Since this is Long Island, you forgot the women putting on makeup and the guys doing their hair while going 75.
The new touch screen center consoles don't help either (and the steering wheel buttons don't really have all of the functionality of even a non-touch screen system). Yeah, I get it, backup camera and all that. But there's no reason every piece of functionality has to be through the screen.
But the really dangerous people are not the ones who are texting or distracted in gridlock. The really dangerous ones are the guys racing down the LIE at 90 MPH weaving between lanes and cutting cars off while everyone else can only go 55-60 due to light traffic. And they're definitely racing because there's usually two or three of them at a time. The distracted drivers just end up rear-ending someone as a result of these people (assuming they themselves don't flip over first). Not that the distracted drivers aren't at fault, but they're not the only ones that caused the accident.
Not that your statement about the US is true (most people get their licenses revoked permanently after enough times), and simply driving without a license or with fake credentials is an easy way to defeat such measures anyway, but a lot of it has to do with population density and poorly-planned, developer-interest-based suburbia.
Most people live in the suburbs, mostly because living in most city centers suck (either prohibitively costly or prohibitively crime-ridden or it's no different from living in the suburb except you don't get much personal space). You have to drive in the suburbs. Hell, in a ton of city centers you still have to drive.
Reducing reliance of cars in all of the U.S. would be a great thing, but there's too much moneied interests (and a bit of misguided nationalism) involved for that to happen. To fix the problem, the culture itself needs to be changed, and the moneied interests (oil, auto, etc.) need to go away. And then you can talk about redeveloping the suburbs into real towns and revitializing city centers and increasing mass (local as well as regional) transit.
So are you saying your unique password was revealed along with your username? For curiosity sake, was it a strong password, or something an enhanced dictionary could attack?
A great watch is expensive and made in Switzerland.
You forgot to qualify what makes a watch great (it's not the mechanics or the features just in case you're wondering). Watches are great because of the style, and the limited availability.
People who collect watches, those are the guys with serious money. Most (real) Swiss watches cost more than limited edition top end luxury cars. Even the crappier Japanese and American watches begin at 4 figures and move up from there.
A watch is a fashion statement. Not a toy.
Now, sports watches are a different story. But those are specific-purpose watches, worn for very specific occasions. Nobody's going to go to a black tie party with a sports watch. Hell, nobody over the age of 10 is going to wear one of them while wearing anything fancier than a sweaty t-shirt and shorts.
The wearable electronics fad is never going to take off using watches as the core. It'd be more practical to focus on electronic headbands. Now glasses, there's something there. But electronics in glasses are off-putting to society for a variety of reasons, and Google really didn't help the situation by being the first one to it.
And then you have the mods that may or may not violate other people's IP (pixelmon mod anybody?).
Microsoft would shut those things down right away. Hell, they'd shut down any mod attempts and the whole mod API project in general.
It'd be the death of the game. And since nobody's got patents on the game, there'll definitely be clones coming out to eat away at the mindshare itself. But man, what a way to go. That $2B better be in cash, Notch. Don't get fooled by offers in shares.
You're mixing the three branches of the Feds with the "government." The government is everything from your DMV clerk to the NSA analyst who wrote the software that's automatically reading and categorizing this.
That only works if you either 1) have a test system you can test patches on or 2) turn off automatic updates. Either way, you need to be savvier than your average Windows user.
Fortunately, the big corps that give Microsoft the majority of its sales tend to have sufficiently capable tech teams. It's the small businesses that really lose (the personal/home users can mostly hit the reboot button or hold the power button down for 5 seconds or whatever passes for a hard reset these days).
What's interesting is to learn what conditions it won't handle.
When there are poor or no lane markers, especially when there's no double yellow in a two-lane, two-way local highway. Or when construction's shifted the lanes away from their original positions and the old lane markers haven't been erased so cleanly. Or when there are periodic potholes the size of half-basketballs in the most-used tire lanes (tire lanes being the path your car's tires take). Or when the lane is both narrow with inches to spare on either side, and shifts suddenly, and there's a H2 up ahead in the other lane going at half the speed limit. Or when a 45MPH highway has a sudden 20MPH curve, and the lanes are narrow to boot.
This kind of autonomous driving may work when both road and weather conditions are ideal, but something a little smarter would be necessary for even slightly harsher situations. In the extreme case, a lot of driving under extremely limited visibility is basically a high-stakes game of follow the leader. Essentially, it's not enough to be able to perceive the environment; driving under those conditions requires perceiving the actions of other like actors (and relying on the assumption that those actors are sane).
The right answer is to disband the NSA and hand SIGINT over to the Military which tends to follow the US Constitution a bit more closely.
The NSA is run by a four-star admiral and a four-star general before that. It is a branch of the military already.
You're thinking of armed forces intelligence like the Military Intelligence and Naval Intelligence guys. I can't think that they'd be much better if tasked with the same mission.
What needs to change is the mission, not the agency.
Emphasis mine. Driving is a privilege. It can be revoked at any time for any cause that the elected government deems reasonable.
But your inalienable rights are not privileges. They cannot be revoked.
Police checkpoints by themselves do not violate any rights. But the methods of selection and screening at the checkpoints may.
Of course, I agree that associating checkpoints with free speech zones is a rather broad leap. It is wrong in the same way that the airport security lines by themselves do not violate anybody's rights, but the (current) method of screening by the TSA does. Now free speech zones and say, the no-fly list are far closer. Speech is a right. Travel is also a right.
They applied the magnetic field to each path separately. They saw no change when the magnetic field was applied to the upper path, but they saw a change when it was applied to the lower path.
The way you state it, it's a bit confusing as to what they actually did with the magnetic field.
Yeah, but this happens fairly quickly. Without a continuous source refilling it, the tanks go anywhere between a few minutes and a few hours, depending on the time of day (how many people are showering when the electricity cut).
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Boeing's safe because you know where your money is going and you'll probably see it again come next campaign donation season.
SpaceX is exciting because you only think you know where it's going, when it fact it might actually go back to spaceflight R&D.
Since this is Long Island, you forgot the women putting on makeup and the guys doing their hair while going 75.
The new touch screen center consoles don't help either (and the steering wheel buttons don't really have all of the functionality of even a non-touch screen system). Yeah, I get it, backup camera and all that. But there's no reason every piece of functionality has to be through the screen.
But the really dangerous people are not the ones who are texting or distracted in gridlock. The really dangerous ones are the guys racing down the LIE at 90 MPH weaving between lanes and cutting cars off while everyone else can only go 55-60 due to light traffic. And they're definitely racing because there's usually two or three of them at a time. The distracted drivers just end up rear-ending someone as a result of these people (assuming they themselves don't flip over first). Not that the distracted drivers aren't at fault, but they're not the only ones that caused the accident.
Not that your statement about the US is true (most people get their licenses revoked permanently after enough times), and simply driving without a license or with fake credentials is an easy way to defeat such measures anyway, but a lot of it has to do with population density and poorly-planned, developer-interest-based suburbia.
Most people live in the suburbs, mostly because living in most city centers suck (either prohibitively costly or prohibitively crime-ridden or it's no different from living in the suburb except you don't get much personal space). You have to drive in the suburbs. Hell, in a ton of city centers you still have to drive.
Reducing reliance of cars in all of the U.S. would be a great thing, but there's too much moneied interests (and a bit of misguided nationalism) involved for that to happen. To fix the problem, the culture itself needs to be changed, and the moneied interests (oil, auto, etc.) need to go away. And then you can talk about redeveloping the suburbs into real towns and revitializing city centers and increasing mass (local as well as regional) transit.
So are you saying your unique password was revealed along with your username? For curiosity sake, was it a strong password, or something an enhanced dictionary could attack?
once to put it back.
I am so not using your coffee machine.
A great watch is expensive and made in Switzerland.
You forgot to qualify what makes a watch great (it's not the mechanics or the features just in case you're wondering). Watches are great because of the style, and the limited availability.
People who collect watches, those are the guys with serious money. Most (real) Swiss watches cost more than limited edition top end luxury cars. Even the crappier Japanese and American watches begin at 4 figures and move up from there.
A watch is a fashion statement. Not a toy.
Now, sports watches are a different story. But those are specific-purpose watches, worn for very specific occasions. Nobody's going to go to a black tie party with a sports watch. Hell, nobody over the age of 10 is going to wear one of them while wearing anything fancier than a sweaty t-shirt and shorts.
The wearable electronics fad is never going to take off using watches as the core. It'd be more practical to focus on electronic headbands. Now glasses, there's something there. But electronics in glasses are off-putting to society for a variety of reasons, and Google really didn't help the situation by being the first one to it.
Especially since courts nowadays interpret "eventually" and "limited" as "forever - 1 day".
And then you have the mods that may or may not violate other people's IP (pixelmon mod anybody?).
Microsoft would shut those things down right away. Hell, they'd shut down any mod attempts and the whole mod API project in general.
It'd be the death of the game. And since nobody's got patents on the game, there'll definitely be clones coming out to eat away at the mindshare itself. But man, what a way to go. That $2B better be in cash, Notch. Don't get fooled by offers in shares.
Active Directory. For that, there is no competition.
You're mixing the three branches of the Feds with the "government." The government is everything from your DMV clerk to the NSA analyst who wrote the software that's automatically reading and categorizing this.
Once, the program somehow found itself in an infinite loop and had to be killed with -9. This despite it having been proved terminating.
Microsoft Bib. Bob for the Internet.
That only works if you either 1) have a test system you can test patches on or 2) turn off automatic updates. Either way, you need to be savvier than your average Windows user.
Fortunately, the big corps that give Microsoft the majority of its sales tend to have sufficiently capable tech teams. It's the small businesses that really lose (the personal/home users can mostly hit the reboot button or hold the power button down for 5 seconds or whatever passes for a hard reset these days).
My pet rock says otherwise, you insensitive clod!
What's interesting is to learn what conditions it won't handle.
When there are poor or no lane markers, especially when there's no double yellow in a two-lane, two-way local highway. Or when construction's shifted the lanes away from their original positions and the old lane markers haven't been erased so cleanly. Or when there are periodic potholes the size of half-basketballs in the most-used tire lanes (tire lanes being the path your car's tires take). Or when the lane is both narrow with inches to spare on either side, and shifts suddenly, and there's a H2 up ahead in the other lane going at half the speed limit. Or when a 45MPH highway has a sudden 20MPH curve, and the lanes are narrow to boot.
This kind of autonomous driving may work when both road and weather conditions are ideal, but something a little smarter would be necessary for even slightly harsher situations. In the extreme case, a lot of driving under extremely limited visibility is basically a high-stakes game of follow the leader. Essentially, it's not enough to be able to perceive the environment; driving under those conditions requires perceiving the actions of other like actors (and relying on the assumption that those actors are sane).
I dunno
The editors aren't even trying anymore.
No, they're just going put him through the millimeter wave scanner and then claim that it cures ebola afterwards.
They didn't include property in the Declaration because they were seizing the assets of British sympathizers (Tories) at that very time.
The hypocrisy in the government goes way back.
The right answer is to disband the NSA and hand SIGINT over to the Military which tends to follow the US Constitution a bit more closely.
The NSA is run by a four-star admiral and a four-star general before that. It is a branch of the military already.
You're thinking of armed forces intelligence like the Military Intelligence and Naval Intelligence guys. I can't think that they'd be much better if tasked with the same mission.
What needs to change is the mission, not the agency.
Driving is a privilege not a right.
Emphasis mine. Driving is a privilege. It can be revoked at any time for any cause that the elected government deems reasonable.
But your inalienable rights are not privileges. They cannot be revoked.
Police checkpoints by themselves do not violate any rights. But the methods of selection and screening at the checkpoints may.
Of course, I agree that associating checkpoints with free speech zones is a rather broad leap. It is wrong in the same way that the airport security lines by themselves do not violate anybody's rights, but the (current) method of screening by the TSA does. Now free speech zones and say, the no-fly list are far closer. Speech is a right. Travel is also a right.
The party(ies) itself is a farce. There is no party in power. Only men.
Then they applied magnetic field on both paths.
They applied the magnetic field to each path separately. They saw no change when the magnetic field was applied to the upper path, but they saw a change when it was applied to the lower path.
The way you state it, it's a bit confusing as to what they actually did with the magnetic field.
But did you really have to capitalize the 'A'?
I see that was your two c*nts.
Yeah, but this happens fairly quickly. Without a continuous source refilling it, the tanks go anywhere between a few minutes and a few hours, depending on the time of day (how many people are showering when the electricity cut).