Re:Like the radar gun, this is a good idea.
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Maybe we should busting more cops on ego-trips !
Re:Like the radar gun, this is a good idea.
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Your analogy is faulty. When a car is flagged as containing alcohol in the passenger compartment, the car is a potential killing machine in motion. If it were possible to detect bombs inside peoples houses, they are not doing anyone any harm so there is no reason to raid your home. If you drink at home you don't expect anyone to come give you a ticket, do you?
Yes you have the right to travel. As long as it doesn't infringe on my rights (which include not being killed by you "travelling" while intoxicated, in a car or any other vehicle).
Even if being free means that you are allowed to do stupid things it still doesn't mean that isn't a line you cross when your freedom infringes on someone elses well-being (ie/ drunk driving). Driving is a privilege and not a right.
Re:Like the radar gun, this is a good idea.
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How is getting pulled over for something that's not your fault "not so bad"?
It is not so bad because it is not too much of a price to pay to have this service provided to society. I want to see drunk drivers taken off the roads! If that means that if I am transporting passengers that are drunk and I get pulled over occasionally, then that is fine by me. They can test me if they want and once they see that I haven't been drinking they'll commend me for taking the responsibility of being a designated driver.
Like the radar gun, this is a good idea.
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Notice that it will be used the same as a radar gun, as in it will help the police pull people over who are more likely to be drunk rather than just doing random checks.
So if you have friends drinking in the car you might get pulled over and may have further tests administered and that is not so bad.
I don't think this technology in itself would be used to lay charges, it is just a way to flag a car for further interogation.
Zork II is the most absorbing adventure game that I have ever played and completed. Is there anything better than those old infocom games for pure fantasy escapism?
Remember when you looked on in awe the first time you saw someone code
10 PRINT "HELLO!"
20 GOTO 10
Many times you would go to the store and see this endless loop running on a vic20 or c64 but you knew how to stop it via CTL-C and replace the HELLO with your own name. (or "ATARI RULES" if you were an commodore hater)
I just finished the first Harry Potter book and I must say that it was much better than I expected judging by the corny cover pictures. It felt very much like a light version of Ender's Game.
Otis Boykin
Boykin invented the 'Electrical Resistor' used in computers, radios, television sets and a variety of electronic devices.
George Carruthers
Carruthers was the inventor of the far-ultraviolet camera and the spectrograph.
Mark Dean
Dean co-invented improvements in computer architecture that allowed IBM compatible PCs to use the same peripheral devices.
Dr. Charles Richard Drew
Drew was the first person to develop the blood bank.
Philip Emeagwali
In 1989, Emeagwali won the Gordon Bell Prize, considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize, for developing the fastest supercomputer software in the world.
Meredith C. Gourdine
Gourdine was the inventor of electrogasdynamics systems.
Frederick Jones
Jones invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks.
I don't think we should worry too much
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The hackers and techies of the world will not stand for this control of the internet and thus they will always be one step ahead.
The corporations are fighting a losing battle trying to gain control over a system which is fundamentally about non-control. If they somehow manage to eventually take over the net, don't you think the hackers will have created and switched to a new protocol, maybe even to a new physical network?
I just found out that my company logs all email messages going through our server. They have them zipped up and archived from since the company existed. Should I be shocked by this or this standard practice?
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Maybe we should busting more cops on ego-trips !
Your analogy is faulty. When a car is flagged as containing alcohol in the passenger compartment, the car is a potential killing machine in motion. If it were possible to detect bombs inside peoples houses, they are not doing anyone any harm so there is no reason to raid your home. If you drink at home you don't expect anyone to come give you a ticket, do you?
>I do have the right to travel.
Yes you have the right to travel. As long as it doesn't infringe on my rights (which include not being killed by you "travelling" while intoxicated, in a car or any other vehicle).
>You should be punished based on what you actually did, not what you might do.
Now how exactly are you being punished by what you might do? And how is doing this punishing? They are being rather unreasonable.
>Not every drunk drivers kills or maims someone.
So, therefore it's ok to drink and drive as long as you don't get caught.
There is an easily available test you can perform yourself... for free even!
Get ready... here it is:
If you've had a drink, of any kind and any amount, don't drive. Easy.
Take a damn taxi to the bar if you really need to go out and get your fix.
Even if being free means that you are allowed to do stupid things it still doesn't mean that isn't a line you cross when your freedom infringes on someone elses well-being (ie/ drunk driving). Driving is a privilege and not a right.
How is getting pulled over for something that's not your fault "not so bad"?
It is not so bad because it is not too much of a price to pay to have this service provided to society. I want to see drunk drivers taken off the roads! If that means that if I am transporting passengers that are drunk and I get pulled over occasionally, then that is fine by me. They can test me if they want and once they see that I haven't been drinking they'll commend me for taking the responsibility of being a designated driver.
Notice that it will be used the same as a radar gun, as in it will help the police pull people over who are more likely to be drunk rather than just doing random checks.
So if you have friends drinking in the car you might get pulled over and may have further tests administered and that is not so bad.
I don't think this technology in itself would be used to lay charges, it is just a way to flag a car for further interogation.
The cream you put into the coffee is probably more harmful to you in the long run than the caffeine content!
Zork II is the most absorbing adventure game that I have ever played and completed. Is there anything better than those old infocom games for pure fantasy escapism?
Remember when you looked on in awe the first time you saw someone code
10 PRINT "HELLO!"
20 GOTO 10
Many times you would go to the store and see this endless loop running on a vic20 or c64 but you knew how to stop it via CTL-C and replace the HELLO with your own name. (or "ATARI RULES" if you were an commodore hater)
Fill them with cement, put labels that say Pentium 4 on them and leave them on your front yard.
Wasn't this covered in a previous slashdot article?
http://www.enum.org/information/faq.cfm
The number of the beast.
I just finished the first Harry Potter book and I must say that it was much better than I expected judging by the corny cover pictures. It felt very much like a light version of Ender's Game.
Otis Boykin
Boykin invented the 'Electrical Resistor' used in computers, radios, television sets and a variety of electronic devices.
George Carruthers
Carruthers was the inventor of the far-ultraviolet camera and the spectrograph.
Mark Dean
Dean co-invented improvements in computer architecture that allowed IBM compatible PCs to use the same peripheral devices.
Dr. Charles Richard Drew
Drew was the first person to develop the blood bank.
Philip Emeagwali
In 1989, Emeagwali won the Gordon Bell Prize, considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize, for developing the fastest supercomputer software in the world.
Meredith C. Gourdine
Gourdine was the inventor of electrogasdynamics systems.
Frederick Jones
Jones invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks.
The hackers and techies of the world will not stand for this control of the internet and thus they will always be one step ahead.
The corporations are fighting a losing battle trying to gain control over a system which is fundamentally about non-control. If they somehow manage to eventually take over the net, don't you think the hackers will have created and switched to a new protocol, maybe even to a new physical network?
I just found out that my company logs all email messages going through our server. They have them zipped up and archived from since the company existed. Should I be shocked by this or this standard practice?
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