I just wish everyone would say it correctly - "Daylight Saving Time". It's not "Savings".
I know I should expect the editors to get it correct in the post subject line but hey, it's Slashdot.
We visited the Sistene Chapel and the tour stops right outside the room and the guide is very clear "Be quiet and absolutely no flash photography" and then you walk in and its absolutely packed with people being loud and taking flash pictures.
My experiences differ from yours. I've been to the Sistene Chapel twice in the last five years and did not see any flash photography. The guards were very active in making sure people weren't taking pictures and even checking on people with cameras out to remind them not to take pictures.
It did get fairly loud in there because of the sheer number of people in the room. The guards would try to "shush" people now and then to lower the volume, which did help, but not for very long. Individual people weren't loud but it was so crowded that the overall volume was loud.
My Prius model year 2006 came in with the maps stored in a DVD that was updated in Feb 2005. Car is still going strong, giving me 45 mpg in summer and about 40 mpg in winter. No problems, no issues. Except for that stupid map-DVD. Toyota thinks the updated DVD is worth 200$. And furthermore, only an authorized dealer technician can do this impossibly difficult task of ejecting old dvd and inserting the new one, labor at 80$ an hour. And the local dealer charges 20$ a day "storage fee" if you don't pick the car up when they call you to say it is done. It is a rip off. No one in right mind is paying for this stuff.
A few years ago I updated the map DVD in my sister's 2006 Prius. The DVD came with instructions and it was easy to do. The dealership sold me the DVD and did not try to insist that only an authorized technician could do the job.
Therefore, the issue isn't whether schools have a right to police students' activities outside of school; but rather if actions taken in the world of cyberspace can or should be held to the same standards as those taken in print or public discourse.
Maybe you read a different article than I did, but the whole point is not whether they did something wrong but rather can the school suspend them for actions taken outside the school. It's long been settled that actions taken in cyberspace can have the same consequences as outside of it. The important issue here is how much power do schools have? I hope they do get smacked down and limited to actions taken on school and at school functions. The principals should have addressed this matter in civil court where they would likely easily win.
Tell that to the group of bad parents that expect you to basically raise their children. It's not unheard of for schools to have to provide not only education, but meals, social training, and deal with behavioral issues.
If the teachers can't tell that to the parents then they are not doing THEIR job.
Schools providing meals, social training, etc., are things that are happening inside the school. What is happening outside of the school is outside the authority of the school.
He probably did not have time to discover it was the floor mat causing the problem. That's something I never would have thought of in an emergency. As for turning off the ignition: (LA Times article):
One obvious line of defense is to simply shut off the engine, a step that may not be intuitive on the ES 350. The car has a push-button start system, activated by the combination of a wireless electronic fob carried by the driver and a button on the dashboard.
But once the vehicle is moving, the engine will not shut off unless the button is held down for a full three seconds -- a period of time in which Saylor's car would have traveled 528 feet. A driver may push the button repeatedly, not knowing it requires a three-second hold.
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The other common defense tactic advised by experts is to simply shift a runaway vehicle into neutral. But the ES 350 is equipped with an automatic transmission that can mimic manual shifting, and its shift lever on the console has a series of gates and detents that allow a driver to select any of at least four forward gears.
One obvious line of defense is to simply shut off the engine, a step that may not be intuitive on the ES 350. The car has a push-button start system, activated by the combination of a wireless electronic fob carried by the driver and a button on the dashboard.
But once the vehicle is moving, the engine will not shut off unless the button is held down for a full three seconds -- a period of time in which Saylor's car would have traveled 528 feet. A driver may push the button repeatedly, not knowing it requires a three-second hold.
One obvious line of defense is to simply shut off the engine, a step that may not be intuitive on the ES 350. The car has a push-button start system, activated by the combination of a wireless electronic fob carried by the driver and a button on the dashboard.
But once the vehicle is moving, the engine will not shut off unless the button is held down for a full three seconds -- a period of time in which Saylor's car would have traveled 528 feet. A driver may push the button repeatedly, not knowing it requires a three-second hold.
"When you are dealing with an emergency, you can't wait three seconds for the car to respond at 120 miles an hour," said Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety.
The ES 350 Saylor was driving that day was a loaner provided to him by Bob Baker Lexus when he took his family's Lexus in for servicing. It's unclear whether Saylor's own car had the same feature or whether he was aware of the shutdown procedure. Bob Baker Lexus did not return calls.
That's a great idea. You realize, of course, that people would immediately start adding additional questions and turning away people who don't give the right answer. Two personal favorites are "Who are you going to vote for?" and "What color is your skin?"
I just received a modem/router from Verizon for DSL access and they had wireless access preset to a "random" SSID and WEP key which was printed on the modem. Of course, they then went and had the administration account be admin/password.
Ouch. The last thing you want to do is blow up a satellite with explosives. We already have a potentially huge problem with space debris and producing another few hundred bits flying around isn't going to help. Remember the Chinese test in January? Some experts are worried we're reaching a critical mass of junk which will cause a chain reaction that will make the orbital space unusable.
Another good reason to pay cash whenever you can. Unfortunately, this does raise the inconvenience factor a great deal. Around here I can buy (for cash) a Visa gift card at the mall which is used a lot like a credit card. I was able to use this is some of the places a credit card is required, even some online services.
Rather the causes include the facts that distributed storage is hard, and people don't like loosing their data.
Can I be the first to comment on the old "lose/loose" thing?
Of course, in this case "loosing" the data may be appropriate as it gets set loose on a bunch of machines...
Thank you, Slashdot, for a good bit 'o morning humor. There's nothing quite as funny as seeing links to a 5Mb and 20Mb video on the front page of Slashdot. Burn server burn!
The author gets high marks for addressing safety -- both the driver's and the vehicle's -- before any modification. The emphasis on maintaining legal and effective safety devices on a tuner car is something you are not likely to get during an argument about which upgrade path is optimal, nor is it obvious that many safety 'upgrades' -- 4-point harnesses, flashy roll-bars -- actually decrease driver safety when used on the street. In addition the author consistently gives warning when introducing a mod that could put added stress on a vehicle.
Just curious - how can 4-point harnesses and roll-bars decrease safety? I can understand how a "style bar" which is something that looks like a roll bar but without the true structural strength, can be dangerous, but not how harnesses and real roll bars.
Does anyone have any statistics on the load a/. link puts on a web site? i.e. how many hits per minute or total hits in an hour, etc. Does putting a link here force hundreds, thousands, or millions of hits on a site?
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I just wish everyone would say it correctly - "Daylight Saving Time". It's not "Savings". I know I should expect the editors to get it correct in the post subject line but hey, it's Slashdot.
Uber doesn't allow tips. Mind you, the drivers are all absolutely still private contractors thank you very much.
Uber doesn't REQUIRE tips, but it does allow them. https://help.uber.com/h/f7385b...
We visited the Sistene Chapel and the tour stops right outside the room and the guide is very clear "Be quiet and absolutely no flash photography" and then you walk in and its absolutely packed with people being loud and taking flash pictures.
My experiences differ from yours. I've been to the Sistene Chapel twice in the last five years and did not see any flash photography. The guards were very active in making sure people weren't taking pictures and even checking on people with cameras out to remind them not to take pictures.
It did get fairly loud in there because of the sheer number of people in the room. The guards would try to "shush" people now and then to lower the volume, which did help, but not for very long. Individual people weren't loud but it was so crowded that the overall volume was loud.
My Prius model year 2006 came in with the maps stored in a DVD that was updated in Feb 2005. Car is still going strong, giving me 45 mpg in summer and about 40 mpg in winter. No problems, no issues. Except for that stupid map-DVD. Toyota thinks the updated DVD is worth 200$. And furthermore, only an authorized dealer technician can do this impossibly difficult task of ejecting old dvd and inserting the new one, labor at 80$ an hour. And the local dealer charges 20$ a day "storage fee" if you don't pick the car up when they call you to say it is done. It is a rip off. No one in right mind is paying for this stuff.
A few years ago I updated the map DVD in my sister's 2006 Prius. The DVD came with instructions and it was easy to do. The dealership sold me the DVD and did not try to insist that only an authorized technician could do the job.
Therefore, the issue isn't whether schools have a right to police students' activities outside of school; but rather if actions taken in the world of cyberspace can or should be held to the same standards as those taken in print or public discourse.
Maybe you read a different article than I did, but the whole point is not whether they did something wrong but rather can the school suspend them for actions taken outside the school. It's long been settled that actions taken in cyberspace can have the same consequences as outside of it. The important issue here is how much power do schools have? I hope they do get smacked down and limited to actions taken on school and at school functions. The principals should have addressed this matter in civil court where they would likely easily win.
Tell that to the group of bad parents that expect you to basically raise their children. It's not unheard of for schools to have to provide not only education, but meals, social training, and deal with behavioral issues.
If the teachers can't tell that to the parents then they are not doing THEIR job. Schools providing meals, social training, etc., are things that are happening inside the school. What is happening outside of the school is outside the authority of the school.
One obvious line of defense is to simply shut off the engine, a step that may not be intuitive on the ES 350. The car has a push-button start system, activated by the combination of a wireless electronic fob carried by the driver and a button on the dashboard.
But once the vehicle is moving, the engine will not shut off unless the button is held down for a full three seconds -- a period of time in which Saylor's car would have traveled 528 feet. A driver may push the button repeatedly, not knowing it requires a three-second hold.
The other common defense tactic advised by experts is to simply shift a runaway vehicle into neutral. But the ES 350 is equipped with an automatic transmission that can mimic manual shifting, and its shift lever on the console has a series of gates and detents that allow a driver to select any of at least four forward gears.
One obvious line of defense is to simply shut off the engine, a step that may not be intuitive on the ES 350. The car has a push-button start system, activated by the combination of a wireless electronic fob carried by the driver and a button on the dashboard.
But once the vehicle is moving, the engine will not shut off unless the button is held down for a full three seconds -- a period of time in which Saylor's car would have traveled 528 feet. A driver may push the button repeatedly, not knowing it requires a three-second hold.
One obvious line of defense is to simply shut off the engine, a step that may not be intuitive on the ES 350. The car has a push-button start system, activated by the combination of a wireless electronic fob carried by the driver and a button on the dashboard.
But once the vehicle is moving, the engine will not shut off unless the button is held down for a full three seconds -- a period of time in which Saylor's car would have traveled 528 feet. A driver may push the button repeatedly, not knowing it requires a three-second hold.
"When you are dealing with an emergency, you can't wait three seconds for the car to respond at 120 miles an hour," said Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety.
The ES 350 Saylor was driving that day was a loaner provided to him by Bob Baker Lexus when he took his family's Lexus in for servicing. It's unclear whether Saylor's own car had the same feature or whether he was aware of the shutdown procedure. Bob Baker Lexus did not return calls.
That's a great idea. You realize, of course, that people would immediately start adding additional questions and turning away people who don't give the right answer. Two personal favorites are "Who are you going to vote for?" and "What color is your skin?"
You forgot to add a reference to Hitler there...
I just received a modem/router from Verizon for DSL access and they had wireless access preset to a "random" SSID and WEP key which was printed on the modem. Of course, they then went and had the administration account be admin/password.
Ouch. The last thing you want to do is blow up a satellite with explosives. We already have a potentially huge problem with space debris and producing another few hundred bits flying around isn't going to help. Remember the Chinese test in January? Some experts are worried we're reaching a critical mass of junk which will cause a chain reaction that will make the orbital space unusable.
No kidding - I don't have "fears of terrorism" but I'm sure getting "fear of government".
Another good reason to pay cash whenever you can. Unfortunately, this does raise the inconvenience factor a great deal. Around here I can buy (for cash) a Visa gift card at the mall which is used a lot like a credit card. I was able to use this is some of the places a credit card is required, even some online services.
How about a "attempting to be funny but didn't succeed" mod?
So wait, do we love or hate Apple today?
Thank you, Slashdot, for a good bit 'o morning humor. There's nothing quite as funny as seeing links to a 5Mb and 20Mb video on the front page of Slashdot. Burn server burn!
Just curious - how can 4-point harnesses and roll-bars decrease safety? I can understand how a "style bar" which is something that looks like a roll bar but without the true structural strength, can be dangerous, but not how harnesses and real roll bars.
So a bully wants to carry around a stolen RFID card? As soon as it gets reported he's busted.
Does anyone have any statistics on the load a /. link puts on a web site? i.e. how many hits per minute or total hits in an hour, etc. Does putting a link here force hundreds, thousands, or millions of hits on a site?