If you're a superdriver, drifting on ice or snow AND USING YOUR BRAKES, well, you're doing it wrong.
ABS won't get in the way because you're supposed to be using your throttle, gears and steering wheel. The only thing that an ABS system is going to make more difficult for 'superdrivers' is hitting the breaks to start your 'controlled' skid. But if you're such a good driver, if you're not skidding, then you are just driving along normally and everybody is happy.
This headline violates Betteridge's Law, please rephrase so the question is: Are Smart Meters Unsafe?
Seriously, which idiot editor posted this garbage?/glances up Of course.
Alternate Universe Headline:
Smart Meters are safe! Noted to increase children's IQ by 30 points, your penis size by 20 cm (this is an International web site, after all) and increases female libido.
Next up:
Politicians have voter's best interests in mind!
Marijuana legalized!
Supreme Court realizes that they screwed up in 'Bush vs. Gore' - promise to do better next time!
Yeah, I'm missing something (or the articles are off base). Terahertz EM should have LESS penetration than ultrasound. Maybe looking at the surface of teeth would be useful, looking at everyone's subcutaneous fat, not so much.
Anyone of the Physics persuasion care to enlighten us (so to speak)?
This is the generic problem with observational studies. They often turn out to be flat out wrong when you finally end up doing a more controlled, blinded study. Going on people's recollection of what they did or did not consume is fraught with inaccuracy.
I don't think you have to target the Illuminati. Some people have been trying to shoot down caffeine forever. It's a drug, so it has to be bad. It makes people feel good, so it has to be bad.
Unfortunately for the Puritans, it turns out the coffee is pretty innocuous. But, like with another popular drug that's made out to be more dangerous than it is, a portion of the society will never accept the phrase 'better living through chemistry'.
The other part of the equation is that it's hella expensive to build a refinery from scratch. AFAIK, there have not been any completely new refineries built in the 'developed' world for decades - there is simply too much opposition for it. The only new refineries are in China, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela and similar places where you can push through large developments easier.
Just depends on which is easier to transport - oil or electricity. One would think that pushing electrons would be more efficient and cost effective than hauling hydrogen-carbon chains across the continent, but that isn't necessarily true.
Fracking has been used since the 1950's. The only thing that really has increased the use of fracking is that oil prices have gone up enough to support spending several million dollars per well to complete the job.
Now that the shale gas people have done such an excellent job dropping wells, there is a relative glut and the price goes down. Enjoy it while you can - won't last terribly long. Big problem with shale (either oil or gas) is that the depletion rates are quite high - you pump out a well in years instead of decades. So to keep up the supply you have to drill, baby, drill. So don't believe people who say there are hundreds of years of shale bound natural gas and oil available.
Tell the customers to bring it into a {network provider's} store, and they'll upgrade it for free while trying to sell them a newer phone. Missing a lot of opportunities here, many of which do not involve angering the customers; but I digress, the vast majority of us will probably be stuck on 2.3 well into the next decade.
Oops. "Sorry sir, we bricked it, would you like a newer phone?"
Cloud computing is nothing more than 1960s timesharing services with modern operating systems. Unless you design for resilience, you're not resilient to problems.
Cool. Can we get those old Teletype terminals back? The clattering ones that left little round bits of paper all over the place?
Barring some major changes in rocket technology, not likely. We're not going to run out of oil (or, more accurately, various hydrocarbon sources of uneven quality, quantity and cost to produce) - we're just running out of the cheap stuff.
I can't imagine even if it gets pretty scarce, it would be cheaper to drag stuff out of the middle of solar system and somehow get it back to the surface than it would be to dribble out small volumes of oil and gas from existing infrastructure.
But it's an interesting term to use in this discussion because the lay definition is exactly that - hepatitis as a viral infection. Even if it's not the most common form of hepatitis (it would be alcoholic hepatitis in the US at least), it's the one that most people think of.
That isn't to excuse Slashdot editors or submitters for not making that distinction. Somebody needs to wave the pedantic flag now and again.
Hmm. $800,000 fine. For a company that grossed 4.4 billion last year. If this was an individual making median income (47k USD), then this would be like fining them $0.09. That'll teach them!
If you're earning 47k with those math skills... It's $9, not $.09
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You old guys will be 'grandfathered' in a nice little oval next to the rest home where you can take your golf cart round and round all day.
If you're a superdriver, drifting on ice or snow AND USING YOUR BRAKES, well, you're doing it wrong.
ABS won't get in the way because you're supposed to be using your throttle, gears and steering wheel. The only thing that an ABS system is going to make more difficult for 'superdrivers' is hitting the breaks to start your 'controlled' skid. But if you're such a good driver, if you're not skidding, then you are just driving along normally and everybody is happy.
Superdriver indeed....
Really, son.
Have you no faith in the American Bar Association?
He probably has an automatic anyway.
Why? Are you saying that a Real Doll is going to help you in traffic?
This headline violates Betteridge's Law, please rephrase so the question is: Are Smart Meters Unsafe?
Seriously, which idiot editor posted this garbage? /glances up
Of course.
Alternate Universe Headline:
Smart Meters are safe! Noted to increase children's IQ by 30 points, your penis size by 20 cm (this is an International web site, after all) and increases female libido.
Next up:
Politicians have voter's best interests in mind!
Marijuana legalized!
Supreme Court realizes that they screwed up in 'Bush vs. Gore' - promise to do better next time!
Yeah, I'm missing something (or the articles are off base). Terahertz EM should have LESS penetration than ultrasound. Maybe looking at the surface of teeth would be useful, looking at everyone's subcutaneous fat, not so much.
Anyone of the Physics persuasion care to enlighten us (so to speak)?
This is the generic problem with observational studies. They often turn out to be flat out wrong when you finally end up doing a more controlled, blinded study. Going on people's recollection of what they did or did not consume is fraught with inaccuracy.
I don't think you have to target the Illuminati. Some people have been trying to shoot down caffeine forever. It's a drug, so it has to be bad. It makes people feel good, so it has to be bad.
Unfortunately for the Puritans, it turns out the coffee is pretty innocuous. But, like with another popular drug that's made out to be more dangerous than it is, a portion of the society will never accept the phrase 'better living through chemistry'.
The Gulk of Mexico.
I kinda like that.
Stupid submit button...
The other part of the equation is that it's hella expensive to build a refinery from scratch. AFAIK, there have not been any completely new refineries built in the 'developed' world for decades - there is simply too much opposition for it. The only new refineries are in China, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela and similar places where you can push through large developments easier.
Just depends on which is easier to transport - oil or electricity. One would think that pushing electrons would be more efficient and cost effective than hauling hydrogen-carbon chains across the continent, but that isn't necessarily true.
I'd click on it, but I'm at work.
What's the issue? Do you eat in the company cafeteria?
Fracking has been used since the 1950's. The only thing that really has increased the use of fracking is that oil prices have gone up enough to support spending several million dollars per well to complete the job.
Now that the shale gas people have done such an excellent job dropping wells, there is a relative glut and the price goes down. Enjoy it while you can - won't last terribly long. Big problem with shale (either oil or gas) is that the depletion rates are quite high - you pump out a well in years instead of decades. So to keep up the supply you have to drill, baby, drill. So don't believe people who say there are hundreds of years of shale bound natural gas and oil available.
I listened to the leap second on WWV. It sounded like this:
Sorry about your social life, but that's the most geeky activity I've ever heard of....
Then you'll have to buy the White Album again.....
Tell the customers to bring it into a {network provider's} store, and they'll upgrade it for free while trying to sell them a newer phone. Missing a lot of opportunities here, many of which do not involve angering the customers; but I digress, the vast majority of us will probably be stuck on 2.3 well into the next decade.
Oops. "Sorry sir, we bricked it, would you like a newer phone?"
Ahem.
Cloud computing is nothing more than 1960s timesharing services with modern operating systems. Unless you design for resilience, you're not resilient to problems.
Cool. Can we get those old Teletype terminals back? The clattering ones that left little round bits of paper all over the place?
And 8-track tapes while we're at it.
Barring some major changes in rocket technology, not likely. We're not going to run out of oil (or, more accurately, various hydrocarbon sources of uneven quality, quantity and cost to produce) - we're just running out of the cheap stuff.
I can't imagine even if it gets pretty scarce, it would be cheaper to drag stuff out of the middle of solar system and somehow get it back to the surface than it would be to dribble out small volumes of oil and gas from existing infrastructure.
Besides, warp drives don't work in system, right?
But it's an interesting term to use in this discussion because the lay definition is exactly that - hepatitis as a viral infection. Even if it's not the most common form of hepatitis (it would be alcoholic hepatitis in the US at least), it's the one that most people think of.
That isn't to excuse Slashdot editors or submitters for not making that distinction. Somebody needs to wave the pedantic flag now and again.
If only HP had its own OS it could put on those tablets. They wouldn't be relaint on MicroSoft and possibly could sell dozens of them.
What an amazing idea! For extra bonus points it would be Open Sourced.
Even better if they had a bunch of programmers who were skilled in the software.
Oh. Wait.
Two cellphone manufacturers enter!
One cellphone leaves!
Who's got the weenies?
All the Apple Fanbois, they are the weenies.
Nexus-6, yeah. Confusing.
Was the Nexus-6 made in the USA?
Hmm. $800,000 fine. For a company that grossed 4.4 billion last year. If this was an individual making median income (47k USD), then this would be like fining them $0.09. That'll teach them!
If you're earning 47k with those math skills...
It's $9, not $.09
He's just adjusting for inflation.