Watching some fool drive 10mph below the posted speed limit in the left lane drives me nuts:-(
why ?
It amazes me how people tend to think that
a) the road is for them only and everyone should drive as that owner wishes
b) the speed limit is wrong and they know it better. A bit like the Far West, some few 100 years ago when farmers decided who to hang and who not
c) 10mph makes a difference
d) it's going to help anyone giving middle fingers
while your remark is insightfull, it is irrelevant towards my post : speeding isn't necessary ! the main issue is that speeders always find a reason (a fake one) to speed. They ALWAYS have an excuse, like a 15year old... it's really amazing but also frightening how they simply are unable to accept the law. They always think they know better.
The core issue is that a rule is not always (probably seldom) perfect. But it is not up to them to improve it on their own behalf
the main issue is that those speeders always find a reason (a fake one) to speed. They ALWAYS have an excuse, like a 15year old... it's really amazing but also frightening how they simply are unable to accept the law. They always think they know better.
The core issue is that a rule is not always (probably seldom) perfect. But it is not up to them to improve it on their own behalf
okay, i'm gona be a bit lame here, but your reasoning stinks:
you're speeding as you pass a car on a 4way lane. That means you pass a car that wasn't speeding. Either he was doing speed limit tops (give/take 5%), and you had no reason to pass him, or he was going a lot slower and you passed him at breakneck speed difference. Just stay behind him !!!!!! What is it with this bypass envy these days ???
I stand by my original statement : people always try to find excuses to speed, where only in very very few cases they are right, and in those cases there is always something like justice where you can tell your story. Forensics will prove the car indeed swept you. With or withou box, such an accident would wind up in court anyway !
I know that in the USA, speed limits are different from europe. Where I live (Belgium), speed limit is 120km/h on highways. Practically everyone goes over that by a margin of 10km/h. Which is tolerated by cameras. I used to do it too, until we bought a new car, a renault traffic, which is a LOT bigger than our previous car, an opel tigra. The renault can do 150km/h easily, as did the tigra (shitcar BTW), but since you have a completely different view of traffic (it's a van), you feel speed diferently. Nowadays I drive 120km/h tops, and found out a few things:
- I consume 15% to 25% less fuel. Amazing isn't it ? This is mainly due to not constantly accelerating to 130-140 just to break again 1 minute later. My speed remains far more constant
- I get everywhere at the same time as i did when i drove faster. There is ZERO difference on average. I do Brussels-Ostend (150km) every week, and there's really no difference since i started driving slower.
- I feel safer, calmer and less stressed. I never thought that this 10km/h speed difference would make such a mental difference. I 've started listening to music again, since at 130-140km/h, i had to focus on traffic instead of music.
- the whole 'you have to drive along with the flow' thing is complete and utter bollocks. Traffic flows in blocks, that group themselves around a group of trucks who can't bypass eachother since they have speed limiters. Cars just move from block to block. The speeders wiggle their way thru these blocks a few % faster than the rest, and then pull up to 150km/h untill they reach the next block 10secs later. I just reach that block 12seconds later.
Honestly : just give it a try and drive slower. you'll notice that most of your prejudices are balooney.
Note : driving slower has one explicit effect : middle fingers from freaks who think their lives are so filled up, they really need those 10% they think they can shave off in traffic. Usually types who wash their car every week and thereby lose hours of time:-)
there's one flaw in your reasoning : your little black box says you were speeding slightly.
Now, let's start with the assumption that the device works properly. (if you start to question that, you can't have any reasonable discussion anymore) So you were speeding. So you were breaking the law. So you were at fault. So you do deserve to be considered part of the problem.
I do agree that this device is bad because of privacy issues, but the argument you're bringing up is a dead argument used by many : But sir, I WAS ONLY A LITTLE BIT AT FAULT, AND HIM THERE WAS WAY OVER IT
Who's going to draw that line ? How much can you surpass the speed limit ? 2% ? 10% ? Some say 50% depending on weather conditions. Who judges these weather conditions ? Does the forecast have a subsection "the weather is prefect to go 12.7% over the speedlimit today" ?
My point : once you admit you were at fault, you have nothing more to say about not being guilt at all. I'm not saying that you're the complete problem, but at least for gods sake ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR ERROR AND BEAR THE CONSEQUENCES. Even if that implies your insurance goes up 10% (hey, maybe next time you won't be speeding anymore and save a kids life ?)
Many people live by a standard "you did more wrong than me, so you're to blame". I have kids age 5 and 3, and they do this all the time 'okay, i broke a glass, but he broke 2 and did it first'. I don't care what the other did. You'll both get reprimanded independently of the others.
It's called growing up. Try and get some.
Note : sorry if this comment was flammable, but the kids were annoying today (heatwave overhere so they can't play outside and get obnoxious to get at me) and I burned all my fuel trying to stay reasonable.
a very stupid question from a non-engineer : is it not possible to have non-directed optical signals ? Some sort of 'ambiet laser'. I understand that you'd have to go low voltage in order not to burn everything around you, but aren't pulsar stars some sort of ambient light beacon ? ? And how about we set up SETI to search for radioactivity residue slung into space ??
The fact that it is an insane idea is quite sufficient for many IT managers to start it up. Just look around you at the major companies with large IT staff. They really believe in a constant problem complexity/developer manpower ratio : if it gets more complex, throw more peeps at it
that's exactly what the grandparent and the article are talking about : make software cheap and do it fast by means of a beowulf cluster of developers...
gee... that beowulf thing seems ontopic for the first time
replying to self for all the 'mac ain't a gaing rig' noodles out there : i know that. All I was trying to say is that the Dell, supposedly some of the cheapest hardware for he masses, can not create a high end system below (or at least on par with) the renowned high-end desktop system companies, with primum example the G5.
The fact that the software isn't available on the G5 is even more in its advantage, since they can not sell in large quantities to the gaming masses to push the price down.
conclusions :
- shame on Dell for selling a high end computer more expensive than the competition in the high end desktop.
- shame on Dell again for fuckin over the gamers by releasing it as the uber game station where a 199$ PS2 would probably outclass it on 90% of the games
- shame on the slashdotters that defend such a purchase in the name of a monster-game-machine.
go to the apple store, go to store UK (since the article is in £ instead of $) pick the dual 1.8, add 512MB ram to get to 1GB, upgrde video card to 9800XT the upgrade to 250GB harddisk, add a 20inch flatscreen and hit 'update total'. Voila 3288£ compared to £3176 for the dell (with a 17inch monitor only, but 40GB. Okay, the dell has a 800X video card, but that's a mere 100£ difference)
and now you have a decent OS.
- during the dotcom, a lot of folks called themselves 'IT professionals' but were hardly anything like it at all.
- the number of it-pro's itself is completely irrelevant : maybe they learned something new and make a living now. What counts is the percentage of unemployed it-pros versus all it-pros, and the number of unemployed it-pro's versus the global unemployment percentage
ermh... so you prefer an installation application without instructions to copy over a bunch of files (with subdirs) into your ut directory, screwing up your pristine ut2004 install for some mod ?
that is under the assumption that malware spreads only via http clicks... I consider it very likely that future malware will spread trhu direct connections, P2P networks, infected downloads,...
If the malware itself operates in a silent way (i.e. not blatantly plop ads all over your screen, but rather replace existing ads with his own crap), it can be very tricky to pinpoint a guilty party
You mean like we want to do with spammers ? We all now how well that worked
Face it : malware is the new spam, and it is a lot harder to detect & isolate. OSX & linux users may be safe for now since the problem is moved from mailserver to client machine, but it is only a matter of time until java malware shows up.
The ONLY solution is keeping the OS secure, the firewall tight and the user aware not to click bogus utilities. That and a network wide hosts file that redirects a lot of crap.
ehm.. how about encrytpting and securing your network ? leaving your wifi network without password is like a door with no locks. After locking the air + encrypting all data, you're pretty safe. A lot safer than NOT encrytping it and considering this wallpaper safe
Slashdot Mirror
the games have allready begun. Check your timetable.
if you're reporting something, at least get the time right...
Watching some fool drive 10mph below the posted speed limit in the left lane drives me nuts :-(
why ?
It amazes me how people tend to think that
a) the road is for them only and everyone should drive as that owner wishes
b) the speed limit is wrong and they know it better. A bit like the Far West, some few 100 years ago when farmers decided who to hang and who not
c) 10mph makes a difference
d) it's going to help anyone giving middle fingers
I'm glad i don't live in your town
while your remark is insightfull, it is irrelevant towards my post : speeding isn't necessary ! the main issue is that speeders always find a reason (a fake one) to speed. They ALWAYS have an excuse, like a 15year old... it's really amazing but also frightening how they simply are unable to accept the law. They always think they know better.
The core issue is that a rule is not always (probably seldom) perfect. But it is not up to them to improve it on their own behalf
the main issue is that those speeders always find a reason (a fake one) to speed. They ALWAYS have an excuse, like a 15year old... it's really amazing but also frightening how they simply are unable to accept the law. They always think they know better.
The core issue is that a rule is not always (probably seldom) perfect. But it is not up to them to improve it on their own behalf
okay, i'm gona be a bit lame here, but your reasoning stinks :
you're speeding as you pass a car on a 4way lane. That means you pass a car that wasn't speeding. Either he was doing speed limit tops (give/take 5%), and you had no reason to pass him, or he was going a lot slower and you passed him at breakneck speed difference. Just stay behind him !!!!!! What is it with this bypass envy these days ???
I stand by my original statement : people always try to find excuses to speed, where only in very very few cases they are right, and in those cases there is always something like justice where you can tell your story. Forensics will prove the car indeed swept you. With or withou box, such an accident would wind up in court anyway !
I know that in the USA, speed limits are different from europe. Where I live (Belgium), speed limit is 120km/h on highways. Practically everyone goes over that by a margin of 10km/h. Which is tolerated by cameras. I used to do it too, until we bought a new car, a renault traffic, which is a LOT bigger than our previous car, an opel tigra. The renault can do 150km/h easily, as did the tigra (shitcar BTW), but since you have a completely different view of traffic (it's a van), you feel speed diferently. Nowadays I drive 120km/h tops, and found out a few things :
:-)
- I consume 15% to 25% less fuel. Amazing isn't it ? This is mainly due to not constantly accelerating to 130-140 just to break again 1 minute later. My speed remains far more constant
- I get everywhere at the same time as i did when i drove faster. There is ZERO difference on average. I do Brussels-Ostend (150km) every week, and there's really no difference since i started driving slower.
- I feel safer, calmer and less stressed. I never thought that this 10km/h speed difference would make such a mental difference. I 've started listening to music again, since at 130-140km/h, i had to focus on traffic instead of music.
- the whole 'you have to drive along with the flow' thing is complete and utter bollocks. Traffic flows in blocks, that group themselves around a group of trucks who can't bypass eachother since they have speed limiters. Cars just move from block to block. The speeders wiggle their way thru these blocks a few % faster than the rest, and then pull up to 150km/h untill they reach the next block 10secs later. I just reach that block 12seconds later.
Honestly : just give it a try and drive slower. you'll notice that most of your prejudices are balooney.
Note : driving slower has one explicit effect : middle fingers from freaks who think their lives are so filled up, they really need those 10% they think they can shave off in traffic. Usually types who wash their car every week and thereby lose hours of time
there's one flaw in your reasoning : your little black box says you were speeding slightly.
Now, let's start with the assumption that the device works properly. (if you start to question that, you can't have any reasonable discussion anymore) So you were speeding. So you were breaking the law. So you were at fault. So you do deserve to be considered part of the problem.
I do agree that this device is bad because of privacy issues, but the argument you're bringing up is a dead argument used by many : But sir, I WAS ONLY A LITTLE BIT AT FAULT, AND HIM THERE WAS WAY OVER IT
Who's going to draw that line ? How much can you surpass the speed limit ? 2% ? 10% ? Some say 50% depending on weather conditions. Who judges these weather conditions ? Does the forecast have a subsection "the weather is prefect to go 12.7% over the speedlimit today" ?
My point : once you admit you were at fault, you have nothing more to say about not being guilt at all. I'm not saying that you're the complete problem, but at least for gods sake ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR ERROR AND BEAR THE CONSEQUENCES. Even if that implies your insurance goes up 10% (hey, maybe next time you won't be speeding anymore and save a kids life ?)
Many people live by a standard "you did more wrong than me, so you're to blame". I have kids age 5 and 3, and they do this all the time 'okay, i broke a glass, but he broke 2 and did it first'. I don't care what the other did. You'll both get reprimanded independently of the others.
It's called growing up. Try and get some.
Note : sorry if this comment was flammable, but the kids were annoying today (heatwave overhere so they can't play outside and get obnoxious to get at me) and I burned all my fuel trying to stay reasonable.
a very stupid question from a non-engineer : is it not possible to have non-directed optical signals ? Some sort of 'ambiet laser'. I understand that you'd have to go low voltage in order not to burn everything around you, but aren't pulsar stars some sort of ambient light beacon ? ? And how about we set up SETI to search for radioactivity residue slung into space ??
yup. And the message is 41,99999999 (ad finitum)
if you outlaw meta tags, only outlaws will have metatags
The fact that it is an insane idea is quite sufficient for many IT managers to start it up. Just look around you at the major companies with large IT staff. They really believe in a constant problem complexity/developer manpower ratio : if it gets more complex, throw more peeps at it
that's exactly what the grandparent and the article are talking about : make software cheap and do it fast by means of a beowulf cluster of developers...
gee... that beowulf thing seems ontopic for the first time
mod this down please. yuk. I hadn't seen goatse in a long time and forgot how hideous it is
replying to self for all the 'mac ain't a gaing rig' noodles out there : i know that. All I was trying to say is that the Dell, supposedly some of the cheapest hardware for he masses, can not create a high end system below (or at least on par with) the renowned high-end desktop system companies, with primum example the G5.
The fact that the software isn't available on the G5 is even more in its advantage, since they can not sell in large quantities to the gaming masses to push the price down.
conclusions :
- shame on Dell for selling a high end computer more expensive than the competition in the high end desktop.
- shame on Dell again for fuckin over the gamers by releasing it as the uber game station where a 199$ PS2 would probably outclass it on 90% of the games - shame on the slashdotters that defend such a purchase in the name of a monster-game-machine.
go to the apple store, go to store UK (since the article is in £ instead of $) pick the dual 1.8, add 512MB ram to get to 1GB, upgrde video card to 9800XT the upgrade to 250GB harddisk, add a 20inch flatscreen and hit 'update total'. Voila 3288£ compared to £3176 for the dell (with a 17inch monitor only, but 40GB. Okay, the dell has a 800X video card, but that's a mere 100£ difference)
and now you have a decent OS.
- during the dotcom, a lot of folks called themselves 'IT professionals' but were hardly anything like it at all.
- the number of it-pro's itself is completely irrelevant : maybe they learned something new and make a living now. What counts is the percentage of unemployed it-pros versus all it-pros, and the number of unemployed it-pro's versus the global unemployment percentage
summary : this article doesn't mean shit.
I guess many will have corrected you by now, but you must mean here instead
ermh... so you prefer an installation application without instructions to copy over a bunch of files (with subdirs) into your ut directory, screwing up your pristine ut2004 install for some mod ?
riiiight...
that is under the assumption that malware spreads only via http clicks... I consider it very likely that future malware will spread trhu direct connections, P2P networks, infected downloads, ...
If the malware itself operates in a silent way (i.e. not blatantly plop ads all over your screen, but rather replace existing ads with his own crap), it can be very tricky to pinpoint a guilty party
You mean like we want to do with spammers ?
We all now how well that worked
Face it : malware is the new spam, and it is a lot harder to detect & isolate. OSX & linux users may be safe for now since the problem is moved from mailserver to client machine, but it is only a matter of time until java malware shows up.
The ONLY solution is keeping the OS secure, the firewall tight and the user aware not to click bogus utilities. That and a network wide hosts file that redirects a lot of crap.
hey dude, thanks for that hosts file. Impressive collection !
ehm.. how about encrytpting and securing your network ? leaving your wifi network without password is like a door with no locks. After locking the air + encrypting all data, you're pretty safe. A lot safer than NOT encrytping it and considering this wallpaper safe
for the first airborne trojan horse !
:-)
Now all it needs is WiFi, and it can mass infect
With php being the most popular serverside scripting language, I can imagine servers still being compromised for years to go...
I wonder how long it will take Apple to update the apache php4lib.so on its system. They have a pretty good track record on bug fixes
i haven't checked other machines.. I'vegot only one portable:-)