These cameras have been around for over 10 years, and I assure you, are highly accurate.
I don't understand why they aren't used for catching regular speeding violations too. Catching someone with a radar gun doing 107kph in a 100kph zone is dumb. Catching someone moving between point a and point b in 5.5 minutes, where point a and point b are 10km apart, equating to an average speed of ~110kph is much smarter - there is no doubt that the car in question was traveling over the speed limit for a sustained period of time.
As someone else said, it is already quite easy to identify individual vehicles using fairly standard technology, so I don't see why this is news.
Joking aside, most people already are symmetrical, so it would definitely stand out for people who aren't.
I think most people are _mostly_ symmetrical, but not completely. My rib cage is noticeably (to me) bigger on one side than the other, and when I wear sunglasses, my eyelashes rub on the right lens while they don't on the left (I have quite long eyelashes - my daughters have inherited that trait from me and it looks great on them but not so much on me:)
If you're trying to address the world's female population right now then I am afraid that you have your soapbox parked in the wrong forum.
The are women on the internet! There are women on Slashdot! They just use manly nicknames, so we won't try to flirt with them all the time.
Are you saying that if you wanted to choose a forum which would get the maximum amount of exposure to the female audience, you'd chose Slashdot? I'd be going for something like facebook, or the mothers club site that i've become a widower to. Who'd have thought i'd be the one telling my wife to get off the computer and get some sleep:)
Doom? They should at least be running a flight simulator of some sort. That way they never have to ask "by the way, does anyone here know how to fly a plane?". They can just check the flight sim stats and tap the person with the best score on the shoulder...
My wife was always surprised when I could discover pretty quickly that she'd been tinkering with my cude. There is a certain symmetry that you just cant break with normal use.
It depends how the reselling is implemented. An ISP in Australia could be an AAPT, Optus, or Telstra reseller, which means the wholesaler manages just about everything and the reseller puts their logo on the service and (maybe) handles first line support, and possible does some value adding or something.
Alternatively, the ISP may buy bandwidth from their upstream wholesaler, and manage their own DSLAM's, authentication, etc.
As you say, too many unanswered questions to form an informed opinion. That doesn't seem to stop anyone around these parts though:)
Get crappier stuff nobody will steal, problem solved.
Or an extension to your solution - get crappier stuff, take the logos off it, and stick it on your stuff. Once your HP branded laptop has 'Apple' written all over it nobody will touch it.
Maybe he meant overall performance (read and write)? Or does an SSD have better write times than a mag disk these days (assuming an equivalently priced disk eg 15K)?
The thing I'll miss when mag drives are obsolete is being able to listen to the head movement pattern and being able to tell people that their computer is running slow because the disk is failing...
Let me explain, if have an actual time machine and travel back lets say 1 week you would materialize millions of miles away from earth in the middle of deep space
Why? Your position on Earth is a valid frame of reference. Assuming your time machine follows the same path backwards in time as it did forwards then it shouldn't be an issue.
The big problem is when you materialise at a prior date, what happens to the air that was occupying that space (or the person that was occupying it if you are unlucky)? Your time machine and its contents might find itself undergoing nuclear fusion and chemical oxidisation with a whole load of other atoms/molecules...
What wikipedia should do is try to hit up the private sector for some rich sponsors looking to make donations to a tax-free charity.
Maybe a single link on the front page to link to the top 1000 donations of all time and top 1000 donations in the last 12 months will be a nice compromise.
A nice idea, except that if the sponsor gets something in return (eg a mention on the front page), then I don't think it counts as a donation anymore, it's a paid advertisement.
But even if you discount the tax-free side of things, maybe your idea still has merit. Wikipedia is already nicely broken up into sections, maybe they could just list the top X sponsors for that section in a sidebar.
Having something like wikipedia sponsored by advertising raises one major problem though. What if they start to depend on one or two sponsors heavily and then are asked to remove some material that criticizes a sponsor with a threat of cutting the sponsorship?
Drug Dealer: Well Mr Judge, it was like this, I was just standing in the dark alleyway at 3am trying to sell some... ummm... girl scout cookies, when this machine comes up to me and...
Slashdot Mirror
No problem. Just disassemble the tyre first.
I don't understand why they aren't used for catching regular speeding violations too. Catching someone with a radar gun doing 107kph in a 100kph zone is dumb. Catching someone moving between point a and point b in 5.5 minutes, where point a and point b are 10km apart, equating to an average speed of ~110kph is much smarter - there is no doubt that the car in question was traveling over the speed limit for a sustained period of time.
As someone else said, it is already quite easy to identify individual vehicles using fairly standard technology, so I don't see why this is news.
This is slashdot. I would wager that the minimum "i'd do her" score is probably less than 7, even on a 10 point scale.
I think most people are _mostly_ symmetrical, but not completely. My rib cage is noticeably (to me) bigger on one side than the other, and when I wear sunglasses, my eyelashes rub on the right lens while they don't on the left (I have quite long eyelashes - my daughters have inherited that trait from me and it looks great on them but not so much on me
Are you saying that if you wanted to choose a forum which would get the maximum amount of exposure to the female audience, you'd chose Slashdot? I'd be going for something like facebook, or the mothers club site that i've become a widower to. Who'd have thought i'd be the one telling my wife to get off the computer and get some sleep
Doom? They should at least be running a flight simulator of some sort. That way they never have to ask "by the way, does anyone here know how to fly a plane?". They can just check the flight sim stats and tap the person with the best score on the shoulder...
I prefer Tux Paint
My wife was always surprised when I could discover pretty quickly that she'd been tinkering with my cude. There is a certain symmetry that you just cant break with normal use.
For that, you need my tinfoil hat. Only $99.95 at your local paranoia outlet.
You are in a maze of twisty little analogies, all stupid...
It depends how the reselling is implemented. An ISP in Australia could be an AAPT, Optus, or Telstra reseller, which means the wholesaler manages just about everything and the reseller puts their logo on the service and (maybe) handles first line support, and possible does some value adding or something.
:)
Alternatively, the ISP may buy bandwidth from their upstream wholesaler, and manage their own DSLAM's, authentication, etc.
As you say, too many unanswered questions to form an informed opinion. That doesn't seem to stop anyone around these parts though
Or an extension to your solution - get crappier stuff, take the logos off it, and stick it on your stuff. Once your HP branded laptop has 'Apple' written all over it nobody will touch it.
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Ouch ouch the flames are burning me!!!
I wouldn't pay him any attention anyway, he's a self confessed beer drinker and so by definition doesn't know what he's talking about.
Yeah. Where are the particles we can actually use and relate to, like Bogons, Cluons, and Unobtaneons.
I think that's why they prefer to send Americans and Russians instead.
yes okay, i'll leave quietly.
Maybe he meant overall performance (read and write)? Or does an SSD have better write times than a mag disk these days (assuming an equivalently priced disk eg 15K)?
The thing I'll miss when mag drives are obsolete is being able to listen to the head movement pattern and being able to tell people that their computer is running slow because the disk is failing...
Why? Your position on Earth is a valid frame of reference. Assuming your time machine follows the same path backwards in time as it did forwards then it shouldn't be an issue.
The big problem is when you materialise at a prior date, what happens to the air that was occupying that space (or the person that was occupying it if you are unlucky)? Your time machine and its contents might find itself undergoing nuclear fusion and chemical oxidisation with a whole load of other atoms/molecules...
James
And I for one welcome our non-telepathic ventriloquist duck overlords.
o rly?
A nice idea, except that if the sponsor gets something in return (eg a mention on the front page), then I don't think it counts as a donation anymore, it's a paid advertisement.
But even if you discount the tax-free side of things, maybe your idea still has merit. Wikipedia is already nicely broken up into sections, maybe they could just list the top X sponsors for that section in a sidebar.
Having something like wikipedia sponsored by advertising raises one major problem though. What if they start to depend on one or two sponsors heavily and then are asked to remove some material that criticizes a sponsor with a threat of cutting the sponsorship?
Don't worry. It only hurts the first time.
And here's me without my mod points... that's the funniest thing I've read all week!
Yes I can just imagine the court case:
Drug Dealer: Well Mr Judge, it was like this, I was just standing in the dark alleyway at 3am trying to sell some... ummm... girl scout cookies, when this machine comes up to me and...
You'd better not be, otherwise a Mr Godwin would like to speak to you.