But, more than that, what needs to happen is for the consequences of drunk or drowsy driving to be aligned with similarly dangerous behavior out of the car. Around here there's talk of increasing the penalties to match what similarly dangerous behavior would warrant if a car weren't involved.
What similarly dangerous behavior is there when a car is not involved? Its not too often someone fatally crashes into a neighbors kitchen table while getting drunk playing cards at his own kitchen table.
Removal of the car makes no sense when evaluating penalties for events that only happen in cars.
The idea that we should promote drowsy driving by making it (hypothetically) less fatal to do so is laughably absurd. Sometimes a driver needs to swerve to miss an accident occurring--no time to signal, so into the pileup we go? Hmm...
From the linked story, (which you clearly didn't read):
When the system detects the car is approaching the edge of the lane without a turn signal activated, the lane marker in the icon turns yellow and the steering wheel vibrates to simulate driving over rumble strips. If the driver doesn't respond and continues to drift, the lane icon turns red and EPAS will nudge the steering and the vehicle back toward the center of the lane. If the car continues to drift, the vibration is added again along with the nudge. The driver can overcome assistance and vibration at any time by turning the steering wheel, accelerating or braking.
The return to lane feature only works if you start to drift into the other lane, not if you actively turn into the other lane, or supply any other common control input to let the system know you are in fact paying attention.
Its not too hard to distinguish an alert driver at the wheel from someone nodding off, because a normal driver supplies 10 to 30 small control movements to the steering wheel per minute (Steering Reversal Rate), and these are typically Greater than 2 degrees and less than 6 degrees regardless of road curvature or lack there of. Once this rate falls to less than 5 reversals per minute, the car's computer can assume from this single measurement alone that the driver is getting drowsy, and when there are almost no reversals at all, that the driver has fallen asleep.
So the mere presence of control frequent movements on the wheel would sufficient to distinguish an intentional lane cross from an unintentional one.
There is a large amount of research already available on the web about his stuff. Google steering wheel reversal rate. This stuff has been known and measured for decades.
That's exactly what I was thinking. For any site that maters, the most they can do is reset it for you, not tell you what it was. Most sites just don't matter. Other than your Karma, how much damage can be done when they hack your Slashdot password?
But I gotta ask, Why bother changing every year?
Changing a secure password offers no additional security. Its not like they wear out.
If crooks haven't broken into the login during the course of the year, changing it may actually make it weaker. Those hovering over your shoulder to catch one key today and the next key tomorrow should be pretty obvious after a year, don't you think? The key loggers would have found you long before the year is up, and the timing routines can be outfoxed by simply typing with only one finger, a different finger each day.
Most sites that force you to change do so more frequently than a year. And 99.44% of them end up having users simply adding ascending digits to the key, which becomes pretty easy to guess.
There actually is a way - the same way that iOS avoids malware installation.
The problem is, it's whitelisting.
Not really practical.
Look, QR codes are meant to convey information, just like a note pad, or tablet. Who whitelists what you write on the back of your business card?
What if I want to give you my Vcard on my phone via a QR code so you can scan it to add me to your contacts, who becomes the whitelisting authority? Do I have to first appeal to Apple to be able to display a contact as a QR code?
All QR codes do not go to websites. Its just a method of writing, not a central clearing house.
If we need to choose between a billion dollars spent establishing a colony on a celestial body or spent on developing sustaining methods of producing food in impoverished nations, the production of food must take precedence.
There is no reason to assume those two goals are separate. Food production will be an issue everywhere humans go, and there is a lot of potential for multi-use of any technology developed.
Besides: All of the money will be spend here on earth. There are no plans to launch ships full of dollar bills or euro notes to be used as compost on the moon. The engineers developing moon base technology, spend their earnings buying goods and services from others, and so on down the line. No matter how much you rail against it, trickle down does work precisely because it is not government directed.
That was my response as well. Whereever Oxygen and Hydrogen exist, the problem is NOT creating water. In fact, it's very likely that the largest source of water outside of the Earth in our Solar System is orbiting Saturn.
You may be right about the source being other moons. Comets are another potential source, Louis Frank published his theory in The Big Splash, but it never seemed to gain a lot of traction, even though the guys has a lot of credentials. It was generally disregarded, like so many other novel theories.
In the book he postulates that thousands of small fluffy snow-ball comets with no hard central core and which which don't really show up in radar or visually, deposit tons of water on the earth's atmosphere and the moon every year. He even had images in his book about impacts on the moon.
Is the confirmation something like OK/Cancel? I also tend to click OK buttons without hardly even reading them. That's why potentially security sensitive questions shouldn't have such simple buttons, but rather two (radio?) buttons that require you to read (and hopefully understand) what you're doing, such as: "Replace network settings from QR" and "Keep the existing network settings".
It varies by implementation of course, but most offer a choice of actions depending on the type of QR code. For instance, with the android version I am running right now, a simple Vcard via QR code, offers me a choice of add to address book, call number, sms number, etc. Additionally there is the normal "Back" button which does nothing.
You can do a lot with QR codes that have no destination at all, they are not restricted to web links. They can be simple text messages, address book entries, phone numbers, wifi network set up instructions, calendar events, etc.
But every implementation I've seen of a QR code reader in Android and IOS also gives you the option to inspect the content visually before acting on it. They ask if you want to proceed.
Of course one could argue the click-thru generation does not know enough to evaluate the content, but then these are the same people that no amount of malware/antivirus software can protect. They do the same with links in email links.
At the prior funding level, (100 million per year) Google accounted for nearly 100% or Mozilla.org's budget.
This story is about Google getting suckered in a bidding war to the the default (but NOT the only) search engine in the top-bar. Anyone can change the default at any time. The agreement is performance based, capped at 300 mil. If Firefox search hits falls they won't make the full 300 mil.
So if prior agreement paid 100% of development costs, and if Firefox can keep its market share up, they should have three times their development budget to add astounding new features, fix up their physical infrastructure and harden their browser and plugins. They now can afford the manpower. The ball is in their court.
I'm pretty sure Google isn't worried about Chrome market share here. They get the advertising dollars either way.
Sounds reasonable for Humvee, What about all the aircraft, ships, tanks, heavy trucks, etc?
It stands to reason some light trucks might have civilian parts, but one would expect the big ticket items have all been converted long ago to metric. I'm just guessing here, and lots of that equipment was designed well before the move to metric, but I seem to recall the Military was moving that direction well before the rest of the government got started.
If you have a good GPU, you can off load a lot of processing that might be otherwise have to do with the CPU. Sift enough work, and you can do with a single core what others might do with a dual. Thats all I was trying to point out.
At the stated bench mark scores Medfield IS THE NEXT GEN Chip. And its single core. When they dual well it, the others will still be trying hard to catch up.
It beats the current crop of dual core ARM processors (Exynos, snapdragon s3 and Tegra 2) in one benchmark that "leaked".
Nothing fishy about that at all.
Quote Vrzone:
Intel Medfield 1.6GHz currently scores around 10,500 in Caffeinemark 3. For comparison, NVIDIA Tegra 2 scores around 7500, while Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260 scores 8000. Samsung Exynos is the current king of the crop, scoring 8500. True - we're waiting for the first Tegra 3 results to come through.
But the same paragraph says
Benchmark data is useless in the absence of real-world, hands-on testing,
If the performance figures are realistic this is one fast processor, and it appears to be a single core chip, (or at least I saw nothing to the contrary). That's impressive.
Single cores can get busy handling games or complex screen movements, leading to a laggy UI. If they put a good strong GPU on this thing you might never see any lag.
They deal with the non-integer number of days in a year by occasionally adding an extra week in December. So on some years you may experience the 36th of December.
Which of course implies a greater degree of imprecision for the other 4 years. If you chop days out of years 1 thru 4 so as to have 7 days to tack onto every 5th, it sort of seems counter productive as far as keeping things in sync with the solar system.
Its sort of a sign of the arrogance of mankind that they are willing to say screw the facts, lets make it easier to count on our fingers.
The thought of going through every program looking for date logic that needs a total re-write yet AGAIN would be enough to make me change careers and take up tree farming.
There are billions of programs that need fixing, and every single one of them would need fixing by hand. There is no quick fix for date calculations and validations of dates, to say nothing of the mess that would be made of historical records and current contracts. Another monstrous boondoggle for no gain but a lot of pain.
Look, just as no one uses the metric system because of the inertia involved, no one would use this system either. We've solved all the major problems with the current system, there are no serious problems left that can't be solved with a 4 line rhyme, and a $2.95 calendar. We all know its a goofie calendar and we've all made our peace with it, and there is nothing significant to be gained by messing with it.
How DARE the earth not revolve around the sun in even multiples of is revolution upon its axis!.
And part of what the mechanical FC computers did - stabilize the guns on a ship that's pitching and turning and rolling - can't be done with a precomputed table.
Fire Control computers of that vintage did not attempt to stabilize the guns. That didn't come till much later, and never was used on very large bore guns (> 6inch). Simply too much mass to control. Instead the delay firing until the ship rolls or pitches thru the optimum fire point.
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But, more than that, what needs to happen is for the consequences of drunk or drowsy driving to be aligned with similarly dangerous behavior out of the car. Around here there's talk of increasing the penalties to match what similarly dangerous behavior would warrant if a car weren't involved.
What similarly dangerous behavior is there when a car is not involved?
Its not too often someone fatally crashes into a neighbors kitchen table while getting drunk playing cards at his own kitchen table.
Removal of the car makes no sense when evaluating penalties for events that only happen in cars.
The idea that we should promote drowsy driving by making it (hypothetically) less fatal to do so is laughably absurd. Sometimes a driver needs to swerve to miss an accident occurring--no time to signal, so into the pileup we go? Hmm...
From the linked story, (which you clearly didn't read):
When the system detects the car is approaching the edge of the lane without a turn signal activated, the lane marker in the icon turns yellow and the steering wheel vibrates to simulate driving over rumble strips. If the driver doesn't respond and continues to drift, the lane icon turns red and EPAS will nudge the steering and the vehicle back toward the center of the lane. If the car continues to drift, the vibration is added again along with the nudge. The driver can overcome assistance and vibration at any time by turning the steering wheel, accelerating or braking.
The return to lane feature only works if you start to drift into the other lane, not if you actively turn into the other lane, or supply any other common control input to let the system know you are in fact paying attention.
Its not too hard to distinguish an alert driver at the wheel from someone nodding off, because a normal driver supplies 10 to 30 small control movements to the steering wheel per minute (Steering Reversal Rate), and these are typically Greater than 2 degrees and less than 6 degrees regardless of road curvature or lack there of. Once this rate falls to less than 5 reversals per minute, the car's computer can assume from this single measurement alone that the driver is getting drowsy, and when there are almost no reversals at all, that the driver has fallen asleep.
So the mere presence of control frequent movements on the wheel would sufficient to distinguish an intentional lane cross from an unintentional one.
There is a large amount of research already available on the web about his stuff. Google steering wheel reversal rate. This stuff has been known and measured for decades.
What's considered a strong password has changed over time.
Since last year at this time? Please.
That's exactly what I was thinking. For any site that maters, the most they can do is reset it for you, not tell you what it was. Most sites just don't matter. Other than your Karma, how much damage can be done when they hack your Slashdot password?
But I gotta ask, Why bother changing every year?
Changing a secure password offers no additional security. Its not like they wear out.
If crooks haven't broken into the login during the course of the year, changing it may actually make it weaker.
Those hovering over your shoulder to catch one key today and the next key tomorrow should be pretty obvious after a year, don't you think?
The key loggers would have found you long before the year is up, and the timing routines can be outfoxed by simply typing with only one finger, a different
finger each day.
Most sites that force you to change do so more frequently than a year. And 99.44% of them end up having users simply adding ascending digits
to the key, which becomes pretty easy to guess.
There actually is a way - the same way that iOS avoids malware installation.
The problem is, it's whitelisting.
Not really practical.
Look, QR codes are meant to convey information, just like a note pad, or tablet. Who whitelists what you write on the back of your business card?
What if I want to give you my Vcard on my phone via a QR code so you can scan it to add me to your contacts, who becomes the whitelisting authority? Do I have to first appeal to Apple to be able to display a contact as a QR code?
All QR codes do not go to websites. Its just a method of writing, not a central clearing house.
If we need to choose between a billion dollars spent establishing a colony on a celestial body or spent on developing sustaining methods of producing food in impoverished nations, the production of food must take precedence.
There is no reason to assume those two goals are separate. Food production will be an issue everywhere humans go, and there is a lot of potential for multi-use of any technology developed.
Besides: All of the money will be spend here on earth. There are no plans to launch ships full of dollar bills or euro notes to be used as compost on the moon. The engineers developing moon base technology, spend their earnings buying goods and services from others, and so on down the line. No matter how much you rail against it, trickle down does work precisely because it is not government directed.
That was my response as well. Whereever Oxygen and Hydrogen exist, the problem is NOT creating water. In fact, it's very likely that the largest source of water outside of the Earth in our Solar System is orbiting Saturn.
You may be right about the source being other moons. Comets are another potential source, Louis Frank published his theory in The Big Splash, but it never seemed to gain a lot of traction, even though the guys has a lot of credentials. It was generally disregarded, like so many other novel theories.
In the book he postulates that thousands of small fluffy snow-ball comets with no hard central core and which which don't really show up in radar or visually, deposit tons of water on the earth's atmosphere and the moon every year. He even had images in his book about impacts on the moon.
The first to market for IOS was RedLaser. It always asks.
Is the confirmation something like OK/Cancel? I also tend to click OK buttons without hardly even reading them. That's why potentially security sensitive questions shouldn't have such simple buttons, but rather two (radio?) buttons that require you to read (and hopefully understand) what you're doing, such as: "Replace network settings from QR" and "Keep the existing network settings".
It varies by implementation of course, but most offer a choice of actions depending on the type of QR code.
For instance, with the android version I am running right now, a simple Vcard via QR code, offers me a choice of add to address book, call number, sms number, etc.
Additionally there is the normal "Back" button which does nothing.
You can do a lot with QR codes that have no destination at all, they are not restricted to web links.
They can be simple text messages, address book entries, phone numbers, wifi network set up instructions, calendar events, etc.
But every implementation I've seen of a QR code reader in Android and IOS also gives you the option to inspect
the content visually before acting on it. They ask if you want to proceed.
Of course one could argue the click-thru generation does not know enough to evaluate the content, but then
these are the same people that no amount of malware/antivirus software can protect. They do the same with
links in email links.
No.
The give an extremely small amount of antibiotics. something like 1/100 th of a dose. 90% of which is peed out.
Isn't it this 90% that gets peed out the problem?
Isn't that the source of stream and water table polution?
Did you mean chump change?
At the prior funding level, (100 million per year) Google accounted for nearly 100% or Mozilla.org's budget.
This story is about Google getting suckered in a bidding war to the the default (but NOT the only) search engine in the top-bar. Anyone can change the default at any time. The agreement is performance based, capped at 300 mil. If Firefox search hits falls they won't make the full 300 mil.
So if prior agreement paid 100% of development costs, and if Firefox can keep its market share up, they should have three times their development budget to add astounding new features, fix up their physical infrastructure and harden their browser and plugins. They now can afford the manpower. The ball is in their court.
I'm pretty sure Google isn't worried about Chrome market share here. They get the advertising dollars either way.
I've both written and published such libraries. I know full well the scope of the problem. And it's far bigger than you imagine.
Sounds reasonable for Humvee,
What about all the aircraft, ships, tanks, heavy trucks, etc?
It stands to reason some light trucks might have civilian parts, but one would expect the big ticket items have all been converted long ago to metric. I'm just guessing here, and lots of that equipment was designed well before the move to metric, but I seem to recall the Military was moving that direction well before the rest of the government got started.
Actually go read the story. It specifically states that the power consumption is pretty close to the ARM chips.
If you have a good GPU, you can off load a lot of processing that might be otherwise have to do with the CPU. Sift enough work, and you can do with a single core what others might do with a dual. Thats all I was trying to point out.
At the stated bench mark scores Medfield IS THE NEXT GEN Chip.
And its single core. When they dual well it, the others will still be trying hard to catch up.
It beats the current crop of dual core ARM processors (Exynos, snapdragon s3 and Tegra 2) in one benchmark that "leaked".
Nothing fishy about that at all.
Quote Vrzone:
Intel Medfield 1.6GHz currently scores around 10,500 in Caffeinemark 3. For comparison, NVIDIA Tegra 2 scores around 7500, while Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260 scores 8000. Samsung Exynos is the current king of the crop, scoring 8500. True - we're waiting for the first Tegra 3 results to come through.
But the same paragraph says
Benchmark data is useless in the absence of real-world, hands-on testing,
If the performance figures are realistic this is one fast processor, and it appears to be a single core chip, (or at least I saw nothing to the contrary). That's impressive.
Single cores can get busy handling games or complex screen movements, leading to a laggy UI. If they put a good strong GPU on this thing you might never see any lag.
No one uses metric Time or Dates is what I meant to say. see here: http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/
Hell, even the French rejected it and it was a French invention.
Military?
I thought they were already pretty much metric.
They deal with the non-integer number of days in a year by occasionally adding an extra week in December. So on some years you may experience the 36th of December.
Which of course implies a greater degree of imprecision for the other 4 years. If you chop days out of years 1 thru 4 so as to have 7 days to tack onto every 5th, it sort of seems counter productive as far as keeping things in sync with the solar system.
Its sort of a sign of the arrogance of mankind that they are willing to say screw the facts, lets make it easier to count on our fingers.
The thought of going through every program looking for date logic that needs a total re-write yet AGAIN would be enough to make me change careers and take up tree farming.
There are billions of programs that need fixing, and every single one of them would need fixing by hand. There is no quick fix for date calculations and validations of dates, to say nothing of the mess that would be made of historical records and current contracts. Another monstrous boondoggle for no gain but a lot of pain.
Look, just as no one uses the metric system because of the inertia involved, no one would use this system either. We've solved all the major problems with the current system, there are no serious problems left that can't be solved with a 4 line rhyme, and a $2.95 calendar.
We all know its a goofie calendar and we've all made our peace with it, and there is nothing significant to be gained by messing with it.
How DARE the earth not revolve around the sun in even multiples of is revolution upon its axis!.
And part of what the mechanical FC computers did - stabilize the guns on a ship that's pitching and turning and rolling - can't be done with a precomputed table.
Fire Control computers of that vintage did not attempt to stabilize the guns. That didn't come till much later, and never was used on very large bore guns (> 6inch). Simply too much mass to control. Instead the delay firing until the ship rolls or pitches thru the optimum fire point.
death penalty if some get's killed or at least life / a long time in a federal pound me in ass the prison.
Why would an Israeli CEO be in a US Federal Prison for violating Israeli law ?
If you won't read the linked article or the summary, at least read the TITLE.