While politics and profit, lack of competition all are major factors in our crappy broadband options, we have to keep in mind that the US is vastly greater, and far more spread out then many countries we are being compared against..
Then how come places like NYC don't have internet connections on a par with those in Japan with lower population densities?
Sure you can argue population density in the rural areas, but that does't account for the lack of service in the populous areas.
Yeah.. but it's "Certified Pre-owned". How else are you supposed to know that it was actually pre-owned. They might be lying about that. This way you are 100% guaranteed that it actually is a pre-owned Tesla. And that's good to know. Being able to sleep soundly at night knowing that your car is really pre-owned is well worth the money you pay for it being Certified!
The answer is clear, then. Ban A/C controls, radio, passengers and kids!
You are totally skirting around the correct solution. In 100% of crashes, the common element among all of them is the driver. Ban the driver and you solve the problem of driver distracted crashes.
You just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended her lucky streak. I posit that that particular red light was not the first one that she had run, and that red light cameras could have caught her actions sooner and punished just her and not you. On the other hand they would have done nothing if it was a first the offense for her. But on the third hand.. if it was well known in the first place that you get severely punished for running red lights and you will be caught, then there would have been less of a chance for even her first offense.
BTW when I said I see people running red lights , I was discounting the ones that sneak through slowly. I'm talking about people running them at normal travel speed with no other traffic around. I am at the point in a lot of cases where I treat a light turning green as "lets just wait a moment and see if the idiots have already left the scene"
You're the only other person I've heard of that does this.
I think it comes from having ridden motorcycles and knowing that certain death was only moments away unless I was fully aware of my surroundings and in control of my actions.
For example I also don't trust mirrors and turn my head to look where I am about to change lanes to.
So now, whenever I stop at a light or stopsign, or when in traffic which is slowing down, I keep an eye on the rear view mirror.
That wouldn't have worked in my case. I stopped in traffic, the car behind me stopped, the car behind them stopped (and that car had a trailer) . Then a fourth car rear-ended the car with the trailer, who was pushed into the next car, which was pushed into me. That impact broke my rear axle and put my car off the road. My only saving grace was that I had left enough room ahead of me so that I wasn't pushed into the car ahead of me.
But yeah.. keeping an eye out behind you and leaving an escape route in front of you is good, basic defensive driving.
A couple of seconds of red light? Sure, I've seen that too.
Thats my point. That should be the rare event, not the common event. Ideally 10 seconds should be nonexistent. But with no feedback loop controlling bad drivers, the "couple or seconds" gets accepted as the norm.
.. In my case, she had a full 10 seconds of red light before impact.
Sorry for you accident.
But to go off on a tangent/rant, its a regular occurrence (easily 3 or 4 times year) for me to be facing a green light and have someone come through against the red. Yet I never see any of those people on the phone.. they are just really really bad drivers and are accidents waiting to happen.
To me the obvious solution is red light cameras that can deliver some feedback to such idiots by slapping them with a fine before they hit someone. And while I am well aware of the "red-light-camera-as-free-money" scams, opponents of red light cameras never seem to offer alternatives that would help control these dangerous idiots.
I saw the headline and then moused over the link thinking "Yep.. its a dice click bait story"
Dice a company that runs a market matching candidates and employers, promoting that a large group of people are well suited as employees. And doing so on a website that they own.
But his support of a puppet in Iran led to a overthrow by an extremist regime that will be in power for decades more.
That particular one goes back a bit further than Reagan by a couple of decades itself. 1953 Iranian coup d'état IMHO Putting the puppet dictator in power in the first place is the root cause of a hell of a lot of radical islamic behavior.
I don't know about you, but the cards I've been getting recently include a chip in order to support two factor authentication via chip and signature.
The problem is the retailers haven't implemented terminals to support it yet.
They are starting to. And the first place that I ever used my chipped CC at was Walmart. (Which confused the hell out of the associate who was insisting that I swipe the card, rather than inserting it into the chip reader slot)
You are judging a technology from a fucking mock up on a tv commercial.
What sort of company allows their marketing department to show their product in a bad light? Especially when they are in full control of showing things that are easily verifiable.
And I didn't "spend time to figure out where the map was". I am simply very familiar with the city and the route that was shown. Funnily enough if you show something from an identifiable, real world location in your advertisement, there exists people who know that location.
Right now Cortana (Windows Phone) is the digital assistant that is furthest ahead.
And I laugh out loud whenever I see the add for Cortana on TV that gives the user the reminder that he has to leave now in order to get to his date on time.
The map shown on screen is of Richmond, VA,.. a city of 210,000 people The route shows going from somewhere in Church Hill to the Fan.. about 3 miles The time of day is around 8PM at night
And Cortana suggests that this will take 20+ minutes.
Sure, the map and the reminder are nice, but factually the trip duration is out the window unless you are considering driving during one of the 3 days in the year where there might be enough snow to impede you - in which case why aren't you at the supermarket, buying everything in sight like everyone else??
Is this the least helpful summary ever on/.? It could be. I read it, and found it really didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, and gave very little clue as to how this study's results might even be helpful. I have a strong suspicion it's clickbait and so am moving along.
Hmmm.. you know.. that could just as easily describe a Bennett Haselton story
Unfortunately, the researchers didn't mention how the malware spreads, but they shared that it is unpacked into the/Library/Application Support/JavaW directory, poses as the application com.JavaW, and sets itself to autostart.
So for all I know, this could either be a world shattering event where by zero day exploits are being used on OSX to leverage malware.
OR it could be like the HK protesters where by you needed to J/B your phone first.
I see no reason why any person with a private Facebook page should be given special status or exemptions from the rules just because of some arbitrary, momentarily popular PC BS category.
Except that there are whole classes of FB profiles out there that do not have real names attached to them and were not targeted.. EG Profiles named for/after pets.
This is not a case of PC gone wild, but genuine discrimination.
I could rattle off the names of a half a dozen programs used by people all over the world that you probably know nothing about. Does that make you out of the loop?
But if I was posting a story on/. I'd at least say what domain the subject worked in.
Q. Do you have advice for young open source enthusiasts? A. I'll fall back to one of Facebook's mottos: Think about "what would you do if you weren't afraid?"
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You could just purchase a torche lamp with a dimmer control.
But .. but .. but .. Startup!!!!!!!!
While politics and profit, lack of competition all are major factors in our crappy broadband options, we have to keep in mind that the US is vastly greater, and far more spread out then many countries we are being compared against..
Then how come places like NYC don't have internet connections on a par with those in Japan with lower population densities?
Sure you can argue population density in the rural areas, but that does't account for the lack of service in the populous areas.
"Pre-owned" - come on.
Yeah .. but it's "Certified Pre-owned". How else are you supposed to know that it was actually pre-owned. They might be lying about that. This way you are 100% guaranteed that it actually is a pre-owned Tesla. And that's good to know. Being able to sleep soundly at night knowing that your car is really pre-owned is well worth the money you pay for it being Certified!
The answer is clear, then. Ban A/C controls, radio, passengers and kids!
You are totally skirting around the correct solution. In 100% of crashes, the common element among all of them is the driver. Ban the driver and you solve the problem of driver distracted crashes.
It was a usual, every day thing to do.
You just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended her lucky streak. I posit that that particular red light was not the first one that she had run, and that red light cameras could have caught her actions sooner and punished just her and not you. On the other hand they would have done nothing if it was a first the offense for her. But on the third hand .. if it was well known in the first place that you get severely punished for running red lights and you will be caught, then there would have been less of a chance for even her first offense.
BTW when I said I see people running red lights , I was discounting the ones that sneak through slowly. I'm talking about people running them at normal travel speed with no other traffic around. I am at the point in a lot of cases where I treat a light turning green as "lets just wait a moment and see if the idiots have already left the scene"
You're the only other person I've heard of that does this.
I think it comes from having ridden motorcycles and knowing that certain death was only moments away unless I was fully aware of my surroundings and in control of my actions.
For example I also don't trust mirrors and turn my head to look where I am about to change lanes to.
So now, whenever I stop at a light or stopsign, or when in traffic which is slowing down, I keep an eye on the rear view mirror.
That wouldn't have worked in my case. I stopped in traffic, the car behind me stopped, the car behind them stopped (and that car had a trailer) . Then a fourth car rear-ended the car with the trailer, who was pushed into the next car, which was pushed into me. That impact broke my rear axle and put my car off the road. My only saving grace was that I had left enough room ahead of me so that I wasn't pushed into the car ahead of me.
But yeah .. keeping an eye out behind you and leaving an escape route in front of you is good, basic defensive driving.
A couple of seconds of red light? Sure, I've seen that too.
Thats my point. That should be the rare event, not the common event. Ideally 10 seconds should be nonexistent. But with no feedback loop controlling bad drivers, the "couple or seconds" gets accepted as the norm.
..
In my case, she had a full 10 seconds of red light before impact.
Sorry for you accident.
But to go off on a tangent/rant, its a regular occurrence (easily 3 or 4 times year) for me to be facing a green light and have someone come through against the red. Yet I never see any of those people on the phone .. they are just really really bad drivers and are accidents waiting to happen.
To me the obvious solution is red light cameras that can deliver some feedback to such idiots by slapping them with a fine before they hit someone. And while I am well aware of the "red-light-camera-as-free-money" scams, opponents of red light cameras never seem to offer alternatives that would help control these dangerous idiots.
or Dice Clickbait Cancer
I saw the headline and then moused over the link thinking "Yep .. its a dice click bait story"
Dice a company that runs a market matching candidates and employers, promoting that a large group of people are well suited as employees. And doing so on a website that they own.
First, there's a crapton of legacy software out there.
And there you have it. In this day and age we should be using "Metric crapton's", not the older imperial standard.
But his support of a puppet in Iran led to a overthrow by an extremist regime that will be in power for decades more.
That particular one goes back a bit further than Reagan by a couple of decades itself. 1953 Iranian coup d'état IMHO Putting the puppet dictator in power in the first place is the root cause of a hell of a lot of radical islamic behavior.
After all were smart, were hot and where the party of the planet.
Oh the irony
Lately, Slashdot seems to be echoing Hacker News, about three hours late. If you're going to be a scraper site, you have to do it faster.
You think that's bad? They follow Ars by about 3 days
I don't know about you, but the cards I've been getting recently include a chip in order to support two factor authentication via chip and signature.
The problem is the retailers haven't implemented terminals to support it yet.
They are starting to. And the first place that I ever used my chipped CC at was Walmart. (Which confused the hell out of the associate who was insisting that I swipe the card, rather than inserting it into the chip reader slot)
You are judging a technology from a fucking mock up on a tv commercial.
What sort of company allows their marketing department to show their product in a bad light? Especially when they are in full control of showing things that are easily verifiable.
And I didn't "spend time to figure out where the map was". I am simply very familiar with the city and the route that was shown. Funnily enough if you show something from an identifiable, real world location in your advertisement, there exists people who know that location.
Seriously, do you really think that Apple would allow one of its flagship technologies to be compromised by another company?
Right now Cortana (Windows Phone) is the digital assistant that is furthest ahead.
And I laugh out loud whenever I see the add for Cortana on TV that gives the user the reminder that he has to leave now in order to get to his date on time.
The map shown on screen is of Richmond, VA, .. a city of 210,000 people .. about 3 miles
The route shows going from somewhere in Church Hill to the Fan
The time of day is around 8PM at night
And Cortana suggests that this will take 20+ minutes.
Sure, the map and the reminder are nice, but factually the trip duration is out the window unless you are considering driving during one of the 3 days in the year where there might be enough snow to impede you - in which case why aren't you at the supermarket, buying everything in sight like everyone else??
Is this the least helpful summary ever on /.? It could be. I read it, and found it really didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, and gave very little clue as to how this study's results might even be helpful. I have a strong suspicion it's clickbait and so am moving along.
Hmmm .. you know .. that could just as easily describe a Bennett Haselton story
But then .. from TFA
Unfortunately, the researchers didn't mention how the malware spreads, but they shared that it is unpacked into the /Library/Application Support/JavaW directory, poses as the application com.JavaW, and sets itself to autostart.
So for all I know, this could either be a world shattering event where by zero day exploits are being used on OSX to leverage malware.
OR it could be like the HK protesters where by you needed to J/B your phone first.
So I am reserving my panic until I know more.
I see no reason why any person with a private Facebook page should be given special status or exemptions from the rules just because of some arbitrary, momentarily popular PC BS category.
Except that there are whole classes of FB profiles out there that do not have real names attached to them and were not targeted .. EG Profiles named for/after pets.
This is not a case of PC gone wild, but genuine discrimination.
That was what came to mind when I saw the headline .. Invaders .. possibly from space!
Because you are way out of the loop?
I could rattle off the names of a half a dozen programs used by people all over the world that you probably know nothing about. Does that make you out of the loop?
But if I was posting a story on /. I'd at least say what domain the subject worked in.
Why did I have to google the name to figure out WTF Grooveshark was?
In TFA (yes I read it this time)
Q. Do you have advice for young open source enthusiasts?
A. I'll fall back to one of Facebook's mottos: Think about "what would you do if you weren't afraid?"
How can I not be afraid of what FB does?