That is actually the key to getting cars out of the city. When public transport is more convenient then a car, then people would stop driving into the city with a car. Problem solved.
One of our software vendors seemed to have that Idea, which is why we still have some variable and column names around that use the _dm suffix for "Deutsche Mark", almost two decades after the values stored in them switched to Euro.;-)
When something happens in a crowded area, and hundreds of people whip out their smartphones to dial 911, the system gets regularly DDoSed anyway.
I wonder if anybody is thinking about some protection on the cell level. Like, when there are already ten 911 call originating from one cell, additional ones need some confirmation form the caller that they really want to make an additional one.
I have run version 0.14.2014051101 from the "old Versions" Directory of the Add-on (Before the "Drop support for Firefox 30 and older versions" of the Add-on )
Funny enough, one of the *main* reasons I switches from Firefox to Pale Moon about five years ago was that FF yet again broke TreeStyleTabs back then, and they have been working beautifully without any interruption for me since then in Pale Moon.
Of course instead of some sort of defined rules that you are able to understand, they probably will employ some sort of "AI" in the "Cloud", so that your trip confirmation to Hamburg will end up in your recipes stack, while some office themed porn will pop up at your next presentation to management.
Funny that just one year after they sold their "Samsung Techwin" subsidiary, where defending your castle *was* a well documented feature of their products like the K9 Thunder Motorized Howitzer, to the Hanwa group ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) their OTHER products start exploding.....
Maybe some of the Samsung techs miss building weaponry?
As much as I dislike large corporations, the problem as I see it is slightly different here.
Of course when someone "gives you grades on some arbitrary test that has nothing to do with reality whatsoever", be it energy consumption, emission volumes or school grades, you optimize your behaviour to get as high as possible marks on those arbitrary test.
And then you get televisions, cars, employees, etc.. that all scored great on some arbitrary test, but those test don't really tell you anything about how they perform in the real world. We are just too obsessed by labels, certificates and diplomas these days.
This. Plus, browser that puts warnings on all un-enctypted pages is somehow like a radio that warns before every song that the next song isn't encrypted and might be listened to by anybody. Or a barkeeper telling you at the bar "Don't talk so loud, the police might hear."
Of course you should have the right to whisper any time you want. But you also should have the right to shout something for everybody to hear whenever you want, without somebody warning that you shouldn't do it.
I have about 1000 burned DVDs that I use somewhat regularity, and about 100 burned BluRays now. Since about 2002 I have encountered exactly *two* discs I couldn't read any more. One got scratched badly when it somehow got loose from the sleeve in my satchel, the other fell onto a tile floor and a corner broke off.
For security I usually make two copies of "important" stuff, and I also fill the media only to about 75%, and fill the rest up with error correction data created by http://dvdisaster.net/en/index..., so that in the event that I one day actually DO run into a bit rot issue, I might still be able to re-construct the data.
But another fun fact: When you "lose weight" (not the short-term weight loss you can get when losing water, but the long-term weight loss of losing body fat) then THAT pounds of weight actually add to CO2 pollution.
One common definition that would apply to both cars and planes would probably be "the vehicle has to have at least X seconds unobstructed travel path before it, so that it is save to take the hands of the controls" Then that would also somewhat fit missiles and rockets, although in their case the human intervention is mostly confined to an "abort and self destruct" button.
That way a highway scenario could one day become "hands of wheels" territory, for example when there are autonomous vehicle only lanes.
And the west's space Program would still be non-existent if the Chinese hadn't created gunpowder, which then spread through the Middle East and finally into Europe.
So far a lot of software has been able to claim somewhat confidentially "Compatible with windows 3.11 / 95 / 2000 / XP / 7" and so on.
But now Microsoft is adding new and completely unexpected new subsystems to their OS, without making that in any way "obvious" to the customer (and other software vendors) that there is a big change in the OS that might (and most definitely will) break existing software.
This basically means that most (if not all) third party Window software will become more of a "might or might not work this week" gamble to both the customer and the third party software vendor.
Seems it's the other way around in Europe. We run a retail with several outlets. When we do "Chip/Mag + Signature" we pay for what fraud we get, when we do "Chip + Pin" the bank is responsible. *But* since Chip+Pin has a "higher transaction cost", we basically do Signature, and only when the fraud happening in that area rises above the cost of the higher pin transaction cost we switch to pin.
( Then again, most of those are direct debit cards which is a whole other beast than the US credit cards )
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Finally a phone that will not only be awkward to hold, but impossible to hold.
That is actually the key to getting cars out of the city. When public transport is more convenient then a car, then people would stop driving into the city with a car. Problem solved.
One of our software vendors seemed to have that Idea, which is why we still have some variable and column names around that use the _dm suffix for "Deutsche Mark", almost two decades after the values stored in them switched to Euro. ;-)
When something happens in a crowded area, and hundreds of people whip out their smartphones to dial 911, the system gets regularly DDoSed anyway.
I wonder if anybody is thinking about some protection on the cell level. Like, when there are already ten 911 call originating from one cell, additional ones need some confirmation form the caller that they really want to make an additional one.
Because "Smartphones"
The pat-down that started the Makarena?
http://ars.userfriendly.org/ca...
I have run version 0.14.2014051101 from the "old Versions" Directory of the Add-on (Before the "Drop support for Firefox 30 and older versions" of the Add-on )
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
Funny enough, one of the *main* reasons I switches from Firefox to Pale Moon about five years ago was that FF yet again broke TreeStyleTabs back then, and they have been working beautifully without any interruption for me since then in Pale Moon.
http://www.thomasx.de/download...
Of course instead of some sort of defined rules that you are able to understand, they probably will employ some sort of "AI" in the "Cloud", so that your trip confirmation to Hamburg will end up in your recipes stack, while some office themed porn will pop up at your next presentation to management.
Funny that just one year after they sold their "Samsung Techwin" subsidiary, where defending your castle *was* a well documented feature of their products like the K9 Thunder Motorized Howitzer, to the Hanwa group ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) their OTHER products start exploding.....
Maybe some of the Samsung techs miss building weaponry?
Yeah. But what if we are *tasty* squirrels to them....
As much as I dislike large corporations, the problem as I see it is slightly different here.
Of course when someone "gives you grades on some arbitrary test that has nothing to do with reality whatsoever", be it energy consumption, emission volumes or school grades, you optimize your behaviour to get as high as possible marks on those arbitrary test.
And then you get televisions, cars, employees, etc.. that all scored great on some arbitrary test, but those test don't really tell you anything about how they perform in the real world. We are just too obsessed by labels, certificates and diplomas these days.
... they will generate a very big cash-flow for Oracle, since they are now uniquely situated to completely vendor-lock-in their statewide IT systems?
You'll have to file the case on Pluto, though. Feel free to take as many lawyers as you can.
Was probably removed due to a take down notice by Canonical, since that is obviously a link to an Ubuntu download....
About 24 month ago it wasn't. But I might give it another spin....,.
Why should you be allowed to breathe free air, when they can sell you competitively priced iAir(tm)
This. Plus, browser that puts warnings on all un-enctypted pages is somehow like a radio that warns before every song that the next song isn't encrypted and might be listened to by anybody. Or a barkeeper telling you at the bar "Don't talk so loud, the police might hear."
Of course you should have the right to whisper any time you want. But you also should have the right to shout something for everybody to hear whenever you want, without somebody warning that you shouldn't do it.
on the other hand: "percent" is the unit, meaning "per hundred"
So 90 "per hundred" IS 10 "per hundred" better than 80 "per hundred". Note that the unit doesn't change in this case.
Of course or 90 pieces or 90 kg or 90 mp/h or 90 "cool" AREN'T 10% better than 90 pieces or 90 kg or 90 mp/h or 90 "cool".
But 90% are 10% better than 80%, the same sense that 90 mp/h are 10 mp/h better than 80 mp/h.
That about is my experience.
I have about 1000 burned DVDs that I use somewhat regularity, and about 100 burned BluRays now. Since about 2002 I have encountered exactly *two* discs I couldn't read any more. One got scratched badly when it somehow got loose from the sleeve in my satchel, the other fell onto a tile floor and a corner broke off.
For security I usually make two copies of "important" stuff, and I also fill the media only to about 75%, and fill the rest up with error correction data created by http://dvdisaster.net/en/index..., so that in the event that I one day actually DO run into a bit rot issue, I might still be able to re-construct the data.
Well, it's only about 18% carbon.
But another fun fact: When you "lose weight" (not the short-term weight loss you can get when losing water, but the long-term weight loss of losing body fat) then THAT pounds of weight actually add to CO2 pollution.
One common definition that would apply to both cars and planes would probably be "the vehicle has to have at least X seconds unobstructed travel path before it, so that it is save to take the hands of the controls" Then that would also somewhat fit missiles and rockets, although in their case the human intervention is mostly confined to an "abort and self destruct" button.
That way a highway scenario could one day become "hands of wheels" territory, for example when there are autonomous vehicle only lanes.
And the west's space Program would still be non-existent if the Chinese hadn't created gunpowder, which then spread through the Middle East and finally into Europe.
So far a lot of software has been able to claim somewhat confidentially "Compatible with windows 3.11 / 95 / 2000 / XP / 7" and so on.
But now Microsoft is adding new and completely unexpected new subsystems to their OS, without making that in any way "obvious" to the customer (and other software vendors) that there is a big change in the OS that might (and most definitely will) break existing software.
This basically means that most (if not all) third party Window software will become more of a "might or might not work this week" gamble to both the customer and the third party software vendor.
Seems it's the other way around in Europe. We run a retail with several outlets. When we do "Chip/Mag + Signature" we pay for what fraud we get, when we do "Chip + Pin" the bank is responsible. *But* since Chip+Pin has a "higher transaction cost", we basically do Signature, and only when the fraud happening in that area rises above the cost of the higher pin transaction cost we switch to pin.
( Then again, most of those are direct debit cards which is a whole other beast than the US credit cards )