On ramp metering worked so well to smooth out freeway traffic, local governments have learned from that lesson and will begin implementing off ramp metering. When traffic on local roads starts to become congested, signal lights on the freeway off ramps can be used to meter the flow into that area. When asked how this scheme would affect freeway congestion, local governments took a cue from the response given when on ramp metering was installed and replied, "Not our problem."
Joking aside, local and freeway traffic planners have been working at odds for far too long. Local communities have lobbied for far too many freeway on/off ramps. Often to divert what should be local traffic onto a nearby freeway for a mile or two in order to avoid building or upgrading arterials through their communities. Perhaps it's time to close off some of these redundant ramps, making it more difficult for drivers to just hop on and off the freeway. And then get municipalities to build adequate local roads that can carry traffic between these more distant ramps and destinations. An added benefit of fewer on/off ramps is a reduction in merging congestion and improvement in traffic flow on the freeway. So less people will be motivated to cut through town.
A breakdown would be useful. But I'll bet that most of the air pollution mortality is due to open cooking fires inside huts. Also a third world problem.
But why do YOU have to do this? Make it a service provided by your telco. You buy a block of 200 numbers and specify that they identify them as the inbound 800 number. Taking this function out of the hands of the end user and putting it under control of the people who regulator can get hold of should it be abused would go a long way to ending abuse. Or at least give law enforcement a telco employee that can be butt-raped in prison for the transgression.
Telcos can easily restrict the applied ID to a number that they know they actually sold to you.
Post a story about how the FBI/CIA/NSA are sniffing around your phones or e-mail and watch the Slashdot community scream about jack-booted thugs. Uber manages to implement a system that warns of potential law enforcement encroachment into their affairs and everyone gets righteous.
If Uber could spin off Greyball as an independent service, I could think of a few people that would buy it.
will analyze and critique many things and will find problems but when it comes to the Bible, accepts it without question
The problem with such people is that their lack of cynicism often extends beyond the Bible. It would be more accurate to say that such people may analyze and critique many things within their sphere of expertise. But they can be made to accept on faith quite a bit of stuff not even in the Bible. Particularly if the source has the title of Reverend or Father.
and part excuse to not check the vacation calendar at work
OOO notification makes sense because not everyone who can e-mail me has access to my companies calendar system. They can't because it contains potentially sensitive information.
Perhaps. But patent law is so terribly broken that we can still afford ourselves a hearty laugh before the consequences of this fiasco comes back to bite innovators in the ass.
From TFA:
But the examiner considered only patents and patent applications. The Patent Office spent years going back-and-forth on whether IBMâ(TM)s claims where new compared to a particular 2006 patent application. But it never considered any of the many, many, existing real-world systems that pre-dated IBMâ(TM)s application.
Based on this logic, I could be granted a patent on the wheel.
F*'d up characters intentionally left in. Because it's $current_year and about time for Slashdot to get its act together.
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1. Make a list of known space rocks of suitable size and composition.
We tried that. But someone used MongoDB and we couldn't figure out how to query it on a time scale comparable to terraforming.
On ramp metering worked so well to smooth out freeway traffic, local governments have learned from that lesson and will begin implementing off ramp metering. When traffic on local roads starts to become congested, signal lights on the freeway off ramps can be used to meter the flow into that area. When asked how this scheme would affect freeway congestion, local governments took a cue from the response given when on ramp metering was installed and replied, "Not our problem."
Joking aside, local and freeway traffic planners have been working at odds for far too long. Local communities have lobbied for far too many freeway on/off ramps. Often to divert what should be local traffic onto a nearby freeway for a mile or two in order to avoid building or upgrading arterials through their communities. Perhaps it's time to close off some of these redundant ramps, making it more difficult for drivers to just hop on and off the freeway. And then get municipalities to build adequate local roads that can carry traffic between these more distant ramps and destinations. An added benefit of fewer on/off ramps is a reduction in merging congestion and improvement in traffic flow on the freeway. So less people will be motivated to cut through town.
A breakdown would be useful. But I'll bet that most of the air pollution mortality is due to open cooking fires inside huts. Also a third world problem.
Can this emulate a loss of horizontal sync? I miss the old days of watching scrambled porn.
It's going to take some pretty big balls to pull something like this off.
Or just work faster
Exactly.
But why do YOU have to do this? Make it a service provided by your telco. You buy a block of 200 numbers and specify that they identify them as the inbound 800 number. Taking this function out of the hands of the end user and putting it under control of the people who regulator can get hold of should it be abused would go a long way to ending abuse. Or at least give law enforcement a telco employee that can be butt-raped in prison for the transgression.
Telcos can easily restrict the applied ID to a number that they know they actually sold to you.
"blah blah blah blah can you still hear me?"
Lenny: "Could you speak up? I can barely hear ya."
I'm going to find one of these and see which ads it shows be while I drive either my 1979 FJ40 or Panamera.
government ... business
You really think there's a difference? How cute.
With Snapchat lenses?
I can see how this could really go wrong.
Post a story about how the FBI/CIA/NSA are sniffing around your phones or e-mail and watch the Slashdot community scream about jack-booted thugs. Uber manages to implement a system that warns of potential law enforcement encroachment into their affairs and everyone gets righteous.
If Uber could spin off Greyball as an independent service, I could think of a few people that would buy it.
(b)
There was no Cowboy Neal option.
Protecting rats from cancer since 2007.
They don't.
So we should just shut them down and send all the people who work for them to design cockpit interfaces for Boeing.
Really? You can't think of any situations where clear, concise communications are important?
... Cowboy Neal wins every Oscars category.
So, write it in Brainfuck.
Earliest? Do you mean before my morning coffee?
will analyze and critique many things and will find problems but when it comes to the Bible, accepts it without question
The problem with such people is that their lack of cynicism often extends beyond the Bible. It would be more accurate to say that such people may analyze and critique many things within their sphere of expertise. But they can be made to accept on faith quite a bit of stuff not even in the Bible. Particularly if the source has the title of Reverend or Father.
and part excuse to not check the vacation calendar at work
OOO notification makes sense because not everyone who can e-mail me has access to my companies calendar system. They can't because it contains potentially sensitive information.
I've got first dibs on the wheel.
completely ignorant of patent law
Perhaps. But patent law is so terribly broken that we can still afford ourselves a hearty laugh before the consequences of this fiasco comes back to bite innovators in the ass.
From TFA:
But the examiner considered only patents and patent applications. The Patent Office spent years going back-and-forth on whether IBMâ(TM)s claims where new compared to a particular 2006 patent application. But it never considered any of the many, many, existing real-world systems that pre-dated IBMâ(TM)s application.
Based on this logic, I could be granted a patent on the wheel.
F*'d up characters intentionally left in. Because it's $current_year and about time for Slashdot to get its act together.
Or is this some intern grumbling that his boss didn't buy into his suggestion to port the company product to Esolang?