Someone should explain to the folks paying for the advertisements that when you have visually intrusive ads, ads that start playing sound, or ads that obscure the content, there's only two options available to the person viewing the page: close the tab right away, or use an ad blocker. The more intrusive and annoying the ad, the more likely I am to harbor bad feelings about product being advertised, stop buying their crap, and will bad-mouth their products all over social media.
Likewise, someone should explain to the sites that hosting the ads that allowing keyword ads and things that bring up popups while browsing the site may pay you more per visitor, but it also assures that I'll not be visiting your site to see those ads. Would you prefer $.02 per visitor for 200 visitors, or %.01 per visitor for 10,000 visitors?
As far as the people that create the ad software itself, they really don't give a fuck if it harms your experience with the site you are visiting, or how their tactics harm the perception of the advertisers - they only care about getting their number of ads served as high as possible so their paycheck is bigger, even if it is actual malware they are serving. That many folks would take great joy in working them over with a baseball bat isn't a deterrent. The only way to really get them to change is to attack their pocketbook.
You're going to find this hard to believe, but there are residences who have more than one person using the internet at a time. If you've got 2 roommates, will your 3Mbps connection be any good if someone else is using Netflix, Hulu, or YouTube (lol - fairly demanding?) at the same time?
Sure, your download only took 20 minutes - but that's 20 minutes that you can't be doing much of anything else over the internet. Is that download actively holding your attention? Or perhaps it's time to pick up a book while your connection is tied up.
Another point being that people don't want to have to "make do" with a connection they are paying more for than most of the rest of the world, and getting at best half of the speed.
DSL has a range limit of about 12,500 feet from the central office, or from the vault location they run fiber to from the CO, and a preference to be under 10,000 feet. Considering the large price for the equipment to support it from the telco side, they're not going to put that equipment in if there's only 4-6 customers within range and it'll take 20+ years at that rate to pay off that equipment. At best they'll get that equipment as a hand-me-down when it's been ripped out of someplace else that has been upgraded 2-3 steps higher if the telco is feeling generous, and if the more expensive equipment isn't cheaper to maintain. Population density does matter, in that the company doesn't want to lay out the cash to serve areas that will take a long time to pay them back their investment - unless there's good publicity for them rolled in with it, too.
I'm waiting for Apple to accuse them of stealing this idea from them. Their late 80s video "Knowledge Navigator" constitutes copyright on the idea, right? \
24 additional satellites added to the 5 currently orbiting mars will add a level of complexity to any new probes sent - they have more obstacles to avoid on their approach. The good news is that the gps ones will be broadcasting a gps signal, so it wouldn't be too hard to design a new craft to avoid those 24.
24 new launches to Mars could give the private space launch business a boost. Or would we try to send all 24 in one or two bundles?
Can we be sure they won't interfere with the Martian's gps system? We don't want them breaking out their PU-238 Space Modulators....
Criminals, like everyone else, need light to see what they're doing. And using a flashlight calls attention to them if they're in someone's yard. This is the reason why burglary rates go up during gibbous and full moons.
That's very likely (not sarcastic). The biggest reason diesel engines are used in large trucks is the high torque they need to move those loads, and electric can do torque as well. And there'll be some weight savings from not needing a transmission. Would the weight of the batteries be much more than the diesel fuel they carry now? Each of those tanks holds ~150 gallons. At 7.5 lbs per gallon, that's 1125 lbs per fuel tank when full.
For long, steep hills like Tejon and Cajon pass in CA, I'm picturing a solution being overhead wires like what's used in LA's light rail being installed over a truck lane. They can charge them a fee for the boost based on their weight at the last weigh station have have a transponder in the truck like is used in Orange county's toll roads. It'll get them up the hills and even let them recharge the batteries a bit while they do it, so they can go further before needing to charge once they're off the hill.
The problem with jamming devices is that there is no way of restricting the area affected by them to the limits of your property. That's one of the reasons the FCC regulates stuff like that. You wouldn't be too happy if your neighbors installed cell phone jammers to protect themselves from phones' dangerous EM radiation, would you?
In this case, I think a paintball gun or laser pointer would be more appropriate. Shooting off firearms in a residential area when there's otherwise no violent actions going on is a recipe for things escalating to Hatfield/McCoy levels.
As it is, we export much of our pollution production to China, since they provide the labor so much cheaper - because they don't bother much with pollution controls, workplace safety, or fair labor practices. They manufacture the goods and produce so much pollution that large cities have visibility reduced to only a few hundred meters. And we know that pollution on scales like that is not going to stay a local phenomenon, as winds blow, climates change, and wildlife dies.
Three possibilities I see with the religious point of view:
1) The person wants to make committing acts they find religiously offensive more difficult (yet they don't find theft and extortion morally/religiously offensive?).
2) Since the overwhelming majority of the people using such a site would tend to be the devout, they don't want someone else to hack the site and let that info out - so they claim to hack it and get it shut down so the data aren't available for other hackers to set free.
3) They're just sadistic and want to see everyone in their church squirm.
Nothing says "Patriotism" like ripping off the military and the government in general, does it? They're only screwing over the 315 million people in their own "home".
Perhaps for a good part of the time, but considering that humans that go for 5 years without getting into an accident in familiar conditions and familiar territory are out at the far end of the bell curve, "handle" isn't a ringing endorsement.
While humans have driven on the Moon, we've also put semi-autonomous driving probes on Mars - the communications delay is too great for a human to drive them remotely like the various Moon probes were. While there's (probably) no roads on Mars, there's also (probably) no other drivers or pedestrians.
There's never going to be an end to testing of vehicles regardless of who/what drives them.
The law says you're supposed to allow enough space so that if the car in front of you suddenly stops, you have enough time to come to a safe stop. If a child darted out in front, of course the car in front will smash the brakes - whether it's a person driving or a SDC. If there's a manhole cover that was put back not-quite-over-the-hole, the car's wheel going into the hole will bring the car in front to a fast stop. In both cases getting rear-ended is still a fault on the part of rear-most car for driving closer to the car in front than is safe.
The only exception I'm aware of, and it's not a complete removal of fault from the rear driver by any means, would be if the driver in front decided to "brake check" in an attempt to cause an accident with the car in the rear. And that's because both drivers have a legal obligation to do what they can to avoid an accident - having the right of way and still causing an accident is still breaking the law.
That's all we need, cars that come with yet another software EULA that says you don't actually own the software or communications systems in the car, and trying to customize it or removed unwanted "features" will violate the warranty and open me up to lawsuit liability. Not that that stopped many people from messing with software and/or communications before, but now it has the added fun of multi-ton machines hurtling down the road mixed in with it.
This is exactly why I do all of my torrenting using my neighbors' wifi while they're out of the country on vacation, and setting my computer's MAC address to one sniffed from the local DA's office or police station.
It's adorable that you think that the military isn't soaking in politics as much as congressmen are. All the top brass wine and dine senators and representatives to get more funding for their favorite weapons programs, and they set up deals to get stuff for/from manufacturers as well. This is why we have a continuous assembly line of tanks being made when the army has said they don't need any more and is just putting all the new deliveries into storage. It's a three-way circle jerk where only one of the three has any accountability to the public, and that's tenuous at best.
All by itself, their use of the word "homeland" kind of implies/engenders the feeling that places not inside the United States are not somebody's home - and therefore free for the droning/bombing/cruise-missiling.
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And propane. Don't forget the propane.
Someone should explain to the folks paying for the advertisements that when you have visually intrusive ads, ads that start playing sound, or ads that obscure the content, there's only two options available to the person viewing the page: close the tab right away, or use an ad blocker. The more intrusive and annoying the ad, the more likely I am to harbor bad feelings about product being advertised, stop buying their crap, and will bad-mouth their products all over social media. Likewise, someone should explain to the sites that hosting the ads that allowing keyword ads and things that bring up popups while browsing the site may pay you more per visitor, but it also assures that I'll not be visiting your site to see those ads. Would you prefer $.02 per visitor for 200 visitors, or %.01 per visitor for 10,000 visitors? As far as the people that create the ad software itself, they really don't give a fuck if it harms your experience with the site you are visiting, or how their tactics harm the perception of the advertisers - they only care about getting their number of ads served as high as possible so their paycheck is bigger, even if it is actual malware they are serving. That many folks would take great joy in working them over with a baseball bat isn't a deterrent. The only way to really get them to change is to attack their pocketbook.
You're going to find this hard to believe, but there are residences who have more than one person using the internet at a time. If you've got 2 roommates, will your 3Mbps connection be any good if someone else is using Netflix, Hulu, or YouTube (lol - fairly demanding?) at the same time?
Sure, your download only took 20 minutes - but that's 20 minutes that you can't be doing much of anything else over the internet. Is that download actively holding your attention? Or perhaps it's time to pick up a book while your connection is tied up.
Another point being that people don't want to have to "make do" with a connection they are paying more for than most of the rest of the world, and getting at best half of the speed.
DSL has a range limit of about 12,500 feet from the central office, or from the vault location they run fiber to from the CO, and a preference to be under 10,000 feet. Considering the large price for the equipment to support it from the telco side, they're not going to put that equipment in if there's only 4-6 customers within range and it'll take 20+ years at that rate to pay off that equipment. At best they'll get that equipment as a hand-me-down when it's been ripped out of someplace else that has been upgraded 2-3 steps higher if the telco is feeling generous, and if the more expensive equipment isn't cheaper to maintain. Population density does matter, in that the company doesn't want to lay out the cash to serve areas that will take a long time to pay them back their investment - unless there's good publicity for them rolled in with it, too.
Is that you, Buffalo Bill?
Wouldn't that limit them to only having one truck on the hill at a time?
Oh, I bend over backwards for women. Thrust me on that.
I'm waiting for Apple to accuse them of stealing this idea from them. Their late 80s video "Knowledge Navigator" constitutes copyright on the idea, right? \
24 additional satellites added to the 5 currently orbiting mars will add a level of complexity to any new probes sent - they have more obstacles to avoid on their approach. The good news is that the gps ones will be broadcasting a gps signal, so it wouldn't be too hard to design a new craft to avoid those 24. 24 new launches to Mars could give the private space launch business a boost. Or would we try to send all 24 in one or two bundles? Can we be sure they won't interfere with the Martian's gps system? We don't want them breaking out their PU-238 Space Modulators....
Criminals, like everyone else, need light to see what they're doing. And using a flashlight calls attention to them if they're in someone's yard. This is the reason why burglary rates go up during gibbous and full moons.
That's very likely (not sarcastic). The biggest reason diesel engines are used in large trucks is the high torque they need to move those loads, and electric can do torque as well. And there'll be some weight savings from not needing a transmission. Would the weight of the batteries be much more than the diesel fuel they carry now? Each of those tanks holds ~150 gallons. At 7.5 lbs per gallon, that's 1125 lbs per fuel tank when full. For long, steep hills like Tejon and Cajon pass in CA, I'm picturing a solution being overhead wires like what's used in LA's light rail being installed over a truck lane. They can charge them a fee for the boost based on their weight at the last weigh station have have a transponder in the truck like is used in Orange county's toll roads. It'll get them up the hills and even let them recharge the batteries a bit while they do it, so they can go further before needing to charge once they're off the hill.
The problem with jamming devices is that there is no way of restricting the area affected by them to the limits of your property. That's one of the reasons the FCC regulates stuff like that. You wouldn't be too happy if your neighbors installed cell phone jammers to protect themselves from phones' dangerous EM radiation, would you? In this case, I think a paintball gun or laser pointer would be more appropriate. Shooting off firearms in a residential area when there's otherwise no violent actions going on is a recipe for things escalating to Hatfield/McCoy levels.
As it is, we export much of our pollution production to China, since they provide the labor so much cheaper - because they don't bother much with pollution controls, workplace safety, or fair labor practices. They manufacture the goods and produce so much pollution that large cities have visibility reduced to only a few hundred meters. And we know that pollution on scales like that is not going to stay a local phenomenon, as winds blow, climates change, and wildlife dies.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
I don't think they're patriotic, that's just the image the put forth to help increase their sales.
Three possibilities I see with the religious point of view:
1) The person wants to make committing acts they find religiously offensive more difficult (yet they don't find theft and extortion morally/religiously offensive?).
2) Since the overwhelming majority of the people using such a site would tend to be the devout, they don't want someone else to hack the site and let that info out - so they claim to hack it and get it shut down so the data aren't available for other hackers to set free.
3) They're just sadistic and want to see everyone in their church squirm.
Nothing says "Patriotism" like ripping off the military and the government in general, does it? They're only screwing over the 315 million people in their own "home".
> we know humans can handle all of those
Perhaps for a good part of the time, but considering that humans that go for 5 years without getting into an accident in familiar conditions and familiar territory are out at the far end of the bell curve, "handle" isn't a ringing endorsement.
While humans have driven on the Moon, we've also put semi-autonomous driving probes on Mars - the communications delay is too great for a human to drive them remotely like the various Moon probes were. While there's (probably) no roads on Mars, there's also (probably) no other drivers or pedestrians.
There's never going to be an end to testing of vehicles regardless of who/what drives them.
The law says you're supposed to allow enough space so that if the car in front of you suddenly stops, you have enough time to come to a safe stop. If a child darted out in front, of course the car in front will smash the brakes - whether it's a person driving or a SDC. If there's a manhole cover that was put back not-quite-over-the-hole, the car's wheel going into the hole will bring the car in front to a fast stop. In both cases getting rear-ended is still a fault on the part of rear-most car for driving closer to the car in front than is safe.
The only exception I'm aware of, and it's not a complete removal of fault from the rear driver by any means, would be if the driver in front decided to "brake check" in an attempt to cause an accident with the car in the rear. And that's because both drivers have a legal obligation to do what they can to avoid an accident - having the right of way and still causing an accident is still breaking the law.
That's all we need, cars that come with yet another software EULA that says you don't actually own the software or communications systems in the car, and trying to customize it or removed unwanted "features" will violate the warranty and open me up to lawsuit liability. Not that that stopped many people from messing with software and/or communications before, but now it has the added fun of multi-ton machines hurtling down the road mixed in with it.
That's a good way to end up on a psychiatric hold for 3 days.
This is exactly why I do all of my torrenting using my neighbors' wifi while they're out of the country on vacation, and setting my computer's MAC address to one sniffed from the local DA's office or police station.
You do know it's pretty damn easy to change many devices' MAC address to whatever value you want, don't you?
It's adorable that you think that the military isn't soaking in politics as much as congressmen are. All the top brass wine and dine senators and representatives to get more funding for their favorite weapons programs, and they set up deals to get stuff for/from manufacturers as well. This is why we have a continuous assembly line of tanks being made when the army has said they don't need any more and is just putting all the new deliveries into storage. It's a three-way circle jerk where only one of the three has any accountability to the public, and that's tenuous at best.
All by itself, their use of the word "homeland" kind of implies/engenders the feeling that places not inside the United States are not somebody's home - and therefore free for the droning/bombing/cruise-missiling.
What's wrong with a perfect, soul-less copy? I'm an average soul-less original.