Yes, it's wrong. What makes you so special that you can ignore posted limits, regardless of what you think their reason is?
He's nothing special, he's being normal in that he's evaluating the total circumstance rather than JUST the sign. Around here, the road construction crews often leave their signs up by mistake, especially when a project has been going on for a while. If you actually try to follow this lower speed limit when there's no actual construction going on you end up being a traffic hazard, traffic backs up, people make unsafe passes etc. Luckily their hours are predictable and your eyes can tell you what's going on and as a result the vast majority of the traffic makes the decision to obey the signs when work is ongoing and ignore the signs when it isn't. If he knows the school, can see the area around the street, see the school parking lot etc. there's a good chance that he really does know with a reasonable amount of certainty if there is something going on there or not.
Of course I understand that people are different, that was my point! People like me who are interested in everything around us find those who have so little interest odd/disturbing BECAUSE it's such a different way of seeing things.
IMHO the consequence of so many people growing up uninterested is that we (the U.S.) is becoming a nation that no longer knows how to DO anything. Our schools turn out far more MBAs and lawyers than engineers, scientists and doctors and our businesses would rather outsource virtually any task rather than find a newer/better way of doing that same task. The world needs middle men but we can't all be middle men, someone still needs to know how to actually make things. We can't even have rational discussions about things like energy policy or climate change when something like 20% of the population thinks the sun revolves around the earth.
I don't really agree with that guest. Many of us use tools to accomplish our goals without trying to tinker with them. I drive a car regularly and have no interest in knowing the ins and outs of its mechanics. Similarly with vacuum cleaners, washers and dryers, mechanical pencils, radios, and many other tools you may come across in your daily life. If it works, and helps me do what I want to do, that's all I care about. It's the same attitude that this younger generation (many of those in my university specifically) takes towards computers and the internet.
Well, that pretty much sums it up alright, and although it doesn't make you/them stupid it does mildly disturb many of us as you can see from some of the posts here. Like a lot of folks on/. I've always been interested in how stuff works, not just computers but everything. I can't even imagine a world in which I don't know how 99% of the stuff around me works and that attitude is completely ingrained in the way I approach almost everything.
IMHO Cars make a lot more sense for the sorts of places that Google already photographs. Remember they'd still have to send a car out to the general area to operate this thing. The best use for this would likely be places that aren't located along roads.
How is that a good start? You're just moving the exhaust out of your tailpipe, to a smokestack someplace.
It's a lot easier to deal with the pollutants coming out of a single smokestack than out of thousands of tailpipes. There are also more opportunities to re-use the waste heat from boilers or use use alternative energy sources. Even if we didn't impfove efficiency or reduce pollutants at all there's still something to be said for producing more of our energy here at home rather than shipping billions of dollars overseas.
Between the losses in generation of power, transmission of power and then battery charging, this more than offsets the increase in efficiency of an electric motor, or regenerative braking or any of that nonsense.
Sure, there arn't any losses involved in shipping oil half way around the world, processing it, and then shipping gasoline to tens of thousands of gas stations.
Furthermore if an electric car costs more than a gas car, it's a fair bet it took more resources, meaning more carbon dioxide and total pollution to create the thing to begin with.
Only if economies of scale somehow don't apply to cars. Also, we have well over a hundred years and billions (maybe trillions?) of dollars in optimising ICE engines for automotive use so it's no surprise that we've gotten pretty good at it.
To really increase the efficiency of the commuter fleet, what is needed is a much smaller, lighter, somewhat slower vehicle, built to reduced crash safety standards.
So you want to trade lives and 10s of billions worth of man-hours every year to gain a little effeciency? Don't forget that we'd need MORE big trucks on the road to deliver the same amount of goods at a reduced speed so we might not actually save any energy at all.
Unless they can figure out how to get electric cars to recharge completely in well under an hour (15 minutes tops), they're never going to be anything more than commuter vehicles.
I agree but for millions of people in the U.S. their car IS mainly a commuter vehicle so if even just those went to electric it would be a good start. Also most families have more than one car so it's not unreasonable to have one electric car and one gasoline powered one. Looking around the driveways in my neighbourhood it's already pretty common to see one econobox (usually driven by whoever commutes the farthest) and one truck/SUV so the basic strategy is already in use.
So naive. People have written books about citizens who had "nothing to hide" and yet still got charged with something.
The reason these things are worthy of a book or the occasional news story is that they are relatively rare. Cops in the US probably have hundreds of thousands of citizen contacts every day.
The best-remembered of these would be Professor Gates who was (rightly) angry but still cooperated to show he was the owner of the house, and yet the police arrested him anyway.
Professor Gates was certainly not cooperative and his anger was completely unreasonable. He should have been grateful that his neighbours and the police were trying to make sure some random person wasn't breaking into his house. If anything that's a good example of how being uncooperative can make your life a lot harder than it has to be even (especially) if you havn't broken any law.
There's nothing to be gain from talking to ANY officer.
Well that's not true. If you don't have anything to hide then what you usually have to gain is your time. In most cases answering their questions and letting them look at whatever they want to see gets you on your way a lot faster than demanding your rights. Weather cooperation is the "right" thing to do depends on the circumstances, sometimes helping the people we pay to enforce our laws is the "right" thing to do but not if they are abusing their authority.
No doubt a lot of people are now under a great deal of pressure to plug the leaks and are doing everything in their power. Not a good resin, but there we are.
Actually, resin has been used for thousands of years for plugging leaks. Trying to reason with a leak has however proven less affective:)
Stealing has zero to do with "physical" and 100% to do with value.
I think the point he was trying to make is that when you steal a physical object the owner no longer has it but when you copy someone else's work they still have their copy. These are two different things and deserve their own words. That's why we call one "stealing" and the other a "copyright violation".
If you drain someone's paypal account, you're not taking anything physical, you're just fiddling with numbers.
Those numbers are a representation of actual money and the person you stole it from no longer has that money to spend.
You hurt them because you took away THEIR opportunity to make money.
Maybe so and maybe not. Copying a song that you wouldn't have purchased anyway costs the owner nothing while taking a physical object (or money as you've pointed out) deprives the owner of that item.
In my experience, a lot of rural places have a lot of smaller criss-cross roads and dirt roads that may or may not go anyplace. There's way more than two routes to almost anywhere.
A couple of months back we were on our way back from a weekend trip about 6 hours away. About an hour from home the road was closed due to a forest fire and we were told we needed to detour another 6 hours out of the way. We ended up instead taking a maze of dirt roads that only added an extra hour or so to our trip. There were no signs and most of the roads didn't even appear on my paper map. I don't think I could have done it without a GPS.
On my Droid at least it doesn't appear to cache all or even nearly all zoom levels and doesn't always seem to keep the data around if you exit out of maps for some reason. It hasn't been an issue for me in daily use but it was a minor problem on a recent vacation where coverage was very limited. Of course I still had paper maps with me so it wasn't that big of a deal.
I'm pretty pro-nuclear but I have 2 major concerns.
1. Although the odds of a catastrophe is low for any given plant in any particular year it's also true that anything that can happen will happen eventually and the frequency of such events is likely proportional to the number of plants in operation. That's not necessarily a show stopper since all other forms of energy production have their own costs but it does mean that proper engineering, management, and oversight are critical.
2. Our current corporate culture is too irresponsible and short sighted to be trusted with nuclear power and our government is too corrupt and incompetent to provide meaningful oversight. We really need to come up with a way to manage these types of projects that is based more on solid engineering/management rather than the number of hookers or campaign dollars various interested parties can provide.
A loss of 90% of readership isn't an issue if you weren't getting any money out of them in the first place.
Right up until you find out that most of the remaining 10% are getting their online subscription for free with their dead tree subscription or some other free offer and most of the rest are just using login info from a friend or neighbor so the majority of your online readers are STILL freeloading but now their are a lot fewer of them. No problem, you just have to clamp down on those freeloaders. Reduce the number of free offers and require your readers to pay seperately for each device they read on and you can probably get rid of 90% of those pesky freeloaders. You can keep going like this as long as you want but eventually you're fixed costs are going to catch up with you. There's also the issue of trying to keep quality writers when they know that not many people will actually see their work. This isn't something unique to the news business, most businesses make the majority of their profits from a small fraction of their customers. That's just the way business is and fighting it tends to be a losing battle.
Lots of magazines and a few news papers seem to agree with you but I think it's exactly backwards. Aside from libraries and competing news organizations I can't think of too many people who would actually pay for archives and with a small customer pool they'll need to charge a lot to make it worth the trouble. Fresh news from a trusted source is much more valuable to the average reader because they don't have to waste time searching for it and then trying to figure out if the source is even worth believing. Consider that if old news was so valuable people would be storing their papers in climate controlled storage facilities rather than lining their cat boxes with them.
One option would be to make people pay for "todays" news but allow free access for anything more than 24hrs old. The sort of person who really likes the NYT and goes there every day (ie the ones who find it most valuable) would pay and those more casual readers would still have a chance to get hooked.
OK, it's more of an annoyance than a bug but I really wish computer maps (all of them) would allow more detail to be shown while zoomed out. I understand why that might be a problem in urban areas but for those of us who live/travel in rural areas it would really be nice not to have to zoom so far in just to see the name of the only other road within 20 miles of me etc.
I used to be Pizza guys and Fedex knew the area. Now they all rely on GPS and I get 'couldn't be delivered' notes in my mailbox. Which is on my street. The one no-one else can find.
I have somewhat the opposite problem. Whatever database FedEx and UPS use doesn't have my street on it even though the drivers can find it just fine. As a result, anyone who wants to ship me a package has to work a bit extra to convince the shipping companies to actually accept the package.
After reading their marketing language, describing their products as "magical" and "revolutionary," when you realize the product is just another gizmo with associated gizmo flaws it's natural to be disenchanted and a little angry.
Have you been living under a rock or something? That's what marketers do. When was the last time you saw an advertisement that wasn't 90% lies/misleading ? That said, these types of phones (not just the IPhone) really do feel like they've changed your life when you first get one.
Is this really an issue? I can't imagine most people buying a car that didn't have enough range for typical day's driving. Personally I'd probably want 2x that to account for reduced capacity as the batteries age as well as unforeseen situations.
Make sure you call Dell and report it and give them the case number, they can flag it in their system as stolen and if anyone calls in on that system's tag...they'll obtain as much info as they can and act like nothings wrong.
And that's different from how they'll act if you don't report it exactly how?
If you read TFA it basically says that a bunch of people were tricked into "Friending" this person. So what? How is that, by itself any more of a security threat than simply being on Facebook etc. at all? Then there's this
The Ranger then inadvertently exposed information about his coordinates in Afghanistan to Robin with his uploaded photos from the field that contained GeoIP data from the camera.
. What does that even mean? GeoIP usually seems to translate to "an ip address" but not too many cameras even have an IP address much less embed it in a photo. Some cameras do have a gps and can embed the actual latitude and longitude in the photo but that wouldn't be GeoIP anything. Later in the FA they change to this
Ryan says Robin's Facebook profile was able to view coordinates information on where the troops were located.
. So what did Robin actually have? The IP address of the computer used to upload the photo? Actual coordinates of some picture taken months or years ago? Coordinates of some picture grabbed off the Internet? Now unless Robin really is some sort of super hacker simply having someone's IP is NOT the same as having their Latitude and Longitude. Even here in the US the last time I tried looking up the location of my IP it showed me several hundred miles away and I'm somehow not expecting the situation to be much better in Afghanistan.
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He's nothing special, he's being normal in that he's evaluating the total circumstance rather than JUST the sign. Around here, the road construction crews often leave their signs up by mistake, especially when a project has been going on for a while. If you actually try to follow this lower speed limit when there's no actual construction going on you end up being a traffic hazard, traffic backs up, people make unsafe passes etc. Luckily their hours are predictable and your eyes can tell you what's going on and as a result the vast majority of the traffic makes the decision to obey the signs when work is ongoing and ignore the signs when it isn't. If he knows the school, can see the area around the street, see the school parking lot etc. there's a good chance that he really does know with a reasonable amount of certainty if there is something going on there or not.
Of course I understand that people are different, that was my point! People like me who are interested in everything around us find those who have so little interest odd/disturbing BECAUSE it's such a different way of seeing things.
IMHO the consequence of so many people growing up uninterested is that we (the U.S.) is becoming a nation that no longer knows how to DO anything. Our schools turn out far more MBAs and lawyers than engineers, scientists and doctors and our businesses would rather outsource virtually any task rather than find a newer/better way of doing that same task. The world needs middle men but we can't all be middle men, someone still needs to know how to actually make things. We can't even have rational discussions about things like energy policy or climate change when something like 20% of the population thinks the sun revolves around the earth.
Well, that pretty much sums it up alright, and although it doesn't make you/them stupid it does mildly disturb many of us as you can see from some of the posts here. Like a lot of folks on /. I've always been interested in how stuff works, not just computers but everything. I can't even imagine a world in which I don't know how 99% of the stuff around me works and that attitude is completely ingrained in the way I approach almost everything.
IMHO Cars make a lot more sense for the sorts of places that Google already photographs. Remember they'd still have to send a car out to the general area to operate this thing. The best use for this would likely be places that aren't located along roads.
It's a lot easier to deal with the pollutants coming out of a single smokestack than out of thousands of tailpipes. There are also more opportunities to re-use the waste heat from boilers or use use alternative energy sources. Even if we didn't impfove efficiency or reduce pollutants at all there's still something to be said for producing more of our energy here at home rather than shipping billions of dollars overseas.
Sure, there arn't any losses involved in shipping oil half way around the world, processing it, and then shipping gasoline to tens of thousands of gas stations.
Only if economies of scale somehow don't apply to cars. Also, we have well over a hundred years and billions (maybe trillions?) of dollars in optimising ICE engines for automotive use so it's no surprise that we've gotten pretty good at it.
So you want to trade lives and 10s of billions worth of man-hours every year to gain a little effeciency? Don't forget that we'd need MORE big trucks on the road to deliver the same amount of goods at a reduced speed so we might not actually save any energy at all.
I agree but for millions of people in the U.S. their car IS mainly a commuter vehicle so if even just those went to electric it would be a good start. Also most families have more than one car so it's not unreasonable to have one electric car and one gasoline powered one. Looking around the driveways in my neighbourhood it's already pretty common to see one econobox (usually driven by whoever commutes the farthest) and one truck/SUV so the basic strategy is already in use.
A year or so back Subaru introduced an aluminum boxer diesel. If it proves reliable that should help out with the weight somewhat.
The reason these things are worthy of a book or the occasional news story is that they are relatively rare. Cops in the US probably have hundreds of thousands of citizen contacts every day.
Professor Gates was certainly not cooperative and his anger was completely unreasonable. He should have been grateful that his neighbours and the police were trying to make sure some random person wasn't breaking into his house. If anything that's a good example of how being uncooperative can make your life a lot harder than it has to be even (especially) if you havn't broken any law.
Or unless you expect that a solar-orbiting satellite might be designed to withstand such things.
Of corse!
Well that's not true. If you don't have anything to hide then what you usually have to gain is your time. In most cases answering their questions and letting them look at whatever they want to see gets you on your way a lot faster than demanding your rights. Weather cooperation is the "right" thing to do depends on the circumstances, sometimes helping the people we pay to enforce our laws is the "right" thing to do but not if they are abusing their authority.
No doubt a lot of people are now under a great deal of pressure to plug the leaks and are doing everything in their power. Not a good resin, but there we are.
Actually, resin has been used for thousands of years for plugging leaks. Trying to reason with a leak has however proven less affective :)
I think the point he was trying to make is that when you steal a physical object the owner no longer has it but when you copy someone else's work they still have their copy. These are two different things and deserve their own words. That's why we call one "stealing" and the other a "copyright violation".
Those numbers are a representation of actual money and the person you stole it from no longer has that money to spend.
Maybe so and maybe not. Copying a song that you wouldn't have purchased anyway costs the owner nothing while taking a physical object (or money as you've pointed out) deprives the owner of that item.
A couple of months back we were on our way back from a weekend trip about 6 hours away. About an hour from home the road was closed due to a forest fire and we were told we needed to detour another 6 hours out of the way. We ended up instead taking a maze of dirt roads that only added an extra hour or so to our trip. There were no signs and most of the roads didn't even appear on my paper map. I don't think I could have done it without a GPS.
On my Droid at least it doesn't appear to cache all or even nearly all zoom levels and doesn't always seem to keep the data around if you exit out of maps for some reason. It hasn't been an issue for me in daily use but it was a minor problem on a recent vacation where coverage was very limited. Of course I still had paper maps with me so it wasn't that big of a deal.
I'm pretty pro-nuclear but I have 2 major concerns.
1. Although the odds of a catastrophe is low for any given plant in any particular year it's also true that anything that can happen will happen eventually and the frequency of such events is likely proportional to the number of plants in operation. That's not necessarily a show stopper since all other forms of energy production have their own costs but it does mean that proper engineering, management, and oversight are critical.
2. Our current corporate culture is too irresponsible and short sighted to be trusted with nuclear power and our government is too corrupt and incompetent to provide meaningful oversight. We really need to come up with a way to manage these types of projects that is based more on solid engineering/management rather than the number of hookers or campaign dollars various interested parties can provide.
Right up until you find out that most of the remaining 10% are getting their online subscription for free with their dead tree subscription or some other free offer and most of the rest are just using login info from a friend or neighbor so the majority of your online readers are STILL freeloading but now their are a lot fewer of them. No problem, you just have to clamp down on those freeloaders. Reduce the number of free offers and require your readers to pay seperately for each device they read on and you can probably get rid of 90% of those pesky freeloaders. You can keep going like this as long as you want but eventually you're fixed costs are going to catch up with you. There's also the issue of trying to keep quality writers when they know that not many people will actually see their work. This isn't something unique to the news business, most businesses make the majority of their profits from a small fraction of their customers. That's just the way business is and fighting it tends to be a losing battle.
Lots of magazines and a few news papers seem to agree with you but I think it's exactly backwards. Aside from libraries and competing news organizations I can't think of too many people who would actually pay for archives and with a small customer pool they'll need to charge a lot to make it worth the trouble. Fresh news from a trusted source is much more valuable to the average reader because they don't have to waste time searching for it and then trying to figure out if the source is even worth believing. Consider that if old news was so valuable people would be storing their papers in climate controlled storage facilities rather than lining their cat boxes with them.
One option would be to make people pay for "todays" news but allow free access for anything more than 24hrs old. The sort of person who really likes the NYT and goes there every day (ie the ones who find it most valuable) would pay and those more casual readers would still have a chance to get hooked.
OK, it's more of an annoyance than a bug but I really wish computer maps (all of them) would allow more detail to be shown while zoomed out. I understand why that might be a problem in urban areas but for those of us who live/travel in rural areas it would really be nice not to have to zoom so far in just to see the name of the only other road within 20 miles of me etc.
I have somewhat the opposite problem. Whatever database FedEx and UPS use doesn't have my street on it even though the drivers can find it just fine. As a result, anyone who wants to ship me a package has to work a bit extra to convince the shipping companies to actually accept the package.
Have you been living under a rock or something? That's what marketers do. When was the last time you saw an advertisement that wasn't 90% lies/misleading ? That said, these types of phones (not just the IPhone) really do feel like they've changed your life when you first get one.
Is this really an issue? I can't imagine most people buying a car that didn't have enough range for typical day's driving. Personally I'd probably want 2x that to account for reduced capacity as the batteries age as well as unforeseen situations.
And that's different from how they'll act if you don't report it exactly how?
If you read TFA it basically says that a bunch of people were tricked into "Friending" this person. So what? How is that, by itself any more of a security threat than simply being on Facebook etc. at all? Then there's this
The Ranger then inadvertently exposed information about his coordinates in Afghanistan to Robin with his uploaded photos from the field that contained GeoIP data from the camera.
. What does that even mean? GeoIP usually seems to translate to "an ip address" but not too many cameras even have an IP address much less embed it in a photo. Some cameras do have a gps and can embed the actual latitude and longitude in the photo but that wouldn't be GeoIP anything. Later in the FA they change to this
Ryan says Robin's Facebook profile was able to view coordinates information on where the troops were located.
. So what did Robin actually have? The IP address of the computer used to upload the photo? Actual coordinates of some picture taken months or years ago? Coordinates of some picture grabbed off the Internet? Now unless Robin really is some sort of super hacker simply having someone's IP is NOT the same as having their Latitude and Longitude. Even here in the US the last time I tried looking up the location of my IP it showed me several hundred miles away and I'm somehow not expecting the situation to be much better in Afghanistan.