I do not mind the calls to have companies be required to adhere to stricter privacy laws, but damn, the elephant in the room are government agencies. I can probably win this bet, very many of the same people who want these restrictions favor universal health care in the US. Do you not see the connection?
Want the best example of how companies are burdened with privacy or similar laws that the government just ignores? Medicare. They use SSN on about everything. Private companies can no longer do this but Medicare prints your SSN on their cards!. So while some may trust the government more than a private company there is one major risk here, that information is put in an easy to identify public place. As such its not hard for the bad guys to get a lot of information about you in just a single source.
Privacy laws are fine, just enforce them on both private and public organizations.
but politicians have already been floating the idea for years for taxing by miles you drive. Currently only privacy concerns have been raised against this proposal.
Don't worry, should mileage per gallon become a non-issue the tax will be made up elsewhere. Politicians are famous for implementing taxes on "indefensible segments" of the population to fund new programs only to see that segment decrease so much as to leave the programs underfunded; think smoking.
So we will get mileage feels, congestion driving, toll roads, and yearly vehicle taxes (ad volorum?)
There is a whole lot of people who can now be offended at things they would never have heard of before or hand reason to be offended of. Never under estimate the ability of humans to make ignorance even more prevalent. What many thought would free us from ignorance only seemed to exaggerate it more.
I guess there is another option, it never ceases to amaze me how many people can find offense in anything. I think they have a need to be noticed or to find a way to blame others for any condition they are in.
most people have never heard of them since Matrix, which was ten years ago, which means they need to have their claim to fame mentioned. While many on this site know who they are I bet you could find some readers who don't. If anything getting into the same sentence as Lucas is probably more important to the W brothers than their movie.
because while I can chow down on an ounce, usually more, of almonds which are high in fat it does not "seem" to affect me as much as if I am eating foods the pizza you mentioned.
I am curious what the break down is. As in, which fats are good/bad for the tests they performed. Now I will state in my case I bloat less from fatty foods compared to carb laden food and I have far less trouble with my sugar levels as well. I think we are missing some key information from this article.
Because it certainly has not had any impact on the orgy of irresponsible spending of President Obama and his fellow Democrats.
Face it, it isn't because we "DON'T" have the money its because NASA != votes.
Please don't toss out "Iraq". That old throw away line was childish during Bush's years and just as tired now. Iraq had no bearing either.
Just note it as, NASA != Votes.
It is no more difficult than that. There is no conspiracy. This not because of Iraq/Afghanistan. This is not because of a bloated defense budget. It simply is because NASA does not generate votes or control and as such does not qualify for a President or Congress not interested in science. Please don't confuse a President who TALKS about being for science, just understand the science politicians support is the science that polls well.
I would hate to see a secretive US Government then...
Ramming bills through Congress, no five day period, hell five days seems to apply how long a before a thousand page bill is dropped on us before its rammed through.
One party rule never works and just as before when they were in power they do all the same rotten things they claim the other side did when they had power.
Apparently they are so wrapped up in knowing whats best for us, because they are so obviously smarter and well... transparency is where they deem we need to have it.
Now we have a nearly sinister cooperation of the press and government all walking the same line. Calling them out on it is now unAmerican. We get town halls that first tell us everyone is entitled to their opinion followed by statements that those who dare have a differing one need to get out of the way.
Website, schebsite, its all just more bs for the point column where the score never matters as long as they win.
because once it became apparent some years ago that wikipedia was emerging as "trusted" source, heaving referenced as independent, neutral, and the like, it became a target to be co-opted. Face it, outside the trivia Wikipedia is very lopsided. I would venture to say that it the article referenced the political leanings of edits it would have been more revealing.
I gave up on Wikipedia over anything but trivia and scientific numbers not subject to change. The majority of it is too slanted in areas of politics, environment, and religion.
Like anything else, opposition exist until it determine how it can best use what it was opposed to to support its agenda. Just like how big energy companies didn't like wind or solar until they were in position to profit. Similar to health care, insurance companies lining up after realizing how much money they could flip in the short term as all the young people not paying for care they don't want suddenly will be paying for care they don't want.
Oh please, I haven't found a game that lived up to it or its sequel since. Hell some of what they did still doesn't appear in games today. What they managed in 2 360k diskette drives seems beyond many DVD filling titles.
I own a BMW R1200RT, it gets 49mpg. Can carry two comfortably provided its, not raining, snowing, over 90F, under 40F, and oh I don't know, about half a dozen other factors external. So lets take my 18,000 motorcycle and throw it up against an 07 Civic I owned. That gets 35+ on the highway and.... oh well weather is a non-factor.
The problem with motorcycles is that one day you have an excuse to not ride it (See weather, see errands, etc) whatever, and that suddenly builds into not using it hardly at all. Believe me, I can come up with a million excuses to buy it but they quietly get forgotten when the convenience and safety factors are considered.
Rain is annoying to downright sucky. Right now its 94+ in Atlanta and the road temperatures are over 100. Moving on the freeway its a blast furnace, stopping and I am roasting; full gear because I like myself. Make it rain and it gets more fun - quick find a place to stop and suit up and roast even more. Winter, well as long as its above 36F I am fine; heated suit; but honestly I will take top down driving in my Miata instead.
So please don't compare bikes to cars, it doesn't make sense. Motorcycles in most Western countries are recreational/luxury buys. If you really wanted to conserve and have the utility of a bike you would get a scooter like the MP5 (3 wheel - it don't fall over easily and it leans well)
and cool them in summer because I doubt the service life of most of these cars will be in weather that is ideal for batteries.
Throw in the fact that road surfaces are much hotter than the air temperature, drive a vette or other low car like a Miata and you know this quickly, and suddenly how much power is lost for keeping the pack at the optimal temperature. Night driving, being in the rain, all sorts of ways I can find to drop my mileage but I think temperature ranges of a typical US location will do it more harm than good.
40 miles per day electric of your 50 mile commute leaving 10 miles to gasoline. So yeah it gets great mileage, otherwise it is like 50 to 60 max, probably lower. Too much energy loss to convert between forms of power.
the real story is, highway mileage without recharge except by the engine.
Still, lets play with numbers. Say you get your 230 mpg or more. You pay 40 grand for this privileged. Cars this size (Volt is Cruze/Cobalt size) cost around 20k normally. Lets be nice and say you optioned out well. Figure $5.00 per gallon of gas. You drive 15,000 miles a year, the Volt will burn in city mode 62 gallons, the normal car 500 ( a prius 300). $300 versus $2500 looks good. But that discounts loss of the battery, so amortize that as well. If you leave out the battery pack it still means five plus years to make up the difference IF your car only gets 30 in the city. Buy a TDI from VW and you get forty plus for around 22k.
So its hype and a bogus test meant to exaggerate the car in best possible situations. Meaning if it sticks cars will be designed to beat the test.
Wall Street, instead of having to wait for Reagan's tax breaks to make money found a new comer who accelerated the plan buy just paying them the money upfront.
GM and Chrysler were bailed out for Wall Street and the Unions. Though don't confuse Unions with the rank and file, I am talking about the leadership who decides where the money is spent and offer muscle to intimidate anyone the administration doesn't like (see AFL-CIO's new leader who thinks murder and violence are fine if you can get away with it - or pay it off).
GM had the ultimate sweet heart deal of the two rescues. Not only did they get out of cleaning up all their pollution they also got a tax bump by keeping the tax write offs from bad GM to prop up new GM. Hence companies which play by the book and make sensible deals like Ford get doubly screwed.
Send Washington a message, avoid GM and Chrysler products. We are being run over by the goons in Washington and since our vote counts for very little the next year the only fight we have left is our pocketbooks
but can I zing the next person who decries the fact the parents are not being responsible for the activities of their children?
Parents cannot win here; Slashdot or the world in general. Because on one hand we have people who pummel them for every inaction and then turn around and berate them for any infraction their kid does.
Parental Controls do not affect those who do not use them. They however do affect what those of use responsible enough to adhere to a self described sense of morals but live in a world where such control is considered an infringement on some mysterious right thereby imposing such control on us outside of our domain.
In other words, either provide the means necessary for parents or anyone in general to filter the content relevant to themselves or those in the protection else suffer the decisions of others over the content you have available.
Parents would have an easier time if people quit moving the line.
Lets not exaggerate the issue here. Yeah it sounds good to always bring up the Streisand effect but most need to remember it really only works when the subject is famous. It would be an interesting small bit of research to poll all those who read the story and/or replied to it to see how many could recall the name five minutes after, one hour, or more.
Hell I had to scroll the page back just to know it again.
Apple recently invited a great deal of criticism after it rejected Google's Google Voice application from App Store. At the same time, it pulled third party GV apps leaving their developers without recourse and forced to swallow refund costs that exceeded their initial per-sale earnings. Today Engadget notes Daring Fireball's story of a simple dictionary being censored. Now it looks as if Apple may be targeting the e-book section of App Store.
I only cut part of the article, feel free to read the rest, but Apple is up to something or maybe not. Considering you can "Kindle" on it through Amazon I am trying to work out why their stance has changed even for people with unquestionable rights to the material they publish
why? Because they bemoan the loss of subscribers to their print edition yet many of the articles tell you to go online if you want to see more.
Well hell, which is it? I can view the majority of their online content for free which includes the complete articles I just read in the print edition. I don't see online versions stating "for more in depth coverage buy the print edition".
the problem papers face with the net is that as a people we love to be heard more than we listen, as such everyone can be a news broadcaster, we just have to come up with software which allows us and others to rate the aggregation and news people to filter out the unreliable.
the images one conjures up reading the title is this big area filled with recognizable objects, however reading the wiki article states that the particles that comprise the bulk of the suspected pollution are too small and disperse to be imaged by satellite or aircraft.
So don't let the title fool you. While there may be occasional large pollutants its not like something your bound to spot on the horizon and just sail to it. Think about it, if it were we would have seen pictures all over the news by now.
because the majority of "Segway is great stories" I saw were government fatties using it because they were "entitled" to one because of a disability, that being fat and lazy. When I saw the price and then saw the various government groups buying it I got the distinct impression that Segway = Hoveround 2.
The stories of Atlanta cops with them and postal workers showed only fat people. I don't mean a spare tire around the waste, I mean the Michelin man would be proud.
Throw in the all so egotistical hype surrounding it and the big let down when it appeared. Sorry, non-enclosed vehicles are useless for the majority of people; I have a motorcycle and I understand that while great fun and good for commuting it has serious limitations no enclosed vehicle has.
because I still think that any real space exploration requires we remain off planet. Not trapped in something like the ISS. As such having a permanent presence on the moon is not a stunt but a jumping off point. Throw in decades of science fiction that puts forward moon bases and it is easy to get the public to accept it. I agree that going back for a simple landing is nothing more than a stunt. To show real technical ability requires putting teams of people up there.
The suggestions for a fly by of Mars comes off as a stunt. It really won't accomplish more than we can do we probes we have. The risks a far greater. The moon offers many tantalizing bits that a fly by won't. It is far easier to reach. It opens the opportunity for not only finding out if off world resource gathering is possible it is far easier to make it an eventual destination point for the public. Let the governments pay to show it can be done and let free enterprise expand on that. We can learn a lot about off world structures, human interaction, and hard sciences. Being trapped in orbit is no better than being trapped on our planet.
Leaving the moon to the Chinese or other nation is not a good idea. We already have nations laying claim to vast stretches of the arctic because they have a presence there. Can you imagine what happens if only one nation goes to the moon? The PR alone is worth it to say "we are here and here to stay"
because aircraft can change their point to point routes only limited by rules put on their flight. To replicate that with trains would be pretty much outside the realm of feasibility.
Lets propose we could actually build such a network, it would most likely be a hub and spoke arrangement. This means that what is a direct route for a plane would be a minimum of two stops for a train. The reason flight is so popular is because of its preservation of time which to many is the most important resource they have.
Warning, it is broken into multiple episodes but overall it is well done. It also is a great kick to see this guy and other members of the community getting to drive one of these cars.
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I do not mind the calls to have companies be required to adhere to stricter privacy laws, but damn, the elephant in the room are government agencies. I can probably win this bet, very many of the same people who want these restrictions favor universal health care in the US. Do you not see the connection?
Want the best example of how companies are burdened with privacy or similar laws that the government just ignores? Medicare. They use SSN on about everything. Private companies can no longer do this but Medicare prints your SSN on their cards!. So while some may trust the government more than a private company there is one major risk here, that information is put in an easy to identify public place. As such its not hard for the bad guys to get a lot of information about you in just a single source.
Privacy laws are fine, just enforce them on both private and public organizations.
since DHMO is the major contributor to global warming.
If we had just enacted Kyoto this tragedy could have been averted.
but politicians have already been floating the idea for years for taxing by miles you drive. Currently only privacy concerns have been raised against this proposal.
Don't worry, should mileage per gallon become a non-issue the tax will be made up elsewhere. Politicians are famous for implementing taxes on "indefensible segments" of the population to fund new programs only to see that segment decrease so much as to leave the programs underfunded; think smoking.
So we will get mileage feels, congestion driving, toll roads, and yearly vehicle taxes (ad volorum?)
1. Ignorance.
2. The Internet
There is a whole lot of people who can now be offended at things they would never have heard of before or hand reason to be offended of. Never under estimate the ability of humans to make ignorance even more prevalent. What many thought would free us from ignorance only seemed to exaggerate it more.
I guess there is another option, it never ceases to amaze me how many people can find offense in anything. I think they have a need to be noticed or to find a way to blame others for any condition they are in.
most people have never heard of them since Matrix, which was ten years ago, which means they need to have their claim to fame mentioned. While many on this site know who they are I bet you could find some readers who don't. If anything getting into the same sentence as Lucas is probably more important to the W brothers than their movie.
because while I can chow down on an ounce, usually more, of almonds which are high in fat it does not "seem" to affect me as much as if I am eating foods the pizza you mentioned.
I am curious what the break down is. As in, which fats are good/bad for the tests they performed. Now I will state in my case I bloat less from fatty foods compared to carb laden food and I have far less trouble with my sugar levels as well. I think we are missing some key information from this article.
typing messages that are free from grammatical errors can really be hard. I still have the urge to over use semi-colons.
Because it certainly has not had any impact on the orgy of irresponsible spending of President Obama and his fellow Democrats.
Face it, it isn't because we "DON'T" have the money its because NASA != votes.
Please don't toss out "Iraq". That old throw away line was childish during Bush's years and just as tired now. Iraq had no bearing either.
Just note it as, NASA != Votes.
It is no more difficult than that. There is no conspiracy. This not because of Iraq/Afghanistan. This is not because of a bloated defense budget. It simply is because NASA does not generate votes or control and as such does not qualify for a President or Congress not interested in science. Please don't confuse a President who TALKS about being for science, just understand the science politicians support is the science that polls well.
I would hate to see a secretive US Government then...
Ramming bills through Congress, no five day period, hell five days seems to apply how long a before a thousand page bill is dropped on us before its rammed through.
One party rule never works and just as before when they were in power they do all the same rotten things they claim the other side did when they had power.
Apparently they are so wrapped up in knowing whats best for us, because they are so obviously smarter and well... transparency is where they deem we need to have it.
Now we have a nearly sinister cooperation of the press and government all walking the same line. Calling them out on it is now unAmerican. We get town halls that first tell us everyone is entitled to their opinion followed by statements that those who dare have a differing one need to get out of the way.
Website, schebsite, its all just more bs for the point column where the score never matters as long as they win.
because once it became apparent some years ago that wikipedia was emerging as "trusted" source, heaving referenced as independent, neutral, and the like, it became a target to be co-opted. Face it, outside the trivia Wikipedia is very lopsided. I would venture to say that it the article referenced the political leanings of edits it would have been more revealing.
I gave up on Wikipedia over anything but trivia and scientific numbers not subject to change. The majority of it is too slanted in areas of politics, environment, and religion.
Like anything else, opposition exist until it determine how it can best use what it was opposed to to support its agenda. Just like how big energy companies didn't like wind or solar until they were in position to profit. Similar to health care, insurance companies lining up after realizing how much money they could flip in the short term as all the young people not paying for care they don't want suddenly will be paying for care they don't want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight
Oh please, I haven't found a game that lived up to it or its sequel since. Hell some of what they did still doesn't appear in games today. What they managed in 2 360k diskette drives seems beyond many DVD filling titles.
I own a BMW R1200RT, it gets 49mpg. Can carry two comfortably provided its, not raining, snowing, over 90F, under 40F, and oh I don't know, about half a dozen other factors external. So lets take my 18,000 motorcycle and throw it up against an 07 Civic I owned. That gets 35+ on the highway and .... oh well weather is a non-factor.
The problem with motorcycles is that one day you have an excuse to not ride it (See weather, see errands, etc) whatever, and that suddenly builds into not using it hardly at all. Believe me, I can come up with a million excuses to buy it but they quietly get forgotten when the convenience and safety factors are considered.
Rain is annoying to downright sucky. Right now its 94+ in Atlanta and the road temperatures are over 100. Moving on the freeway its a blast furnace, stopping and I am roasting; full gear because I like myself. Make it rain and it gets more fun - quick find a place to stop and suit up and roast even more. Winter, well as long as its above 36F I am fine; heated suit; but honestly I will take top down driving in my Miata instead.
So please don't compare bikes to cars, it doesn't make sense. Motorcycles in most Western countries are recreational/luxury buys. If you really wanted to conserve and have the utility of a bike you would get a scooter like the MP5 (3 wheel - it don't fall over easily and it leans well)
and cool them in summer because I doubt the service life of most of these cars will be in weather that is ideal for batteries.
Throw in the fact that road surfaces are much hotter than the air temperature, drive a vette or other low car like a Miata and you know this quickly, and suddenly how much power is lost for keeping the pack at the optimal temperature. Night driving, being in the rain, all sorts of ways I can find to drop my mileage but I think temperature ranges of a typical US location will do it more harm than good.
40 miles per day electric of your 50 mile commute leaving 10 miles to gasoline. So yeah it gets great mileage, otherwise it is like 50 to 60 max, probably lower. Too much energy loss to convert between forms of power.
the real story is, highway mileage without recharge except by the engine.
Still, lets play with numbers. Say you get your 230 mpg or more. You pay 40 grand for this privileged. Cars this size (Volt is Cruze/Cobalt size) cost around 20k normally. Lets be nice and say you optioned out well. Figure $5.00 per gallon of gas. You drive 15,000 miles a year, the Volt will burn in city mode 62 gallons, the normal car 500 ( a prius 300). $300 versus $2500 looks good. But that discounts loss of the battery, so amortize that as well. If you leave out the battery pack it still means five plus years to make up the difference IF your car only gets 30 in the city. Buy a TDI from VW and you get forty plus for around 22k.
So its hype and a bogus test meant to exaggerate the car in best possible situations. Meaning if it sticks cars will be designed to beat the test.
Wall Street, instead of having to wait for Reagan's tax breaks to make money found a new comer who accelerated the plan buy just paying them the money upfront.
GM and Chrysler were bailed out for Wall Street and the Unions. Though don't confuse Unions with the rank and file, I am talking about the leadership who decides where the money is spent and offer muscle to intimidate anyone the administration doesn't like (see AFL-CIO's new leader who thinks murder and violence are fine if you can get away with it - or pay it off).
GM had the ultimate sweet heart deal of the two rescues. Not only did they get out of cleaning up all their pollution they also got a tax bump by keeping the tax write offs from bad GM to prop up new GM. Hence companies which play by the book and make sensible deals like Ford get doubly screwed.
Send Washington a message, avoid GM and Chrysler products. We are being run over by the goons in Washington and since our vote counts for very little the next year the only fight we have left is our pocketbooks
but can I zing the next person who decries the fact the parents are not being responsible for the activities of their children?
Parents cannot win here; Slashdot or the world in general. Because on one hand we have people who pummel them for every inaction and then turn around and berate them for any infraction their kid does.
Parental Controls do not affect those who do not use them. They however do affect what those of use responsible enough to adhere to a self described sense of morals but live in a world where such control is considered an infringement on some mysterious right thereby imposing such control on us outside of our domain.
In other words, either provide the means necessary for parents or anyone in general to filter the content relevant to themselves or those in the protection else suffer the decisions of others over the content you have available.
Parents would have an easier time if people quit moving the line.
Lets not exaggerate the issue here. Yeah it sounds good to always bring up the Streisand effect but most need to remember it really only works when the subject is famous. It would be an interesting small bit of research to poll all those who read the story and/or replied to it to see how many could recall the name five minutes after, one hour, or more.
Hell I had to scroll the page back just to know it again.
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/05/app-store-rejections-tied-to-third-party-rights-infringements/
Apple recently invited a great deal of criticism after it rejected Google's Google Voice application from App Store. At the same time, it pulled third party GV apps leaving their developers without recourse and forced to swallow refund costs that exceeded their initial per-sale earnings. Today Engadget notes Daring Fireball's story of a simple dictionary being censored. Now it looks as if Apple may be targeting the e-book section of App Store.
I only cut part of the article, feel free to read the rest, but Apple is up to something or maybe not. Considering you can "Kindle" on it through Amazon I am trying to work out why their stance has changed even for people with unquestionable rights to the material they publish
why? Because they bemoan the loss of subscribers to their print edition yet many of the articles tell you to go online if you want to see more.
Well hell, which is it? I can view the majority of their online content for free which includes the complete articles I just read in the print edition. I don't see online versions stating "for more in depth coverage buy the print edition".
the problem papers face with the net is that as a people we love to be heard more than we listen, as such everyone can be a news broadcaster, we just have to come up with software which allows us and others to rate the aggregation and news people to filter out the unreliable.
the images one conjures up reading the title is this big area filled with recognizable objects, however reading the wiki article states that the particles that comprise the bulk of the suspected pollution are too small and disperse to be imaged by satellite or aircraft.
So don't let the title fool you. While there may be occasional large pollutants its not like something your bound to spot on the horizon and just sail to it. Think about it, if it were we would have seen pictures all over the news by now.
with the 1000PJ and then it would be much more interesting.
I was really interested in the PJ after viewing the S70 video above it but lost that interest when I saw that the PJ lacks the innovative S70 features
because the majority of "Segway is great stories" I saw were government fatties using it because they were "entitled" to one because of a disability, that being fat and lazy. When I saw the price and then saw the various government groups buying it I got the distinct impression that Segway = Hoveround 2.
The stories of Atlanta cops with them and postal workers showed only fat people. I don't mean a spare tire around the waste, I mean the Michelin man would be proud.
Throw in the all so egotistical hype surrounding it and the big let down when it appeared. Sorry, non-enclosed vehicles are useless for the majority of people; I have a motorcycle and I understand that while great fun and good for commuting it has serious limitations no enclosed vehicle has.
because I still think that any real space exploration requires we remain off planet. Not trapped in something like the ISS. As such having a permanent presence on the moon is not a stunt but a jumping off point. Throw in decades of science fiction that puts forward moon bases and it is easy to get the public to accept it. I agree that going back for a simple landing is nothing more than a stunt. To show real technical ability requires putting teams of people up there.
The suggestions for a fly by of Mars comes off as a stunt. It really won't accomplish more than we can do we probes we have. The risks a far greater. The moon offers many tantalizing bits that a fly by won't. It is far easier to reach. It opens the opportunity for not only finding out if off world resource gathering is possible it is far easier to make it an eventual destination point for the public. Let the governments pay to show it can be done and let free enterprise expand on that. We can learn a lot about off world structures, human interaction, and hard sciences. Being trapped in orbit is no better than being trapped on our planet.
Leaving the moon to the Chinese or other nation is not a good idea. We already have nations laying claim to vast stretches of the arctic because they have a presence there. Can you imagine what happens if only one nation goes to the moon? The PR alone is worth it to say "we are here and here to stay"
because aircraft can change their point to point routes only limited by rules put on their flight. To replicate that with trains would be pretty much outside the realm of feasibility.
Lets propose we could actually build such a network, it would most likely be a hub and spoke arrangement. This means that what is a direct route for a plane would be a minimum of two stops for a train. The reason flight is so popular is because of its preservation of time which to many is the most important resource they have.
and driving... haven't see good work like this since their soldier related Mustang commercials
http://www.fordvehicles.com/the2010mustang/?id=/
Warning, it is broken into multiple episodes but overall it is well done. It also is a great kick to see this guy and other members of the community getting to drive one of these cars.