God help any college students walking around wearing accessories with blinkenlights or exposed electronics; they'll probably be shot on sight.
What exactly is the downside again? I'm just thinking about how many knobs are going to step off of the curb face down in their I-whatever on my way to class across campus and then I have to make the conscious decision of not running them over just because I just washed my truck.
Oh by the way fuk you/. for putting in a spel cheker.
I made the fortunate decision 4 years ago to refuse to buy a house in an area that didn't offer FIOS. Just bumped my service from 25/25mbit to 165/65mbit.
Sure it's $90 a month, but man I barely notice that little buffer bar any more.
I click and things just happen. I couldn't imagine what 1024/1024gbt service would be like. Who needs bittorrent with those kind of speeds. Rent and rip and send it to your friends.
I made the mistake of giving cable (Verizon) a try a few weeks ago after a 10 year hiatus. It was increadibly bad. Most of the channels were crap and standard 4:3 of all things, and most of the better channels you had to order seperately. Got on the phone and began to inhale for a legendary scream fest (after they told me my old 25/25 connection wasn't available anymore) when noticed they had updated their FIOS internet only packages for my area.
165/65mBit ($25 more than what I was paying for 25/25mBit) does go along way toward soothing my opinion of the cable/phone/ISP ass-hats.
The only problem I have now is I have to find which RJ45 connector on my network is causing me issues between the router downstairs and the switch upstairs that is keeping me from having over 95mBit at the unstairs machines.
If you are getting anything other than internet only, you are being very silly these days. For a few $100 more I picked up a few of the sports networks I wanted and can now watch at home, or on the road.
You honestly think they just want it for self driving cars? All the latest "self driving" car do not use any car to car system and frankly I would want them talking since it could easily be interfered with or hacked either drastically reducing said efficiency or creating a hazard.
This is going to be use for pretty much 1 or 2 things, customer tracking for direct targeting of advertisement or services
How would they do it? Something as simple as counting how many X type of cars are in the area that go past your car, when you take it in for servicing it dumps the info.
They could put up hot spots near major traffic areas and do the same thing and upload little adds to you.
Roadside billboards are all going electronic these days, at least here in Tampa. Wouldn't advertisers just drool over the posibility of knowing exactly what year, make and model of cars drive past their signs every day. Which would give them the ability to target adds accordingly since your car usually very accurately says everything about who your are in terms of social/economic status and your age and interests.
Better yet the morons will end up putting some stupid identifier in each car, and you'd end with adds just for you. GEE! Doesn't that sound swell? I go check out EVEonline once every 6 months just to see if they are still as stupid as they were when I quit playing a couple of years ago and now I get to look at billboards on the way to work for them for the next 3 weeks. No thanks.
Besides the gov't would immediately want in on that action. NO THANKS>
Looks like if the car manufacturers get their way I'll be adding a 5gHz jammer module next to the cell phone jammer already mounted on my truck.
I don't want other drivers, much less their cars talking on cell phones.
Besides I highly do not like the idea at all of designing systems that would involve car to car systems in the first place.
Mostly due to privacy, because I just know the morons will put identifiers into each car, and just the simple fact a bored teenager with simple computer and electronics skills would have a hayday messing with people for fun. Anything else like transmitting say diagnostics info for service, etc would not need it's own private spectrum anyway.
Afghanistan doesn't represent that much in terms of the budget, but I agree with your sentiment. Either go declare war and go into Afghanistan with the entire might of the US military and burn the Taliban to the ground, which would mean decimating most of the civilian population, since pretty much the two are heavily intertwined, or leave them alone.
The US military should only be used like a flame thrower, to reduce the temptation to meddle, not like a scaple which encourages just that and has kept us at war for the past 90 years.
Actually most things are not "scarce". It's like buying a soda at the airport or the sports game or the movie theater. Paying $8 for $.25 worth of materials is due to the exclusivity of the local, it has nothing to do with scarcity.
Instead of using their capital to make things more efficient, companies are using their capital to create small areas of control.
The Federal gov't has done the same thing with currency. They control the amount of it and use inflation to steal increased productivity, by devauling your pay. The price of food drops because farmers get better at it, the mint prints more money and puts it in the gov't's pocket causes inflation, and the price of food goes back up to the orginal price or as we've seen higher.
There are shortages now and then and that does necesitate higher prices, but most of what we see of price increases is due to the gov't either with inflation or regulation.
"When do we, as a people, stop doing things simply because we can without any thought given to the real consequences of our actions."
You don't need a house bigger than 500sqft
You don't need a car, a bike is just fine, heck get out there and walk
You don't need alcohol, water is better
You don't need more money a year than to pay for your basic bills needed to survive
You don't need more education than what your job requires
You don't need to leave your home town to go on vacation
You don't need to be able to choose who you marry and how many children you have
You don't need health care if you a too old/young to be productive in society
You don't need........................
Assuming the working life of someone in the US as 40 years and an average salary of $47,000, then the theft by "Media Pirates" results in the "deaths" of 6,822 people per year. In other words nearly 7 thousand people's entire economic productive lives are wiped out, effectively killing them
Media piracy kills. Don't do it.
Average lifespan in US 77.97 years
Average salary in the US $47,000
I'm surprised someone with some fairly accurate gun deaths. 28 per day, not including suicides and valid killings (police/civilian), but that number drops by another ~2/3 if you don't count criminals killing criminals, but I give you points for being more honest than most of the anti gun types
Here are a few more interesting tidbits of deaths per day in the US
3,200 babies are aborted per day in the US
268 were killed by doctors (malpractice)
88 were killed in car crashes
63 were killed related to alcohol
9 per day drown
1.7 per day killed while riding their bike or falling at work
1 death every 3 days from starvation in the US
1 death every 7 days dies from lightning
1 death every 10 days from dog attacks
1 death every 10 days in a mass school shooting (US 2012)
1 death every 4-6 months someone is crushed to death by a soda machine
It can make me an excellent mold, which can be used to make higher quality plastic products or used to create an even stronger mold to use in metal stamping.
Easy the bulk of us out here want nothing to do with Apple. I won't buy the mini, much in the same way I didn't buy a iPad, iPhone, touch, iPod, Mac, etc, etc, etc
If you pay $1000 a year is sales tax, and you get $5000 back for child credit plus every single penny you paid in federal taxes, extactly how much "tax" did you actually pay?
Try taking a remedial math class maybe you can learn to add and subtract.
So by your logic (no tax cuts for the wealthy) all the teenagers of the world living at home should be given the tax return checks and not their parents.
If you pay no taxes, and someone else does, when it comes time to "cut taxes" you don't get a check genius.
The wealthy in the US are the only ones actually paying taxes, so getting butt hurt over them paying less is a bullshit position.
Sorry, it's more important that we kill each other than understand our place in the universe. Have a good day.
That's why we should take the entire military budget and dump it into a new "Space Force", except for the Marines, we'll keep those guys they are bad ass.
Imagine what kind of space program the US could have with a $800 Billion budget, instead of $18B budget, and how much more time efficient it would be to bomb the "Crap-ic-stans" of the world from orbit.
Well it was getting cheap. I've been watching the prices on wholesalesolar.com drop about $5 a month on 235 watt panels.....right up until Congress passed a tarrif on Chinese made panels now it's going right back up.
Can't have all those political allies solar companies going tits up after they poor tens of billions of dollars into them.
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What exactly is the downside again? I'm just thinking about how many knobs are going to step off of the curb face down in their I-whatever on my way to class across campus and then I have to make the conscious decision of not running them over just because I just washed my truck.
Oh by the way fuk you /. for putting in a spel cheker.
Sure it's $90 a month, but man I barely notice that little buffer bar any more.
I click and things just happen. I couldn't imagine what 1024/1024gbt service would be like. Who needs bittorrent with those kind of speeds. Rent and rip and send it to your friends.
We need stupid Twats working in gov't control.
In many cases, college students, degree or no, would have very little brains they could spare.
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I made the mistake of giving cable (Verizon) a try a few weeks ago after a 10 year hiatus. It was increadibly bad. Most of the channels were crap and standard 4:3 of all things, and most of the better channels you had to order seperately. Got on the phone and began to inhale for a legendary scream fest (after they told me my old 25/25 connection wasn't available anymore) when noticed they had updated their FIOS internet only packages for my area.
165/65mBit ($25 more than what I was paying for 25/25mBit) does go along way toward soothing my opinion of the cable/phone/ISP ass-hats.
The only problem I have now is I have to find which RJ45 connector on my network is causing me issues between the router downstairs and the switch upstairs that is keeping me from having over 95mBit at the unstairs machines.
If you are getting anything other than internet only, you are being very silly these days. For a few $100 more I picked up a few of the sports networks I wanted and can now watch at home, or on the road.
This is going to be use for pretty much 1 or 2 things, customer tracking for direct targeting of advertisement or services
How would they do it? Something as simple as counting how many X type of cars are in the area that go past your car, when you take it in for servicing it dumps the info.
They could put up hot spots near major traffic areas and do the same thing and upload little adds to you.
Roadside billboards are all going electronic these days, at least here in Tampa. Wouldn't advertisers just drool over the posibility of knowing exactly what year, make and model of cars drive past their signs every day. Which would give them the ability to target adds accordingly since your car usually very accurately says everything about who your are in terms of social/economic status and your age and interests.
Better yet the morons will end up putting some stupid identifier in each car, and you'd end with adds just for you. GEE! Doesn't that sound swell? I go check out EVEonline once every 6 months just to see if they are still as stupid as they were when I quit playing a couple of years ago and now I get to look at billboards on the way to work for them for the next 3 weeks. No thanks.
Besides the gov't would immediately want in on that action. NO THANKS>
Looks like if the car manufacturers get their way I'll be adding a 5gHz jammer module next to the cell phone jammer already mounted on my truck.
Besides I highly do not like the idea at all of designing systems that would involve car to car systems in the first place.
Mostly due to privacy, because I just know the morons will put identifiers into each car, and just the simple fact a bored teenager with simple computer and electronics skills would have a hayday messing with people for fun. Anything else like transmitting say diagnostics info for service, etc would not need it's own private spectrum anyway.
The US military should only be used like a flame thrower, to reduce the temptation to meddle, not like a scaple which encourages just that and has kept us at war for the past 90 years.
I see your radar blimps and raise you thousands of mylar kids ballons with foil streamers.
Nope just gives him someone to aim at.
Instead of using their capital to make things more efficient, companies are using their capital to create small areas of control.
The Federal gov't has done the same thing with currency. They control the amount of it and use inflation to steal increased productivity, by devauling your pay. The price of food drops because farmers get better at it, the mint prints more money and puts it in the gov't's pocket causes inflation, and the price of food goes back up to the orginal price or as we've seen higher.
There are shortages now and then and that does necesitate higher prices, but most of what we see of price increases is due to the gov't either with inflation or regulation.
You don't need a house bigger than 500sqft
You don't need a car, a bike is just fine, heck get out there and walk
You don't need alcohol, water is better
You don't need more money a year than to pay for your basic bills needed to survive
You don't need more education than what your job requires
You don't need to leave your home town to go on vacation
You don't need to be able to choose who you marry and how many children you have
You don't need health care if you a too old/young to be productive in society
You don't need........................
Media piracy kills. Don't do it.
Average lifespan in US 77.97 years
Average salary in the US $47,000
RIAA US losses (LMAO) $12,500,000,000
28 is accurate for just murders. 9-10 a day if you don't count criminals killing criminals.
Here are a few more interesting tidbits of deaths per day in the US
3,200 babies are aborted per day in the US
268 were killed by doctors (malpractice)
88 were killed in car crashes
63 were killed related to alcohol
9 per day drown
1.7 per day killed while riding their bike or falling at work
1 death every 3 days from starvation in the US
1 death every 7 days dies from lightning
1 death every 10 days from dog attacks
1 death every 10 days in a mass school shooting (US 2012)
1 death every 4-6 months someone is crushed to death by a soda machine
Gotta watch out for those soda machines!
I'm sorry, can't hear you. Two seconds after the 2nd was repealed, the 1st was repealed too.
It can make me an excellent mold, which can be used to make higher quality plastic products or used to create an even stronger mold to use in metal stamping.
most likely with pliers....
Easy the bulk of us out here want nothing to do with Apple. I won't buy the mini, much in the same way I didn't buy a iPad, iPhone, touch, iPod, Mac, etc, etc, etc
Try taking a remedial math class maybe you can learn to add and subtract.
If you pay no taxes, and someone else does, when it comes time to "cut taxes" you don't get a check genius.
The wealthy in the US are the only ones actually paying taxes, so getting butt hurt over them paying less is a bullshit position.
That's why we should take the entire military budget and dump it into a new "Space Force", except for the Marines, we'll keep those guys they are bad ass.
Imagine what kind of space program the US could have with a $800 Billion budget, instead of $18B budget, and how much more time efficient it would be to bomb the "Crap-ic-stans" of the world from orbit.
Can't have all those political allies solar companies going tits up after they poor tens of billions of dollars into them.
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