The "fact" sheet is gone. It turns up in a search using their search engine, but the file itself has been removed. I wonder whether it's because it's inaccurate or whether they don't like getting a gazillion hits from/.
The BAC was reduced last year from 0.08 to 0.05. in our province. It did not lead to a huge rise in BAC convictions, nor it did not lead to any lessening of the social stigma associated with drunk driving. What it did is make our roads safer.
Do you have accident counts to back that up? I find it hard to believe if the conviction rate (and presumably the arrest rate) didn't go up. I was all behind MADD until they continued lobbying for lower BAC levels after the limit was set to 0.008. It gets to a point of diminishing returns. The people getting into accidents seem to be way over 0.008, and rather than enlarge the net, the government needs to concentrate on preventing the ones caught DWI at existing levels from driving.
By making the notices available, Google is unintentionally highlighting the location of allegedly pirated material, say some experts. 'It would only take one skilled coder to index the URLs from the DMCA notices in order to create one of the largest pirate search engines available,' wrote Torrent Freak editor Ernesto Van Der Sar on the site."
I stumbled on one of these notices filed by the RIAA yesterday, and it seems not only reasonable but important for the notice to be posted, including the relevant URL; otherwise, how will I know that the site hosting the illegal material is doing so illegally? I looked at the site in question, and they most certainly didn't include any notice that downloading that particular song was a violation of copyright. But because of the notice that Google linked to, I knew that I shouldn't do it.
It seems to me that MPAA and RIAA want to have their cake and eat it, too.
Using TOR via an unsecured or hacked WLAN router seems to be quite secure, in my opinion. You can easily extend the range of your WLAN atenna by a factor of 10 via a "Cantenna" (dead simple, gooogle it).
So, your post is full of paranoid hyperbole.
Didn't Osama bin Laden try a variant of the carrier pigeon method? It seems to me is the best thing is to not do anything that makes them that interested in you to begin with.
You're French? I'm impressed. I didn't even notice your "accent". (There are things Francophones do when writing English that are similar to a spoken accent, like using the plural for "information".) In any case, the panda joke would not make sense in French. In the joke, "[The panda] eats shoots and leaves," would come out as something like "Il mange des pousses et des feuilles," while "[The panda] eats, shoots, and leaves," would be more like "Il mange, il tire, et il se quitte." (As you can see, punctuation is the least of my problems in French.)
I tried plugging "Americans have a huge bias against diesel which is common in Europe" and "Americans have a huge bias against diesel, which is common in Europe" into Google translate, and it's hard for me to see the difference, even when I substitute "crow" and "crows" for "diesel". Hmm. (I'm a better language nerd than I am a computer programmer.)
Okay, you get funny points, but in case anyone takes you seriously, automatic transmissions pretty much became the norm in the U.S. in the 1950s and from your list only eating and sleeping were available in the car.
I found it interesting to see that because of bad previous experience, Americans have a huge biais against diesel which is common in Europe.
It may just be me, but I believe you would have done better to insert a comma after diesel. My first reading of this sentence led me to think that Europe was rife with diesel-hating Americans, when what you really meant to say is that diesel is common in Europe, and that Americans are biased against it.
There is a panda joke that illustrates the importance of comma placement.
Its always the "AMERIKANS!!!!" that constantly poke jokes at other people, make sarcastic remarks and wont shut up that make us all look like dickheads. And much like a true AMERIKAN!!!!! you have to bring up some idle threat about how we will bomb them.
If these saber-rattling threats from the North Korean dicatorship aren't laughable, then I don't know what is. In truth, it is just plain sad that a government can get away with the cruelty that has been inflicted on the North Korean people by their own government's policies.
The question is: which one is more reliable overall?
The answer is, "It depends." Before I had a prostatectomy several years ago, I looked very hard into the humans vs. robotic surgery question, at both the available statistics (such as they were) and with conversations with about a half-dozen men who'd had one or the other procedure. Neither side had a clear edge. The surgeon who ended up with my business told me that he felt that the da Vinci procedure was oversold, and that patients were disappointed when recovery didn't occur as quickly or fully as they'd come to expect. This was borne out by the conversations I had; the guys who had the robotic procedure were no more able to get it up than the ones who had traditional surgery, and continence was about the same for both groups. But the surgeon matters most. The guy who had the worst experience went to the premier prostate cancer center in the country and got a protege of the top surgeon. The guys who stayed local and sought out the top guys in our area were much happier, me included.
A state needs to contract out the creation of calculators to some firm and just get them for $10 a pop. There is no reason TI should be getting $100 for them.
Yes, there is. TI is able to make more money if they're $100 a pop. FWIW, my kid's H.S. requires a TI-80-something for algebra, etc. It really irks me, because A) we weren't even allowed to use a four-function calculator in my high school classes (1972-1976), B) the thing is more sophisticated than the "engineering" calculator I got for college, and C) no one in my daughter's generation seems to be able to figure out how much change they should get/give in their head.
Because teachers are paranoid the chill'ins will cheat in class. Anything with a radio is verboten as a matter of course, and likewise anything "too powerful" isn't allowed. Finagle forbid they actually spend braincycles on solving a problem and leave the arithmetic to something that's designed to crunch numbers quickly and correctly. Far better to keep them busy doing busy work.
The way it would work if they had more powerful devices is that one kid would write a program and the rest of the kids would get him to give or sell it to them. Unfortunately, kids still cheat today, by any means available. My H.S. daughter has regaled me with a few of the attempts she's seen.
Facebook even cited one of Van Der Meer's patents in one of their own filings later on.
I thought the point of citing someone else's patent in one's patent filing was to show that the method covered in the filing is sufficiently different to award a patent. This legal claim sounds kind of dubious.
Overall, our iOS traffic (8.74%) is higher than our Android traffic (6.75%). Windows Phone and BlackBerry both clock in at about 0.2%.
One reason contributing to Blackberry's low numbers on/. might be that the mobile site tells the Blackberry user that his browser is incompatible, and the links don't work if the user acknowledges this and tries to use the site anyway. (Or, at least, that was my experience the two or three times I tried using the site.) Blackberry's browser is, of course, another hindrance, as any site that isn't heavily pared to accomodate small screens and slow download speeds is excruciating on a Blackberry, which is what drove me to buy an Android tablet.
. . . [Y]ou might end up driving a car with a fancy in-dash computer system that's completely useless for much of the time you own it.
My first car had an AM radio, but I wanted FM, so I bought an FM converter for it. Car #3 had an AM/FM radio, but I wanted a cassette player, so I ended up buying and installing a radio with a cassette player in it. Car #4 didn't have a CD player, and I remedied that with a portable CD player and an adapter that slipped into the factory-installed cassette player. The current car has a radio with CD player and auxiliary input jack and Bluetooth, but I'm pretty sure it will be obsolete by the time I get rid of it.
But it would be interesting to see what would happen if someone shot down a government-owned drone. Anyone want to bet on how that would go down?
You think it would be interesting to go to prison for destruction of government property? That's my bet for your future if you do that.
That would be interesting, too, but my intention in using "someone" wasn't an attempt to suggest that I might do such a thing. If I fired a gun on my property, I would be overrun by cops within three minutes.
Google Maps satellite pictures aren't much good for saying something happened at a particular time. The photo of my house shows a minivan that we traded two years ago.
I tend to agree. I believe the minimum altitude for operating an aircraft is 500 feet, so if it's under that altitude, I say it's fair game. But it would be interesting to see what would happen if someone shot down a government-owned drone. Anyone want to bet on how that would go down?
Even with a teenager on our family cell plan, we never use up our monthly allocation of voice minutes. Now, if RIM could figure out a way to convert that voice to data bandwidth, then we might have something to talk about.
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This is the D.C. government we're talking about. Procurement irregularities there have kept investigative reporters employed there for decades.
Ditto. I find it particularly galling that Manassas still has a B&N but that the Reston area, with higher incomes & education, has none.
The "fact" sheet is gone. It turns up in a search using their search engine, but the file itself has been removed. I wonder whether it's because it's inaccurate or whether they don't like getting a gazillion hits from /.
Seriously. I tried Google Reader, and I kept forgetting to look at it.
The BAC was reduced last year from 0.08 to 0.05. in our province. It did not lead to a huge rise in BAC convictions, nor it did not lead to any lessening of the social stigma associated with drunk driving. What it did is make our roads safer.
Do you have accident counts to back that up? I find it hard to believe if the conviction rate (and presumably the arrest rate) didn't go up. I was all behind MADD until they continued lobbying for lower BAC levels after the limit was set to 0.008. It gets to a point of diminishing returns. The people getting into accidents seem to be way over 0.008, and rather than enlarge the net, the government needs to concentrate on preventing the ones caught DWI at existing levels from driving.
By making the notices available, Google is unintentionally highlighting the location of allegedly pirated material, say some experts. 'It would only take one skilled coder to index the URLs from the DMCA notices in order to create one of the largest pirate search engines available,' wrote Torrent Freak editor Ernesto Van Der Sar on the site."
I stumbled on one of these notices filed by the RIAA yesterday, and it seems not only reasonable but important for the notice to be posted, including the relevant URL; otherwise, how will I know that the site hosting the illegal material is doing so illegally? I looked at the site in question, and they most certainly didn't include any notice that downloading that particular song was a violation of copyright. But because of the notice that Google linked to, I knew that I shouldn't do it.
It seems to me that MPAA and RIAA want to have their cake and eat it, too.
Using TOR via an unsecured or hacked WLAN router seems to be quite secure, in my opinion. You can easily extend the range of your WLAN atenna by a factor of 10 via a "Cantenna" (dead simple, gooogle it). So, your post is full of paranoid hyperbole.
Didn't Osama bin Laden try a variant of the carrier pigeon method? It seems to me is the best thing is to not do anything that makes them that interested in you to begin with.
You're French? I'm impressed. I didn't even notice your "accent". (There are things Francophones do when writing English that are similar to a spoken accent, like using the plural for "information".) In any case, the panda joke would not make sense in French. In the joke, "[The panda] eats shoots and leaves," would come out as something like "Il mange des pousses et des feuilles," while "[The panda] eats, shoots, and leaves," would be more like "Il mange, il tire, et il se quitte." (As you can see, punctuation is the least of my problems in French.)
I tried plugging "Americans have a huge bias against diesel which is common in Europe" and "Americans have a huge bias against diesel, which is common in Europe" into Google translate, and it's hard for me to see the difference, even when I substitute "crow" and "crows" for "diesel". Hmm. (I'm a better language nerd than I am a computer programmer.)
Okay, you get funny points, but in case anyone takes you seriously, automatic transmissions pretty much became the norm in the U.S. in the 1950s and from your list only eating and sleeping were available in the car.
There was also sex....
I found it interesting to see that because of bad previous experience, Americans have a huge biais against diesel which is common in Europe.
It may just be me, but I believe you would have done better to insert a comma after diesel. My first reading of this sentence led me to think that Europe was rife with diesel-hating Americans, when what you really meant to say is that diesel is common in Europe, and that Americans are biased against it.
There is a panda joke that illustrates the importance of comma placement.
They've been able to get this data through the IRS since before any of us were born.
Not quite. I sort of remember that $10,000 reporting law being passed when I was a teenager.
...the title of the article is over-dramatized in typical slashdot fashion.
Yup.
Its always the "AMERIKANS!!!!" that constantly poke jokes at other people, make sarcastic remarks and wont shut up that make us all look like dickheads. And much like a true AMERIKAN!!!!! you have to bring up some idle threat about how we will bomb them.
If these saber-rattling threats from the North Korean dicatorship aren't laughable, then I don't know what is. In truth, it is just plain sad that a government can get away with the cruelty that has been inflicted on the North Korean people by their own government's policies.
Maybe we could just eliminate the CO2 from ignorant jackasses....
"Germany is making BMWs, not Chevys.
BMWs are also made elsewhere.
The question is: which one is more reliable overall?
The answer is, "It depends." Before I had a prostatectomy several years ago, I looked very hard into the humans vs. robotic surgery question, at both the available statistics (such as they were) and with conversations with about a half-dozen men who'd had one or the other procedure. Neither side had a clear edge. The surgeon who ended up with my business told me that he felt that the da Vinci procedure was oversold, and that patients were disappointed when recovery didn't occur as quickly or fully as they'd come to expect. This was borne out by the conversations I had; the guys who had the robotic procedure were no more able to get it up than the ones who had traditional surgery, and continence was about the same for both groups. But the surgeon matters most. The guy who had the worst experience went to the premier prostate cancer center in the country and got a protege of the top surgeon. The guys who stayed local and sought out the top guys in our area were much happier, me included.
Is it $10 or less yet?
A state needs to contract out the creation of calculators to some firm and just get them for $10 a pop. There is no reason TI should be getting $100 for them.
Yes, there is. TI is able to make more money if they're $100 a pop. FWIW, my kid's H.S. requires a TI-80-something for algebra, etc. It really irks me, because A) we weren't even allowed to use a four-function calculator in my high school classes (1972-1976), B) the thing is more sophisticated than the "engineering" calculator I got for college, and C) no one in my daughter's generation seems to be able to figure out how much change they should get/give in their head.
(And yes -- you damn kids get off of my lawn!)
Because teachers are paranoid the chill'ins will cheat in class. Anything with a radio is verboten as a matter of course, and likewise anything "too powerful" isn't allowed. Finagle forbid they actually spend braincycles on solving a problem and leave the arithmetic to something that's designed to crunch numbers quickly and correctly. Far better to keep them busy doing busy work.
The way it would work if they had more powerful devices is that one kid would write a program and the rest of the kids would get him to give or sell it to them. Unfortunately, kids still cheat today, by any means available. My H.S. daughter has regaled me with a few of the attempts she's seen.
Also, great story about the prisms!
Facebook even cited one of Van Der Meer's patents in one of their own filings later on.
I thought the point of citing someone else's patent in one's patent filing was to show that the method covered in the filing is sufficiently different to award a patent. This legal claim sounds kind of dubious.
Perhaps they should try AppGuard, which stops zero-day attacks. (Shill disclaimer: I used to work for the company that produces AppGuard.)
Overall, our iOS traffic (8.74%) is higher than our Android traffic (6.75%). Windows Phone and BlackBerry both clock in at about 0.2%.
One reason contributing to Blackberry's low numbers on /. might be that the mobile site tells the Blackberry user that his browser is incompatible, and the links don't work if the user acknowledges this and tries to use the site anyway. (Or, at least, that was my experience the two or three times I tried using the site.) Blackberry's browser is, of course, another hindrance, as any site that isn't heavily pared to accomodate small screens and slow download speeds is excruciating on a Blackberry, which is what drove me to buy an Android tablet.
. . . [Y]ou might end up driving a car with a fancy in-dash computer system that's completely useless for much of the time you own it.
My first car had an AM radio, but I wanted FM, so I bought an FM converter for it. Car #3 had an AM/FM radio, but I wanted a cassette player, so I ended up buying and installing a radio with a cassette player in it. Car #4 didn't have a CD player, and I remedied that with a portable CD player and an adapter that slipped into the factory-installed cassette player. The current car has a radio with CD player and auxiliary input jack and Bluetooth, but I'm pretty sure it will be obsolete by the time I get rid of it.
Why would onboard computers be any different?
But it would be interesting to see what would happen if someone shot down a government-owned drone. Anyone want to bet on how that would go down?
You think it would be interesting to go to prison for destruction of government property? That's my bet for your future if you do that.
That would be interesting, too, but my intention in using "someone" wasn't an attempt to suggest that I might do such a thing. If I fired a gun on my property, I would be overrun by cops within three minutes.
Google Maps satellite pictures aren't much good for saying something happened at a particular time. The photo of my house shows a minivan that we traded two years ago.
I tend to agree. I believe the minimum altitude for operating an aircraft is 500 feet, so if it's under that altitude, I say it's fair game. But it would be interesting to see what would happen if someone shot down a government-owned drone. Anyone want to bet on how that would go down?
Even with a teenager on our family cell plan, we never use up our monthly allocation of voice minutes. Now, if RIM could figure out a way to convert that voice to data bandwidth, then we might have something to talk about.