Research has shown that, for most people, talking on cell phones is far more distracting than those other activities. Let's follow the science: if good science says it's dangerous, then let's take the appropriate action.
Good science should be pretty easy. How much did accident rates drop when cellphone bans were imposed?
Oddly, I hear a lot about the evils of cellphone use while driving, but I've never seen a story about how many fewer accidents there are now cellphone use has been banned.
I don't have a problem with expecting drivers to concentrate on driving while... you know... driving, but I'd like to know whether these bans actually work before imposing yet more.
The Russians and the Chinese don't have the tech to decode anything the US military decided to heavily encode. The Chinese and Russians are decades behind the US military.
So the US military have unbreakable DRM on their software?
Well it wouldn't be completely unprecedented, as I'm fairly sure we've blown up in-development nuclear enrichment facilities before with cruise missiles.
Where? The closest I can remember was blowing up a pharma factory in some African nation which couldn't fight back. Sudan?
Iran is already being threatened with a boycott of their oil by Europe, one of the main consumers of their oil.
A pointless exercise, because China will be happy to buy all the oil they can get.
Considering that the crown of their air force is a copy of a plane the US developed in 1961 I doubt that they can clone the most advanced drone we have.
Considering that most of the technology in that drone is probably barely more sophisticated than 1960s aviation tech, and most of the interesting stuff is just software, I suspect they could. It's not as though we're talking about an F-22 here, it's a computer flying a pretty basic aircraft with some satellite comms.
Why do they want this, is it that they like the batman comics?
It's great PR for the Iranian government, who can now use the thread of the Evil Satan USA to make their people rally around them. I doubt they're really thinking of making these things, but it keeps the story in the news for longer.
What a competent president would have done is sent another drone to destroy it so the technology didn't fall into the hands of every enemy state in the world.
Yeah, an act of war against a foreign nation after they shoot down your spy drone that was in their airspace sounds like a great plan. Particularly when they're one of the world's largest oil suppliers and gas would probably hit $10 a gallon.
Do mod points actually exist anymore? I used to get some just about every week until around 2007, and I've had one set of points in the years since then.
An unobtrusive ad is a non-functioning ad. The whole point of an ad is to gain your attention. If it's not doing that it's not a sustainable business model.
Weird. I thought the point of ads was to sell stuff.
I don't use an ad blocker. When I got to a site (usually via google), and I get confronted with an annoying ad, I click back ASAP, increasing the bounce rate for that site.
Of course by that point your PC is already pwned by Flash malware. If it's running Windows, anyway.
The British film industry did that too; the original 'Wicker Man' negatives are believed to be buried under the M4 motorway as a lot of old film cans were apparently thrown in there as landfill.
Patents are supposed to work the same all over the world.
Why?
But to come back to your statement about war: mind that there are no winners in war. There are only losers. In WWII the allied forces were considered the winners, but the rest of Europe was as much in tatters as loser Germany was.
WWII destroyed the British Empire, handed about half the human race over to communists where they couldn't compete with Western manufacturers and destroyed most of Europe's industrial production capacity. America benefited massively from the war because it was left with no real competition and the only large-scale manufacturing capacity in the West.
I run V6 and V4 at home; the $20 LAN switches, wireless router and PCs support V6 but the DSL router doesn't. Otherwise the only issues I've come across are that some of the services on the my Linux server don't listen on V6 addresses, I've never got IPSEC to work with V6 and the XP machines don't really work very well with V6 (but they also don't get used much these days).
I'd rather have a car that does everything for me including driving me from place to place. I'd live longer, and get to enjoy the trips instead of getting stressed out over the traffic on a daily basis.
So what can humans do in space that robots can't, besides waste lots of weight on support equipment and make bad press when shit happens?
Cover more ground in a single day than a Mars rover has covered in several years?
While I agree that we should be sending robots around the solar system rather than launching humans in cans to float around in orbit doing little that's useful, when you want to do real exploration there's little substitute for humans on the ground, and there's little point in going into space unless we plan to live there.
I never understood why someone would use Gnome over KDE anyway. Gnome always felt kind of a toy or candy interface.
That's odd, because that's how I've always felt about KDE. I try to use it every now and again but rapidly go back to Gnome 2, which generally stays out of the way and doesn't waste my time with stupid animations.
The more efficient healthcare becomes the more margin there is for profit.
Only so long as you let government keep competition out of the market (e.g. by requiring vastly complex drug tests and keeping the supply of doctors artificially low).
Please outline a plan to keep dangerous people/articles off of planes with near certain precision without invasive searches.
You don't need to worry about 'dangerous articles' if you don't have 'dangerous people', so the solution is to stop the 'dangerous people'. You don't do that by groping their genitals.
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Research has shown that, for most people, talking on cell phones is far more distracting than those other activities. Let's follow the science: if good science says it's dangerous, then let's take the appropriate action.
Good science should be pretty easy. How much did accident rates drop when cellphone bans were imposed?
Oddly, I hear a lot about the evils of cellphone use while driving, but I've never seen a story about how many fewer accidents there are now cellphone use has been banned.
I don't have a problem with expecting drivers to concentrate on driving while... you know... driving, but I'd like to know whether these bans actually work before imposing yet more.
The Russians and the Chinese don't have the tech to decode anything the US military decided to heavily encode. The Chinese and Russians are decades behind the US military.
So the US military have unbreakable DRM on their software?
Well it wouldn't be completely unprecedented, as I'm fairly sure we've blown up in-development nuclear enrichment facilities before with cruise missiles.
Where? The closest I can remember was blowing up a pharma factory in some African nation which couldn't fight back. Sudan?
Iran is already being threatened with a boycott of their oil by Europe, one of the main consumers of their oil.
A pointless exercise, because China will be happy to buy all the oil they can get.
Considering that the crown of their air force is a copy of a plane the US developed in 1961 I doubt that they can clone the most advanced drone we have.
Considering that most of the technology in that drone is probably barely more sophisticated than 1960s aviation tech, and most of the interesting stuff is just software, I suspect they could. It's not as though we're talking about an F-22 here, it's a computer flying a pretty basic aircraft with some satellite comms.
Why do they want this, is it that they like the batman comics?
It's great PR for the Iranian government, who can now use the thread of the Evil Satan USA to make their people rally around them. I doubt they're really thinking of making these things, but it keeps the story in the news for longer.
What a competent president would have done is sent another drone to destroy it so the technology didn't fall into the hands of every enemy state in the world.
Yeah, an act of war against a foreign nation after they shoot down your spy drone that was in their airspace sounds like a great plan. Particularly when they're one of the world's largest oil suppliers and gas would probably hit $10 a gallon.
And if you don't like this study there will be another one published shortly.
... proving the opposite.
The great thing about statistical studies is that you can prove anything you want from them.
In the rich world, women it was taboo for women to enter the work force until recent history.
Other than being complete nonsense, that's perfectly correct. Women have had to work through most of human history, unless they had rich parents.
Do mod points actually exist anymore? I used to get some just about every week until around 2007, and I've had one set of points in the years since then.
An unobtrusive ad is a non-functioning ad. The whole point of an ad is to gain your attention. If it's not doing that it's not a sustainable business model.
Weird. I thought the point of ads was to sell stuff.
I don't use an ad blocker. When I got to a site (usually via google), and I get confronted with an annoying ad, I click back ASAP, increasing the bounce rate for that site.
Of course by that point your PC is already pwned by Flash malware. If it's running Windows, anyway.
The British film industry did that too; the original 'Wicker Man' negatives are believed to be buried under the M4 motorway as a lot of old film cans were apparently thrown in there as landfill.
That being said, I'm still utterly amazed that they put money into funding a television show, and then literally erase the tapes. What a waste!
Tapes were expensive and there was no home video market. Who would want to see re-runs of a cheap TV show for kids from five years ago?
Didn't NASA record over the original Apollo 11 tapes? They spent billions to make those.
Patents are supposed to work the same all over the world.
Why?
But to come back to your statement about war: mind that there are no winners in war. There are only losers. In WWII the allied forces were considered the winners, but the rest of Europe was as much in tatters as loser Germany was.
WWII destroyed the British Empire, handed about half the human race over to communists where they couldn't compete with Western manufacturers and destroyed most of Europe's industrial production capacity. America benefited massively from the war because it was left with no real competition and the only large-scale manufacturing capacity in the West.
I run V6 and V4 at home; the $20 LAN switches, wireless router and PCs support V6 but the DSL router doesn't. Otherwise the only issues I've come across are that some of the services on the my Linux server don't listen on V6 addresses, I've never got IPSEC to work with V6 and the XP machines don't really work very well with V6 (but they also don't get used much these days).
Do you believe that there is this fixed pool of wealth and that the only way for me to have more is for you to have less?
In my experience, the left actually do believe that. Mostly because they believe the nonsensical Marxist labour theory of value.
They really are that retarded, even when the world around them blatantly disproves that Marxist claptrap.
I'd rather have a car that does everything for me including driving me from place to place. I'd live longer, and get to enjoy the trips instead of getting stressed out over the traffic on a daily basis.
Sounds like you want a pony.
So what can humans do in space that robots can't, besides waste lots of weight on support equipment and make bad press when shit happens?
Cover more ground in a single day than a Mars rover has covered in several years?
While I agree that we should be sending robots around the solar system rather than launching humans in cans to float around in orbit doing little that's useful, when you want to do real exploration there's little substitute for humans on the ground, and there's little point in going into space unless we plan to live there.
Basically, I don't understand the vehement opposition here.
Hint: most normal users want a UI that just works and stays out of their way _WITHOUT_ having to write a load of javascript to make it not be shit.
I never understood why someone would use Gnome over KDE anyway. Gnome always felt kind of a toy or candy interface.
That's odd, because that's how I've always felt about KDE. I try to use it every now and again but rapidly go back to Gnome 2, which generally stays out of the way and doesn't waste my time with stupid animations.
NaCl program is sandboxed, so even when you allowed it to run, it cannot do anything harmful.
I remember people saying that about Java.
Affordable health care is a pipe dream.
So long as you let government control it, yes.
The more efficient healthcare becomes the more margin there is for profit.
Only so long as you let government keep competition out of the market (e.g. by requiring vastly complex drug tests and keeping the supply of doctors artificially low).
Maybe I'm missing something, but wasn't doing this crap in the browser supposed to make it "just work" (tm)?
They said it would 'just work' (so long as you're using a supported browser), they didn't say it would be usable.
What would it be like if we could run native code inside the browser?
The massive swamp of security vulnerabilities that was ActiveX?
Please outline a plan to keep dangerous people/articles off of planes with near certain precision without invasive searches.
You don't need to worry about 'dangerous articles' if you don't have 'dangerous people', so the solution is to stop the 'dangerous people'. You don't do that by groping their genitals.