You can blow.08 and not be too impaired to drive...
What you blow is only vaguely related to your Blood Alcohol Content. (Hence the discussion of mouthwashes above). In most jurisdictions what you Blow is only used like a field sobriety test, as justification for a blood test.
Blowing an.08 just means you have alcohol on your breath, and you can blow that level if the breath test is taken after immediately after 3 swallows of beer.
However the discussion is about Blood Alcohol Content. With a BAC of.08 everyone is impaired. Everyone.
Exactly. So just exactly how lost could this rescued person have been? Judging from the size of the people in the video they were less than 100 feet away.
When they are used for search and rescue. The problem is that our police force has been lobbying to get them for law enforcement, to be used to further spy on and exert control over the populace. If law enforcement wants to have drones for the sole and limited purpose of search and rescue thats fine by me. Id prefer if I didnt need to worry about some agency watching my every physical move.
When you research this device on the manufacturer's website they are very very careful to NEVER specify the RANGE. It can go 30mph (allegedly), and climb to 8000 feet but no range or duration is given, and it does this on a 5400mAh battery. (My android tablet has a bigger battery).
I'd be very surprised if this thing could get out of sight of its operator.
Which means they could have just look for the car and followed his tracks or sent a dog. But instead this will be used as an excuse to equip every police force with one of these things, and they won't be restricted to search and rescue.
and is likely to result in my pulling the plug. screw 'em.
What took you so long? Years of abuse, leaks, privacy violations and lying to you are ok, but one goddamed ad an you are gone?
I'm glad I never signed up for Facebook, and still pissed they mined my information from my airhead friends that sell me out to them by useing Facebook as their address-book.
I had internal infections misdiagnosed as depression for over 4 years before physical symptoms appeared. This is a good thing to avoid these kind of errors in the future. How the hell can a doctor prescribe SSRI without measuring the actual levels first?
Yes it is about time. Even those in the profession realized the DSM was a growing embarrassment, stubbornly clung to to avoid admitting the emperor was stark naked.
245 Million cars registered in the US. Imagine all that mess in the air.
There is no technology that can route 300,000 autonomous vehicles in real time, let alone the sudden decision to stop for ice cream on the way home. There isn't enough radar bandwidth to handle that many targets, there isn't enough on-board computing power to route around even 1 thousand nearby targets.
Over North America on any given day, there are seldom anywhere near 10,000 aircraft aloft at any one time. Yet you propose 240 million flying cars?
You need to do more homework to see the size of the problem you are proposing.
Commercial airliners operate in essentially empty skies. Further, there are about 160,000 aircraft on the US register... admittedly not all airworthy or operating, but a good percentage are, and of these on a busy busy day, Maybe 16,000 in the air...maybe!
There are 254.4 million registered passenger vehicles in the United States according to a 2007 DOT study.
Huge percentages of these vehicles all want to go to a relatively small list of destinations at the same time of day, and they all want to travel at different speeds and they all want to stop on a moment's notice and pick up some groceries on the way home, or change their destination on a moment's notice to get a bite to eat.
If you try to put 254 million vehicles in the air (or even half that to weed out the big trucks) you have to have a radar and control system that can handle that load (our current radar technology is confused by a few wind generators), and an on board computer that can handle 1000 nearby bogies from all directions). You have to handle the sudden, "oh gee, lets stop in and pick up some bacon for breakfast", or "step on it I gotta pee".
There is no radar technology that can sort out that many targets. There is no on board computer system that can manage that many "obstacles" (which jellomizer said didn't exist). There is no contingency plan for a area wide power failure taking down all the radar and ground computers. There are not enough emergency crews to collecting all the body parts that would be the inevitable result thereof. There is no way to handle even an auto-gyro unpowered decent due to an engine failure and the havoc that would cause to the traffic stream. There is no way to control the noise of take off and landing in neighborhoods.
You dramatically underestimate the size and scope of the problem when you push a hundred million vehicles of various vintage and capability up in the air over a big city. You hand wave away massive problems and assume into existence technology that simply does not exist.
Like I said, 2D space is way easier to deal with than 250 million aircraft in 3D space over cities. You haven't thought this through.
I can see flying cars going along side with the self driving car. For a computer control flight it could actually be a lot easier. Just because of less obstacles.
You mean besides all of those other flying cars...
Computer controlled (self driving) cars are easy by comparison. They deal with only X and Y. They can pull over and stop for any minor malfunction.
What happens when flying cars collide with buildings or other infrastructure?
You needn't worry about this because flying cars are never going to be generally available for Ma and Pa Polyester. When every minor fender bender turns into a death rain of falling parts you can bet that society will come to its senses. Just won't happen.
So the guy is lying? Perhaps. Or just exaggerating. But I doubt there isn't more than one data center for this very purpose. The question is what kind of hardware would be necessary to compress all the data live.
If he wasn't lying, he would be arrested for violation of his LIFE LONG NDA you sign when you take a job with the The FBI.
So if he is picked up for tax evasion or some similar nonsense charge, then I'll start to believe him, but until then, I suspect he has a book he is peddling now or in the near future.
People should remember just how terrible Americans are at keeping a secret. Someone would have leaked this long ago, just as the secret room at the AT&T switch center was leaked within a couple months.
Complying with company policy may be something as simple as using the term "person hours" instead of "man hours". I'm sure you can imagine a thousand similar examples in virtually any line of business.
That's the idea of this patent. The system will let you know if what you wrote in an email about shady dealings will be incriminating, so you can re-word it. It's a lawyer in a box helping you facilitate shady actions with minimal discoverable evidence.
Bullshit.
Go read the article instead of the hopelessly biased summary.
This is more about not letting casual joking references slip into official communication due to fact that future readers will not be privy the the reference and will substitute their own prejudiced interpretation, much like you have done above.
Its easy to use every day office language in an email and have it horribly miss interpreted by people unfamiliar with the jargon or the context.
I was once called on the carpet for saying in an email to one of my programmers something like "Mrs Jones has reported extraneous characters appearing on the end the report lines, so be sure you clear out the buffer when you next look at her programs." Mrs Jones saw this and complained up the chain that I was making derogatory remarks about her prodigious girth.
Not true, in many cultures people DO choose a subsistence life style. For a variety of reasons. Its not common in the US, other than Alaska. But northern Canada and parts of Norway, Russia, South Pacific, and South America all have cultures that choose a subsistence life style.
Speaking of power in the gas tank, it seems that all these tests are conducted with straight gas, but all you can find at the pump these days is 10% ethanol, which immediately cuts your mph by 3 to 4 mph.
Very few new car advertising even mentions the difference.
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In some state refusal of a breathalyzer test is an automatic trip to jail.
Name one.
Cops don't draw blood.
You can blow .08 and not be too impaired to drive...
What you blow is only vaguely related to your Blood Alcohol Content. (Hence the discussion of mouthwashes above).
In most jurisdictions what you Blow is only used like a field sobriety test, as justification for a blood test.
Blowing an .08 just means you have alcohol on your breath, and you can blow that level if the breath test is taken after immediately after 3 swallows of beer.
However the discussion is about Blood Alcohol Content. With a BAC of .08 everyone is impaired. Everyone.
Exactly.
So just exactly how lost could this rescued person have been?
Judging from the size of the people in the video they were less than 100 feet away.
When they are used for search and rescue. The problem is that our police force has been lobbying to get them for law enforcement, to be used to further spy on and exert control over the populace. If law enforcement wants to have drones for the sole and limited purpose of search and rescue thats fine by me. Id prefer if I didnt need to worry about some agency watching my every physical move.
When you research this device on the manufacturer's website they are very very careful to NEVER specify the RANGE.
It can go 30mph (allegedly), and climb to 8000 feet but no range or duration is given, and it does this on a 5400mAh battery.
(My android tablet has a bigger battery).
I'd be very surprised if this thing could get out of sight of its operator.
Which means they could have just look for the car and followed his tracks or sent a dog. But instead this will be used as an excuse to equip every police force with one of these things, and they won't be restricted to search and rescue.
Well at least we could retire the age or joke about plugging the toaster into a current bush on camping trips.
and is likely to result in my pulling the plug. screw 'em.
What took you so long?
Years of abuse, leaks, privacy violations and lying to you are ok, but one goddamed ad an you are gone?
I'm glad I never signed up for Facebook, and still pissed they mined my information from my airhead
friends that sell me out to them by useing Facebook as their address-book.
I had internal infections misdiagnosed as depression for over 4 years before physical symptoms appeared. This is a good thing to avoid these kind of errors in the future. How the hell can a doctor prescribe SSRI without measuring the actual levels first?
Yes it is about time.
Even those in the profession realized the DSM was a growing embarrassment, stubbornly clung to to avoid admitting the emperor was stark naked.
Well, that's how many cars we have in the US, alone.
Why would you propose fewer?
Nope.
245 Million cars registered in the US.
Imagine all that mess in the air.
There is no technology that can route 300,000 autonomous vehicles in real time, let alone the sudden decision to stop for ice cream on the way home. There isn't enough radar bandwidth to handle that many targets, there isn't enough on-board computing power to route around even 1 thousand nearby targets.
Over North America on any given day, there are seldom anywhere near 10,000 aircraft aloft at any one time. Yet you propose 240 million flying cars?
You need to do more homework to see the size of the problem you are proposing.
Hold on there....
Commercial airliners operate in essentially empty skies. Further, there are about 160,000 aircraft on the US register ... admittedly not all airworthy or operating, but a good percentage are, and of these on a busy busy day, Maybe 16,000 in the air...maybe!
There are 254.4 million registered passenger vehicles in the United States according to a 2007 DOT study.
Huge percentages of these vehicles all want to go to a relatively small list of destinations at the same time of day, and they all want to travel at different speeds and they all want to stop on a moment's notice and pick up some groceries on the way home, or change their destination on a moment's notice to get a bite to eat.
If you try to put 254 million vehicles in the air (or even half that to weed out the big trucks) you have to have a radar and control system that can handle that load (our current radar technology is confused by a few wind generators), and an on board computer that can handle 1000 nearby bogies from all directions). You have to handle the sudden, "oh gee, lets stop in and pick up some bacon for breakfast", or "step on it I gotta pee".
There is no radar technology that can sort out that many targets.
There is no on board computer system that can manage that many "obstacles" (which jellomizer said didn't exist).
There is no contingency plan for a area wide power failure taking down all the radar and ground computers.
There are not enough emergency crews to collecting all the body parts that would be the inevitable result thereof.
There is no way to handle even an auto-gyro unpowered decent due to an engine failure and the havoc that would cause to the traffic stream.
There is no way to control the noise of take off and landing in neighborhoods.
You dramatically underestimate the size and scope of the problem when you push a hundred million vehicles of various vintage and capability up in the air over a big city. You hand wave away massive problems and assume into existence technology that simply does not exist.
Like I said, 2D space is way easier to deal with than 250 million aircraft in 3D space over cities. You haven't thought this through.
Even rich people have to get a license to fly their own planes.
Any other questions?
I can see flying cars going along side with the self driving car. For a computer control flight it could actually be a lot easier. Just because of less obstacles.
You mean besides all of those other flying cars...
Computer controlled (self driving) cars are easy by comparison. They deal with only X and Y. They can pull over and stop for any minor malfunction.
No, this is slashdot, so any close approximation of spelling is as good as any other.
What happens when flying cars collide with buildings or other infrastructure?
You needn't worry about this because flying cars are never going to be generally available for Ma and Pa Polyester.
When every minor fender bender turns into a death rain of falling parts you can bet that society will come to its senses.
Just won't happen.
That was then. This is now. The world has changed.
We are not in a major world war.
Wow, you had to teach back 60 years to find one?
So the guy is lying? Perhaps. Or just exaggerating. But I doubt there isn't more than one data center for this very purpose. The question is what kind of hardware would be necessary to compress all the data live.
If he wasn't lying, he would be arrested for violation of his LIFE LONG NDA you sign when you take a job with the The FBI.
So if he is picked up for tax evasion or some similar nonsense charge, then I'll start to believe him, but until then, I suspect he has a book he is peddling now or in the near future.
People should remember just how terrible Americans are at keeping a secret. Someone would have leaked this long ago, just as the secret room at the AT&T switch center was leaked within a couple months.
It wouldn't come from a lowly guy hyping a book.
You should listen to your dad more often
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/04/fingerprint-evaluations-reliable-998-of-the-time/1
You read too much into it.
Complying with company policy may be something as simple as using the term "person hours" instead of "man hours". I'm sure you can imagine a thousand similar examples in virtually any line of business.
That's the idea of this patent. The system will let you know if what you wrote in an email about shady dealings will be incriminating, so you can re-word it.
It's a lawyer in a box helping you facilitate shady actions with minimal discoverable evidence.
Bullshit.
Go read the article instead of the hopelessly biased summary.
This is more about not letting casual joking references slip into official communication due to fact that future readers will not be privy the the reference and will substitute their own prejudiced interpretation, much like you have done above.
Its easy to use every day office language in an email and have it horribly miss interpreted by people unfamiliar with the jargon or the context.
I was once called on the carpet for saying in an email to one of my programmers something like "Mrs Jones has reported extraneous characters appearing on the end the report lines, so be sure you clear out the buffer when you next look at her programs." Mrs Jones saw this and complained up the chain that I was making derogatory remarks about her prodigious girth.
People don't choose to live a subsistence life.
Not true, in many cultures people DO choose a subsistence life style. For a variety of reasons.
Its not common in the US, other than Alaska. But northern Canada and parts of Norway, Russia, South Pacific, and South America all have cultures that choose a subsistence life style.
Entire article is false, EPA changed the testing in 2008. Since 2008 they test mpg up to 80mph and accelerate at 8.5 miles per second, roughly 0-60 in 7 second
So I'm guessing you never bothered to read the article. (I know, what was I thinking).
The new standard is FULLY addressed in the article. Go read it.
Speaking of power in the gas tank, it seems that all these tests are conducted with straight gas, but all you can find at the pump these days is 10% ethanol, which immediately cuts your mph by 3 to 4 mph.
Very few new car advertising even mentions the difference.
But are the libraries running Windows XP?
This chart seems to suggest that XP's toehold in the UK is only at 16%.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-GB-yearly-2012-2013-bar