Whilst there may be some people who can somehow do something that humans can't particularly do well - concentrate on two things at once, the point is that most people can't concentrate on two things at once. Most of the time whilst cruising a motorway, this wouldn't matter, but in the hustle and bustle of city roads, phone use is dangerous for some if not most people, and you can't legislate for a subset of people arbitrarily.
No, the compensation doesn't work, reaction times are irrelevant if you just don't see everything that you should, I've watched a phone user drive straight through a red light without slowing.
You want a comparison, compare cell phone use with micro-naps because some people just zone out and lose concentration.
The other day I watched a person cross one side of the road, a car was hurtling down the other side, they just walked straight in front of the car, luckily the driver anticipated. This person was walking, you can't get much slower than that.
Watch the Mythbusters clips, mobile phone use IS more dangerous than drink driving, the people who delude themselves about this are the people who will kill themselves and other innocent victims.
Because less Adverts shown = less money for google.
Someonr needs to write a plugin that stops auto-redirects based on a site blacklist, I hate when I watch a video and then want to read the comments and find the page redirecting to some other video.
Quote: "Edward Snowden's leak of NSA secrets was an epic example of the insider threat to information security, while his revalations convinced many that the entire Internet is thoroughly and epicly owned!"
Nicely put.
As for Nmaps Most Epic FAIL, anyone understand that?
Oh hell no, as a cyclist I know that drivers take enough risks with MY life even when they're in the car and I can confront the idiots 50 yards down the road at the lights.
How can police see if the driver is drunk, old enough, awake, not playing tetris etc.
No fucking way, I will **censored** if a remotely driven car comes anywhere near me.
Yep, I have a bad habit of going blabber mouth without reading summary properly (I don't read the article of course!),...and "but noted that the state court's ruling was based upon the text of the state's constitution, not that of the federal constitution." So this 5th Court can ignore the constitution? Doesn't sound right.
So if MS' s XBone records you and saves the data on its corporate servers, it 'clearly' becomes business data and the government can then spy on you without pesky lawsuits or constitutional hassles.
Judge is a twisting cunt and just shafted all Americans big time.
News sites should quit doing this, Russia is a land mass and can not ban anything, the asshats in the State Duma otoh might come up with crap like this.
'USA thinks it should invade North Korea'
See how that works, propagandist news style that is 99% lie.
Hate speech next, not what you'd consider to be hate speech, but what the gov't drones or worse, some company the hired to do the list, considers to be hate speech.
Don't like the way the Israeli's are treating the Palestinians? There's a good chance that many websites discussing Palestine will be flagged as anti-Semite and blocked (never mind that Palestinians are also Semites).
Won't happen? It's already happening, GiffGaff, a mobile phone + data service blocked sites (www.gilad.co.uk and wikipedia psilocybin desktop site!!!) and said I have to prove I'm 18 to access them. They say they have a legal requirement to do this?!?!
Hardware players can be revoked just by putting a newer disc in the player, the player updates its firmware from the disc and effectively commits suicide.
I'm glad not to have a Bluray drive or any bluray discs. Every disc and drive bought supports software patents many which are of course of dubious validity. And that money supports further draconian DRM and more bribes to the congresses of the world. Not to mention both drives and discs can be bricked by new discs, firmware updates, internet checks etc. Part of the reason I never bought into this junk is because you can never be sure the 'content protection path' is going to work with your hardware. It's just not worth it.
This is not an invention, it's simply doing something, there's nothing whatsoever clever about it.
An invention is supposed to be a non-obvious (to those in the relevant profession) way of getting something done. This clearly does not meet that criteria.
people already have gmail accounts and Google makes it painless
Gmail in browser on android: unusable, mobile version: all features stripped out, desktop version: doesn't work because the stupid compose email box insists on moving itself off-screen.
Android email app and gmail app: both suck bad, lacking in features and never f**king remember or offer email addresses which I have emailed 10 times already.
Gmail on android It is not 'painless' to use it is an awful nightmare to make emails with (Galaxy Note 2).
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'What we're in the process of doing â" not fast enough â" is reducing our system administrators by about 90 percent,'
Why risk keeping 10% of them, too dangerous, fire them all.
And yet some people still insist that having a phone conversation whilst driving is safe, even though people can't even walk and talk safely.
"The key is the ability to tune out the phone conversation as needed.",
Yeah, like whilst driving, for instance.
The summary is about Paypal being used at high street retailers, so cash and debit/credit cards are suitable.
Whilst there may be some people who can somehow do something that humans can't particularly do well - concentrate on two things at once, the point is that most people can't concentrate on two things at once. Most of the time whilst cruising a motorway, this wouldn't matter, but in the hustle and bustle of city roads, phone use is dangerous for some if not most people, and you can't legislate for a subset of people arbitrarily.
So paypal get their % cut and then the card company get their % cut. No thanks, this makes goods more expensive.
No, the compensation doesn't work, reaction times are irrelevant if you just don't see everything that you should, I've watched a phone user drive straight through a red light without slowing.
You want a comparison, compare cell phone use with micro-naps because some people just zone out and lose concentration.
The other day I watched a person cross one side of the road, a car was hurtling down the other side, they just walked straight in front of the car, luckily the driver anticipated. This person was walking, you can't get much slower than that.
Watch the Mythbusters clips, mobile phone use IS more dangerous than drink driving, the people who delude themselves about this are the people who will kill themselves and other innocent victims.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vFcIpzF7pc Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGN1pLI4ZaM Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8LuM92Twm8 Part 3
Because less Adverts shown = less money for google.
Someonr needs to write a plugin that stops auto-redirects based on a site blacklist, I hate when I watch a video and then want to read the comments and find the page redirecting to some other video.
Never mind the nmap bit, 1st-ish post covered it.
Quote:
"Edward Snowden's leak of NSA secrets was an epic example of the insider threat to information security, while his revalations convinced many that the entire Internet is thoroughly and epicly owned!"
Nicely put.
As for Nmaps Most Epic FAIL, anyone understand that?
Oh hell no, as a cyclist I know that drivers take enough risks with MY life even when they're in the car and I can confront the idiots 50 yards down the road at the lights.
How can police see if the driver is drunk, old enough, awake, not playing tetris etc.
No fucking way, I will **censored** if a remotely driven car comes anywhere near me.
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Mod parent down please
Yep, I have a bad habit of going blabber mouth without reading summary properly (I don't read the article of course!),. ..and "but noted that the state court's ruling was based upon the text of the state's constitution, not that of the federal constitution." So this 5th Court can ignore the constitution? Doesn't sound right.
So if MS' s XBone records you and saves the data on its corporate servers, it 'clearly' becomes business data and the government can then spy on you without pesky lawsuits or constitutional hassles.
Judge is a twisting cunt and just shafted all Americans big time.
They'll have to switch to low-alcohol Vodka mixed with decaffeinated diet red-bull.
The law is a load of COCK!
News sites should quit doing this, Russia is a land mass and can not ban anything, the asshats in the State Duma otoh might come up with crap like this.
'USA thinks it should invade North Korea'
See how that works, propagandist news style that is 99% lie.
Thinking about it, the waves travel like light and so should simply be visualised as another colour of light with many point sources.
Hate speech next, not what you'd consider to be hate speech, but what the gov't drones or worse, some company the hired to do the list, considers to be hate speech.
Don't like the way the Israeli's are treating the Palestinians? There's a good chance that many websites discussing Palestine will be flagged as anti-Semite and blocked (never mind that Palestinians are also Semites).
Won't happen? It's already happening, GiffGaff, a mobile phone + data service blocked sites (www.gilad.co.uk and wikipedia psilocybin desktop site!!!) and said I have to prove I'm 18 to access them. They say they have a legal requirement to do this?!?!
Keys for discs can be revoked if I'm reading the last line of this section correctly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Access_Content_System#Encryption
Software players get revoked from time to time as their keys get discovered.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bluray+player+revoked&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search
http://news.slashdot.org/story/07/04/07/1417253/first-aacs-blu-rayhd-dvd-key-revoked
Hardware players can be revoked just by putting a newer disc in the player, the player updates its firmware from the disc and effectively commits suicide.
??? no excuse, open those floodgates, if something was legalised then the govt f**ked up in the first place by making said thing illegal.
I'm glad not to have a Bluray drive or any bluray discs. Every disc and drive bought supports software patents many which are of course of dubious validity. And that money supports further draconian DRM and more bribes to the congresses of the world. Not to mention both drives and discs can be bricked by new discs, firmware updates, internet checks etc. Part of the reason I never bought into this junk is because you can never be sure the 'content protection path' is going to work with your hardware. It's just not worth it.
This is not an invention, it's simply doing something, there's nothing whatsoever clever about it.
An invention is supposed to be a non-obvious (to those in the relevant profession) way of getting something done. This clearly does not meet that criteria.
Post also applies to most other software patents.
Gmail in browser on android: unusable, mobile version: all features stripped out, desktop version: doesn't work because the stupid compose email box insists on moving itself off-screen.
Android email app and gmail app: both suck bad, lacking in features and never f**king remember or offer email addresses which I have emailed 10 times already.
Gmail on android It is not 'painless' to use it is an awful nightmare to make emails with (Galaxy Note 2).
They say they didn't know the president was on-board, I'm calling BS on that - why did they refuse the plane into their airspace? no explanation.
They are liars, the apology stinks.