Why would you want to cut cell phone use for passengers? It's not about my wants. I'm just acknowledging the effects of the proposed technology.
Meanwhile there have been studies suggesting that any conversations going on while driving are a distraction to the driver. They also cite listening to the radio as a distraction, but I'm not seeing laws banning integration of stereo speakers in cars.
However I would enjoy not having the rhythm of the heavy bass line of rap music forced upon me from tunelessly vibrating car panels from three blocks away.
Since the first brick with an antenna on it, people have wanted to control when cell phones could be used. Enforcing driving habits? SciFi has it covered. I know I've posted to Slashdot about using a method (such as doppler shift of the radio signal) to detect when someone is using a cell phone in motion (say more than 10-15 mph*) relative to the tower and disallowing or disconnecting the call. It could be implemented in the handset or at the tower. Since it is simply velocity based, it cuts out uses on planes, buses, and cars (even by passengers).
* Definitely something higher than the highest natural relative angular velocity you'd have due to the spin of the Earth within the operating range of the cell tower. Someone want to do the math?
I hope that Microsoft winds up not building anything with this patent (or building just a few things that don't do well), and yet insists on holding on to the patent (and charging expensive royalties for devices that do anything like this). That will ensure that we won't ever have to worry about this technology creeping its way into our stuff. So you plan to expire before the patent does, eh?
Remember, these are patents we're talking about, not copyrights. Patents can actually expire within the patent holder's lifetime.
this is the same country that charges prisoners who have been falsely accused for bed and boarding costs. Say, can kidnappers charge their victims (or victims' families) for room and board (or storage) upon their conviction too? That might help them pay the fees owed to their barrister as well as their appeals.
Or do you not have equal protection under the law there?
There is no such thing as cruel and unusual punishment, especially when waterboarding is considered normal. The last words from the weasel I heard was that they can be as cruel and unusual as they want as long as it isn't used as punishment, i.e. if it is done capriciously or as a prelude to interrogation to weaken your resistance.
ISPs don't have Common Carrier status. They instead have Safe Harbor provisions, which basically amount to the same thing except that with common carrier status, copyright holders can't force the phone company to have your phone number disconnected.
Lose weight by removing panels, replacing them with mesh, plus a complement of projectile and bladed and spiked melee weapons and you got your perfect post-petrolyptic vehicle to survive in the wastelands.
It's a bug I'm experiencing with a (not Firefox) specific application's windows generated by Tcl under Gnome under Redhat 9, in click-to-focus mode. When the Tcl window is clicked and gets focus, it triggers a highlighting event for the entry field that last had focus in the window, which in turn triggers the copy-to-clipboard operation. Having caps-lock engage prevents the window from receiving focus, preventing the cascade of operations that would blow away the clipboard and allowing the clipboard contents to be pasted. Then I can middle-click paste into any of the fields.
Sometime soon I'm expecting being moved to ubuntu, though they're hesitant on purchasing new hardware here. My motherboard's memory is maxed out and I'm still running with 96% memory, 50% swap. I suspect Firefox 2 of being the memory hog, especially when it suddenly becomes the processor hog after a few days (used to be about every 24 hours of continuous running).
There was 60% voter turnout in 2004. Of that, Bush got 50.8% of the votes. That means Bush started this term thanks to about 30% of the voting public. If anything, that just shows why it's so important to vote. I'm curious: how does the 40% voter stay-in break down according to the 51 blocks of electoral votes, were they enough to sway their block of electoral votes and thus as a whole the election?
Most datacenters are in nondescript buildings. Why would you want to advertise that this building here is the uber datacenter for the entire olympics?
Blake: [races through the door] We've done it! We've done it! We've done it! I've done it! [into an empty room, his words echoing off the walls] Avon: Blake! There's nothing here. [Blake turns to stare at him. Avon holsters his weapon.] Avon: There's nothing here. [Blake turns slowly and falls to his knees. Avon grabs him by the arm and shoulder.] Avon: [whispers] Nothing! [Travis laughs out of sight] Blake: Travis. Travis: [walks in] You believed it, Blake, like all the other fools before you. "Destroy Control and you destroy the Federation." No. Blake: [grabs Avon] It was here. Everybody knows it was here. Travis: Of course. We've never concealed it. On the contrary, we've broadcast the fact. We used it as a challenge to our enemies, we invited them to attack Control. Blake: It was never here? Travis: It was moved -- thirty years ago. Blake: [lets Avon go] To where? Travis: Even I don't know that. But it's safe and secure and will remain so while those who seek to destroy us believe it's here. You see, it's the great illusion, Blake. You give substance and credibility to an empty room, and the real thing becomes undetectable, virtually invisible. So, where is the real data center? Where's Star One? For that, I'll cite the Shadows' planet killer at the end of Babylon 5: A Call to Arms. But as there's no transcript of it on-line to provide precise quotes, I'll use a scene synopsis:
Sheridan notices the center of the lattice is bigger and reinforced: probably the command center. That's their target.
When the time comes to choose your target, be sure to pick the right one. Because you will only get one shot. Galen's words echo in Dureena's head.
"No," she tells Sheridan simply. "If you hit that part you'll fail and your planet will be destroyed." She explains that a thief learns to look where you aren't supposed to look; that the most valuable items are never inside the safe, but next to it. Next to the central point of the lattice is a joint, seemingly the same as others in the structure. "There's nothing special about it," Dureena explains. "Then why is it surrounded by short range weapons? Why are they so determined to protect it?"
What is surprising is that these scientists can now write a wave function for your position. As well as an alert system whenever you break out of your pattern so that you may be detained an questioned.
The laws restricting access to the data: I understand they exclude governments without court orders, corporations, and individuals. But do they also exclude automata that will only disclose information if they detect suspicious activity?
Still better, ban work! Monet: You see, Ruby, about 200 years ago Aurora entered "The Age of Cybernetics". Cybernetics created the freedom for us to think. As computers evolved, our minds evolved. We value intelligence, something you earthlings don't seem to... Ruby: Oh, quit knocking humans, I'm sick of it! Everyone in this damn galaxy likes to poke fun at us. So we're stupid; but we're trying, okay? Monet: Okay... well, we also made mistakes... Ruby: No... oh really? Monet: We didn't foresee the massive unemployment computer minds would create. Also, we thought unemployment was a "disease" that needed to be "cured". So we agreed to slow down total computerization. But eventually we realized unemployment is not a disease, it's not something to be "cured" by creating employment. Ruby: Why not? Monet: Because most employment was totally meaningless work. It was work that could be done better by computers, it was work that no one was happy doing, it was meaningless, a waste of potential, no one enjoyed it. It was working for a wage and having to have a job to survive. It was "wage slavery". A highly un-enlightened way to run a planet. Ruby: So you figured out another way? Monet: Yes. You see, creating more meaningless work was not the cure. Unemployment was the cure. So we devised a better system. When we could no longer hold back computerization, we devised a system where everyone owned shares in the planet and received dividends. Ruby: Oh yeah? What about all those people who don't know what to do with their lives? You know, get bored, cause problems... Monet: That is the main objection to a workless society. Ruby: Yeah, I know. Monet: It meant training people how people how to think. In fact, we encourage people to invent machines that can replace them. Ruby: Oh... Monet: You earthlings fail to realize that art and life is the same... Ruby: Yeah... Monet: Politics without aesthetics is unthinkable. You aliens believe we are all artists, all we do is think creatively. You earthlings and your work ethic, forcing people to be consumers. The profit motive has caused you to consume your whole planet almost. Ruby: What about the individual? Monet: Our system does not limit the individual. Our system allows individuals to realize their creative potential. Once a society realizes that wage slavery is not the answer-- unemployment is not a disease, it is the cure-- then mental evolution is possible. The mind is the planet's most important resource.
I think many PowerPC home users stayed with 10.4. Some, specifically the G3 users, had to stay at 10.4. Also, many G4s are too slow to meet minimum requirements. Both my stock G4 Cube and my Blue & White G3 upgraded to G4 are too slow for Leopard. My TiBook and Mac Pro 4-core though run 10.5. (The PowerMac 7500 has the G3's old processor, but would still run Mac OS 9 if I were to power it up.)
I remember when Apple said that everything from the Blue & White G3 onward (and certain PowerBook G3s) were always going to be able to run Mac OS X. I expected Apple to move to 11 (or XI) before dropping G3 support. As they were able to drop G3 support without much outcry, they'll be able to drop G4 and G5 machines with similar ease.
(But seriously, didn't you even try to search the internet for a solution, rather than bitching about it on/. ??) Just because I bitch about it doesn't mean I don't like or want the feature. It's just a problem in conjunction with the open-in-new-tab middle-click (which I also like) when bound to something that can move what you're clicking out from under the mouse pointer. It's just Firefox for Linux trying to do something useful with Linux's built-in middle-click paste after all.
(Highlight-copy and middle-click paste in Linux can be its own problem which sometimes requires using caps-lock so the window into which you intend to paste doesn't get focus, causing a field to be automatically highlighted, blowing away the clipboard data you'd intended to paste, so you have to highlight it again, remember to engage caps lock before pasting, and remember to disengage caps lock afterwards. That's a lot of aggravation for a feature designed to avoid having to hit control-c and control-v. But then control-c was already bound for stopping processes in Unix (and the Apple II).)
And as I said, I avoid the problem by having a mouse where middle-click is not scrollwheel click. So I guess the real bitch is mice that have clickable scrollwheels instead of an independent middle-click, and I've already worked around that. (This mouse replaced another where so much clicking on the scrollwheel had caused some turns of the scrollwheel not to register.)
But I may try enabling some of those other middlemouse fields on my Mac installation at home. I use the same model mouse on both Mac OS X and Linux; maybe I can get s similar experience there.
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Meanwhile there have been studies suggesting that any conversations going on while driving are a distraction to the driver. They also cite listening to the radio as a distraction, but I'm not seeing laws banning integration of stereo speakers in cars.
However I would enjoy not having the rhythm of the heavy bass line of rap music forced upon me from tunelessly vibrating car panels from three blocks away.
BritneySpears14: Funny I still don't see it. "Chicken"?
* Definitely something higher than the highest natural relative angular velocity you'd have due to the spin of the Earth within the operating range of the cell tower. Someone want to do the math?
Get this installed into Skynet ASAP!
Remember, these are patents we're talking about, not copyrights. Patents can actually expire within the patent holder's lifetime.
Or do you not have equal protection under the law there?
LET THERE BE LIGHT! Well, that was surprisingly unspectacular.
"Idle: Chuck Norris Backs Down On Lawsuit "
Fairly warned be ye, says I.
ISPs don't have Common Carrier status. They instead have Safe Harbor provisions, which basically amount to the same thing except that with common carrier status, copyright holders can't force the phone company to have your phone number disconnected.
Lose weight by removing panels, replacing them with mesh, plus a complement of projectile and bladed and spiked melee weapons and you got your perfect post-petrolyptic vehicle to survive in the wastelands.
It's a bug I'm experiencing with a (not Firefox) specific application's windows generated by Tcl under Gnome under Redhat 9, in click-to-focus mode. When the Tcl window is clicked and gets focus, it triggers a highlighting event for the entry field that last had focus in the window, which in turn triggers the copy-to-clipboard operation. Having caps-lock engage prevents the window from receiving focus, preventing the cascade of operations that would blow away the clipboard and allowing the clipboard contents to be pasted. Then I can middle-click paste into any of the fields.
Sometime soon I'm expecting being moved to ubuntu, though they're hesitant on purchasing new hardware here. My motherboard's memory is maxed out and I'm still running with 96% memory, 50% swap. I suspect Firefox 2 of being the memory hog, especially when it suddenly becomes the processor hog after a few days (used to be about every 24 hours of continuous running).
Power sees checks and balances as damage and routes around it.
[into an empty room, his words echoing off the walls]
Avon: Blake! There's nothing here.
[Blake turns to stare at him. Avon holsters his weapon.]
Avon: There's nothing here.
[Blake turns slowly and falls to his knees. Avon grabs him by the arm and shoulder.]
Avon: [whispers] Nothing!
[Travis laughs out of sight]
Blake: Travis.
Travis: [walks in] You believed it, Blake, like all the other fools before you. "Destroy Control and you destroy the Federation." No.
Blake: [grabs Avon] It was here. Everybody knows it was here.
Travis: Of course. We've never concealed it. On the contrary, we've broadcast the fact. We used it as a challenge to our enemies, we invited them to attack Control.
Blake: It was never here?
Travis: It was moved -- thirty years ago.
Blake: [lets Avon go] To where?
Travis: Even I don't know that. But it's safe and secure and will remain so while those who seek to destroy us believe it's here. You see, it's the great illusion, Blake. You give substance and credibility to an empty room, and the real thing becomes undetectable, virtually invisible. So, where is the real data center? Where's Star One? For that, I'll cite the Shadows' planet killer at the end of Babylon 5: A Call to Arms. But as there's no transcript of it on-line to provide precise quotes, I'll use a scene synopsis: Sheridan notices the center of the lattice is bigger and reinforced: probably the command center. That's their target.
When the time comes to choose your target, be sure to pick the right one. Because you will only get one shot. Galen's words echo in Dureena's head.
"No," she tells Sheridan simply. "If you hit that part you'll fail and your planet will be destroyed." She explains that a thief learns to look where you aren't supposed to look; that the most valuable items are never inside the safe, but next to it. Next to the central point of the lattice is a joint, seemingly the same as others in the structure. "There's nothing special about it," Dureena explains. "Then why is it surrounded by short range weapons? Why are they so determined to protect it?"
The laws restricting access to the data: I understand they exclude governments without court orders, corporations, and individuals. But do they also exclude automata that will only disclose information if they detect suspicious activity?
There's no rule that says 10.9 cannot be followed by 10.10.
Ruby: Oh, quit knocking humans, I'm sick of it! Everyone in this damn galaxy likes to poke fun at us. So we're stupid; but we're trying, okay?
Monet: Okay... well, we also made mistakes...
Ruby: No... oh really?
Monet: We didn't foresee the massive unemployment computer minds would create. Also, we thought unemployment was a "disease" that needed to be "cured". So we agreed to slow down total computerization. But eventually we realized unemployment is not a disease, it's not something to be "cured" by creating employment.
Ruby: Why not?
Monet: Because most employment was totally meaningless work. It was work that could be done better by computers, it was work that no one was happy doing, it was meaningless, a waste of potential, no one enjoyed it. It was working for a wage and having to have a job to survive. It was "wage slavery". A highly un-enlightened way to run a planet.
Ruby: So you figured out another way?
Monet: Yes. You see, creating more meaningless work was not the cure. Unemployment was the cure. So we devised a better system. When we could no longer hold back computerization, we devised a system where everyone owned shares in the planet and received dividends.
Ruby: Oh yeah? What about all those people who don't know what to do with their lives? You know, get bored, cause problems...
Monet: That is the main objection to a workless society.
Ruby: Yeah, I know.
Monet: It meant training people how people how to think. In fact, we encourage people to invent machines that can replace them.
Ruby: Oh...
Monet: You earthlings fail to realize that art and life is the same...
Ruby: Yeah...
Monet: Politics without aesthetics is unthinkable. You aliens believe we are all artists, all we do is think creatively. You earthlings and your work ethic, forcing people to be consumers. The profit motive has caused you to consume your whole planet almost.
Ruby: What about the individual?
Monet: Our system does not limit the individual. Our system allows individuals to realize their creative potential. Once a society realizes that wage slavery is not the answer-- unemployment is not a disease, it is the cure-- then mental evolution is possible. The mind is the planet's most important resource.
I remember when Apple said that everything from the Blue & White G3 onward (and certain PowerBook G3s) were always going to be able to run Mac OS X. I expected Apple to move to 11 (or XI) before dropping G3 support. As they were able to drop G3 support without much outcry, they'll be able to drop G4 and G5 machines with similar ease.
(Highlight-copy and middle-click paste in Linux can be its own problem which sometimes requires using caps-lock so the window into which you intend to paste doesn't get focus, causing a field to be automatically highlighted, blowing away the clipboard data you'd intended to paste, so you have to highlight it again, remember to engage caps lock before pasting, and remember to disengage caps lock afterwards. That's a lot of aggravation for a feature designed to avoid having to hit control-c and control-v. But then control-c was already bound for stopping processes in Unix (and the Apple II).)
And as I said, I avoid the problem by having a mouse where middle-click is not scrollwheel click. So I guess the real bitch is mice that have clickable scrollwheels instead of an independent middle-click, and I've already worked around that. (This mouse replaced another where so much clicking on the scrollwheel had caused some turns of the scrollwheel not to register.)
But I may try enabling some of those other middlemouse fields on my Mac installation at home. I use the same model mouse on both Mac OS X and Linux; maybe I can get s similar experience there.
Then as an Alltel user, I maybe should find out how to back up my firmware.
Grid is the third racing game of the TOCA street-racing series from Codemasters. To compare, DiRT was originally to be Colin McRae Rally.
I actually was not sure; I haven't kept up with all the movie releases lately. (I had to RTFA.)