My understanding of skid-mark analysis (and my understanding does not include the big name it must have by now) is that they include road surface type and conditions.
Also, even though article says the last five seconds before airbag deployment is all that is recorded, the important part is at impact (I think the car in the story was doing 103 MPH, or so, IIRC) and IF a skid mark is left just before impact the same info is there.
I am really not advocating the courts be allowed to use this anyway, but then again, if you are buying a vehicle that has an explosive right in front of your face you should try to learn something about how it works (and you should not be prohibited from disabling it).
In the article the driver's DUI was thrown out because the guy did not give concent or something. Certainly a "good" prosecutor and cops would not have bothered if it was bad evidence (my opinion, they should be going to jail for pulling a stunt like that).
I live in Ottawa, Home of Nortel, which before telecom died was one of the bigger telecom companies.
Nice to meet you, I live in Reston, VA, home of another of your empty buildings, along with plenty of empty Teleglobe buildings scattered about.
However, Nextel has a nice "new" building, right down the street from all of AOL's IP addresses (on Sunrise Valley Dr) and along the same road as several Sprint facilities.
Also, the defense contractor that I work for is taking over one of the many empty MCI buildings in the area.
Yea, you might be right, but it is only *some* telcom that seems to be dead, plenty of other markets to hawk your skills.
On a serious note, I am an advocate of teaching The Calculus right after arithmatic. Algebra is almost a complete waste of time as is demonstrated when compairing many algebra problems and the number of steps taught to solve, vs. the "answer one line later" of The Calculus.
Algebra can be relegated to classes dealing with spreadsheets and accounting.
The counter "arguement" I have gotten from Mathematics teachers at all levels boils down to "the proper appreciation of [calc/algebra] will not be gained by teaching them 'out of order'".
Well, sorry teach, I do not recall anything from algebra that was ESSENTIAL for Calc. Not a thing! Plenty of simple arithmatic required resulting in an elegant, precise, answer.
All the more reason for me to keep my 1996 Jeep Cherokee. If I want a data recorder, I will add one myself. Too bad that CarTune project on Sourceforge fizzled out. Might begin working on this again this summer.
Correct track, wrong target. Commercial carriers are the only ones required flight data recorders. The people that check them are the federally licensed mechanics (sometimes the feds themselves) that can lose their license if they get caught "fudging".
However, cars have all of that government mandated emissions control crap that is required and is a federal offense to remove/tamper. This intrusion could be extended to the computer, I suspect, in the same manner you outlined since the computer is part of the emmissions control system.
Do you propose to accomplish this shift? Is "re-education the current method or does the barrel of a gun come into play after the last vote?
In your quest for the perfect Socialized community, you are demandind that people with serious investment and a comefortable environment to abandon the suburbs (or even the country) and cause a price spike in 3 bedroom apartments in town. It ain't happening on a voluntary basis, well, not in the US anyway.
Do you also want them to abandon their vehicles or should the market for those just be flooded as these people are "relocated" to the cities and issued Segways (if they have the right connections).
Sorry Big Brother, I am having none of your central planning.
The threat of being blacklisted has not worked yet, so will this finally convince mail server admins to shut down those open relays?"
I seriously doubt it. The one time that I informed a sysadmin that he had an open relay I got back a long e-mail on how "this is the way the internet works", that may have been true in times past but it certainly was no longer true in 1996, and it even seemed a bit snotty.
Now these guys are going to get a letter from the 'lowley' government? LOL, unless it comes from Bill Gates, in most cases, or Linus in others, they will blow it off or try to have a stupid flamewar.
Someone contact Erich von Däniken immediately at his new theme park and inform him? If the Pyramids were too hard for humans to build this 'internet thingie' MUST come from his friends in space!
Ah, then I am glad that I delayed that purchasing decision. I was teetering on whipping out the cc that day and getting the whole package.
Even without that capability $199 is a decent price (in my mind) and $1800 more for a self charging vacume (Electrolux) is just not worth it to me. Still planning on getting a Roomba sometime this summer.
Nope. At the store (not on a website, I looked) they had a SELF CHARGER, yes I know there is a difference because the fast charger was another stack or two over for a different price (neither was exactly $50).
Perhaps it was mis-labeled, on both the sign and the boxes, whatever, but yes I do know the difference between a fast charger and a self charger thank you. They were DIFFERENT (that means they are not the same, in reality).
Thanks for the "instructions" too but I already knew how to recharge a battery.
Roomba has an add-on self charger. Around $50 if I remember, at Bed Bath & Beyond (or was it Linen's and Things? they look identicle to me when I get inside the door).
My word, this has been tried before! Well, maybe they saw the same 1965 documentry that I saw and decided against thermonuclear weapons for diggig the hole, but still, same idea.
Nope. Has some to do with distribution of earnings and such. The IRS has all sorts of info on it that I have long forgotten (other than the edges) since college.
I thought the NAACP made quite a hefty profit too, if not how do they keep operating with those giant salaries of the top guys?
BTW, the John Burch(sp?) Society (I have never been a member) has never applied for NFP status because they did not want to become dependant on the government telling them how to operate. At least that is what their heads said on C-SPAN during a speech.
Yep, "he US government is Constitutionally prohibited from sanctioning any state religion,== "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." Quite different from recognizing any at all.
Nice response! Well thought, but I believe I responded to this:
So, theoretically, the failure of hundreds of dot-com businesses could have been slowed, or even stopped, by petitioning for IRS Not-for-profit status? Certainly would have been more descriptive of their business practices.
in the paragraph you were responding to. Nope, the dot-coms were for-profit and did not make a profit. Quite a difference from what I wrote.
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My understanding of skid-mark analysis (and my understanding does not include the big name it must have by now) is that they include road surface type and conditions.
Also, even though article says the last five seconds before airbag deployment is all that is recorded, the important part is at impact (I think the car in the story was doing 103 MPH, or so, IIRC) and IF a skid mark is left just before impact the same info is there.
I am really not advocating the courts be allowed to use this anyway, but then again, if you are buying a vehicle that has an explosive right in front of your face you should try to learn something about how it works (and you should not be prohibited from disabling it).
In the article the driver's DUI was thrown out because the guy did not give concent or something. Certainly a "good" prosecutor and cops would not have bothered if it was bad evidence (my opinion, they should be going to jail for pulling a stunt like that).
Heck no, you CAN go straight from arithmatic to basic algebra with no problem. I was quite pissed when I took my first Calc class and discovered thes.
Stay steeped in your mindset if you like, but the quickest way to velocity is the first derivative, not eight lines of algebra.
I forgot Canada.
I live in Ottawa, Home of Nortel, which before telecom died was one of the bigger telecom companies.
Nice to meet you, I live in Reston, VA, home of another of your empty buildings, along with plenty of empty Teleglobe buildings scattered about.
However, Nextel has a nice "new" building, right down the street from all of AOL's IP addresses (on Sunrise Valley Dr) and along the same road as several Sprint facilities.
Also, the defense contractor that I work for is taking over one of the many empty MCI buildings in the area.
Yea, you might be right, but it is only *some* telcom that seems to be dead, plenty of other markets to hawk your skills.
LOL, well I followed up a few posts down. Seems the gadgets were mislabeled and I am a few dollers to the better for not buying.
As far as cranks go, the novelty of cranking my Grundig FR-200 is winding down. Will be picking up a 4.5VDC charger soon.
Is this sanctioned by the official, self proclaimed, voice of the workers?
When we all have telecommunications like North Korea, Cuba and soon-to-be Venezuela then the workers struggle will be complete!
On a serious note, I am an advocate of teaching The Calculus right after arithmatic. Algebra is almost a complete waste of time as is demonstrated when compairing many algebra problems and the number of steps taught to solve, vs. the "answer one line later" of The Calculus.
Algebra can be relegated to classes dealing with spreadsheets and accounting.
The counter "arguement" I have gotten from Mathematics teachers at all levels boils down to "the proper appreciation of [calc/algebra] will not be gained by teaching them 'out of order'".
Well, sorry teach, I do not recall anything from algebra that was ESSENTIAL for Calc. Not a thing! Plenty of simple arithmatic required resulting in an elegant, precise, answer.
Writtren English is quite another matter.
All the more reason for me to keep my 1996 Jeep Cherokee. If I want a data recorder, I will add one myself. Too bad that CarTune project on Sourceforge fizzled out. Might begin working on this again this summer.
The mic part is where I busted a gut!
Well, a different observation of your arguement. You want tne dealer to tell you that the vehicle is equipped with rubber tires?
Skid marks are a science too, even if you have ABS, when you go sideways your speed can be estimated by the skidmarks on the road.
Correct track, wrong target. Commercial carriers are the only ones required flight data recorders. The people that check them are the federally licensed mechanics (sometimes the feds themselves) that can lose their license if they get caught "fudging".
However, cars have all of that government mandated emissions control crap that is required and is a federal offense to remove/tamper. This intrusion could be extended to the computer, I suspect, in the same manner you outlined since the computer is part of the emmissions control system.
Do you propose to accomplish this shift? Is "re-education the current method or does the barrel of a gun come into play after the last vote?
In your quest for the perfect Socialized community, you are demandind that people with serious investment and a comefortable environment to abandon the suburbs (or even the country) and cause a price spike in 3 bedroom apartments in town. It ain't happening on a voluntary basis, well, not in the US anyway.
Do you also want them to abandon their vehicles or should the market for those just be flooded as these people are "relocated" to the cities and issued Segways (if they have the right connections).
Sorry Big Brother, I am having none of your central planning.
Uhh, the above is an obvious troll. Besides, in 1996 open relays were still common and hardly unacceptable.
No, they were still common and no longer necessary. Are you the Airforce sysadmin that sent me the snotty e-mail?
Cars keep getting in the way of my Jeep and the pickup trucks of my friends.
Hydrogen baby! The fuel of today.
The threat of being blacklisted has not worked yet, so will this finally convince mail server admins to shut down those open relays?"
I seriously doubt it. The one time that I informed a sysadmin that he had an open relay I got back a long e-mail on how "this is the way the internet works", that may have been true in times past but it certainly was no longer true in 1996, and it even seemed a bit snotty.
Now these guys are going to get a letter from the 'lowley' government? LOL, unless it comes from Bill Gates, in most cases, or Linus in others, they will blow it off or try to have a stupid flamewar.
Someone contact Erich von Däniken immediately at his new theme park and inform him? If the Pyramids were too hard for humans to build this 'internet thingie' MUST come from his friends in space!
Ah, then I am glad that I delayed that purchasing decision. I was teetering on whipping out the cc that day and getting the whole package.
Even without that capability $199 is a decent price (in my mind) and $1800 more for a self charging vacume (Electrolux) is just not worth it to me. Still planning on getting a Roomba sometime this summer.
Nope. At the store (not on a website, I looked) they had a SELF CHARGER, yes I know there is a difference because the fast charger was another stack or two over for a different price (neither was exactly $50).
Perhaps it was mis-labeled, on both the sign and the boxes, whatever, but yes I do know the difference between a fast charger and a self charger thank you. They were DIFFERENT (that means they are not the same, in reality).
Thanks for the "instructions" too but I already knew how to recharge a battery.
Roomba has an add-on self charger. Around $50 if I remember, at Bed Bath & Beyond (or was it Linen's and Things? they look identicle to me when I get inside the door).
Do you mean the documentry Crack in the World?
My word, this has been tried before! Well, maybe they saw the same 1965 documentry that I saw and decided against thermonuclear weapons for diggig the hole, but still, same idea.
Additional information here. (Yes, it still cracks me up whenever I read it)
Nope. Has some to do with distribution of earnings and such. The IRS has all sorts of info on it that I have long forgotten (other than the edges) since college.
I thought the NAACP made quite a hefty profit too, if not how do they keep operating with those giant salaries of the top guys?
BTW, the John Burch(sp?) Society (I have never been a member) has never applied for NFP status because they did not want to become dependant on the government telling them how to operate. At least that is what their heads said on C-SPAN during a speech.
Yep, "he US government is Constitutionally prohibited from sanctioning any state religion,== "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." Quite different from recognizing any at all.
Nice response! Well thought, but I believe I responded to this:
So, theoretically, the failure of hundreds of dot-com businesses could have been slowed, or even stopped, by petitioning for IRS Not-for-profit status? Certainly would have been more descriptive of their business practices.
in the paragraph you were responding to. Nope, the dot-coms were for-profit and did not make a profit. Quite a difference from what I wrote.