Those sports bikes are also good natural selection. It isn't uncommon to see three or four young men weaving through traffic without helmets riding bikes that can easily go 140MPH. I don't feel sorry for them at all.
My take is that the victimization of innocent people will be so rampant that the government won't be able to cover things up fast enough.
If you didn't do something bad, keeping bio tabs on you makes framing someone innocent or wrongful accusation harder.
Actually, it will be harder for juries to see the logical holes in the database schemas. It makes it easier for lawyers to sway juries into believing what the police say, because it takes much much more intellectual effort to understand a database query, what it is actually gleaning from the data, what is missing from the query, and what data was overlooked. Database queries could literally be crafted to make biased reports that only information and statistics experts could see through. I pity the person who's defense lawyer is incompetent.
hence more expensive, hence less accessible...hence reduce crime
Oh, the fallacy. Petty crime becomes organized crime. Politicians and businesspeople fall prey to racketeering. Corruption becomes an everyday way of life. Think Prohibition, for example.
Your complacent reasoning along with most everyone else's is what is tearing this country apart at the seams.
While the future is probably fuel cells (I'd bet on methanol cells in particular, perhaps like Neah Power is working on)...
Actually, Eveready and Duracell would be pretty stupid to not also have their own lines of fuelcells, if fuelcells really are the way to go. If you can't beat'em join'em.
What people are concerned about is the future. Inch by inch, our lives are becoming more transparent through technology rather than advancements in society. Created in parallel with these new technologies are laws intended for everything from tracking cattle for the USDA to kids at schools to child molesters to cars to you name it. Little by little these things become a part of us and our culture and gradually become day-to-day "necessities" or are simply a fact of life (as the DMV and auto registration is a "fact of life"). Eventually, there will be practically no opacity, even though people intuitively desire it, and every day we will need to navigate the new maze of laws. The fallout is inevitable, where today a person might simply be denied a drivers license due to a database flaw but, in the future, they may be flagged under the also-emerging anti-terrorist legislation, hunted down, and imprisoned for weeks. Inevitably, also, the sheer complexity of this maze will have its greatest impact on the poor and the poorly educated who are already struggling with the war on drugs and the IRS.
This is the future that the founders of the USA were trying to protect us against. This is a future with no equality under the law, in practice. This is a future where disproportionate amounts of people's lives are consumed by complying with the government instead of doing useful, inventive, or pleasurable things. Basically, this could be a future where people look alive, but, really, they might as well be dead.
I feel that Firestone was made a scapegoat for the bigger problem of oversized vehicles riding on underinflated passenger tires driven by a poorly trained populace.
From what I've heard another big-name tire manufacturer was spared the humiliation, because they were better able to show that user-negligence caused any "tread separation" failures with that brand of tire.
In the media, it was reported that one Firestone factory had quality control problems. If so, that is a very isolatable and fixable problem. Also, other Firestone tires generally don't have that problem. My car came with Firestone OEM tires that, while kind of on the cheap side, are just fine. I'll probably replace them with Bridgestones or Goodyears, anyway, partly due to brand loyalty.
I personally think that the people know, and frankly to ensure their position, they are perfectly happy to screw everyone else over.
However, they seem to be blinded by their greed, because the more they attempt to lock things down people will most certainly vote with their money and go somewhere else. What the government is doing is making it such that people, essentially, no longer have this "right to vote" in the marketplace.
How is this possible? Capitalism is the self-feeding monster that doesn't die. I think you are worried about socialism, where there are a lot of people eating but no one is in the kitchen.
Didn't George Carlin suggest that if Americans started telling the truth, the whole system would collapse?
Only when negotiating something is unadulterated truth bad. Unfortunately, we are always negotiating whether it is for a cookie or for a bill in Congress. Wishful thinking would hope for fewer hidden agendas in Congress.
You should be able to kill just about anything in UNIX. keventd must be some sort of Linux invention, so I'm not sure what their take on it is. Right now, I'm not on a system where I'm brave enough to try killing processes 0 through 3. The thing I'm remembering about windows is non-kernel-related processes, even user processes, being blocked from "Administrator", because the OS is obviously wiser than the person using it.
Even a perfect internal combustion engine can't be more than about 25% efficient
Does perfect also mean zero-mass pistons and connecting rods and perfect-insulator cyinder walls? Or is perfect the best possible for mass-production?
It always bothered me slightly that car engines have four, six, eight, etc. masses being thrown back and forth several thousand times a minute. I think electric cars have tremendous reliability potential from a mechanical standpoint...I wonder if mechanics are wondering about their job security.
"When chips perform millions or billions of erasing (emphasis mine) and other operations in a short time, the total heat becomes substantial, limiting both the performance of the chip and the number of chips that can be packed together in a small space, he said."
Perhaps, but they should still have the same firmware and model number. If a bad day at the factory creates a few hundred drives with an barely-in-tolerance part or something, it is understandable to attempt to get different date-codes. However, I suspect this is easier said than done (what vendor organizes a warehouse by manufacturing?).
Also, this is why we have manufacturer warranties. A blatant manufacturing flaw should be found within the five years that good drives have. I would never put a 3-month or one-year warranty drive into a server. These short warranty periods indicate very well the manufacturer's confidence where the durability/warranty tipping point is.
whenever a light fails on my car, i replace them all, because the others are going soon
This is probably more statistical myth than anything. Mechanical devices' failure rates do increase in time, but I'd bet that it's impossible to predict a succession of failures. Light bulbs are cheap enough that it doesn't matter, though (I'd take the opportunity to see if using LED replacement bulbs is worthwhile, anyway).
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Those sports bikes are also good natural selection. It isn't uncommon to see three or four young men weaving through traffic without helmets riding bikes that can easily go 140MPH. I don't feel sorry for them at all.
Why would it collapse under its own beurocracy?
My take is that the victimization of innocent people will be so rampant that the government won't be able to cover things up fast enough.
If you didn't do something bad, keeping bio tabs on you makes framing someone innocent or wrongful accusation harder.
Actually, it will be harder for juries to see the logical holes in the database schemas. It makes it easier for lawyers to sway juries into believing what the police say, because it takes much much more intellectual effort to understand a database query, what it is actually gleaning from the data, what is missing from the query, and what data was overlooked. Database queries could literally be crafted to make biased reports that only information and statistics experts could see through. I pity the person who's defense lawyer is incompetent.
hence more expensive, hence less accessible...hence reduce crime
Oh, the fallacy. Petty crime becomes organized crime. Politicians and businesspeople fall prey to racketeering. Corruption becomes an everyday way of life. Think Prohibition, for example.
Your complacent reasoning along with most everyone else's is what is tearing this country apart at the seams.
"The majority of negative feedback to government consultation on the scheme was discounted because it was sent via an online service."
How convenient.
with manufacturers charging insane prices for refills.
Er, how do they enforce this? Proprietary methanol??? That'd be one hell of a marketing stunt.
While the future is probably fuel cells (I'd bet on methanol cells in particular, perhaps like Neah Power is working on)...
Actually, Eveready and Duracell would be pretty stupid to not also have their own lines of fuelcells, if fuelcells really are the way to go. If you can't beat'em join'em.
The real issue is the Federal Government's lack of accountability to the public.
Ding! We have a winner!
I don't know what ppl are so concerned about.
What people are concerned about is the future. Inch by inch, our lives are becoming more transparent through technology rather than advancements in society. Created in parallel with these new technologies are laws intended for everything from tracking cattle for the USDA to kids at schools to child molesters to cars to you name it. Little by little these things become a part of us and our culture and gradually become day-to-day "necessities" or are simply a fact of life (as the DMV and auto registration is a "fact of life"). Eventually, there will be practically no opacity, even though people intuitively desire it, and every day we will need to navigate the new maze of laws. The fallout is inevitable, where today a person might simply be denied a drivers license due to a database flaw but, in the future, they may be flagged under the also-emerging anti-terrorist legislation, hunted down, and imprisoned for weeks. Inevitably, also, the sheer complexity of this maze will have its greatest impact on the poor and the poorly educated who are already struggling with the war on drugs and the IRS.
This is the future that the founders of the USA were trying to protect us against. This is a future with no equality under the law, in practice. This is a future where disproportionate amounts of people's lives are consumed by complying with the government instead of doing useful, inventive, or pleasurable things. Basically, this could be a future where people look alive, but, really, they might as well be dead.
So, you're saying my hover car is safe? Or...are they also putting RFIDs in to the anti-graviton emitters, too?!?
I feel that Firestone was made a scapegoat for the bigger problem of oversized vehicles riding on underinflated passenger tires driven by a poorly trained populace.
From what I've heard another big-name tire manufacturer was spared the humiliation, because they were better able to show that user-negligence caused any "tread separation" failures with that brand of tire.
In the media, it was reported that one Firestone factory had quality control problems. If so, that is a very isolatable and fixable problem. Also, other Firestone tires generally don't have that problem. My car came with Firestone OEM tires that, while kind of on the cheap side, are just fine. I'll probably replace them with Bridgestones or Goodyears, anyway, partly due to brand loyalty.
I personally think that the people know, and frankly to ensure their position, they are perfectly happy to screw everyone else over.
However, they seem to be blinded by their greed, because the more they attempt to lock things down people will most certainly vote with their money and go somewhere else. What the government is doing is making it such that people, essentially, no longer have this "right to vote" in the marketplace.
When will corperate america *get it*?
GODDAMNIT! It is the government forcing this shit down our throats! THE GOVERNMENT!
Do you think this shit would sell left to the free market?!? DO YOU?
What did Neo find in the Toilet?
A spoon?
Capatilism will destroy itself
How is this possible? Capitalism is the self-feeding monster that doesn't die. I think you are worried about socialism, where there are a lot of people eating but no one is in the kitchen.
Didn't George Carlin suggest that if Americans started telling the truth, the whole system would collapse?
Only when negotiating something is unadulterated truth bad. Unfortunately, we are always negotiating whether it is for a cookie or for a bill in Congress. Wishful thinking would hope for fewer hidden agendas in Congress.
"What Critics of the Critics of the FCC Rule Miss"
What? Their target?
zero-mass pistons, friction-free bearings, perfect-insulator walls, infinite-diameter valves, the whole nine yards.
You know, this sounds just like a software requirements document!
You should be able to kill just about anything in UNIX. keventd must be some sort of Linux invention, so I'm not sure what their take on it is. Right now, I'm not on a system where I'm brave enough to try killing processes 0 through 3. The thing I'm remembering about windows is non-kernel-related processes, even user processes, being blocked from "Administrator", because the OS is obviously wiser than the person using it.
Even a perfect internal combustion engine can't be more than about 25% efficient
Does perfect also mean zero-mass pistons and connecting rods and perfect-insulator cyinder walls? Or is perfect the best possible for mass-production?
It always bothered me slightly that car engines have four, six, eight, etc. masses being thrown back and forth several thousand times a minute. I think electric cars have tremendous reliability potential from a mechanical standpoint...I wonder if mechanics are wondering about their job security.
your computer could spit out: "these CPU cycles made of 75% post-CPU-consumed waste" :)
:(
Unsuprisingly, Windows will win the post-CPU-consumed waste category, too
Energy is equivalent to WORK.
This must explain why all the lazy bums out there read slashdot all day.
Yeah, and I'll miss making muffins for my co-workers in my Easy Bake PC!
"When chips perform millions or billions of erasing (emphasis mine) and other operations in a short time, the total heat becomes substantial, limiting both the performance of the chip and the number of chips that can be packed together in a small space, he said."
Now we know why Arthur Anderson got caught.
There's a big difference between Windows saying I can't kill a process and UNIX saying I am trying to execute a non-ELF file.
different batches
Perhaps, but they should still have the same firmware and model number. If a bad day at the factory creates a few hundred drives with an barely-in-tolerance part or something, it is understandable to attempt to get different date-codes. However, I suspect this is easier said than done (what vendor organizes a warehouse by manufacturing?).
Also, this is why we have manufacturer warranties. A blatant manufacturing flaw should be found within the five years that good drives have. I would never put a 3-month or one-year warranty drive into a server. These short warranty periods indicate very well the manufacturer's confidence where the durability/warranty tipping point is.
whenever a light fails on my car, i replace them all, because the others are going soon
This is probably more statistical myth than anything. Mechanical devices' failure rates do increase in time, but I'd bet that it's impossible to predict a succession of failures. Light bulbs are cheap enough that it doesn't matter, though (I'd take the opportunity to see if using LED replacement bulbs is worthwhile, anyway).
MS can win a PR battle, because they have an endless amount of cash to pursue the cause.
Why buy lies when the truth is free?