for taking my hand from the wheel and shifting from first to second during a left turn in an intersection. I learned my lesson, drive how they want you to when you are taking your test.
Your car may appear to not be stopping because the feedback from the ABS. It also may not stop as well when you throw all the weight to the front wheels in a SUDDEN application of brakes.
On pavement, modern ABS releases the wheels which are approaching lockup, basically doing theshold braking for you. It's not the same as pumping your brakes. The car knows when a wheel has lost or is about to loose static traction so not only is it doing the threshold braking for you, it is doing it better then you can. Especially in a panic situation.
Have you been to the UAE?! Yes women can drive. The video you posted is mostly youth of Saudi Arabia being bored... I can find many videos of bored youth of America/Europe being equally reckless and would not be surprised if you were once bored and reckless too.
Further, if you talk of infidels, you obviously don't know anything about UAE or Oman. You sir are a poorly traveled troll.
My wife screams and puts her forearms up to her face when shes driving and sees a spider on her dash. If I didn't know any better I'd think it might be instinct in some women.
Obviously you aren't Canadian... U.S. gas prices have always seemed lower. If U.S. gas prices go up, so do Canadian gas prices. Something about NAFTA IIRC.
They don't need to disable your car while it is driving (causing accidents), they can just make it not start or use the electronics to limit the speed... the phones do not need to be cut off immediately when a report is filed, sending it a text message every hour or redirecting calls will also decrease the phones fence value.
That is how things like this usually get done... more eloquently then the laws and agreements usually state. The heavy handed approach can be used, but usually they impliment something else in the spirit of the law.
Regarding misuse... if you ever piss off an unaccountable bureaucrat or big business, it will be much easier and effective for them to tamper with your car or put a bullet in your head. That is still probably done by pushing a few numbers and eating a tasty lunch. You probably don't get to eat lunch when disabling a vehicle through On-star.
If you are worried about the "Kafkaesque Nightmare", I am sure it's easier to find one in your tax returns. I don't think your tin foil hat is thick enough to protect you from the dark possibilities of the real world.
I am quite sure IMEIs are unique among manufactured cell phones. There are grey market devices for SMS, VoIP and counterfit manufactured phones which result in that 10%. Some carriers were barring IMEI numbers when subsidized phones were taken from contracts resulting to an increase in IMEI changing for stolen phones. The BBC argument is the barring would have to be done from all carriers (which is a weak argument when we have DNS RBLs for SPAM catching 90% of the spam hosts on the entire internet). Stolen Blackberries can be banned from Blackberry service straight from RIM. Apple phones can be bricked by Apple. You can't ban by IMSI as changing the SIM changes the IMSI. The SIM has little value. Changing an IMEI is telecommunications fraud in many countries so it is a pretty clear case to throw the IMEI changers in jail. It is the responsibility of the device manufacturer to provide devices to the carrier which are difficult to change the IMEI. Most smartphones now map the IMEI to their manufactured serial number or other unique identifier... like blackberry to pin. The carriers and device manufacturers know the IMEIs which were sold through their inventory and should be able to excercise authority on barring devices they sold on subscriber request for other carriers.
In the real world, this is not a technical problem without solutions. It is not in the carriers best interest to bar stolen/counterfit/grey market phones from their networks - phones (no matter their origin) = consumption. As long as the original owner didn't die in the last transaction, (s)he will likely be a subscriber again. Knowing that such a law and system is in place will deter crime without mass execution. Phones with grey market/unscrupulous IMEIs can be sent hourly text messages before being banned from the network (as they are doing in the UAE). The 10% number which turn out to be legitimate devices can be a problem of the device manufacturer.
Market dictates that if Apple products sold in EU countries come with 2 year Apple care and the ones in a non EU country do not, the ones sold from the EU countries should be worth more then the ones that are sold in non-EU countries if the warranty is included... meaning the price will have to reflect that and will likely be passed to consumers or a side market will be created. The same happened in the UAE where North American iPhones are sold here due to the lack of Facetime on UAE version...
Always wondered how well fiber optic cable would do on shifting plates of ice... do trench it on the ice or lay it on top?? when it freezes into the ice and the 300 tonn chunk of ice shifts relative to the other and breaks the cable, how do you fix it?!
I did misunderstand. I went off on the seperate topic on the justification of guns when I mis-interpreted you advocate killing the deer (with guns) as a nescesity to save lives. In fairness, this article he is commenting about is about guns and your comments were about need to thin deer population. I did not mean it to be personal and was just expressing my thoughts.
Again, that traffic/development/law problem has also been dealt with in other countries... It will never happen in North America... but I'll always think its lame to use the "think of the children" excuse for gun ownership. I am sure most Americans use their handguns to cull the deer so that their tulips don't get eaten and their children don't die in deer collisions. Why not just say f&%# you, I want to be able to shoot my guns instead of poping up with excuses for gun ownership and political excuses for all sorts of things that actually do not make sense.
How did people get access to Stafford? The conservatives admitted to collecting the data. Not using it to directly influence the vote. I am not saying I believe that is what happened... but it could have just as easily as any of the other scenarios. Did the conservatives do wrong collecting the data? Yeah, I think so... Do any other parties do the same?? Probably... Recognize the waters are all muddy and there is no conspiracy unless you think there is someone looking out for your best interest and beliefs over all others.
Who profited from this? So far it seems the Liberals have because they are undermining the support of the conservatives... but the phone was registered to a pierre poutine of separist street Quebec - would the Conservatives do that? The oposition (NDP) might be gaining as both parties are at each other... Someone might be profiting by making a case for warrentless wiretapping which is private industry. This is more like someone selling property through a third party and claiming its stolen - your knee jerk to the law does not lead to justice.
I submitted that news story as a Slashdot article... it never got picked up:(
So the question about who profited from this? Was it:
-Cons calling Liebral voters?
-Liebrals calling Liebral voters trying to pin it on Cons?
-Cons calling Liebral voters trying to get Liebrals to pin it on the Cons to then pin a scandal on them?
-Liebrals calling Liebral voters trying to get Liebrals to pin it on the Cons to then pin a scandal back on the Liebrals eventually turns back on the Cons?
-Another opposition or someone doing this "for the Lulz"
"Pierre Poutine, Separatist Street, Joliette Quebec." is a politically charged fake name for a burner phone...
I think part of the problem is that Canadians are not taught about how Canadian politics work anymore and the leader does not matter as much if you are holding the local elected representatives accountable for the parties collective actions.
Care to post some? Which doesn't come from a motivated source (i.e., an early Christian sect)?
Isn't that like discrediting all connected to the USA and NASA when asking about proof that man actually walked on the moon?! I mean, the people who mostly care are those with an agenda and its not every day a completely neutral party is going to go out of their way looking for 2000 year old history and interpret it validly and without some sort of bias (if not bias from the teachings they have had)
The evidence itself should be investigated, not the source
If I understand this correctly it's the centrifugal force keeping the space station up, even though it is falling. The fall station is high enough that the resistance of the atmosphere is not enough to slow it down under its own weight, or it would need rockets to keep itself up. If you shot yourself in the opposite direction, you will still accelerate on your way down due to the same insane speed due to the thin atmosphere. You need the rocket to act like a parachute, slowing down your fall to earth until you get to a point where the fall will not let you accelerate to the point the atmosphere can not give you the worst friction burn... which would be a lot of rocket fuel. Early in the space program, it seems they found the problem of surviving re-entry easier then storing the energy for such a course correction.
Obligatory XKCD http://xkcd.com/123/
Unless you're religious, life has no meaning at all.
So what you are saying, is you cannot be social and have a purposeful and meaningful life without religion?? Can't you then argue then your life is actually not meaningful at all if you are simply only concerned about an after life???
Personally, I belive my life is quite purposeful, without competition or religion. Sure when I die, I expect to keep nothing. My existence will have a short term significance to the people I have interacted with, and my interactions will silently carry on with them.
Slashdot Mirror
for taking my hand from the wheel and shifting from first to second during a left turn in an intersection.
I learned my lesson, drive how they want you to when you are taking your test.
I too drive a BMW - My ABS works great
Your car may appear to not be stopping because the feedback from the ABS. It also may not stop as well when you throw all the weight to the front wheels in a SUDDEN application of brakes.
On pavement, modern ABS releases the wheels which are approaching lockup, basically doing theshold braking for you. It's not the same as pumping your brakes. The car knows when a wheel has lost or is about to loose static traction so not only is it doing the threshold braking for you, it is doing it better then you can. Especially in a panic situation.
Have you been to the UAE?! Yes women can drive. The video you posted is mostly youth of Saudi Arabia being bored... I can find many videos of bored youth of America/Europe being equally reckless and would not be surprised if you were once bored and reckless too.
Further, if you talk of infidels, you obviously don't know anything about UAE or Oman. You sir are a poorly traveled troll.
My wife screams and puts her forearms up to her face when shes driving and sees a spider on her dash. If I didn't know any better I'd think it might be instinct in some women.
I am in the UAE these days... the cost of gas is nothing. I fill up my land rover for ~$30.
The global market does not affect UAE gas prices. Why?? Because the UAE government has decided the global market does not affect UAE gas prices.
Obviously you aren't Canadian... U.S. gas prices have always seemed lower. If U.S. gas prices go up, so do Canadian gas prices. Something about NAFTA IIRC.
I think what's worse is that most people just look at the runner and do nothing while the victim yells.
aurait hurlé en français
(Should have yelled in french (google translate))
They don't need to disable your car while it is driving (causing accidents), they can just make it not start or use the electronics to limit the speed... the phones do not need to be cut off immediately when a report is filed, sending it a text message every hour or redirecting calls will also decrease the phones fence value.
That is how things like this usually get done... more eloquently then the laws and agreements usually state. The heavy handed approach can be used, but usually they impliment something else in the spirit of the law.
Regarding misuse... if you ever piss off an unaccountable bureaucrat or big business, it will be much easier and effective for them to tamper with your car or put a bullet in your head. That is still probably done by pushing a few numbers and eating a tasty lunch. You probably don't get to eat lunch when disabling a vehicle through On-star.
If you are worried about the "Kafkaesque Nightmare", I am sure it's easier to find one in your tax returns. I don't think your tin foil hat is thick enough to protect you from the dark possibilities of the real world.
I am quite sure IMEIs are unique among manufactured cell phones. There are grey market devices for SMS, VoIP and counterfit manufactured phones which result in that 10%. Some carriers were barring IMEI numbers when subsidized phones were taken from contracts resulting to an increase in IMEI changing for stolen phones. The BBC argument is the barring would have to be done from all carriers (which is a weak argument when we have DNS RBLs for SPAM catching 90% of the spam hosts on the entire internet). Stolen Blackberries can be banned from Blackberry service straight from RIM. Apple phones can be bricked by Apple. You can't ban by IMSI as changing the SIM changes the IMSI. The SIM has little value. Changing an IMEI is telecommunications fraud in many countries so it is a pretty clear case to throw the IMEI changers in jail. It is the responsibility of the device manufacturer to provide devices to the carrier which are difficult to change the IMEI. Most smartphones now map the IMEI to their manufactured serial number or other unique identifier... like blackberry to pin. The carriers and device manufacturers know the IMEIs which were sold through their inventory and should be able to excercise authority on barring devices they sold on subscriber request for other carriers.
In the real world, this is not a technical problem without solutions. It is not in the carriers best interest to bar stolen/counterfit/grey market phones from their networks - phones (no matter their origin) = consumption. As long as the original owner didn't die in the last transaction, (s)he will likely be a subscriber again. Knowing that such a law and system is in place will deter crime without mass execution. Phones with grey market/unscrupulous IMEIs can be sent hourly text messages before being banned from the network (as they are doing in the UAE). The 10% number which turn out to be legitimate devices can be a problem of the device manufacturer.
Queue the PMs asking for copies of cool Data 8)
Market dictates that if Apple products sold in EU countries come with 2 year Apple care and the ones in a non EU country do not, the ones sold from the EU countries should be worth more then the ones that are sold in non-EU countries if the warranty is included... meaning the price will have to reflect that and will likely be passed to consumers or a side market will be created. The same happened in the UAE where North American iPhones are sold here due to the lack of Facetime on UAE version...
Always wondered how well fiber optic cable would do on shifting plates of ice... do trench it on the ice or lay it on top?? when it freezes into the ice and the 300 tonn chunk of ice shifts relative to the other and breaks the cable, how do you fix it?!
I did misunderstand. I went off on the seperate topic on the justification of guns when I mis-interpreted you advocate killing the deer (with guns) as a nescesity to save lives. In fairness, this article he is commenting about is about guns and your comments were about need to thin deer population. I did not mean it to be personal and was just expressing my thoughts.
Again, that traffic/development/law problem has also been dealt with in other countries...
It will never happen in North America... but I'll always think its lame to use the "think of the children" excuse for gun ownership. I am sure most Americans use their handguns to cull the deer so that their tulips don't get eaten and their children don't die in deer collisions.
Why not just say f&%# you, I want to be able to shoot my guns instead of poping up with excuses for gun ownership and political excuses for all sorts of things that actually do not make sense.
How did people get access to Stafford? The conservatives admitted to collecting the data. Not using it to directly influence the vote. I am not saying I believe that is what happened... but it could have just as easily as any of the other scenarios.
Did the conservatives do wrong collecting the data? Yeah, I think so...
Do any other parties do the same?? Probably...
Recognize the waters are all muddy and there is no conspiracy unless you think there is someone looking out for your best interest and beliefs over all others.
Who profited from this? So far it seems the Liberals have because they are undermining the support of the conservatives... but the phone was registered to a pierre poutine of separist street Quebec - would the Conservatives do that? The oposition (NDP) might be gaining as both parties are at each other... Someone might be profiting by making a case for warrentless wiretapping which is private industry. This is more like someone selling property through a third party and claiming its stolen - your knee jerk to the law does not lead to justice.
That said, I can debate any one of those above points as correct. The only thing I know for sure is I don't know enough.
All we need now is for someone to "come forward" with more "facts"
I submitted that news story as a Slashdot article... it never got picked up :(
So the question about who profited from this? Was it:
-Cons calling Liebral voters?
-Liebrals calling Liebral voters trying to pin it on Cons?
-Cons calling Liebral voters trying to get Liebrals to pin it on the Cons to then pin a scandal on them?
-Liebrals calling Liebral voters trying to get Liebrals to pin it on the Cons to then pin a scandal back on the Liebrals eventually turns back on the Cons?
-Another opposition or someone doing this "for the Lulz"
"Pierre Poutine, Separatist Street, Joliette Quebec." is a politically charged fake name for a burner phone...
So what you are saying is, as a corrupt individual supporting the runner up, I can make the majority look guilty and profit?!
You shouldn't design a system to make the unintended input give you better output then the existing controls in place
I think part of the problem is that Canadians are not taught about how Canadian politics work anymore and the leader does not matter as much if you are holding the local elected representatives accountable for the parties collective actions.
Care to post some? Which doesn't come from a motivated source (i.e., an early Christian sect)?
Isn't that like discrediting all connected to the USA and NASA when asking about proof that man actually walked on the moon?! I mean, the people who mostly care are those with an agenda and its not every day a completely neutral party is going to go out of their way looking for 2000 year old history and interpret it validly and without some sort of bias (if not bias from the teachings they have had)
The evidence itself should be investigated, not the source
If I understand this correctly it's the centrifugal force keeping the space station up, even though it is falling. The fall station is high enough that the resistance of the atmosphere is not enough to slow it down under its own weight, or it would need rockets to keep itself up. If you shot yourself in the opposite direction, you will still accelerate on your way down due to the same insane speed due to the thin atmosphere. You need the rocket to act like a parachute, slowing down your fall to earth until you get to a point where the fall will not let you accelerate to the point the atmosphere can not give you the worst friction burn... which would be a lot of rocket fuel. Early in the space program, it seems they found the problem of surviving re-entry easier then storing the energy for such a course correction.
Obligatory XKCD http://xkcd.com/123/
Because you also have bouyancy :)
I was thinking that using bouyancy, you can store energy for slow release and without any land and minimal(ish) environmental impact...
Picture a large solar farm in the ocean that winches down bouys during production. At night, the winches are run in reverse as generators
Obviously I have oversimplified this and can think of dozens of technical challenges...
Unless you're religious, life has no meaning at all.
So what you are saying, is you cannot be social and have a purposeful and meaningful life without religion?? Can't you then argue then your life is actually not meaningful at all if you are simply only concerned about an after life???
Personally, I belive my life is quite purposeful, without competition or religion. Sure when I die, I expect to keep nothing. My existence will have a short term significance to the people I have interacted with, and my interactions will silently carry on with them.