DOT approval isn't a one time thing - i.e 1960 seat belts are fine, in a 1960's car, but not approved for a car built after the shoulder strap requirement was added.
I take it more as an indication of how good the safety systems on modern vehicles are, he crashed at over 100mph with no seatbelt on, and basically the airbags and crumple zones saved his life. Twenty years ago this would have been a story about how he skidded on some black ice and died.
This is a Crown Victoria, sir, one of the very last battleships of the road from the bygone era of 20 foot long, V8-powered, family cars. It's the one I often see driven by tiny little white-haired people - presumably because "Large" is the only car size they'll buy - which gives them that advantage of surviving to drive even more years, while you and I are a smear on the pave.
They will ask Walmart for video footage to identify who bumped into your car and drove away. At least that's what the insurance told my wife once...
I need fore and aft GoPro cameras in my car - record my drives. What amazing things I could turn over to the CHP! The people passing on the shoulder, tailgating, yakking on phones. putting on make-up, shaving, picking noses...
They usually record less data for maintenance purposes than the kind the insurance companies are clamoring for. These limited datasets have been subpoenaed for auto accidents.
How do they go about recording? I presume it's a loop in memory, which is only so many hours, or days capacity. My 3 year old car already has 115,000 miles on it. Some tale it could tell.
So, the first thing you should do after a car accident is to find and destroy its black box, so your insurance company would have no way to avoid paying the, what, insurance?
"The most interesting thing about the damage your vehicle suffered, is that the passenger compartment is largely intact, except for this little plastic box in the back of the glove box, which appears to have suffered severe physical trama at the end of a tire iron. I don't think we're going to honor your policy, sir."
"... Maybe we should strap black boxes to all our politicians."
Don't be foolish, they would explode from all the weaving, diving, bobbing, feints, corrections, double-backs and plowing through verbal feces (the black boxes, not the politicians.
Easier, because your average consumer doesn't even know how to drag and drop let alone use a text-only interface.
What's really laughable about this, though, is that they mention security in the article as if they believe there is any to begin with... for anyone who wants to break in, it's easy enough already.
The first line of security, and most oft employed, is Ignorance.
From what I can tell (from TFS) the adapter only has a number that acts as a decryption key. You wouldn't be able to get the actual password from just the adapter itself. Though it may be possible to figure out the password based on just the decryption key. I'm not very well versed in cryptography, so if someone who is wants to correct me on this, feel free.
Either accomplished by it being the Original Power Adator or something you twiddle with software, presumably when the i(insert Apple product here) is connected to the Power Adator and already unlocked. Sucks to be you, if you are like me and keep multiple Power Adators at various locations, rather than lugging the thing around with my like some kind of Cupertino-required parasite.
As if they need a technical restriction, when they're so heavy handed with the legislative restrictions. I'd never buy, for example a phone, that didn't have a micro USB charger, or a stereo that had a wacky propitiatory interface like an "ipod dock".
It shouldn't be legal to block or tax 3rd party accessory makers, and what's needed is more forced standards for consumer screwing companies like Apple.
It's only an Apple Tax (same as a Microsoft Tax) if you go that way.
Every time you buy into some proprietary technology you sell a little piece of your soul.
... a paper clip which is capable of encrypting eBooks.
I suppose its better than going to the Apple store, shuffling your feet and mumbling sheepishly you somehow forgot your password, but what if I have a power adaptor and swiped your phone, can I now hack it?
Hi. You might consider a camera such as athe Fujifilm S-2950 or a similar model. While the lenses are not interchangeable, the current crop of such cameras have an electronic vierfinder, 18x to 36x lenses (depending on the model) and are pretty nice cameras that can probably handle all of your needs. Image stabilization helps a lot to get clear shots. I like cameras that take AA batteries, as I can use AA NiMH rechargeable batteries. I am a serious amateur photographe rand I like to try macro shots, night shots and take photos in unusual situations. My Fijifilm S-2950 has never dissapointed me yet.
This is the first bar which must be crossed for any digital camera I buy. I'm never buying another camera which uses some stinkin' Lithium battery, which once it's done I'm there with a dead camera. I carry several sets of charged NiMH cells in my backpack, which can be used in any device I need them in. Should I be on an extended trip, I can always pick up some Alkaline cells in a shop to hold me over in an emergency - try that with Lithium.
Also, I've had it with these optical sensors which scan with the little nano mirror - the quality is only suitable for small prints, because larger prints reveal how poor the actual resolution is. 14 megapixel... riiiiight, more like 1 megapixel blown up. I picked up a cheap Olympus, which is OK for some things, but a very stupid camera in certain lighting and zooms - in brief: too much fighting to get a picture. Stick with cameras where the resolution is the actual resolution of a CCD device, not something which extrapolates or scans or any other smoke & mirrors method to inflate resolution.
The internet was the great boundary eraser. People from anywhere could suddenly communicate, share, argue, whatever without having to travel, know an address and write a letter or know a phone number and make a call. Keeping people from communicating was an afterthought by dictatorial regimes, who have fallen or faced uprisings thanks to this ability to communicate from anywhere at the speed of thought. Now it faces barriers by governments and carriers - China's great firewall, Iran closing internet Cafe's, etc. It was great while it lasted.
3D tv is just a scam. tried every 20-30 years and they just don't learn...
Are we to understand you did not see the extravaganza, which was Avatar?
The current means of performing 3D is far and above previous technology and produced a rich viewing experience - granted this is largely due to director and technical crew having a clear idea of what they were about. Being able to view a movie at home with such results would be wonderful, but there are two main pitfalls...
Technology of the displays at an available price-point to consumers - the big screens I've seen so far aren't as good as the theatre experience, but I expect they will get there fairly soon.
Understanding 3D and using it effectively - for sports this is easy enough, but for movies/TV, there's far and away too many directors, writers, technical people who are versed in 2D to fully grasp using 3D to its potential and, like Steven Spielberg, go for the "WOW!" scene.
Next step is to have Windows 8.5 just auto-refresh every few months since Microsoft seems to assume you'll be doing it any how.
Yeah, once a worm has messed it up, you pretty much have to.
Repairs to XP after a worm leaves you with a rather brain-damaged and stupid mess of a system, which keeps losing track of drivers or having two drivers (I can't find the source of the phantom one) running concurrently and interferring with each other.
May I suggest Microsoft follow in the footsteps of Apple and start planning a future departure from these stupid Windows systems and start looking at building a whole new environment on a bsd or Linux kernal? For the best, really.
Welcome to topsy-turvy land. We've actually been here for awhile, with "fiscal conservative" presidents and legislatures growing the national debt and supposedly "tax and spend liberal" presidents actually shrinking debt.
I support consolidating telecom facilities. Having facilities physically compromised is a bigger danger when there are more facilities, and having more facilities and presumably more equipment means more places one's information ends up, possibly leading to a greater chance that one's data won't remain secure to electronic penetration either.
Many years ago, Tennessee forced all of its state agencies on to one computer system for the bulk of State business. The agencies were very upset by this, but in the end it did save money and help keep records better because now agency X and agency Y were handling the same record, instead of having separate, different records that were never checked against each other. I'm sure there were problems, especially turf wars where agencies would fight over who "owned" the data and who could change things, but I'd bet it still worked better than having thirty individual agencies all with their own equipment that doesn't synchronize...
I've been witnessing the consolidation, or at least attempt at, in California. Sometimes they run out of money for the consolidation effort and it is shelved for short term budget reasons against the wisdom of getting it done now to save much more down the road. Turf wars, well, the try to conceal their turf, 'if we don't look after it it'll be a mess' which needs to be beaten back for the greater good. A little pain now for gain later. Government can't keep growing.
I wouldn't utter a blanket curse at 'Conservatives' growing government - I've lived long enough to see each side of the aisle has its pet projects and is fully capable of spending like "drunken other-side-of-the-aislers" Reagan and GWBush both grew the size of the federal government by significant amounts, without finding a source for the funding, while Clinton (social liberal/fiscal conservative) actully slashed over 100,000 (I think it may have been as high as 300,000 from federal payroll - through consolidation and weeding out things which had lived beyond their mandate.)
Good to see some of this attention coming back. This is how you cut spending, not by some trumpeted bill in the House or turning the budget screws, but by ferreting out the redundancy or unneeded and removing it.
Some students and some classes could and should be taught online. However, these decisions need to be made by school districts, parents, and students. The governor shouldn't be placing a huge unfunded mandate on local schools just because Apple cut him a check.
Online teaching works for students with an aptitude for it. I can succeed wonderfully -- but for that group.
Having computers in a classroom requires having the need and plan in place, before actually acquiring the technology, otherwise it's a distraction.
It also doesn't help that the discipline in schools is relaxing to an all-time low, and kids can wear hats and have cell phones and text and game all day and then tell their teachers to fuck off - and not a damn thing will happen to them once their parents threaten a lawsuit.
Where I work we expel them. Can't have the nasty buggers spoiling the greatest gift people will receive in their lifetimes, because their parents know fuck-all about raising them.
Only works when the student has the aptitude for it. There are students who do better in the classroom with interaction with the teacher. Can't expect same results for the whole population.
Our current concept of Santa and reindeer has a lot to do with the poem "the night before Christmas" written in 1823. The character is referred to as a 'right jolly old elf'. Also the sleigh is miniature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas.
And current view of how Santa looks was created by Coca Cola for advertising.
To have a good look into the Santa Mythos, read Terry Pratchett's Hogfather - while a lot of humourous bits wound in, it provides some deep thinking. Crafty bugger, that Pratchett.
We'll probably have Petaflop computers on our desks, if not in our laps. Apparently so we can manage the bloat of operating systems (which will no longer be popping up balloons, but nagging you with voice and expecting voice back) and gigabyte webpages, which tell you nothing you can't see now, but are built layer upon layer of cruft.
I think eBay lead the curve on this one. I complained bitterly to them about how long it took their bloated pages to load when I was still on dialup. Nobody cares.
I suppose the telecoms do. This increases the liklihood of blowing through your monthly bandwidth cap without even watching videos.
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DOT approval isn't a one time thing - i.e 1960 seat belts are fine, in a 1960's car, but not approved for a car built after the shoulder strap requirement was added.
... and are deciding whether to be pwned or not.
I take it more as an indication of how good the safety systems on modern vehicles are, he crashed at over 100mph with no seatbelt on, and basically the airbags and crumple zones saved his life. Twenty years ago this would have been a story about how he skidded on some black ice and died.
This is a Crown Victoria, sir, one of the very last battleships of the road from the bygone era of 20 foot long, V8-powered, family cars. It's the one I often see driven by tiny little white-haired people - presumably because "Large" is the only car size they'll buy - which gives them that advantage of surviving to drive even more years, while you and I are a smear on the pave.
They will ask Walmart for video footage to identify who bumped into your car and drove away.
At least that's what the insurance told my wife once...
I need fore and aft GoPro cameras in my car - record my drives. What amazing things I could turn over to the CHP! The people passing on the shoulder, tailgating, yakking on phones. putting on make-up, shaving, picking noses...
They usually record less data for maintenance purposes than the kind the insurance companies are clamoring for.
These limited datasets have been subpoenaed for auto accidents.
How do they go about recording? I presume it's a loop in memory, which is only so many hours, or days capacity. My 3 year old car already has 115,000 miles on it. Some tale it could tell.
So, the first thing you should do after a car accident is to find and destroy its black box, so your insurance company would have no way to avoid paying the, what, insurance?
"The most interesting thing about the damage your vehicle suffered, is that the passenger compartment is largely intact, except for this little plastic box in the back of the glove box, which appears to have suffered severe physical trama at the end of a tire iron. I don't think we're going to honor your policy, sir."
"... Maybe we should strap black boxes to all our politicians."
Don't be foolish, they would explode from all the weaving, diving, bobbing, feints, corrections, double-backs and plowing through verbal feces (the black boxes, not the politicians.
Easier, because your average consumer doesn't even know how to drag and drop let alone use a text-only interface.
What's really laughable about this, though, is that they mention security in the article as if they believe there is any to begin with... for anyone who wants to break in, it's easy enough already.
The first line of security, and most oft employed, is Ignorance.
From what I can tell (from TFS) the adapter only has a number that acts as a decryption key. You wouldn't be able to get the actual password from just the adapter itself. Though it may be possible to figure out the password based on just the decryption key. I'm not very well versed in cryptography, so if someone who is wants to correct me on this, feel free.
Either accomplished by it being the Original Power Adator or something you twiddle with software, presumably when the i(insert Apple product here) is connected to the Power Adator and already unlocked. Sucks to be you, if you are like me and keep multiple Power Adators at various locations, rather than lugging the thing around with my like some kind of Cupertino-required parasite.
As if they need a technical restriction, when they're so heavy handed with the legislative restrictions.
I'd never buy, for example a phone, that didn't have a micro USB charger, or a stereo that had a wacky propitiatory interface like an "ipod dock".
It shouldn't be legal to block or tax 3rd party accessory makers, and what's needed is more forced standards for consumer screwing companies like Apple.
It's only an Apple Tax (same as a Microsoft Tax) if you go that way.
Every time you buy into some proprietary technology you sell a little piece of your soul.
... a paper clip which is capable of encrypting eBooks.
I suppose its better than going to the Apple store, shuffling your feet and mumbling sheepishly you somehow forgot your password, but what if I have a power adaptor and swiped your phone, can I now hack it?
Hi. You might consider a camera such as athe Fujifilm S-2950 or a similar model. While the lenses are not interchangeable, the current crop of such cameras have an electronic vierfinder, 18x to 36x lenses (depending on the model) and are pretty nice cameras that can probably handle all of your needs. Image stabilization helps a lot to get clear shots. I like cameras that take AA batteries, as I can use AA NiMH rechargeable batteries. I am a serious amateur photographe rand I like to try macro shots, night shots and take photos in unusual situations. My Fijifilm S-2950 has never dissapointed me yet.
This is the first bar which must be crossed for any digital camera I buy. I'm never buying another camera which uses some stinkin' Lithium battery, which once it's done I'm there with a dead camera. I carry several sets of charged NiMH cells in my backpack, which can be used in any device I need them in. Should I be on an extended trip, I can always pick up some Alkaline cells in a shop to hold me over in an emergency - try that with Lithium.
Also, I've had it with these optical sensors which scan with the little nano mirror - the quality is only suitable for small prints, because larger prints reveal how poor the actual resolution is. 14 megapixel ... riiiiight, more like 1 megapixel blown up. I picked up a cheap Olympus, which is OK for some things, but a very stupid camera in certain lighting and zooms - in brief: too much fighting to get a picture. Stick with cameras where the resolution is the actual resolution of a CCD device, not something which extrapolates or scans or any other smoke & mirrors method to inflate resolution.
The internet was the great boundary eraser. People from anywhere could suddenly communicate, share, argue, whatever without having to travel, know an address and write a letter or know a phone number and make a call. Keeping people from communicating was an afterthought by dictatorial regimes, who have fallen or faced uprisings thanks to this ability to communicate from anywhere at the speed of thought. Now it faces barriers by governments and carriers - China's great firewall, Iran closing internet Cafe's, etc. It was great while it lasted.
3D tv is just a scam. tried every 20-30 years and they just don't learn...
Are we to understand you did not see the extravaganza, which was Avatar?
The current means of performing 3D is far and above previous technology and produced a rich viewing experience - granted this is largely due to director and technical crew having a clear idea of what they were about. Being able to view a movie at home with such results would be wonderful, but there are two main pitfalls...
Technology of the displays at an available price-point to consumers - the big screens I've seen so far aren't as good as the theatre experience, but I expect they will get there fairly soon.
Understanding 3D and using it effectively - for sports this is easy enough, but for movies/TV, there's far and away too many directors, writers, technical people who are versed in 2D to fully grasp using 3D to its potential and, like Steven Spielberg, go for the "WOW!" scene.
Next step is to have Windows 8.5 just auto-refresh every few months since Microsoft seems to assume you'll be doing it any how.
Yeah, once a worm has messed it up, you pretty much have to.
Repairs to XP after a worm leaves you with a rather brain-damaged and stupid mess of a system, which keeps losing track of drivers or having two drivers (I can't find the source of the phantom one) running concurrently and interferring with each other.
May I suggest Microsoft follow in the footsteps of Apple and start planning a future departure from these stupid Windows systems and start looking at building a whole new environment on a bsd or Linux kernal? For the best, really.
I may be at my best, coding in a Zeppelin, cruising silently above it all.
I'd certainly like to try it.
Welcome to topsy-turvy land. We've actually been here for awhile, with "fiscal conservative" presidents and legislatures growing the national debt and supposedly "tax and spend liberal" presidents actually shrinking debt.
I support consolidating telecom facilities. Having facilities physically compromised is a bigger danger when there are more facilities, and having more facilities and presumably more equipment means more places one's information ends up, possibly leading to a greater chance that one's data won't remain secure to electronic penetration either.
Many years ago, Tennessee forced all of its state agencies on to one computer system for the bulk of State business. The agencies were very upset by this, but in the end it did save money and help keep records better because now agency X and agency Y were handling the same record, instead of having separate, different records that were never checked against each other. I'm sure there were problems, especially turf wars where agencies would fight over who "owned" the data and who could change things, but I'd bet it still worked better than having thirty individual agencies all with their own equipment that doesn't synchronize...
I've been witnessing the consolidation, or at least attempt at, in California. Sometimes they run out of money for the consolidation effort and it is shelved for short term budget reasons against the wisdom of getting it done now to save much more down the road. Turf wars, well, the try to conceal their turf, 'if we don't look after it it'll be a mess' which needs to be beaten back for the greater good. A little pain now for gain later. Government can't keep growing.
I wouldn't utter a blanket curse at 'Conservatives' growing government - I've lived long enough to see each side of the aisle has its pet projects and is fully capable of spending like "drunken other-side-of-the-aislers" Reagan and GWBush both grew the size of the federal government by significant amounts, without finding a source for the funding, while Clinton (social liberal/fiscal conservative) actully slashed over 100,000 (I think it may have been as high as 300,000 from federal payroll - through consolidation and weeding out things which had lived beyond their mandate.)
Good to see some of this attention coming back. This is how you cut spending, not by some trumpeted bill in the House or turning the budget screws, but by ferreting out the redundancy or unneeded and removing it.
Some students and some classes could and should be taught online. However, these decisions need to be made by school districts, parents, and students. The governor shouldn't be placing a huge unfunded mandate on local schools just because Apple cut him a check.
Online teaching works for students with an aptitude for it. I can succeed wonderfully -- but for that group.
Having computers in a classroom requires having the need and plan in place, before actually acquiring the technology, otherwise it's a distraction.
Potatoes?
Yes, indeed.
It also doesn't help that the discipline in schools is relaxing to an all-time low, and kids can wear hats and have cell phones and text and game all day and then tell their teachers to fuck off - and not a damn thing will happen to them once their parents threaten a lawsuit.
Where I work we expel them. Can't have the nasty buggers spoiling the greatest gift people will receive in their lifetimes, because their parents know fuck-all about raising them.
Only works when the student has the aptitude for it. There are students who do better in the classroom with interaction with the teacher. Can't expect same results for the whole population.
Our current concept of Santa and reindeer has a lot to do with the poem "the night before Christmas" written in 1823. The character is referred to as a 'right jolly old elf'. Also the sleigh is miniature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas.
And current view of how Santa looks was created by Coca Cola for advertising.
To have a good look into the Santa Mythos, read Terry Pratchett's Hogfather - while a lot of humourous bits wound in, it provides some deep thinking. Crafty bugger, that Pratchett.
We'll probably have Petaflop computers on our desks, if not in our laps. Apparently so we can manage the bloat of operating systems (which will no longer be popping up balloons, but nagging you with voice and expecting voice back) and gigabyte webpages, which tell you nothing you can't see now, but are built layer upon layer of cruft.
No surprise there. Aside selling domain registry, what else they got?
Rather like saying it's OK to invade some country because you have an ally who's a pin-prick in the Pacific willing to go along with you.
I think eBay lead the curve on this one. I complained bitterly to them about how long it took their bloated pages to load when I was still on dialup. Nobody cares.
I suppose the telecoms do. This increases the liklihood of blowing through your monthly bandwidth cap without even watching videos.