If you don't institute punitive damages (in essence, "punishment") when a company deliberately takes action to defraud someone, they could just built the cost of settling/going to court into their cost of doing business, as they have built their electric bill and employee costs into their prices.
And that is definitely something you don't want companies doing.
Remarks of Mark V. Rosenker, Chairman National Transportation Safety Board For the Cargo Airline Association
Washington, DC October 17, 2007
Currently, cargo airplanes are only required to have a fire detection system and not a fire suppression system, for in-flight cargo fire protection. After the Newburgh investigation, the Safety Board issued a recommendation to the FAA to examine the possibility of on-board fire suppression systems and to require them if they were feasible. The FAA stated that a suppression system would add significant additional weight to an aircraft and determined they should not be required. Yet fire suppression systems offer a significant improvement in fire safety and the Safety Board continues to encourage the FAA to evaluate currently available systems and promote new technology to reduce weight, increase reliability and create a system whose cost will encourage operators to install them. As a matter of fact, FedEx has introduced a fire suppression system into its aircraft that meets all these criteria.
I'm just saying that whenever the TSA decides to test themselves and send through decoys, almost all the time they get through. If screeners can't detect decoys and pull them out, I doubt they'll notice a toothpaste roll filled with the wrong substance based on x-rays alone.
As stupid as this may sound, get a pilot's license if you fly enough and have a cool employer. Otherwise, you're relegated to fly Grayhound in the sky.
Agreed. We should be dumping money left and right into medical/genetic research that shows results. Anything that provides us with a better arsenal against diseases and cancer would be a plus.
Why push people to a $50,000 treatment regimen when in your professional opinion a $25,000 one will be just as effective?
Because, unfortunately, healthcare is treated as a business. And sometimes doctors are pushed by the institutions they work for to do things they otherwise wouldn't have done.
Did you not post this?
You've exposed the most fraudulent part of the greenies' movement. Recharging batteries requires electricity, which in the US, is derived primarily from burning coal, which is worse ecologically than burning gasoline. As long as the Greenies keep pushing fake green agendas on us like electric cars but at the SAME TIME keep protesting nuclear power, this will never be a good solution.
And did you not back it up with any sort of link? If it was accurate, I could forgive the lack of citation, but for blatantly false information it's not tolerable.
Very true. But it's much more time-consuming and expensive to pursue thousands and thousands of downloaders/seeders then it is to go after the torrent server.
You are such a twit. Well to wheel efficiencies show that even if you burn coal to run electric cars, it's far cleaner then an equivalent number of internal combustion engines. I know this is Slashdot, but you could at least do a little research before you decide to ignore fact and spout bullshit in a public forum?
The drives won't fail in identical places, nor at exactly the same time (as failure rates are estimates and each drive is slightly different due to manufacturing processes)
I went to go see Blade Runner: The Final Cut on a digital projection screen at a theater. Rarely can I say a movie is that beautiful. I loved it. I thought it was the best version released to date. I was more teasing at the fact that studios like to release cut after cut after cut to make a buck.
SA caused that, but also, you'll get that with only 3 satellites over the horizon. It takes 3 satellites to determine your position, and 4 satellites to do altitude.
RTK is pretty much the same as DGPS. If you're a land surveyor and within 200-400 miles of a coast guard station transmitting DGPS correction signals, you have no need to have the "base" system at a known point.
Also, can you provide some geographic reference to where you haven't had enough satellites above the horizon?
Do RAID1 on the flash drives. You may lose data on one drive, but not both. And you'll stick get huge power savings (no spinning disks). As reliability improves, you could do away with RAID.
They should outsource the job to Google. They've built an entire distributed architecture to deal with the processing and storage of Massive amounts of data. And Google has tons of techs who aren't paid squat to replace components/systems in their clusters. The cluster is built to handle the redundancy, so you can have "minimum-wage drive jockeys" doing the monkey work.
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And that is definitely something you don't want companies doing.
Washington, DC October 17, 2007 Currently, cargo airplanes are only required to have a fire detection system and not a fire suppression system, for in-flight cargo fire protection. After the Newburgh investigation, the Safety Board issued a recommendation to the FAA to examine the possibility of on-board fire suppression systems and to require them if they were feasible. The FAA stated that a suppression system would add significant additional weight to an aircraft and determined they should not be required. Yet fire suppression systems offer a significant improvement in fire safety and the Safety Board continues to encourage the FAA to evaluate currently available systems and promote new technology to reduce weight, increase reliability and create a system whose cost will encourage operators to install them. As a matter of fact, FedEx has introduced a fire suppression system into its aircraft that meets all these criteria.
http://www.ntsb.gov/speeches/rosenker/mvr071017.html
Agreed. Don't trust the user. It should indeed be able to detect different attack profiles and alert accordingly.
I'm just saying that whenever the TSA decides to test themselves and send through decoys, almost all the time they get through. If screeners can't detect decoys and pull them out, I doubt they'll notice a toothpaste roll filled with the wrong substance based on x-rays alone.
Since when can x-ray machines determine chemical composition?
As stupid as this may sound, get a pilot's license if you fly enough and have a cool employer. Otherwise, you're relegated to fly Grayhound in the sky.
Agreed. We should be dumping money left and right into medical/genetic research that shows results. Anything that provides us with a better arsenal against diseases and cancer would be a plus.
Because, unfortunately, healthcare is treated as a business. And sometimes doctors are pushed by the institutions they work for to do things they otherwise wouldn't have done.
When I download music from the Amazon store, it updates my iTunes library as well.
And did you not back it up with any sort of link? If it was accurate, I could forgive the lack of citation, but for blatantly false information it's not tolerable.
Comparing Apples to Apples: Well-to-Wheel Analysis of Current ICE and Fuel Cell Vehicle Technologies
http://www.transportation.anl.gov/pdfs/HV/300.pdf
Tesla Motors Well To Wheel Comparison
http://www.teslamotors.com/efficiency/well_to_wheel.php
AskPablo: Well to Wheel Efficiency Tutorial
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/askpablo-well-to-wheel-efficie-002461.php And let's be honest. Car and Driver? Not the most intelligently written rag out there.
My question is: When am I going to see CSI: Miami using a hybrid instead of an H2?
Very true. But it's much more time-consuming and expensive to pursue thousands and thousands of downloaders/seeders then it is to go after the torrent server.
You are such a twit. Well to wheel efficiencies show that even if you burn coal to run electric cars, it's far cleaner then an equivalent number of internal combustion engines. I know this is Slashdot, but you could at least do a little research before you decide to ignore fact and spout bullshit in a public forum?
Our Camry Hybrid gets about 37-40mpg, while my Yamaha Roadliner gets around 32-35mpg (1800cc engine).
You don't need to host the video. Just the torrent for it.
The drives won't fail in identical places, nor at exactly the same time (as failure rates are estimates and each drive is slightly different due to manufacturing processes)
I went to go see Blade Runner: The Final Cut on a digital projection screen at a theater. Rarely can I say a movie is that beautiful. I loved it. I thought it was the best version released to date. I was more teasing at the fact that studios like to release cut after cut after cut to make a buck.
Did you forget to mention Hot Secretary?
What your talking about is an educational issue, not a technical issue. It's easily fixed in the case you present.
SA caused that, but also, you'll get that with only 3 satellites over the horizon. It takes 3 satellites to determine your position, and 4 satellites to do altitude.
Also, can you provide some geographic reference to where you haven't had enough satellites above the horizon?
Selective Availability hasn't been used since the Clinton administration. Sure, they can degrade the signal in certain areas, but it's rarely done.
Do RAID1 on the flash drives. You may lose data on one drive, but not both. And you'll stick get huge power savings (no spinning disks). As reliability improves, you could do away with RAID.
They should outsource the job to Google. They've built an entire distributed architecture to deal with the processing and storage of Massive amounts of data. And Google has tons of techs who aren't paid squat to replace components/systems in their clusters. The cluster is built to handle the redundancy, so you can have "minimum-wage drive jockeys" doing the monkey work.
I think you misspelled "Blade Runner, The Final Cut"