The way it worked in this test program was a small monitor would gauge your speed (now that I think about it, another monitor guaging breaking habits could also be useful) such that if you were obeying the speed limits, you would get a discount on your insurance.
Hrm I can see it now. Someone barreling at you from behind, but I'm not going to speed up because I can't afford higher insurance.
*CRASH!*
..
Clearly, there are some major problems with this whole idea.
The idea isn't to fine people automatically (like in Demolition Man) but to reward people for good driving habits. The real piece of technology that needed improvement was GPS -> speed limit mapping, once that is perfected, I personally can't wait to sign up for this type of program.
Heh, great movie. Yeah I'd sign up for the speed bit (JUST speed) myself. I really do drive the speed limit, often in the right lane and nearly get run down. It's bullshit.
Imagine sensors tracking your head or the usage of radio buttons or wether you used the turn signal. What about that stop sign before the intersection..
Yeah remember that rolling stop (that is, not a full stop to 0.00000000 MPH)? Get in at accident in the next 5 minutes, you don't get shit.
Interesting thought.
Then again, in my eyes if you did a rolling stop, it isn't a stop at all anyway.. Call me technical. But if I get hit by someone who didn't do a full stop when I had right of way, it would be nice to be able to prove he didn't stop.
One of the people quoted in that article, Graham Hancock, is often on the Art Bell show. Regardless of what you think of Art or the show, it is always interesting when Graham is on.
I used to enjoy this game, but then a few servers started making the latency requirred to be so low that only broadband can play. The servers just boot dial up users after a while..
There goes something else down the tubes for dial up, thanks to those certain server admins..
And the rest of the servers stink anyway... The games networking either way needs some serious work, but I don't have much faith since dial ups are just ignored today anway.
Which is a shame for millions like myself, where there isn't a reasonable alternative (sattelite != reasonable).
All of these attempts to stop computer users from playing them in the computer are silly. Obviously an attempt to prevent ripping.
But anyone with a clue.. and yes, i realize this isn't most computer users... will work around it. I mean gimme a break, all you have to do is play it on a 'standard' cd audio player, into line in, and record. Yes, it'll be at 1.0x, but hey, if someone wants it that bad...
Yeah, I'm a zealot. Its why i submitted the story after all.
I could care less about Opera. Mozilla is special to me, being fully open source like this and its own rather large community backing it. Opera is closed source and.. and uh.. hrm. Not much else to say.
Heh, I'm gonna get bitched at by someone for this.
Not sure if this works anymore.
On any 2k box (pro, server, advanced server), as any user, go to a command shell. run something that takes more than a split second to run, such as dir \s (or was it/s? whatever) and while that is running:
1) press F7 , release 2) press enter, release 3) repeat 1:2 many times (10 should do) 4) press ctl-c and watch what happens
2) Good PR. MS looks like a saint for helping out the struggling education system.
I would agree if this was the high-school level system. But we're talking universities that cost quite a bit of money to go to. They aren't struggling.
"Pirates seek to profit off the enormous popularity of DVDs by using the latest in technology to illegally manufacture DVD copies of Hollywood films, and again dupe consumers into purchasing a wholly inferior product," MPAA Chief Executive Jack Valenti said in a statement.
Well, when you copy a wholly inferior product, you get the same thing out, right?
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Yo, why's it gotta be a BLACK BOX?!
(if this offends you, good.)
The way it worked in this test program was a small monitor would gauge your speed (now that I think about it, another monitor guaging breaking habits could also be useful) such that if you were obeying the speed limits, you would get a discount on your insurance.
Hrm I can see it now. Someone barreling at you from behind, but I'm not going to speed up because I can't afford higher insurance.
*CRASH!*
..
Clearly, there are some major problems with this whole idea.
The idea isn't to fine people automatically (like in Demolition Man) but to reward people for good driving habits. The real piece of technology that needed improvement was GPS -> speed limit mapping, once that is perfected, I personally can't wait to sign up for this type of program.
Heh, great movie. Yeah I'd sign up for the speed bit (JUST speed) myself. I really do drive the speed limit, often in the right lane and nearly get run down. It's bullshit.
Imagine sensors tracking your head or the usage of radio buttons or wether you used the turn signal. What about that stop sign before the intersection..
Yeah remember that rolling stop (that is, not a full stop to 0.00000000 MPH)? Get in at accident in the next 5 minutes, you don't get shit.
Interesting thought.
Then again, in my eyes if you did a rolling stop, it isn't a stop at all anyway.. Call me technical. But if I get hit by someone who didn't do a full stop when I had right of way, it would be nice to be able to prove he didn't stop.
The article made it sound like this would be a near real-time data relay to a huge database.
That should make ya nervous. If not, can we make your car(s) the first public test gerbil?
Too bad there's all that LZW patent / fee bullsh*t. Which is why I won't use .gif anywhere on any site that I run.
This isn't just paranoia, you can be fined for this.
http://burnallgifs.org/
Oh my GOD this is FUNNY!!
.. (or is it?).
Wait, no it isn't.
Yes it is! HAHA!
Er no! It's lame shit like this that makes the US government the laughing stock of the world! At least this isn't harmful
HAHA.
Very funny.
However, you forgot "so like" and "hosers" heh.
One of the people quoted in that article, Graham Hancock, is often on the Art Bell show. Regardless of what you think of Art or the show, it is always interesting when Graham is on.
http://www.artbell.com/
I'll bet money that IE is the only browser that will do terribly stupid things like install software without prompting.
It pisses me off companies are taking advantage of it, but at the same time MS sets things up by default to ALLOW being taken advantage of.
Screw the customer, right MS?
Yeah no doubt. The CLIENT is left to tell the server when the player has died or not. A trivial code mod and you never die.
It reminds me of CS. But there is a major difference: bzflag developers are creating a fix, and this won't be a problem in 1.8.
I used to enjoy this game, but then a few servers started making the latency requirred to be so low that only broadband can play. The servers just boot dial up users after a while..
There goes something else down the tubes for dial up, thanks to those certain server admins..
And the rest of the servers stink anyway... The games networking either way needs some serious work, but I don't have much faith since dial ups are just ignored today anway.
Which is a shame for millions like myself, where there isn't a reasonable alternative (sattelite != reasonable).
All of these attempts to stop computer users from playing them in the computer are silly. Obviously an attempt to prevent ripping.
But anyone with a clue.. and yes, i realize this isn't most computer users... will work around it. I mean gimme a break, all you have to do is play it on a 'standard' cd audio player, into line in, and record. Yes, it'll be at 1.0x, but hey, if someone wants it that bad...
I'll certainly be giving this to family / friends. Nice, plain language. Perfect.
I guess I should feel special. I got a reply, which SEEMS to be human, from Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).
This is rather hard to say...
But I've been having such thoughts. This is outrageous.
And I know I'm not alone.
My god!
We thought we had it bad, now we have poteintally two seperate bills trying the same thing!
I don't think writing letters and making phone calls is a sure fire way to stop either of these.
What are we to do? SERIOUSLY?
In most cases for me, yes.
Hmm. Try loading the page, and then file / edit, and hit the source tab.
This is just a GUESS.
Yeah, I'm a zealot. Its why i submitted the story after all.
I could care less about Opera. Mozilla is special to me, being fully open source like this and its own rather large community backing it. Opera is closed source and.. and uh.. hrm. Not much else to say.
Heh, I'm gonna get bitched at by someone for this.
/s? whatever) and while that is running:
:P
Not sure if this works anymore.
On any 2k box (pro, server, advanced server), as any user, go to a command shell. run something that takes more than a split second to run, such as dir \s (or was it
1) press F7 , release
2) press enter, release
3) repeat 1:2 many times (10 should do)
4) press ctl-c and watch what happens
Lemme know if anything happens
They can see through the hype. They would rather contribute to society at large than become pawns of Corporate America.
I'm guessing most don't care, as long as they are getting a fat wallet. Which is what Microsoft is betting on.
Definately not a surprise, considering many journalists are taught to write at what is supposed to be the average readers level: 8th grade.
2) Good PR. MS looks like a saint for helping out the struggling education system.
I would agree if this was the high-school level system. But we're talking universities that cost quite a bit of money to go to. They aren't struggling.
I sure hope you're prepared to dump all that MS flab when the time comes that they try to force you to.
"Pirates seek to profit off the enormous popularity of DVDs by using the latest in technology to illegally manufacture DVD copies of Hollywood films, and again dupe consumers into purchasing a wholly inferior product," MPAA Chief Executive Jack Valenti said in a statement.
Well, when you copy a wholly inferior product, you get the same thing out, right?
Jagoffs.