Seriously - put a tablet-sized dock in the centre of the dash, and publish the interface standard. Include connections for power, data to select vehicle systems, audio, and a combo GPS/cellular/FM antenna. Replace the car radio with a DVD drive and a USB connector, plus whatever the current major portable audio connector happens to be.
Sell a factory tablet when the car is new, but sell the developer's kit and let anyone make their own as well.
I assume that they're unable to directly detect AdBlock, but instead are checking to see if your browser has requested the advertising to load. If that kind of check becomes too popular, I imagine AdBlock (or similar software) will be modified to include a list of sites for which it doesn't completely block advertising, but merely stops it from actually rendering on your screen.
You'll still take a bandwidth hit, but your eyes will be safe.
"Google should consider charging them for advertising they're giving them"
I like this solution. Google should announce that they will be billing back any fees levied in France against the newspapers they index, plus a bit for administrative overhead. Any paper that doesn't like it can be banned from Google's index.
Negative. It is NOT illegal to take pictures "inside a mall or any publically accessible but privately owned facility".
However they're clearly posted, doing so may violate the property owner's rules, in which case they are well within their rights to remove you from the property, ban you from returning, and/or asking the police to charge you with trespass to property.
Find me a cop who would waste his time doing that for snapping a photo in a mall. Please. I'd like to meet a cop with so little else to do he'd waste time on that without a really good reason.
1) Security guards are pinning somebody down in a mall 2) Kid takes pictures 3) Mall 'cops' demand he delete photos from his *film* camera 4) Kid declines, tries to leave (while taking more pictures) 5) Guards assault the kid (unlawful, because all they're allowed to do is remove him for trespassing unless he's committed a crime, in which case they can hold him for police) 6) Kid is swearing and mouthing off (no shit!) 7) RCMP shows up, sees unruly teen being held by mall cops, and cuffs the kid. 8) Genius cop decides that to search the kid's backpack, he's going to cut the straps to get around the handcuffs
The real cops made some minor decisions that make things look worse, but given the circumstances I'm not sure we can really blame them. If the kid had kept his cool and done something smart - like politely request the guards be arrested for assaulting him when all he'd done is take a picture instead of cursing and being mouthy, this could have been a much funnier story.
Neither the kid nor the real cops handled the situation perfectly, but the real villains here are the minimum wage mall cops who should all be fired. If I were that kid, I'd be putting up their photos (and he still has those!) on a nice web site with the caption, "I work at Metrotown shopping mall in Burnaby, B.C., and I assault mall patrons for taking photographs, with the full support of the mall owners."... I bet things would change pretty damn quickly once that shitstorm caught on with the local news.
You jest... but people with hermit tendencies who are satisfied getting most of their social contact through a computer interface might be the pool from whom we select deep space astronauts.
Finding them in suitable physical condition, with appropriate education, and with proper social skills to deal with a small group of people just like themselves would probably winnow that group down considerable. Still, probably a much better starting point than air force pilots.
True, but I have a 12 year old vehicle with no rust but an engine about to fail. If $14K gets me a 'new' vehicle that will do my work commute, that's not too bad a deal.
Still, not as good as a $5K used car with a slightly better engine plus $9K in gas and maintenance... or even $14K in refurb work on the current vehicle.
Because the heat is created by the fueling (compression) process, and reabsorbed from the environment during the use (expansion) process, the exact opposite of when you'd want to recover the heat.
On the up side, you get free pollutionless air conditioning every time you hit the 'gas' pedal.
Forgetting to renew your registration should be a problem. However, they don't need ALPR to get you - the DMV (or MTO where I live) could simply notify the police in your municipality with a daily extract of people who have expired tags. Insurance companies could do the same. If we were serious about ensuring people were registered and insured, it's not a big deal to create the channels to do that.
It's not harrassment unless they're bugging you when you've done nothing wrong.
I argued with the cop responsible for bringing this technology to my region. I love the technology, and think it's very useful. However, I ALSO think it ought to have a zero-minute retention period except for hits against flagged plates.
Apparently, the police think it's a great idea to know where every plate was as far back as they can store the data - and since it only takes a short text string and a small confirming.jpg image for each plate, they can keep an awful lot of data. While there's great data mining potential there, like finding which plates were present at similar crimes across a long period of time to help identify suspects, I can just see so much more room for Orwellian abuse.
The Americans look like they believe they're circling the drain, and are attempting to grab everything they can to stay afloat beyond the whirlpool. What they don't see, is that every one of these attempts is a very short term gain and long term pain.
They've lost the industrial capacity competition to the far East and bet their economy on IP and pure service... IP ignores political borders regardless of legislation, and the service is something everyone can do better themselves.
Attempts to force the world to respect American IP law and rely on American services are doomed to fail and will eventually cripple them if they don't straighten out their shit in within the next generation or so.
I was speaking in generalities; I'd hardly comment on racial crime stats for a sample size of 3!
Also, working in a McD's is not the same as owning one... At least in Canadian franchises, the manager and the owner are completely different people. While the manager is an adult, it's not unknown for them to be barely older than the teens manning the cash registers.
And *I* wouldn't look down on either of them based on their country of origin or the wage they earn.
I'd actually *expect* immigrants to have a higher rate of crime than the population in general. After all, you usually don't immigrate to a country if you were well off back home. Often you have just enough to get out and escape your circumstances and you're coming from what *I* would call a shit hole. But I'm a privileged 1st-world middle class white boy.
So, there you are in a new country with a different culture and likely less education. You tend to get a bottom-end job (jobs the natives don't want, which is why they tolerate immigration in the first place). If you're first-generation, you sound funny and the natives treat you like a second-class citizen. If you're the child of immigrants, you may still sound funny and you're still culturally odd.
Don't fit in, have trouble with the language, can't get a good job, possibly less educated, possibly from a culture that doesn't have the same standards for personal interactions. Probably some racism directed your way. Yeah, I can't see how that could translate to a higher crime rate!
I just can't care about 'fair' when there's enough money being milked to make multimillionaires out of actors. Maybe the end product wouldn't cost as much if, say, an actor in a top end show made $80k/year. Maybe content producers could then produce MORE good content to get their profit.
Making them worth much less than you might expect, given that the Americans have recently shown they're quite willing to apply their laws to foreigners if they can reach them..COM's fine because companies are already invested in it... but who would bother using a new TLD with that risk?
I was mistaken, sorry. The agreement isn't in effect until 2014... the "Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness Action Plan", announced late last year.
1) Brakes SHOULD override throttle. Worn out brakes might not do it without cutting the gas, though... and if somebody panics and jams their feet on gas and brake simultaneously, it'd be really nice if their stopping distance wasn't increased because of the throttle.
2) There once was a really nifty new pedal design - twist for throttle, press for brake. One pedal, two functions. Apparently after a bit of adjustment it drastically improved braking reaction time.
I agree with you on the validity of 'hate crime' as a category.
However, being a promoter of mob violence - say by reaching out to like minded people and suggesting they all go kill a black guy - that kind of thing is more dangerous.
Some racist kills a black guy, you get one dead black guy. Some racist forms a group and gets them all stirred up then suggests blacks should be killed, you can get a whole bunch of dead black guys.
I think the potential increase in victim count justifies a different law and sentence.
'Similar' is not 'same'. I wouldn't claim someone from New York and someone from Los Angeles were the same, and Canadians and Americans are different enough to warrant separate categories.
By your definition, the most of the Commonwealth may as well be one country.
No, a person cannot be forgiven for implying Canada when they say US.
There are 50 states in the USA, and Canada has over 10% of the population of the Americans, meaning Canada is bigger than 5 average state populations combined. Though there are at least six major cultural groups within Canada, each of them is distinct enough from what you'd find south of the border that lumping them together is imprecise as best.
Anybody who thinks of Canada as 'North Wisconsin' is invited to either completely ignore us or educate themselves on the subject.
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Seriously - put a tablet-sized dock in the centre of the dash, and publish the interface standard. Include connections for power, data to select vehicle systems, audio, and a combo GPS/cellular/FM antenna. Replace the car radio with a DVD drive and a USB connector, plus whatever the current major portable audio connector happens to be.
Sell a factory tablet when the car is new, but sell the developer's kit and let anyone make their own as well.
Full size & street legal. One in red, one in purple.
I assume that they're unable to directly detect AdBlock, but instead are checking to see if your browser has requested the advertising to load. If that kind of check becomes too popular, I imagine AdBlock (or similar software) will be modified to include a list of sites for which it doesn't completely block advertising, but merely stops it from actually rendering on your screen.
You'll still take a bandwidth hit, but your eyes will be safe.
"Google should consider charging them for advertising they're giving them"
I like this solution. Google should announce that they will be billing back any fees levied in France against the newspapers they index, plus a bit for administrative overhead. Any paper that doesn't like it can be banned from Google's index.
Negative. It is NOT illegal to take pictures "inside a mall or any publically accessible but privately owned facility".
However they're clearly posted, doing so may violate the property owner's rules, in which case they are well within their rights to remove you from the property, ban you from returning, and/or asking the police to charge you with trespass to property.
Find me a cop who would waste his time doing that for snapping a photo in a mall. Please. I'd like to meet a cop with so little else to do he'd waste time on that without a really good reason.
1) Security guards are pinning somebody down in a mall
2) Kid takes pictures
3) Mall 'cops' demand he delete photos from his *film* camera
4) Kid declines, tries to leave (while taking more pictures)
5) Guards assault the kid (unlawful, because all they're allowed to do is remove him for trespassing unless he's committed a crime, in which case they can hold him for police)
6) Kid is swearing and mouthing off (no shit!)
7) RCMP shows up, sees unruly teen being held by mall cops, and cuffs the kid.
8) Genius cop decides that to search the kid's backpack, he's going to cut the straps to get around the handcuffs
The real cops made some minor decisions that make things look worse, but given the circumstances I'm not sure we can really blame them. If the kid had kept his cool and done something smart - like politely request the guards be arrested for assaulting him when all he'd done is take a picture instead of cursing and being mouthy, this could have been a much funnier story.
Neither the kid nor the real cops handled the situation perfectly, but the real villains here are the minimum wage mall cops who should all be fired. If I were that kid, I'd be putting up their photos (and he still has those!) on a nice web site with the caption, "I work at Metrotown shopping mall in Burnaby, B.C., and I assault mall patrons for taking photographs, with the full support of the mall owners."... I bet things would change pretty damn quickly once that shitstorm caught on with the local news.
You jest... but people with hermit tendencies who are satisfied getting most of their social contact through a computer interface might be the pool from whom we select deep space astronauts.
Finding them in suitable physical condition, with appropriate education, and with proper social skills to deal with a small group of people just like themselves would probably winnow that group down considerable. Still, probably a much better starting point than air force pilots.
True, but I have a 12 year old vehicle with no rust but an engine about to fail. If $14K gets me a 'new' vehicle that will do my work commute, that's not too bad a deal.
Still, not as good as a $5K used car with a slightly better engine plus $9K in gas and maintenance... or even $14K in refurb work on the current vehicle.
Because the heat is created by the fueling (compression) process, and reabsorbed from the environment during the use (expansion) process, the exact opposite of when you'd want to recover the heat.
On the up side, you get free pollutionless air conditioning every time you hit the 'gas' pedal.
Forgetting to renew your registration should be a problem. However, they don't need ALPR to get you - the DMV (or MTO where I live) could simply notify the police in your municipality with a daily extract of people who have expired tags. Insurance companies could do the same. If we were serious about ensuring people were registered and insured, it's not a big deal to create the channels to do that.
It's not harrassment unless they're bugging you when you've done nothing wrong.
I argued with the cop responsible for bringing this technology to my region. I love the technology, and think it's very useful. However, I ALSO think it ought to have a zero-minute retention period except for hits against flagged plates.
Apparently, the police think it's a great idea to know where every plate was as far back as they can store the data - and since it only takes a short text string and a small confirming .jpg image for each plate, they can keep an awful lot of data. While there's great data mining potential there, like finding which plates were present at similar crimes across a long period of time to help identify suspects, I can just see so much more room for Orwellian abuse.
The Americans look like they believe they're circling the drain, and are attempting to grab everything they can to stay afloat beyond the whirlpool. What they don't see, is that every one of these attempts is a very short term gain and long term pain.
They've lost the industrial capacity competition to the far East and bet their economy on IP and pure service... IP ignores political borders regardless of legislation, and the service is something everyone can do better themselves.
Attempts to force the world to respect American IP law and rely on American services are doomed to fail and will eventually cripple them if they don't straighten out their shit in within the next generation or so.
I was speaking in generalities; I'd hardly comment on racial crime stats for a sample size of 3!
Also, working in a McD's is not the same as owning one... At least in Canadian franchises, the manager and the owner are completely different people. While the manager is an adult, it's not unknown for them to be barely older than the teens manning the cash registers.
And *I* wouldn't look down on either of them based on their country of origin or the wage they earn.
I'd actually *expect* immigrants to have a higher rate of crime than the population in general. After all, you usually don't immigrate to a country if you were well off back home. Often you have just enough to get out and escape your circumstances and you're coming from what *I* would call a shit hole. But I'm a privileged 1st-world middle class white boy.
So, there you are in a new country with a different culture and likely less education. You tend to get a bottom-end job (jobs the natives don't want, which is why they tolerate immigration in the first place). If you're first-generation, you sound funny and the natives treat you like a second-class citizen. If you're the child of immigrants, you may still sound funny and you're still culturally odd.
Don't fit in, have trouble with the language, can't get a good job, possibly less educated, possibly from a culture that doesn't have the same standards for personal interactions. Probably some racism directed your way. Yeah, I can't see how that could translate to a higher crime rate!
I just can't care about 'fair' when there's enough money being milked to make multimillionaires out of actors. Maybe the end product wouldn't cost as much if, say, an actor in a top end show made $80k/year. Maybe content producers could then produce MORE good content to get their profit.
I dunno, I guess I'm just crazy.
Even this is stupid. I don't want DVDs any more - I'm past that.
Sell it to me on a flash drive so I can up it to my media centre. Save me the trouble of ripping the disc.
Making them worth much less than you might expect, given that the Americans have recently shown they're quite willing to apply their laws to foreigners if they can reach them. .COM's fine because companies are already invested in it... but who would bother using a new TLD with that risk?
I was mistaken, sorry. The agreement isn't in effect until 2014... the "Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness Action Plan", announced late last year.
You've been modded 'funny', but it's more 'sad, but probably accurate'.
Canada already does this, which is why I haven't gone to any conferences or courses or on vacations that take me over the American border.
They have the right to ask as a condition of entry into their country. I have a right to say, "Hell no, I'd rather not go".
1) Brakes SHOULD override throttle. Worn out brakes might not do it without cutting the gas, though... and if somebody panics and jams their feet on gas and brake simultaneously, it'd be really nice if their stopping distance wasn't increased because of the throttle.
2) There once was a really nifty new pedal design - twist for throttle, press for brake. One pedal, two functions. Apparently after a bit of adjustment it drastically improved braking reaction time.
I agree with you on the validity of 'hate crime' as a category.
However, being a promoter of mob violence - say by reaching out to like minded people and suggesting they all go kill a black guy - that kind of thing is more dangerous.
Some racist kills a black guy, you get one dead black guy. Some racist forms a group and gets them all stirred up then suggests blacks should be killed, you can get a whole bunch of dead black guys.
I think the potential increase in victim count justifies a different law and sentence.
'Similar' is not 'same'. I wouldn't claim someone from New York and someone from Los Angeles were the same, and Canadians and Americans are different enough to warrant separate categories.
By your definition, the most of the Commonwealth may as well be one country.
After a certain point, you may as well forget the SIM and just build it into the device.
Items that are meant to be removeable and transferable need to be large enough for a consumer to manipulate with their fingers.
No, a person cannot be forgiven for implying Canada when they say US.
There are 50 states in the USA, and Canada has over 10% of the population of the Americans, meaning Canada is bigger than 5 average state populations combined. Though there are at least six major cultural groups within Canada, each of them is distinct enough from what you'd find south of the border that lumping them together is imprecise as best.
Anybody who thinks of Canada as 'North Wisconsin' is invited to either completely ignore us or educate themselves on the subject.