How would it deserve keeping its present government contacts (while putting them to no use, let alone snitching whistleblowers to them!) and readers by holding back The News?!
"Deserve"? What has that got to do with anything? Do you assume business practice is moderated by some kind of moral clockwork that encourages High Morality and discourages the Low? As we all know, business is far from that. You sell the people what they want to read. That may not be The Highest and Best Use of newsprint, but it will sell papers. Printing what they don't want to read puts you out of business. The course of action becomes relatively clear.
Why does everything have to have a technological fix like an electronic device to track and send in odometer readings? What's the real problem with requiring customers to send in odometer readings at policy renewal time?
Odos get broken. Mine hasn't turned in years. Accuracy isn't all that great on the ones that do work. Change tires, change wheels, redo your transmission or rear end, and the odo (and speedometer) is off. Are you going to count on people to keep them calibrated when it is in their interest for them to be off?
If anything, the companies should give people price break for more miles driven with no claims. They have demonstrated they can travel long distances safely.
I can't believe many people will violate federal law to commit fraud by unhooking their odometers. This is already illegal, and somehow the leasing companies are willing to trust the odometer readings, and there is a substantial financial penalty for exceeding lease mileage limits thus creating a large incentive for fraud. And if someone does lie about their odometer reading and has an accident, the insurance adjuster can report the milage to the company so they can verify the mileage.
It is illegal to *tamper* with the odometer, by trying to back it down or roll far ahead to make it look like a lower milage. The law doesn't say you have to have one working perfectly at all times. In the old days, they had red tamper flags that would pop up if someone broke the odometer seals. Modern cars have electronic readouts, so tampering would be some kind of memory hack.
Drivers that drive infrequently are probably not a lower risk. At least not a lower risk in terms damage done per miles driven. If anything they are probably a Greater risk, since they get less practice behind the wheel. However, since they don't drive much, they will have fewer potential incidents of damage compared to people that drive many miles and encounter much more traffic and potential obstacles.
The only risk being managed here is the pocketbook of the insurance company. The infrequent drivers are only a lower risk from the point of view of the threat of having to pay out. But that would be true for all of us. If no one drove, auto insurance would rarely have to pay for anything, and all those premiums would be pure profit.
They don't have to take a Hohmann trajectory. That is the least energy path, but not the only path. If we spent the money on better propulsion and more fuel, they'd get their sooner.
That is actually a great idea. A reasonable submersible, or some kind of isolation in the Arctic or Antarctic in the winter would focus their minds nicely on Staying Alive. You don't want to kill them, but you do want to keep aware of the consequences of screwing up.
But an actual, honest-to-god Mars trip is different, and everybody will know it. Just outside the cramped wall is the darkest, blackest, most incomprehensibly complete void mankind can fathom. No air, no beer, no babes. Nothing.
So you're saying that if they screw this up, they get kicked up to management?
My Amiga 1000, complete with Sidecar, 512K RAM, and 68881 co-processor, purchased on recommendation from both Compute! and Byte magazines in 1986, sits comfortably in the closet. I wouldn't dare disturb its slumber to show it the word it tried to lead us away from.
I know technology never really stops, but the salesdroids/scammers will milk this mercilessly to generate sales. You only have 1.3 devices on each end, but if you don't have some flavor of 1.4 cable, it'll never work. And only $10 per foot. Scumsuckers preying on the ignorant.
Macs use commercial hardware like everyone else does. They aren't so customized in every detail that they are in all ways incompatible. That was one of the reasons for coming to x86 and the PCI motherboard. Better support options.
As long as the hardware has been vetted for Mac, it doesn't have come from Mac.
In my quick perusal of the local Vehicle Code, I see there are about 4 - 6 different kinds of speeding violations. One of them is "driving too fast for conditions", which seems to be the only one people are concerned with as a practical matter. But there are others, like driving faster than the posted speed, faster than the state maximum, faster than the max for your kind of vehicle, faster than max for the kind of road you are on, etc.
It is amazingly difficult to get.11a stuff through typical commercial sources (i.e. walk into Best Buy, Fry's, etc). I've found a few routers a with "dual band" capability. But very few NICs/dongles that work in that band. I finally got one that was used, stripped out of an old laptop, through eBay. Netgear has an 11a USB dongle, but it really doesn't work worth a crap.
Almost all the 11n stuff I've seen is really just repackaged 11g band equipment. New protocols, but the same 2.4GHz frequencies.
Reminds me of my local Fox News station that carried an official statement from the government about how people shouldn't panic. Then immediately followed it with a report of the number of cases around the country, then an interview with one of the victims saying how awful it was to vomit for hours on end. And then all the places and all the ways you can catch the flu, and what you should do if you do.
This one seems to have been prepared in response to the avian flu hysteria of a few years ago. But the basic tips on how to prepare and protect yourself and your friends and family are the same.
If you do nothing else, *Wash Your Hands!* thanks!
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How would it deserve keeping its present government contacts (while putting them to no use, let alone snitching whistleblowers to them!) and readers by holding back The News?!
"Deserve"? What has that got to do with anything? Do you assume business practice is moderated by some kind of moral clockwork that encourages High Morality and discourages the Low? As we all know, business is far from that. You sell the people what they want to read. That may not be The Highest and Best Use of newsprint, but it will sell papers. Printing what they don't want to read puts you out of business. The course of action becomes relatively clear.
Why does everything have to have a technological fix like an electronic device to track and send in odometer readings? What's the real problem with requiring customers to send in odometer readings at policy renewal time?
Odos get broken. Mine hasn't turned in years. Accuracy isn't all that great on the ones that do work. Change tires, change wheels, redo your transmission or rear end, and the odo (and speedometer) is off. Are you going to count on people to keep them calibrated when it is in their interest for them to be off?
If anything, the companies should give people price break for more miles driven with no claims. They have demonstrated they can travel long distances safely.
I can't believe many people will violate federal law to commit fraud by unhooking their odometers. This is already illegal, and somehow the leasing companies are willing to trust the odometer readings, and there is a substantial financial penalty for exceeding lease mileage limits thus creating a large incentive for fraud. And if someone does lie about their odometer reading and has an accident, the insurance adjuster can report the milage to the company so they can verify the mileage.
It is illegal to *tamper* with the odometer, by trying to back it down or roll far ahead to make it look like a lower milage. The law doesn't say you have to have one working perfectly at all times. In the old days, they had red tamper flags that would pop up if someone broke the odometer seals. Modern cars have electronic readouts, so tampering would be some kind of memory hack.
That's how the Marauder's Map does it in Harry Potter, and you see how well it worked for him.
Drivers that drive infrequently are probably not a lower risk. At least not a lower risk in terms damage done per miles driven. If anything they are probably a Greater risk, since they get less practice behind the wheel. However, since they don't drive much, they will have fewer potential incidents of damage compared to people that drive many miles and encounter much more traffic and potential obstacles.
The only risk being managed here is the pocketbook of the insurance company. The infrequent drivers are only a lower risk from the point of view of the threat of having to pay out. But that would be true for all of us. If no one drove, auto insurance would rarely have to pay for anything, and all those premiums would be pure profit.
Offer and clear terms, acceptance and proof of performance. Seems like payment is next in order.
They don't have to take a Hohmann trajectory. That is the least energy path, but not the only path. If we spent the money on better propulsion and more fuel, they'd get their sooner.
That is actually a great idea. A reasonable submersible, or some kind of isolation in the Arctic or Antarctic in the winter would focus their minds nicely on Staying Alive. You don't want to kill them, but you do want to keep aware of the consequences of screwing up.
But an actual, honest-to-god Mars trip is different, and everybody will know it. Just outside the cramped wall is the darkest, blackest, most incomprehensibly complete void mankind can fathom. No air, no beer, no babes. Nothing.
So you're saying that if they screw this up, they get kicked up to management?
A2000? Latecomers...
My Amiga 1000, complete with Sidecar, 512K RAM, and 68881 co-processor, purchased on recommendation from both Compute! and Byte magazines in 1986, sits comfortably in the closet. I wouldn't dare disturb its slumber to show it the word it tried to lead us away from.
The Science nerds, P.E. jocks, and the Marketing schmoozers
It could be worse. It could be Xenu porn.
OBSOLETE
Thanks for coming out.
100Mb/s bandwidth for a 40Mb/s signal. What is the problem?
I know technology never really stops, but the salesdroids/scammers will milk this mercilessly to generate sales. You only have 1.3 devices on each end, but if you don't have some flavor of 1.4 cable, it'll never work. And only $10 per foot. Scumsuckers preying on the ignorant.
Considering how well the big brains in management have handled the rest of the economy, I think I'll take Option C.
Depends on how unsupported it is.
Macs use commercial hardware like everyone else does. They aren't so customized in every detail that they are in all ways incompatible. That was one of the reasons for coming to x86 and the PCI motherboard. Better support options.
As long as the hardware has been vetted for Mac, it doesn't have come from Mac.
...fellatio uber alles...
WTF???
(and since this is Slashdot, I better get my tinfoil hat and scream "BAD BAD BAD!" now)
Hey, MY tinfoil hat is stylish as anything in GQ. The sparkly highlights are a good complement to my blinkie tie tack and nose stud.
In my quick perusal of the local Vehicle Code, I see there are about 4 - 6 different kinds of speeding violations. One of them is "driving too fast for conditions", which seems to be the only one people are concerned with as a practical matter. But there are others, like driving faster than the posted speed, faster than the state maximum, faster than the max for your kind of vehicle, faster than max for the kind of road you are on, etc.
How long before MS patchfixes this? They don't need more reasons for people to hate them, drive down sales, or drive developers to other OSs.
It is amazingly difficult to get .11a stuff through typical commercial sources (i.e. walk into Best Buy, Fry's, etc). I've found a few routers a with "dual band" capability. But very few NICs/dongles that work in that band. I finally got one that was used, stripped out of an old laptop, through eBay. Netgear has an 11a USB dongle, but it really doesn't work worth a crap.
Almost all the 11n stuff I've seen is really just repackaged 11g band equipment. New protocols, but the same 2.4GHz frequencies.
I saw that movie (Children of Men). All I can say is, stay out of coffee shops!
Uhh, we're already there...
fake Food (McD's et alia),
fake Friends (moved any sofas (or bodies) lately?),
fake Purpose in Life (ever seen a Hollywood tabloid?)
Blow Up Doll technology FTW!!
Reminds me of my local Fox News station that carried an official statement from the government about how people shouldn't panic. Then immediately followed it with a report of the number of cases around the country, then an interview with one of the victims saying how awful it was to vomit for hours on end. And then all the places and all the ways you can catch the flu, and what you should do if you do.
Fair and balanced once again.
"Now drop and give me 0x20!"
Shouldn't that be 0x14 ?
Which just goes to show you, life is always easier in hex!
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/PLAN/PDF/GUIDE.PDF
This one seems to have been prepared in response to the avian flu hysteria of a few years ago. But the basic tips on how to prepare and protect yourself and your friends and family are the same.
If you do nothing else, *Wash Your Hands!* thanks!