I believe all good trucking companies are using the GPS-equipped trucks to ensure that their drivers are complying with the law: that they aren't speeding excessively, that they are taking rest-breaks regularly, that they are checking brakes before big hills, and that they are on-route and not picking up hitchhikers.
This reduces the company's costs: maintenance and insurance costs are reduced, and they can reliably predict delivery times.
Why else would they bother with the GPS? It'd be a waste of investment otherwise.
Only because the law doesn't have the balls to make the owner of the car (the insurer of the car) liable for the car when he willingly lends it out.
My opinion is that if you're enough of a jackass to lend your car to someone that drives drunk, speeds, is untrained, has no license, whatever -- well, then, you deserve to be held as an accomplice when that vehicle is used to break the law.
Lending the car out is a *choice* and if you don't want to be liable for other drivers, then don't lend the damn thing out.
(Note that we're already partially there: if you lend it out and it gets wrecked, the insurance company is going to raise *your* rates.)
I *dare* you to start an EMail spam warning everyone about this bad new danger to their music collections, and encouraging them to sanitize their CDs before it's too late!
Basic browser stuff that [Opera] does better. Opera also has better cookie management.
Microsoft is the first to implement *A* version of P3P. It is not implementing *THE* version of P3P. It's bastardizing it, because that's how Microsoft operates: embrace, extend, extinguish.
The best thing you can do for the web is to BLOCK MSIE v6 for the time being. Send a message to Microsoft that you want them to quit screwing with standards.
There've been net-wide rallies behind common causes before (blue ribbon campaign, f'rinstance). It's time for another one.
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DON'T FEED THE TROLLS, DAMMIT!
Give your heads a shake, people. Recognize a joke when you see one. "Curiousity Killed the Cat" is a blatant chain-yank, and a half-dozen of you were dumb enough to fall for it.
How To Recognize The Troll * there are lots of adjectives: "once lush planet," "reckless desire," and the like.
* there's a personal disclaimer: "don't get me wrong."
* there's often a reference to religion: "[better to] study scripture."
But the biggest indicator is that it's every damn sentence is over-the-top hyperbole.
Don't get me wrong: I appreciate a good luddite-like troll. But, please, don't feed the trolls!
Time and again, I see tech-savvy folk on Slashdot dismiss anything that they figure techies will know is B.S.
They ignore that they ain't the bosses!
Maybe having control over a network does something to these techies ("I have the power! Muahaha!")
Fact is, guys, *you* don't make the most important decisions.
Your CEO, manager, or boss is the one who really makes the decision. He might be deciding, at this time, to *let* you make the decisions... but that can be changed anytime.
ZDNet, Microsoft, and the like target your boss.
If ZD handles this correctly, your boss will take control of the purchasing decisions, and all your high-falutin' techie knowledge ain't gonna change his mind.
Just as with the MS anti-linux-memes (where you need to start planting anti-MS/pro-linux memes in his head), you need to make your boss aware that there are better, more unbiased sites for his hardware/software review news.
Yes, if you wish to retain the control you're allowed to have, you need to babysit your boss. Sad, but true.
Ah, it looks like Microsoft prawns have attained moderator status: this message was marked down, because it offers a solution to this SmartTags problem.
Basically, the idea is that content authors (ie. webmasters) need to implement server- or client-side blocking of MSIE version 6.
If enough people rally together to do this, Microsoft will be forced to change their ways. And that's A Good Thing, regardless what any MS-pimpin' moderator figures!
It doesn't at all count for copyright issues: content is regularly cached by @home, AOL, MSN and every other big-name ISP so that their customers receive it quicker.
It would be a simple matter to *not* cache the banner advertisements, which would allow the site to continue its ad revenue.
Slashdot is usually pretty darn quick for me. I can't say the same for the poor sites that get slashdotted.
Yes, it'd be all together too sensible for the Slashdot crew to implement a semi-mirror system, in which the text for the website comes from the original source, but where the images are drawn from a Slashdot cache.
It's just cruel and abusive to subject someone's little ISP/account to the teeming hordes. More often than not, I'll wager, it causes overwhelming surcharges to the poor sucker who gets the attention.
I'd *never* want a site of my own to come under the Slashdot gun. It'd just cost way the hell too much.
It means that parts of America are just beginning to get to the point where parts of Canada were five years ago.
In the telecom business, that's pretty significant. American telephony is usually a decade behind the Canadians!
Seriously, this is really good news. If it works well, it'll be deployed in other areas. DSL could become ubiquitous! Prices would drop, and all the neat shit that we've been promised forever and a day might actually start to happen!
Little wonder y'all don't get to carry firearms. You'd all end up slaughtering each other worse than the Americans do!
Probably a good thing your bobbies are now allowed to pack heat. I can't imagine they had much of a chance of competing against your average hooligan without one!
And if you use wxWindows/wxPython, you get a very nice cross-platform GUI API, with *native* widgets. On a Mac, your program will look like a Mac program; on Windows, it'll look like a Windows program; on KDE, a KDE program. There's a *lot* to be said for that, when it comes to post-sales support of lusers.
I've suggested it before and I'm suggesting it again: BountyQuest for Spammers.
Sure as heck I'd toss a ten-spot into the kitty to have a spammer scrubbed off. Only have to remove a few of those scum, and the rest would suddenly find that there's less risky business to be done in this world.
I can see isys having a patent on a particular mathematical formula for de-fishlensing an image, but surely there is more than one way to accomplish that task.
And certainly they can't have a patent on taking fishlense images and making them normal. Because that sort of thing has been going on since Panavision movie-making was developed.
And they certainly can't have a patent on stitching together images, because people been doing that since forever.
Really, all they could patent is a particular algorithm for it -- and I'm not sure they could even patent that, 'cause it's just mathematics!
Yes, but not in a way that makes it a duplicate of Google. The engine is important, but even more important is the database structure and web ranking system. I suspect Yahoo (a) is influenced by payment (paid links come up higher than unpaid) and (b) is influenced by site descriptions.
Yabbut yer building a server when you buy one of these mobos. So you're gonna be willing to pay some coin for a big, reliable power supply -- or, probably, two of 'em, so you have redundancy.
Hardware like this, you don't cheap out on the components!
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Sure, there'd be a revolt...
...but can you imagine how much safer it would be to drive? The reduction in insurance costs would be pretty damn dramatic, too.
If only someone had the balls to implement something like this, *plus* mandatory driver training and regular re-testing.
My god! It'd damn near put hospitals and morgues out of business!
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I believe all good trucking companies are using the GPS-equipped trucks to ensure that their drivers are complying with the law: that they aren't speeding excessively, that they are taking rest-breaks regularly, that they are checking brakes before big hills, and that they are on-route and not picking up hitchhikers.
This reduces the company's costs: maintenance and insurance costs are reduced, and they can reliably predict delivery times.
Why else would they bother with the GPS? It'd be a waste of investment otherwise.
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Only because the law doesn't have the balls to make the owner of the car (the insurer of the car) liable for the car when he willingly lends it out.
My opinion is that if you're enough of a jackass to lend your car to someone that drives drunk, speeds, is untrained, has no license, whatever -- well, then, you deserve to be held as an accomplice when that vehicle is used to break the law.
Lending the car out is a *choice* and if you don't want to be liable for other drivers, then don't lend the damn thing out.
(Note that we're already partially there: if you lend it out and it gets wrecked, the insurance company is going to raise *your* rates.)
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Just call it "assisting evolution." People that dumb, don't deserve to live...
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I *dare* you to start an EMail spam warning everyone about this bad new danger to their music collections, and encouraging them to sanitize their CDs before it's too late!
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Basic browser stuff that [Opera] does better. Opera also has better cookie management.
Microsoft is the first to implement *A* version of P3P. It is not implementing *THE* version of P3P. It's bastardizing it, because that's how Microsoft operates: embrace, extend, extinguish.
The best thing you can do for the web is to BLOCK MSIE v6 for the time being. Send a message to Microsoft that you want them to quit screwing with standards.
There've been net-wide rallies behind common causes before (blue ribbon campaign, f'rinstance). It's time for another one.
--
DON'T FEED THE TROLLS, DAMMIT!
Give your heads a shake, people. Recognize a joke when you see one. "Curiousity Killed the Cat" is a blatant chain-yank, and a half-dozen of you were dumb enough to fall for it.
How To Recognize The Troll
* there are lots of adjectives: "once lush planet," "reckless desire," and the like.
* there's a personal disclaimer: "don't get me wrong."
* there's often a reference to religion: "[better to] study scripture."
But the biggest indicator is that it's every damn sentence is over-the-top hyperbole.
Don't get me wrong: I appreciate a good luddite-like troll. But, please, don't feed the trolls!
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Techies have such HUGE egos!
Time and again, I see tech-savvy folk on Slashdot dismiss anything that they figure techies will know is B.S.
They ignore that they ain't the bosses!
Maybe having control over a network does something to these techies ("I have the power! Muahaha!")
Fact is, guys, *you* don't make the most important decisions.
Your CEO, manager, or boss is the one who really makes the decision. He might be deciding, at this time, to *let* you make the decisions... but that can be changed anytime.
ZDNet, Microsoft, and the like target your boss.
If ZD handles this correctly, your boss will take control of the purchasing decisions, and all your high-falutin' techie knowledge ain't gonna change his mind.
Just as with the MS anti-linux-memes (where you need to start planting anti-MS/pro-linux memes in his head), you need to make your boss aware that there are better, more unbiased sites for his hardware/software review news.
Yes, if you wish to retain the control you're allowed to have, you need to babysit your boss. Sad, but true.
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Ah, it looks like Microsoft prawns have attained moderator status: this message was marked down, because it offers a solution to this SmartTags problem.
Basically, the idea is that content authors (ie. webmasters) need to implement server- or client-side blocking of MSIE version 6.
If enough people rally together to do this, Microsoft will be forced to change their ways. And that's A Good Thing, regardless what any MS-pimpin' moderator figures!
Promote this meme!
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THE SOLUTION TO THIS IS AVAILABLE *NOW*
Message #109 contains a PHP line that blocks MSIE v6
You could do the same thing with Javascript.
IF ALL CONTENT PRODUCERS RALLY TOGETHER AND BLOCK MSIE V6, SMART TAGS WILL BE DESTROYED.
We've had web-wide movements in the past that were fairly successful. Make this another one: rally together to defeat Microsoft's stupid 'feature.'
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It doesn't at all count for copyright issues: content is regularly cached by @home, AOL, MSN and every other big-name ISP so that their customers receive it quicker.
It would be a simple matter to *not* cache the banner advertisements, which would allow the site to continue its ad revenue.
Slashdot is usually pretty darn quick for me. I can't say the same for the poor sites that get slashdotted.
--
Yes, it'd be all together too sensible for the Slashdot crew to implement a semi-mirror system, in which the text for the website comes from the original source, but where the images are drawn from a Slashdot cache.
It's just cruel and abusive to subject someone's little ISP/account to the teeming hordes. More often than not, I'll wager, it causes overwhelming surcharges to the poor sucker who gets the attention.
I'd *never* want a site of my own to come under the Slashdot gun. It'd just cost way the hell too much.
--
This is pretty impressive.
It means that parts of America are just beginning to get to the point where parts of Canada were five years ago.
In the telecom business, that's pretty significant. American telephony is usually a decade behind the Canadians!
Seriously, this is really good news. If it works well, it'll be deployed in other areas. DSL could become ubiquitous! Prices would drop, and all the neat shit that we've been promised forever and a day might actually start to happen!
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Little wonder y'all don't get to carry firearms. You'd all end up slaughtering each other worse than the Americans do!
Probably a good thing your bobbies are now allowed to pack heat. I can't imagine they had much of a chance of competing against your average hooligan without one!
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http://decision.tcc-cci.gc.ca/en/2000/html/2000tcc 982.html
In the northwest (BC, Washington, etc) we poured tens of millions of dollars into developing an airship capable of hauling up to 16 tons.
It failed.
You're proposing a contraption *10 times* larger.
Should be interesting. I suppose that as long as your paycheque is covered, you're happy. Can't say as I'd want to be an investor, though.
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And if you use wxWindows/wxPython, you get a very nice cross-platform GUI API, with *native* widgets. On a Mac, your program will look like a Mac program; on Windows, it'll look like a Windows program; on KDE, a KDE program. There's a *lot* to be said for that, when it comes to post-sales support of lusers.
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And it's more difficult to veer into a Chinese fighter jet, too!
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In BC, there's been talk for *decades* about using airships to haul logs, where helicopters are now used.
Of course, for *decades* the helicopter pilots haven't feared for their jobs, because not a single airship has ever gone into commercial use.
Myself, I'd expect there to be huge cost savings over a helicopter, but apparently there just isn't...
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I've suggested it before and I'm suggesting it again: BountyQuest for Spammers.
Sure as heck I'd toss a ten-spot into the kitty to have a spammer scrubbed off. Only have to remove a few of those scum, and the rest would suddenly find that there's less risky business to be done in this world.
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Hey, gimme a break. I hadn't had my coffee yet. :)
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I can see isys having a patent on a particular mathematical formula for de-fishlensing an image, but surely there is more than one way to accomplish that task.
And certainly they can't have a patent on taking fishlense images and making them normal. Because that sort of thing has been going on since Panavision movie-making was developed.
And they certainly can't have a patent on stitching together images, because people been doing that since forever.
Really, all they could patent is a particular algorithm for it -- and I'm not sure they could even patent that, 'cause it's just mathematics!
WTF is up here?
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"But it seems like no one (besides MS) is working on resolution-independent GUI frameworks."
Hey, buddy, you misspelled "Apple," there. OS X is thoroughly vector-based.
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Yes, but not in a way that makes it a duplicate of Google. The engine is important, but even more important is the database structure and web ranking system. I suspect Yahoo (a) is influenced by payment (paid links come up higher than unpaid) and (b) is influenced by site descriptions.
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Yabbut yer building a server when you buy one of these mobos. So you're gonna be willing to pay some coin for a big, reliable power supply -- or, probably, two of 'em, so you have redundancy.
Hardware like this, you don't cheap out on the components!
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Fifteen percent of Canada is on broadband (cable or DSL). That's twice the percentage of America.
Around my neck of the woods, $45/mo *tax in* gets you ADSL. $35 if you have your own modem.
Every ADSL customer also has dialup access. Makes it easier to go roaming.
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