Isn't it very, very, very clear that e-mail uses by far the lesser amount of resources than regular mail?
How much did it cost me to send this message? (like email). Hell of a lot LESS than a postage stamp and a postage stamp tends to reflect amount of cost to *deliver* the said letter.
If the costs were similar, there would be no SPAM at all because even if the said costs were shared, it would cost you 5c or 10c to just send a single message.
If you just want to be anal about some stupid question like this and waste few millions on "research" if the plastic is from a dinosaur's ass in Indonesia or algae bloom during Pangaea's time, then that's your business.
No, BMI is a *statistical* tool ONLY. It was never meant to indicate individual body weight => obesity ratio. But people use it anyway.
BMI works perfectly for "normal" people. But it doesn't work for people with physique that is more to one side or another of the "bell curve". For example, take rowers. But then again your example of "lean but dieing young" is true for the so called "body builders" shooting up roids.
If you want to look at what roids do to people, look at "Man Who's Arms Exploded" - 5 part on youtube. Yes, safe for work.
1. leeching IS a good medical practice, in certain cases.
2. calories in > calories out => fat.
Slow metabolism, pills, hormonal changes, genetics, they DO NOT affect #2 AT ALL. EVER. What happens is people *feel* hungry for whatever reason (see above) and EAT more calories than they use. That's is how you get fat. This MAY make it very difficult for someone like your cousin to have a healthy weight, but it is NOT impossible. There are ways to keep a normal weight,
1. exercise to increase calories out
2. eat less calories (ie. get rid of sugar drink - those are "eating" calories too)
That's it.
Finally, it is MUCH more difficult to shed weight and keep it off, than it is to stay thin in the first place. But it is not impossible.
It is all a question of one's will.
Similarly, soldiers from Iraq that have lost limbs, they can either give up (easy) or do a lot of work and get back to being self-sufficient, as far as they can be. Most choose the difficult path. But then maybe they have different mindset...
Although Americans are generally the largest population of morbidly-obese, the rate of obesity and overweight is about the same almost everywhere in the world.
Kuwait wins:) with Argentina close to US. 1.6 BILLION is fat! 30% of Chinese are FAT!
Just because someone doesn't look like a fat hippo, as some people in US do, doesn't mean they are lean or healthy. BMI of 27 is NOT that difficult to hide, but it is quite unhealthy regardless.
If your entire life is "who pays in blood for a mistake", then you live a very very sad life.
"I'm saying that someone is held accountable not out of my need for revenge"
All your posts ARE about REVENGE. I think you should crawl under the rock you slithered out of as you do not seem to provide any constructive criticism at all.
Then you are telling them a wrong thing. A database can be much more secure than the lock on the office door. Encrypt the filesystem and require passkey to startup the filesystem (NOT on the machine!). That way, you can't just go into the office, and steal it (the data). So since you apparently don't know that, and if someone steals their box and takes their data, can they sue you for not encrypting the disk??
In a class action, you can't get more than the product value anyway. So the point is moot. And people suing Apple or Microsoft are idiots in the first place.
Sure, you can sue the debian developer, or debian, or whoever the hell you want. And no, you will not get ANY money back and just get a huge public backlash.
Finally, I don't think you will win any modpoints calling the slashdot community stupid! Does that make you stupid as well?;-)
NSA has a much easier time inserting backdoors into Windows than in open source. And what about the backdoor to Firebird database that was only discovered after Borland open sourced it?
If you just want blood, you will NOT get it from Microsoft if their random number generator sucks. And it did, for a long while. The most damages you are entitled to is a refund of your purchase price. Want more?? Better get insurance or lucky with jury. And if you do get lucky, and if I were microsoft, I would sure require you and anyone connected with you to NEVER use the software every again (remove you explicitly from licensing in future)
The error here was 2 lines of code that upstream said were ok to remove (at least some people upstream:). See Debian advisory for upstream link.
Why does *everyone* have to get fancy with teh random number generators!?! Why not just use/dev/random and stop the stupid games with reinventing the wheel?
If you have an up-to-date implementation, like on Linux or most other OS, you don't need to get fancy BS random pool in userspace.
As to uninitialized memory, I don't see why wouldn't a secure system just initialize ALL malloc to 0, just to make sure you can't spy on other processes.
Debian has the original tarball + patch file. But zellots in the project are so nuts these days they will go into the original, strip any non-free stuff they can find (like linux's binary blobs) and ship that as the new tarball. The user doesn't even have a chance to recompile the with non-free bits if they wanted to.
I find this behaviour total BS from a security standpoint. Fortunately, this is NOT the case with OpenSSL. The original upstream tarball is available without modifications. The error was in the patch that modifies the upstream source.
It is almost exactly like the GPL license. GPL prevents usage by closed source software - violating the license agreement is copyright infringement. Theft of intellectual property of the GPL license holder, if you will. The license holder specifies the rules under which the code may be used, and they are certainly more restrictive than BSD license, for example.
Now, the Microsoft license is very similar in spirit of restrictions. They developed the said software for the Microsoft platform and want others to be able to modify and improve it. The only additional restriction seems to be that the modified software be only available for Microsoft platform. You know, it *benefits* ALL users of the software on Microsoft's platform. It just doesn't benefit users on Linux, or OS X, or OS/2 or AIX or Solaris, or similar.
The Microsoft license forces the modifications to benefit their community of developers and users. Just like GPL software forces the modifications to benefit non-proprietary segment of the software market (clearly not benefiting the closed source crowd), the Microsoft license benefits the Microsoft's OS *users*. While in the end, it may benefit Microsoft, do we argue that because Linux is GPL that it benefits RMS? Or FSF?
I'd say the GPL crowd is crying foul because someone wants to place similar restrictions as GPL but benefiting their own segment of the market. And especially since it is the "great evil" Microsoft. Is it workse than someone like MySQL having a LGPL licensed API library and then switching suddenly to "GPL only or pay us $$$"?
Use the code as the license states it, or don't use it. Microsoft wasn't forced to open their sources. They chose to do so and the license terms are their business.
* downloaded Vista with SP1 iso (MSDN subscription)
* watched 2 hours of video (youtube quality)
* resynced my GIT tree of Linux
* uploaded new versions of my apps for customers
* played a few hours of eve online (mostly AFK hauling though - I only have so much time in the day!)
How much bandwidth did I use?? 3.6GB
Yes, 3600MB. And that includes the 3GB diskimage of Vista that I don't exactly download all the time. So, if I didn't download Vista, that would result in 500MB a day. And that includes 2 *hours* of video that look almost as good as regular analog TV!
How do you get 1-2GB per day without downloaded DVD rips and/or ISO images, I have no idea. Youtube video is about 150MB an hour.
I stand by my assertion that heavy users use more than 1GB of bandwidth a day. Regular users that have a life use less.
BTW: As per the original reply, the bandwidth used was about 3500MB received and 70MB upload.
They kill newborns and have sex selection abortions in China and India. Especially girls are affected since they can't "work as hard". So, now they have a few million males that will never be able to marry. Kind of a problem, I'd say.
Licensing would only work if there were consequences, like putting children up for adoptions and sterilization. But that would not fly, even in countries like China. It would definitely not fly here in western nations because both religious sects and politicians want more, MORE people. Reasons are similar, more people => more money from taxes and "donations". There is no regard for long term sustainability.
And sadly, there is very little public forum for this. We, as a population, are not evolved enough to think rationally about real world issues. The only discussion about facts like overpopulation and global warming is emotional tantrums in spite of reality.
See, reactors that produce no longterm waste are possible.
Also, reactors for *civilian* usage DO NOT produce plutonium, they burn it. Reactors like CANDU breed Plutonium and burn it at same time. So no Plutonium output. Plutonium producing "civilian" reactors were built to make Pt for nuclear explosives NOT because they were clean way of making electricity. That was secondary. You have to think *past* the propaganda here.
And a nuclear plant uses a fraction of the land area, with an MUCH smaller environmental impact and produces 10x as much power without the need to switch to ultra-expensive gas power.
The so called desert is an important part of the ecology. You can't just pave it or cover it with solar panels or build a million mirrors. These things have a huge impact on things that live there. The local climate would definitely be affected by an installation that large.
Secondly, have you thought about maintenance costs? What happens if there is some tornado that cuts a 30km path through that power generation grid?
There is definite potential in that technology to *supplement* power during the day, but it is not a cure-all solution.
It is a double edged sword. I speak as a developer and user of Debian.
On one side, the possibility of getting infected binaries are dropped in Debian. Things are signed, etc.
On the flip side, there is a much higher possibility of getting malicious code in the source code. Considering the number of possible code "contributions" and unverified source code changes (at upstream, at maintainer, etc.), the possibility of getting malicious code in one of the less known projects is higher than closed source. Then again, code insertions in very active projects may be less of a problem (see Linux for example).
The bottom line is, you can't check every possible line of code all the time. You can't find if( test > 0 ) vs. if( test >= 0 ) all the time. Open Source != better than closed source in this regard. It is just a different problem.
In closed source is - do you trust the provider? Do you trust the binaries?
In OSS - do you trust all the developers and contributors? Do you trust the code was reviewed properly?
"'m not a heavy user by any means"
-- Said a crack addict once.
Seriously, if you are using MORE than 1GB a day, you are a heavy user. And you, are definitely a heavy user considering you have some sort of servers running (bittorrent?). After all, there is no way you can rack up tx>rx unless you are running something like that.
Secondly, you are using 7GB a day. If that usage is over 7 hours a day, then your are using 300kB/s of bandwidth at every single second of those 7 hours!!
Finally, if you are truly not a heavy user, then your box is riddled with spam bots or similar malware.
30GB/month is moderate usage (including watch 2 hours of youtube a day). 0-2GB/mo is low usage.
With SIP you can use ANY provider and not waste money on substandard service. Heck, with SIP *you* can be your own provider with Asterisk PBX software.
There is probably more real phones available for SIP than the proprietary protocols like Skype,
Very good phones from my own experience. Skype has been an obsolete VoIP solution for years now. Anyone seriously looking for a flexible VoIP solution, will only look at SIP.
You forgot that maybe they found us and are just watching? What do we do when we find something new - we investigate it. Maybe in the 1800s, we would first blow it up, but now the attitude has changed. It will hopefully continue to evolve. I'm quite certain that any extraterrestrial life views as either,
1. a curiosity, or 2. ignores us
We contact them, not they contact us. Currently, our civilization would have a MAJOR problem with extraterrestrial life, especially civilization that is far superior to our own.
Hell, most of the world can't even come to grasp with facts like evolution or ability of humans to just be evolved primates. Now imagine extraterrestrials where we are no better them than dogs are to us.
The galaxy could as well be currently be populated with advanced and simpler (our level) and primordial life, but we do not have the technology to find out. The best we can do is find planets based on star wobble and eclipses. Better than a decade ago, but still light years away from "first contact".
Stop calling these "accidents". When people drive carelessly, drive under influence of drugs and alcohol, drive in spite of known medical conditions that cause them to lose control (eg. epilepsy), these are *NOT* accidents. These are malicious acts. Do we call drive-by shootings killing innocent bystanders as "accidental shootings"? No. Neither are the *crimes* perpetuated by these malicious drivers.
An accident is if you blow out your tire by running over a metal shard. Or cause a crash by a falling tree. That is an accident. Or get a stroke or a heart attack or other medical condition that you were *not previously* aware of.
Regarding level of intoxication, it doesn't matter what you put the limit at. It should be lowered down to 0.05. I don't give a rats ass if someone "functions" fine in normal circumstances. The problem is they do NOT "function" the same in an emergency. The reaction time for impaired is MUCH longer than unimpaired. A 30 year old with 0.08 alcohol level probably has a reaction time of a 70 year old. And considering that 30 year old drive faster.... do I need to connect the dots?
Get drunk as fuck. I don't give a rats ass. But if you drive with 0.08 I hope they haul your ass to jail for a long time. Oh, and in my jurisdiction, the level is now 0.05.
As to external sources:
http://www.science.org.au/nova/052/052key.htm
"Competent driving requires a variety of different skills â€" an ability to physically operate the car, an ability to perform more than one task at a time, an awareness of potential hazards, a capacity to react quickly to danger, and so on. Virtually all these skills diminish with increasing BAC. This is borne out by research suggesting that the risk of involvement in a motor vehicle crash in which one or more people are killed or require hospital treatment doubles with a BAC of 0.05 and increases more than four-fold with a BAC of 0.12."
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No, wine is not the same as building a dunghill on your house. It is like making your use look like a dung hill to a few select visitors.
To accomplish a dung hill on your house, you have to run Linux native and use KVM with hardware virtualization support to build the dung hill.
That's exactly what I do. I get the benefit of a solid house, as well has ability to go to the dung hill when absolutely needed.
Isn't it very, very, very clear that e-mail uses by far the lesser amount of resources than regular mail?
How much did it cost me to send this message? (like email). Hell of a lot LESS than a postage stamp and a postage stamp tends to reflect amount of cost to *deliver* the said letter.
If the costs were similar, there would be no SPAM at all because even if the said costs were shared, it would cost you 5c or 10c to just send a single message.
If you just want to be anal about some stupid question like this and waste few millions on "research" if the plastic is from a dinosaur's ass in Indonesia or algae bloom during Pangaea's time, then that's your business.
No, BMI is a *statistical* tool ONLY. It was never meant to indicate individual body weight => obesity ratio. But people use it anyway.
BMI works perfectly for "normal" people. But it doesn't work for people with physique that is more to one side or another of the "bell curve". For example, take rowers. But then again your example of "lean but dieing young" is true for the so called "body builders" shooting up roids.
If you want to look at what roids do to people, look at "Man Who's Arms Exploded" - 5 part on youtube. Yes, safe for work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=-pU3E8DuLZw
Don't take this as a troll, but
1. leeching IS a good medical practice, in certain cases.
2. calories in > calories out => fat.
Slow metabolism, pills, hormonal changes, genetics, they DO NOT affect #2 AT ALL. EVER. What happens is people *feel* hungry for whatever reason (see above) and EAT more calories than they use. That's is how you get fat. This MAY make it very difficult for someone like your cousin to have a healthy weight, but it is NOT impossible. There are ways to keep a normal weight,
1. exercise to increase calories out
2. eat less calories (ie. get rid of sugar drink - those are "eating" calories too)
That's it.
Finally, it is MUCH more difficult to shed weight and keep it off, than it is to stay thin in the first place. But it is not impossible.
It is all a question of one's will.
Similarly, soldiers from Iraq that have lost limbs, they can either give up (easy) or do a lot of work and get back to being self-sufficient, as far as they can be. Most choose the difficult path. But then maybe they have different mindset...
Although Americans are generally the largest population of morbidly-obese, the rate of obesity and overweight is about the same almost everywhere in the world.
:) with Argentina close to US. 1.6 BILLION is fat! 30% of Chinese are FAT!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bmi30chart.png
But % of overweight people, US doesn't lead anymore,
http://www.epidemiologic.org/2007/02/most-overweight-countries-in-world.html
Kuwait wins
Just because someone doesn't look like a fat hippo, as some people in US do, doesn't mean they are lean or healthy. BMI of 27 is NOT that difficult to hide, but it is quite unhealthy regardless.
No. You fly to Toronto directly from London or Amsterdam or many other places. You don't go through US. You could if you want though.
If your entire life is "who pays in blood for a mistake", then you live a very very sad life.
"I'm saying that someone is held accountable not out of my need for revenge"
All your posts ARE about REVENGE. I think you should crawl under the rock you slithered out of as you do not seem to provide any constructive criticism at all.
"When you're looking forward to a long eternity"
As opposed to the short eternity?
Sorry, but most people cannot grasp what hell eternity would be, *anywhere*
Then you are telling them a wrong thing. A database can be much more secure than the lock on the office door. Encrypt the filesystem and require passkey to startup the filesystem (NOT on the machine!). That way, you can't just go into the office, and steal it (the data). So since you apparently don't know that, and if someone steals their box and takes their data, can they sue you for not encrypting the disk??
;-)
In a class action, you can't get more than the product value anyway. So the point is moot. And people suing Apple or Microsoft are idiots in the first place.
Sure, you can sue the debian developer, or debian, or whoever the hell you want. And no, you will not get ANY money back and just get a huge public backlash.
Finally, I don't think you will win any modpoints calling the slashdot community stupid! Does that make you stupid as well?
NSA has a much easier time inserting backdoors into Windows than in open source. And what about the backdoor to Firebird database that was only discovered after Borland open sourced it?
:). See Debian advisory for upstream link.
If you just want blood, you will NOT get it from Microsoft if their random number generator sucks. And it did, for a long while. The most damages you are entitled to is a refund of your purchase price. Want more?? Better get insurance or lucky with jury. And if you do get lucky, and if I were microsoft, I would sure require you and anyone connected with you to NEVER use the software every again (remove you explicitly from licensing in future)
The error here was 2 lines of code that upstream said were ok to remove (at least some people upstream
Why does *everyone* have to get fancy with teh random number generators!?! Why not just use /dev/random and stop the stupid games with reinventing the wheel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random
If you have an up-to-date implementation, like on Linux or most other OS, you don't need to get fancy BS random pool in userspace.
As to uninitialized memory, I don't see why wouldn't a secure system just initialize ALL malloc to 0, just to make sure you can't spy on other processes.
I'm at a loss which HTTPS connections are affected here.. For example, the following will be affected,
:(
Problem 1:
1. generate a CA
2. sign your own certs with that CA.
Solution??:
1. get new certificates? Or do you need to generate a new CA? (second option is nasty
Problem 2:
1. generate a REQ
2. get it signed by some trustworthy 3rd party source, like Thawte
Solution??:
1. Is the key compromised? Or just update to openssl will fix the https sessions??
Problem 3:
1. encrypted filesystem with cryptsetup.
Solution?:
1. Not affected?
Debian has the original tarball + patch file. But zellots in the project are so nuts these days they will go into the original, strip any non-free stuff they can find (like linux's binary blobs) and ship that as the new tarball. The user doesn't even have a chance to recompile the with non-free bits if they wanted to.
I find this behaviour total BS from a security standpoint. Fortunately, this is NOT the case with OpenSSL. The original upstream tarball is available without modifications. The error was in the patch that modifies the upstream source.
I'm glad I keep port 22 firewalled, except from specific hosts. The largest problem is the CA certificates though...
Are encrypted file systems affected?? cryptsetup for example?
It is almost exactly like the GPL license. GPL prevents usage by closed source software - violating the license agreement is copyright infringement. Theft of intellectual property of the GPL license holder, if you will. The license holder specifies the rules under which the code may be used, and they are certainly more restrictive than BSD license, for example.
Now, the Microsoft license is very similar in spirit of restrictions. They developed the said software for the Microsoft platform and want others to be able to modify and improve it. The only additional restriction seems to be that the modified software be only available for Microsoft platform. You know, it *benefits* ALL users of the software on Microsoft's platform. It just doesn't benefit users on Linux, or OS X, or OS/2 or AIX or Solaris, or similar.
The Microsoft license forces the modifications to benefit their community of developers and users. Just like GPL software forces the modifications to benefit non-proprietary segment of the software market (clearly not benefiting the closed source crowd), the Microsoft license benefits the Microsoft's OS *users*. While in the end, it may benefit Microsoft, do we argue that because Linux is GPL that it benefits RMS? Or FSF?
I'd say the GPL crowd is crying foul because someone wants to place similar restrictions as GPL but benefiting their own segment of the market. And especially since it is the "great evil" Microsoft. Is it workse than someone like MySQL having a LGPL licensed API library and then switching suddenly to "GPL only or pay us $$$"?
Use the code as the license states it, or don't use it. Microsoft wasn't forced to open their sources. They chose to do so and the license terms are their business.
Ok. So, I did the following yesterday,
* downloaded Vista with SP1 iso (MSDN subscription)
* watched 2 hours of video (youtube quality)
* resynced my GIT tree of Linux
* uploaded new versions of my apps for customers
* played a few hours of eve online (mostly AFK hauling though - I only have so much time in the day!)
How much bandwidth did I use?? 3.6GB
Yes, 3600MB. And that includes the 3GB diskimage of Vista that I don't exactly download all the time. So, if I didn't download Vista, that would result in 500MB a day. And that includes 2 *hours* of video that look almost as good as regular analog TV!
How do you get 1-2GB per day without downloaded DVD rips and/or ISO images, I have no idea. Youtube video is about 150MB an hour.
I stand by my assertion that heavy users use more than 1GB of bandwidth a day. Regular users that have a life use less.
BTW: As per the original reply, the bandwidth used was about 3500MB received and 70MB upload.
They kill newborns and have sex selection abortions in China and India. Especially girls are affected since they can't "work as hard". So, now they have a few million males that will never be able to marry. Kind of a problem, I'd say.
Licensing would only work if there were consequences, like putting children up for adoptions and sterilization. But that would not fly, even in countries like China. It would definitely not fly here in western nations because both religious sects and politicians want more, MORE people. Reasons are similar, more people => more money from taxes and "donations". There is no regard for long term sustainability.
And sadly, there is very little public forum for this. We, as a population, are not evolved enough to think rationally about real world issues. The only discussion about facts like overpopulation and global warming is emotional tantrums in spite of reality.
It's a bummer that people are as clueless as you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor
See, reactors that produce no longterm waste are possible.
Also, reactors for *civilian* usage DO NOT produce plutonium, they burn it. Reactors like CANDU breed Plutonium and burn it at same time. So no Plutonium output. Plutonium producing "civilian" reactors were built to make Pt for nuclear explosives NOT because they were clean way of making electricity. That was secondary. You have to think *past* the propaganda here.
And a nuclear plant uses a fraction of the land area, with an MUCH smaller environmental impact and produces 10x as much power without the need to switch to ultra-expensive gas power.
The so called desert is an important part of the ecology. You can't just pave it or cover it with solar panels or build a million mirrors. These things have a huge impact on things that live there. The local climate would definitely be affected by an installation that large.
Secondly, have you thought about maintenance costs? What happens if there is some tornado that cuts a 30km path through that power generation grid?
There is definite potential in that technology to *supplement* power during the day, but it is not a cure-all solution.
It is a double edged sword. I speak as a developer and user of Debian.
On one side, the possibility of getting infected binaries are dropped in Debian. Things are signed, etc.
On the flip side, there is a much higher possibility of getting malicious code in the source code. Considering the number of possible code "contributions" and unverified source code changes (at upstream, at maintainer, etc.), the possibility of getting malicious code in one of the less known projects is higher than closed source. Then again, code insertions in very active projects may be less of a problem (see Linux for example).
The bottom line is, you can't check every possible line of code all the time. You can't find if( test > 0 ) vs. if( test >= 0 ) all the time. Open Source != better than closed source in this regard. It is just a different problem.
In closed source is - do you trust the provider? Do you trust the binaries?
In OSS - do you trust all the developers and contributors? Do you trust the code was reviewed properly?
"'m not a heavy user by any means"
-- Said a crack addict once.
Seriously, if you are using MORE than 1GB a day, you are a heavy user. And you, are definitely a heavy user considering you have some sort of servers running (bittorrent?). After all, there is no way you can rack up tx>rx unless you are running something like that.
Secondly, you are using 7GB a day. If that usage is over 7 hours a day, then your are using 300kB/s of bandwidth at every single second of those 7 hours!!
Finally, if you are truly not a heavy user, then your box is riddled with spam bots or similar malware.
30GB/month is moderate usage (including watch 2 hours of youtube a day). 0-2GB/mo is low usage.
You don't know the alternative and call yourself a geek? Or, maybe an AC is no a geek!
The alternative is to use SIP phones. And then if you don't like one provider, you get another. For example,
http://les.net/
is one provider I've had experience with. But you can get lots more if you want,
http://www.sipcenter.com/sip.nsf/html/Service+Providers
With SIP you can use ANY provider and not waste money on substandard service. Heck, with SIP *you* can be your own provider with Asterisk PBX software.
There is probably more real phones available for SIP than the proprietary protocols like Skype,
http://www.grandstream.com/products.html
Very good phones from my own experience. Skype has been an obsolete VoIP solution for years now. Anyone seriously looking for a flexible VoIP solution, will only look at SIP.
People of Lesbos would disagree with your comments, sir!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7376919.stm
You forgot that maybe they found us and are just watching? What do we do when we find something new - we investigate it. Maybe in the 1800s, we would first blow it up, but now the attitude has changed. It will hopefully continue to evolve. I'm quite certain that any extraterrestrial life views as either,
1. a curiosity, or
2. ignores us
We contact them, not they contact us. Currently, our civilization would have a MAJOR problem with extraterrestrial life, especially civilization that is far superior to our own.
Hell, most of the world can't even come to grasp with facts like evolution or ability of humans to just be evolved primates. Now imagine extraterrestrials where we are no better them than dogs are to us.
The galaxy could as well be currently be populated with advanced and simpler (our level) and primordial life, but we do not have the technology to find out. The best we can do is find planets based on star wobble and eclipses. Better than a decade ago, but still light years away from "first contact".
Stop calling these "accidents". When people drive carelessly, drive under influence of drugs and alcohol, drive in spite of known medical conditions that cause them to lose control (eg. epilepsy), these are *NOT* accidents. These are malicious acts. Do we call drive-by shootings killing innocent bystanders as "accidental shootings"? No. Neither are the *crimes* perpetuated by these malicious drivers.
An accident is if you blow out your tire by running over a metal shard. Or cause a crash by a falling tree. That is an accident. Or get a stroke or a heart attack or other medical condition that you were *not previously* aware of.
Regarding level of intoxication, it doesn't matter what you put the limit at. It should be lowered down to 0.05. I don't give a rats ass if someone "functions" fine in normal circumstances. The problem is they do NOT "function" the same in an emergency. The reaction time for impaired is MUCH longer than unimpaired. A 30 year old with 0.08 alcohol level probably has a reaction time of a 70 year old. And considering that 30 year old drive faster.... do I need to connect the dots?
Get drunk as fuck. I don't give a rats ass. But if you drive with 0.08 I hope they haul your ass to jail for a long time. Oh, and in my jurisdiction, the level is now 0.05.
As to external sources:
http://www.science.org.au/nova/052/052key.htm
"Competent driving requires a variety of different skills â€" an ability to physically operate the car, an ability to perform more than one task at a time, an awareness of potential hazards, a capacity to react quickly to danger, and so on. Virtually all these skills diminish with increasing BAC. This is borne out by research suggesting that the risk of involvement in a motor vehicle crash in which one or more people are killed or require hospital treatment doubles with a BAC of 0.05 and increases more than four-fold with a BAC of 0.12."
Statistics speak for themselves.