Myself, I wouldn't want to work where I wasn't wanted. Eventually they'll find a way to get rid of you.
I've seen it go poorly with union jobs. It wasn't me directly, it was through observation. A grocery store chain was on strike. Those who were very visible and had decent jobs did go back to work after the strike was over. They didn't get their good jobs back. For example, a full time manager became a part time bagger. Someone in the office ended up on a loading dock.
It's not hard to get rid of someone you don't want. I've seen a lot of places that will reduce a full time person down to part time (4 hours) 1 day per week. If you don't get the hint from that, you just won't get scheduled for the next week. You're not technically unemployed, you just don't happen to be working. A 4 hour/week check looks really pathetic beside a 40 hour/week check with overtime. Maybe they'll change your shifts frequently, or bounce you between tasks until they find a task you simply don't want to do, or are unskilled to do, or are even physically incapable of doing. At one chain I knew about a person who was striving for senior management. As part of their training, they were sent to various stores, and had to work every department. After 3 months away from home, they ended up in a loading area, where they were required to lift and carry 75 pound containers. The individual was about 5'3, weighed about 100 lbs, and simply couldn't do it. Since she wasn't able to accomplish it, she was terminated from the company, because she could not do the job she was assigned to. That's when she clued into the fact that she was being indirectly told that she wasn't welcome becoming senior management, and they were just encouraging her to quit.
Pro's.. It shows that you have a plan, and can demonstrate the steps completed and what is pending.
Con's.. Some folks just want a report saying it's done. They can't or won't be bothered to read the whiteboard. A lot of times, the screamers will just scream, regardless of what coherent data you can provide.
I'm a big fan of whiteboarding. Not just for drawing circles and nonsensical information to make it look like I'm smart. It's very useful as an aid that won't be a piece of paper to be accidentally shuffled away. At very least, I can point and try to explain things, but it frequently causes glazed over looks. But for me, it gives me a good way to track what I'm doing, and it's a wonderful feeling of accomplishment to change the status of a particularly troublesome piece.
In the past, I've had a list of tasks mandated by the CEO directly spelled out clearly on my whiteboard. Other folks will come in and demand their pet problem takes priority, so I've pointed at the whiteboard. "These came down from the CEO as priority over everything else." They don't care, and demand their pet project be done first, even though the list is clearly a business priority, not a wild hair up the CEO's butt. I let them play the game for about a minute, and finally give in and say, "If you can get the CEO to tell me to make your pet problem a priority over his, I'll stop working on those items and do yours." Oddly enough, at no job have I ever had the CEO come and ask me to change my priorities. I make my own decisions, and I understand the business needs. My interest is the best interest of the company I'm working for. If the company fails, I'm out of work. If some annoying twit has a pet problem that fails, but isn't a business priority, I won't be walking away from a company that just went under.
Cars with power steering are inherently harder to steer when the power steering fails. It's just the design of it. You're expected to have the advantage of the hydraulic pump to assist. But ya, you can still do it. I was talking to a friend of the neighbor. His truck (late 90's Chevy Silverado) lost it's power steering almost a year ago. He's still driving it like that, because he's a kid and can't afford to get it fixed. Me, I like my creature comforts, including air conditioning and power steering.:)
Your stories remind me of my first long drive. I was 16 or 17, on I-75, somewhere between nowhere, and nowhere in Georgia.
I was cruising along at 65mph, and suddenly the engine stopped. I tossed it in neutral, and tried to figure out what to do quick. It wouldn't restart, so now my options are down to how far can I get without an engine.
There was an exit very close by, so I did perfectly legal lane changes, made the ramp (uphill, unfortunately), rolled the stop sign at the top, and into the gas station across the intersection. It was totally dumb luck that it had the inertia to make it there. I called home, told them the car broke, and then asked the shop for help. They looked it over, and it turned out the fuel filter was plugged up. $10 and 20 minutes later, I was on my way home. They took pity on me, since I was obviously a long way from home with not much money.
Still, with not too much experience driving, and being very young, it was easy to do.
That not only applies to game development. That applies everywhere. Don't promise deadlines that you can't comfortably achieve.
I've been pushed to give impractical goals. I can't even count the number of times that I've been thrown an idea (not a plan), and been pushed for a deadline. "Will this be done in a month?" You simply can't give an answer to that. One job, it was with some unusual hardware. The pieces slowly rolled in, and each one presented it's own set of problems that set my personal timeline back. I keep my own personal set of expectations, but I won't promise these as a real life timeline. The expected timeline is usually 3x as long, with a list of caveats attached. If everything goes smooth, great. It'll be finished in 1/3 the promised time. If it doesn't? Well, you should have enough room to work in (hopefully). Sometimes a hard problem becomes an impossible one. A recent one involved a hardware fault, and the vendor reproduced it, but wasn't able to solve it. That required going another route, which pushed that step back to the beginning.
You have to work what is practical for you. If you can do 50 hours/week, do it. If you may want to actually have a social life and not get burnt out before you're 30, do the 40 hours and go home. Unfortunately, this can give the sign that you aren't willing to work hard enough.
I've driven quite a few vehicles that had engine failures at speed. Steering works normally until you're down to single digit speeds. Brakes work while there's a vacuum, but even still you can stop without the vacuum assist.
You obviously haven't driven a vehicle where the belt broke (no power steering) or it ran out of gas (no power steering or brakes).
The last time this happened, the car overheated at 75mph (road debris blocked the radiator), so I drove most of the way to the nearest exit with the engine off. It wasn't a big deal until I had to turn at the bottom of an offramp, and didn't have power steering. And yes, it was a modern car.
I believe that was 10% incorrectly. So, we could assume it to be:
10% of the patients tested positive and did NOT have PTSD 10% of the patients tested negative but DID have PTSD or even. 10% did not believe they had PTSD, but actually did.
They'll need a much better sample group to get some real numbers with. 10% is 30 people. They could have been wrong, undiagnosed previously, or lied for whatever reason. Some people don't want to talk about their pains. Our inner demons are best kept inside.
They're pretty excited that their teams of engineers have built a rail system, that a petri dish with slime mold and oats could design in 24 hours.
On the other hand, I compared it to Kanto rail map, and while there are similarities, there are many differences too. I'm pretty sure a 2 year old can drawn the Tokyo subway map. It all looks like squiggles to me.:)
That's not exactly a "list", but it does make a good way to test if an IP is an exit point.
I don't know about your assertion on child porn and piracy. There was a story not too long ago about how particular agencies were using TOR, and their mail passwords were compromised because they were sent plaintext, and exit nodes got them by sniffing the traffic.
Ya, silly me, I'm too nice to do such illegal things.:)
There were a few choice people I would have liked to terminate their employment though. It would have been funny when they didn't get paychecks any more.:) I'm sure the list of "suspects" would have been huge, but I'd always be in the top 10%. I'm fairly sure that the others who would be prime suspects thought the same way.
I love your sarcasm. I hope that was sarcasm.:) If not, check out any of the modern distros.
I still like Slackware for it's simplicity. It's not exactly a GUI, but it installs fast, even when selecting the "everything (warning: install is about 4Gb)" install.
The good part about the support is, we aren't dependent on you.
Plenty of Windows folks come to me for help, and I help them. Some get the friends & family rate. Some get the full contractor rate. They should go to Microsoft with some of their problems, and Microsoft would frequently say "sorry, that's an application problem, go away."
Linux folks come to me too. They don't always have to. For most of their problems, they can check out the forums for *any* distro and find the answer. They could even pay for the service, and still get the answer.
For Windows folks, I usually have to start up a remote session, and point & click for 20 minutes to resolve it. For Linux folks, I can frequently send them a couple lines of code.
It's not that the Linux folks are smarter. That's not always the case. It's just that the problems are easier to fix.
A guy called me a few days ago. He's fluent in both Windows and Linux. He couldn't remove the partitions on a drive to install onto. The Windows installer simply refused. He tried under Linux, and it showed that it removed the partitions, but Windows insisted they still existed. Off the top of my head, I had him use dd to wipe out the beginning of the drive (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1000). That got rid of the MBR, partition table, and some of the beginning of the data space. Voila, problem solved. I have no idea why Windows didn't understand it, but it resolved his problem. And no, it wasn't some weird Linux problem. The drive had been used for WinXP before, and he was installing a fresh copy of WinXP. The old WinXP install had 4 partitions, and he only wanted 1. I don't know what had been done before. He inherited the problem. It was a lot easier to call me for the favor and quick fix, than MS support and pay for it. He'll pay me in trade eventually, so I didn't really lose anything. Favors are a wonderful thing, as long as they can be called in eventually.:)
Ideally, everyone that runs a client is an exit node too. But, much like an open AP on your network, when the police come knocking at your door, just saying "But, I was just connected to Tor" isn't going to be much of a defense. It may work in court, but you may be waiting a long time for that day to come.
Technically, it can't be. But since most of the exit points are pretty well known, it's not all that hard. If more people made themselves exit points, rather than just taking advantage of the network, that problem would go away.
I've tried Slashdot. It's been a matter of switching exit points until you find one that isn't forbidden. Google is really on top of it though. I suspect they may have a tie-in with the network map, so they know the exit points as they come and go.
On the Garmin vehicle units I've used, you can touch the speed display, and it'll bring up a dash with your direction, speed, and altitude, along with some other stuff. I'd like it as a transparent overlay on the map though.
I'm hoping since Nokia is offering theirs as open source, it'll be installable elsewhere. I had written my own code for showing a full dash (alt, speed, direction, coordinates, # satellites locked, etc), with the data uploading to my web server along with two camera feeds (front and rear view) via a Verizon wireless card. My car doesn't have a good place to mount anything, unless I remove the radio and put a CarPC in it's place. I'm not quite dedicated to the car PC idea quite yet. I've used it with a laptop running in the passenger seat. The closest I've found is a floor mount for a laptop, and that still eliminates the possibility for a passenger to ride along comfortably.
A friend of mine did his car, which has worked out well for him. Well, except for the fact that his mapping software doesn't keep updated as well as the commercial units, and he's had some hard drive faults. I liked the Garmin Mobile PC software for Windows. I haven't successfully tested it under Linux yet, but I've read reports that it can work under Wine with a bit of encouragement. My software can run under Windows or Linux (no, no SF project yet), but unless you can use GPSd with the mapping software, it requires a second GPS receiver.
Better than that. One place I worked, they assigned passwords for a payroll/HR site. Once assigned, there was no way to change it. Their method was:
[first initial][last name][last 4 of your SSN]
So, mine would have been...
jsmythe0000
If I had switched to our office's HR persons account, I could have fired everyone.:) There were other options. I could have given raises, demoted people, dropped their health insurance, or signed them up for the most expensive coverage. Most folks weren't paid that well, so signing them up for full health coverage would have made them OWE the company at the end of each week.:)
From what I've seen, you hacks are becoming few and far between. So many papers have become rehashes of AP, Reuters, and UPI, that once you've read one, you've read them all. It's really very sad.
Quite a few times, I've gone looking for more details on a story. All I can find are which papers hacked their copy down, and which ones left it intact. If I remember right, AP charges by the word that's reprinted, so if they can get away with 2 paragraphs instead of the original 10, they'll do it. Unfortunately, it leaves out a lot of good writing.... and for those who don't know the business, the wire services buy a story from a local media source, and then redistribute it. They also have their own staff writers, which saves them money. It's really hurt the uniqueness of various outlets though. Sometimes it's impractical, like if something happened in rural North Dakota, it's unlikely more than one outlet would show up to cover it. But even local stories in big cities just get recycled between all the media outlets. It's cheaper to recycle it, than send your own reporters out to dig up more information on the same story. {sigh}
But, to be on topic, there were quite a few major newspapers that died in the last year or so. They had all seen that a pay online version simply didn't make it, even though you could get the online story faster.
I was a witness to a local news event. I spoke with a reporter about my limited observations. I wasn't that interesting, but hey. By the time I got back to the office, someone told me that I was already in the story on their site. I watched the story grow over the next few hours, until it was about 10 paragraphs long, with all the details included. I was still curious, because even going to it didn't answer the question of "WTF just happened?". I watched the reporter walk around talking to people, and when I left, she had just gotten a hold of the person involved.
13,000 pictures of the surface of mars, and still no clear photos of the aliens. It's a coverup I tell you. The government doesn't want us to know the truth! They're hiding it until they can take these natural resources for themselves. It's the man taking away from us what rightfully belongs to all of us! If you let them get their way, well, just be left with these.
Because people will find an arbitrary reason to mod things particular ways. Someone obviously didn't like what I wrote.
I know people complain about the "moderators", but they usually haven't been here long enough to know, we're all the moderators. You can't please everyone all the time, so I don't worry about getting modded down occasionally. It's just someone who's being pissy. Since they aren't here to smack on the back of the head and say "what were you thinking", I don't let it stress me.:)
Ya, it's not news. It sounds like a potato cannon without the potato, firing at 100 pulses per minute. Pretty interesting that they're getting that kind of rate, but still, obviously dangerous.
There's a reason a concussion grenade works, and it's not always shrapnel. I'm guessing the 10m deadly zone is directly downrange of the cannon, not beside or behind it. It's still a contained explosion, so all the force goes one direction, rather than disbursing in all directions.
Rapid sequence concussions can effect the action of the heart (induced arrhythmia), or a variety of other problems similar to being hit by something. So it's a concussion, not a projectile. Still obviously deadly. Folks know, don't shoot at people unless you want them dead, and that includes firing blanks.
There are others besides searching on Google, and Google Ads. You forgot about Google Analytics, and embedded "site" Google Searches. They show up in most pages these days. How about when someone embeds a YouTube video? They bought Doubleclick a few years ago, so there's another datamining source.
Google is embedded in enough places to make themselves rather difficult to avoid.
You are quite likely right, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more than just a few intelligence and/or law enforcement agencies with either a well negotiated (strong NDA applied), or they have someone inside already to provide the data.
The organized rebellion is coming. It's just a matter of how it goes in the first few days. There aren't many people out there, that could organize a group large enough to make a serious stand. In all reality, it'll turn out like Ruby Ridge, or Waco.
Excuse me, a black van just drove up, and a nice man in a black suit is knocking at the door. I'm sure he's just lost and is asking for directions.
But in some cases, the drugs only exist because of the condition, which was caused by modern lifestyles.
I found this study which shows a marked increase in mortality due to diabetes between 1840 to 1970. Most of the increases happened between 1880 to 1911, when refined sugars and fatty foods were introduced. I've seen other studies that reflect this also.
The cure could become virtually unnecessary if the cause was removed, rather than profiting from the treatment.
I won't argue against what you're saying, but do you have a citation for that?
There are an awful lot of urban legends going around, and I don't like getting caught repeating any of them as fact.
Most statistics regarding weight loss usually carry the disclaimer "with proper diet and exercise." You could lose weight eating one candybar every day, if you backed that up with an otherwise good diet and exercise.:)
You didn't have a good look at the list, did you? Any sort of weapon seems to count.:)
It seems exclusive to pistol size weapons, until you see 12,8,7,4. They're not all powered by a directed chemical reaction. 11 shows that it never had to be made as a prop for a flesh and blood movie either.
I'd say the unit would have to be contained within the piece being carried in your hands, but since 7 has an unlicensed nuclear accelerator in a backpack, that does away with that idea.
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Myself, I wouldn't want to work where I wasn't wanted. Eventually they'll find a way to get rid of you.
I've seen it go poorly with union jobs. It wasn't me directly, it was through observation. A grocery store chain was on strike. Those who were very visible and had decent jobs did go back to work after the strike was over. They didn't get their good jobs back. For example, a full time manager became a part time bagger. Someone in the office ended up on a loading dock.
It's not hard to get rid of someone you don't want. I've seen a lot of places that will reduce a full time person down to part time (4 hours) 1 day per week. If you don't get the hint from that, you just won't get scheduled for the next week. You're not technically unemployed, you just don't happen to be working. A 4 hour/week check looks really pathetic beside a 40 hour/week check with overtime. Maybe they'll change your shifts frequently, or bounce you between tasks until they find a task you simply don't want to do, or are unskilled to do, or are even physically incapable of doing. At one chain I knew about a person who was striving for senior management. As part of their training, they were sent to various stores, and had to work every department. After 3 months away from home, they ended up in a loading area, where they were required to lift and carry 75 pound containers. The individual was about 5'3, weighed about 100 lbs, and simply couldn't do it. Since she wasn't able to accomplish it, she was terminated from the company, because she could not do the job she was assigned to. That's when she clued into the fact that she was being indirectly told that she wasn't welcome becoming senior management, and they were just encouraging her to quit.
This has pro's and con's.
Pro's.. It shows that you have a plan, and can demonstrate the steps completed and what is pending.
Con's.. Some folks just want a report saying it's done. They can't or won't be bothered to read the whiteboard. A lot of times, the screamers will just scream, regardless of what coherent data you can provide.
I'm a big fan of whiteboarding. Not just for drawing circles and nonsensical information to make it look like I'm smart. It's very useful as an aid that won't be a piece of paper to be accidentally shuffled away. At very least, I can point and try to explain things, but it frequently causes glazed over looks. But for me, it gives me a good way to track what I'm doing, and it's a wonderful feeling of accomplishment to change the status of a particularly troublesome piece.
In the past, I've had a list of tasks mandated by the CEO directly spelled out clearly on my whiteboard. Other folks will come in and demand their pet problem takes priority, so I've pointed at the whiteboard. "These came down from the CEO as priority over everything else." They don't care, and demand their pet project be done first, even though the list is clearly a business priority, not a wild hair up the CEO's butt. I let them play the game for about a minute, and finally give in and say, "If you can get the CEO to tell me to make your pet problem a priority over his, I'll stop working on those items and do yours." Oddly enough, at no job have I ever had the CEO come and ask me to change my priorities. I make my own decisions, and I understand the business needs. My interest is the best interest of the company I'm working for. If the company fails, I'm out of work. If some annoying twit has a pet problem that fails, but isn't a business priority, I won't be walking away from a company that just went under.
Cars with power steering are inherently harder to steer when the power steering fails. It's just the design of it. You're expected to have the advantage of the hydraulic pump to assist. But ya, you can still do it. I was talking to a friend of the neighbor. His truck (late 90's Chevy Silverado) lost it's power steering almost a year ago. He's still driving it like that, because he's a kid and can't afford to get it fixed. Me, I like my creature comforts, including air conditioning and power steering. :)
Your stories remind me of my first long drive. I was 16 or 17, on I-75, somewhere between nowhere, and nowhere in Georgia.
I was cruising along at 65mph, and suddenly the engine stopped. I tossed it in neutral, and tried to figure out what to do quick. It wouldn't restart, so now my options are down to how far can I get without an engine.
There was an exit very close by, so I did perfectly legal lane changes, made the ramp (uphill, unfortunately), rolled the stop sign at the top, and into the gas station across the intersection. It was totally dumb luck that it had the inertia to make it there. I called home, told them the car broke, and then asked the shop for help. They looked it over, and it turned out the fuel filter was plugged up. $10 and 20 minutes later, I was on my way home. They took pity on me, since I was obviously a long way from home with not much money.
Still, with not too much experience driving, and being very young, it was easy to do.
That not only applies to game development. That applies everywhere. Don't promise deadlines that you can't comfortably achieve.
I've been pushed to give impractical goals. I can't even count the number of times that I've been thrown an idea (not a plan), and been pushed for a deadline. "Will this be done in a month?" You simply can't give an answer to that. One job, it was with some unusual hardware. The pieces slowly rolled in, and each one presented it's own set of problems that set my personal timeline back. I keep my own personal set of expectations, but I won't promise these as a real life timeline. The expected timeline is usually 3x as long, with a list of caveats attached. If everything goes smooth, great. It'll be finished in 1/3 the promised time. If it doesn't? Well, you should have enough room to work in (hopefully). Sometimes a hard problem becomes an impossible one. A recent one involved a hardware fault, and the vendor reproduced it, but wasn't able to solve it. That required going another route, which pushed that step back to the beginning.
You have to work what is practical for you. If you can do 50 hours/week, do it. If you may want to actually have a social life and not get burnt out before you're 30, do the 40 hours and go home. Unfortunately, this can give the sign that you aren't willing to work hard enough.
I've driven quite a few vehicles that had engine failures at speed. Steering works normally until you're down to single digit speeds. Brakes work while there's a vacuum, but even still you can stop without the vacuum assist.
You obviously haven't driven a vehicle where the belt broke (no power steering) or it ran out of gas (no power steering or brakes).
The last time this happened, the car overheated at 75mph (road debris blocked the radiator), so I drove most of the way to the nearest exit with the engine off. It wasn't a big deal until I had to turn at the bottom of an offramp, and didn't have power steering. And yes, it was a modern car.
I believe that was 10% incorrectly. So, we could assume it to be:
10% of the patients tested positive and did NOT have PTSD
10% of the patients tested negative but DID have PTSD
or even.
10% did not believe they had PTSD, but actually did.
They'll need a much better sample group to get some real numbers with. 10% is 30 people. They could have been wrong, undiagnosed previously, or lied for whatever reason. Some people don't want to talk about their pains. Our inner demons are best kept inside.
I'd be pretty sure that they were.
They're pretty excited that their teams of engineers have built a rail system, that a petri dish with slime mold and oats could design in 24 hours.
On the other hand, I compared it to Kanto rail map, and while there are similarities, there are many differences too. I'm pretty sure a 2 year old can drawn the Tokyo subway map. It all looks like squiggles to me. :)
That's not exactly a "list", but it does make a good way to test if an IP is an exit point.
I don't know about your assertion on child porn and piracy. There was a story not too long ago about how particular agencies were using TOR, and their mail passwords were compromised because they were sent plaintext, and exit nodes got them by sniffing the traffic.
Ya, silly me, I'm too nice to do such illegal things. :)
There were a few choice people I would have liked to terminate their employment though. It would have been funny when they didn't get paychecks any more. :) I'm sure the list of "suspects" would have been huge, but I'd always be in the top 10%. I'm fairly sure that the others who would be prime suspects thought the same way.
I love your sarcasm. I hope that was sarcasm. :) If not, check out any of the modern distros.
I still like Slackware for it's simplicity. It's not exactly a GUI, but it installs fast, even when selecting the "everything (warning: install is about 4Gb)" install.
The good part about the support is, we aren't dependent on you.
Plenty of Windows folks come to me for help, and I help them. Some get the friends & family rate. Some get the full contractor rate. They should go to Microsoft with some of their problems, and Microsoft would frequently say "sorry, that's an application problem, go away."
Linux folks come to me too. They don't always have to. For most of their problems, they can check out the forums for *any* distro and find the answer. They could even pay for the service, and still get the answer.
For Windows folks, I usually have to start up a remote session, and point & click for 20 minutes to resolve it. For Linux folks, I can frequently send them a couple lines of code.
It's not that the Linux folks are smarter. That's not always the case. It's just that the problems are easier to fix.
A guy called me a few days ago. He's fluent in both Windows and Linux. He couldn't remove the partitions on a drive to install onto. The Windows installer simply refused. He tried under Linux, and it showed that it removed the partitions, but Windows insisted they still existed. Off the top of my head, I had him use dd to wipe out the beginning of the drive (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1000). That got rid of the MBR, partition table, and some of the beginning of the data space. Voila, problem solved. I have no idea why Windows didn't understand it, but it resolved his problem. And no, it wasn't some weird Linux problem. The drive had been used for WinXP before, and he was installing a fresh copy of WinXP. The old WinXP install had 4 partitions, and he only wanted 1. I don't know what had been done before. He inherited the problem. It was a lot easier to call me for the favor and quick fix, than MS support and pay for it. He'll pay me in trade eventually, so I didn't really lose anything. Favors are a wonderful thing, as long as they can be called in eventually. :)
Ideally, everyone that runs a client is an exit node too. But, much like an open AP on your network, when the police come knocking at your door, just saying "But, I was just connected to Tor" isn't going to be much of a defense. It may work in court, but you may be waiting a long time for that day to come.
Technically, it can't be. But since most of the exit points are pretty well known, it's not all that hard. If more people made themselves exit points, rather than just taking advantage of the network, that problem would go away.
I've tried Slashdot. It's been a matter of switching exit points until you find one that isn't forbidden. Google is really on top of it though. I suspect they may have a tie-in with the network map, so they know the exit points as they come and go.
On the Garmin vehicle units I've used, you can touch the speed display, and it'll bring up a dash with your direction, speed, and altitude, along with some other stuff. I'd like it as a transparent overlay on the map though.
I'm hoping since Nokia is offering theirs as open source, it'll be installable elsewhere. I had written my own code for showing a full dash (alt, speed, direction, coordinates, # satellites locked, etc), with the data uploading to my web server along with two camera feeds (front and rear view) via a Verizon wireless card. My car doesn't have a good place to mount anything, unless I remove the radio and put a CarPC in it's place. I'm not quite dedicated to the car PC idea quite yet. I've used it with a laptop running in the passenger seat. The closest I've found is a floor mount for a laptop, and that still eliminates the possibility for a passenger to ride along comfortably.
A friend of mine did his car, which has worked out well for him. Well, except for the fact that his mapping software doesn't keep updated as well as the commercial units, and he's had some hard drive faults. I liked the Garmin Mobile PC software for Windows. I haven't successfully tested it under Linux yet, but I've read reports that it can work under Wine with a bit of encouragement. My software can run under Windows or Linux (no, no SF project yet), but unless you can use GPSd with the mapping software, it requires a second GPS receiver.
Better than that. One place I worked, they assigned passwords for a payroll/HR site. Once assigned, there was no way to change it. Their method was:
[first initial][last name][last 4 of your SSN]
So, mine would have been...
jsmythe0000
If I had switched to our office's HR persons account, I could have fired everyone. :) There were other options. I could have given raises, demoted people, dropped their health insurance, or signed them up for the most expensive coverage. Most folks weren't paid that well, so signing them up for full health coverage would have made them OWE the company at the end of each week. :)
From what I've seen, you hacks are becoming few and far between. So many papers have become rehashes of AP, Reuters, and UPI, that once you've read one, you've read them all. It's really very sad.
Quite a few times, I've gone looking for more details on a story. All I can find are which papers hacked their copy down, and which ones left it intact. If I remember right, AP charges by the word that's reprinted, so if they can get away with 2 paragraphs instead of the original 10, they'll do it. Unfortunately, it leaves out a lot of good writing. ... and for those who don't know the business, the wire services buy a story from a local media source, and then redistribute it. They also have their own staff writers, which saves them money. It's really hurt the uniqueness of various outlets though. Sometimes it's impractical, like if something happened in rural North Dakota, it's unlikely more than one outlet would show up to cover it. But even local stories in big cities just get recycled between all the media outlets. It's cheaper to recycle it, than send your own reporters out to dig up more information on the same story. {sigh}
But, to be on topic, there were quite a few major newspapers that died in the last year or so. They had all seen that a pay online version simply didn't make it, even though you could get the online story faster.
I was a witness to a local news event. I spoke with a reporter about my limited observations. I wasn't that interesting, but hey. By the time I got back to the office, someone told me that I was already in the story on their site. I watched the story grow over the next few hours, until it was about 10 paragraphs long, with all the details included. I was still curious, because even going to it didn't answer the question of "WTF just happened?". I watched the reporter walk around talking to people, and when I left, she had just gotten a hold of the person involved.
13,000 pictures of the surface of mars, and still no clear photos of the aliens. It's a coverup I tell you. The government doesn't want us to know the truth! They're hiding it until they can take these natural resources for themselves. It's the man taking away from us what rightfully belongs to all of us! If you let them get their way, well, just be left with these.
Either way. If "they" found it, they'd not only be modding it down, but they'd have a C&D sent to /. .
Because people will find an arbitrary reason to mod things particular ways. Someone obviously didn't like what I wrote.
I know people complain about the "moderators", but they usually haven't been here long enough to know, we're all the moderators. You can't please everyone all the time, so I don't worry about getting modded down occasionally. It's just someone who's being pissy. Since they aren't here to smack on the back of the head and say "what were you thinking", I don't let it stress me. :)
In other news, a concussion can be dangerous.
Ya, it's not news. It sounds like a potato cannon without the potato, firing at 100 pulses per minute. Pretty interesting that they're getting that kind of rate, but still, obviously dangerous.
There's a reason a concussion grenade works, and it's not always shrapnel. I'm guessing the 10m deadly zone is directly downrange of the cannon, not beside or behind it. It's still a contained explosion, so all the force goes one direction, rather than disbursing in all directions.
Rapid sequence concussions can effect the action of the heart (induced arrhythmia), or a variety of other problems similar to being hit by something. So it's a concussion, not a projectile. Still obviously deadly. Folks know, don't shoot at people unless you want them dead, and that includes firing blanks.
There are others besides searching on Google, and Google Ads. You forgot about Google Analytics, and embedded "site" Google Searches. They show up in most pages these days. How about when someone embeds a YouTube video? They bought Doubleclick a few years ago, so there's another datamining source.
Google is embedded in enough places to make themselves rather difficult to avoid.
You are quite likely right, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more than just a few intelligence and/or law enforcement agencies with either a well negotiated (strong NDA applied), or they have someone inside already to provide the data.
The organized rebellion is coming. It's just a matter of how it goes in the first few days. There aren't many people out there, that could organize a group large enough to make a serious stand. In all reality, it'll turn out like Ruby Ridge, or Waco.
Excuse me, a black van just drove up, and a nice man in a black suit is knocking at the door. I'm sure he's just lost and is asking for directions.
But in some cases, the drugs only exist because of the condition, which was caused by modern lifestyles.
I found this study which shows a marked increase in mortality due to diabetes between 1840 to 1970. Most of the increases happened between 1880 to 1911, when refined sugars and fatty foods were introduced. I've seen other studies that reflect this also.
The cure could become virtually unnecessary if the cause was removed, rather than profiting from the treatment.
I won't argue against what you're saying, but do you have a citation for that?
There are an awful lot of urban legends going around, and I don't like getting caught repeating any of them as fact.
Most statistics regarding weight loss usually carry the disclaimer "with proper diet and exercise." You could lose weight eating one candybar every day, if you backed that up with an otherwise good diet and exercise. :)
You didn't have a good look at the list, did you? Any sort of weapon seems to count. :)
It seems exclusive to pistol size weapons, until you see 12,8,7,4. They're not all powered by a directed chemical reaction. 11 shows that it never had to be made as a prop for a flesh and blood movie either.
I'd say the unit would have to be contained within the piece being carried in your hands, but since 7 has an unlicensed nuclear accelerator in a backpack, that does away with that idea.