you want to improve safe driving ? forget about the 'speed', how about people just keep a 'safe following distance' ?
Yep.
German Autobahns have no speed limit but there's plenty of police cars on them. They'll come down on you like a ton of bricks if you tailgate, fail to indicate when changing lanes, flash lights at somebody to let you past... or any other asshole driving behavior.
Autobahns are among the safest roads in the world.
(I've been driven at 150mph (250kph) in a German taxi...)
Hell, it's not the US border, but David Miranda was forced to give his facebook and google user names/passwords, or go to jail.
I don't know my facebook password. It's something like "ZUHIdf6shUBzbydk4Sf" but I couldn't say for sure. I always copy/paste it from a text file when I log in.
(No, I'm not joking)
I don't plan on visiting the USA any more. Last time I went was in the '90s and even then they took *everything* out of all my luggage and went through every little scrap of paper in my wallet. Not just me, either, everybody else was getting the same treatment.
Trillions for wars/spying on the public. Billions for waging a "war on drugs" and the militarization of police forces. $16 million for energy research, something that would fix the economy and kick-start all sorts of amazing technologies.
If they have backdoors into the OS (or can get a virus onto your machine) then automatically sniffing the password for known pieces of software is easy - you know where it's stored, which.dll files to hook into, etc.
It would be much harder to automatically sniff the password for something I cobbled together with a batch file. Yes, it's "security by obscurity" but even that has *some* value.
having 'flunked' a lie detector test many years ago for a stupid shit job at radio shack, where i was 100% truthful
You're missing the point. Sales people are supposed to lie constantly. That's the real reason you were fired - not being able to come up with convincing lies in real time.
In other news, NASA scientists announced confusion after attempting to crash a helicopter and failing despite repeated tries.
You joke...but this is the sort of thing that never gets funding.
Adam savage tells a tale of how a guy called him after they did the firing bullets inside aircraft episode. He said they'd been trying to get funding to do that experiment for decades.
It also took discovery channel to crash a 'plane and see what happens. There's no way a government could do this...right? (somebody might lose their campaign funding if the results made Boeing look bad!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experiment
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Why not 'candybar', or whatever non-commercial name? Seems like a silly choice.
Because that doesn't begin with a 'k'.
(and 'kandi' sounds like the name of a pornographic actress)
The real problem is that nobody's allowed to make big batteries for use in cars because the oil companies bought up all the patents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_automotive_NiMH_batteries#Chevron_and_Cobasys
This is the reason they have to use 8000 tiny little flashlight batteries in cars instead of a few dozen big ones.
Neil deGrasse Tyson says only the government can do Space.
What about all the Helium 3 on the moon? That could be very profitable.
Electricity can't exactly be put in a warehouse.
Sure it can.
(you can pump water uphill, etc., during the periods of low demand...)
Yuh huh, and with that loss of ticket revenue, every small town along the interstate would go bankrupt.
Maybe the police could buy less tanks, drones and other military hardware. That stuff's expensive.
you want to improve safe driving ?
forget about the 'speed', how about people just keep a 'safe following distance' ?
Yep.
German Autobahns have no speed limit but there's plenty of police cars on them. They'll come down on you like a ton of bricks if you tailgate, fail to indicate when changing lanes, flash lights at somebody to let you past ... or any other asshole driving behavior.
Autobahns are among the safest roads in the world.
(I've been driven at 150mph (250kph) in a German taxi...)
Hell, it's not the US border, but David Miranda was forced to give his facebook and google user names/passwords, or go to jail.
I don't know my facebook password. It's something like "ZUHIdf6shUBzbydk4Sf" but I couldn't say for sure. I always copy/paste it from a text file when I log in.
(No, I'm not joking)
I don't plan on visiting the USA any more. Last time I went was in the '90s and even then they took *everything* out of all my luggage and went through every little scrap of paper in my wallet. Not just me, either, everybody else was getting the same treatment.
where GP is getting a $200 laptop is the bigger mystery.
Pawn shop? eBay?
I can think of half a dozen places I could buy a beat up laptop for less than $200.
Actually I don't see how the Moon can move away. That would require the Moon acquiring energy in the process,
Um, the moon is moving away from the Earth, at a rate of 3.8cm per year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_distance_(astronomy)
Reason why: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12311119
PS: The Earth's rotation is also slowing down...(!)
Doesn't seem like a lot of money for tidal power.
Trillions for wars/spying on the public. Billions for waging a "war on drugs" and the militarization of police forces. $16 million for energy research, something that would fix the economy and kick-start all sorts of amazing technologies.
If they have backdoors into the OS (or can get a virus onto your machine) then automatically sniffing the password for known pieces of software is easy - you know where it's stored, which .dll files to hook into, etc.
It would be much harder to automatically sniff the password for something I cobbled together with a batch file. Yes, it's "security by obscurity" but even that has *some* value.
Uh - US ability to intercept is not restricted to cabled telephony and relays.
No, but it helps.
Tepco needs to be taken out of the equation. Now.
(Though they can still pay the cleanup bill...)
NSA rootkit in your OS capturing your key. For the truly ultra-paranoid conspiracy theorists of you.
Yes, but what's the advantage of this new one? Surely the NSA will target it specifically, where I could be using any type of command-line encryptor.
Idiot.
McDonalds sold coffee at the temperature that their research indicated the customers wanted/expected. That's how "running a business" works.
What's to stop me encrypting my files then putting them on normal dropbox?
having 'flunked' a lie detector test many years ago for a stupid shit job at radio shack, where i was 100% truthful
You're missing the point. Sales people are supposed to lie constantly. That's the real reason you were fired - not being able to come up with convincing lies in real time.
I can't think of anything we are doing today that beats the stupidity level of executing people for witchcraft.
There's still plenty of countries where people are executed for witchcraft on a daily basis.
(eg. Nigeria, where it's done In the name of Christian religion...)
To me it seems he's being charged with heresy. The fist such charge in over 200 years.
Nope. This is a follow-up to the previous one (now they want to imprison him).
Second: Bombs that unleash pieces of metal are usually used for specific targets not large populations.
Dresden? Tokyo?
That's what the things we call "averages" are for.
A "Golden Gate Barrage" doesn't sound cheap to me.
Then again... the taxpayer's going to pay for it so they don't care. Keep that petroleum pumping, guys!
In other news, NASA scientists announced confusion after attempting to crash a helicopter and failing despite repeated tries.
You joke...but this is the sort of thing that never gets funding.
Adam savage tells a tale of how a guy called him after they did the firing bullets inside aircraft episode. He said they'd been trying to get funding to do that experiment for decades.
It also took discovery channel to crash a 'plane and see what happens. There's no way a government could do this...right? (somebody might lose their campaign funding if the results made Boeing look bad!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experiment
Do womannequins produce sootikins...?