Disclaimer: I live in Cambridge which could be said to be the cycling capital of the UK. I'm also a car driver as well as an occasional cyclist.
Helmets: Fracking stupid idea IMO Protects against one type of injury - direct impact. Other injuries like moving impact, you're actually better off with your scalp absorbing the kinetic energy - oddly enough it's remarkably good at this - your scalp moves a fair amount acting as a dampener and shock absorber. Now if you happen to be wearing a lump of plastic clamped to your head, where does all this rotational energy go to? Your neck, so if you look at the injuries of people with helmets you'll find more whiplash/neck related injuries. (I can't be bothered citing anything here, you can either trust me or google it)
They also make cyclists "braver", and car drivers mistake cyclists with helmets on to be less risk of impact they they are normally.
Stupid cyclists. More cyclists do not know the highway code, at all. The number of cyclists I see every day is pretty large somewhere between 50 and 100 at the low end. A sizable percentage (over a third I'd say) do one or more of the following: Jump red lights. Do not give pedestrians right of way at crossings. Don't "Give way" joining a road. Wobble all over the road, especially going up moderate inclines instead of dismounting and walking. Do not have (working/effective/any) lights when it's dark. Undertake when row of traffic is stationary (liable to get hit by turning vehicles, and car doors) Undertake when vehicle in front CLEARLY indicating to turn into their path. Jump on/off the pavement (often repeatedly) ARE FRACKING USING THEIR PHONE/MP3 PLAYER!
Back when I was young I had to take a cycling proficiency test when I was 8? I'm pretty sure my parents/teachers coerced us into training and the exam, but it's something that should be compulsory for anyone involved in a cycling accident.
Also +1 the parent poster, he seems to sum up a lot of my thoughts on the subject.
Carrier based NAT has been done for ages on mobile (cellular) telcos. I've never had any mobile device in the UK with a reachable IP address, nor have I ever been able to directly connect to an other IP in the same subnet the telco has given me.
Now cable companies could easily do NAT at the first stop upstream (another fun fact is that many* telcos don't have public IP addresses for their infrastructure at all)
Now the ip addresses I was using about 10 years ago still haven't been reused, let's not forget about all those huge companies that were allocated (multiple)/8 space, has the *thinks* DEC space been handed back? What about IBMs? Why aren't they using private space internally?
We've still got a shed load of IP space out there, it just needs to be (forcibly) repatriated.
* I last bothered to look several years ago ago, at a couple of ADSL providers and Virgin Media (Cable).
I had a consulting friend ask me the same question about ten years ago. Of course the fire department in question realised they didn't really need it and moved on as a business case couldn't be made.
The dormant project has come to the top of my list... building a fancy battery-powered 3G router is simple:o) Configuring it to do mesh networking isn't a priority right now, media serving is though:D
The Ethernet is an on-board USB device as per the summary.
Tbh, if you wanted a USB-Stick android based device, you can look at the MK802 or any of the clones. Many of which are around the 35 USD mark on dx.com
Yes, but what are you going to to about wireless-only iPads/Tablets?
IIRC GSM/3G phones in the UK and most of europe (assumption) all check against a list of stolen/insurance claimed devices - it won't register on the network, and 2nd hand phone traders/repairers/refurbishers will not touch them with the added bonus of passing your details onto the police.
However outside this area there is no communication between registration bodies. Your stolen euro phones just go to the middle-east/asia/africa.
In the states they're only just about getting their arses into gear. I doubt they'll data-share with their euro cousins either.
Though they don't appear to be too bothered further down on Mill Road, where cyclists ride at night without lights with impunity, run red lights, and travel at high speed along the inside of cars ready to smack into the side of cars turning out of junctions and turning left. Jumping off pavements without looking etc...
Recently I've noticed a increase of high speed cyclists coming out of junction joining Mill road WITHOUT LOOKING. Luckily I am a seasoned driver and well aware of the less competent Cambridge cyclists, but there have been some cases where the anti-lock breaking has kicked in, and strong words exchanged with the cyclist in question.
It's a shame there's a large number of good responsible cyclists in Cambridge, as I would be tempted to tar them all with the same brush.
It's surprising that there aren't more accidents really.Out of the handful I've personally seen over the past 3-4 years only **one** was the result of a car driver not noticing a well lit and visible cyclist and rear ending them. The other times have been cyclists not paying due care and attention./rant
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The GPL is a bad thing.
Not because it's viral, because it's become much worse. A religion, and alas religions have their fanatics.
APIs GPL only? Seriously guys, WHAT THE FUCK?
Disclaimer: I live in Cambridge which could be said to be the cycling capital of the UK. I'm also a car driver as well as an occasional cyclist.
Helmets:
Fracking stupid idea IMO
Protects against one type of injury - direct impact.
Other injuries like moving impact, you're actually better off with your scalp absorbing the kinetic energy - oddly enough it's remarkably good at this - your scalp moves a fair amount acting as a dampener and shock absorber. Now if you happen to be wearing a lump of plastic clamped to your head, where does all this rotational energy go to? Your neck, so if you look at the injuries of people with helmets you'll find more whiplash/neck related injuries. (I can't be bothered citing anything here, you can either trust me or google it)
They also make cyclists "braver", and car drivers mistake cyclists with helmets on to be less risk of impact they they are normally.
Stupid cyclists. More cyclists do not know the highway code, at all.
The number of cyclists I see every day is pretty large somewhere between 50 and 100 at the low end.
A sizable percentage (over a third I'd say) do one or more of the following:
Jump red lights.
Do not give pedestrians right of way at crossings.
Don't "Give way" joining a road.
Wobble all over the road, especially going up moderate inclines instead of dismounting and walking.
Do not have (working/effective/any) lights when it's dark.
Undertake when row of traffic is stationary (liable to get hit by turning vehicles, and car doors)
Undertake when vehicle in front CLEARLY indicating to turn into their path.
Jump on/off the pavement (often repeatedly)
ARE FRACKING USING THEIR PHONE/MP3 PLAYER!
Back when I was young I had to take a cycling proficiency test when I was 8? I'm pretty sure my parents/teachers coerced us into training and the exam, but it's something that should be compulsory for anyone involved in a cycling accident.
Also +1 the parent poster, he seems to sum up a lot of my thoughts on the subject.
This is true. So very true. :(
I concur, RS really haven't got their act together, but they do seem to be slowly shipping to their back order list.
After I lost my Element 14 one (it got "tidied away") and found that Cool Components got some in I ordered through them.
http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/raspberry-model-p-1032.html
Next day delivery and they have cases too!
I've nothing against Farnell either, theirs came quite speedily.
I'm really sick of this misinformation cropping up over and over again.
The original TOS devices were wedge clipboard type things, nothing like the iPad of today.
The TNG PADD devices and those in Undiscovered Country didn't show until 1987 / 1991
Microsoft Tablet PC was announced in around 2001, GridPad in 1989
2001 a space odyssey 1968 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKt9ZyDmA44
A rip off? Maybe, the source correct? No
Apple had this kind of thing on their bluesky "roadmap" advert back in 1987
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIE8xk6Rl1w
Carrier based NAT has been done for ages on mobile (cellular) telcos. I've never had any mobile device in the UK with a reachable IP address, nor have I ever been able to directly connect to an other IP in the same subnet the telco has given me.
Now cable companies could easily do NAT at the first stop upstream (another fun fact is that many* telcos don't have public IP addresses for their infrastructure at all)
Now the ip addresses I was using about 10 years ago still haven't been reused, let's not forget about all those huge companies that were allocated (multiple) /8 space, has the *thinks* DEC space been handed back? What about IBMs? Why aren't they using private space internally?
We've still got a shed load of IP space out there, it just needs to be (forcibly) repatriated.
* I last bothered to look several years ago ago, at a couple of ADSL providers and Virgin Media (Cable).
Mod parent up.
I've known QR Codes be used to hold PKI Certificate info. URLs just happen to be a common use.
Mod parent up. You *are* doing the "right thing"(tm)
Don't worry. It's Budweiser ... Not really suitable for human consumption.
FTFY
I had a consulting friend ask me the same question about ten years ago. Of course the fire department in question realised they didn't really need it and moved on as a business case couldn't be made.
The dormant project has come to the top of my list ... building a fancy battery-powered 3G router is simple :o) Configuring it to do mesh networking isn't a priority right now, media serving is though :D
I wonder if there will be "accidents" and murdoch's empire will come crashing down (to earth)
Derp.
The Ethernet is an on-board USB device as per the summary.
Tbh, if you wanted a USB-Stick android based device, you can look at the MK802 or any of the clones. Many of which are around the 35 USD mark on dx.com
Even at a typical Mensa meeting?
Or even 2001 ...
Actually they did.
Woot. Someone who TOTALLY gets my comment :)
I'm so going to hell, if there was one, and this planet isn't it.
Well God did *that* some 6,000 years ago.
In many places conspiring to commit a crime, *is* a crime.
Yes, but what are you going to to about wireless-only iPads/Tablets?
IIRC GSM/3G phones in the UK and most of europe (assumption) all check against a list of stolen/insurance claimed devices - it won't register on the network, and 2nd hand phone traders/repairers/refurbishers will not touch them with the added bonus of passing your details onto the police.
However outside this area there is no communication between registration bodies. Your stolen euro phones just go to the middle-east/asia/africa.
In the states they're only just about getting their arses into gear. I doubt they'll data-share with their euro cousins either.
A well deserved slap too.
Who will they blame when some nut-job goes postal with one of these illegal shapes?
Will they ban 3D Printers?
Monday July 16 Wasn't a good day to FIRST POST (-1, offtopic)
Absolutely. See my earlier comments about cyclists on Mill Road, Cambridge, Uk.
Though they don't appear to be too bothered further down on Mill Road, where cyclists ride at night without lights with impunity, run red lights, and travel at high speed along the inside of cars ready to smack into the side of cars turning out of junctions and turning left. Jumping off pavements without looking etc...
Recently I've noticed a increase of high speed cyclists coming out of junction joining Mill road WITHOUT LOOKING. Luckily I am a seasoned driver and well aware of the less competent Cambridge cyclists, but there have been some cases where the anti-lock breaking has kicked in, and strong words exchanged with the cyclist in question.
It's a shame there's a large number of good responsible cyclists in Cambridge, as I would be tempted to tar them all with the same brush.
It's surprising that there aren't more accidents really.Out of the handful I've personally seen over the past 3-4 years only **one** was the result of a car driver not noticing a well lit and visible cyclist and rear ending them. The other times have been cyclists not paying due care and attention. /rant
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