For goodness sake stop making stupid laws against doing something simply because people are a danger doing it when they haven't been taught properly.
Pilots are REQUIRED to make radio calls and communicate with Air Traffic Control. We'd need one hell of a sophisticated system to elliminate the need to communicate with ATC. Yet they're able to fly vehicles much more challenging to operate than cars, trucks and other road vehicles, remaining more safe statistically speaking, all while constantly making radio calls that are just as distracting as mobile calls are to drivers.
Why? Because pilots are taught how to monitor more than one thing at a time. They must keep speed, altitude and direction all within certain parameters while communicating. Critically they are tested on these skills before they are granted a license. What we need to be doing is including talking on a mobile phone while staying safe on driving tests. Then you'd see people more able to do this than you currently do. Of course it's much easier for authorities to instead make talking on a mobile illegal then collect revenue from law breakers while the lot of us mindlessly talk about the dangers of mobile phones while driving.
Do you think they've been collecting ratings all this time so they don't use them to make decisions, and now suddenly they've realized that they can use them in this way?
Call it flamebait if you like but even beta software, given that it's a public beta, that doesn't give basic web browser functionality (proxies) is pure and utter garbage. If I try to get to a web page, Safari picks up the proxy from IE and prompts for username and password, and then promptly crashes when I enter them. If you try to turn proxies off, you quickly discover that you can't do that as the button to modify proxies is greyed out. In it's current state I can use Safari at work to look at web pages on my hard drive, but not for web browsing. There is no excuse whatsoever for this. Many users are behind a proxy, and it's not an optional extra. The people who insist it's buggy because it's on windows (conveniently ignoring all the software that does work well....or at least better than this shit) are idiots. This is an excellent way to turn potential converts to your browser off for good. I've uninstalled at work and won't be touching it at home. Thanks for wasting my time Apple.
That's unworkable. If you're out in public I'd argue you're fair game. Otherwise you may as well ban all photography in public places. Laws that give the subject control of the photos unless they sign those rights away appear to make sense until you realize that this makes amateur photography and journalism rather impractical (necessitating special laws at least for journalism and gathering evidence in civil or criminal complaints). Its much easier if people simply accept what you do in public may be recorded, and not just by city officials and security cameras.
Classic example is a topless woman on a beach who then claims to feel "violated" and "disgusted" because she was photographed "half naked". Yet the hypocrite is perfectly willing to appear in public half naked in the first place.
By the way I'm an amateur photographer but I don't do nudes/porn and haven't ever had any kind of complaint against me (baring one paranoid old man on a train who once threatened to smash my camera when I wasn't taking photos at all, just reviewing ones I'd already taken and messing with camera settings). Even if I wanted to do nudes (and I don't as photographing people in general is such a hassle compared to wildlife and landscapes) it just isn't worth the trouble in oh so many ways.
I couldn't care less if Pluto is classified as a planet or not. What I do care about is that the definition for a planet makes sense. The current one voted by the IAU is a joke. Dwarf Planets are not Planets (confusing and unscientific calssification), bodies orbiting other stars are not planets by definition. Therefore years of literature about extra-solar planets is made technically incorrect in one fell stupid swoop. If you're going to reclassify Pluto as something other than a planet, go for it, but these definitions make about as much sense as classifying Pluto as a ham sandwich.
Make it as hard to get the video games as it is to obtain real guns. Oh wait a second derranged idiots already seem plenty able to get hold of them despite all the regulation. What will they want to ban next? Action figures? Chess (heck that's based on war). Idiots.
They seem to for everyday objects, but relativistic effects become important at 0.7c
0.7c is quite an arbitrary figure. With zero context, that's at best put very badly. For some things that travel much slower than 0.7c relativistic effects are very important. If you're keeping time precisely, you have to take relativity into account if you have a satellite travelling much much slower than 0.7c since it's clock will differ from a precise clock on the ground. (Think about GPS).
Also speed isn't the only thing to worry about. Mercury doesn't travel anywhere near that fast but Newtonian mechanics don't explain the orbit well because it's so close to a large mass (the sun) and therefore it's path is through "bent" space.
Actually the moderation system here is nothing more than an assessment of how popular the idea being presented is. I get modded up sometimes but I get modded down often too for expressing ideas that don't mesh with what is most popular. Trolling and flamebait are very specific things and require an assessment of the intent of the poster to incite anger or annoyance./. is not very good at separating unpopular comment from trolling and flamebait. -1:Flamebait and -1:Troll may as well be -1:I don't agree
Sadly this was at a teaching hospital, but thanks for the info. I'm in Australia, but who knows how desperate we may one day be. International travel is unlikely but not out of the question.
Well of course a sharp knife can be used to carve a meal or to kill a mah, but the Internet isn't "simply" a tool. It empowers people. If I don't have a knife or any one simple tool no biggie, I find my way around it. The Internet does so much more than any one simple tool.
How about we counter with a positive campaign highlighting everything good about the net.
In no particular order 1) Information at the tip of your fingers. From rare medical problems to gossip about soap stars it's all at your fingertips 2) Positive for the economy. 3) Broadens your horizons 4) Meet and connect with people you'd never otherwise be able to 5) Develop your writing and arguing skills 6) Find people with common intests 7) Scientific collaboration and data transfer on a scale never before possible 8) Avoid queues by taking advantage of electronic payment
The net is great. If idiots want to scare monger, sane people should counter.
Forgive me if I sounded at all harsh or condescending. I've had a gut full of the medical profession just at the moment. It's a long story but a loved one suffers a rare condition that sees her present at the ER (as she did 2 days ago) and half the time it is misdiagnosed (incorrect technique) and she is labelled a mallingerer despite having a history with this condition. I've resorted to digging up medical articles on it but I don't like my chances of them actually listening even with the documentation.
A number of our institutions are badly broken and only getting worse. Chief among these are medicine, education and law. For all our advances aspects of these professions behave like they're still operating in 1600.
Of course, I cannot speak about the research in much detail. Journals don't like that much
You're a scientist and a researcher working at a (public??) university but can't speak about what you do. What's wrong with this picture? Rampant unchecked capitalism is little better than rampant unchecked communism.
Behind the scenes it's actually sponsored by Steven for his old age. What did you think an 80 year old Steve still wants to be throwing chairs? No senior citizen Steve's will throw themselves at you at his command!!!
You don't understand. It's not a software solution. It's a hardware solution. It comes in a small well toolbox and consists of two tools. The "wired network tool" is a pair of clippers. The "wireless network tool" is a large hammer. The support number takes you straight to a lawyer that's happy to file a frivolous lawsuit for a modest fee.
I've known men who like to run down the street peeing backwards. I haven't known them for long though.
I always smirk at the idea of standing in a toilet cubicle and peeing while spinning. I'd never actually do it, but I find the thought amusing. I guess some people don't know when an amusing thought should just remain a though.
A theatre is also no huge surprise. People are a little tipsy and they know they won't be held accountable and just do whatever. Animals yes. Difficult to understand no. Certainly not enough to make me ashamed of being a guy.
I understand it. If you don't put the seat down and the woman half asleep or distracted or whatever else misses that fact, she gets a lot of cold porcellain and perhaps pee (and even shit if you're a slob) on her ass, and can even get stuck half in. Disgusting. You know how women are conditioned in our society not to like roughing it. (I'm talking generally, there are women who like roughing it). Well getting cold surprises, pee and shit shatters their little pretty and clean illusion of what a house should be.
What happens if a guy forgets. At worst he pees on the toilet seat. If he realises he wipes his own pee off the seat, end of story.
I'm male and I get it.
I still think the best way is to close the lid so if it's stinky it don't stink up the whole house. On the other hand any woman that throughly worried about the position of the toilet seat and got worked up about it wouldn't be very attractive to me. There are more important things in life.
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For goodness sake stop making stupid laws against doing something simply because people are a danger doing it when they haven't been taught properly.
Pilots are REQUIRED to make radio calls and communicate with Air Traffic Control. We'd need one hell of a sophisticated system to elliminate the need to communicate with ATC. Yet they're able to fly vehicles much more challenging to operate than cars, trucks and other road vehicles, remaining more safe statistically speaking, all while constantly making radio calls that are just as distracting as mobile calls are to drivers.
Why? Because pilots are taught how to monitor more than one thing at a time. They must keep speed, altitude and direction all within certain parameters while communicating. Critically they are tested on these skills before they are granted a license. What we need to be doing is including talking on a mobile phone while staying safe on driving tests. Then you'd see people more able to do this than you currently do. Of course it's much easier for authorities to instead make talking on a mobile illegal then collect revenue from law breakers while the lot of us mindlessly talk about the dangers of mobile phones while driving.
Do you think they've been collecting ratings all this time so they don't use them to make decisions, and now suddenly they've realized that they can use them in this way?
Call it flamebait if you like but even beta software, given that it's a public beta, that doesn't give basic web browser functionality (proxies) is pure and utter garbage. If I try to get to a web page, Safari picks up the proxy from IE and prompts for username and password, and then promptly crashes when I enter them. If you try to turn proxies off, you quickly discover that you can't do that as the button to modify proxies is greyed out. In it's current state I can use Safari at work to look at web pages on my hard drive, but not for web browsing. There is no excuse whatsoever for this. Many users are behind a proxy, and it's not an optional extra. The people who insist it's buggy because it's on windows (conveniently ignoring all the software that does work well....or at least better than this shit) are idiots. This is an excellent way to turn potential converts to your browser off for good. I've uninstalled at work and won't be touching it at home. Thanks for wasting my time Apple.
Attention dipshits: learn to read
You must be a lawyer. You're attempting to get the attention of people who aren't able to read, and you're doing it in writing.
That's unworkable. If you're out in public I'd argue you're fair game. Otherwise you may as well ban all photography in public places. Laws that give the subject control of the photos unless they sign those rights away appear to make sense until you realize that this makes amateur photography and journalism rather impractical (necessitating special laws at least for journalism and gathering evidence in civil or criminal complaints). Its much easier if people simply accept what you do in public may be recorded, and not just by city officials and security cameras.
Classic example is a topless woman on a beach who then claims to feel "violated" and "disgusted" because she was photographed "half naked". Yet the hypocrite is perfectly willing to appear in public half naked in the first place.
By the way I'm an amateur photographer but I don't do nudes/porn and haven't ever had any kind of complaint against me (baring one paranoid old man on a train who once threatened to smash my camera when I wasn't taking photos at all, just reviewing ones I'd already taken and messing with camera settings). Even if I wanted to do nudes (and I don't as photographing people in general is such a hassle compared to wildlife and landscapes) it just isn't worth the trouble in oh so many ways.
I couldn't care less if Pluto is classified as a planet or not. What I do care about is that the definition for a planet makes sense. The current one voted by the IAU is a joke. Dwarf Planets are not Planets (confusing and unscientific calssification), bodies orbiting other stars are not planets by definition. Therefore years of literature about extra-solar planets is made technically incorrect in one fell stupid swoop. If you're going to reclassify Pluto as something other than a planet, go for it, but these definitions make about as much sense as classifying Pluto as a ham sandwich.
...every time we recognize someone's voice on the phone.
Make it as hard to get the video games as it is to obtain real guns. Oh wait a second derranged idiots already seem plenty able to get hold of them despite all the regulation. What will they want to ban next? Action figures? Chess (heck that's based on war). Idiots.
They seem to for everyday objects, but relativistic effects become important at 0.7c
0.7c is quite an arbitrary figure. With zero context, that's at best put very badly. For some things that travel much slower than 0.7c relativistic effects are very important. If you're keeping time precisely, you have to take relativity into account if you have a satellite travelling much much slower than 0.7c since it's clock will differ from a precise clock on the ground. (Think about GPS).
Also speed isn't the only thing to worry about. Mercury doesn't travel anywhere near that fast but Newtonian mechanics don't explain the orbit well because it's so close to a large mass (the sun) and therefore it's path is through "bent" space.
Actually the moderation system here is nothing more than an assessment of how popular the idea being presented is. I get modded up sometimes but I get modded down often too for expressing ideas that don't mesh with what is most popular. Trolling and flamebait are very specific things and require an assessment of the intent of the poster to incite anger or annoyance. /. is not very good at separating unpopular comment from trolling and flamebait. -1:Flamebait and -1:Troll may as well be -1:I don't agree
if you didn't call me a tool. Thanks.
Don't worry the official job title is "System administrator"
- Signed HR
Sadly this was at a teaching hospital, but thanks for the info. I'm in Australia, but who knows how desperate we may one day be. International travel is unlikely but not out of the question.
Well of course a sharp knife can be used to carve a meal or to kill a mah, but the Internet isn't "simply" a tool. It empowers people. If I don't have a knife or any one simple tool no biggie, I find my way around it. The Internet does so much more than any one simple tool.
How about we counter with a positive campaign highlighting everything good about the net.
In no particular order
1) Information at the tip of your fingers. From rare medical problems to gossip about soap stars it's all at your fingertips
2) Positive for the economy.
3) Broadens your horizons
4) Meet and connect with people you'd never otherwise be able to
5) Develop your writing and arguing skills
6) Find people with common intests
7) Scientific collaboration and data transfer on a scale never before possible
8) Avoid queues by taking advantage of electronic payment
The net is great. If idiots want to scare monger, sane people should counter.
Actually he should publish his results so that the American public that fund the University he works at can benefit.
Since when were laptop batteries referred to as AI?
Forgive me if I sounded at all harsh or condescending. I've had a gut full of the medical profession just at the moment. It's a long story but a loved one suffers a rare condition that sees her present at the ER (as she did 2 days ago) and half the time it is misdiagnosed (incorrect technique) and she is labelled a mallingerer despite having a history with this condition. I've resorted to digging up medical articles on it but I don't like my chances of them actually listening even with the documentation.
A number of our institutions are badly broken and only getting worse. Chief among these are medicine, education and law. For all our advances aspects of these professions behave like they're still operating in 1600.
Of course, I cannot speak about the research in much detail. Journals don't like that much
You're a scientist and a researcher working at a (public??) university but can't speak about what you do. What's wrong with this picture? Rampant unchecked capitalism is little better than rampant unchecked communism.
Man I must've "fogotten" one very different time in my life. My fiancee will be very upset.
Behind the scenes it's actually sponsored by Steven for his old age. What did you think an 80 year old Steve still wants to be throwing chairs? No senior citizen Steve's will throw themselves at you at his command!!!
You don't understand. It's not a software solution. It's a hardware solution. It comes in a small well toolbox and consists of two tools. The "wired network tool" is a pair of clippers. The "wireless network tool" is a large hammer. The support number takes you straight to a lawyer that's happy to file a frivolous lawsuit for a modest fee.
Shall we ban all the evil terrorist-aiding public libraries too?
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going off to sleep with my highly exotic, highly energetic, and as-yet-undiscovered girlfriend.
The infamous undiscovered cun.....no I just can't do it
I've known men who like to run down the street peeing backwards. I haven't known them for long though.
I always smirk at the idea of standing in a toilet cubicle and peeing while spinning. I'd never actually do it, but I find the thought amusing. I guess some people don't know when an amusing thought should just remain a though.
A theatre is also no huge surprise. People are a little tipsy and they know they won't be held accountable and just do whatever. Animals yes. Difficult to understand no. Certainly not enough to make me ashamed of being a guy.
I understand it. If you don't put the seat down and the woman half asleep or distracted or whatever else misses that fact, she gets a lot of cold porcellain and perhaps pee (and even shit if you're a slob) on her ass, and can even get stuck half in. Disgusting. You know how women are conditioned in our society not to like roughing it. (I'm talking generally, there are women who like roughing it). Well getting cold surprises, pee and shit shatters their little pretty and clean illusion of what a house should be.
What happens if a guy forgets. At worst he pees on the toilet seat. If he realises he wipes his own pee off the seat, end of story.
I'm male and I get it.
I still think the best way is to close the lid so if it's stinky it don't stink up the whole house. On the other hand any woman that throughly worried about the position of the toilet seat and got worked up about it wouldn't be very attractive to me. There are more important things in life.