"One thought is that drivers may compensate for the distraction of cellphone use by... consciously driving more carefully during a call."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't attempting to "consciously drive more carefully" the thing every single intoxicated driver ever tries to talk themselves into? You know, that same "conscious attempt to drive more carefully" that leads to surprisingly few accidents being caused by intoxicated drivers?
Intoxicated drivers typically drive far more aggressively than normal, rather than more carefully.
The study makes no such assumptions. As the paper notes they use Carrier data to show a "7.2 percent jump in driver call likelihood
at the 9pm threshold".
Perhaps these are the same people that would be driving significantly faster than the speed limit, swerving from lane to lane, if they weren't on the phone.
Like most people I do have a problem with secret warrants issued by a secret court all authorized by a law that if not in violation of the letter of the constitution, is most definitely in violation of its spirit.
The problem with focusing all your aid to decrease mortality rates is that you end up with explosive population growth that makes it that much harder to lift these people out of poverty.
"Growth is expected to be particularly dramatic in the least developed countries of the world, which are projected to double in size from 898 million inhabitants in 2013 to 1.8 billion in 2050 and to 2.9 billion in 2100. High population growth rates prevail in many developing countries, most of which are on the UN’s list of 49 least developed countries. Between 2013 and 2100, the populations of 35 countries could triple or more. Among them, the populations of Burundi, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia are projected to increase at least five-fold by 2100." http://www.unfpa.org/pds/trends.htm
It does not necessarily mean the comment has been modded up by the community.
If Slashdot judges you to have excellent karma than all your comments start at +2.
For anyone whos says this is a problem of the "NIMBYs" (or the ratepayer) protesting the construction, it's not. Constructs in the law governing the location and construction of Nuclear Reactors specifically exclude ratepayer concerns in the consideration for approval. Utilities companies withdraw for their own reasons, usually insurance and liability as, even with the provisions of thePrice Anderson Act Nuclear power plants are too risky to operate.
The reality is if the Nuclear power industry was forced to cover it's own liability and fund itself it would cease to exist.
The article specifically states that they pulled out because of delays from regulators.
To believe that government regulators don't respond to pressure from elected officials, which in turn are being pressured by their constituents, would be pretty disingenuous.
Unfortunately because of the unpredictable nature of solar power generation, to have solar became any significant part of energy production you will either have to have a battery based short term storage system or the power company has to have a conventional plant sitting on idle ready to take over when power generation drops do to weather. Either way your cost calculations don't scale!
Often it is the most successful monetary operations that have the most aggressive bill collection tactics. It stems from a management team full of MBA's that runs the hospital as if it were any other business and completely ignores that its primary mission should be peoples welfare rather than maximizing profits.
I am a competent cook but for certain things such as prime grade beef, today's catch fish for sushi or certain recipes that require more time than I can spare, such as duck confit, than I have little choice but to go to a restaurant.
Yeh. OCR has gotten so good that CAPTCHA developers have no choice but to make their images so distorted that even human pattern recognition can't easily make them out anymore.
Couldn't a FISA warrant presumably be used to require cisco to install a backdoor on a costumers equipment?
If so wouldn't anyone with knowledge of such actives be under a gag order by the court?
Tough choice. Go with cisco and get spied on by the NSA or go with huawei and get spied on by the Chinese.
Hmm at least the Chinese only want your money!
The real question in my opinion is what kind of guiding system do the drones use. Flying by radar guidance is something that we have been doing for a long time, surface to air or air to air missiles use it to lock on a stay on target, unfortunately flying with active radar turned on you are putting a bullseye on yourself that makes it trivial for a enemy with any kind of air defenses to easily track it and shoot it down. Flying with visual guidance is considerably harder (by visual guidance I don't mean simply terrain contour matching to figure out its current location like the tomahawk). Most don't appreciate just how fast the human brain is in quickly figuring out and processing relevant information in the insane amount of visual data that enters our retinas every instant. Computers are nowhere near as good yet.
This has nothing to do with pro EU or anti-US but everything with pro-shady business or anti-consumer.
Business are very good at meeting consumer demands and what consumers want is the cheapest piece of meat you can possibly get. There is plenty of meat raised antibiotic-free available for sale and if the majority of consumers chose to buy that instead of the cheapest cut than you would see business quickly changing their practices to fill consumer demand.
direct x is an api meant to standardize gpu features and and access to them. While originally it was largely a api used by gaming developers, it has since moved far away from that. Today directx is used by video/image apps, bitcon miners, web browsers and even windows itself. This is why updating directx is not simply a matter of updating a few dll's and installing new drivers anymore, but require changes to the actual kernel, which is something you can't do without breaking all kinds of apps that rely on the quirky behavior of the old one.
I can understand they want the xbox one to be a media entertainment machine but did they really have to make it look like a ugly, rented cable-box!
Hopefully they did a better job with the packaging.
MLB seems rather happy with it and is expanding its use as fast as it can. "Back in September, four MLB teams announced that they would be adding support for Apple’s Passbook in their ticketing system, and it looks like even more on climbing on board before the 2013 MLB season officially gets under way. Furthermore, the MLB says that three more MLB teams will support Passbook later on, but those stadiums are not yet ready to announce it." http://www.slashgear.com/apples-passbook-ticketing-expanding-to-14-mlb-teams-this-year-27271733/ . Appleinsider claims that as much as %12 of all e-tickets are being delivered through passbook but I am not about to quote appleinsider on slashdot or anywhere else for that matter.
Including features simply for the sake of having the latest technology is not necessarily the best for users. Take nfc for example, apple got a lot of flak for omitting this sexy new technology and instead running with a old-school software only solution. It turned out that apples passport was in fact useful technology and adoption rates quickly began to climb while nfc is still little more than a curiosity with unrealized potential and a hopeful future.
The drop in market share is largely due to the explosive growth in the entry level market. In the high end market apple is still king. The only thing all these financial analysts that are crying for apple to release a low-end device really care about is the next quarterly report. Apple has built a name as a premium brand and jeopardizing that image for a quick profit would only benefit the wall street players at the expense of apple's long term future.
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"One thought is that drivers may compensate for the distraction of cellphone use by ... consciously driving more carefully during a call."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't attempting to "consciously drive more carefully" the thing every single intoxicated driver ever tries to talk themselves into? You know, that same "conscious attempt to drive more carefully" that leads to surprisingly few accidents being caused by intoxicated drivers?
Intoxicated drivers typically drive far more aggressively than normal, rather than more carefully.
The study makes no such assumptions. As the paper notes they use Carrier data to show a "7.2 percent jump in driver call likelihood at the 9pm threshold".
Perhaps these are the same people that would be driving significantly faster than the speed limit, swerving from lane to lane, if they weren't on the phone.
Like most people I do have a problem with secret warrants issued by a secret court all authorized by a law that if not in violation of the letter of the constitution, is most definitely in violation of its spirit.
The problem with focusing all your aid to decrease mortality rates is that you end up with explosive population growth that makes it that much harder to lift these people out of poverty.
"Growth is expected to be particularly dramatic in the least developed countries of the world, which are projected to double in size from 898 million inhabitants in 2013 to 1.8 billion in 2050 and to 2.9 billion in 2100. High population growth rates prevail in many developing countries, most of which are on the UN’s list of 49 least developed countries. Between 2013 and 2100, the populations of 35 countries could triple or more. Among them, the populations of Burundi, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia are projected to increase at least five-fold by 2100." http://www.unfpa.org/pds/trends.htm
It does not necessarily mean the comment has been modded up by the community. If Slashdot judges you to have excellent karma than all your comments start at +2.
For anyone whos says this is a problem of the "NIMBYs" (or the ratepayer) protesting the construction, it's not. Constructs in the law governing the location and construction of Nuclear Reactors specifically exclude ratepayer concerns in the consideration for approval. Utilities companies withdraw for their own reasons, usually insurance and liability as, even with the provisions of thePrice Anderson Act Nuclear power plants are too risky to operate.
The reality is if the Nuclear power industry was forced to cover it's own liability and fund itself it would cease to exist.
The article specifically states that they pulled out because of delays from regulators. To believe that government regulators don't respond to pressure from elected officials, which in turn are being pressured by their constituents, would be pretty disingenuous.
Unfortunately because of the unpredictable nature of solar power generation, to have solar became any significant part of energy production you will either have to have a battery based short term storage system or the power company has to have a conventional plant sitting on idle ready to take over when power generation drops do to weather. Either way your cost calculations don't scale!
Often it is the most successful monetary operations that have the most aggressive bill collection tactics. It stems from a management team full of MBA's that runs the hospital as if it were any other business and completely ignores that its primary mission should be peoples welfare rather than maximizing profits.
I am a competent cook but for certain things such as prime grade beef, today's catch fish for sushi or certain recipes that require more time than I can spare, such as duck confit, than I have little choice but to go to a restaurant.
Yeh. OCR has gotten so good that CAPTCHA developers have no choice but to make their images so distorted that even human pattern recognition can't easily make them out anymore.
These days you can't even post on a forum without going through some form of CAPTCH,A never mind trying to buy tickets or book reservations.
Couldn't a FISA warrant presumably be used to require cisco to install a backdoor on a costumers equipment? If so wouldn't anyone with knowledge of such actives be under a gag order by the court?
Tough choice. Go with cisco and get spied on by the NSA or go with huawei and get spied on by the Chinese. Hmm at least the Chinese only want your money!
I would mod you up if it weren't for your insensitive use of a offensive font.
The real question in my opinion is what kind of guiding system do the drones use. Flying by radar guidance is something that we have been doing for a long time, surface to air or air to air missiles use it to lock on a stay on target, unfortunately flying with active radar turned on you are putting a bullseye on yourself that makes it trivial for a enemy with any kind of air defenses to easily track it and shoot it down. Flying with visual guidance is considerably harder (by visual guidance I don't mean simply terrain contour matching to figure out its current location like the tomahawk). Most don't appreciate just how fast the human brain is in quickly figuring out and processing relevant information in the insane amount of visual data that enters our retinas every instant. Computers are nowhere near as good yet.
landed on a perfect clear day. wonder what happens when the seas are rough, the deck is pitching, and MOVLAS is rigged......
The first manned aircraft landing on a ship was also done on a perfect clear day after several weather driven delays.
This has nothing to do with pro EU or anti-US but everything with pro-shady business or anti-consumer.
Business are very good at meeting consumer demands and what consumers want is the cheapest piece of meat you can possibly get. There is plenty of meat raised antibiotic-free available for sale and if the majority of consumers chose to buy that instead of the cheapest cut than you would see business quickly changing their practices to fill consumer demand.
direct x is an api meant to standardize gpu features and and access to them. While originally it was largely a api used by gaming developers, it has since moved far away from that. Today directx is used by video/image apps, bitcon miners, web browsers and even windows itself. This is why updating directx is not simply a matter of updating a few dll's and installing new drivers anymore, but require changes to the actual kernel, which is something you can't do without breaking all kinds of apps that rely on the quirky behavior of the old one.
I can understand they want the xbox one to be a media entertainment machine but did they really have to make it look like a ugly, rented cable-box! Hopefully they did a better job with the packaging.
There should really be a authority that can remove clueless, bonehead judges from the "entire internet".
MLB seems rather happy with it and is expanding its use as fast as it can. "Back in September, four MLB teams announced that they would be adding support for Apple’s Passbook in their ticketing system, and it looks like even more on climbing on board before the 2013 MLB season officially gets under way. Furthermore, the MLB says that three more MLB teams will support Passbook later on, but those stadiums are not yet ready to announce it." http://www.slashgear.com/apples-passbook-ticketing-expanding-to-14-mlb-teams-this-year-27271733/ . Appleinsider claims that as much as %12 of all e-tickets are being delivered through passbook but I am not about to quote appleinsider on slashdot or anywhere else for that matter.
Including features simply for the sake of having the latest technology is not necessarily the best for users. Take nfc for example, apple got a lot of flak for omitting this sexy new technology and instead running with a old-school software only solution. It turned out that apples passport was in fact useful technology and adoption rates quickly began to climb while nfc is still little more than a curiosity with unrealized potential and a hopeful future.
The drop in market share is largely due to the explosive growth in the entry level market. In the high end market apple is still king. The only thing all these financial analysts that are crying for apple to release a low-end device really care about is the next quarterly report. Apple has built a name as a premium brand and jeopardizing that image for a quick profit would only benefit the wall street players at the expense of apple's long term future.
Its all in the EULA you agreed to when you clicked on the button. Didn't you read the incomprehendable fine print?