We have the usual traffic checks at a few times of the year - New Years, Mardi Gras. Breath only, though. Maybe get out and walk if it's on the bubble.
I was greatly dismayed to see how many apps expect access to my email, location and contacts directory, most with no need whatsoever for such information.
Yes, that is really annoying. I tried to install a Flashlight app the other day. I had to go thru about 6 of them before I found one that didn't need any permissions. I mean really, why does a flashligh need permission for the network? Do I really need to see an ad for the 5s seconds I have the flashlight on to find the keyhole to my front door in the dark?
No.., but the NSA wants to see what you are snooping around with a flashlight for. 8o)
Yeah, that was where I initially saw the ludicrous access garnering, a flashlight app. Seriously, what does a damn flashlight need to know about my contacts or location? Too much free or even pay-for apps are up to no good.
The concept on Android of listing app permissions is a good one - although it needs to be MUCH more detailed, and you need to be able to filter in the app store based on permissions.
Right now, to find a suitable app that won't do something you dislike - e.g. running in the background - you need to install it, see if it does the bad thing, then uninstall it. If those attributes were clearly listed, and searchable, then you could only install and try out the ones that aren't instantly annoying.
I was greatly dismayed to see how many apps expect access to my email, location and contacts directory, most with no need whatsoever for such information. I don't install a lot of apps. I'd rather develop them.
The representatives of the congregation of my late Grandfather's church approached one of my uncles, asking if he could carpool his father to church as the elder kept making contact with other vehicles in the parking lot. One of the symptoms of old age is being less aware. He was still licenced to drive at near 90 years of age.
The example I used, however, was an elderly gentleman plowing into the crowd at a farmers market a few years ago. Perfect driving record until he hit the wrong pedal. Elderly drivers should be checked for vision and reaction time at least every two years. Never mind insurance, if they fail they shouldn't be on the roads.
Those people are easy to detect by anyone else driving. I would be very surprised if these monitors did not catch that behavior (constant speed changes, sharp steering movements, etc) and assign a very high risk to those people.
How are instruments to detect driver inattention? Have their eyes scanned every 1/10 second to see how much of the time they are not looking forward or checking a mirror?
I assume what will happen is the insurance companies will find that 75% to 90% of their insureds are worse drivers in some way than average, and need to be charged more.
To establish a mean, around where they will reduce premiums (or not raise them) someone must fall outside that range - no matter how skilled they are.
I feel the only thing this information will do is justify hitting some drivers up for an increased premium. 60+ years of driving statistics, with accidents, etc, should already be providing them with the sort of benchmarks they need.
This is the problem. They've decided that safe driving is smooth driving with no sudden accelerations, decelerations or quick turns.
You know who drives like that? All those awful oblivious drivers who everyone else is dodging. And the people doing the dodging look like maniacs.
You mean this 85-year old drivers, who are just fine until a split second of confusion sends their Crown Victoria through a crowd because they hit the gas instead of the brake.
Assuming their telemetry system is limited and that "safe = slow = low prices". That isn't always the case!! Slow may very well = dangerous in many occurrences.
Too true. I have a pretty long commute every day and have regularly seen people putting on Make Up, phoning, having animated discussions (lots of hand gestures, sudden jerks of the vehicle back to the middle of the lane after hitting some bot dots*, the driver who suddenly doesn't want to be passed - speeding up to prevent you changing lanes, etc.
*plastic dots aside lanes or road shoulder which are often reflective, which result in a BUDDUMP-BUDDUMP-BUDDUMP when your wheel goes over them. Common in places where regular road plowing doesn't take place.
Never mind they'll see you regularly drive 10-15 over the limit and think you're a risk. How about those clowns who sit in the left lane, going up hill and don't maintain speed, so everyone jockeys to get around them in the right lane(s)? You don't see that in their data stream.
Lots more examples, which I predict this thread will include.
Iterating through offsets beginning with zero is simply not counting. The writer is confused.
I knew I was destined to be a programmer when I was introduced to Integers in elementary school. The siren song of beginning counting somewhere other than 1 entranced me.
Yeah, 35 billion is nothing. That's half the budget, annually, for California. If they have these reserves and pull them out then the country truly is at rock bottom. It will be heading there as the attack on Daka demonstrates only state owned stores will flourish and they likely won't have anything in stock because nobody wants to sell to Venezuela and be paid in toilet paper Bolivars. It'll be like the good old days in Soviet Russia - where you sell your neighbor for a pair of blue jeans.
On my desk is a small silver coin: 25 centimos,.835 silver, 1960. It has to be worth more than their treasury is right now. The national oil company is trying to sell $4.5 billion in bonds to bring dollars back into the country, but you can bet there will be very few queuing up to buy these bonds as only a fool would trust this government to honor them.
My father had some German stamps from the 1930s which were something like 250,000,000,000 DM
The reason the country is rocketing towards bankruptcy is because the government is selling petrol to citizens for far less than they can sell the same petrol overseas. This cuts heavily into the inflow of cash to the national treasury. Anyone who has real money is hedging for a quick escape before the next revolution happens.
Obviously this is a way to flip the bird at capitalism and most major banking cartels. However it's likely not the right way.
Really? Likely not the best way?
Banking cartels have nothing to do with this, and they aren't the ones getting hurt.
The Venezuelan importers have to buy inventory with real dollars, nobody will give them credit any more since they nationalized everything. So the Importers are done. Out of business. They will take their last few squirreled away dollars and simply leave. (None of these importers is dumb enough to keep money in Venezuelan banks.)
No more imports for Venezuela. The banking cartels won't notice a thing.
Banks have.
Venezuelan bonds are plummeting. The country isn't going to be worth a plugged nickel.
but so, you cannot buy 1 dollar for 7 bol(or whatever the official rate is) from the government, I suppose? but they will gladly take your dollar and give 7 bol?
thats what the government should have been fixing.. not robbing importers. it's their fault the importers can't buy dollars for so cheap.
Anyone who knows how economics works has been chased out. This is what you get, a mentality that everything should be free and money magically appears. Not even socialists are this idiotic.
Maduro was a bus driver, not an academic. He toadied to Hugo Chávez, which is why he's in power now. Chavez was a moron and so is Maduro. The lottery is coming to an end.
i've been to venezuela many times. it is a great place. the last time i was there the black market exchange was Bs.7 to $1. that was just 3 years ago. now it is Bs.60 to $1. a country with vast oil reserves should be investing not spending!
With this Maduro is killing the last vestiges of business. Nobody will start one because the government will just call them thieves and seize everything. Maduro is digging his own grave.
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We have the usual traffic checks at a few times of the year - New Years, Mardi Gras. Breath only, though. Maybe get out and walk if it's on the bubble.
They are just pining for the fjords.
Perhaps taking a page out of Eric Idle's playbook - we'll call it The Greedy Bastards Tour.
If they do come anywhere near where I live I will be there.
I was greatly dismayed to see how many apps expect access to my email, location and contacts directory, most with no need whatsoever for such information.
Yes, that is really annoying. I tried to install a Flashlight app the other day. I had to go thru about 6 of them before I found one that didn't need any permissions. I mean really, why does a flashligh need permission for the network? Do I really need to see an ad for the 5s seconds I have the flashlight on to find the keyhole to my front door in the dark?
No.., but the NSA wants to see what you are snooping around with a flashlight for. 8o)
Yeah, that was where I initially saw the ludicrous access garnering, a flashlight app. Seriously, what does a damn flashlight need to know about my contacts or location? Too much free or even pay-for apps are up to no good.
You dump it if it sucks and you don't need it or you have an alternative.
Word the question differently to get more useful replies.
You also dump it when you learn it's handing off information it's not entitled to. A lot of spying going on in apps. :(
The concept on Android of listing app permissions is a good one - although it needs to be MUCH more detailed, and you need to be able to filter in the app store based on permissions.
Right now, to find a suitable app that won't do something you dislike - e.g. running in the background - you need to install it, see if it does the bad thing, then uninstall it. If those attributes were clearly listed, and searchable, then you could only install and try out the ones that aren't instantly annoying.
I was greatly dismayed to see how many apps expect access to my email, location and contacts directory, most with no need whatsoever for such information. I don't install a lot of apps. I'd rather develop them.
I was trying not to be ageist... :-P
The representatives of the congregation of my late Grandfather's church approached one of my uncles, asking if he could carpool his father to church as the elder kept making contact with other vehicles in the parking lot. One of the symptoms of old age is being less aware. He was still licenced to drive at near 90 years of age.
The example I used, however, was an elderly gentleman plowing into the crowd at a farmers market a few years ago. Perfect driving record until he hit the wrong pedal. Elderly drivers should be checked for vision and reaction time at least every two years. Never mind insurance, if they fail they shouldn't be on the roads.
Those people are easy to detect by anyone else driving. I would be very surprised if these monitors did not catch that behavior (constant speed changes, sharp steering movements, etc) and assign a very high risk to those people.
How are instruments to detect driver inattention? Have their eyes scanned every 1/10 second to see how much of the time they are not looking forward or checking a mirror?
If there's one thing I can't abide, it's apps running in the background, poking their noses into my affairs.
I assume what will happen is the insurance companies will find that 75% to 90% of their insureds are worse drivers in some way than average, and need to be charged more.
To establish a mean, around where they will reduce premiums (or not raise them) someone must fall outside that range - no matter how skilled they are.
I feel the only thing this information will do is justify hitting some drivers up for an increased premium. 60+ years of driving statistics, with accidents, etc, should already be providing them with the sort of benchmarks they need.
This is the problem. They've decided that safe driving is smooth driving with no sudden accelerations, decelerations or quick turns.
You know who drives like that? All those awful oblivious drivers who everyone else is dodging. And the people doing the dodging look like maniacs.
You mean this 85-year old drivers, who are just fine until a split second of confusion sends their Crown Victoria through a crowd because they hit the gas instead of the brake.
My inclination is to say "scientific experimentation" but that's a high target.
I find it rather tricky to perform chemistry experiments while driving. Although driving can be highly useful for some physics experiments.
"Watch me run over that paper bag!"
WHUMP flopflopflopflopflopflop
"Dang, another beer bottle!"
Assuming their telemetry system is limited and that "safe = slow = low prices". That isn't always the case!! Slow may very well = dangerous in many occurrences.
Too true. I have a pretty long commute every day and have regularly seen people putting on Make Up, phoning, having animated discussions (lots of hand gestures, sudden jerks of the vehicle back to the middle of the lane after hitting some bot dots*, the driver who suddenly doesn't want to be passed - speeding up to prevent you changing lanes, etc.
*plastic dots aside lanes or road shoulder which are often reflective, which result in a BUDDUMP-BUDDUMP-BUDDUMP when your wheel goes over them. Common in places where regular road plowing doesn't take place.
Never mind they'll see you regularly drive 10-15 over the limit and think you're a risk. How about those clowns who sit in the left lane, going up hill and don't maintain speed, so everyone jockeys to get around them in the right lane(s)? You don't see that in their data stream.
Lots more examples, which I predict this thread will include.
Iterating through offsets beginning with zero is simply not counting. The writer is confused.
I knew I was destined to be a programmer when I was introduced to Integers in elementary school. The siren song of beginning counting somewhere other than 1 entranced me.
This press conference is over.
The press conference began at 0 PM, where were you?
What was the point of examining this individual animal?
To settle a bet over who pays for drinks .. or something else as ludicrous.
It's worth noting that Zimbabwe didn't actually ever fix their inflation issue, they merely knocked up a bunch of zeroes off the official notes.
Oh, they did fix it - they made the US Dollar their de-facto currency.
Most people in collapsed East Europe and Soviet Union did not blame the Evil USA for their problems, they knew who was at fault.
Yeah, 35 billion is nothing. That's half the budget, annually, for California. If they have these reserves and pull them out then the country truly is at rock bottom. It will be heading there as the attack on Daka demonstrates only state owned stores will flourish and they likely won't have anything in stock because nobody wants to sell to Venezuela and be paid in toilet paper Bolivars. It'll be like the good old days in Soviet Russia - where you sell your neighbor for a pair of blue jeans.
On my desk is a small silver coin: 25 centimos, .835 silver, 1960. It has to be worth more than their treasury is right now. The national oil company is trying to sell $4.5 billion in bonds to bring dollars back into the country, but you can bet there will be very few queuing up to buy these bonds as only a fool would trust this government to honor them.
My father had some German stamps from the 1930s which were something like 250,000,000,000 DM
The reason the country is rocketing towards bankruptcy is because the government is selling petrol to citizens for far less than they can sell the same petrol overseas. This cuts heavily into the inflow of cash to the national treasury. Anyone who has real money is hedging for a quick escape before the next revolution happens.
Obviously this is a way to flip the bird at capitalism and most major banking cartels. However it's likely not the right way.
Really? Likely not the best way?
Banking cartels have nothing to do with this, and they aren't the ones getting hurt.
The Venezuelan importers have to buy inventory with real dollars, nobody will give them credit any more since they nationalized everything.
So the Importers are done. Out of business. They will take their last few squirreled away dollars and simply leave. (None of these importers is dumb enough to keep money in Venezuelan banks.)
No more imports for Venezuela. The banking cartels won't notice a thing.
Banks have.
Venezuelan bonds are plummeting. The country isn't going to be worth a plugged nickel.
but so, you cannot buy 1 dollar for 7 bol(or whatever the official rate is) from the government, I suppose? but they will gladly take your dollar and give 7 bol?
thats what the government should have been fixing.. not robbing importers. it's their fault the importers can't buy dollars for so cheap.
Anyone who knows how economics works has been chased out. This is what you get, a mentality that everything should be free and money magically appears. Not even socialists are this idiotic.
Maduro was a bus driver, not an academic. He toadied to Hugo Chávez, which is why he's in power now. Chavez was a moron and so is Maduro. The lottery is coming to an end.
bummer.
i've been to venezuela many times. it is a great place. the last time i was there the black market exchange was Bs.7 to $1. that was just 3 years ago. now it is Bs.60 to $1. a country with vast oil reserves should be investing not spending!
With this Maduro is killing the last vestiges of business. Nobody will start one because the government will just call them thieves and seize everything. Maduro is digging his own grave.