The people who text while trying to drive are the bad actors here.
Yes, and the texting bans make them more dangerous. Did you even read the link, bro?
Your logic is so flawed you must be insane.
Which is why the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute did the research and publicized it, eh? But AC knows better...
The NY police are making things worse - texting bans increase crashes.
clearly drivers did respond to the bans somehow, and what they might have been doing was moving their phones down and out of sight when they texted, in recognition that what they were doing was illegal. This could exacerbate the risk of texting by taking drivers' eyes further from the road and for a longer time."
But since when did NY ever let data get in the way of a bad law? If it means more revenue, more cops, and someday anti-texting Hummers, then screw the people getting in car crashes.
Oh right! "True libertarianism has never been tried", right?
No, that's a separate issue.
(The present crop of Republicans has certainly been acting like they want to drown the government in a bathtub. )
How? Do you mean spouting off nonsense on TV? Look at their actions - that's all that actually matters - politicians are constant liars so we can only tell what they really think by how they act. Show me one Republican (aside from Amash) that is not voting to expand the size and scope of Government on every voting day. You won't find any, hence they're not libertarians. Or, if they somehow are, they are voting against their conscience and will, but I tend not to believe that they're all being controlled by an evil statist puppet master.
I'm typing this on an Lenovo e-430 with an added mSATA SSD boot drive - you can add one if you get the Centrino wireless option. I got the slowest i5 with AES-NI and VT-d to maximize battery life.
The T-series are nicer, but I can upgrade this one twice as often for the same money.
Oh, and it has a matte screen, which was my #1 criteria.
As to the matter of routing out Ken Thompson Microcode Hacks -- Well, there's answers to that too which are just as expensive.
Doing provably secure is one thing, but just having open, auditable code would be a great leap forward. We can be sure that the AMI BIOS contains bugs and reasonably sure that the NSA has copies of that source in their lab.
Then, maybe somebody can work on taking the open code and working through it one function at a time to secure it.
Neat. That's awfully useful for the Tempest van parked down the street, but for in-house peer to peer leakage you'd need an radio receiver on the other machine.
Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to have SDR's on every device I buy, but this one is a risk worth appreciating.
Chernobyl, commonly considered the worst nuclear disaster, only directly killed 31.
Stop that. Everybody can recognize that "directly killed" is a weasel word. You can honestly compare cancers due to coal plant deaths with the real numbers from Chernobyl and Fukushima and still have a good argument.
Posting this crap as AC just makes your side of the argument... oh... hello paid opposition from the coal industry!
And there's the cold hard truth of the matter. The problem then becomes doubling down and expecting the same pack of liars to come up with something better. Eventually we'll realize we shouldn't trust them at all and deploy systems to our defense (likely economic) that do not require any trust at all to operate effectively.
If you're gonna do paranoid, you might as well do it right.
What's the point? We all know that Intel puts special logic in that changes the operation of the CPU given certain parameters. That's why Intel RdRand isn't directly accessible but has to be accessed through the hashing logic unit. That way They just have to sneak in a small bit of malware that will hose up your RNG and then your keys can be trivially cracked into the future.
Then we have the news that GCC has been compromised for years, and all of the linux distros need to be completely recompiled (that's gonna hurt the mirrors).
(apply Poe's Law liberally but don't miss the broader point)
Why would you trust the MicroSD controller to not inject a known attack when presented with a special sequence of input that can be hidden in a filesystem structure?
And each of these failures derive from a common, unavoidable cause: humans.
Humans are the cause of all of our problems (other than weather and beast-eats-man stories). The problem with nuclear is that for most cases humans have evolved systems to deal with these risks. In monetary terms, we call that insurance.
But we have nuclear where the US and Japanese governments have said, "don't worry about it, we'll take care of the insurance". Throw in a little bit of corruption, and voila, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Daiachi.
You've probably heard about the ancient stones up the hill from the Fukushima plant that say, "do not build below this point". But who cares? If there's a problem the government will handle it.
Consider instead an insurer that would have to pay out for any damage that the plant caused. Doing something stupid like building a nuclear plant in a flood zone is potentially going to cost that insurer its entire business -- no client is worth that. So it doesn't happen.
But with government "insurance", you just need to grease the right palms and everything gets done "efficiently".
Every power source has risks - nuclear just has the lowest risks of all of them, and that's true even given the absurd 1950's reactors that are running. If they were privately insured, all the light water reactors would get shut down and replaced with pebble bed reactors or integral fast reactors and then we'd have plenty of safe carbon-free power that would last us until fusion can be brought online.
So, basically Hamiltonians, in the American parlance?
It sounds like they recognize that a system that has hundreds to thousands of rulers is fundamentally flawed, but then they double down on that error by insisting on drastically reducing that number. They need to realize that distribution of power, not centralization, is the way to fix the problems they recognize.
I'm surprised that a company that apparently gets 90% of its revenue from non-digital sources is held up as an example of how to get money from digital sources.
They literally don't know what they're doing. I used to read the occasional link from them and thus be exposed to their ads (I don't ad-block static ads). But recently they've started to require cookies to be set to view anything, so I get a login page (I do have an account, but have stopped using it). On the login page, they have a link to a privacy policy that says they do not track users and do not require cookies.
Fascinating topic, but I can see why it's difficult to land a job. I don't know how you could create your own job in Cosmology, but BadAstronomer managed to do it. Perhaps you could think along those lines and find a way to stay near your family and also do what you love.
2013 was the quietest tornado season on record. Don't make shit up to try to win an argument. Try instead explaining how the heat in the climate shifts around from one region of the plant to another from year to year. You do have an accurate model for that, right?
So.. AGW is not real because you don't like the proposed courses of action that might help counter it. Got it.
Everybody can see that you're twisting his meaning, which just gives more ammo to those who do not believe the AGW models. "See, they can't even engage in honest debate!".
That's why it's a Science Cafe - which is about outreach and discussion - and not a university lecture.
OK, so rule #1 of outreach - don't mock the people you're trying to reach. Check out an IMAX film for an idea of how to do entertainment and science at the same time. There's a reason they're so popular at science centers (I mean real IMAX...).
Sounds like the museum director made the right call here.
We've made progress since then. Now, if I do something that my Thinkpad's power manager didn't expect, I need to reboot into Windows and launch the Thinkpad Power Manager app. That's it, then retreat back to safety, but then the battery will start charging again.
Right. If he's black, he'll probably just get a beating right there on the roadside, and probably charged for assaulting the officer's fist with his face.
We've been working hard to pass a "No Victim, No Crime" statute here in NH. No success so far, but even being defeated is a good illustration of what government has become, vs. what it's purported to be for.
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The people who text while trying to drive are the bad actors here.
Yes, and the texting bans make them more dangerous. Did you even read the link, bro?
Your logic is so flawed you must be insane.
Which is why the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute did the research and publicized it, eh? But AC knows better...
The NY police are making things worse - texting bans increase crashes.
But since when did NY ever let data get in the way of a bad law? If it means more revenue, more cops, and someday anti-texting Hummers, then screw the people getting in car crashes.
Oh right! "True libertarianism has never been tried", right?
No, that's a separate issue.
(The present crop of Republicans has certainly been acting like they want to drown the government in a bathtub. )
How? Do you mean spouting off nonsense on TV? Look at their actions - that's all that actually matters - politicians are constant liars so we can only tell what they really think by how they act. Show me one Republican (aside from Amash) that is not voting to expand the size and scope of Government on every voting day. You won't find any, hence they're not libertarians. Or, if they somehow are, they are voting against their conscience and will, but I tend not to believe that they're all being controlled by an evil statist puppet master.
I'm typing this on an Lenovo e-430 with an added mSATA SSD boot drive - you can add one if you get the Centrino wireless option. I got the slowest i5 with AES-NI and VT-d to maximize battery life.
The T-series are nicer, but I can upgrade this one twice as often for the same money.
Oh, and it has a matte screen, which was my #1 criteria.
Thanks guys (and gals if there are any working on this) for making my life harder...
If it's nothing new, why does it make your life harder? Ah-ha!
As to the matter of routing out Ken Thompson Microcode Hacks -- Well, there's answers to that too which are just as expensive.
Doing provably secure is one thing, but just having open, auditable code would be a great leap forward. We can be sure that the AMI BIOS contains bugs and reasonably sure that the NSA has copies of that source in their lab.
Then, maybe somebody can work on taking the open code and working through it one function at a time to secure it.
Neat. That's awfully useful for the Tempest van parked down the street, but for in-house peer to peer leakage you'd need an radio receiver on the other machine.
Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to have SDR's on every device I buy, but this one is a risk worth appreciating.
Chernobyl, commonly considered the worst nuclear disaster, only directly killed 31.
Stop that. Everybody can recognize that "directly killed" is a weasel word. You can honestly compare cancers due to coal plant deaths with the real numbers from Chernobyl and Fukushima and still have a good argument.
Posting this crap as AC just makes your side of the argument ... oh ... hello paid opposition from the coal industry!
without a pack of proven liars running it
And there's the cold hard truth of the matter. The problem then becomes doubling down and expecting the same pack of liars to come up with something better. Eventually we'll realize we shouldn't trust them at all and deploy systems to our defense (likely economic) that do not require any trust at all to operate effectively.
If you're gonna do paranoid, you might as well do it right.
What's the point? We all know that Intel puts special logic in that changes the operation of the CPU given certain parameters. That's why Intel RdRand isn't directly accessible but has to be accessed through the hashing logic unit. That way They just have to sneak in a small bit of malware that will hose up your RNG and then your keys can be trivially cracked into the future.
Then we have the news that GCC has been compromised for years, and all of the linux distros need to be completely recompiled (that's gonna hurt the mirrors).
(apply Poe's Law liberally but don't miss the broader point)
a MicroSD card slot for the OS
Why would you trust the MicroSD controller to not inject a known attack when presented with a special sequence of input that can be hidden in a filesystem structure?
And each of these failures derive from a common, unavoidable cause: humans.
Humans are the cause of all of our problems (other than weather and beast-eats-man stories). The problem with nuclear is that for most cases humans have evolved systems to deal with these risks. In monetary terms, we call that insurance.
But we have nuclear where the US and Japanese governments have said, "don't worry about it, we'll take care of the insurance". Throw in a little bit of corruption, and voila, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Daiachi.
You've probably heard about the ancient stones up the hill from the Fukushima plant that say, "do not build below this point". But who cares? If there's a problem the government will handle it.
Consider instead an insurer that would have to pay out for any damage that the plant caused. Doing something stupid like building a nuclear plant in a flood zone is potentially going to cost that insurer its entire business -- no client is worth that. So it doesn't happen.
But with government "insurance", you just need to grease the right palms and everything gets done "efficiently".
Every power source has risks - nuclear just has the lowest risks of all of them, and that's true even given the absurd 1950's reactors that are running. If they were privately insured, all the light water reactors would get shut down and replaced with pebble bed reactors or integral fast reactors and then we'd have plenty of safe carbon-free power that would last us until fusion can be brought online.
Quite an ad for someone offering any protection from this, but if confirmed - very interesting.
And now you know why infosec hackers play thrash metal all the time.
So, basically Hamiltonians, in the American parlance?
It sounds like they recognize that a system that has hundreds to thousands of rulers is fundamentally flawed, but then they double down on that error by insisting on drastically reducing that number. They need to realize that distribution of power, not centralization, is the way to fix the problems they recognize.
(Note: Tea Partiers and Libertarians want other people to spend less. They, themselves, are by far the worst of the pork barrel spenders.)
Who do you think are the Libertarians in Congress? The only one I know of is Justin Amash.
You do realize that Tea Partiers and Libertarians differ on about 50% of the issues, right?
I'm surprised that a company that apparently gets 90% of its revenue from non-digital sources is held up as an example of how to get money from digital sources.
They literally don't know what they're doing. I used to read the occasional link from them and thus be exposed to their ads (I don't ad-block static ads). But recently they've started to require cookies to be set to view anything, so I get a login page (I do have an account, but have stopped using it). On the login page, they have a link to a privacy policy that says they do not track users and do not require cookies.
Whatever, there are plenty of other news sources.
Fascinating topic, but I can see why it's difficult to land a job. I don't know how you could create your own job in Cosmology, but BadAstronomer managed to do it. Perhaps you could think along those lines and find a way to stay near your family and also do what you love.
So yeah, denialists, record tornado seasons
2013 was the quietest tornado season on record. Don't make shit up to try to win an argument. Try instead explaining how the heat in the climate shifts around from one region of the plant to another from year to year. You do have an accurate model for that, right?
I looked around - didn't find any.
Holy cow - you need to listen to some of the audio coming out of Poland right now. Start with the Phillipines rep who is on hunger strike.
So.. AGW is not real because you don't like the proposed courses of action that might help counter it. Got it.
Everybody can see that you're twisting his meaning, which just gives more ammo to those who do not believe the AGW models. "See, they can't even engage in honest debate!".
That's why it's a Science Cafe - which is about outreach and discussion - and not a university lecture.
OK, so rule #1 of outreach - don't mock the people you're trying to reach. Check out an IMAX film for an idea of how to do entertainment and science at the same time. There's a reason they're so popular at science centers (I mean real IMAX...).
Sounds like the museum director made the right call here.
. If they had stuck with a manual door handle and a push start button for the engine, then the idle power issue would never have come up
And also made it interesting for people who live in environments where ice comes out of the sky.
But, hey, I realize it's good marketing, and sales volume is more important than market penetration now.
We've made progress since then. Now, if I do something that my Thinkpad's power manager didn't expect, I need to reboot into Windows and launch the Thinkpad Power Manager app. That's it, then retreat back to safety, but then the battery will start charging again.
Right. If he's black, he'll probably just get a beating right there on the roadside, and probably charged for assaulting the officer's fist with his face.
We've been working hard to pass a "No Victim, No Crime" statute here in NH. No success so far, but even being defeated is a good illustration of what government has become, vs. what it's purported to be for.