. It is unlikely that they will increase congestion.
File->Save.
Most large cities have traffic volumes greater than capacity during peak hours, no change in driver type will change that.
If we assume robot cars will be better, we it follows there will be more of them, so this problem cannot get better.
The only solution to transport that scales in large cities is rail. We already have robot trains, we already know it works. This is not a technology problem, but one of political will (and better urban planning).
When you're told that you must put something in your body, no matter if it is for the "greater good", then you are not truly free. Mandating general vaccination is tyranny.
Ok I get your point, but you have to come up with a rule one way or another.
There is no option where everyone lives, so which option is least worst?
This is not a good strategy. If you google "Kick Ass Torrents" the first results are impostors that will serve you malware. Google refuses to give you the correct result. Wikipedia, though, works really well for that.
torrentz.eu
Let it find whatever torrent sites have you torrent for you. Never need to remember any other URL
Sorry but no.
A police car with a Google sticker on it is not the same as a CIA espionage operation on hostile foreign soil. No matter how much you wish it were true, it isn't.
The difference is the police are answerable to a court, the CIA aren't.
And if the police do something wrong the worst impact is a handful of people at risk, when the CIA do it, it is war.
I know you want to hate the police, and Microsoft and the Democrats, but none of these things is are really the same level as CIA Blackops. By saying so just makes you look like a tin foil hat loony.
People are responding to you aggressively, I'll try another approach: in some urban regions down here, a marked police car (or even an unmarked suspicious car) is fired upon entrance.
Sounds like the police are the least of your concerns.
I'll tell my co-worker not to wear his Google T shirt again just in case he does some thing bad and someone thinks it was Google that did it, and puts their employees at risk.
You can never be too paranoid...
Cool, you know how to post a link. Awesome.
Do you know how to express your opinion, or explain wtf that has to do with anything, or is that too much of a stretch?
I am personally much more concerned about strangers on the internet telling me how I should think, but maybe that's just me.
That's nice, but it doesn't change the fact that you've painted yourself into a corner.
Either Google are monitoring you without a warrant, in which case your original point holds no water, or Google aren't monitoring you, which makes you look rather ignorant.
Sorry I didn't realise we had to speculate about the worst possible case
Oh ok, so what was the absolute worst thing that happened here? In reality I mean, not your head.
Did anyone die? Anyone put is prison? Any national secrets exposed?
Yeah I thought so....
Internal espionage is just as bad, if not worse, than international espionage.
Oh ok then. So plain clothes police are worse than KGB infiltration of the CIA during the cold war. Brilliant.
Spying is spying is spying.
If you need to hide your activities, YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG 99% OF THE TIME.
Unless you are involved in any of the legitimate investigation, security, regulatory, privacy, journalism, or entertainment industries you mean?
Oh wait you wrote it in caps so that means it's true...
Maybe take the tinfoil hat off before posting next time...
Sorry, but this event is a fact. You may not like facts, but they are what they are.
That's great, but the part your missing is the connection between CIA spies in a hostile country, and a Police car with a google sticker on it.
Or do you consider every fancy dress party as the equivalent of international espionage?
Should we ban police uniforms from fancy dress parties and strip show since you now view that as exactly the same as the CIA running covert ops in Pakistan?
"That's great, but the part your missing is the connection between CIA spies in a hostile country, and a Police car with a google sticker on it."
Are you too fucking stupid to make the connection of government acting under the disguise of another entity to commit spying, and how it can lead to innocent people being hurt in both cases?
You should not be allowed to vote.
I don't equate a police vehicle with a sticker on it the same international espionage, no.
But if that makes you feel better about getting angry for no real reason then fill your boots.
Anybody that's used LibreOffice recently knows that it's equal or better to MSOffice in just about every respect; the compatibility with OOXML has been particularly good since version 5. But you wouldn't know it from the flood of slashdotters that came in here a minute after the story was posted to talk about how bad LO is, in vague and undescribed ways.
Yet here you are. LO is better in vague an undescribed ways...
I see these kind of comments all the time and barely ever anyone actually says what is wrong with it.
Interface familiarity
Add-in compatibility
More WTF the moments
Those are show stoppers for most.
As a matter of fact, when a file is slightly corrupted MS Office will never open it
I've never faced that problem, but if I did, I'd simply grab the previous version which your file server should be keeping (right click, restore previous version).
I've only dabbled with LO from time to time, along with Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc, because I really would like to get off the MS treadmill. But the simple fact is that Win/Office are the least worst options for most people.
The stuff just works most of the time, and whenever you go to a new place/computer/company/school/hotel they also have it so it's always a smooth(er) transition
This is a non-sequitur that Microsoft likes to throw into arguments it is losing, and is the last refuge of the desperate. This is a particularly shallow argument, as new versions of Office have required extensive retraining due to major user interface changes.
Crap. Office 2010 had a bit of a shift, but having worked in many corporate environments for 25 years, I've never worked anywhere that trained their staff in Office.
Incumbency carries weight, and no amount of hating will change that.
You are also forgetting the Microsoft is pushing office 2016 into the cloud. Governments can't store their work on microsofts servers.
That's not true. I'm working on a govt contract right now and we are 90% cloud based. We have independent audits for technical, security, accounting, privacy etc and we always pass.
Our only requirement is geographic location, data must be stored within the government's borders, and obviously all security policies must be complaint (end to end encryption solves most of those)
I don't want to sit in a car, bored to tears, when I could be spending my time driving; driving's fun, and it's certainly more fun than sitting and waiting.
Yeah, driving in bumper-to-bumper stop-and-go traffic is a real blast! **rolls eyes**
Driving maybe, but riding is pure joy. Lane splitting past hundreds of suckers stuck in their steel boxes while you shoot past at speed. Always getting to the front of the intersection at every red light, reducing a 60 minute drive of drudgery into 20 minutes of thrilling pleasure.
No robot will ever replace that.
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. It is unlikely that they will increase congestion.
File->Save.
Most large cities have traffic volumes greater than capacity during peak hours, no change in driver type will change that.
If we assume robot cars will be better, we it follows there will be more of them, so this problem cannot get better.
The only solution to transport that scales in large cities is rail. We already have robot trains, we already know it works. This is not a technology problem, but one of political will (and better urban planning).
-1 Stupid. No one dies of sleeping
I never said they did stupid. Go back read it again, stupid.
Motorcycles have a 35 times higher risk of fatal crash per mile traveled than cars.
That would mean something interesting if road accidents were based purely on chance.
When you're told that you must put something in your body, no matter if it is for the "greater good", then you are not truly free. Mandating general vaccination is tyranny.
Ok I get your point, but you have to come up with a rule one way or another.
There is no option where everyone lives, so which option is least worst?
This is not a good strategy. If you google "Kick Ass Torrents" the first results are impostors that will serve you malware. Google refuses to give you the correct result. Wikipedia, though, works really well for that.
torrentz.eu
Let it find whatever torrent sites have you torrent for you. Never need to remember any other URL
Sorry but no. A police car with a Google sticker on it is not the same as a CIA espionage operation on hostile foreign soil. No matter how much you wish it were true, it isn't.
The difference is the police are answerable to a court, the CIA aren't.
And if the police do something wrong the worst impact is a handful of people at risk, when the CIA do it, it is war.
I know you want to hate the police, and Microsoft and the Democrats, but none of these things is are really the same level as CIA Blackops. By saying so just makes you look like a tin foil hat loony.
I guess if you run out of arguments you could always resort to petty insults instead...
You really don't believe there is a portion of the population that is actively targeting police officers for violence?
A google sticker on a Police car is not the same as CIA blackops in a hostile country, no.
People are responding to you aggressively, I'll try another approach: in some urban regions down here, a marked police car (or even an unmarked suspicious car) is fired upon entrance.
Sounds like the police are the least of your concerns.
I can explain why it puts them at risk.
I'll tell my co-worker not to wear his Google T shirt again just in case he does some thing bad and someone thinks it was Google that did it, and puts their employees at risk.
You can never be too paranoid...
Sounds like fun, until some driver comes around a corner in your lane and rips your leg off.
Yeah, yeah if that happens. Or maybe if you die in your sleep that would suck too. Better not ever go to sleep...
The comparison with the CIA's operation
A CIA international espionage incident is not the same as the local police acting like dicks, no matter how much you wish it was.
Cool, you know how to post a link. Awesome.
Do you know how to express your opinion, or explain wtf that has to do with anything, or is that too much of a stretch?
I am personally much more concerned about strangers on the internet telling me how I should think, but maybe that's just me.
That's nice, but it doesn't change the fact that you've painted yourself into a corner.
Either Google are monitoring you without a warrant, in which case your original point holds no water, or Google aren't monitoring you, which makes you look rather ignorant.
If the general population starts perceiving Google Maps cars as monitoring them without a warrant...
Don't you already think that? I mean that is exactly what they are, so you should think that if you don't already.
Internal espionage is just as bad, if not worse, than international espionage.
Oh ok then. So plain clothes police are worse than KGB infiltration of the CIA during the cold war. Brilliant.
Spying is spying is spying.
If you need to hide your activities, YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG 99% OF THE TIME.
Unless you are involved in any of the legitimate investigation, security, regulatory, privacy, journalism, or entertainment industries you mean?
Oh wait you wrote it in caps so that means it's true...
Maybe take the tinfoil hat off before posting next time...
Sorry, but this event is a fact. You may not like facts, but they are what they are.
That's great, but the part your missing is the connection between CIA spies in a hostile country, and a Police car with a google sticker on it. Or do you consider every fancy dress party as the equivalent of international espionage? Should we ban police uniforms from fancy dress parties and strip show since you now view that as exactly the same as the CIA running covert ops in Pakistan?
"That's great, but the part your missing is the connection between CIA spies in a hostile country, and a Police car with a google sticker on it."
Are you too fucking stupid to make the connection of government acting under the disguise of another entity to commit spying, and how it can lead to innocent people being hurt in both cases?
You should not be allowed to vote.
I don't equate a police vehicle with a sticker on it the same international espionage, no.
But if that makes you feel better about getting angry for no real reason then fill your boots.
If police or spooks are...
And if your Aunty had a penis he'd be your uncle
Please try to keep track of context and please try to be less ridiculous.
Sorry I didn't realise we had to speculate about the worst possible case, then get angry about that, rather than you know, the actual facts...
I come here for information not pointless mass debating.
Yet here you are...
What's wrong with police cars being marked as police cars? Why put Google drivers at risk for no good reason?
You haven't explained how they are at risk?
A guy I work with has a Google T Shirt, is he also putting Google employees at risk?
Anybody that's used LibreOffice recently knows that it's equal or better to MSOffice in just about every respect; the compatibility with OOXML has been particularly good since version 5. But you wouldn't know it from the flood of slashdotters that came in here a minute after the story was posted to talk about how bad LO is, in vague and undescribed ways.
Yet here you are. LO is better in vague an undescribed ways...
I see these kind of comments all the time and barely ever anyone actually says what is wrong with it.
Interface familiarity
Add-in compatibility
More WTF the moments
Those are show stoppers for most.
As a matter of fact, when a file is slightly corrupted MS Office will never open it
I've never faced that problem, but if I did, I'd simply grab the previous version which your file server should be keeping (right click, restore previous version). I've only dabbled with LO from time to time, along with Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc, because I really would like to get off the MS treadmill. But the simple fact is that Win/Office are the least worst options for most people.
The stuff just works most of the time, and whenever you go to a new place/computer/company/school/hotel they also have it so it's always a smooth(er) transition
This is a non-sequitur that Microsoft likes to throw into arguments it is losing, and is the last refuge of the desperate. This is a particularly shallow argument, as new versions of Office have required extensive retraining due to major user interface changes.
Crap. Office 2010 had a bit of a shift, but having worked in many corporate environments for 25 years, I've never worked anywhere that trained their staff in Office.
Incumbency carries weight, and no amount of hating will change that.
You are also forgetting the Microsoft is pushing office 2016 into the cloud. Governments can't store their work on microsofts servers.
That's not true. I'm working on a govt contract right now and we are 90% cloud based. We have independent audits for technical, security, accounting, privacy etc and we always pass.
Our only requirement is geographic location, data must be stored within the government's borders, and obviously all security policies must be complaint (end to end encryption solves most of those)
I don't want to sit in a car, bored to tears, when I could be spending my time driving; driving's fun, and it's certainly more fun than sitting and waiting.
Yeah, driving in bumper-to-bumper stop-and-go traffic is a real blast! **rolls eyes**
Driving maybe, but riding is pure joy. Lane splitting past hundreds of suckers stuck in their steel boxes while you shoot past at speed. Always getting to the front of the intersection at every red light, reducing a 60 minute drive of drudgery into 20 minutes of thrilling pleasure.
No robot will ever replace that.