I have a fair bit of experience interviewing programmers. I tailor my own CV to please the HR grunt who ticks boxes so that they will pass it on to the manager who will interview me. Mostly this just means mentioning all the acronyms that were in the job advertisment.
"So, is "reckless driving" related for driving too fast for reaction/stop times or is it related to tailgating, aggressive driving, and weaving in and out of traffic"
Both.
"I hypothesize that more accidents are caused by said aggressive, distracted, impaired, or unskilled driving outnumber accidents genuinely caused by speed way more by several orders of magnitude. But such a study will never be conducted on the fear that police will lose justification for bullshit speed traps."
I grew up in 1960's Australia. There were few cars, no seatbelts, few speed limits and nobody cared about drunk drivers until after the accident had occured. In my state of Victoria the highest ever road toll was in 1969, 1500+ people.
In 1970 madatory seatbelts were introduced, and during the 70's there were a lot more cars and speed limits. By the end of the decade the roll toll was hovering around 1000.
During the 80's speed cameras and booze busses were added and society in general became less tollerant of drunk drivers. The road toll at the end of the 80's was down to ~600.
In 1990 they started a "shock value" advertising campaign (search for "TAC advertisments" on youtube) that shows people the most common ways of killing themself and others with a car, 2 years later the road toll had dropped to where it is now 300-400. In that first 2yrs the TAC* also saved $2B in payouts for deaths and injuries. The ad campaign is still running today.
Of course this is based on deaths but injuries have also seen seen similar drops.
The evolution of regulations over the last 40yrs here has seen deaths drop by 70-80% while at the same time the total number of cars must be at least 10X what it was 40yrs ago. Sure, getting a ticket is annoying, but to say they are ineffective in cutting the road toll is complete bullshit.
* TAC = Transport accident commission, basically a state run insurance company that imposes mandatory third party insurance for death and injury as part of the car's registration fee.
If you're like me (and most serious scientists, I gather) and believe life on Earth formed spontaneously, then it's reasonable enough to assume it can happen again. We have absolutely zero ideas how easy this is to happen, so there's no good reason to claim it can't be happening all the time.
There's no good reason to assume it is.
Sure there is, chemistry is universal and life is just chemistry.
"And all of that is passive. There is no interaction."
In the same way that a guy with a fleet of fishing trawlers is passively collecting fish but the guy with a fly rod is interacting with them?
Contrary to what you may think, I also don't find what google has done outrageous, but I would like the current legality of the practice cleared up so geeks like you and I know where we stand. I don't see anyone with any sort of political clout suggesting we outlaw sniffers. I see a perfectly reasonable investigation into the practice to determine if google broke existing laws.
Here in Oz many media outlets run "community service" ads for free, nobody forces them to do so. This request is no different, facebook are under no obligation to comply.
"It's a PRIVATE CORPORATION, it's completely unreasonable to expect the PRIVATE CORPORATION to provide a direct conduit for users to the government."
So why aren't people up in arms because telco's are forced by law to provide a 000 service (ie: Aussie 911). Nobody is forcing facebook to do anything, it's a fucking request for a community service that facebook can either grant, deny, or offer something in between.
"It's WAY over the top for them to request something so intrusive."
Facebook may or may not see things differently but since it's mearly a request it's up to them to decide what is "over the top".
"And the UK government seems especially good at adopting whatever kind of security theater stupidity Americans come up with and then making it even worse over there."
Last time I went through Heathrow I had a five hour wait for a connecting flight. I walked up to an empty customs desks and said - "Can I check in to the country just to have a smoke", the officer replied "Of course you can" and stamped my passport. OTOH my missus has sworn never to go to the US on holiday again because of the bullshit she went through to get in last year.
Sorry to burst your bubble but no new laws are required to ask facebook to install a link to the cops. Also we already have an "Anti Hippity Hop Music Played Too Loud By Those Kids On My Lawn Act", we call it "trespassing", so get off my lawn and take your Hippity-hop band with you.
"Any Aussies care to inform us Merkins wtf is going on?"
We threw out the neocons and installed some neo-socialists. Our politicians can still safely walk the streets without a small army escorting them and that's not going to change unless they do something that really screws with our lives (such as running out of beer).
it'd be "-1, I'd like to give the police the pretext to access your accounts and search your house. Unless, of course, there's a different set of rules for investigations triggered by this..."
No, same rules, the police in Oz are still bound by the quaint notion of applying to the courts.
"I wonder if the big red button will allow searches and seizures and jail without anything to back it up."
They are not throwing out a millenia of common law, nor are they dismantling the westminster system, they are asking facebook to install a convinient link to the cops, end of story.
It's illegal to open the little box at the end of my neigboor's driveway and "sniff" the contents of their mail. It's illegal to open a pit in the footpath and "sniff" the contents of a telephone call....
I suppose if I repeatedly hit myself in the head with a hammer I could eventually understand how those type of privacy laws equate to Nazi eugenics but seeing that I live in a police state someone would probably lock me up for seditious use of a carpentary tool before I managed to properly educate myself.
I think you're conflating Oz with Kansas, Oz is not part of the the US (yet). Our (cerimonial) head of state is the Queen and she is also the head of the church of England.
"The real problems started in Australian politics when the christian fundys managed to get a guy into parliament."
We have always had token fundies in both state and federal parliments, democracy is not an excuse to silence well organised nutters.
As for TFA; Try keeping it in perspective. Asking for a "snitch button" on facebook is no different to asking a TV station to put a "neighborhood watch" ad on TV.
"I wonder if we could work more closely with Europe and Japan so together we'd get all the data we need without having to foot the whole bill."
Weather data has been shared for many years via the WMO. IIRC when you take in the cost of the satelities the US spends about as much as the rest of the members combined.
"They see scientists being unable to tell us what's happening with global warming as a victory, so they'll fight harder than ever to keep denying funding."
"Is it not that lack of evidence one was at the murder scene is indeed evidence one is not guilty?"
No, it means there is no evidence either way. Not guilty (or non-existant) is the default position, evidence is required to falsify that position. "Absence of evidence is not proof of absence" is a true but narrow statement, what nujobs forget is that absensce of evidence also means they have nothing.
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Heh, I was a free student memeber of the ACM in 1990, couldn't see any value in it after I graduated.
I have a fair bit of experience interviewing programmers. I tailor my own CV to please the HR grunt who ticks boxes so that they will pass it on to the manager who will interview me. Mostly this just means mentioning all the acronyms that were in the job advertisment.
Aussie, degree qualified developer, 20yrs experience - $US23.00 an hour is nowhere near enough to get me out of bed.
"So, is "reckless driving" related for driving too fast for reaction/stop times or is it related to tailgating, aggressive driving, and weaving in and out of traffic"
Both.
"I hypothesize that more accidents are caused by said aggressive, distracted, impaired, or unskilled driving outnumber accidents genuinely caused by speed way more by several orders of magnitude. But such a study will never be conducted on the fear that police will lose justification for bullshit speed traps."
I grew up in 1960's Australia. There were few cars, no seatbelts, few speed limits and nobody cared about drunk drivers until after the accident had occured. In my state of Victoria the highest ever road toll was in 1969, 1500+ people.
In 1970 madatory seatbelts were introduced, and during the 70's there were a lot more cars and speed limits. By the end of the decade the roll toll was hovering around 1000.
During the 80's speed cameras and booze busses were added and society in general became less tollerant of drunk drivers. The road toll at the end of the 80's was down to ~600.
In 1990 they started a "shock value" advertising campaign (search for "TAC advertisments" on youtube) that shows people the most common ways of killing themself and others with a car, 2 years later the road toll had dropped to where it is now 300-400. In that first 2yrs the TAC* also saved $2B in payouts for deaths and injuries. The ad campaign is still running today.
Of course this is based on deaths but injuries have also seen seen similar drops.
The evolution of regulations over the last 40yrs here has seen deaths drop by 70-80% while at the same time the total number of cars must be at least 10X what it was 40yrs ago. Sure, getting a ticket is annoying, but to say they are ineffective in cutting the road toll is complete bullshit.
* TAC = Transport accident commission, basically a state run insurance company that imposes mandatory third party insurance for death and injury as part of the car's registration fee.
There's no good reason to assume it is.
Sure there is, chemistry is universal and life is just chemistry.
"And all of that is passive. There is no interaction."
In the same way that a guy with a fleet of fishing trawlers is passively collecting fish but the guy with a fly rod is interacting with them?
Contrary to what you may think, I also don't find what google has done outrageous, but I would like the current legality of the practice cleared up so geeks like you and I know where we stand. I don't see anyone with any sort of political clout suggesting we outlaw sniffers. I see a perfectly reasonable investigation into the practice to determine if google broke existing laws.
Here in Oz many media outlets run "community service" ads for free, nobody forces them to do so. This request is no different, facebook are under no obligation to comply.
"It's a PRIVATE CORPORATION, it's completely unreasonable to expect the PRIVATE CORPORATION to provide a direct conduit for users to the government."
So why aren't people up in arms because telco's are forced by law to provide a 000 service (ie: Aussie 911). Nobody is forcing facebook to do anything, it's a fucking request for a community service that facebook can either grant, deny, or offer something in between.
"It's WAY over the top for them to request something so intrusive."
Facebook may or may not see things differently but since it's mearly a request it's up to them to decide what is "over the top".
"And the UK government seems especially good at adopting whatever kind of security theater stupidity Americans come up with and then making it even worse over there."
Last time I went through Heathrow I had a five hour wait for a connecting flight. I walked up to an empty customs desks and said - "Can I check in to the country just to have a smoke", the officer replied "Of course you can" and stamped my passport. OTOH my missus has sworn never to go to the US on holiday again because of the bullshit she went through to get in last year.
"having everybody be sedated and tied to their seats"
Personally I think that would be the best way to fly long distance.
Doh! Didn't want to post AC...
"Why the hell should Facebook have to provide yet another way to get in touch with the cops?"
They don't, it's a request not a law.
Sorry to burst your bubble but no new laws are required to ask facebook to install a link to the cops. Also we already have an "Anti Hippity Hop Music Played Too Loud By Those Kids On My Lawn Act", we call it "trespassing", so get off my lawn and take your Hippity-hop band with you.
"Any Aussies care to inform us Merkins wtf is going on?"
We threw out the neocons and installed some neo-socialists. Our politicians can still safely walk the streets without a small army escorting them and that's not going to change unless they do something that really screws with our lives (such as running out of beer).
it'd be "-1, I'd like to give the police the pretext to access your accounts and search your house. Unless, of course, there's a different set of rules for investigations triggered by this..."
No, same rules, the police in Oz are still bound by the quaint notion of applying to the courts.
"I wonder if the big red button will allow searches and seizures and jail without anything to back it up."
They are not throwing out a millenia of common law, nor are they dismantling the westminster system, they are asking facebook to install a convinient link to the cops, end of story.
You insensitive clod, our government can't afford black helicopters.
It's illegal to open the little box at the end of my neigboor's driveway and "sniff" the contents of their mail. It's illegal to open a pit in the footpath and "sniff" the contents of a telephone call....
I suppose if I repeatedly hit myself in the head with a hammer I could eventually understand how those type of privacy laws equate to Nazi eugenics but seeing that I live in a police state someone would probably lock me up for seditious use of a carpentary tool before I managed to properly educate myself.
"So much for separation of church and state."
I think you're conflating Oz with Kansas, Oz is not part of the the US (yet). Our (cerimonial) head of state is the Queen and she is also the head of the church of England.
"The real problems started in Australian politics when the christian fundys managed to get a guy into parliament."
We have always had token fundies in both state and federal parliments, democracy is not an excuse to silence well organised nutters.
As for TFA; Try keeping it in perspective. Asking for a "snitch button" on facebook is no different to asking a TV station to put a "neighborhood watch" ad on TV.
"I wonder if we could work more closely with Europe and Japan so together we'd get all the data we need without having to foot the whole bill."
Weather data has been shared for many years via the WMO. IIRC when you take in the cost of the satelities the US spends about as much as the rest of the members combined.
"They see scientists being unable to tell us what's happening with global warming as a victory, so they'll fight harder than ever to keep denying funding."
The phrase to understand and protect our home planet was deleted from NASA's mission statement in 2006. Mission statements define budget expediture.
TV doesn't make you dumb but it may not leave enough time for things (that in your opinion) make you smart.
Ex-post-facto law was also used on the political prisoner David Hicks.
"Is it not that lack of evidence one was at the murder scene is indeed evidence one is not guilty?"
No, it means there is no evidence either way. Not guilty (or non-existant) is the default position, evidence is required to falsify that position. "Absence of evidence is not proof of absence" is a true but narrow statement, what nujobs forget is that absensce of evidence also means they have nothing.
The rest of your post is spot on.
"The case of it being "accidental" could depend on their intentions."
DBA #1 : "What fields do they want?"
DBA #2 : "You'll never know until the projects over, give them everything and let them work it out."