Only 10% deaths due to distracted driving? Then what are the other 90%? There was a news article recently claiming 65% of the deaths were due to daydreaming, and 15% to phones etc.
How about requiring the driver to solve a captcha every two minutes by speaking the letters. The gummint could make money on this!
They're looking at tech solutions because they are easy and fun, compared to social solutions.
I've been running Debian Testing on my desktop for over 10 years. It is continuously upgraded, and that includes all the apps, not just the OS. Never reinstalled it. And it's totally free/libre.
I expect to keep running it for the next ten years.
I have a cron that downloads the updates, which I like to apply by hand ("apt-get upgrade") every few days, so I can watch what's going on. But most of that could be done by cron, if you wanted to take a bit of risk (similar to what you take when you apply MS updates).
Atols maintain their elevation wrt sea level: if sea level drops, wind erosion lowers the atol. If sea level rises, the coral (yes - underwater) builds the reef higher. Beaked fish, e.g. parrotfish, and wave action partially reduce the face of the reef to sand and rubble, which is deposited on the atol above waterline. The coral has no trouble keeping up with sea level rise, about a foot in a century. The real problem is decimation of the fish by hunting. That can slow or halt the build up of coral sand.
For vegetation to grow on the atol, fresh water is needed. This comes from the lagoon enclosed by the atol, and is contained in a "fresh water lens" that is slightly above sea level under the atol. If the lagoon is breached or allowed to dry out and fill with sand, the atol becomes a coral island. To keep this from happening, the lagoon mush be protected and fresh water must be carefully conserved. Coral islands may have much less water, due to run-off, unless vegetation is firmly established and not destroyed in a typhoon.
These facts have been confirmed since Darwin first proposed his theory of atol growth.
A recent, refereed article studied the surface area of 27 atols in the Central Pacific. 86% of them increased in area or remained the same as sea level rose over a 20 to 60 period.
Global and Planetary Change, Article in Press, Accepted Manuscript, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.05.003
The dynamic response of reef islands to sea level rise: evidence from multi-decadal analysis of island change in the central pacific
USPS has Priority mail for speed and Certified First Class for on-line tracking, with and without signature confirmation, with and without a hard copy receipt of delivery ("return confirmation"). Then there is Registered mail, which is insurable and kept under lock and key until delivered. These services are much cheaper than FedEx.
There is also USPS Express Mail - next day delivery with tracking. It's essentially equivalent to FedEx, and delivers to PO Boxes, which FedEx won't do.
If you are one of the small group that are going to commit suicide anyway, when the word gets around that you can do something for your family/and/ make a statement, then you are more likely to jump off the roof at Foxconn than do it at home at night.
Linus is pretty agnostic when it comes to blobs - he's "practical". So there is a lot of secret, proprietary software in the kernel, often under NDA.
If you are talking about spyware at the middleware and app level, his kernel isn't involved.
If you want to thank someone, that would be Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. They are the ones who have been fighting this fight for 25 years, won in the copyright arena, but now moving into the software patent and trusted computing arenas.
The "trusted computing" (i.e. trusted by industry, not you) initiative is still alive. OP is a part of that, and deadly dangerous to free software. They are trying to block you from the internet unless your software is signed by approved authorities, bottom to top, and immutable. Refer to the FSF for more information.
If you are looking for a totally free GNU/Linux with no kernel blobs and no non-free applications, look at gNewSense. I have it running on a Lemote Yeeloong. Even the bios is free software. The kernel is a deblobbed linux kernel derived from the linux-libre project.
Why not require that scanners incorporate an independent detector that measures the amount X-ray energy?
This is already a requirement of 21CFR1020.33:
(2)Timers. (i) Means shall be provided to terminate the x-ray exposure automatically by either deenergizing the x-ray source or shuttering the x-ray beam in the event of equipment failure affecting data collection. Such termination shall occur within an interval that limits the total scan time to no more than 110 percent of its preset value through the use of either a backup timer or devices which monitor equipment function. A visible signal shall indicate when the x-ray exposure has been terminated through these means and manual resetting of the CT conditions of operation shall be required prior to the initiation of another scan.
Well, I have mod points, but rather than using them, I'll tell my story.
My wife was losing mail and we couldn't track down the problem. I had server logs showing that some mail was accepted by fm, but then disappeared. After much hair pulling, I put in a support request.
I quickly received four pages of logs showing exactly what happened to the mail in question - from the time it was accepted until it was deleted by an email client.
It turns out that there was a Mac Email client which was set to delete mail coming from sources not in my wife's address book. I thought she was only using the webmail. But every once in awhile she'd start the Mac client and it would reach up and expunge mail from the one or two people who were in the fm address book, but not in the Mac Mail address book. Gone without a trace!
Believe me, this kind of service is worth far more than $20 per year.
As you can see from the thread, these guys build on free software, and give back. I run a number of mail servers myself, but I (and my family) use fm because it would take me man years to add on what these guys offer, to say nothing of admining it all.
I'm always amazed that people are willing to waste dozens, maybe hundreds, of hours just to save $20 per year. I keep trying to get my daughter to use fm, but she'd rather struggle with the spam on the free service I provide her on one of my servers than fork out the $20. Wastes my time, too.
People should have the right to repair, and have access to the necessary knowledge. Period.
Otherwise, we deepen the already vast split between the people who create and understand our technology, and the people who are merely consumers. Eloi.
We reached some kind of zenith around the middle of the last century - most the the kids who didn't live in the center city knew how to fix their bikes, lawnmowers, tractors, and cars. Some could fix their radios or wire a house. No more. Leave it to the "certified" professionals. After all, you wouldn't want a car on the road which was improperly repaired, it might hurt someone. Slippery slope, guys.
I'm reading this on an eeePC 1000HE that cost me $375. It's no workstation, but who wants to lug one of those around when all you want to do is browse, check email, and do some light development? I've used it during a Python sprint, and it's just fine. A 10 inch 1024x600 is kinda small for development, but it's passable.
I routinely get 8 hours out of the battery, so I rarely plug it in while using it, and generally leave the charger at home. And when I do plug it in during use, the charger is strong enough and the laptop drain small enough that the battery will recharge 100% in 2-3 hours even while using it on a wifi link.
Yes, 2D barcode on paper. Seal blocks of sheets between thin copper sheets cold welded around the edge; that will protect against moisture and oxidation.
There is no way I'm keeping my arm stretched out in front of me to navigate my browser.
I use an RF optical mouse, and my usual browsing position is pushed back in my chair, working the mouse on my left leg.
I keep my mouse pad at knee height, positioned to the right of my leg. No wrist strain at all. Then there's my Model M, with my forearms nearly horizontal, and I'm looking slightly down at my 19 inch monitor.
I ain't going to talk at it or wave at it or keep in in my lap.
Of course, they will need to outlaw window mounted AC to make this workable. Bake the peasants in Bakersfield!
The folks sitting in the ocean breezes will wonder what all the fuss is about and can continue to devote their activist time to blocking nuclear power.
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A few years back, BiTMICRO published an article that arrived at a different conclusion with regard to solid state flash drive endurance in database applications. Although the write endurance rating for BiTMICRO's computations is smaller (1 million cycles), endurance ratings are much higher as a result of wear leveling methods, proprietary RS ECC and other techniques designed to prolong the life of E-Disk solid state drives. Assuming a much smaller endurance rating of 100,000 cycles (typical rating quoted by NAND flash vendors), a bigger volume of writes per day at 3.4TB and no caching nor wear leveling implementations, a 160GB solid state drive is projected to last up to 12.9 years, which is definitely longer than the average replacement cycle of most IT storage devices and equipment.
In a recent article on write endurance published in STORAGEsearch.com, editor Zsolt Kerekes provided theoretical computations on the longevity of solid state flash drives deployed in enterprise server applications. His test solid state drive had the following specifications: total capacity of 64GB, sustained write speed of 80MBps and a write endurance rating of 2 million cycles. By assuming that data is written in big blocks and there is perfect implementation of wear leveling techniques, Kerekes estimates disk endurance at 1.6 billion seconds, which translates to 50.74 years.
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I use emacs in no windows mode. It's an excellent file system navigator and editor over ssh and locally.
What do you mean, "my PC"?
Only 10% deaths due to distracted driving? Then what are the other 90%? There was a news article recently claiming 65% of the deaths were due to daydreaming, and 15% to phones etc.
How about requiring the driver to solve a captcha every two minutes by speaking the letters. The gummint could make money on this!
They're looking at tech solutions because they are easy and fun, compared to social solutions.
I've been running Debian Testing on my desktop for over 10 years. It is continuously upgraded, and that includes all the apps, not just the OS. Never reinstalled it. And it's totally free/libre.
I expect to keep running it for the next ten years.
I have a cron that downloads the updates, which I like to apply by hand ("apt-get upgrade") every few days, so I can watch what's going on. But most of that could be done by cron, if you wanted to take a bit of risk (similar to what you take when you apply MS updates).
When I scan the front page, I want to see what posts have attracted discussion, and how many of the comments are highly rated.
Now you've eliminated the e.g 47/435 numbers completely. Please put them back, they are useful and interesting.
Ah, yes, "very significant negative externalities." And what might those be? And what genius decides what they are and what to do about them?
"God, this is tiresome." IOW, stop with your ignorant objections and let "us" get on with our solutions.
We are not talking only about low-level atols.
Atols maintain their elevation wrt sea level: if sea level drops, wind erosion lowers the atol. If sea level rises, the coral (yes - underwater) builds the reef higher. Beaked fish, e.g. parrotfish, and wave action partially reduce the face of the reef to sand and rubble, which is deposited on the atol above waterline. The coral has no trouble keeping up with sea level rise, about a foot in a century. The real problem is decimation of the fish by hunting. That can slow or halt the build up of coral sand.
For vegetation to grow on the atol, fresh water is needed. This comes from the lagoon enclosed by the atol, and is contained in a "fresh water lens" that is slightly above sea level under the atol. If the lagoon is breached or allowed to dry out and fill with sand, the atol becomes a coral island. To keep this from happening, the lagoon mush be protected and fresh water must be carefully conserved. Coral islands may have much less water, due to run-off, unless vegetation is firmly established and not destroyed in a typhoon.
These facts have been confirmed since Darwin first proposed his theory of atol growth.
A recent, refereed article studied the surface area of 27 atols in the Central Pacific. 86% of them increased in area or remained the same as sea level rose over a 20 to 60 period.
Global and Planetary Change, Article in Press, Accepted Manuscript, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.05.003
The dynamic response of reef islands to sea level rise: evidence from multi-decadal analysis of island change in the central pacific
Studies show that atols and coral islands maintain their height above sealevel. The coral grows upwards as sealevel rises.
Um, screen out the tarballs?
USPS has Priority mail for speed and Certified First Class for on-line tracking, with and without signature confirmation, with and without a hard copy receipt of delivery ("return confirmation"). Then there is Registered mail, which is insurable and kept under lock and key until delivered. These services are much cheaper than FedEx.
There is also USPS Express Mail - next day delivery with tracking. It's essentially equivalent to FedEx, and delivers to PO Boxes, which FedEx won't do.
If you are one of the small group that are going to commit suicide anyway, when the word gets around that you can do something for your family /and/ make a statement, then you are more likely to jump off the roof at Foxconn than do it at home at night.
Linus is pretty agnostic when it comes to blobs - he's "practical". So there is a lot of secret, proprietary software in the kernel, often under NDA.
If you are talking about spyware at the middleware and app level, his kernel isn't involved.
If you want to thank someone, that would be Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. They are the ones who have been fighting this fight for 25 years, won in the copyright arena, but now moving into the software patent and trusted computing arenas.
The "trusted computing" (i.e. trusted by industry, not you) initiative is still alive. OP is a part of that, and deadly dangerous to free software. They are trying to block you from the internet unless your software is signed by approved authorities, bottom to top, and immutable. Refer to the FSF for more information.
If you are looking for a totally free GNU/Linux with no kernel blobs and no non-free applications, look at gNewSense. I have it running on a Lemote Yeeloong. Even the bios is free software. The kernel is a deblobbed linux kernel derived from the linux-libre project.
They need a court order even for pen register monitoring. But they don't need to support probable cause, just certify relevance to an investigation.
Better than free would be better.
Why not require that scanners incorporate an independent detector that measures the amount X-ray energy?
This is already a requirement of 21CFR1020.33:
(2)Timers. (i) Means shall be provided to terminate the x-ray exposure automatically by either deenergizing the x-ray source or shuttering the x-ray beam in the event of equipment failure affecting data collection. Such termination shall occur within an interval that limits the total scan time to no more than 110 percent of its preset value through the use of either a backup timer or devices which monitor equipment function. A visible signal shall indicate when the x-ray exposure has been terminated through these means and manual resetting of the CT conditions of operation shall be required prior to the initiation of another scan.
Well, I have mod points, but rather than using them, I'll tell my story.
My wife was losing mail and we couldn't track down the problem. I had server logs showing that some mail was accepted by fm, but then disappeared. After much hair pulling, I put in a support request.
I quickly received four pages of logs showing exactly what happened to the mail in question - from the time it was accepted until it was deleted by an email client.
It turns out that there was a Mac Email client which was set to delete mail coming from sources not in my wife's address book. I thought she was only using the webmail. But every once in awhile she'd start the Mac client and it would reach up and expunge mail from the one or two people who were in the fm address book, but not in the Mac Mail address book. Gone without a trace!
Believe me, this kind of service is worth far more than $20 per year.
As you can see from the thread, these guys build on free software, and give back. I run a number of mail servers myself, but I (and my family) use fm because it would take me man years to add on what these guys offer, to say nothing of admining it all.
I'm always amazed that people are willing to waste dozens, maybe hundreds, of hours just to save $20 per year. I keep trying to get my daughter to use fm, but she'd rather struggle with the spam on the free service I provide her on one of my servers than fork out the $20. Wastes my time, too.
Certified? What's this "certified"?
People should have the right to repair, and have access to the necessary knowledge. Period.
Otherwise, we deepen the already vast split between the people who create and understand our technology, and the people who are merely consumers. Eloi.
We reached some kind of zenith around the middle of the last century - most the the kids who didn't live in the center city knew how to fix their bikes, lawnmowers, tractors, and cars. Some could fix their radios or wire a house. No more. Leave it to the "certified" professionals. After all, you wouldn't want a car on the road which was improperly repaired, it might hurt someone. Slippery slope, guys.
I'm reading this on an eeePC 1000HE that cost me $375. It's no workstation, but who wants to lug one of those around when all you want to do is browse, check email, and do some light development? I've used it during a Python sprint, and it's just fine. A 10 inch 1024x600 is kinda small for development, but it's passable.
I routinely get 8 hours out of the battery, so I rarely plug it in while using it, and generally leave the charger at home. And when I do plug it in during use, the charger is strong enough and the laptop drain small enough that the battery will recharge 100% in 2-3 hours even while using it on a wifi link.
Yes, 2D barcode on paper. Seal blocks of sheets between thin copper sheets cold welded around the edge; that will protect against moisture and oxidation.
There is no way I'm keeping my arm stretched out in front of me to navigate my browser.
I use an RF optical mouse, and my usual browsing position is pushed back in my chair, working the mouse on my left leg.
I keep my mouse pad at knee height, positioned to the right of my leg. No wrist strain at all. Then there's my Model M, with my forearms nearly horizontal, and I'm looking slightly down at my 19 inch monitor.
I ain't going to talk at it or wave at it or keep in in my lap.
Of course, they will need to outlaw window mounted AC to make this workable. Bake the peasants in Bakersfield!
The folks sitting in the ocean breezes will wonder what all the fuss is about and can continue to devote their activist time to blocking nuclear power.
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Socialism has at least one major fault: it depends on people taking their share of the common wealth, proportional to their contribution.
The correct quote from Marx is:
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
Wouldn't that generate a lot of RFI?
In a recent article on write endurance published in STORAGEsearch.com, editor Zsolt Kerekes provided theoretical computations on the longevity of solid state flash drives deployed in enterprise server applications. His test solid state drive had the following specifications: total capacity of 64GB, sustained write speed of 80MBps and a write endurance rating of 2 million cycles. By assuming that data is written in big blocks and there is perfect implementation of wear leveling techniques, Kerekes estimates disk endurance at 1.6 billion seconds, which translates to 50.74 years.
Debunking Misconceptions in SSD Longevity