Yet another reason to drive stick! If you're stopped at a light, you're not in gear... unless you're one of those asshats who loves to ride their clutch, in which case you deserve to be ticketed for putting undue wear on your throw-out bearing.
I assume that the law makes a concession for cars with manual transmissions and doesn't blanketly assume that all us fat 'mericans have automatic transmissions now. If this happened to someone driving stick, you couldn't use dashcam footage to prove your reverse lights flickered. But shouldn't the burden of proof be on the LEO? Shouldn't they have to verify that you car was in neutral or not when you were texting?
Also, this raises the question: if my car is rolling and I shut the engine off and put it in neutral and just coast, can I then legally text?
Next we'll have people in schools getting arrested for point their finger in a menacing manner, which I honestly can't wait for because it will likely include many teachers.
This could be easily foiled if you had two touchscreen phones. Just hold the iPhone 5s's fingerprint scanner up to the other's touchscreen, which will no doubt be covered in smudgy fingerprints, and be warm enough to simulate body temperature if need be.
Per Wikipedia (which is NEVER wrong): Wi-Fi, also spelled Wifi or WiFi, is a popular technology that allows an electronic device to exchange data or connect to the internet wirelessly using radio waves.
“Wi-Fi transmissions are not 'readily accessible' to the 'general public' because most of the general public lacks the expertise to intercept and decode payload data transmitted over a Wi-Fi network"?
Any idiot with a laptop or wifi-capable cellphone can easily connect to an unsecured WAP by clicking on it, or even automatically as many wireless adapters have been configured to do so. Plus, there's the fact that 802.11 wifi operates on the ISM radio band for unlicensed use. Not to mention if I'm sitting in my home and the radio waves from my neighbor's wifi are entering my home, and I choose to see what they say, this is no different than the neighbor blasting his shitty hiphop music so loud that I can hear the lyrics.
I should also mention that the ISM frequency range is also home to cordless telephones and microwave ovens. So if cooking leftover pizza using an unlicensed radio frequency isn't considered "readily accessible," I don't know what is!
Given Seagate's track record with forays into fancy new hard disk technologies, let me be the first to say NO WAY IN HELL AM I GOING TO TRY THIS... until at least a second or third gen has the bugs worked out.
I was fool enough to try their terabyte drives with their nifty vertically-oriented bit techniques. Went through six brand new hard drives in one month. SIX! Two drives RMAed three times. Finally told Seagate that I'm not going to be their guinea pig anymore, and that I'm going to shelve the drives and to call me when they iron the bugs out. That was over 2 years ago and I haven't heard a peep.
I've had these fears for as long as I can remember. Always wondered if this problem had been documented, and was afraid that it already had been announced and I'd missed out on it.
If they recognize Pastafarianism and being able to wear a colander in photos on government-issued IDs, then I insist that I be allowed to have a martini in hand as I subscribe to the religion of Alcoholism.
Pro's: 1) Its small size can be convenient in an era of bulky phones. 2) Attached to your body, it will theoretically be harder to lose it or let it get stolen.
Con's: 1) The screen is going to be too small to be very usable. 2) Battery life will likely suck since it is also too small. 3) With such a small screen, will be difficult to use, and you won't get many buttons, if any. 4) You can only use it one-handed. 5) The screen will probably get scratched to fuck since it sticks out from your wrist, and will probably stick out farther than your average watch. 6) Hot battery may get uncomfortable.
IMHO, smart watches are a great idea, but only as a bluetooth device for alerting you to new messages, calls and emails; using as a microphone Dick Tracy-style, and of course for checking the time. As a full-fledged smartphone, though, they're far too small to be that useful, but they might be decent as more of a dumb-phone for only making calls and such.
Let me get this straight: the first human cases of a viral outbreak in the middle east might very well have literally been camel jockeys? Hang on, I'm writing this down so I can come up with a better joke for work tomorrow.
I second MS Security Essentials. Back when netbooks fist hit the scene, I grabbed an Asus EeePC and installed the Alpha of Windows 7 on it. It ran alright on the puny PC and miniscule amount of RAM, but would turn into a dog when I'd install antivirus on it. I tried AVG, Avast, Nod32, and a handful of others. Hadn't even heard of MSSE at the time, but gave it a whirl. And I'll be damned if it didn't bog down the machine at all. I've used it to this day on all my devices, and it has caught viruses where programs like Avast and Symantec have failed. Not too bad for free software, especially from Microsuck of all places.
Two of the biggest benefits to an electric car are:
(1) When you're stopped, your motor doesn't keep running. Think of all the fuel you've wasted either letting your car warm up, or sitting at a light, or stuck in traffic.
(2) Regenerative braking technology converts your momentum back into usable power instead of just wasting it as heat.
These, combined with the fact that your car doesn't care where it gets electricity from, and that a coal plant is still more efficient overall than thousands of independent engines, is precisely why this article is probably OPEC propaganda.:D
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Let's go piss in Jerry Brown's pool and watch him try to get it out.
Geeks like to play pranks? Amazing!
What'll be news next? Women like shoes? Cats like to sleep? Cowboyneal likes tentacle porn?
Nahhhh nahh nahh nah nah nah nah!
Yet another reason to drive stick! If you're stopped at a light, you're not in gear... unless you're one of those asshats who loves to ride their clutch, in which case you deserve to be ticketed for putting undue wear on your throw-out bearing.
I assume that the law makes a concession for cars with manual transmissions and doesn't blanketly assume that all us fat 'mericans have automatic transmissions now. If this happened to someone driving stick, you couldn't use dashcam footage to prove your reverse lights flickered. But shouldn't the burden of proof be on the LEO? Shouldn't they have to verify that you car was in neutral or not when you were texting?
Also, this raises the question: if my car is rolling and I shut the engine off and put it in neutral and just coast, can I then legally text?
Next we'll have people in schools getting arrested for point their finger in a menacing manner, which I honestly can't wait for because it will likely include many teachers.
This could be easily foiled if you had two touchscreen phones. Just hold the iPhone 5s's fingerprint scanner up to the other's touchscreen, which will no doubt be covered in smudgy fingerprints, and be warm enough to simulate body temperature if need be.
A wifi hotspot isn't "radio communications"?
Per Wikipedia (which is NEVER wrong):
Wi-Fi, also spelled Wifi or WiFi, is a popular technology that allows an electronic device to exchange data or connect to the internet wirelessly using radio waves.
“Wi-Fi transmissions are not 'readily accessible' to the 'general public' because most of the general public lacks the expertise to intercept and decode payload data transmitted over a Wi-Fi network"?
Any idiot with a laptop or wifi-capable cellphone can easily connect to an unsecured WAP by clicking on it, or even automatically as many wireless adapters have been configured to do so. Plus, there's the fact that 802.11 wifi operates on the ISM radio band for unlicensed use. Not to mention if I'm sitting in my home and the radio waves from my neighbor's wifi are entering my home, and I choose to see what they say, this is no different than the neighbor blasting his shitty hiphop music so loud that I can hear the lyrics.
I should also mention that the ISM frequency range is also home to cordless telephones and microwave ovens. So if cooking leftover pizza using an unlicensed radio frequency isn't considered "readily accessible," I don't know what is!
So that's where they buried Dick Clark.
Also, "track record," no pun intended. xD
Given Seagate's track record with forays into fancy new hard disk technologies, let me be the first to say NO WAY IN HELL AM I GOING TO TRY THIS... until at least a second or third gen has the bugs worked out.
I was fool enough to try their terabyte drives with their nifty vertically-oriented bit techniques. Went through six brand new hard drives in one month. SIX! Two drives RMAed three times. Finally told Seagate that I'm not going to be their guinea pig anymore, and that I'm going to shelve the drives and to call me when they iron the bugs out. That was over 2 years ago and I haven't heard a peep.
"When Putnam originally suggested the name to Minor Planet Center, they responded, "That's real retarded, sir."
I've had these fears for as long as I can remember. Always wondered if this problem had been documented, and was afraid that it already had been announced and I'd missed out on it.
How about a witty third post? :D
Didn't Al Gore already invent this a long time ago?
If they recognize Pastafarianism and being able to wear a colander in photos on government-issued IDs, then I insist that I be allowed to have a martini in hand as I subscribe to the religion of Alcoholism.
Pro's:
1) Its small size can be convenient in an era of bulky phones.
2) Attached to your body, it will theoretically be harder to lose it or let it get stolen.
Con's:
1) The screen is going to be too small to be very usable.
2) Battery life will likely suck since it is also too small.
3) With such a small screen, will be difficult to use, and you won't get many buttons, if any.
4) You can only use it one-handed.
5) The screen will probably get scratched to fuck since it sticks out from your wrist, and will probably stick out farther than your average watch.
6) Hot battery may get uncomfortable.
IMHO, smart watches are a great idea, but only as a bluetooth device for alerting you to new messages, calls and emails; using as a microphone Dick Tracy-style, and of course for checking the time. As a full-fledged smartphone, though, they're far too small to be that useful, but they might be decent as more of a dumb-phone for only making calls and such.
Upon further inspection, it would appear that this "tooth" is actually a walrus tusk.
...if you run Android! I'm no expert on programming, but if works in Android's flavor of Linux, why can't it be ported to the other distros?
Let me get this straight: the first human cases of a viral outbreak in the middle east might very well have literally been camel jockeys? Hang on, I'm writing this down so I can come up with a better joke for work tomorrow.
Turns out they took the award from Hackin9 and gave it to Slashdot for their beautifully ironic quality of editing.
I second MS Security Essentials. Back when netbooks fist hit the scene, I grabbed an Asus EeePC and installed the Alpha of Windows 7 on it. It ran alright on the puny PC and miniscule amount of RAM, but would turn into a dog when I'd install antivirus on it. I tried AVG, Avast, Nod32, and a handful of others. Hadn't even heard of MSSE at the time, but gave it a whirl. And I'll be damned if it didn't bog down the machine at all. I've used it to this day on all my devices, and it has caught viruses where programs like Avast and Symantec have failed. Not too bad for free software, especially from Microsuck of all places.
Thank you for explaining who William Shatner is. I'm sure there are still a good 5 or 6 Slashdot readers who are still unaware.
Two of the biggest benefits to an electric car are:
(1) When you're stopped, your motor doesn't keep running. Think of all the fuel you've wasted either letting your car warm up, or sitting at a light, or stuck in traffic.
(2) Regenerative braking technology converts your momentum back into usable power instead of just wasting it as heat.
These, combined with the fact that your car doesn't care where it gets electricity from, and that a coal plant is still more efficient overall than thousands of independent engines, is precisely why this article is probably OPEC propaganda. :D
I'm gonna go to a school full of kids and actually teach them something worth knowing! ....
brb, someone's at the door...
We have all these amazing advances in technology, but all we ever want to use them for is surreptitiously farting on people. The world never changes.