i agree, this is better than the 'mere humans should not be allowed to drive' attitude that proponents of government regulation are pushing.
a simpler system would be to just put an electric motor in the car and be done with it, failing that there are already cars around that switch off while standing still.
Some of these people pushing for more government control and regulation are trying to basically put DRM into the car - trying to make your own property that you paid thousands for obey the government instead of you.
*Mandatory GPS speed limiters
*Mandatory driverless cars
*Pervasive ANPR systems
*GPS/tag based road charging
*Banning of motorcycles
All this shit is bad news and its all thought up by people who prefer their life to be boring and clinical. Sure if these people had their way things would be safer, maybe there would even be a tiny bit less pollution but fuck it, would life even be worth living with those guys controlling it?
but trying to fill in the missing part of the conversation from scratch. I couldn't give two shits about what he is going to say next, except when I'm on a train and someone answers a call the next thing they invariably say is "I'm on the twain!@!!"
Except you can still use the cows for meat/dairy while using their shit to produce electricity.
and the shit can still be spread onto a field after it has been depleted of methane. so really you are not dedicating 390 square miles to running a bunch of servers
I assume online retailers will continue to sell the phones unlocked. I will never again buy another phone which tells me what network I can use it on despite it's technical ability to connect to other networks. I wish the practice of locking phones would be banned in every country. It works out much cheaper for me since I can get SIM-only contracts or if I get sick of those go back to prepaid which is only marginally more expensive.
Phone service in the USA sucks, I get 250mb data and 50 minutes for 15 eur a month and if I'm close enough to a decent Node B I can use the 250MB to make calls using the pre-installed Nokia SIP client which would likely have been removed if I had bought the phone through a network.
What will Slashdot do without the steady stream of news about how the UK is becoming more of a surveillance state? There will hardly be anything here anymore.
I'll be going back to hang out with the overzealous teenage ubuntu fanboys and militant atheists on Digg
For the price of an iPad you could just buy a laptop, with a bigger screen, an actual keyboard, a decent non-restricted OS and maybe even an optical drive.
Really? I come to slashdot to read about how Google is taking yet another piece of technology we have taken for granted for many years and turning it into an online, ad-based Clout 2.0 service and tunneling it through HTTP with JSON and SOAP to their servers for a nice intense data-mining session for better targeted ads and predicting future crimes one might commit.
Nobody uses Google Chrome OS. Storing your document in 'the cloud' is silly. Even if they pretend to take privacy and openness seriously for now you know that once they get more leverage they won't. Also governments love being able to get at any document in existence without the owner even knowing about it
I don't think the FBI actually goes through the 'proper' channel of actually adding you on facebook so much as they simply download your entire profile and a log of all your recent activity straight from facebook's servers.
of course this has all been nicely set up for the FBI possibly by Mark Suckerberg himself and I'm sure he got one of his many bitches to write up a nice.pdf file for the FBI that includes the cost per profile - it just hasn't appeared on Wikileaks yet because FB is still a 'likeable' site after what it has supposedly done for improving democracy in certain third-world countries
in a Democracy, issues are decided by a small group who (ostensibly) represent the people. In a Democratic Republic, the "small group" is decided on democratically (by a general vote).
In a representative democracy that is what happens, but not in a direct democracy.
This whole 'carbon footprint' and 'green' malarky is just a way to make us feel bad about pretty much anything we do even though we might be able to afford it and so the eventual aim seems to be to usher in an authoritarian regime where everybody is given the absolute minimum necessary to survive.
These doomsday environmentalists are not helping the situation one bit - I am actually interested in renewable energy, electric cars and so on but each time one of these guys opens their mouth I feel like jumping into the car and pouring 70 litres of petrol into the tank while I'm still allowed, you know.
Before we are all thrown into a supermassive apartment block and given only rice crackers and water to live off. If we are lucky they might allow us a single CFL in our cell and the very obedient are allowed a recycled netbook with Google Chrome OS or similar Web-only OS.
Meanwhile the politicians and scientists behind this regime will obviously be livin' the good live on some island with all the fuel and personal freedom they could possibly ever think of asking for.
Facebook is the anti-social network, most people on there refuse to talk to people they don't know (although a lot will accept a random ad to appear more popular).
People might be meeting up for casual sex online more than before, but I severely doubt it's through facebook
To be honest I'd rather ride a freaking bicycle than this boring enclosed driverless segway. Future tech used to be cool, fast and just plain kick ass. But now its just suck ass, partly due to the whole global warming doomsday environmentalist 'green' 'anything you do is a sin' mentality & paranoid obsession with safety that has been going around.
There should be less of this type of slow driverless segway and more Tesla Roadster, Wrightspeed X1 or even a practical 4 seater without worthless gimmicks like integrated twitter and facebook. There is no reason at all why electric cars should be slow, ugly and boring or even as impractical as this thing is.
Basically where is my flying car and get off my lawn.
I know they had them at Eircell (since assimilated into vodafone) in 2000 or possibly even 1999 but had to get rid of them because employees who had their bill paid by the companies were using them too much.
To know a computer from the ground up, as it were. Its not some long lost dream or anything, after all your average disposable Crapple Netbook with "clout computing" or Octocore Core i13 and a half is just a fancy C64 with more CPU instructions, more memory, more peripherals that runs faster.
Its just that unless you start off at the low level, learning about transistors and that sort of shizzle and learning assembly language you probably will never bother to learn it. A lot of programmers now think about functions, objects and arrays as if they actually exists - not just a convenient way of presenting blocks of code and data in a way that makes it easy for you to understand. Fuck it, a lot of people fairly high up on the IT scene have no clue in the wide world about TCP or UDP but they sure as hell know how to write a 'Web App' using JSON and the latest Web 2.5 gimmick completely oblivious to any of the lower levels.
The problem is when you have nearly everyone going for the latest abstraction layer, easy low hanging fruits (at the expense of efficiency and everything else - rabble rabble rabble) high level stuff there might be a day 2110 when they're still using HTTP + more abstraction layers but quantum computers aren't getting any faster for what they need and nobody knows knows any of the low-level stuff anymore. If you are the one kid on the block who knows how to write assembly in 2110 you'll be a rich man by 2111, just in time for the end of the world cause the Mayans were off by 100 years.
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Nowhere yet, but thats not to say there's nobody trying
i agree, this is better than the 'mere humans should not be allowed to drive' attitude that proponents of government regulation are pushing.
a simpler system would be to just put an electric motor in the car and be done with it, failing that there are already cars around that switch off while standing still.
Some of these people pushing for more government control and regulation are trying to basically put DRM into the car - trying to make your own property that you paid thousands for obey the government instead of you.
*Mandatory GPS speed limiters
*Mandatory driverless cars
*Pervasive ANPR systems
*GPS/tag based road charging
*Banning of motorcycles
All this shit is bad news and its all thought up by people who prefer their life to be boring and clinical. Sure if these people had their way things would be safer, maybe there would even be a tiny bit less pollution but fuck it, would life even be worth living with those guys controlling it?
but trying to fill in the missing part of the conversation from scratch. I couldn't give two shits about what he is going to say next, except when I'm on a train and someone answers a call the next thing they invariably say is "I'm on the twain!@!!"
*orders parts for GSM/3G jammer*
Except you can still use the cows for meat/dairy while using their shit to produce electricity.
and the shit can still be spread onto a field after it has been depleted of methane. so really you are not dedicating 390 square miles to running a bunch of servers
I assume online retailers will continue to sell the phones unlocked. I will never again buy another phone which tells me what network I can use it on despite it's technical ability to connect to other networks. I wish the practice of locking phones would be banned in every country. It works out much cheaper for me since I can get SIM-only contracts or if I get sick of those go back to prepaid which is only marginally more expensive.
Phone service in the USA sucks, I get 250mb data and 50 minutes for 15 eur a month and if I'm close enough to a decent Node B I can use the 250MB to make calls using the pre-installed Nokia SIP client which would likely have been removed if I had bought the phone through a network.
Or just get one of the few modern cars still left that doesn't come with all these unnecessary automated sales gimmicks like the Ariel Atom
What will Slashdot do without the steady stream of news about how the UK is becoming more of a surveillance state? There will hardly be anything here anymore.
I'll be going back to hang out with the overzealous teenage ubuntu fanboys and militant atheists on Digg
Since I use Linux and I'm not hardcore enough to go CLI-only I'd support any guy who can prevent the death of X
LEG-based servers by 2012!
For the price of an iPad you could just buy a laptop, with a bigger screen, an actual keyboard, a decent non-restricted OS and maybe even an optical drive.
Really? I come to slashdot to read about how Google is taking yet another piece of technology we have taken for granted for many years and turning it into an online, ad-based Clout 2.0 service and tunneling it through HTTP with JSON and SOAP to their servers for a nice intense data-mining session for better targeted ads and predicting future crimes one might commit.
Nobody uses Google Chrome OS. Storing your document in 'the cloud' is silly. Even if they pretend to take privacy and openness seriously for now you know that once they get more leverage they won't. Also governments love being able to get at any document in existence without the owner even knowing about it
I don't think the FBI actually goes through the 'proper' channel of actually adding you on facebook so much as they simply download your entire profile and a log of all your recent activity straight from facebook's servers.
.pdf file for the FBI that includes the cost per profile - it just hasn't appeared on Wikileaks yet because FB is still a 'likeable' site after what it has supposedly done for improving democracy in certain third-world countries
of course this has all been nicely set up for the FBI possibly by Mark Suckerberg himself and I'm sure he got one of his many bitches to write up a nice
in a Democracy, issues are decided by a small group who (ostensibly) represent the people. In a Democratic Republic, the "small group" is decided on democratically (by a general vote).
In a representative democracy that is what happens, but not in a direct democracy.
This whole 'carbon footprint' and 'green' malarky is just a way to make us feel bad about pretty much anything we do even though we might be able to afford it and so the eventual aim seems to be to usher in an authoritarian regime where everybody is given the absolute minimum necessary to survive.
These doomsday environmentalists are not helping the situation one bit - I am actually interested in renewable energy, electric cars and so on but each time one of these guys opens their mouth I feel like jumping into the car and pouring 70 litres of petrol into the tank while I'm still allowed, you know.
Before we are all thrown into a supermassive apartment block and given only rice crackers and water to live off. If we are lucky they might allow us a single CFL in our cell and the very obedient are allowed a recycled netbook with Google Chrome OS or similar Web-only OS.
Meanwhile the politicians and scientists behind this regime will obviously be livin' the good live on some island with all the fuel and personal freedom they could possibly ever think of asking for.
Facebook is the anti-social network, most people on there refuse to talk to people they don't know (although a lot will accept a random ad to appear more popular).
People might be meeting up for casual sex online more than before, but I severely doubt it's through facebook
To be honest I'd rather ride a freaking bicycle than this boring enclosed driverless segway. Future tech used to be cool, fast and just plain kick ass. But now its just suck ass, partly due to the whole global warming doomsday environmentalist 'green' 'anything you do is a sin' mentality & paranoid obsession with safety that has been going around.
There should be less of this type of slow driverless segway and more Tesla Roadster, Wrightspeed X1 or even a practical 4 seater without worthless gimmicks like integrated twitter and facebook. There is no reason at all why electric cars should be slow, ugly and boring or even as impractical as this thing is. Basically where is my flying car and get off my lawn.
I know they had them at Eircell (since assimilated into vodafone) in 2000 or possibly even 1999 but had to get rid of them because employees who had their bill paid by the companies were using them too much.
A 25 dolla hooker :D
Great. 3D ads, even more annoying than the flash-based ones
Philips A60 Master LED is dimmable. Might be 230v only though
3 years is nothing for a flashlight. but a 3 year old fleshlight would be a different story :)
this has been done to death
*Its still more efficient than burning fuel directly
*Solar, wind all that shit are getting much more common, and reduce the amount that comes from coal
*You can use your own solar panels/turbine to generate 100% coal/oil-free electricity
*Other stuff I forgot goes here
thats far too orwellian. what else do you want? some DRM that can make the car refuse to drive until a fine is paid? mandatory GPS speed limiter?
To know a computer from the ground up, as it were. Its not some long lost dream or anything, after all your average disposable Crapple Netbook with "clout computing" or Octocore Core i13 and a half is just a fancy C64 with more CPU instructions, more memory, more peripherals that runs faster.
Its just that unless you start off at the low level, learning about transistors and that sort of shizzle and learning assembly language you probably will never bother to learn it. A lot of programmers now think about functions, objects and arrays as if they actually exists - not just a convenient way of presenting blocks of code and data in a way that makes it easy for you to understand. Fuck it, a lot of people fairly high up on the IT scene have no clue in the wide world about TCP or UDP but they sure as hell know how to write a 'Web App' using JSON and the latest Web 2.5 gimmick completely oblivious to any of the lower levels.
The problem is when you have nearly everyone going for the latest abstraction layer, easy low hanging fruits (at the expense of efficiency and everything else - rabble rabble rabble) high level stuff there might be a day 2110 when they're still using HTTP + more abstraction layers but quantum computers aren't getting any faster for what they need and nobody knows knows any of the low-level stuff anymore. If you are the one kid on the block who knows how to write assembly in 2110 you'll be a rich man by 2111, just in time for the end of the world cause the Mayans were off by 100 years.