OT: Drunk driving
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Now the bad news -- we live in a society that tolerates 20,000 annual alcohol-related fatalities (40% of total traffic fatalities) and cares more about Brittany Spears' antics than the national diabetes epidemic.
I love analogies, but I'm going to have to go way OT here and set you straight. In the USA, drunk driving is NOT tolerated. After years of onerous regulations, infringements on drivers' (and sometimes passengers') rights in the form of sobriety checkpoints, and ridiculously low BAC requirements (now commonly.08), we still have fatalities due to drunk driving.
But this isn't because we don't care.
Obviously, all those things I listed show that people do care; however, they are going the wrong things to address the problem. We have allowed special interests like MADD, who are modern-day temperance societies, dictate these changes to us with little review or oversight. It has been statistically proven that fatalities do not decrease with a.08 BAC law, yet 15 states have passed such laws and MADD continues to pressure more. Sobriety checkpoints were begrudgingly allowed by the courts in the 1980s and 1990s to address the drunk driving "emergency"; but since judicial decisions don't have a sunset, and no one wants to challenge a policy that protects "the children", this infringement on our personal rights continues. The federal government infringed on states' rights in order to force the drinking age to 21 in the USA, even though Canada (with age limits of 18 and 19) has shown that drunk driving could be greatly reduced without infringing on the rights of young adults. Now MADD wants to require breathalyser interlocks in all new motor vehicles; ignoring the privacy rights, expense, and technological issues raised by such draconian policies. Think about how many miles passenger cars travel in a year, and decide in practical terms how many fatalities are practical and acceptable. Think about other oppressive regulations you could impose if safety were truly paramount: reducing the speed limit to 25 MPH, requiring 15 MPH bumpers, requiring driver retesting annually, etc. Rationalizing these kinds of laws in absolute terms such as "for the children" and "if it saves one life" makes no sense as we deal in statistics and weight everything in the balance every day. Life is truly precious, but we live in an evil, dangerous world-- not a rubber room.
Maybe we need to do more. But remember that there will always be people who insist on doing the wrong thing, and finding a way to do it.
You used a pretty lousy example. Scp isn't built into Windows, but it's available for free and easily installed. If you don't need secure copying, XCOPY and Robocopy work well.
SAM stands for Security Accounts Manager and functions as the database system, not the authentication protocol, for Windows NT. The authentication protocols include NTLM and LM, and allow you to communicate with the Local Security Authority (LSA) and in turn, the SAM. If you had simply used one of these instead of trying to hack the SAM database directly, you would not have had a problem. Furthermore, if this was Windows 2000, you could have implemented a domain controller with AD and used LDAP. Countless other companies accomplished this since NT 3.51 and perhaps earlier.
You know, I've seen absolutely no evidence presented in the linked article that indicates Ford contacted either the car club or Cafepress. Comments on the linked article indicate that Cafepress may have taken this step on their own. I'm withholding judgment until I see an email or letter reproduced on the club's web site.
This company is clearly a hoax. Everyone knows you have to divert your quantum interconnects through the main deflector to avoid overloading the holographic matrix.
I'd have to say that, if law-abiding citizens are really as unarmed as you say, you had better not allow your police to carry tasers or NZ will be a police state.
It's strange how geeks will decry every other infringement of our rights in the name of "safety", but when they are told of a country's draconian gun-control laws, they applaud.
Self-defense is a right, and all the other rights depend on it.
I'd be pretty surprised if the jet wash of a 747 was included in the safety testing for any motor vehicles. It doesn't seem to reflect a likely scenario.
This may happen in the UK, but sense the US is run by religious fundamentalists, it will never happen here. Too many fundy's would be screaming mark of the beast at the top of their lungs before we would get anywhere close to this.
Do you really need the internet? What do you think they did a hundred years ago? The internet is a comfort thing. You don't need it. Just read the newspaper and write some letters.
See, there is a big difference between voluntary and compulsory. None of the hardcore geeks on Slashdot who proclaim their undying (or dying, if necessary) defense of personal freedoms have any business suggesting that government should regulate people's energy use.
DUH! Cow's milk isn't a direct substitute for formula or breastmilk, and soy milk isn't always the proper replacement for milk. But neither is cow's milk.
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4.1? And here I am, stuck on 4.01.
But this isn't because we don't care.
Obviously, all those things I listed show that people do care; however, they are going the wrong things to address the problem. We have allowed special interests like MADD, who are modern-day temperance societies, dictate these changes to us with little review or oversight. It has been statistically proven that fatalities do not decrease with aMaybe we need to do more. But remember that there will always be people who insist on doing the wrong thing, and finding a way to do it.
You might ask: where's the translation for the incomprehensible summary?
Now I know how the manual for my DVD player was translated.
You used a pretty lousy example. Scp isn't built into Windows, but it's available for free and easily installed. If you don't need secure copying, XCOPY and Robocopy work well.
Ok... this is exactly why you guys only have pictures of women.
Or, you could just use the power management features present in every PC and OS since 1994 and have them go into standby or suspend.
Looking for other copies of that missing data? Try checking Sandy Berger's pants.
Pray harder that unfunny trolls are banned from teh intarweb?
I had mad applesauce-farming skills on that one.
SAM stands for Security Accounts Manager and functions as the database system, not the authentication protocol, for Windows NT. The authentication protocols include NTLM and LM, and allow you to communicate with the Local Security Authority (LSA) and in turn, the SAM. If you had simply used one of these instead of trying to hack the SAM database directly, you would not have had a problem. Furthermore, if this was Windows 2000, you could have implemented a domain controller with AD and used LDAP. Countless other companies accomplished this since NT 3.51 and perhaps earlier.
Food and beverage companies like Coca Cola are built around trade secrets.
You know, I've seen absolutely no evidence presented in the linked article that indicates Ford contacted either the car club or Cafepress. Comments on the linked article indicate that Cafepress may have taken this step on their own. I'm withholding judgment until I see an email or letter reproduced on the club's web site.
This company is clearly a hoax. Everyone knows you have to divert your quantum interconnects through the main deflector to avoid overloading the holographic matrix.
I'd have to say that, if law-abiding citizens are really as unarmed as you say, you had better not allow your police to carry tasers or NZ will be a police state.
It's strange how geeks will decry every other infringement of our rights in the name of "safety", but when they are told of a country's draconian gun-control laws, they applaud.
Self-defense is a right, and all the other rights depend on it.
I'd be pretty surprised if the jet wash of a 747 was included in the safety testing for any motor vehicles. It doesn't seem to reflect a likely scenario.
People would care if barcodes were being tattooed on everyone. "Fortunately," we now have more robust technology to oppress the populace.
Do you really need the internet? What do you think they did a hundred years ago? The internet is a comfort thing. You don't need it. Just read the newspaper and write some letters.
See, there is a big difference between voluntary and compulsory. None of the hardcore geeks on Slashdot who proclaim their undying (or dying, if necessary) defense of personal freedoms have any business suggesting that government should regulate people's energy use.
Fortunately, your Casio calculator watch is still perfectly useful!
You forget to tell us to get off of your lawn.
Summary: Don't trust anyone over 30.