The problem is that water isn't chlorinated THAT much... it would be like pool water. The problem is that typical showers stay "damp" and exposed to air from the faucet handle to the shower head. You have a 6 foot tube that's "damp" most of the day. Dampness in the shower head internals is where the mold finds a hold and once it gets growing it would move back into the parts of the head where water movement alone isn't enough to flush it out.
something like the CLR cleaning would probably get most of the germs, and they probably live in the extra space provided by the rust build up anyway. Personally, I like to take showers that are hotter thanthe "scald" valves at most places, so I'd figure that probably helps clean out things too.
Except I bought a brand NEW license of XP on my Acer netbook less than 1 year ago. That means Microsoft received NEW payment for that license in the last year (and a bunch of others) so obviously they're making money on it. Unlike patching cars you don't have to make additional parts, once you fix the problem in one copy of XP it is near-zero to fix the problem for ALL XPs as they're exactly the same.
My local stores still sell NEW netbooks with NEW licenses of XP on them... where's bug support for the new buyers?
At the end a few key pieces like Tracker and some desktop stuff was released as real open source, and enough developers had experience with the APIs to rebuild them. But a good deal of the time people were using 1999 versions of BeOS and rewriting each part in a "clean room" fashion. The OS was built from the ground up to have "replaceable" modules... but there was no LEGAL means to get the source and much was tied to companies other than Be so the rewrite had to be validly recreated.
They had a few Be-written programs in open source, and the toolchain was primarily GCC. The goal for Haiku's first round was BeOS V5 compatibility on X86 either 1999 hardware or in a VM because there was 10 years of hardware to catch up on too!!! Getting to this point means they've excised all "Be" IP from their builds and they can legally release it (and it works!).. which is an impressive achievement... after all even WINE runs on top of another OS for video/sound/etc.
but you really don't need GPS until the device comes down anyway.. that was more about finding your pictures and you still have 20,000 feet to chase the balloon in.
no, for legal reasons it's better if THEY control the data. If it only triggers when an event occurs then uploads that means no data is user-accessible on the device. That means the insurance company gets sued for the recordings not YOU, and they have lawyers to make sure they don't get screwed.
because one medial injury will offset ALL the premiums you'll pay for 20 years. True, CARS are cheap, I drive cars with PLPD most of the time because the car is not WORTH the difference in insurance cost. But medical bills far eclipse the value of the auto. That's why cars are designed to crumple to protect the passenger. Two to Three days in ICU costs more than several cars and auto makers and insurance companies know this.
so maybe the other drivers just don't like to signal... it's just a petty law getting other people up in your business, just like you choose to ignore the speed limit laws.
Pot calling Kettle, you can't CHOOSE to complain about people breaking SOME traffic rules while you brag about breaking OTHERS. That's why driving is such a mess!!
That's also why "computer engineers" get such a bad rap because they cause accidents from excessive speeding that may not be "their" fault but they were made worse by the speed or could have been prevented entirely by going a bit slower. "computer engineers" have this libertarian fantasy world (but not slashdot) they live in where everybody should do whatever they want... until somebody breaks a rule/law that affects THEM then expect the book thrown at them.
I agree, in the US this is why the feds passed rules for how long truck drivers can be on the road and make them keep log sheets. There was too much "make the deadline, we don't care how" going on and truckers were falling asleep trying to make their quotas.
Sounds like you're from the UK, but in the US companies HAVE been sued for demanding unsafe number of hours of work then leaving tired employees to "fend for themselves"...but it took the employees like you killing multiple other drivers for the case to actually stick.
What do you think all those wonderful "toolbars" are that people download. There was a push years ago from some company for a "sponsored" computer system... but people hook up with Google or Bing for free so it was too expensive to offer computers.
That's because Computer Engineers WANT to drive faster and more risky, but in reality spend most of their time in bumper-to-bumper highway traffic commuting.
Farmers on the other hand, drive pickup trucks across their fields without a damn care in the world. Jump on and off the road at will and generally drive like hellions. Of course they also drive with their trucks carrying 10 foot stacks of hay.. while towing two hay wagons... across the same fields.... Driving on the paved streets is a piece of cake!
They don't have to get a law making it mandatory... eventually all the insurance companies will be doing it and unless you pay lots of money for your "risky" behavior you'll get one too. It's a "private contract" after all (kind of like banks never finding a new fee they don't like)
Insurance is already mandatory, with few rules on how invasive they can be about finding "risk"... barring some medical records and a few other things they can "demand" anything, credit report, grades from your school, tax forms, workplace, neighborhood... at some point Google will start selling them your search requests, etc, etc.
I like that idea. you are correct, the idea of drives ed as "practice" time went out the window long ago. Most places had drivers ed as an actual class when I was that age and since schools have dropped it. This forces kids to take part-time classes where they might drive with instruction 4-5 times tops then get handed a "learners permit" to drive with their parents. Doughnuts in an empty lot is now "wreckless driving" in most places so practicing anything risky is verboten. Hence kids (and many adults) have no concept of driving under risky conditions except "don't do that" which lasts until they're late to work on a snowy Monday morning in January.
I like the idea of extra classes where you get to practice risky behavior and not just parallel parking. Perhaps a better plan would be to have kids take more of these AFTER they get their license... Doing doughnuts in a safe place is a great way to learn how a car behaves (and it's fun too!) the number of places you can practice driving badly for fun is next to zero in most places.
so when do they learn to drive at night? Because the risk clock for learning to adapt doesn't start until you get practice.
The silly idea of restricted licenses just moves the problem another 2-3 years down the road.... I expect in 5 years 27 will be the new 25 for getting out of the insurance gutter when the risk factor shifts up from the restricted license laws.
not really, because the telco often won't roll out required build-outs for DSL where Cable "might" choose to roll out lines. In many areas they choose to "non-compete" in installation of new hardware leaving the existing service as the de facto monopoly.
I live with lots of friends that are "one more mile" away from cable or DSL service and due to that kind of behavior it will never happen. While people with competition in town bicker about 5Mb vs 12Mb speeds people 5 miles away languish with only dial-up... and unless the government grants some kind of NEW monopoly like removing telephone competition rules or allowing cable companies to limit internet sites you can visit the companies simply won't step up to upgrade telephone wire to internet wire.
exactly, that's so "American" to associate a "thing" with a bad behavior... ban the thing and then nobody will be bad for other reasons.
I like the "red cars" thing.. red cars are "bad" because they're cool and young, risky divers like them, but do red cars make people drive more dangerously, or do adventurous people choose exciting red cars? More importantly, since the insurance company publicly states "red cars are bad" many people gaming the system buy black, white, silver, or green cars to "hide in the herd".
So Red == bad doesn't make any rational sense because dangerous drivers will choose something else.
Seatbelt usage is important. Automakers are fined millions of dollars if they don't put the belts through proper testing as well as being required to add all sorts of other safety features. Eventually the same law that makes Automakers install the seatbelts has to make the driver and passengers USE the safety equipment.
Secondly, every injury case involving somebody NOT wearing a belt should be thrown out as you are stating the person accepted the risks. Insurance companies shouldn't be required to pay for "excess" damages you incurred versus somebody who did wear their seatbelt. Courts shouldn't have to deal with cases of damage when the other driver is at fault but YOU accepted extra risk..... but lots of other people are already accepting monetary risk because YOU don't where your seatbelt. The obvious thing is to reduce damages to people by requiring them.
everybody misses the obvious. This wont' ever be legally "mandated".. but eventually insurance companies won't let you have insurance without it.
After one speeding ticket or accident (no matter fault) the choice will be to pay $500 extra for 3 years or install this system for "free"... which of course will eventually have monitoring fees/law enforcement uses as usage grows. So as soon as law enforcement give everybody one speedy cam ticket, everybody will be "required" by insurance to have this.... and you legally have to carry insurance.
That's not entirely true. There are lots of effects in movies used for cleanup... wire work removal, editing street signs, removing bystanders, etc. That most people wouldn't even know were originally on the film. They don't use it for things like "Avatar" because they want it to look CGI and "unrealistic" but it's used all the time in movies to beef up car chases and enhance special effects most people wouldn't even notice.
paper mail is very legal. If you certify a document sent via "normal Mail" like many court summons, then it is legally binding that you received the document at that address. In the case of paper mail You would have a copy that was notarized and the post would have copy of the register if you paid for registered service, but "normal mail" is legally enough. Fax documents can be traced by the phone company (non-repudiation is one thing email doesn't do yet) that your fax called their fax. So if you press for a document faxed 9 months ago and legal retention is 1 year "lost in the mail" is not a valid defense a court will accept if it was to be retained.
The SEC is VERY clear that for business purposes like insider trading, contract negotiation and such that emails, slashdot posts, twitters, IMs going out of your business are all "relevant communications" that's why companies are absolutely paranoid about firewalls these days and ANY personal use of emails and such is strictly limited as much as possible. It's always ironic that running the city/state/country is never as important as running the smallest corporation!
That's where Bush and Cheney won in spades because they kept their dealings as "executive rights" so nobody could get them in court to answer for things like Gitmo...they simply refused the summons and fired any DoJ officers that pushed them. They also used "executive privilege" to get out of several other related cases for them and their buddies. It was hilarious when a Republican President had to deal with Democrat controlled Congress "after Clinton" and the Democrats went out of their way to prove they weren't nasty, even when they had the President dead to rights for ACTUAL impeachment obstructing justice in the spying case and gitmo. BushCo benefited from the "but Clinton" defense in spades the last 2 years.
Obama really needs to issue an executive order to lock them (and their families, aids, hairdressers, etc) up until we get answers to some of those questions... after all the President has that right now and there's empty space in Gitmo soon for new political prisoners!
Glad you believe that but it's distraction by the "right". Rather than address issues like relaxing reporting requirements for banks and investment firms for 20 years, rather than discuss the merits of continual corporate buyouts and the affect of corporate raiders on long term manufacturing base (oh wait, the fat cats got their money and we lost?) we worry about if the President diddled the secretary.
where was our moral outrage at heads of investment banks that needed to be bailed out... but their "private" citizens so it didn't matter? Where was Congressional outrage on their lavish lifestyles that lasted more than 5 minutes? People that read the Bible are blessed with being Rich... and if you don't live "morally" you deserve to be Poor... and Poor are poor because their immoral or not moral enough to be rich... that's the US believe system in a nutshell.
And when facebook closes down in 2014? They have no retention policy, they have no open file formats for exporting to archivists.... when they go bankrupt and the power company turns out the lights that information's just gone. Poof.
It's all electronic and there are no mandates to keep information in useful formats. If they're following Google's model then they don't even keep "backup" tapes they just keep information in three or more redundant parts of their cluster when one box fails they trash it and install a new node that rebuilds. When the bills stop being paid and the system is farmed out for scrap pieces those RAIDS full of data are totally useless.
it's not about IT staff it's about what the business and lawyers need.. sorry. At my company we had a 90 day retention for email inboxes and after that it had to be filed in "retention" folders with the purpose marked or in the case of sales, they probably printed the materials out and put it in a physical file folder for contract purposes.
The 90 day camp is cute and common because people think by deleting everything they're spared discovery/FIOA requests.. but that's very not true. If a project takes 3 years then the entire correspondence must be kept for the 3 years, plus the historical period after the project is done. Electronic cleanup doesn't exempt you from discovery or FIOA requests for information you are obligated to keep. Filing stuff in paper means that a clever lawyer can compel the court to shut you down while they dig through your file cabinets for information..and it automatically puts you in contempt-of-court should a judge order 91 day old emails produced (like what's going with Apple vs. Pystar)
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The problem is that water isn't chlorinated THAT much... it would be like pool water. The problem is that typical showers stay "damp" and exposed to air from the faucet handle to the shower head. You have a 6 foot tube that's "damp" most of the day. Dampness in the shower head internals is where the mold finds a hold and once it gets growing it would move back into the parts of the head where water movement alone isn't enough to flush it out.
something like the CLR cleaning would probably get most of the germs, and they probably live in the extra space provided by the rust build up anyway. Personally, I like to take showers that are hotter thanthe "scald" valves at most places, so I'd figure that probably helps clean out things too.
Except I bought a brand NEW license of XP on my Acer netbook less than 1 year ago. That means Microsoft received NEW payment for that license in the last year (and a bunch of others) so obviously they're making money on it. Unlike patching cars you don't have to make additional parts, once you fix the problem in one copy of XP it is near-zero to fix the problem for ALL XPs as they're exactly the same.
My local stores still sell NEW netbooks with NEW licenses of XP on them... where's bug support for the new buyers?
At the end a few key pieces like Tracker and some desktop stuff was released as real open source, and enough developers had experience with the APIs to rebuild them. But a good deal of the time people were using 1999 versions of BeOS and rewriting each part in a "clean room" fashion. The OS was built from the ground up to have "replaceable" modules... but there was no LEGAL means to get the source and much was tied to companies other than Be so the rewrite had to be validly recreated.
They had a few Be-written programs in open source, and the toolchain was primarily GCC. The goal for Haiku's first round was BeOS V5 compatibility on X86 either 1999 hardware or in a VM because there was 10 years of hardware to catch up on too!!! Getting to this point means they've excised all "Be" IP from their builds and they can legally release it (and it works!).. which is an impressive achievement... after all even WINE runs on top of another OS for video/sound/etc.
but you really don't need GPS until the device comes down anyway.. that was more about finding your pictures and you still have 20,000 feet to chase the balloon in.
no, for legal reasons it's better if THEY control the data. If it only triggers when an event occurs then uploads that means no data is user-accessible on the device. That means the insurance company gets sued for the recordings not YOU, and they have lawyers to make sure they don't get screwed.
because one medial injury will offset ALL the premiums you'll pay for 20 years. True, CARS are cheap, I drive cars with PLPD most of the time because the car is not WORTH the difference in insurance cost. But medical bills far eclipse the value of the auto. That's why cars are designed to crumple to protect the passenger. Two to Three days in ICU costs more than several cars and auto makers and insurance companies know this.
so maybe the other drivers just don't like to signal... it's just a petty law getting other people up in your business, just like you choose to ignore the speed limit laws.
Pot calling Kettle, you can't CHOOSE to complain about people breaking SOME traffic rules while you brag about breaking OTHERS. That's why driving is such a mess!!
That's also why "computer engineers" get such a bad rap because they cause accidents from excessive speeding that may not be "their" fault but they were made worse by the speed or could have been prevented entirely by going a bit slower. "computer engineers" have this libertarian fantasy world (but not slashdot) they live in where everybody should do whatever they want... until somebody breaks a rule/law that affects THEM then expect the book thrown at them.
I agree, in the US this is why the feds passed rules for how long truck drivers can be on the road and make them keep log sheets. There was too much "make the deadline, we don't care how" going on and truckers were falling asleep trying to make their quotas.
Sounds like you're from the UK, but in the US companies HAVE been sued for demanding unsafe number of hours of work then leaving tired employees to "fend for themselves".. .but it took the employees like you killing multiple other drivers for the case to actually stick.
What do you think all those wonderful "toolbars" are that people download. There was a push years ago from some company for a "sponsored" computer system... but people hook up with Google or Bing for free so it was too expensive to offer computers.
that's a scam because the DATA is worth big money. Why should anybody do "work" of data recording for free? That's not capitalism!!!!
That's because Computer Engineers WANT to drive faster and more risky, but in reality spend most of their time in bumper-to-bumper highway traffic commuting.
Farmers on the other hand, drive pickup trucks across their fields without a damn care in the world. Jump on and off the road at will and generally drive like hellions. Of course they also drive with their trucks carrying 10 foot stacks of hay.. while towing two hay wagons... across the same fields.... Driving on the paved streets is a piece of cake!
They don't have to get a law making it mandatory... eventually all the insurance companies will be doing it and unless you pay lots of money for your "risky" behavior you'll get one too. It's a "private contract" after all (kind of like banks never finding a new fee they don't like)
Insurance is already mandatory, with few rules on how invasive they can be about finding "risk"... barring some medical records and a few other things they can "demand" anything, credit report, grades from your school, tax forms, workplace, neighborhood... at some point Google will start selling them your search requests, etc, etc.
I like that idea. you are correct, the idea of drives ed as "practice" time went out the window long ago. Most places had drivers ed as an actual class when I was that age and since schools have dropped it. This forces kids to take part-time classes where they might drive with instruction 4-5 times tops then get handed a "learners permit" to drive with their parents. Doughnuts in an empty lot is now "wreckless driving" in most places so practicing anything risky is verboten. Hence kids (and many adults) have no concept of driving under risky conditions except "don't do that" which lasts until they're late to work on a snowy Monday morning in January.
I like the idea of extra classes where you get to practice risky behavior and not just parallel parking. Perhaps a better plan would be to have kids take more of these AFTER they get their license... Doing doughnuts in a safe place is a great way to learn how a car behaves (and it's fun too!) the number of places you can practice driving badly for fun is next to zero in most places.
so when do they learn to drive at night? Because the risk clock for learning to adapt doesn't start until you get practice.
The silly idea of restricted licenses just moves the problem another 2-3 years down the road.... I expect in 5 years 27 will be the new 25 for getting out of the insurance gutter when the risk factor shifts up from the restricted license laws.
not really, because the telco often won't roll out required build-outs for DSL where Cable "might" choose to roll out lines. In many areas they choose to "non-compete" in installation of new hardware leaving the existing service as the de facto monopoly.
I live with lots of friends that are "one more mile" away from cable or DSL service and due to that kind of behavior it will never happen. While people with competition in town bicker about 5Mb vs 12Mb speeds people 5 miles away languish with only dial-up... and unless the government grants some kind of NEW monopoly like removing telephone competition rules or allowing cable companies to limit internet sites you can visit the companies simply won't step up to upgrade telephone wire to internet wire.
exactly, that's so "American" to associate a "thing" with a bad behavior... ban the thing and then nobody will be bad for other reasons.
I like the "red cars" thing.. red cars are "bad" because they're cool and young, risky divers like them, but do red cars make people drive more dangerously, or do adventurous people choose exciting red cars? More importantly, since the insurance company publicly states "red cars are bad" many people gaming the system buy black, white, silver, or green cars to "hide in the herd".
So Red == bad doesn't make any rational sense because dangerous drivers will choose something else.
Seatbelt usage is important. Automakers are fined millions of dollars if they don't put the belts through proper testing as well as being required to add all sorts of other safety features. Eventually the same law that makes Automakers install the seatbelts has to make the driver and passengers USE the safety equipment.
Secondly, every injury case involving somebody NOT wearing a belt should be thrown out as you are stating the person accepted the risks. Insurance companies shouldn't be required to pay for "excess" damages you incurred versus somebody who did wear their seatbelt. Courts shouldn't have to deal with cases of damage when the other driver is at fault but YOU accepted extra risk. .... but lots of other people are already accepting monetary risk because YOU don't where your seatbelt. The obvious thing is to reduce damages to people by requiring them.
everybody misses the obvious. This wont' ever be legally "mandated".. but eventually insurance companies won't let you have insurance without it.
After one speeding ticket or accident (no matter fault) the choice will be to pay $500 extra for 3 years or install this system for "free"... which of course will eventually have monitoring fees/law enforcement uses as usage grows. So as soon as law enforcement give everybody one speedy cam ticket, everybody will be "required" by insurance to have this.... and you legally have to carry insurance.
That's not entirely true. There are lots of effects in movies used for cleanup... wire work removal, editing street signs, removing bystanders, etc. That most people wouldn't even know were originally on the film. They don't use it for things like "Avatar" because they want it to look CGI and "unrealistic" but it's used all the time in movies to beef up car chases and enhance special effects most people wouldn't even notice.
it probably uploads via wireless so the recording is not stored in your car at all to tamper with.
paper mail is very legal. If you certify a document sent via "normal Mail" like many court summons, then it is legally binding that you received the document at that address. In the case of paper mail You would have a copy that was notarized and the post would have copy of the register if you paid for registered service, but "normal mail" is legally enough. Fax documents can be traced by the phone company (non-repudiation is one thing email doesn't do yet) that your fax called their fax. So if you press for a document faxed 9 months ago and legal retention is 1 year "lost in the mail" is not a valid defense a court will accept if it was to be retained.
The SEC is VERY clear that for business purposes like insider trading, contract negotiation and such that emails, slashdot posts, twitters, IMs going out of your business are all "relevant communications" that's why companies are absolutely paranoid about firewalls these days and ANY personal use of emails and such is strictly limited as much as possible. It's always ironic that running the city/state/country is never as important as running the smallest corporation!
That's where Bush and Cheney won in spades because they kept their dealings as "executive rights" so nobody could get them in court to answer for things like Gitmo...they simply refused the summons and fired any DoJ officers that pushed them. They also used "executive privilege" to get out of several other related cases for them and their buddies. It was hilarious when a Republican President had to deal with Democrat controlled Congress "after Clinton" and the Democrats went out of their way to prove they weren't nasty, even when they had the President dead to rights for ACTUAL impeachment obstructing justice in the spying case and gitmo. BushCo benefited from the "but Clinton" defense in spades the last 2 years.
Obama really needs to issue an executive order to lock them (and their families, aids, hairdressers, etc) up until we get answers to some of those questions... after all the President has that right now and there's empty space in Gitmo soon for new political prisoners!
Glad you believe that but it's distraction by the "right". Rather than address issues like relaxing reporting requirements for banks and investment firms for 20 years, rather than discuss the merits of continual corporate buyouts and the affect of corporate raiders on long term manufacturing base (oh wait, the fat cats got their money and we lost?) we worry about if the President diddled the secretary.
where was our moral outrage at heads of investment banks that needed to be bailed out... but their "private" citizens so it didn't matter? Where was Congressional outrage on their lavish lifestyles that lasted more than 5 minutes? People that read the Bible are blessed with being Rich... and if you don't live "morally" you deserve to be Poor... and Poor are poor because their immoral or not moral enough to be rich... that's the US believe system in a nutshell.
And when facebook closes down in 2014? They have no retention policy, they have no open file formats for exporting to archivists.... when they go bankrupt and the power company turns out the lights that information's just gone. Poof.
It's all electronic and there are no mandates to keep information in useful formats. If they're following Google's model then they don't even keep "backup" tapes they just keep information in three or more redundant parts of their cluster when one box fails they trash it and install a new node that rebuilds. When the bills stop being paid and the system is farmed out for scrap pieces those RAIDS full of data are totally useless.
it's not about IT staff it's about what the business and lawyers need.. sorry. At my company we had a 90 day retention for email inboxes and after that it had to be filed in "retention" folders with the purpose marked or in the case of sales, they probably printed the materials out and put it in a physical file folder for contract purposes.
The 90 day camp is cute and common because people think by deleting everything they're spared discovery/FIOA requests.. but that's very not true. If a project takes 3 years then the entire correspondence must be kept for the 3 years, plus the historical period after the project is done. Electronic cleanup doesn't exempt you from discovery or FIOA requests for information you are obligated to keep. Filing stuff in paper means that a clever lawyer can compel the court to shut you down while they dig through your file cabinets for information..and it automatically puts you in contempt-of-court should a judge order 91 day old emails produced (like what's going with Apple vs. Pystar)