Some weeds grow faster as well, which might lead to more herbicides. Also, poison ivy grows better with increased CO2, which in my book is a bad thing.
Seems like a decent suggestion, though I'm already pretty sick of car GPSs making me push an acknowledge button (to the danger of being distracted) every time I start the car before I can see directions, regardless of whether I'm driving or not. Perhaps the phone could sense where in the car it's located with NFC or something involving a transmitter in/near the steering wheel.
Excellent. I see more people driving erratically while yapping, holding their phone flat up in front of the steering wheel, than texting. Cycling—yes, more people are fiddling with cell phones and computers mounted on handlebars. But still not very many. I don't think there'll ever be much of that with mountain bikers. Darwin tends to take care of that.
A large part of the problem is diverting attention from driving, which applies to yapping on the phone, fiddling with the stereo, eating, reading, swilling coffee, and quite a few other things some drivers do. But I've noticed that most of the horrible incidents in my corner of the world (yeah, no scientific data here) have accompanied looking down and texting or looking down at the stereo, etc. So at the expense of increasing texting, at least all of these diversions could use displays routed to the windscreen and buttons on the steering wheel. Perhaps sensors could blank the display when obstacles appear nearby or closing speed becomes important. People are apparently NOT going to stop messing with other things while driving.
Saw this sig the other day, think it applies in this case:
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
"The price of this short-term public benefit may well be the future vitality of American culture."
Sometimes people say "black is white". But that doesn't mean there's any merit to such a claim. The only reason I can see for that quote to be mentioned is to provide a target for ridicule.
Why did Hawking decide it's OK to send tracer bullets to Alpha Centauri so A-C's ETs can locate us? Because they can already observe our electronic emissions anyhow?
...one of the microcraft cruising through the Solar system originating from other worlds. They could be all around us before we'd notice.
Once it's zooming along at.2c, it won't have much time to observe anything. Unless the plan includes deceleration, which adds quite a bit of time to the trip. Also, we'll need to be prepared for the severely red-shifted signal coming home from it. If it's not going to tell us what it found, we might as well just throw rocks, which would probably make ET mad.
Right. There's no way Brennan could control what happens in the future. What he COULD do that would help is to install some sort of monitoring/reporting apparatus and make sure its tentacles reach throughout. If given a little time to take root, it would likewise take a bit of time to eradicate.
It's taken a number of decades, but wow, talk about a car company losing its way. So... do you have to use your phone to lock the doors once you're inside the car? Turn on the headlights? Apply the parking brake? Blow the horn? Can we think of any better way to make a single point of failure than to tie everything to a cell phone? I expect to see some event related to this appearing in the Weird News.
So true about the coal-powered electric plants. However, utility-scale electric transmission is a "standard interface" that can allow both consumption and production to be moved to efficient and clean alternatives asynchronously and simultaneously. So with electric cars around, it would be far easier to move both fixed and mobile consumption to renewables than it would be otherwise.
It's not just the maxima. I have a one-letter (like x@yyy.zzz) email address that quite a few sites refuse to accept just because it's only one letter long.
Funny you don't hear about indictments for Chinese crackers.
Seems to me that partially successful stuff is doing us a favor (aside from taking out Goldman Sachs) in that losses are relatively low and it encourages hardening. Plus it makes it easy to monitor what they're up to and what their capabilities are. The scariest hacks are the ones from unknown sources using unknown exploits kept secret until an opportune moment.
Once upon a time macros were quick, dirty, and useful. They didn't have or need access to anything outside the application. Then MS switched it all to VB crud and they were no longer quick and dirty, and hence rarely useful. Surely someone uses them for good, but I haven't met them.
...benefits for most of those suggestions, and doors-always-open with people falling off is pretty unlikely. But having the bus wait while someone's in the door but standing in the front is ridiculous. Put a guard rail around the driver so if the passenger falls he won't fall on the driver, then as soon as that door closes start rolling. Sure, the driver can use some common sense about the situation, but get rid of the all-or-nothing rule. Cameras (with monitors for the driver) are so cheap now that they absolutely should be inside and outside the bus anywhere it enhances safety. Also, as big as buses are, it wouldn't hurt to put a big pillow on the front to bounce suicidal pedestrians off of. Same with trains. Nothing holds up a bus or train like hitting a pedestrian.
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Some weeds grow faster as well, which might lead to more herbicides. Also, poison ivy grows better with increased CO2, which in my book is a bad thing.
Seems like a decent suggestion, though I'm already pretty sick of car GPSs making me push an acknowledge button (to the danger of being distracted) every time I start the car before I can see directions, regardless of whether I'm driving or not. Perhaps the phone could sense where in the car it's located with NFC or something involving a transmitter in/near the steering wheel.
Excellent. I see more people driving erratically while yapping, holding their phone flat up in front of the steering wheel, than texting. Cycling—yes, more people are fiddling with cell phones and computers mounted on handlebars. But still not very many. I don't think there'll ever be much of that with mountain bikers. Darwin tends to take care of that.
A large part of the problem is diverting attention from driving, which applies to yapping on the phone, fiddling with the stereo, eating, reading, swilling coffee, and quite a few other things some drivers do. But I've noticed that most of the horrible incidents in my corner of the world (yeah, no scientific data here) have accompanied looking down and texting or looking down at the stereo, etc. So at the expense of increasing texting, at least all of these diversions could use displays routed to the windscreen and buttons on the steering wheel. Perhaps sensors could blank the display when obstacles appear nearby or closing speed becomes important. People are apparently NOT going to stop messing with other things while driving.
Saw this sig the other day, think it applies in this case: Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
Would you like your drones in paper or plastic?
Such policies are another good reason for having a marketplace independent of vendors through which people can search and buy whatever.
"The price of this short-term public benefit may well be the future vitality of American culture."
Sometimes people say "black is white". But that doesn't mean there's any merit to such a claim. The only reason I can see for that quote to be mentioned is to provide a target for ridicule.
There exists sewage analysis for drug use identification. What the best resolution is, I don't know (neighborhood, block, building, etc).
"...loss of..."?
Hard to say that. When did Hoover become chief? His name's still on the HQ building. That alone tends to support "never had".
Why did Hawking decide it's OK to send tracer bullets to Alpha Centauri so A-C's ETs can locate us? Because they can already observe our electronic emissions anyhow?
...one of the microcraft cruising through the Solar system originating from other worlds. They could be all around us before we'd notice.
Once it's zooming along at .2c, it won't have much time to observe anything. Unless the plan includes deceleration, which adds quite a bit of time to the trip. Also, we'll need to be prepared for the severely red-shifted signal coming home from it. If it's not going to tell us what it found, we might as well just throw rocks, which would probably make ET mad.
Right. There's no way Brennan could control what happens in the future. What he COULD do that would help is to install some sort of monitoring/reporting apparatus and make sure its tentacles reach throughout. If given a little time to take root, it would likewise take a bit of time to eradicate.
Only given you don't send Harper over here.
OK, how about "if x wins, I'd welcome a Canadian invasion and coup d'etat"?
...to go away. It would be worth a lot more than that to get them out of the picture.
It's taken a number of decades, but wow, talk about a car company losing its way. So... do you have to use your phone to lock the doors once you're inside the car? Turn on the headlights? Apply the parking brake? Blow the horn? Can we think of any better way to make a single point of failure than to tie everything to a cell phone? I expect to see some event related to this appearing in the Weird News.
It's also the same players doing the sweatshopping that are pushing the coding. Both are designed to lower their costs.
So true about the coal-powered electric plants. However, utility-scale electric transmission is a "standard interface" that can allow both consumption and production to be moved to efficient and clean alternatives asynchronously and simultaneously. So with electric cars around, it would be far easier to move both fixed and mobile consumption to renewables than it would be otherwise.
It's not just the maxima. I have a one-letter (like x@yyy.zzz) email address that quite a few sites refuse to accept just because it's only one letter long.
Funny you don't hear about indictments for Chinese crackers.
Seems to me that partially successful stuff is doing us a favor (aside from taking out Goldman Sachs) in that losses are relatively low and it encourages hardening. Plus it makes it easy to monitor what they're up to and what their capabilities are. The scariest hacks are the ones from unknown sources using unknown exploits kept secret until an opportune moment.
Now you understand why they're not doing well.
Once upon a time macros were quick, dirty, and useful. They didn't have or need access to anything outside the application. Then MS switched it all to VB crud and they were no longer quick and dirty, and hence rarely useful. Surely someone uses them for good, but I haven't met them.
...benefits for most of those suggestions, and doors-always-open with people falling off is pretty unlikely. But having the bus wait while someone's in the door but standing in the front is ridiculous. Put a guard rail around the driver so if the passenger falls he won't fall on the driver, then as soon as that door closes start rolling. Sure, the driver can use some common sense about the situation, but get rid of the all-or-nothing rule. Cameras (with monitors for the driver) are so cheap now that they absolutely should be inside and outside the bus anywhere it enhances safety. Also, as big as buses are, it wouldn't hurt to put a big pillow on the front to bounce suicidal pedestrians off of. Same with trains. Nothing holds up a bus or train like hitting a pedestrian.
"...believe" it violates Net Neutrality is about like "believing" in global warming. It's a fact. Denying facts only says something about the denier.