I tend to agree. Just as likely a schooling aid as something actually used day to day.
Someone wrote a sifi short story about the anthropologists far in the future speculating about the religious cult of the rings, and the tossing of rings as a penance for personal transgressions. He speculated that people wore the rings as disposable penance, to be cast at the scene after self inflicting a minor cut of penitence. Each ring seemed sized just right to fit over a finger, and had a semi sharp spoon shaped attachment for self flagellation.
Nothing else could explain the wide scattering of these things all over the world.
They were called by the name of the Deity to which they were related: Pop Tops. The sect died out after a while.
Every kid coming out of Junior High understands these things already (Or will by the time they have money). The major portion of the elderly noobs new to the internet have already been bitten once if they were gullible, they are no longer that gullible.
Its getting harder and harder to find people so gullible as they were in the past. Still a large number out there, but shrinking every day.
Lots of suckers, paying small amounts out of their advertising budgets, without even measuring ROI. By keeping the costs down, they avoid attracting attention.
Most of this info goes to direct mail campaigns, rather than phone calls. 4 unrequested catalogs in the morning mail, all from companies I've never heard of.
You're basically talking to a con artist that knows you better than your own mother and you think he's a stranger. You're at a complete disadvantage in the negotiation and have no idea.
I was born in the morning, son, but not THIS morning.
Nope. Doesn't happen. Maybe in some salesman's wet dream. Not in real life. Cold calling salesmen men get a very courteous but firm bums rush, by our very junior grade phone staff. You see, even a high school educated 20 year old sees right through all that razzel dazzel, before the salesman can even get to someone with purchase authority. Even when someone manages to get the direct number of someone on staff, they get the courteous good bye, as soon as they ask "How are you today". (Salesmen!! They never learn. They ask that first thing out of their mouth, and I immediately know its a sales call. Not interested, Bye. Click!)
If you think that works, you are delusional. If it works on you, you're an idiot. You'd have better luck knocking on my door dressed as a girl scout with a box of cookies under each arm.
But sooner or later, companies are going to stop buying that information, because damn few of them have the skilz to actually utilize the data in any real way.
What good does it do for Shell Oil, Bridgestone tires, or Jiffy Lube to know where I go, and what I drive? Unless they start personally sending me printed mail, I never see their advertising unless I drive by it.
Google has the greatest scam going. While they insist they don't sell my info to other companies, but rather simply use it to send me ads on by browser, they also provide almost perfect spam filtering in my Gmail. So they sell ads to every company, filter those ads out of my email for me, and do nothing to prevent web ad filtering via adblock etc.
So tell me, what good does it REALLY do to try to market ME as a product? Sooner or later companies are going to learn there is precious little they can do with the information.
And the GAO is dutifully NOT SAYING SQUAT about which car companies do this sort of thing.
They speak of 10 companies they interviewed, and never once indicate which companies are a) collecting this data, and b) retaining it. Way to go, GAO, so nice to know you are on our side.
If you get your traffic data via any one-way broadcast method, you are probably safe. But if your car offers "luxury" nav systems with on-line weather, and search capabilities, it has to have some transmitter capabilities (built in cellular radio, or OnStar) to transmit location data back. So you can guess which cars have this just by carefully reading the manual. Paying for a cell plan for your car is a dead give-away.
Bad enough the cellular carriers are tracking your phones, I see no reason car companies need to track your car.
Car overhauls rarely do this because its the cylinders aren't meant to be as easily removable as they are on aircraft engines. You end up needing a whole new block. If you have some aluminum engines, you can get away with just sleeves.
But still, pulling an engine, pulling pistons, honing cylinders, new rings, valves, maybe new piston rod bearings, maybe new pistons, can be done for around 2000. New/rebuilt engines can be had for 3 to 6K.
Extra fuel efficiency would be nice, but I am most excited about the prospect of the engine itself lasting longer. Less friction = less heat, less wear & tear, etc. A cool, frictionless engine could potentially last for half-million miles before needing replacement. At my paltry 10-20k miles per year, I could potentially never have to buy another car again.
What do you think is going to keep those pistons centered and friction-less? And where is the heat of combustion going to go? At 10 to 20K a year you may already never need to buy another car, you just WANT one. Modern cars have no particular problem reaching 200,000 miles, and even 300k.
The wear that piston rings impose is undone by a ring job. Used to be able to get that done at the corner garage without a great deal of hassle or money, but now days it costs around $2000 bucks do to the complexity of modern engines. Still cheaper than a new car.
Are you sure they didn't say you can't BREED it like you can a horse? If that were the case, they were correct. Find me two cars you can rub together and get a third, without losing anything from the prior two. And all for the cost of not mowing your lawn.
Gasoline's energy density is nothing special, the advantage it has is in procurement, having resulted from millions of years of energy collection which means the effort of getting to it is trivial.
And compared to the alternatives, it's a messy bit of junk.
Its pretty special. Even discounting cost, there are virtually no other fuels that come close.
It didn't matter if it tasted good, the point was you were showing off your ability to buy meat from an animal that lived thousands of miles away.
No refrigeration.
So if there was a butchered leg joint, chances are that is all there really was. Just a souvenir joint, perhaps for bone carving. Seems unlikely you would butcher and salt a Giraffe, AND take the bones with you. Too heavy. No food value.
Its not like you can capture one, and walk it to Pompeii. You've got a thousand miles to transport the meat, and the only way that happens is dry it and salt it. So it seems as likely it was a hunters Roman soldier's souvenir or a trade good as a food article. Probably his wife made him throw it out when it began to stink.
Code audit? Who's going to do that? One guy who wants to put obfuscated code in production systems is not likely to be audited by someone with the skills to detect it.
If Slashdot did this instead of mod points we could save everybody the heartache of being modded disagree, and then the mod armies could enjoy their retirement. So many duplicate accounts, so little satisfaction.
Because, as I stated, these people (in that texas town) mostly can't afford their own devices or internet connections.
They go and borrow a device pre-loaded with the ebook they want, or read the ebooks (and web sites) at the library. At this library they do have to go to the library.
At a normal e-book lender, you need never go.
The whole thread here on Slash dot is about what a dumb idea this is. The $2.3 million spent on this library could have bought e-readers for a large percentage of the populace, easily one per household, and put free wifi on every major street corner.
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Since the article is not available on-line (or even in google books) what else can be expected?
I tend to agree. Just as likely a schooling aid as something actually used day to day.
Someone wrote a sifi short story about the anthropologists far in the future speculating about the religious cult of the rings, and the tossing of rings as a penance for personal transgressions. He speculated that people wore the rings as disposable penance, to be cast at the scene after self inflicting a minor cut of penitence. Each ring seemed sized just right to fit over a finger, and had a semi sharp spoon shaped attachment for self flagellation.
Nothing else could explain the wide scattering of these things all over the world.
They were called by the name of the Deity to which they were related: Pop Tops. The sect died out after a while.
My thoughts exactly.
Sounds to me it like it would just as likely be a teaching aid as a commerce aid.
The number of idiots is decreasing year by year.
Every kid coming out of Junior High understands these things already (Or will by the time they have money).
The major portion of the elderly noobs new to the internet have already been bitten once if they were gullible, they are no longer that gullible.
Its getting harder and harder to find people so gullible as they were in the past. Still a large number out there, but shrinking every day.
Lots of suckers, paying small amounts out of their advertising budgets, without even measuring ROI.
By keeping the costs down, they avoid attracting attention.
Most of this info goes to direct mail campaigns, rather than phone calls. 4 unrequested catalogs in the morning mail, all from companies I've never heard of.
Straight to recycle.
You're basically talking to a con artist that knows you better than your own mother and you think he's a stranger. You're at a complete disadvantage in the negotiation and have no idea.
I was born in the morning, son, but not THIS morning.
Nope. Doesn't happen. Maybe in some salesman's wet dream. Not in real life.
Cold calling salesmen men get a very courteous but firm bums rush, by our very junior grade phone staff. You see, even a high school educated 20 year old sees right through all that razzel dazzel, before the salesman can even get to someone with purchase authority. Even when someone manages to get the direct number of someone on staff, they get the courteous good bye, as soon as they ask "How are you today". (Salesmen!! They never learn. They ask that first thing out of their mouth, and I immediately know its a sales call. Not interested, Bye. Click!)
If you think that works, you are delusional. If it works on you, you're an idiot.
You'd have better luck knocking on my door dressed as a girl scout with a box of cookies under each arm.
This!.
It should be illegal to begin with -- because if you never asked me, you should have no bloody expectation you can legally do it.
You joined Facebook, and you lost that argument in the same single act.
They have paid for a product endorsement. They just haven't paid you.
You volunteered by joining Facebook. Nuf said.
If you had an actual life, you wouldn't be on Facebook.
I always have enough Karma that I get the "disable advertising" checkbox,
I would trade that checkbox for a Disable Bennett checkbox!
Why can't he post a blog, then hype that in a self aggrandizing submission like all the other click-bait authors?
More to the point, why is the GAO studying this and hiding the details from their report.
Not one specific policy of any specific company is listed.
Customer information *IS* a product.
But sooner or later, companies are going to stop buying that information, because damn few of them have the skilz to
actually utilize the data in any real way.
What good does it do for Shell Oil, Bridgestone tires, or Jiffy Lube to know where I go, and what I drive? Unless they
start personally sending me printed mail, I never see their advertising unless I drive by it.
Google has the greatest scam going. While they insist they don't sell my info to other companies, but rather
simply use it to send me ads on by browser, they also provide almost perfect spam filtering in my Gmail.
So they sell ads to every company, filter those ads out of my email for me, and do nothing to prevent
web ad filtering via adblock etc.
So tell me, what good does it REALLY do to try to market ME as a product? Sooner or later companies are going
to learn there is precious little they can do with the information.
And the GAO is dutifully NOT SAYING SQUAT about which car companies do this sort of thing.
They speak of 10 companies they interviewed, and never once indicate which companies are a) collecting this data, and b) retaining it.
Way to go, GAO, so nice to know you are on our side.
If you get your traffic data via any one-way broadcast method, you are probably safe. But if your car offers "luxury" nav systems with on-line weather, and search capabilities, it has to have some transmitter capabilities (built in cellular radio, or OnStar) to transmit location data back. So you can guess which cars have this just by carefully reading the manual. Paying for a cell plan for your car is a dead give-away.
Bad enough the cellular carriers are tracking your phones, I see no reason car companies need to track your car.
Car overhauls rarely do this because its the cylinders aren't meant to be as easily removable as they are on aircraft engines.
You end up needing a whole new block. If you have some aluminum engines, you can get away with just sleeves.
But still, pulling an engine, pulling pistons, honing cylinders, new rings, valves, maybe new piston rod bearings, maybe new pistons, can be done for around 2000. New/rebuilt engines can be had for 3 to 6K.
Extra fuel efficiency would be nice, but I am most excited about the prospect of the engine itself lasting longer. Less friction = less heat, less wear & tear, etc. A cool, frictionless engine could potentially last for half-million miles before needing replacement. At my paltry 10-20k miles per year, I could potentially never have to buy another car again.
What do you think is going to keep those pistons centered and friction-less? And where is the heat of combustion going to go?
At 10 to 20K a year you may already never need to buy another car, you just WANT one.
Modern cars have no particular problem reaching 200,000 miles, and even 300k.
The wear that piston rings impose is undone by a ring job. Used to be able to get that done at the corner garage without a great deal of hassle or money, but now days it costs around $2000 bucks do to the complexity of modern engines. Still cheaper than a new car.
Are you sure they didn't say you can't BREED it like you can a horse?
If that were the case, they were correct.
Find me two cars you can rub together and get a third, without losing anything from the prior two.
And all for the cost of not mowing your lawn.
Gasoline's energy density is nothing special, the advantage it has is in procurement, having resulted from millions of years of energy collection which means the effort of getting to it is trivial.
And compared to the alternatives, it's a messy bit of junk.
Its pretty special.
Even discounting cost, there are virtually no other fuels that come close.
ell, you could just, you know, bring captured live animals back with you to sell as a delicacy or for use as a pet/in the arena.
Look at a map some day, Ok?
It didn't matter if it tasted good, the point was you were showing off your ability to buy meat from an animal that lived thousands of miles away.
No refrigeration.
So if there was a butchered leg joint, chances are that is all there really was. Just a souvenir joint, perhaps for bone carving.
Seems unlikely you would butcher and salt a Giraffe, AND take the bones with you. Too heavy. No food value.
Its not like you can capture one, and walk it to Pompeii. You've got a thousand miles to transport the meat, and the only way
that happens is dry it and salt it. So it seems as likely it was a hunters Roman soldier's souvenir or a trade good as a food
article. Probably his wife made him throw it out when it began to stink.
No, HC blinked and got back in Overdrive's catalog in September.
Code audit? Who's going to do that?
One guy who wants to put obfuscated code in production systems is not likely to be audited by someone with the skills to detect it.
Hey, when people stop using your trendy app, you got to improvise...
If Slashdot did this instead of mod points we could save everybody the heartache of being modded disagree, and then the mod armies could enjoy their retirement. So many duplicate accounts, so little satisfaction.
I'm just glad the published these guys names.
Every HR department now will know never to hire them for work on any production code.
Because, as I stated, these people (in that texas town) mostly can't afford their own devices or internet connections.
They go and borrow a device pre-loaded with the ebook they want, or read the ebooks (and web sites) at the library.
At this library they do have to go to the library.
At a normal e-book lender, you need never go.
The whole thread here on Slash dot is about what a dumb idea this is. The $2.3 million spent on this library could have
bought e-readers for a large percentage of the populace, easily one per household, and put free wifi on every major street corner.