My reading of the stats in the TFA is that the rate front to side impacts have decreased 5 times for read light cameras compared with a rate decrease of less than 2 for yellow light extension. Being T-boned at an intersection by a red light runner is far more dangerous than being rear ended by someone not stopping soon enough because they didn't see the light change. So I'd hardly call the change in accident rates a "little difference". Sure injury reduction has been about the same and front to rear is slightly better for the yellow light extension, but I'd hardly call that conclusive.
It astounds me that in the US red light cameras are so reviled. I am continually scared when facing a green light at an intersection and then having some one drive through the red light from my left to right. These people are trying to kill me. So supporting a system that lets them get away with it is nonsensical.
If you're using a hands-free device, you're just basically having a conversation with someone who isn't actually in the car. It's not going to be any more inherently distracting than having a conversation with somebody who is in the car. So if hands-free phones are a problem... So is talking to a passenger.
I think that the consensus is that a conversation with a passenger is different from that with some one on the phone - as the passenger is aware of the same environment and you both automatically adjust the tone/pace of the conversation depending on the current conditions. I.E. the passenger will generally keep quiet when you are performing a complex maneuver. That is not to say that passengers can not be a distraction, just that in general a phone conversation is a worse distraction that most passengers.
In recent weeks driving along some interstates I have witnessed numerous people driving below the speed limit, weaving from side to side within their lane and obviously looking down instead of straight ahead. The common element in all of these cases is that the drivers were doing something on their cell phones.
The crash with the school bus may or may not have been due to the driver following to closely, but I am sure as hell sick of seeing impaired drivers on the road and look forward to people being forced to pay attention to navigating a metal death missile at high speed.
$Company is working on ($CurrentVersion + 1) of $PopularProduct. The new version is expected to have better $CharacteristicDeJour and will be released in $SomeNumber years from now. This will fulfill the desires of people currently using $CurrentVersion, and enable them to do lots of really cool new things.
However the ($CurrentVersion + 1) of $PopularProduct may or may not implement $PieInTheSkyFeature, although this will be vigorously debated by $FanBois and $AntiFanBois - even after the new version has come out.
All that can be guaranteed is that/. will be inundated with stories about $PopularProduct no matter how trivial they are, or how many other sites reported on them $RandomNumber months ago.
Why are US call centers base in SE Asia? I would think that there are enough countries in South America that are in roughly the same time zone as the US that could be call center havens. Doing so would enable everyone to be working at similar times and that issues that have to move up or down the hierarchy could be resolved sooner.
Is it me, or is the first point in the "Agreement" that CarrierIQ wants Eckhart to sign actually imply that CarrierIQ is performing the illegal copying???
I _______, agree to immediately
Cease and desist your unlawful copying of the Training Manuals
Billing people who use products that only run on Windows. It may not be the best rate, but it is consistent and in my industry the people who build the products have no interest in moving off Windows.
...the idea of disappearing into a cloud of vapour at any time doesn't scare me anymore. I grew up with dive-under-the-desk drills, "Protect And Survive", "Threads" (which terrified me the first time I watched it) and "When The Wind Blows" (which made me cry).
You also need to watch On the beach (the original) to round out your nuclear holocaust movies. It took me 30 years to actually sit down and watch it - partly because it was filmed where I grew up.
This is a bill that would actually allow the sales tax to be collected and hence close the loophole of people not self reporting their "use" tax??? Thus the gubermint will be able to actually collect on the money it already has claims on???
Tampering with Federal property is a big no-no, even if it is being used in questionable ways.
As mentioned in other replies, without a big sticker saying "Property of the US government" on the device, how do you know its federal property in the first place? Based on the things the TSA keeps telling me, any device found planted on a car could have all sorts of implications and should be destroyed as soon as possible.
Chances are due to the nature of the crimes involved (drug trafficking, Mexico, etc.), they chose to put a GPS on the vehicle in question to try and capture data to catch the "bigger fish" in the drug dealer chain.
Kinda like "Fast and Furious", or also whatever the Bush version was called?
... the government can (and does) arrest and detain (without limit) its own citizens for no apparent reason and holds them indefinitely without trial....
If you find a device like this on your car, have fun with it...... Smash it open to see what is inside.
No, no, no. You park in a very public location (perhaps outside a politicians office??) and then call the cops to report a suspicious looking device attached to your car that has wires and what looks (to you) like explosives as well. While the cops and/or bomb squad are on the way, you also call up the local news media and tell them that the cops are on the way to check out a possible car bomb.
4) Get ticketed for destruction of US Government property.
"Honest officer, the reason I am stopped here is that I was driving over that bumpy railroad crossing when I saw something fall off the back of my car. I was going to go back and look for it, but this train came through right there and then. After it had gone I couldn't see any car parts lying on the track."
I would prefer text messages as the basic alert media. With the noted exceptions I always have access to my phone, so I would prefer "text" as a media.
How would you know the message is authentic?
Text message delivery is not guaranteed to be immediate, so how do you know the message is timely?
Or better yet, you finally turn on your cell phone and get inundated with a zillion alert text messages which gives you the impression that the zombie apocalypse has already started and you'd better start shooting your neighbors - as after all, they are all walking around as if there is no emergency what so ever.
If OSs hadn't failed so bad on isolation, we wouldn't need so much virtualization. "Virtual machine monitors" are just operating systems with a rather simple application API. Microkernels, if you will.
Sounds like the solution might be enforcing some sort of (hmm what would you call it?? Dirt box? Dust box?? ahh thats it!!) Sandbox on applications in order to achieve the isolation you desire.
I bet if I'm quick, then I might able to patent the iAmSparticus sandbox technique.
One of the reasons my wife got a nook was that (at the time - but you can use the kindle and other devices) was that you can borrow eBooks. Yes they expire after a time limit, but this type of stuff does keep the local library relevant, plus its already paid for by my taxes.
That's why El-Al asks if you if you have any sort of stuff carried on anyone else's behalf, and if you do, they check all your stuff.
Whenever I get asked the question "Has your luggage been out of your sight for any length of time or handled by other people" I really have to bite my tongue to stop saying "Yes.. the taxi driver loaded/unloaded my luggage and I haven't seen it for the last hour or so".. That would be the honest answer, but unfortunately that would be the wrong way to answer.
When it comes down to it, the average people are the same all over the world - they'll pay lip service to appear to be doing what the are supposed to do, but if no one notices, then they'll just do what they want to do. Those aren't really the people we're concerned with.
And neither are the muslims that are rocking up to airports and flying to business meetings across the US
ok. 100 people a year. 10 years. I sincerely doubt the "terrorists" could kill 1000 people in 10 years on US soil.
...Except when they killed almost 3000 in one day...
Yep.. they sure did kill 3000 in one day. However the preventative measures to stop them doing this again seems to be killing more that 300 people a year through increased road traffic (and hence car crashes) and (as reported in this article - although this is not news) another 100 or so a year from cancer.
Terrorism is not something you can eradicate (especially if your foreign policy is to continually piss people off), so combatting it is always going to be a trade off/balance between how much hurt you can accept from the terrorists vs how much hurt you will inflict on your own people in the name of "protecting" them.
In this case I find it strange that the solution to stopping the terrorists from killing off US citizens is to institute policies that effectively cause the US government to kill off even more citizens than the terrorists have.
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My reading of the stats in the TFA is that the rate front to side impacts have decreased 5 times for read light cameras compared with a rate decrease of less than 2 for yellow light extension. Being T-boned at an intersection by a red light runner is far more dangerous than being rear ended by someone not stopping soon enough because they didn't see the light change. So I'd hardly call the change in accident rates a "little difference". Sure injury reduction has been about the same and front to rear is slightly better for the yellow light extension, but I'd hardly call that conclusive.
It astounds me that in the US red light cameras are so reviled. I am continually scared when facing a green light at an intersection and then having some one drive through the red light from my left to right. These people are trying to kill me. So supporting a system that lets them get away with it is nonsensical.
Seriously.
I'm sorry .. there isn't enough beer in the world for me to want to fuck them.
One would think that the GPS the military relies on would be encrypted or something, y'know? How difficult is it to spoof military GPS?
You know its been the militaries GPS all along - we civilians are just allowed to play with it. History of GPS
If you're using a hands-free device, you're just basically having a conversation with someone who isn't actually in the car. It's not going to be any more inherently distracting than having a conversation with somebody who is in the car. So if hands-free phones are a problem... So is talking to a passenger.
I think that the consensus is that a conversation with a passenger is different from that with some one on the phone - as the passenger is aware of the same environment and you both automatically adjust the tone/pace of the conversation depending on the current conditions. I.E. the passenger will generally keep quiet when you are performing a complex maneuver. That is not to say that passengers can not be a distraction, just that in general a phone conversation is a worse distraction that most passengers.
In recent weeks driving along some interstates I have witnessed numerous people driving below the speed limit, weaving from side to side within their lane and obviously looking down instead of straight ahead. The common element in all of these cases is that the drivers were doing something on their cell phones.
The crash with the school bus may or may not have been due to the driver following to closely, but I am sure as hell sick of seeing impaired drivers on the road and look forward to people being forced to pay attention to navigating a metal death missile at high speed.
Is this legal? Didn't they specifically write exemptions into the do-not-call list legislation exempting political parties?
Well if they do what other robo-companies do and host it outside of the US, then no laws will be broken
$Company is working on ($CurrentVersion + 1) of $PopularProduct. The new version is expected to have better $CharacteristicDeJour and will be released in $SomeNumber years from now. This will fulfill the desires of people currently using $CurrentVersion, and enable them to do lots of really cool new things.
/. will be inundated with stories about $PopularProduct no matter how trivial they are, or how many other sites reported on them $RandomNumber months ago.
However the ($CurrentVersion + 1) of $PopularProduct may or may not implement $PieInTheSkyFeature, although this will be vigorously debated by $FanBois and $AntiFanBois - even after the new version has come out.
All that can be guaranteed is that
Why are US call centers base in SE Asia? I would think that there are enough countries in South America that are in roughly the same time zone as the US that could be call center havens. Doing so would enable everyone to be working at similar times and that issues that have to move up or down the hierarchy could be resolved sooner.
Is it me, or is the first point in the "Agreement" that CarrierIQ wants Eckhart to sign actually imply that CarrierIQ is performing the illegal copying???
I _______, agree to immediately
Cease and desist your unlawful copying of the Training Manuals
Billing people who use products that only run on Windows. It may not be the best rate, but it is consistent and in my industry the people who build the products have no interest in moving off Windows.
...the idea of disappearing into a cloud of vapour at any time doesn't scare me anymore. I grew up with dive-under-the-desk drills, "Protect And Survive", "Threads" (which terrified me the first time I watched it) and "When The Wind Blows" (which made me cry).
You also need to watch On the beach (the original) to round out your nuclear holocaust movies. It took me 30 years to actually sit down and watch it - partly because it was filmed where I grew up.
This is a bill that would actually allow the sales tax to be collected and hence close the loophole of people not self reporting their "use" tax??? Thus the gubermint will be able to actually collect on the money it already has claims on???
Tampering with Federal property is a big no-no, even if it is being used in questionable ways.
As mentioned in other replies, without a big sticker saying "Property of the US government" on the device, how do you know its federal property in the first place? Based on the things the TSA keeps telling me, any device found planted on a car could have all sorts of implications and should be destroyed as soon as possible.
*Whoosh* .. thats also the sound a can of gas makes when it is lit.
Chances are due to the nature of the crimes involved (drug trafficking, Mexico, etc.), they chose to put a GPS on the vehicle in question to try and capture data to catch the "bigger fish" in the drug dealer chain.
Kinda like "Fast and Furious", or also whatever the Bush version was called?
... the government can (and does) arrest and detain (without limit) its own citizens for no apparent reason and holds them indefinitely without trial. ...
You left off "Assassinate"
I'd just smash it up and toss it.
If they send you a bill, send one back charging them more than their bill.
Better idea: Stick it on a local judge's car.
I think a politician would be a better choice. A judge may be outraged, but a politician can also enact new legislation.
If you find a device like this on your car, have fun with it. ..... Smash it open to see what is inside.
No, no, no. You park in a very public location (perhaps outside a politicians office??) and then call the cops to report a suspicious looking device attached to your car that has wires and what looks (to you) like explosives as well. While the cops and/or bomb squad are on the way, you also call up the local news media and tell them that the cops are on the way to check out a possible car bomb.
Then just sit back and watch the fun.
4) Get ticketed for destruction of US Government property.
"Honest officer, the reason I am stopped here is that I was driving over that bumpy railroad crossing when I saw something fall off the back of my car. I was going to go back and look for it, but this train came through right there and then. After it had gone I couldn't see any car parts lying on the track."
How would you know the message is authentic?
Text message delivery is not guaranteed to be immediate, so how do you know the message is timely?
Or better yet, you finally turn on your cell phone and get inundated with a zillion alert text messages which gives you the impression that the zombie apocalypse has already started and you'd better start shooting your neighbors - as after all, they are all walking around as if there is no emergency what so ever.
If OSs hadn't failed so bad on isolation, we wouldn't need so much virtualization. "Virtual machine monitors" are just operating systems with a rather simple application API. Microkernels, if you will.
Sounds like the solution might be enforcing some sort of (hmm what would you call it?? Dirt box? Dust box?? ahh thats it!!) Sandbox on applications in order to achieve the isolation you desire.
I bet if I'm quick, then I might able to patent the iAmSparticus sandbox technique.
One of the reasons my wife got a nook was that (at the time - but you can use the kindle and other devices) was that you can borrow eBooks. Yes they expire after a time limit, but this type of stuff does keep the local library relevant, plus its already paid for by my taxes.
The library also publicizes these other sources of eBooks: Project Gutenburg, Open Library and the International Children's Digital Library
That's why El-Al asks if you if you have any sort of stuff carried on anyone else's behalf, and if you do, they check all your stuff.
Whenever I get asked the question "Has your luggage been out of your sight for any length of time or handled by other people" I really have to bite my tongue to stop saying "Yes .. the taxi driver loaded/unloaded my luggage and I haven't seen it for the last hour or so" .. That would be the honest answer, but unfortunately that would be the wrong way to answer.
When it comes down to it, the average people are the same all over the world - they'll pay lip service to appear to be doing what the are supposed to do, but if no one notices, then they'll just do what they want to do.
Those aren't really the people we're concerned with.
And neither are the muslims that are rocking up to airports and flying to business meetings across the US
ok. 100 people a year. 10 years. I sincerely doubt the "terrorists" could kill 1000 people in 10 years on US soil.
...Except when they killed almost 3000 in one day...
Yep .. they sure did kill 3000 in one day. However the preventative measures to stop them doing this again seems to be killing more that 300 people a year through increased road traffic (and hence car crashes) and (as reported in this article - although this is not news) another 100 or so a year from cancer.
Terrorism is not something you can eradicate (especially if your foreign policy is to continually piss people off), so combatting it is always going to be a trade off/balance between how much hurt you can accept from the terrorists vs how much hurt you will inflict on your own people in the name of "protecting" them.
In this case I find it strange that the solution to stopping the terrorists from killing off US citizens is to institute policies that effectively cause the US government to kill off even more citizens than the terrorists have.