If you're a good driver (experience, knows how your car handles in dry/wet/snow etc) that's one half of the puzzle. Now if you're able to be extremely aware of other drivers and always prepare for the worst case scenarios you'll be more or less safe on the road except in those situations where there was nothing you could of done to avoid the accident. Even when you have the right of way, always expect bad drivers to ignore that and cause dangerous conditions. If you have a green at an intersection make sure there are no cars trying to cross a red. Maintain a safe distance between the car in front of you at all times, unless in certain situations tailgating as close as possible is sometimes the safest (ex. badly designed ramps on highways that given the chance a driver who is at a complete stop will try and merge at the wrong speed (15 mph into traffic that's traveling at 60). You don't want to be the guy that rear ends him.
In those situations where an accident is unavoidable, a well maintained car (tread life on tires, good brakes, shocks, etc) will make the difference of how much damage was avoided.
The outer limits had an episode where aliens abducted a human couple (wife and husband) while they were camping, made them into complete replicants with the same memories and all, except when they got near a trigger person (the president or whomever) their hearts would turn into a nuke and blow up. The antagonist was a security officer who's solution was to capture these replicants before they detonated and extract their beating hearts. He even mentions in the episode something to the fact that the last five humans (who were afterwards found out to be non replicants) died for a just cause.
Fast forward to the end, the husband escapes to the park they were camping in to find the alien ship to prove his innocence. They suspect his wife is the replicant and shoot her before she can explode. They find the original body of her in the alien ship, and then in a twist they also find the dude's body. When learning that he is a replicant he self destructs and explodes killing the security office.
I can't wait until we get heart extractors in airports.... you know, to find the terrorists.
Anyone with half a brain who's into tablets knows this. Surprise! You've been subjected to a Slashvertisement for some new product which.. tada, brings nothing new to the playing field. I mean the asus transformer makes the tablet into an expensive netbook with a keyboard and touchpad. Bluetooth keyboards and mice have been around forever. How many tablets do not have a mini-hdmi? All the big ones do.
hmm that's interesting. Well if you can figure out a way to make executable automatically run without having to, you know, run them manually that would be sweet.
Because last time i checked whenever i put something with an autorun feature i was presented with an option to autorun it (I don't) or open it in explorer/etc.
Were they all canned as a corporate profit/cost saving measure or because they were complaining about problems/security flaws and their upper management didn't want to hear about it? Or maybe they were all incompetent?
That's what really makes the difference in this case.
one can only hope the lawyers come knocking on slashdot's door and make the editors answers to libel. You're 100% correct, this is really really bad all around.
The main problem with these broad patents aren't so much that they hurt other big players, but it completely eliminates anyone else from entering the marketplace. Completely artificial barriers to the market place means that only the big players can make a profit. There can be a electronics designer who enters the marketplace with a new cool idea (like lets say infra red sensors for a cell phone and a 3d display so you can interact with it 3d by pressing virtual buttons) without them violating 300 extremely broad patents and being litigated to bankruptcy.
Since no one else can enter the market, there's no real competition and you can bet that anyone stupid enough to try will be eaten up by any of the major patent holders, therefore the competition and innovation will be drastically reduced.
The time when someone could take an idea and improve and existing product/idea is over, unless you have an army of lawyers and a fortune to pay them.
Basically if you really want to go this route, bulk convert all your mp3s to 32k thus destroying any hash/watermarks/etc checks that are on your pirated music, then use apple's icloud service to get a fresh new copy.
Why would you want to? Beats me. Who cares if it's 256k.
yes, lets bring in unreasonable fear into the discussion. If you're that afraid of flying then i hope you don't drive, don't live where there's lightning, don't expose yourself to sunlight, don't eat yellow m&ms, etc.
This is just a way to scapegoat known negligence. Engine part #3401 is known for breaking and there was a redesign, but it would of cost X dollars to replace. Might as well blame it on a cellphone causing the crash, no one will ever know the difference.
The freedom to be innocent before proven guilty. The freedom of illegal searches and seizures. The freedom to not be stopped for no reason and explain what you're doing.
The idea behind DUI checkpoints is to stop drunk drivers from driving. The idea that you need to stop everyone and check everyone is absurd.
There's no problem because they already have this. All modern cars have a recorder for the last 15 seconds or so. Mandating that some GPS tracking hardware be installed is a serious offense to anyone who cares about personal privacy. It WILL be abused as much as possible. Thinking this somehow will improve safety is insanity.
wrong wrong and wrong. Stop trying to lump all taxes together and try and make sense for budget shortfalls. Federal/state gas tax should go straight for maintaining roads and bridges. Cars use less gas because they're more economic and lighter. Lighter cars do less damage to the roads therefore the issue is basically a tax shortfall based on less road damage which means less money needed to repair them. It should not be thought of as less money going into healthcare. Driving is not a luxury in many places and is the only form of transportation. I'm sure grandma will appreciate the times you need to drive her to the hospital in your car instead of waiting around to take her to the hospital on a bus.
I don't think they're particularly worried about safety. What they are worried about is the perception that science kits can be used for making poisons and explosives. Today's political climate does not distinguish between having uncommon knowledge and having the intent to use it to do harm.
Today's political climate? This garbage being spewed out of your fingers... i don't know where to begin. Poisons and explosives? Who cares? Yeah, i'm worried about someone using a chemistry kit to make a poison when they can just use bleach or hundreds of poisonous substances which are widely available at almost every store out there. This squarely falls into the category of too much hyperbole and no danger involved.
Probably because they saw him accessing the wireless access point, and more to the point because of only that fact. Watch that it turns out he didn't do anything at all and the police are doing a fine damn job of fucking up all over the place.
The only reason you want it inside their network is because of LDAP and you want to log in with the same credentials. Unfortunately that's a challenge with their IT trying to be compliant with federal regulations. Your choices are: 1) Drop LDAP, host this yourself somewhere, let the users create their own passwords. 2) Talk IT into buying and supporting your server. Just take the hands off approach. 3) Have IT firewall your machine to only allow LDAP (port 389) connectivity inside their network and only outgoing/receiving on that port you requested. Hopefully that's all the access you'll want to get it to work. 4) Give IT admin login. If you don't trust them, then back up your setup and also run a backup on your calendar program. Worst case is that IT ruins your system/setup, you just restore. It's probably some tiny app that writes to mysql or sqllite or whatever.
Honestly for a small scheduling app like that, LDAP is nice but totally unnecessary. IT is supposed to help people do their jobs, not hinder it. Bring it up in a staff meeting or some such, go through the proper channels and make them support you.
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If you're a good driver (experience, knows how your car handles in dry/wet/snow etc) that's one half of the puzzle. Now if you're able to be extremely aware of other drivers and always prepare for the worst case scenarios you'll be more or less safe on the road except in those situations where there was nothing you could of done to avoid the accident.
Even when you have the right of way, always expect bad drivers to ignore that and cause dangerous conditions. If you have a green at an intersection make sure there are no cars trying to cross a red. Maintain a safe distance between the car in front of you at all times, unless in certain situations tailgating as close as possible is sometimes the safest (ex. badly designed ramps on highways that given the chance a driver who is at a complete stop will try and merge at the wrong speed (15 mph into traffic that's traveling at 60). You don't want to be the guy that rear ends him.
In those situations where an accident is unavoidable, a well maintained car (tread life on tires, good brakes, shocks, etc) will make the difference of how much damage was avoided.
And i got a good name for it. Call it... Gatorade. Yellow colored for extra effect.
Why? A more sane solution is to just kill everyone trying to fly. That will show the terrorists we mean business.
The outer limits had an episode where aliens abducted a human couple (wife and husband) while they were camping, made them into complete replicants with the same memories and all, except when they got near a trigger person (the president or whomever) their hearts would turn into a nuke and blow up. The antagonist was a security officer who's solution was to capture these replicants before they detonated and extract their beating hearts. He even mentions in the episode something to the fact that the last five humans (who were afterwards found out to be non replicants) died for a just cause.
Fast forward to the end, the husband escapes to the park they were camping in to find the alien ship to prove his innocence. They suspect his wife is the replicant and shoot her before she can explode. They find the original body of her in the alien ship, and then in a twist they also find the dude's body. When learning that he is a replicant he self destructs and explodes killing the security office.
I can't wait until we get heart extractors in airports.... you know, to find the terrorists.
They must of priced it using those monster HD cables rated for space.
point it right at the sun. Easy way to break what will turn out to be a multi-million dollar venture. Just don't send me the bill.
Anyone with half a brain who's into tablets knows this. Surprise! You've been subjected to a Slashvertisement for some new product which.. tada, brings nothing new to the playing field.
I mean the asus transformer makes the tablet into an expensive netbook with a keyboard and touchpad. Bluetooth keyboards and mice have been around forever. How many tablets do not have a mini-hdmi? All the big ones do.
So 40% unique isn't good enough?
hmm that's interesting. Well if you can figure out a way to make executable automatically run without having to, you know, run them manually that would be sweet.
Because last time i checked whenever i put something with an autorun feature i was presented with an option to autorun it (I don't) or open it in explorer/etc.
Were they all canned as a corporate profit/cost saving measure or because they were complaining about problems/security flaws and their upper management didn't want to hear about it? Or maybe they were all incompetent?
That's what really makes the difference in this case.
one can only hope the lawyers come knocking on slashdot's door and make the editors answers to libel. You're 100% correct, this is really really bad all around.
The main problem with these broad patents aren't so much that they hurt other big players, but it completely eliminates anyone else from entering the marketplace. Completely artificial barriers to the market place means that only the big players can make a profit. There can be a electronics designer who enters the marketplace with a new cool idea (like lets say infra red sensors for a cell phone and a 3d display so you can interact with it 3d by pressing virtual buttons) without them violating 300 extremely broad patents and being litigated to bankruptcy.
Since no one else can enter the market, there's no real competition and you can bet that anyone stupid enough to try will be eaten up by any of the major patent holders, therefore the competition and innovation will be drastically reduced.
The time when someone could take an idea and improve and existing product/idea is over, unless you have an army of lawyers and a fortune to pay them.
Sigh.
Basically if you really want to go this route, bulk convert all your mp3s to 32k thus destroying any hash/watermarks/etc checks that are on your pirated music, then use apple's icloud service to get a fresh new copy.
Why would you want to? Beats me. Who cares if it's 256k.
So i guess all those planes with tvs, radar and 2 way radio communication systems, phones in the plane itself are falling out of the sky everywhere.
yes, lets bring in unreasonable fear into the discussion. If you're that afraid of flying then i hope you don't drive, don't live where there's lightning, don't expose yourself to sunlight, don't eat yellow m&ms, etc.
This is just a way to scapegoat known negligence. Engine part #3401 is known for breaking and there was a redesign, but it would of cost X dollars to replace. Might as well blame it on a cellphone causing the crash, no one will ever know the difference.
The freedom to be innocent before proven guilty. The freedom of illegal searches and seizures. The freedom to not be stopped for no reason and explain what you're doing.
The idea behind DUI checkpoints is to stop drunk drivers from driving. The idea that you need to stop everyone and check everyone is absurd.
There's no problem because they already have this. All modern cars have a recorder for the last 15 seconds or so. Mandating that some GPS tracking hardware be installed is a serious offense to anyone who cares about personal privacy. It WILL be abused as much as possible. Thinking this somehow will improve safety is insanity.
ohh you mean like patting down a 8 month old isn't an extreme violation but OK since the stroller set off some alarms?
seems like Chinese knockoffs that don't require you to pay extra for that electricity your already paying for will become wide spread.
wrong wrong and wrong.
Stop trying to lump all taxes together and try and make sense for budget shortfalls.
Federal/state gas tax should go straight for maintaining roads and bridges. Cars use less gas because they're more economic and lighter. Lighter cars do less damage to the roads therefore the issue is basically a tax shortfall based on less road damage which means less money needed to repair them. It should not be thought of as less money going into healthcare.
Driving is not a luxury in many places and is the only form of transportation. I'm sure grandma will appreciate the times you need to drive her to the hospital in your car instead of waiting around to take her to the hospital on a bus.
Getting anonymous mad at them might not be the best strategy for beefing up the image of their security, though.
I can see it now.
Pizza... everywhere.
I don't think they're particularly worried about safety. What they are worried about is the perception that science kits can be used for making poisons and explosives. Today's political climate does not distinguish between having uncommon knowledge and having the intent to use it to do harm.
Today's political climate? This garbage being spewed out of your fingers... i don't know where to begin. Poisons and explosives? Who cares? Yeah, i'm worried about someone using a chemistry kit to make a poison when they can just use bleach or hundreds of poisonous substances which are widely available at almost every store out there.
This squarely falls into the category of too much hyperbole and no danger involved.
Will someone please define the word "chemical" for us?
Everything.
Probably because they saw him accessing the wireless access point, and more to the point because of only that fact. Watch that it turns out he didn't do anything at all and the police are doing a fine damn job of fucking up all over the place.
The only reason you want it inside their network is because of LDAP and you want to log in with the same credentials. Unfortunately that's a challenge with their IT trying to be compliant with federal regulations.
Your choices are:
1) Drop LDAP, host this yourself somewhere, let the users create their own passwords.
2) Talk IT into buying and supporting your server. Just take the hands off approach.
3) Have IT firewall your machine to only allow LDAP (port 389) connectivity inside their network and only outgoing/receiving on that port you requested. Hopefully that's all the access you'll want to get it to work.
4) Give IT admin login. If you don't trust them, then back up your setup and also run a backup on your calendar program. Worst case is that IT ruins your system/setup, you just restore. It's probably some tiny app that writes to mysql or sqllite or whatever.
Honestly for a small scheduling app like that, LDAP is nice but totally unnecessary. IT is supposed to help people do their jobs, not hinder it. Bring it up in a staff meeting or some such, go through the proper channels and make them support you.