The only problem I have with the way police pull vehicles over is their practice of parking on the wrong side of the road. I believe they should do a U turn and park correctly.
Many years ago there was an incident near a bend in a country road in my state. The police had parked off the road to the right (we drive on the left here) and left their head lights on. An oncoming car left the road trying to pass the police car to the left (from the drivers perspective) and killed two people.
A couple of years later I was cycling down a side street near my house. I went around a gentle left turn and almost crashed head on into a parked police car. I phoned the police and made a complaint. They clearly hadn't learnt from the earlier incident.
The parents had car keys where the six year old could get them?
With kids, everything is on high security lockdown. Especially when young.
I'll bet his was surprised when the pole didn't just fly out the way gracefully, thank goodness ho found a pole before a hooker.
My six year old son can drive games like tux cart and mario cart. He watches my wife and I drive. he knows where the car keys are too, but I am not the slightest bit concerned that he will start doing adult things like driving the car.
A six year old is perfectly capable of knowing the difference between right and wrong without being wrapped in cotton wool.
Yes that happened here for a while as well. One message said Freeway emergency telephones are for your convenience and safety but a helpful spellchecker changed convenience to connivance.
When was the last time you used an IP address instead of a domain name?
Half an hour ago. IT where I work have stuffed up name resolution for internal web pages so it only works for windows clents. It just means I have to use the IP address to get the main internal web page from linux.
Lots of people and organizations use NAT when they don't want their connected networks to have a full understanding of their address space (like I don't want my ISP to know I have four computers, or as a company I don't want the rest of the world to see the addresses of all my workstations)
I have the same problem between Engineering and IT at my workplace. Sometimes it is easier not to expose all your test machines to your IT people.
How long before the first law suit claiming the ad is responsible for whatever driving calamity happened?
I can't believe this made it through a thought/mouth filter.
In my last job I wrote software to control variable message signs on freeways. A lot of effort was put into selecting the messages which are displayed on the principle that any message is a distraction from driving and must be justified if it is presented at all.
Seriously, why is this listed as a fault these days?
I agree with you but if I go to a shop where a lot of computers are sold I often see salesmen trying to sell eepc or mac air type machines and being asked how you play a dvd on it.
My wife loves watching chinese dvds or vcds on her hp laptop. It is probably her main use for the machine, apart from tetris.
The only trouble I have had with the track pad on my eeepc was when I ran it from a cheap inverter in my van. The noise which got through the power supply made the track pad unusable.
The eee computer I would like to see is my 701 without keyboard or screen in a hand sized package. I have lots of screens and input devices where I work so there is no rreason to carry them.
I am not a gamer, but I bought a Wii for the family for Christmas. The best thing about it for me is that you can play the games standing up. It doesn't actually make you fit but it is still much better than sitting around.
I would love to see a second life client for the Wii. I would definitely give that a go.
Light pollution is just one of the by-products of industrialization.
Close to my house the Bolte Bridge is a massive source of light pollution because it is illuminated from below by lights which point up. Environmentalists complained, pointing to design standards which specify how such lighting should be done, but noting came of it.
Sometimes we just have to not do stupid things, like pumping light into outer space, which has plenty of light already.
When I worked at a summer camp a few years ago, all of the staff carried flashlights, but rarely used them, because they were able to walk the trails at night with nothing but ambient light from the sky
Near a city, thats easy to do;)
In the Mallee I have been out on nights where Venus was almost too bright to look at, and distant towns could be seen by their halos.
Towns will question why they are spending so much on lighting and cut back...Similarly, I think people will curb their habits of trying to light entire cities at night.
And this curbing of their habits will come to an abrupt halt once someone is mugged/assaulted/raped on a normally safe - but slightly darker - street, and the think-of-the-children rallying cry is raised.
The bottom line is that lighting in heavily populated areas does increase safety, by discouraging those who would use the cover of darkness for their crimes. The couple dollars a night it takes to light a mile of street is well worth the cost to those living on, or walking at night on, those streets.
I am not sure I agree, Public lighting increases the contrast between light and shadow. And shadowed areas are still there.
A lot of sites just use an email address as userid, then generate their own passwords rather than letting the user choose. People generally know their email address, and mailing the password to the address is secure enough for many applications.
Middle-east peace is impossible. Both sides can point to genocidal passages in the others' scripture, both sides can point to hyperbolic remarks by the others' politicians, and (most importantly) factions on both sides are committed to disproportionate retaliation against the other for past atrocities that can never be un-done.
However, the US *can* lower the death toll by not pouring high-tech weaponry into Israel.
Israel seems reluctant to actually use high tech weaponry. Why don't they intercept rockets fired from Gaza? There are plenty of theatre defence systems which can do that.
[tinfoil hat]They probably train a dog to scratch at every fifth car to instill fear among the others who have to watch and to see if they can generate an excuse to tear the car apart looking for bad stuff.[/tinfoil hat] And why not? It worked for FISA and all the retroactive "probable cause" bullshit associated with its gutting of our privacy.
Dunno. Does Jack have a dog? Maybe the checkpoint dog smelled something innocent like dog piss.
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The only problem I have with the way police pull vehicles over is their practice of parking on the wrong side of the road. I believe they should do a U turn and park correctly.
Many years ago there was an incident near a bend in a country road in my state. The police had parked off the road to the right (we drive on the left here) and left their head lights on. An oncoming car left the road trying to pass the police car to the left (from the drivers perspective) and killed two people.
A couple of years later I was cycling down a side street near my house. I went around a gentle left turn and almost crashed head on into a parked police car. I phoned the police and made a complaint. They clearly hadn't learnt from the earlier incident.
The parents had car keys where the six year old could get them?
With kids, everything is on high security lockdown. Especially when young.
I'll bet his was surprised when the pole didn't just fly out the way gracefully, thank goodness ho found a pole before a hooker.
My six year old son can drive games like tux cart and mario cart. He watches my wife and I drive. he knows where the car keys are too, but I am not the slightest bit concerned that he will start doing adult things like driving the car.
A six year old is perfectly capable of knowing the difference between right and wrong without being wrapped in cotton wool.
I'm 47 .... I live in Chicago...
Hi Barak you really should register rather than posting as AC.
Standing on the street outside apple studios.
Yes that happened here for a while as well. One message said Freeway emergency telephones are for your convenience and safety but a helpful spellchecker changed convenience to connivance.
Replace the removed brain with an electronic brain. A simple one would suffice
A 6502 would be ideal.
Yell at your guys for not doing their job
I do, all the bloody time but it never changes anything.
Though DNA addresses could be the future!
But they are not unique!
When was the last time you used an IP address instead of a domain name?
Half an hour ago. IT where I work have stuffed up name resolution for internal web pages so it only works for windows clents. It just means I have to use the IP address to get the main internal web page from linux.
$99 3 foot cable. 6 foot cables only $150.
Thats not expensive enough to be really good.
Lots of people and organizations use NAT when they don't want their connected networks to have a full understanding of their address space (like I don't want my ISP to know I have four computers, or as a company I don't want the rest of the world to see the addresses of all my workstations)
I have the same problem between Engineering and IT at my workplace. Sometimes it is easier not to expose all your test machines to your IT people.
I'm not sure that I even want all my machines to have globally routable IPs.
NAT doesn't provide security,
It does however provide privacy.
I would just get out my side cutters.
How long before the first law suit claiming the ad is responsible for whatever driving calamity happened? I can't believe this made it through a thought/mouth filter.
In my last job I wrote software to control variable message signs on freeways. A lot of effort was put into selecting the messages which are displayed on the principle that any message is a distraction from driving and must be justified if it is presented at all.
Seriously, why is this listed as a fault these days?
I agree with you but if I go to a shop where a lot of computers are sold I often see salesmen trying to sell eepc or mac air type machines and being asked how you play a dvd on it.
My wife loves watching chinese dvds or vcds on her hp laptop. It is probably her main use for the machine, apart from tetris.
The only trouble I have had with the track pad on my eeepc was when I ran it from a cheap inverter in my van. The noise which got through the power supply made the track pad unusable.
The eee computer I would like to see is my 701 without keyboard or screen in a hand sized package. I have lots of screens and input devices where I work so there is no rreason to carry them.
I am not a gamer, but I bought a Wii for the family for Christmas. The best thing about it for me is that you can play the games standing up. It doesn't actually make you fit but it is still much better than sitting around.
I would love to see a second life client for the Wii. I would definitely give that a go.
Light pollution is just one of the by-products of industrialization.
Close to my house the Bolte Bridge is a massive source of light pollution because it is illuminated from below by lights which point up. Environmentalists complained, pointing to design standards which specify how such lighting should be done, but noting came of it.
Sometimes we just have to not do stupid things, like pumping light into outer space, which has plenty of light already.
When I worked at a summer camp a few years ago, all of the staff carried flashlights, but rarely used them, because they were able to walk the trails at night with nothing but ambient light from the sky
Near a city, thats easy to do ;)
In the Mallee I have been out on nights where Venus was almost too bright to look at, and distant towns could be seen by their halos.
Towns will question why they are spending so much on lighting and cut back...Similarly, I think people will curb their habits of trying to light entire cities at night.
And this curbing of their habits will come to an abrupt halt once someone is mugged/assaulted/raped on a normally safe - but slightly darker - street, and the think-of-the-children rallying cry is raised. The bottom line is that lighting in heavily populated areas does increase safety, by discouraging those who would use the cover of darkness for their crimes. The couple dollars a night it takes to light a mile of street is well worth the cost to those living on, or walking at night on, those streets.
I am not sure I agree, Public lighting increases the contrast between light and shadow. And shadowed areas are still there.
As the cost of energy rises in the medium future, I think this will sort itself out.
Using LEDs may help, because they are much more directional and emit light on narrow bands.
I believe red lights are used by the military where people need to keep their night vision.
A lot of sites just use an email address as userid, then generate their own passwords rather than letting the user choose. People generally know their email address, and mailing the password to the address is secure enough for many applications.
Middle-east peace is impossible. Both sides can point to genocidal passages in the others' scripture, both sides can point to hyperbolic remarks by the others' politicians, and (most importantly) factions on both sides are committed to disproportionate retaliation against the other for past atrocities that can never be un-done.
However, the US *can* lower the death toll by not pouring high-tech weaponry into Israel.
Israel seems reluctant to actually use high tech weaponry. Why don't they intercept rockets fired from Gaza? There are plenty of theatre defence systems which can do that.
[tinfoil hat]They probably train a dog to scratch at every fifth car to instill fear among the others who have to watch and to see if they can generate an excuse to tear the car apart looking for bad stuff.[/tinfoil hat] And why not? It worked for FISA and all the retroactive "probable cause" bullshit associated with its gutting of our privacy.
Dunno. Does Jack have a dog? Maybe the checkpoint dog smelled something innocent like dog piss.