of my intentions to vote for the liberal democrats in the upcoming election primarily because of your support for the digital economy bill recently passed in the commons. I had been, and still am a labour supporter but cannot vote for a party, and an MP that is not prepared to object to a bill that is clearly ill thought out and counter productive. Whilst I accept that piracy is a huge problem for British industry, a person cannot be made responsible for their internet connection when it is nearly impossible - and beyond the average user - to properly secure. People may even be encouraged by this bill to use others WiFi around them rather than their own, creating further problems and encouraging illegal activities. Yours sincerely, SpacePigNinja (used my actual name) Everyone should do the same! (feel free to copy!) See that Mandelson? that's called sharing!
first post!
"Do you want your DNA to be stored indefinitely on a national database?"
a more useful question might have been 'would you be prepared to have your DNA on a database if it would act as a deterrent for crime and help bring criminals to justice'.
I realise this does not apply to Google, who seem to have brought new meaning to the phrase
'information is power'
lets just hope the don't blackmail me with my porn habits (over 60s is normal right?)
I am a student doing electronic engineering, and everytime I tell someone that I get: 'smart move, electricians make a lot of money!'