It's also good for users who swear they're typing exactly what* you told them to type.
*for nearly all possible values of 'what': URL, username, command line, etc. Only exception I can think of is password, which you (hopefully) wouldn't be able to see.
It's also great for really freaking out an uninformed user!
According to the horribly mangled translation of the article, it appears that Renault examined the car and found no wear on the brakes. Assuming they don't find anything that would prevent the brakes from working, that suggests the driver didn't really try to use them to stop the car.
I wonder where runaway acceleration is more likely: a new car or an older car.
My own runaway acceleration story:
I used to drive an old beat up VW Rabbit diesel. It was my dad's car which he let me use while I was in college. It used to accelerate uncontrollably after driving for 20-30 minutes. It only happened during highway driving.
There was nothing visibly wrong with the throttle cable. Immediately after stopping (by applying brakes), trying to start the engine would immediately result in the same problem. If it was allowed to rest for about 20 minutes, it would drive OK again. Dad's analysis was that my big feet were just getting caught (thanks, dad).
When it started accelerating, the only way to stop it was to pull over and push down on the brakes until the engine stalled.
It took about a year before we found a mechanic that knew the answer. There was an exaust line which would allow motor oil to blow into the engine. The motor oil/diesel fuel mixture would burn hotter and faster than just the diesel fuel, causing the engine to race. We pulled the exhaust line and the problem went away.
The clouds of smoke pouring out from the hood caused it to look like the car was on fire every time I stopped at an intersection, but it never took off again.
The reason we went to that mechanic and finally discovered the truth is once while on the highway it *really* took off. There was less time to think than usual because of heavier traffic. I forgot myself and hit the clutch. That did stop the engine, but in a far more spectacular way than I would have preferred (motor oil spraying out of the hood).
The car also used to cough big globs of used motor oil out the exhaust pipe. Nobody ever used to tailgate me.
...the amount of power being extracted from the
atmosphere would be more than the increase in greenhouse gas atmospheric energy forcing since 1600.
Now we can look forward to a day when our arrogant dependence on wind for our power leads to a catastrophic global cooling. Children coming home from school and reminding their parents to burn some coal for the environment.
This isn't about running windows on a different processor. It is about running applications for windows in a different operating system with different hardware.
Personally, I'd rather not have anyone else raise my kids. Instead of merely denying them access to certain material, I allow them access to my guidance. That way even when the illusion of control falls apart, I'm still there to explain and answer questions.
So far the most disturbing thing my oldest (age 6) has been exposed to is faith in the president. It's proving difficult to eradicate.
If you try to use your unregulated wireless device in my house, I can kick your ass out. I don't even have to give a reason. I also believe that the courts would support me.
I work for the Hospital of the University of PA in west Philly.
For the most part, if you have a cell phone in the hospital, you can't get any signal unless you are within 5-10 feet of a window. I doubt any wireless network set up by Philly would reach deep inside the hospital.
They also already have wireless networks installed inside.
Even that doesn't always help. When my brother was at Temple, his dorm room was robbed with several others. The thieves waited until the dorm was empty during spring break, and they used a fire axe to hack their way through the walls. They went down the entire length of the hall clearing out every room.
There's no protection that's perfect. However, it is fairly cheap to insure your stuff on your parent's home owner's policy. Otherwise, you can look into a renter's policy (very cheap and wise for other reasons).
However, an impact strong enough to break bone is still strong enough to break bone even if the bone it is hitting isn't made of bone;-)
If you replace one bone using a material which won't break, the impact could very likely break some other bone.
If the impact on the lower jaw was headed towards the skull, it might be the skull that broke instead. That unbreakable jaw might end up going into your brain.
> I never allow them to shepherd me into a back > office, for the same reason that I never phone; > you're at a disadvantage if you can't be seen or > heard by anyone else.
Reminds me of my experience with BestBuy. Bought a fridge from them when my wife & I bought our house. They were running a promotion for that fridge. They would include an ice-maker if you bought the fridge. Salesman pointed it out, the wife and I ate it up.
Fridge arrives, no ice-maker. I called Best Buy to ask for it, and was told that I didn't *ask* them to include the free ice-maker when I paid for the fridge. I said the sales-droid said it was included and didn't *tell* me to ask. They said tough, nothing we can do. I asked to speak to the manager.
The manager got on the phone and I repeated the story. He said that he was sorry but there was nothing he could do.
The argument went on for a while, with me getting more and more aggitated (lots and LOTS of swearing - my parents were there and they said later that I scared them).
Finally I told the manager that we were getting nowhere. I said that I would grab the receipts and head right over to the store to talk to him in person. I didn't expect this to solve anything, but I was really enraged at the time, and I was starting to be frustrated by the fact that I couldn't strangle the weasle over the phone. I told him I'd be there in 10 minutes.
Next thing he's saying that there might be something he could do. He puts me on hold for a second, then he comes back on the line to schedule a time for someone to come out and install an ice-maker.
I was never sure if he gave in bacause I'd be talking to him in the large appliance department and scaring away all his customers, or if he realized that I was going to kill him.
Frankly, I never really cared. I got my ice-maker;-)
I don't understand why they're jumping to the conclusion that language shapes ability. The more reasonable conclusion seems to be that need shapes ability, with language as an afterthought.
It seems reasonable that someone who has never needed to count beyond 2 is unable to do so. It also wouldn't suprise me if that same person didn't have a word for 3 or 4 or any way to express any number beyond 2.
Why would we assume from this that the language develops before the ability? Why couldn't it be the case that someone discovered a value 1 more than 2, and named it "three" or "tres", or even "George". Prior to giving it a name, the person would be aware that the value existed.
If you tried to teach the person that a value 1 more than 2 existed, you could say "three" all you wanted, and it wouldn't make a difference. Before they could map "three" to "a value 1 more than 2", they would need to have some understanding of what "a value 1 more than 2" is.
> If you like the site, click the ad. You don't have > to go all the way through to checkout for > click-thrus to be noticed.
Clicking and not buying is as bad as blocking the ads. It just confuses the merchant a little more. Eventually they'll figure out that they have to look at actual sales to determine the value of an ad. Then they'll adjust to that new reality.
I'm not saying that I look at ads, or that I really care about how web pages are funded. I'm not interested in paying for the content. If I was, I'd be willing to pay a subscription. If it goes away because no one else is interested in the ads, I'll survive without it (I did before).
Frankly, the only thing I've found online that I'd be willing to pay a subscription for is google groups. If Google suddenly decided that they needed to charge for access, and the charge was reasonable, I'd pay it. To me everything else is just fluff.
I don't block ads because I'm completely capable of ignoring them. The only time they irritate me is when the server hosting the ads can't be reached and it causes delays loading the page. When that happens, I just move on with my life. If I care enough, I come back later to view the page. More often than not, I just find what I'm looking for somewhere else.
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
If you distribute code, you are indicating that you accept the license. Can you later reject the license, and if so does your continued distribution constitute a violation of copyright?
The schedule info makes the difference. An employee missed a show because "it wasn't on this week". However, my TiVo recorded it. It *was* on, just not in its regular timeslot.
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It's also good for users who swear they're typing exactly what* you told them to type.
*for nearly all possible values of 'what': URL, username, command line, etc. Only exception I can think of is password, which you (hopefully) wouldn't be able to see.
It's also great for really freaking out an uninformed user!
19" is medium sized? Man, I'm getting screwed. I thought 17" was medium sized.
Only on /. would a post about a post about a post... ...aw, never mind.
Must be nice to live in a place where people have the time and strength to worry about "Neopet addiction"
They're going to ban Estes rockets?
> Shift into neutral.
You forgot to suggest trying the brakes first.
According to the horribly mangled translation of the article, it appears that Renault examined the car and found no wear on the brakes. Assuming they don't find anything that would prevent the brakes from working, that suggests the driver didn't really try to use them to stop the car.
I wonder where runaway acceleration is more likely: a new car or an older car.
My own runaway acceleration story:
I used to drive an old beat up VW Rabbit diesel. It was my dad's car which he let me use while I was in college. It used to accelerate uncontrollably after driving for 20-30 minutes. It only happened during highway driving.
There was nothing visibly wrong with the throttle cable. Immediately after stopping (by applying brakes), trying to start the engine would immediately result in the same problem. If it was allowed to rest for about 20 minutes, it would drive OK again. Dad's analysis was that my big feet were just getting caught (thanks, dad).
When it started accelerating, the only way to stop it was to pull over and push down on the brakes until the engine stalled.
It took about a year before we found a mechanic that knew the answer. There was an exaust line which would allow motor oil to blow into the engine. The motor oil/diesel fuel mixture would burn hotter and faster than just the diesel fuel, causing the engine to race. We pulled the exhaust line and the problem went away.
The clouds of smoke pouring out from the hood caused it to look like the car was on fire every time I stopped at an intersection, but it never took off again.
The reason we went to that mechanic and finally discovered the truth is once while on the highway it *really* took off. There was less time to think than usual because of heavier traffic. I forgot myself and hit the clutch. That did stop the engine, but in a far more spectacular way than I would have preferred (motor oil spraying out of the hood).
The car also used to cough big globs of used motor oil out the exhaust pipe. Nobody ever used to tailgate me.
At MicroSoft.
Marriage is based on the idea that you should have someone who will pull your head out of the toilet water when you've been throwing up.
Now we can look forward to a day when our arrogant dependence on wind for our power leads to a catastrophic global cooling. Children coming home from school and reminding their parents to burn some coal for the environment.
This isn't about running windows on a different processor. It is about running applications for windows in a different operating system with different hardware.
MS might care about that.
Ah, but who gets to define "kid safe"?
Personally, I'd rather not have anyone else raise my kids. Instead of merely denying them access to certain material, I allow them access to my guidance. That way even when the illusion of control falls apart, I'm still there to explain and answer questions.
So far the most disturbing thing my oldest (age 6) has been exposed to is faith in the president. It's proving difficult to eradicate.
Bullshit.
If you try to use your unregulated wireless device in my house, I can kick your ass out. I don't even have to give a reason. I also believe that the courts would support me.
Wow. I've had a handful of movies lost in the mail, and I've never had a problem. How many movies were lost?
> So I'd say that using MD5 to hash passwords is
> going to be with us for a long time.
That's not really saying much when you consider that using crypt to hash passwords will also be with us for a long time.
I work for the Hospital of the University of PA in west Philly.
For the most part, if you have a cell phone in the hospital, you can't get any signal unless you are within 5-10 feet of a window. I doubt any wireless network set up by Philly would reach deep inside the hospital.
They also already have wireless networks installed inside.
No, he just spent too much time working near the warp coils.
Starfleet should do something about that.
> Lock your damn door...
Even that doesn't always help. When my brother was at Temple, his dorm room was robbed with several others. The thieves waited until the dorm was empty during spring break, and they used a fire axe to hack their way through the walls. They went down the entire length of the hall clearing out every room.
There's no protection that's perfect. However, it is fairly cheap to insure your stuff on your parent's home owner's policy. Otherwise, you can look into a renter's policy (very cheap and wise for other reasons).
So if you shout fire in a crowded theater, make sure you actually set fire to the building. Otherwise someone might hassle you.
However, an impact strong enough to break bone is still strong enough to break bone even if the bone it is hitting isn't made of bone ;-)
If you replace one bone using a material which won't break, the impact could very likely break some other bone.
If the impact on the lower jaw was headed towards the skull, it might be the skull that broke instead. That unbreakable jaw might end up going into your brain.
> I never allow them to shepherd me into a back
;-)
> office, for the same reason that I never phone;
> you're at a disadvantage if you can't be seen or
> heard by anyone else.
Reminds me of my experience with BestBuy. Bought a fridge from them when my wife & I bought our house. They were running a promotion for that fridge. They would include an ice-maker if you bought the fridge. Salesman pointed it out, the wife and I ate it up.
Fridge arrives, no ice-maker. I called Best Buy to ask for it, and was told that I didn't *ask* them to include the free ice-maker when I paid for the fridge. I said the sales-droid said it was included and didn't *tell* me to ask. They said tough, nothing we can do. I asked to speak to the manager.
The manager got on the phone and I repeated the story. He said that he was sorry but there was nothing he could do.
The argument went on for a while, with me getting more and more aggitated (lots and LOTS of swearing - my parents were there and they said later that I scared them).
Finally I told the manager that we were getting nowhere. I said that I would grab the receipts and head right over to the store to talk to him in person. I didn't expect this to solve anything, but I was really enraged at the time, and I was starting to be frustrated by the fact that I couldn't strangle the weasle over the phone. I told him I'd be there in 10 minutes.
Next thing he's saying that there might be something he could do. He puts me on hold for a second, then he comes back on the line to schedule a time for someone to come out and install an ice-maker.
I was never sure if he gave in bacause I'd be talking to him in the large appliance department and scaring away all his customers, or if he realized that I was going to kill him.
Frankly, I never really cared. I got my ice-maker
> She'll issue the ticket without a second thought,
> unless she were a complete imbecile.
"complete imbecile" describes the majority of the American workforce.
I don't understand why they're jumping to the conclusion that language shapes ability. The more reasonable conclusion seems to be that need shapes ability, with language as an afterthought.
It seems reasonable that someone who has never needed to count beyond 2 is unable to do so. It also wouldn't suprise me if that same person didn't have a word for 3 or 4 or any way to express any number beyond 2.
Why would we assume from this that the language develops before the ability? Why couldn't it be the case that someone discovered a value 1 more than 2, and named it "three" or "tres", or even "George". Prior to giving it a name, the person would be aware that the value existed.
If you tried to teach the person that a value 1 more than 2 existed, you could say "three" all you wanted, and it wouldn't make a difference. Before they could map "three" to "a value 1 more than 2", they would need to have some understanding of what "a value 1 more than 2" is.
> If you like the site, click the ad. You don't have
> to go all the way through to checkout for
> click-thrus to be noticed.
Clicking and not buying is as bad as blocking the ads. It just confuses the merchant a little more. Eventually they'll figure out that they have to look at actual sales to determine the value of an ad. Then they'll adjust to that new reality.
I'm not saying that I look at ads, or that I really care about how web pages are funded. I'm not interested in paying for the content. If I was, I'd be willing to pay a subscription. If it goes away because no one else is interested in the ads, I'll survive without it (I did before).
Frankly, the only thing I've found online that I'd be willing to pay a subscription for is google groups. If Google suddenly decided that they needed to charge for access, and the charge was reasonable, I'd pay it. To me everything else is just fluff.
I don't block ads because I'm completely capable of ignoring them. The only time they irritate me is when the server hosting the ads can't be reached and it causes delays loading the page. When that happens, I just move on with my life. If I care enough, I come back later to view the page. More often than not, I just find what I'm looking for somewhere else.
There does seem to be a fuzzy bit here:
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by
modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
the Program or works based on it.
If you distribute code, you are indicating that you accept the license. Can you later reject the license, and if so does your continued distribution constitute a violation of copyright?
The schedule info makes the difference. An employee missed a show because "it wasn't on this week". However, my TiVo recorded it. It *was* on, just not in its regular timeslot.