The only way to win this is to get FISA eliminated. Without first eliminating the gag orders and the Star Chamber...I mean FISA courts, we cannot succeed on the whole.
In the short run, the real question for me will not be how the cars communicate with each other, but how they handle the cars that do not communicate at all. Nobody wants to swap engine oil at 75MPH with the VW Bus going 55 just because the bus wasn't communicating. Just like how nobody wants to meet the driver of that car that had to stop short to avoid a hazard.
I think for me, the biggest feature I'd like to see is a HUD that gives me a relative speed on the cars around me along with warning indicators communicated from cars ahead when debris is noted on the road. Hate that last-minute slight swerve to dodge a thrown tyre-tread that I couldn't see until the swerve.
Dieting is problematic for one huge reason. People generally go about it in the most unhealthy of ways. Balance and portion control elude much of the West in this day and age. I know I'm certainly guilty of it, and I feel crappy healthwise.
Sitting is a huge problem too. Long commutes are similarly problematic. People often neglect to realize how much time they spend just sitting at the office, only to sit for 45 minutes or more both on the way to and from work, and then what little time is left is spent largely sitting at home.
Weather is also problematic, especially in climates where spending time outside is often impractical. The heat of Texas and the cold of some other region I've never lived in are made further difficult by the relative ease of Western life today. Gone are the days when outdoors is usually more pleasant than indoors in hot weather thanks to A/C, and modern heating soruces have all but eliminated the reason to be outside during cold winters except to get to and from heated vehicles. As a result, it's harder to handle the outside temperatures as one never acclimates to it.
OK, so basically a Marxist rant and a strange attempt to argue that nobody believed 1984 was a possibility (which tinfoil hats everywhere clearly disproved, along with the EFF's existence over a longer period of time than one might assume). I'm trying to figure out what point you're trying to make.
Murphy's law works against this particular article's premise too, and actually bolsters the "no". We're talking about the same human race that quickly abandoned the airship after one major disaster. One bad space station mishap and it's over for the whole concept.
That really cuts to the core of it. Microsoft used to have a business model around providing something everyone actually needed (and needed to pay for, legally speaking). Today, they seem primarily to be struggling with convincing people that their products should exist at all.
The thing about religion is that the information underlying it tends to be stuff people can largely agree upon as being "good things" if true. The problem is that when you try to institutionalize it, the information gets ignored and the opinions take over.
Privacy has a very different meaning to the average citizen as compared to the definition according to the government or corporations. I'm glad London is doing the right thing here.
I'm fascinated by the idea of an open-source phone, and hoping it might lead to a practical platform (rather than a half-functional hack) for actual Linux phones.
I liked how Thomas Sowell recently described it. Imagine a government agency which has two functions. Making statues of Benedict Arnold, and giving children life-saving vaccines. You cut their budget 50%. Obviously, they stop providing vaccines. Why? Because that's the part for which it will be easier to get funding restored.
Especially when the lines are added at different times, leaving no clue as to when the contractual obligation is really over, or to make the answer "never, unless somebody rides out an ancient phone for an extra 15 months or breaks the contract one at a time, making a new multi-line plan elsewhere impractical without paying exorbitant fees for the 'discount' we gave you on an outrageously marked-up phone."
The main difference is that people use emai boxes as document storage. Document storage and sealed letters are treated very differently under law, though both would require warrants to inspect the contents. The average physical document storage location, however, is not stored with a third party who includes contractual obligations upon the user to allow the storage provider access to that information for vairous processing purposes...in practice, including processing it to government agencies who request it.
The difference is, I already have a 7" tablet and phone in my pockets. Pretty much all the time for the phone, and about half the time for the tablet, except when I'm camping, hiking, or at home or the office (where they are usually nearby). Yes, I'm a cargo pants guy. Even so, the last thing I need is a third device that I have to carry with me. If my phone and tablet aren't up to it, I really can't be bothered with it.
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It will definitely take more. but it's a necessary starting point.
It's also protected from the Internet by not being web-capable. Score!
We've got plenty of courts. Constitutional ones. Ones that aren't exactly the reason we have a sixth amendment.
NAFTA and potential unit failures make your suggestion unacceptable. And that's not even including all the privacy concerns.
The only way to win this is to get FISA eliminated. Without first eliminating the gag orders and the Star Chamber...I mean FISA courts, we cannot succeed on the whole.
the problem with the prior art is that the display of that HUD is really buggy.
In the short run, the real question for me will not be how the cars communicate with each other, but how they handle the cars that do not communicate at all. Nobody wants to swap engine oil at 75MPH with the VW Bus going 55 just because the bus wasn't communicating. Just like how nobody wants to meet the driver of that car that had to stop short to avoid a hazard.
I think for me, the biggest feature I'd like to see is a HUD that gives me a relative speed on the cars around me along with warning indicators communicated from cars ahead when debris is noted on the road. Hate that last-minute slight swerve to dodge a thrown tyre-tread that I couldn't see until the swerve.
Dieting is problematic for one huge reason. People generally go about it in the most unhealthy of ways. Balance and portion control elude much of the West in this day and age. I know I'm certainly guilty of it, and I feel crappy healthwise.
Sitting is a huge problem too. Long commutes are similarly problematic. People often neglect to realize how much time they spend just sitting at the office, only to sit for 45 minutes or more both on the way to and from work, and then what little time is left is spent largely sitting at home.
Weather is also problematic, especially in climates where spending time outside is often impractical. The heat of Texas and the cold of some other region I've never lived in are made further difficult by the relative ease of Western life today. Gone are the days when outdoors is usually more pleasant than indoors in hot weather thanks to A/C, and modern heating soruces have all but eliminated the reason to be outside during cold winters except to get to and from heated vehicles. As a result, it's harder to handle the outside temperatures as one never acclimates to it.
OK, so basically a Marxist rant and a strange attempt to argue that nobody believed 1984 was a possibility (which tinfoil hats everywhere clearly disproved, along with the EFF's existence over a longer period of time than one might assume). I'm trying to figure out what point you're trying to make.
Murphy's law works against this particular article's premise too, and actually bolsters the "no". We're talking about the same human race that quickly abandoned the airship after one major disaster. One bad space station mishap and it's over for the whole concept.
That really cuts to the core of it. Microsoft used to have a business model around providing something everyone actually needed (and needed to pay for, legally speaking). Today, they seem primarily to be struggling with convincing people that their products should exist at all.
The thing about religion is that the information underlying it tends to be stuff people can largely agree upon as being "good things" if true. The problem is that when you try to institutionalize it, the information gets ignored and the opinions take over.
Privacy has a very different meaning to the average citizen as compared to the definition according to the government or corporations. I'm glad London is doing the right thing here.
I'm fascinated by the idea of an open-source phone, and hoping it might lead to a practical platform (rather than a half-functional hack) for actual Linux phones.
and yet less convincing than the original Star Wars.
I'm invoking Betteridge's law of headlines and saying "no."
I liked how Thomas Sowell recently described it. Imagine a government agency which has two functions. Making statues of Benedict Arnold, and giving children life-saving vaccines. You cut their budget 50%. Obviously, they stop providing vaccines. Why? Because that's the part for which it will be easier to get funding restored.
Especially when the lines are added at different times, leaving no clue as to when the contractual obligation is really over, or to make the answer "never, unless somebody rides out an ancient phone for an extra 15 months or breaks the contract one at a time, making a new multi-line plan elsewhere impractical without paying exorbitant fees for the 'discount' we gave you on an outrageously marked-up phone."
It wouldn't be so bad if you could order just the bread and put a penguin in between the halves.
The main difference is that people use emai boxes as document storage. Document storage and sealed letters are treated very differently under law, though both would require warrants to inspect the contents. The average physical document storage location, however, is not stored with a third party who includes contractual obligations upon the user to allow the storage provider access to that information for vairous processing purposes...in practice, including processing it to government agencies who request it.
I was thinking "collaborators" but your description is fascinating and more specific.
Personal priority or not, it's the sum of people's priorities that determines what does and does not make a profit.
It was intended insightfully, but the fact that people think it's funny actually kind of helps make my point.
The difference is, I already have a 7" tablet and phone in my pockets. Pretty much all the time for the phone, and about half the time for the tablet, except when I'm camping, hiking, or at home or the office (where they are usually nearby). Yes, I'm a cargo pants guy. Even so, the last thing I need is a third device that I have to carry with me. If my phone and tablet aren't up to it, I really can't be bothered with it.
You deserve credit for the Lords of Acid reference. I can only hope other users with mod points enjoy it was well.