I also do not understand, those people still using MSIE
I gather many of them are people at work who lack privileges to install other browsers or to run executables from writable directories. This is reportedly common on government PCs that need to connect to IE-only intranet apps.
Yup. Still at IE8 on my US Gov't workstation. At least they allow us FF now, though the helpdesk is complaining that frequency of FF updates is burdensome to them. Those poor, misguided children have never heard of FF ESR.
Why doesn't FB just man-up and tell the truth, e.g., "Dear people who have FaceBook accounts: Until you start paying for this service, you have no say in how we operate. Our real customers, i.e., advertisers, were quite pleased with the results of our little test. They now have more insight into you and can better target their advertising to you. This, in turn, makes us more valuable to them and we make more money by growing our customer base and/or raising our advertising rates. Now go about your business and keep hitting that 'Like' button."
Disclaimer: I'm on FaceBook everyday, but with with no illusions of privacy...
Seems to me like FB was simply doing some product testing for their customers. FB customers should know as much as they can about the product they are purchasing so they can make an informed decision.
One of the reasons I have a Volt and not a Tesla *at this point in time* is it simply doesn't fit my use case. I make a 266 mile one-way trip once a month which is just too close to the Tesla's EPA range for my comfort. There are few to no Superchargers here in Dixieland and none even planned on my route.
With GM incentives, Federal tax credits, and if you are lucky enough to live in a state with EV credits, the Volt can be had for ~$25K. Mine was $44,800 on the window sticker and about $31K OTD. There is an astounding amount of tech & engineering in the Volt package for that price.
Bite me, AC. I load interesting pages up in browser tabs first thing in the morning. Might take me an hour to get around to reading it. When I loaded the page there were exactly 3 comments on this story, none of which addressed my question.
My last crash happened when I unexpectedly came upon a huge diesel spill covering the road in the middle of a turn. Went down so fast, I never even got my hands off the bars. I was wearing my helmet at the time and good thing, too, because... oh wait, it never impacted anything. I landed on my shoulder and my face (jaw) and went sliding down the street in a pool of diesel. Almost knocked me out and I had a headache for 3 days, but my helmet, unscathed, lived to ride another day!
From the fun with statistics department: All the people I *personally* knew who died as a result of collision or crash while riding their bicycle (sample size: 3), all of them were wearing helmets. So, 100% mortality rate!
Also, I love it when someone says after a crash while showing me a cracked helmet, "the helmet saved my life!" I usually respond with, "how do you know that? Have you previously had a similar crash for comparison purposes and not survived?"
Now of course, I believe that a bike helmet has some protective capacities. I just believe risk of riding without one has been overstated, especially for people with decent bike handling skills
Absolutely. We need to start by abolishing the TSA, followed shortly by DHS. And I say that as a survivor of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. Yes, I was scared as it was happening, but that was fleeting. Pissed, yes, that someone tried to kill me. Scared after an hour? Nope.
I also ride my bicycle without a helmet sometimes. People look at me as if I'd just killed a puppy and ask, "don't you know dangerous that is?" To which I say, "Yes, I do. I consider my bike handling skills, the physics involved in a crash, the likelihood of a crash based on my skill level, the likelihood of a crash involving a head injury, the likelihood of a crash involving a brain injury, the likelihood of a crash involving a traumatic brain injury and I accept the very low level of risk of riding without a beer cooler on my head today."
Now, I also ride motorcycles on the street (at reasonable speeds) and on the track (at ludicrous speeds) and I always wear my helmet. People try to tell me that makes me a hypocrite. I say, "No. That makes me someone who understands risk." (and physics)
On the assumption the Volt owner was uninformed rather than rude, I left a nice note explaining that the Leaf does not have a gasoline engine, and how the blue lights on the dash indicate charge state, pointing out that when you see a car with a single blue light flashing, you should probably leave it plugged in.
It was quite possibly a misunderstanding. On a Volt a flashing green light means fully charged, while a solid green means still charging. Seems backwards to me and hoping someone will come up with a hack to change it.
Wow... Yes, I know how most cities got sited. Apparently your humor detector needs recalibrating. And having spend 20 years in DC, I would argue that it's still a malarial swamp (That's a humorous reference to Congress and politicians in general)
What everyone's really forgetting is that this is just ONE of their data centers. Where do you think they've been holding all this data up until now? Most NSA data centers were probably built during the heyday of mainframes and therefore already bigger than average, with the power and cooling to support big iron. Probably only represents 20% of their capacity at most. Hell, this might just be an off-site backup for agency records or the world's largest WoW server.
The city planners should have thought about this before deciding to put the town there. Now they're having to use public money to fix their short-sightedness!
This! Not a real budget cut, but simply a reduction in the growth of spending. However, I, as a DoD civilian will personally take a 10% cut in my salary this Fiscal Year. The politics of going after the people first doesn't sit well with most of us rank-and-file types. You know, the non-political 99% of government that's really just trying to make this country better despite what the congress and WH do.
There are plenty of things the gov't could stop doing or buying that would more than cover that $44B, but once gov't gets its hands on something it has a really hard time letting go. Personally, I think the Federal Government should be doing only about half of what it's doing right no,w, but it will never abdicate those roles.
No. Ads leech off legitimate users' bandwidth. I pay for my bandwidth and don't want it being sucked up by ads. I'd pay more for an ad-free internet, but no ISP offers that, so I use the tools that are offered.
The problem I have with targeted ads is that they are shown to me without my permission. They should only be shown to me when I inquire about purchasing something. That's one of the reasons I never conduct unsolicited business. The 100%, sure fire, guaranteed way to get me to not buy something from you is to try to sell me something I didn't ask about.
Not gonna happen. When I was participating in military exercises on/over private land in the late 1980s, no live ammo was allowed anywhere near the exercise. The only exception was for every 10 or so M-16s issued to us we had to have someone with a "guard gun" with live ammo in case some of the locals wanted to try to rob us. The guard gun was usually an M9 Beretta, but on one occasion we had to use another M-16. We taped up the whole weapon with yellow and black "Hazard" tape. The magazine was also spray painted orange and had "Live Ammo" written on it. We take safety seriously when were practicing to kill people!
However, it was quite fun as an Air Force geek to be flying 50-100 feet off the ground in a Blackhawk strafing cattle with M-60 blanks!
Rafter Man: "How can you shoot women, children?" Door gunner: "That's easy. You just don't lead them as much!" --Full Metal Jacket
Apparently, the US Gov't treats its own employees much better than it expects corporate America to. A junior, just-starting-out, probationary employee gets 13 days vacation (annual leave), 13 days sick leave and 10 Federal holidays per year. You are *expected* to take sick leave when sick and you are *expected* to take your vacation time. If you are on sick leave for more than 3 days, your supervisor *may* request that you provide a doctor's note, but it's not required. There is no stigma attached to taking leave the way there appears to be in the corporate world.
Unused sick leave rolls over year-to-year with no maximum accrual amount. (e.g., I have over 1000 hours) Annual Leave rolls over as well but you must have less than 30 days (240 hours) on the books at the end of the year. In my agency, if you have a "use or lose" leave balance, you must submit a leave schedule to management showing that you will in fact not lose any leave.
Have you checked the Netflix catalogue lately? Pretty sparse unless you want to watch >1 yr old TV series. I'm 0 for my last 5 attempts at trying to watch the movie I'm in the mood for. After enough searching I can usually settle for *something* but most likely I'll just turn it off.
And all tracks will black flag you for running a timer to check y our lap times.
For open track/HPDE that's true, but that's not really racing is it.
All the HPDEs I've been to allow data collection as long as it's not visible/accessible during your on-track sessions. None have set up a beacon for lap timing. I'm told that's a restriction of the liablilty insurance provider.
During the motorcycle track days I've done, about 75% of participants run a lap timer. There is always a beacon set up.
Personally, I can't wait to try out this app on my next track day.
I remember a telephone add-on device from the 1980s that would intercept your incoming calls and ask you to enter your PIN in order to complete the call. You would simply give that number to people you expected call from all others got the option to leave a message, if you allowed that option. Better than an answering machine since your phone didn't ring until after the correct PIN was input by the caller. I'd like to think that can be done in software now on IOS or Android.
If he goes FPC Montgomery, then I'll likely see him out cutting the grass or emptying trash cans as my office is about 500 yards from the entrance to the camp here on Maxwell AFB. Prisoners do all the grounds and building maintenance on base. Consequently, this place is immaculate -- hardly a blade of grass out of place.
They live in open bay barracks (so they tell me) and cannot have money, outside food & drink, cell phones and many other electronics (They've recently been allowed to have MP3 players). One of the prisoners who's been here since 1999 and works in our building was curious about my iphone as he had never seen one in person. They have a fair amount of freedom (for prisoners) and are very well behaved because they know if they screw up then it's straight to a "pound me in the ass" facility for the rest of their sentence.
Of course, had you hit your head, you probably wouldn't be posting this. The anthropic principle as applied to safety... or why anecdotal evidence is a contradiction in terms.
And where is your research that leads you to that conclusion? I love it when people say, "the helmet save my life" just because it cracked when they crashed. I usually respond with "how do you know that? Have you had a substantially similar crash without a helmet in which you did not survive?"
Now I have no doubt that helmets absorb energy in an impact, I just don't think they are as effective at reducing injury as the general public believes them to be. The crash test researchers fully understand, but they are getting paid to reduce risk & liablilty to and absolute minimum. So even a quantum reduction in risk is a positive outcome.
IMO, honing your cycling skills and increasing your situaltional awareness while on the road do more to reduce the risk of injury than simply strapping a beer cooler on your head
So let's play the anecdotal evidence game again: I've been cycling "seriously" for about 28 years. I still have more miles helmetless than helmeted. Everytime I've crashed (sample size: 5) I've been wearing a helmet. Everyone I've known personally (sample size: 3) who has been killed while cycling was wearing a helmet. Damned dangerous things, those helmets!:)
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I also do not understand, those people still using MSIE
I gather many of them are people at work who lack privileges to install other browsers or to run executables from writable directories. This is reportedly common on government PCs that need to connect to IE-only intranet apps.
Yup. Still at IE8 on my US Gov't workstation. At least they allow us FF now, though the helpdesk is complaining that frequency of FF updates is burdensome to them. Those poor, misguided children have never heard of FF ESR.
Why doesn't FB just man-up and tell the truth, e.g., "Dear people who have FaceBook accounts: Until you start paying for this service, you have no say in how we operate. Our real customers, i.e., advertisers, were quite pleased with the results of our little test. They now have more insight into you and can better target their advertising to you. This, in turn, makes us more valuable to them and we make more money by growing our customer base and/or raising our advertising rates. Now go about your business and keep hitting that 'Like' button."
Disclaimer: I'm on FaceBook everyday, but with with no illusions of privacy...
Seems to me like FB was simply doing some product testing for their customers. FB customers should know as much as they can about the product they are purchasing so they can make an informed decision.
That would have been awesome!
One of the reasons I have a Volt and not a Tesla *at this point in time* is it simply doesn't fit my use case. I make a 266 mile one-way trip once a month which is just too close to the Tesla's EPA range for my comfort. There are few to no Superchargers here in Dixieland and none even planned on my route.
With GM incentives, Federal tax credits, and if you are lucky enough to live in a state with EV credits, the Volt can be had for ~$25K. Mine was $44,800 on the window sticker and about $31K OTD. There is an astounding amount of tech & engineering in the Volt package for that price.
Bite me, AC. I load interesting pages up in browser tabs first thing in the morning. Might take me an hour to get around to reading it. When I loaded the page there were exactly 3 comments on this story, none of which addressed my question.
Seems like a good temporary solution until he could get back to the airlock.
My last crash happened when I unexpectedly came upon a huge diesel spill covering the road in the middle of a turn. Went down so fast, I never even got my hands off the bars. I was wearing my helmet at the time and good thing, too, because... oh wait, it never impacted anything. I landed on my shoulder and my face (jaw) and went sliding down the street in a pool of diesel. Almost knocked me out and I had a headache for 3 days, but my helmet, unscathed, lived to ride another day!
From the fun with statistics department: All the people I *personally* knew who died as a result of collision or crash while riding their bicycle (sample size: 3), all of them were wearing helmets. So, 100% mortality rate!
Also, I love it when someone says after a crash while showing me a cracked helmet, "the helmet saved my life!" I usually respond with, "how do you know that? Have you previously had a similar crash for comparison purposes and not survived?"
Now of course, I believe that a bike helmet has some protective capacities. I just believe risk of riding without one has been overstated, especially for people with decent bike handling skills
Absolutely. We need to start by abolishing the TSA, followed shortly by DHS. And I say that as a survivor of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. Yes, I was scared as it was happening, but that was fleeting. Pissed, yes, that someone tried to kill me. Scared after an hour? Nope.
I also ride my bicycle without a helmet sometimes. People look at me as if I'd just killed a puppy and ask, "don't you know dangerous that is?" To which I say, "Yes, I do. I consider my bike handling skills, the physics involved in a crash, the likelihood of a crash based on my skill level, the likelihood of a crash involving a head injury, the likelihood of a crash involving a brain injury, the likelihood of a crash involving a traumatic brain injury and I accept the very low level of risk of riding without a beer cooler on my head today."
Now, I also ride motorcycles on the street (at reasonable speeds) and on the track (at ludicrous speeds) and I always wear my helmet. People try to tell me that makes me a hypocrite. I say, "No. That makes me someone who understands risk." (and physics)
On the assumption the Volt owner was uninformed rather than rude, I left a nice note explaining that the Leaf does not have a gasoline engine, and how the blue lights on the dash indicate charge state, pointing out that when you see a car with a single blue light flashing, you should probably leave it plugged in.
It was quite possibly a misunderstanding. On a Volt a flashing green light means fully charged, while a solid green means still charging. Seems backwards to me and hoping someone will come up with a hack to change it.
Wow... Yes, I know how most cities got sited. Apparently your humor detector needs recalibrating. And having spend 20 years in DC, I would argue that it's still a malarial swamp (That's a humorous reference to Congress and politicians in general)
What everyone's really forgetting is that this is just ONE of their data centers. Where do you think they've been holding all this data up until now? Most NSA data centers were probably built during the heyday of mainframes and therefore already bigger than average, with the power and cooling to support big iron. Probably only represents 20% of their capacity at most. Hell, this might just be an off-site backup for agency records or the world's largest WoW server.
The city planners should have thought about this before deciding to put the town there. Now they're having to use public money to fix their short-sightedness!
This! Not a real budget cut, but simply a reduction in the growth of spending. However, I, as a DoD civilian will personally take a 10% cut in my salary this Fiscal Year. The politics of going after the people first doesn't sit well with most of us rank-and-file types. You know, the non-political 99% of government that's really just trying to make this country better despite what the congress and WH do.
There are plenty of things the gov't could stop doing or buying that would more than cover that $44B, but once gov't gets its hands on something it has a really hard time letting go. Personally, I think the Federal Government should be doing only about half of what it's doing right no,w, but it will never abdicate those roles.
No. Ads leech off legitimate users' bandwidth. I pay for my bandwidth and don't want it being sucked up by ads. I'd pay more for an ad-free internet, but no ISP offers that, so I use the tools that are offered.
The problem I have with targeted ads is that they are shown to me without my permission. They should only be shown to me when I inquire about purchasing something. That's one of the reasons I never conduct unsolicited business. The 100%, sure fire, guaranteed way to get me to not buy something from you is to try to sell me something I didn't ask about.
Not gonna happen. When I was participating in military exercises on/over private land in the late 1980s, no live ammo was allowed anywhere near the exercise. The only exception was for every 10 or so M-16s issued to us we had to have someone with a "guard gun" with live ammo in case some of the locals wanted to try to rob us. The guard gun was usually an M9 Beretta, but on one occasion we had to use another M-16. We taped up the whole weapon with yellow and black "Hazard" tape. The magazine was also spray painted orange and had "Live Ammo" written on it. We take safety seriously when were practicing to kill people! However, it was quite fun as an Air Force geek to be flying 50-100 feet off the ground in a Blackhawk strafing cattle with M-60 blanks! Rafter Man: "How can you shoot women, children?" Door gunner: "That's easy. You just don't lead them as much!" --Full Metal Jacket
Apparently, the US Gov't treats its own employees much better than it expects corporate America to. A junior, just-starting-out, probationary employee gets 13 days vacation (annual leave), 13 days sick leave and 10 Federal holidays per year. You are *expected* to take sick leave when sick and you are *expected* to take your vacation time. If you are on sick leave for more than 3 days, your supervisor *may* request that you provide a doctor's note, but it's not required. There is no stigma attached to taking leave the way there appears to be in the corporate world.
Unused sick leave rolls over year-to-year with no maximum accrual amount. (e.g., I have over 1000 hours) Annual Leave rolls over as well but you must have less than 30 days (240 hours) on the books at the end of the year. In my agency, if you have a "use or lose" leave balance, you must submit a leave schedule to management showing that you will in fact not lose any leave.
Al Gore created the Universe!
Have you checked the Netflix catalogue lately? Pretty sparse unless you want to watch >1 yr old TV series. I'm 0 for my last 5 attempts at trying to watch the movie I'm in the mood for. After enough searching I can usually settle for *something* but most likely I'll just turn it off.
And all tracks will black flag you for running a timer to check y our lap times.
For open track/HPDE that's true, but that's not really racing is it.
All the HPDEs I've been to allow data collection as long as it's not visible/accessible during your on-track sessions. None have set up a beacon for lap timing. I'm told that's a restriction of the liablilty insurance provider. During the motorcycle track days I've done, about 75% of participants run a lap timer. There is always a beacon set up.
Personally, I can't wait to try out this app on my next track day.
I remember a telephone add-on device from the 1980s that would intercept your incoming calls and ask you to enter your PIN in order to complete the call. You would simply give that number to people you expected call from all others got the option to leave a message, if you allowed that option. Better than an answering machine since your phone didn't ring until after the correct PIN was input by the caller. I'd like to think that can be done in software now on IOS or Android.
If he goes FPC Montgomery, then I'll likely see him out cutting the grass or emptying trash cans as my office is about 500 yards from the entrance to the camp here on Maxwell AFB. Prisoners do all the grounds and building maintenance on base. Consequently, this place is immaculate -- hardly a blade of grass out of place.
They live in open bay barracks (so they tell me) and cannot have money, outside food & drink, cell phones and many other electronics (They've recently been allowed to have MP3 players). One of the prisoners who's been here since 1999 and works in our building was curious about my iphone as he had never seen one in person. They have a fair amount of freedom (for prisoners) and are very well behaved because they know if they screw up then it's straight to a "pound me in the ass" facility for the rest of their sentence.
Can't it just show me a VR watch on my wrist when I look down at it? Make mine a Patek, please, in 18Kt.
Of course, had you hit your head, you probably wouldn't be posting this. The anthropic principle as applied to safety... or why anecdotal evidence is a contradiction in terms.
And where is your research that leads you to that conclusion? I love it when people say, "the helmet save my life" just because it cracked when they crashed. I usually respond with "how do you know that? Have you had a substantially similar crash without a helmet in which you did not survive?"
Now I have no doubt that helmets absorb energy in an impact, I just don't think they are as effective at reducing injury as the general public believes them to be. The crash test researchers fully understand, but they are getting paid to reduce risk & liablilty to and absolute minimum. So even a quantum reduction in risk is a positive outcome.
IMO, honing your cycling skills and increasing your situaltional awareness while on the road do more to reduce the risk of injury than simply strapping a beer cooler on your head
So let's play the anecdotal evidence game again: I've been cycling "seriously" for about 28 years. I still have more miles helmetless than helmeted. Everytime I've crashed (sample size: 5) I've been wearing a helmet. Everyone I've known personally (sample size: 3) who has been killed while cycling was wearing a helmet. Damned dangerous things, those helmets! :)