How does turning them into criminals "do away" with them? Are you suggesting a life sentence?
Obviously EzInKy believes that only the death penalty is a sufficient pentalty for DUI. I say we change that to death by public torture. Then we can charge admission for the good people of California to be entertained!
I really don't think that'll help, mainly because those that are already intoxicated are already not of sound-mind and are not thinking about penalties. Adding penalties isn't going to solve the problem.
Unfortunately the only thing that I can think of that might make a dent would be to penalize establishments that serve patrons until they're legally drunk (as there are a lot of places with laws that should make establishments cut-off those that are drunk from continuing to be served) but given that drunks continuing to buy more drinks is what keeps the drinking establishments open, I don't think such penalties will ever be enacted.
Remember, it's those 10-20% of consumers of a product that consume it to excess that make the product profitable. Casual drinkers aren't where the profit is, binge or excessive drinkers are.
You're legally intoxicated for purposes of DUI in most states after 1 or 2 drinks. You expect bartenders to serve patrons only one drink and kick them out?
Yes, but if the underside of the car needs to be accessed to make a battery swapout easy, then being able to drive over the swap pit, so the tech underneath can do the job, then drive out and continue on one's trip will be similar to fueling up, or possibly even faster.
Yeah. The battery access seems to be a bit of a design flaw. They have been talking about battery swaps for a long time, so I wonder why it's on the bottom.
Gas stations used to have service bays with oil change pits. Places like Jiffy Lube still operate that way. I can see those pits being repurposed for this function too, since easy access to the underside of the car and a drive-through bay may really help to keep the time down.
This is more akin to filling your tank with gas than it is to getting your car serviced.
The fact that we're finding other PLANETS is now so humdrum that this gets 7 comments, this smells very much like the latter Apollo missions "Oh, we've got guys on the moon again? Zzzz."
If I simply posted something controversial*, like an entire article about how "global warming is bullshit", that would get 300 comments, easily.
*of course, I can't use/. as my personal blog. I'm not Bennett Haselton.
More than 1800 exoplanets have been discovered. At some point, finding one more ceases to be big news.
He will probably wish he was that lucky, this is Microsoft. More likely they'll sue for more money than he could earn in 3 or 4 lifetimes and his firstborn daughter's virginity.
Maybe they are looking into how badly the students were ripped off by forcing ipads on them.
No joke, there's only the vast majority of alternative products that provide the same benefits at a lower cost. I guess they may lack the fruity logo on the back...
If they hired better teachers, what would the teachers' unions do with the worthless teachers?
In this case I'd like to know what the FBI is investigating. Graft? Or are they investigating the students' "cybercrime" of unlocking the iPads?
The FBI Hasn't been forthcoming with that detail yet. Assumptions abound.
You could mount them on a small motor powered by the panel and have the things rotate with the sun. Doesn't seem like it would be all that hard to do. Then you get the better alignment all day long.
In the Apple model, yes, they have built that walled garden. Yes, they are generally sealed units with limited upgrade options. But with Apple in 2014, they're just one vendor among many viable alternatives. Depending on who you ask, they're somewhere between 8% and 15% of the market. That leaves a huge selection of alternate vendors from which to choose.
Microsoft, lest anyone forget, is a convicted (unfortunately never punished) monopolist. Is the late '90s they had something like 98% marketshare. In MS' world, you have no choice but to submit to his will and his ecosystem. You would not be free to leave and switch vendors because there would be no alternatives available. And while Gates may have recently been able to buy them a better reputation with his so-called charity work; you're a damn fool if you think he is anything but a viciously ruthless businessman who wanted nothing less than complete dominance over you.
Hmm.. I kind of hate defending Microsoft after having spent so much effort supporting the MS boycott. However, locking you into hardware vendors was never a MS thing. MS generally did their evil by forcing companies to sell MS and no alternative OS based products. They also did their thing buy stealing competing software outright. In the 90's there were thousands of examples on the now defunct vcnet.com (the url was vcnet.com/bms but no more) boycott site where the evil was being documented.
Bash MS, yes. But do it for valid reasons or you just shoot holes in your cause.
Minimum basic cable price (if I don't want to sell my entire soul to the cableco) where I am is $39.48 + $3.99 for a converter box
They blatantly lie and claim that the box is "necessary" "because digital", but it isn't. The real reason they want you to use the box is because of their unilateral insistence on encrypting even the signals that you'd otherwise be able to get unencrypted from an antenna anyway, so that they can charge you a rental fee. But even then, it still isn't necessary because you can get a CableCard instead.
When I had cable TV (only because the TV + internet bundle was cheaper than internet-only that year), I refused the box (and refused to be charged for the box) as a matter of principle.
I used a cablecard for a few years. You still have to rent the card, although in my case it was $1 cheaper than a box. They still get to know what you're watching. You have to provide "guide" services somehow, as cablecards don't include that functionality.
Depending on where you live or who your provider is you may be able to get analog cable despite the claims. My local cable company tells you that it's digital only and you must have a card/box. My dad plugged his coax straight into his tv (which does not have or support a card) and he gets about 100 channels. So, I say try plugging the coax in and find out what is really what.
Reminds me of the gratuitous bong-rip philosophy you see on Ashton Kutcher's news site A+, which is bizarrely one of the most-viewed websites in the US.
Never heard of it before.
And who or what is Ashton Kutcher?
He's an American actor. Did a tv program called "that 70's show". I think he does chick flick type movies now, not really sure.
And I care about one more crappy corporate-controlled portal site why? Other than the "will they set up a GeoCities page next"-esque shock-value that any company in 2014 still believes their customers give the least damn about their ISP's home page, of course.
If Verizon doesn't want news about the ways the intelligence community and Verizon conspire to rape us all, hey, their portal. And if I want actual news, hey, not their portal. It all balances out.
TFA made it sound like they were hiring "reporters" (sounded to me more like bloggers) who are actually writing content rather than running a portal.
Reminds me of the gratuitous bong-rip philosophy you see on Ashton Kutcher's news site A+, which is bizarrely one of the most-viewed websites in the US.
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How does turning them into criminals "do away" with them? Are you suggesting a life sentence?
Obviously EzInKy believes that only the death penalty is a sufficient pentalty for DUI. I say we change that to death by public torture. Then we can charge admission for the good people of California to be entertained!
I really don't think that'll help, mainly because those that are already intoxicated are already not of sound-mind and are not thinking about penalties. Adding penalties isn't going to solve the problem. Unfortunately the only thing that I can think of that might make a dent would be to penalize establishments that serve patrons until they're legally drunk (as there are a lot of places with laws that should make establishments cut-off those that are drunk from continuing to be served) but given that drunks continuing to buy more drinks is what keeps the drinking establishments open, I don't think such penalties will ever be enacted. Remember, it's those 10-20% of consumers of a product that consume it to excess that make the product profitable. Casual drinkers aren't where the profit is, binge or excessive drinkers are.
You're legally intoxicated for purposes of DUI in most states after 1 or 2 drinks. You expect bartenders to serve patrons only one drink and kick them out?
These various silly "extras" that we add on to DUI sentences don't seem to do much to reduce the DUI rates in this country.
No, but they help line the politicians pockets. Which, of course, is what being a politician in America is all about. Why would you even question it?
Yes, but if the underside of the car needs to be accessed to make a battery swapout easy, then being able to drive over the swap pit, so the tech underneath can do the job, then drive out and continue on one's trip will be similar to fueling up, or possibly even faster.
Yeah. The battery access seems to be a bit of a design flaw. They have been talking about battery swaps for a long time, so I wonder why it's on the bottom.
Gas stations used to have service bays with oil change pits. Places like Jiffy Lube still operate that way. I can see those pits being repurposed for this function too, since easy access to the underside of the car and a drive-through bay may really help to keep the time down.
This is more akin to filling your tank with gas than it is to getting your car serviced.
Seriously, we do.
The fact that we're finding other PLANETS is now so humdrum that this gets 7 comments, this smells very much like the latter Apollo missions "Oh, we've got guys on the moon again? Zzzz."
If I simply posted something controversial*, like an entire article about how "global warming is bullshit", that would get 300 comments, easily.
*of course, I can't use /. as my personal blog. I'm not Bennett Haselton.
More than 1800 exoplanets have been discovered. At some point, finding one more ceases to be big news.
Queue the DMCA take down notice!
He will probably wish he was that lucky, this is Microsoft. More likely they'll sue for more money than he could earn in 3 or 4 lifetimes and his firstborn daughter's virginity.
Probably violated the EULA by doing that.
Microsoft has undoubtedly unleashed the hounds.
Yes, that's a given. Jeff is pretty much screwed at this point.
Except they lose sync after a minute or so, thus after 2 minutes 30 seconds they're all playing a different song.
Hence the maximum duration being limited to 2 minutes 30 seconds.
And yet, I read about a team in Cambridge in the UK who have a new low temperature process that can create graphene in industrial quantities.
http://cambridgenanosystems.co...
Do you expect the New Yorker to do actual research (or even a google search) before writing an article or something?
Maybe they are looking into how badly the students were ripped off by forcing ipads on them.
No joke, there's only the vast majority of alternative products that provide the same benefits at a lower cost. I guess they may lack the fruity logo on the back...
If they hired better teachers, what would the teachers' unions do with the worthless teachers? In this case I'd like to know what the FBI is investigating. Graft? Or are they investigating the students' "cybercrime" of unlocking the iPads?
The FBI Hasn't been forthcoming with that detail yet. Assumptions abound.
You could mount them on a small motor powered by the panel and have the things rotate with the sun. Doesn't seem like it would be all that hard to do. Then you get the better alignment all day long.
Maybe they should publish the video on a few other sites. Unless it's a lengthy clip of a small rotating circular symbol.
I always remember this being the best part of the site: http://web.archive.org/web/200...
The wayback machine seems to have a copy of the original site: http://web.archive.org/web/200...
The difference is choice.
In the Apple model, yes, they have built that walled garden. Yes, they are generally sealed units with limited upgrade options. But with Apple in 2014, they're just one vendor among many viable alternatives. Depending on who you ask, they're somewhere between 8% and 15% of the market. That leaves a huge selection of alternate vendors from which to choose.
Microsoft, lest anyone forget, is a convicted (unfortunately never punished) monopolist. Is the late '90s they had something like 98% marketshare. In MS' world, you have no choice but to submit to his will and his ecosystem. You would not be free to leave and switch vendors because there would be no alternatives available. And while Gates may have recently been able to buy them a better reputation with his so-called charity work; you're a damn fool if you think he is anything but a viciously ruthless businessman who wanted nothing less than complete dominance over you.
Hmm.. I kind of hate defending Microsoft after having spent so much effort supporting the MS boycott. However, locking you into hardware vendors was never a MS thing. MS generally did their evil by forcing companies to sell MS and no alternative OS based products. They also did their thing buy stealing competing software outright. In the 90's there were thousands of examples on the now defunct vcnet.com (the url was vcnet.com/bms but no more) boycott site where the evil was being documented.
Bash MS, yes. But do it for valid reasons or you just shoot holes in your cause.
How about third party drivers? Seems like vendors will have to release some if they intend to sell to apple victims.
Cool, the people involved in this are going before a jury, right? ...right?
Whoah there. Corporations are only people when it's in their benefit.
They blatantly lie and claim that the box is "necessary" "because digital", but it isn't. The real reason they want you to use the box is because of their unilateral insistence on encrypting even the signals that you'd otherwise be able to get unencrypted from an antenna anyway, so that they can charge you a rental fee. But even then, it still isn't necessary because you can get a CableCard instead.
When I had cable TV (only because the TV + internet bundle was cheaper than internet-only that year), I refused the box (and refused to be charged for the box) as a matter of principle.
I used a cablecard for a few years. You still have to rent the card, although in my case it was $1 cheaper than a box. They still get to know what you're watching. You have to provide "guide" services somehow, as cablecards don't include that functionality.
Depending on where you live or who your provider is you may be able to get analog cable despite the claims. My local cable company tells you that it's digital only and you must have a card/box. My dad plugged his coax straight into his tv (which does not have or support a card) and he gets about 100 channels. So, I say try plugging the coax in and find out what is really what.
Reminds me of the gratuitous bong-rip philosophy you see on Ashton Kutcher's news site A+, which is bizarrely one of the most-viewed websites in the US.
Never heard of it before.
And who or what is Ashton Kutcher?
He's an American actor. Did a tv program called "that 70's show". I think he does chick flick type movies now, not really sure.
I myself only heard about it from an article making fun of it:
http://www.cracked.com/quick-f...
Thanks, that was downright hilarious. I think the idea posited by cracked that a+ is a gag is likely to be accurate.
And I care about one more crappy corporate-controlled portal site why? Other than the "will they set up a GeoCities page next"-esque shock-value that any company in 2014 still believes their customers give the least damn about their ISP's home page, of course. If Verizon doesn't want news about the ways the intelligence community and Verizon conspire to rape us all, hey, their portal. And if I want actual news, hey, not their portal. It all balances out.
TFA made it sound like they were hiring "reporters" (sounded to me more like bloggers) who are actually writing content rather than running a portal.
Reminds me of the gratuitous bong-rip philosophy you see on Ashton Kutcher's news site A+, which is bizarrely one of the most-viewed websites in the US.
Never heard of it before.
My motto is "Find a fucking dictionary"
You're welcome