You know, three weeks ago I was in a left-hand turn lane in my van, so yes, I was a motorist at the time. There were two lanes next to me pointed the same way I was, sitting at the red light. The light turned green, the light turned yellow, the light turned red, neither of those two vehicles even noticed and the cars behind them didn't honk, them my left-turn green arrow came on and I left them at the intersection.
The mobile phone use problem is worse than most people know. Riding high on a hybrid bike like I do I can see it. When I first started cycling regularly I figured 1 in 10 would be on their phones, turns out it's two in three or so, actively talking with a phone to their ear or texting while cruising along.
In my van I have the really shitty Ford/Microsoft stereo so I hand hands-free talk. In Volkswagen, which is too base of a model for that I have a $15 Bluetooth gadget that plugs into my AUX jack that lets me hands free talk. I very, very rarely place a call while driving, only answering and keeping my hands, eyes, and head engaged in the driving process. Even then I try not to talk too much or too long. If I get a text I try to pass it off to a passenger and if I don't have one they can wait until I'm stopped somewhere.
If I'm on my bike they can wait. I've got a Bluetooth speaker for my bike with a microphone, but that's not good for either end of the conversation, answering from my bike is mostly "I'm biking and I can't hear you for shit, I'll call you back when I get there" no matter who it is.
Well, I can see you know little about looking around the world without seeing the light filtered through your large intestine.
If you'll read what I wrote there really aren't any cars around when I chose to pedal through stop signs, or I would stop. That sort of negates everything you just said.
There's a difference between legality, morality, and rationality. I stick with rationality the most, supplemented by morality. Legality applies only when the other two force the issue. Rolling through stop signs in residential areas with no traffic doesn't kick the legality argument in except when a cop is very visibly sitting there, and sometimes not even then. Rationality kicks it in when there's traffic. Legality is first and foremost in the thoughts of slaves, not free men.
You were likely in Seattle, Portland, or some other left-wing city where this sort of thing is encouraged or at least tolerated. Those of us in rougher areas would never try that.
I know you weren't in Houston, like I am. In Houston even cyclist obeying every law, bending over backwards to be courteous, or even going so far as to ride through the grass and stay all the way off the road will have beer bottle, sodas and insults hurled at them in the right parts of the city. I've heard tale of motorist running cyclist into the grass in straight up violation of every traffic and safety law, then threaten to call the cops on THEM.
I was a serious biker. That means I didn't do lycra or a road bike. I customized the hell out of a hybrid so it carried everything I needed.
I used to laugh to myself when I, on my three speed hybrid with a "trunk bag" that had a full change of clothes in it would blow past these lycra wearing weekend bikers on $15,000 road bikes wearing cargo shorts and a T-Shirt. That's right largish tires too, 26x1.95, none of that minimum on the ground stuff, I had to commute on real streets and even off them a little.
I did maintain somewhere in the 15 mph range on the long stretch.
If I'm out in real traffic, I honor traffic signals just like motor vehicles. I actually annoy some people in motor vehicles at stoplights because when the light turns green I can clean an intersection before the car out front puts away their mobile phone and steps on the gas. In fact one of my biggest annoyances as a cyclist is when people are overly courteous to me. I'm planning my next move based on people driving normally, slowing down and being overly cautious of me screws up my planning - cars not using their turn signals is one of my biggest annoyances, because I'm going to adjust my speed according to what the motor vehicles around me are signaling before crossing that next intersection where I and the traffic I'm riding along with have the right-or-way.
As for residential areas. Many stop signs in residential areas are there not to regulate the intersection as much as they are to keep motor vehicles slowed down to safe speeds. If I'm in a residential area and I can see there's no traffic at that next stop sign, damned straight I'm blowing right through it like it's not even there. It takes me a lot more distance for me to achieve cruising speed than it does a motor vehicle - stop signs are a bigger deal to me. If there's traffic I'm going to treat it like I'm in a motor vehicle, but damned straight I'm blowing through it in a quiet residential area.
the Sears Wishbook is how I told everyone what I wanted for Christmas. That toy section was just about worn out from all the flipping through the pages I did. When you got something for Christmas from Sears it was usually obvious too - my Masters of the Universe toys came in cardboard box two-packs instead of the standard single item blister packs, and things that usually came in boxes usually came in plain brown cardboard boxes with monochrome print on the outside instead of the fully color shelf print.
Of what Amazon does that I disapprove of, bringing back a real toy catalog might be one of those things they do that I can get along with. Sure, it probably wont have the heft of the Wishbook, but there were other, supplemental small catalogs too....
As a KDE user I personally deprecated RedHat back in 2001 or so when I switched to SuSE Linux, and abandoned RPM all together when I switched to Debian Etch.
Redhat - the corporate world loves it, but actual people who like Gnu/Linux seem not to.....
Who is preventing competition from entering the markets?
It's not the big players directly. It's the big players bribing government and begging for regulation. Regulation is something the big players can bear, but is much of a burden for little guys.
Begging for MORE government makes you a useful idiot.
I like to have a phone as a remote control mostly because my wife can lose a remote in record time and I like SOMETHING to control it with. I've mostly used a PlayStation 3 and my own Kodi server for movies, Netflix, and Hulu up until I got this Vizio that has the Netflix, Hulu, and ability to playback from my Kodi server built in.
Basically, with the completely unreasonable security requirements built into the Android app - and as I discovered yesterday lack of support for normal DLNA/UPNP DMR abilities I'm really going to have to keep up with that remote. I'm seriously thinking about custom building a cage for it with a tether to an end table.
I was given a Vizio TV. So, yesterday I decided to install the remote control program.
THE PROGRAM WILL NOT FUNCTION UNLESS YOU ENABLE GPS LOCATION.
The excuse was so that it could locate devices and WiFi networks near you. I want it to work on exactly one TV on exactly one network. I did no provide permission, uninstalled the app, gave it a one star on the Play Store and ranted about why. I'm not the first to rant about that after a glance through.
I personally think this is awesome and would love to have one. We're slaughtering all those cows everyday to make non-vegan food, we may as well make good use of the leftovers. Leather can be used for so much more than belts and boots.
I personally prefer bison. Any way I can get a bison-hide model?
for at least what? Three presidential elections? I have no doubt Google adjust "trending" and "may interest" you to try to swing votes towards Democrats. An article with three reshares and a +12 does not equal trending enough to come across the feed of a active, been elected to office, following groups of my interest Libertarian. I was making meme's about how Obama and Romney were practically the same guy, far left things do not by any means fit my "interest". In the current day it's pretty clear I'm not on the big media bandwagon, Google is obviously trying to sway me towards big media again, just like Slashdot is trying to convince the science is settled on all things climate change.
Google is guilty as charged.
As to the U.S. government doing something about it? That's complicated. On a pure freedom grounds no. On the other hand they do try to pass themselves off as common carrier in some respects. They are also a public company, meaning they have certain requirements towards the public. To top it off when you get into the shady parts of Google's origins they took a lot of federal money to gather data for the feds, they are a company that has to report to the government simply because the government has funded them so much, some of it above board, some under the table.
Usually I'm all about letting companies/individuals do as they please and have the government leave them alone, I'll chose if I want to do business with them or not. Trust me, it stresses my wife out keeping track of the number of businesses and companies I don't do business with. Google is so deep in bed with the feds all their STDs match, so they're a special case, just like Facebook.
I've got a reasonable idea of how data flows overall. One of the big components of how data flows is backbone. The ISP I worked at used Savvis back in the day, most traffic winds up going over a backbone somewhere, IP addresses are controlled by a central authority, and DNS is controlled by a central authority.
The increased level of chaos I'm referring to leaves out the need for a backbone - though having a few would help, as long as your I.P. works with your neighbor it doesn't matter if someone somewhere else is using it also as long as you're not on the same cluster, and well, no DNS but naming sucks for the time being.
I'm not saying that what I'm talking about will work great, especially at first, but I do believe that the chaos can come to some order. Yes, I do expect massive amounts of equipment failure and latency to start, and maybe forever, but getting away from central control is the goal, how it's done matters a little less.
I can terminate fiber - did it for a company this past week. I've discussed at length how to do neighborhood networks with my buddy on the drives to work and back. When I discovered IPFS is was the answer to everything I ever wanted to get going. Private networks bridged between my local buds with firewalls and gateways to the outside so we can control what connects us together and what sets us apart? Friggin awesome! Right now I'm working on public works type project so I'm learning a little about how to pull off more long-distance things.
Get some more official big-peering/routing nodes going to help tie the rest of the chaos together, it wouldn't take much to make a world-wide uncontrolled mesh net.
The Internet as we know it is pretty well thought out and purposefully built. Once you start getting into IPFS and block-chain peer to peer land you legitimately have and option to network with peer to peer chaos. No need for DNS, theoretically you could have hosts not running TCP/IP participating and huge chunks could be offline at any given time and the chaos still manages to work.
The difference: Web-proper - managed under authority with the ability of individuals and organizations to dictate how data flows. Web 3.0 - decentralized peer to peer chaos that still manages to work
In a decade you won't even have to be on the "web proper" to be networked in.
Once you get proper Web 3.0 decentralized networks running - like the Akasha beta you don't need web proper. All you need to be is attached to another node, even without web-proper access and you can communicate anywhere. I hope to see neighborhood mesh networks be it WiFi or cable-over-the-fence networks, as long as you've got a machine or two somewhere connected to the web then you've got worldwide communication going. Once we figure out how to make IPFS have some reasonable naming systems the old-school web will matter less and less.
On the N64 Mortal Kombat Trilogy Shang Tsung was playable, but if you won a match while morphed into another character the game would freeze nearly every time. I think I had the first version, I hope there was a revision after that....
Sony to their credit put a barrel plug on the PSP Anyone can make a barrel plug - in addition they used mini USB which can also be supplied by anyone and they did it on the same unit. That's a far cry from those funky connectors Nintendo did - open standards versus proprietary.
You also conveniently omit where they used a non-standard power connector on the original Vita. I did omit that, but I also addressed it when I said (I don't have the rest for comment) If you would like to send me a Vita I would still like to have one and will include it in future comments.
As for the part where you bash me for not bashing the memory stick I did say: Sony - notorious for lock-in and incompatibility,
Every single thing you called me out for was addressed in my original post.
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No, I completely lack the hired goons needed to ensure my freedom should I decide to break laws that actually matter.
You know, three weeks ago I was in a left-hand turn lane in my van, so yes, I was a motorist at the time. There were two lanes next to me pointed the same way I was, sitting at the red light. The light turned green, the light turned yellow, the light turned red, neither of those two vehicles even noticed and the cars behind them didn't honk, them my left-turn green arrow came on and I left them at the intersection.
The mobile phone use problem is worse than most people know. Riding high on a hybrid bike like I do I can see it. When I first started cycling regularly I figured 1 in 10 would be on their phones, turns out it's two in three or so, actively talking with a phone to their ear or texting while cruising along.
In my van I have the really shitty Ford/Microsoft stereo so I hand hands-free talk. In Volkswagen, which is too base of a model for that I have a $15 Bluetooth gadget that plugs into my AUX jack that lets me hands free talk. I very, very rarely place a call while driving, only answering and keeping my hands, eyes, and head engaged in the driving process. Even then I try not to talk too much or too long. If I get a text I try to pass it off to a passenger and if I don't have one they can wait until I'm stopped somewhere.
If I'm on my bike they can wait. I've got a Bluetooth speaker for my bike with a microphone, but that's not good for either end of the conversation, answering from my bike is mostly "I'm biking and I can't hear you for shit, I'll call you back when I get there" no matter who it is.
Well, I can see you know little about looking around the world without seeing the light filtered through your large intestine.
If you'll read what I wrote there really aren't any cars around when I chose to pedal through stop signs, or I would stop. That sort of negates everything you just said.
There's a difference between legality, morality, and rationality. I stick with rationality the most, supplemented by morality. Legality applies only when the other two force the issue. Rolling through stop signs in residential areas with no traffic doesn't kick the legality argument in except when a cop is very visibly sitting there, and sometimes not even then. Rationality kicks it in when there's traffic. Legality is first and foremost in the thoughts of slaves, not free men.
You were likely in Seattle, Portland, or some other left-wing city where this sort of thing is encouraged or at least tolerated. Those of us in rougher areas would never try that.
I know you weren't in Houston, like I am. In Houston even cyclist obeying every law, bending over backwards to be courteous, or even going so far as to ride through the grass and stay all the way off the road will have beer bottle, sodas and insults hurled at them in the right parts of the city. I've heard tale of motorist running cyclist into the grass in straight up violation of every traffic and safety law, then threaten to call the cops on THEM.
Here's a historical account of one of my own Houston encounters.
I was a serious biker. That means I didn't do lycra or a road bike. I customized the hell out of a hybrid so it carried everything I needed.
I used to laugh to myself when I, on my three speed hybrid with a "trunk bag" that had a full change of clothes in it would blow past these lycra wearing weekend bikers on $15,000 road bikes wearing cargo shorts and a T-Shirt. That's right largish tires too, 26x1.95, none of that minimum on the ground stuff, I had to commute on real streets and even off them a little.
I did maintain somewhere in the 15 mph range on the long stretch.
I'm of mixed feelings about this.
It depends on where the stop signs are.
If I'm out in real traffic, I honor traffic signals just like motor vehicles. I actually annoy some people in motor vehicles at stoplights because when the light turns green I can clean an intersection before the car out front puts away their mobile phone and steps on the gas. In fact one of my biggest annoyances as a cyclist is when people are overly courteous to me. I'm planning my next move based on people driving normally, slowing down and being overly cautious of me screws up my planning - cars not using their turn signals is one of my biggest annoyances, because I'm going to adjust my speed according to what the motor vehicles around me are signaling before crossing that next intersection where I and the traffic I'm riding along with have the right-or-way.
As for residential areas. Many stop signs in residential areas are there not to regulate the intersection as much as they are to keep motor vehicles slowed down to safe speeds. If I'm in a residential area and I can see there's no traffic at that next stop sign, damned straight I'm blowing right through it like it's not even there. It takes me a lot more distance for me to achieve cruising speed than it does a motor vehicle - stop signs are a bigger deal to me. If there's traffic I'm going to treat it like I'm in a motor vehicle, but damned straight I'm blowing through it in a quiet residential area.
the Sears Wishbook is how I told everyone what I wanted for Christmas. That toy section was just about worn out from all the flipping through the pages I did. When you got something for Christmas from Sears it was usually obvious too - my Masters of the Universe toys came in cardboard box two-packs instead of the standard single item blister packs, and things that usually came in boxes usually came in plain brown cardboard boxes with monochrome print on the outside instead of the fully color shelf print.
Of what Amazon does that I disapprove of, bringing back a real toy catalog might be one of those things they do that I can get along with. Sure, it probably wont have the heft of the Wishbook, but there were other, supplemental small catalogs too....
As a KDE user I personally deprecated RedHat back in 2001 or so when I switched to SuSE Linux, and abandoned RPM all together when I switched to Debian Etch.
Redhat - the corporate world loves it, but actual people who like Gnu/Linux seem not to.....
So:
You've just admitted laws don't work.
Your solution?
Another law.
Who is preventing competition from entering the markets?
It's not the big players directly. It's the big players bribing government and begging for regulation. Regulation is something the big players can bear, but is much of a burden for little guys.
Begging for MORE government makes you a useful idiot.
The government grants to improve rural broadband have been dumped into the mobile divisions of said companies, and into executive bonuses.
It's time to de-regulate instead.
That, and he's right of course.
Facebook robots with cameras to track humans inside their own homes
I'm right there with you.
I like to have a phone as a remote control mostly because my wife can lose a remote in record time and I like SOMETHING to control it with. I've mostly used a PlayStation 3 and my own Kodi server for movies, Netflix, and Hulu up until I got this Vizio that has the Netflix, Hulu, and ability to playback from my Kodi server built in.
Basically, with the completely unreasonable security requirements built into the Android app - and as I discovered yesterday lack of support for normal DLNA/UPNP DMR abilities I'm really going to have to keep up with that remote. I'm seriously thinking about custom building a cage for it with a tether to an end table.
I was given a Vizio TV. So, yesterday I decided to install the remote control program.
THE PROGRAM WILL NOT FUNCTION UNLESS YOU ENABLE GPS LOCATION.
The excuse was so that it could locate devices and WiFi networks near you. I want it to work on exactly one TV on exactly one network. I did no provide permission, uninstalled the app, gave it a one star on the Play Store and ranted about why. I'm not the first to rant about that after a glance through.
I personally think this is awesome and would love to have one. We're slaughtering all those cows everyday to make non-vegan food, we may as well make good use of the leftovers. Leather can be used for so much more than belts and boots.
I personally prefer bison. Any way I can get a bison-hide model?
for at least what? Three presidential elections? I have no doubt Google adjust "trending" and "may interest" you to try to swing votes towards Democrats. An article with three reshares and a +12 does not equal trending enough to come across the feed of a active, been elected to office, following groups of my interest Libertarian. I was making meme's about how Obama and Romney were practically the same guy, far left things do not by any means fit my "interest". In the current day it's pretty clear I'm not on the big media bandwagon, Google is obviously trying to sway me towards big media again, just like Slashdot is trying to convince the science is settled on all things climate change.
Google is guilty as charged.
As to the U.S. government doing something about it? That's complicated. On a pure freedom grounds no. On the other hand they do try to pass themselves off as common carrier in some respects. They are also a public company, meaning they have certain requirements towards the public. To top it off when you get into the shady parts of Google's origins they took a lot of federal money to gather data for the feds, they are a company that has to report to the government simply because the government has funded them so much, some of it above board, some under the table.
Usually I'm all about letting companies/individuals do as they please and have the government leave them alone, I'll chose if I want to do business with them or not. Trust me, it stresses my wife out keeping track of the number of businesses and companies I don't do business with. Google is so deep in bed with the feds all their STDs match, so they're a special case, just like Facebook.
Then you go ahead and get onto spy-net instead of the wild-wild-web. OR depending on the situation you run your own fiber or private tunnel.
I cut my teeth on Netware 3.0
I helped to start an ISP.
I've got a reasonable idea of how data flows overall. One of the big components of how data flows is backbone. The ISP I worked at used Savvis back in the day, most traffic winds up going over a backbone somewhere, IP addresses are controlled by a central authority, and DNS is controlled by a central authority.
The increased level of chaos I'm referring to leaves out the need for a backbone - though having a few would help, as long as your I.P. works with your neighbor it doesn't matter if someone somewhere else is using it also as long as you're not on the same cluster, and well, no DNS but naming sucks for the time being.
I'm not saying that what I'm talking about will work great, especially at first, but I do believe that the chaos can come to some order. Yes, I do expect massive amounts of equipment failure and latency to start, and maybe forever, but getting away from central control is the goal, how it's done matters a little less.
I can terminate fiber - did it for a company this past week. I've discussed at length how to do neighborhood networks with my buddy on the drives to work and back. When I discovered IPFS is was the answer to everything I ever wanted to get going. Private networks bridged between my local buds with firewalls and gateways to the outside so we can control what connects us together and what sets us apart? Friggin awesome! Right now I'm working on public works type project so I'm learning a little about how to pull off more long-distance things.
Get some more official big-peering/routing nodes going to help tie the rest of the chaos together, it wouldn't take much to make a world-wide uncontrolled mesh net.
Of course I recognize that.
The Internet as we know it is pretty well thought out and purposefully built. Once you start getting into IPFS and block-chain peer to peer land you legitimately have and option to network with peer to peer chaos. No need for DNS, theoretically you could have hosts not running TCP/IP participating and huge chunks could be offline at any given time and the chaos still manages to work.
The difference:
Web-proper - managed under authority with the ability of individuals and organizations to dictate how data flows.
Web 3.0 - decentralized peer to peer chaos that still manages to work
Ain't gonna happen! That's what you said, and I swear I won't forget that dumb remark until I'm dead!
In a decade you won't even have to be on the "web proper" to be networked in.
Once you get proper Web 3.0 decentralized networks running - like the Akasha beta you don't need web proper. All you need to be is attached to another node, even without web-proper access and you can communicate anywhere. I hope to see neighborhood mesh networks be it WiFi or cable-over-the-fence networks, as long as you've got a machine or two somewhere connected to the web then you've got worldwide communication going. Once we figure out how to make IPFS have some reasonable naming systems the old-school web will matter less and less.
I am now informed.
Don't have a PS4, just sort of assumed since they've pretty much been emulating the original anyways.....
On the N64 Mortal Kombat Trilogy Shang Tsung was playable, but if you won a match while morphed into another character the game would freeze nearly every time. I think I had the first version, I hope there was a revision after that....
Sony to their credit put a barrel plug on the PSP
Anyone can make a barrel plug - in addition they used mini USB which can also be supplied by anyone and they did it on the same unit. That's a far cry from those funky connectors Nintendo did - open standards versus proprietary.
You also conveniently omit where they used a non-standard power connector on the original Vita.
I did omit that, but I also addressed it when I said (I don't have the rest for comment) If you would like to send me a Vita I would still like to have one and will include it in future comments.
As for the part where you bash me for not bashing the memory stick I did say:
Sony - notorious for lock-in and incompatibility,
Every single thing you called me out for was addressed in my original post.