Has anyone bothered to determine whether faster braking would have prevented these accidents? "No, let's just throw technology at it and hope for the best!" Having been around many seniors and watching them drive, my guess is that it's mostly that they're "turning into things" or getting in the way of normal traffic flow.
In fact, the last time I was hit was by a senior who turned into the side of me while I was crossing an intersection, even though he had already stopped because his green turn-arrow had expired.
As a side note (I know this will be unpopular on Slashdot where science now takes a back seat), I'm not a fan of millions of cars spraying EM radiation all around me as I drive. No, there's no definitive study/link between microwaves and cancer (nor will there ever be), but as an amateur scientist, I'll use logic as my guide and remind other like-minded folks about the superposition concept, where EM radiation can be additive in the minute destruction of your DNA.
Back in the mid-1990s, I bought my first PC. My friend (who lived across the country then) and I discovered "Doom" and the joy of death-matching each other directly over dial-up modems (at about $10 an hour of long-distance phone charges, if I recall).
We used to share new maps with via floppy disk through the postal mail. Being a programmer, I studied DOS and wrote a computer "cold" that infected his PC (via DOS batch files) when he installed one of the maps I sent so that it would lock up his computer on his birthday, displaying a "Happy birthday!" message.
Weeks later, he calls me at three in the morning demanding I restore his computer to functionality. I told him to take that map disk and run the fixer tool that I put on there. He had already missed placed it in his sloppy apartment.... So we had to manually restore the files one by one over the phone per my instructions. Idiot.
I imagine there were many under his name, but the one on the shelf behind me (covered in dust, I just moved it now to see it, though it's been stationary for 15+ years) is called "The New Peter Norton Programmer's Guide To The IBM PC & PS/2", second edition, dated 1988.
And your old CRT television set used 10 times the power of your new LED flat-screen.
As one who has repaired such items for 40 years, I cry foul. I noticed my work computer's CRT only drew 50% more current than the then-new LCDs of similar size.
I took my first trip as an adult to England in the 1990s. I knew about their 240-volt system, and ignorantly bought some simplistic adapter from Radio Shack (R.I.P.) to use with my 120-volt shaver (which really was a physical adapter, not a voltage adapter). The shaver worked really well there (the best shaves of my life), for one week, when it stopped dead. At home I opened it up to find the solder had melted off the circuit board! A quick re-solder brought it back to life.
The moral is: If you want a good shave, go to England.
I used Usenet a bunch and was tickled when Google (Groups) made it searchable. It wasn't much later that I saw my go-to spots enveloped in unmoderated spam to where it became too annoying to read and follow.
And it didn't help Usenet when websites like Ultiimate Guitar came along and freely scraped content from it.
In the late 1970s I got the "Computer Intro!" cartridge for the Odyssey 2 (Atari 2600's competitor) as a gift. It was fascinating for this, then, preteen; I drank up every word in the little color book that came with it, which described the low-level basics of computing in layman's terms. Soon I was writing programs in machine language up to 100 op codes. I was thrilled that I could "put stuff on the TV screen", etc., and wrote the programs down on paper (hard copy!) since it had no non-volatile storage.
It was very simplistic, but I think my brother and I learned a good foundation about this nebulous concept in the 1970s, "the computer", without all the higher-level "distractions". Case in point: Years later, when I got a Commodore 64 (which booted right to a BASIC language interpreter), it took a long while before I realized that it could be programmed in machine language too!
"The Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity" (full text) by Alphonso David Rockwell. It was written in 1896, before the Internet became popular. I stumbled across it while doing research as it mentions Tesla and Edison. I am reading it because I find it interesting that the topic is about using electricity, when house outlets weren't a thing yet.
At 10% in, the author has spent dozens of pages describing what they knew then about magnetism, basic electric principles, Ohm's law (they use "C" for current!), the properties of batteries, how they are made/work, and the common chemistries of the time period. So far, this is all for doctors so they can use the information and make/maintain their batteries to treat their patients! I like the undistracted perspective of it all and am filling my decades-old electronic knowledge with stuff I've never thought about before.
The upcoming medical chapters should be interesting to this armchair doctor too, as I am not quick to dismiss the ideas/experiments of brilliant men just because time has moved forward.
Still on XP at home and haven't had malware after 15 years without antivirus software... Of course, I block web ads and know not to click on email linkies. (And, my 11-year old XP machine at work out-boots the modern Windows 7 laptop sitting next to it. Sigh.)
The Firefox browser on my XP machine recently stopped working with some of the sites I often visit, so I upgraded it to the latest version, from 3.6! I miss the speed.
We have better and cheaper ways now, a simple national ID program required for jobs (with teeth against employers) would have them leaving at near zero cost to us.
Respectfully, this will not work. A large portion will stay anyway: The construction industry, etc., will continue to pay them low wages under the table, en masse; like prostitution, most of it will not be found nor prosecuted. Other undocumented immigrants will stay, leeching off their American family members. Others will pervade illegal "industries" to make a buck. And the remaining will come and go from the country, almost as they please because we stopped taking border security seriously, you know, 'cause we have an ID system now, the one that gets hacked every other year.
What PewDiePie should do is file a copyright lawsuit!:) Maybe he would get an understanding judge to put his foot (gavel) down against "unfair use", and perhaps even stem the tide of the digital lying we find ourselves in these days. I mean, surely I can't edit a "Star Wars" video so that it looks like storm troopers are slaughtering innocent Jews in a camp and then expect it to stay up on the Internet video sites without Disney complaining.
The cost of living in a dump varies wildly throughout the country, and is constantly changing; so no number can be decided. Besides, we can't pay people to sit around and have sex (a favorite pastime, BTW) - so case closed....Unless you're planning on NOT also funding each child they happen to create, intentionally or by accident.
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A) How dare you question what Microsoft thinks is best for your use.
B) Who the hell 'enjoys the experience' of using an OS anymore? I stopped noticing the tool (which is what it is) ~20 years ago.
Has anyone bothered to determine whether faster braking would have prevented these accidents? "No, let's just throw technology at it and hope for the best!" Having been around many seniors and watching them drive, my guess is that it's mostly that they're "turning into things" or getting in the way of normal traffic flow.
In fact, the last time I was hit was by a senior who turned into the side of me while I was crossing an intersection, even though he had already stopped because his green turn-arrow had expired.
As a side note (I know this will be unpopular on Slashdot where science now takes a back seat), I'm not a fan of millions of cars spraying EM radiation all around me as I drive. No, there's no definitive study/link between microwaves and cancer (nor will there ever be), but as an amateur scientist, I'll use logic as my guide and remind other like-minded folks about the superposition concept, where EM radiation can be additive in the minute destruction of your DNA.
Back in the mid-1990s, I bought my first PC. My friend (who lived across the country then) and I discovered "Doom" and the joy of death-matching each other directly over dial-up modems (at about $10 an hour of long-distance phone charges, if I recall).
.. So we had to manually restore the files one by one over the phone per my instructions. Idiot.
We used to share new maps with via floppy disk through the postal mail. Being a programmer, I studied DOS and wrote a computer "cold" that infected his PC (via DOS batch files) when he installed one of the maps I sent so that it would lock up his computer on his birthday, displaying a "Happy birthday!" message.
Weeks later, he calls me at three in the morning demanding I restore his computer to functionality. I told him to take that map disk and run the fixer tool that I put on there. He had already missed placed it in his sloppy apartment..
I imagine there were many under his name, but the one on the shelf behind me (covered in dust, I just moved it now to see it, though it's been stationary for 15+ years) is called "The New Peter Norton Programmer's Guide To The IBM PC & PS/2", second edition, dated 1988.
Hello "friends"!
I wonder how reading/posting on Slashdot is categorized.
And your old CRT television set used 10 times the power of your new LED flat-screen.
As one who has repaired such items for 40 years, I cry foul. I noticed my work computer's CRT only drew 50% more current than the then-new LCDs of similar size.
No, so I guess he'll have to go back to selling illegal drugs the rest of the time.
I would wonder about airport security troubles when you're walking in with this box of unfamiliar parts and a battery(!)...
I took my first trip as an adult to England in the 1990s. I knew about their 240-volt system, and ignorantly bought some simplistic adapter from Radio Shack (R.I.P.) to use with my 120-volt shaver (which really was a physical adapter, not a voltage adapter). The shaver worked really well there (the best shaves of my life), for one week, when it stopped dead. At home I opened it up to find the solder had melted off the circuit board! A quick re-solder brought it back to life.
The moral is: If you want a good shave, go to England.
I used Usenet a bunch and was tickled when Google (Groups) made it searchable. It wasn't much later that I saw my go-to spots enveloped in unmoderated spam to where it became too annoying to read and follow.
And it didn't help Usenet when websites like Ultiimate Guitar came along and freely scraped content from it.
In the late 1970s I got the "Computer Intro!" cartridge for the Odyssey 2 (Atari 2600's competitor) as a gift. It was fascinating for this, then, preteen; I drank up every word in the little color book that came with it, which described the low-level basics of computing in layman's terms. Soon I was writing programs in machine language up to 100 op codes. I was thrilled that I could "put stuff on the TV screen", etc., and wrote the programs down on paper (hard copy!) since it had no non-volatile storage.
It was very simplistic, but I think my brother and I learned a good foundation about this nebulous concept in the 1970s, "the computer", without all the higher-level "distractions". Case in point: Years later, when I got a Commodore 64 (which booted right to a BASIC language interpreter), it took a long while before I realized that it could be programmed in machine language too!
I wish they would ban this in my workplace. It's smoking, lite, isn't it?
"The Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity" (full text) by Alphonso David Rockwell. It was written in 1896, before the Internet became popular. I stumbled across it while doing research as it mentions Tesla and Edison. I am reading it because I find it interesting that the topic is about using electricity, when house outlets weren't a thing yet.
At 10% in, the author has spent dozens of pages describing what they knew then about magnetism, basic electric principles, Ohm's law (they use "C" for current!), the properties of batteries, how they are made/work, and the common chemistries of the time period. So far, this is all for doctors so they can use the information and make/maintain their batteries to treat their patients! I like the undistracted perspective of it all and am filling my decades-old electronic knowledge with stuff I've never thought about before.
The upcoming medical chapters should be interesting to this armchair doctor too, as I am not quick to dismiss the ideas/experiments of brilliant men just because time has moved forward.
Well, not THIS year... But once everyone is paying attention to something else, perhaps... Fine print is easily and often changed.
I wonder if my requests and the packets coming to me are protected under copyright law.
Me too! Though I'm still rocking version 12(!) which doesn't do VPN... I've been using Opera so long, originally I paid to remove its built-in ads.
Does anyone else remember being able to walk into a Best Buy and see Netscape Navigator in a box on the shelf for ~$40?
I like "60 Minutes".
Still on XP at home and haven't had malware after 15 years without antivirus software... Of course, I block web ads and know not to click on email linkies. (And, my 11-year old XP machine at work out-boots the modern Windows 7 laptop sitting next to it. Sigh.)
Good; that means it won't be getting any slower.
The Firefox browser on my XP machine recently stopped working with some of the sites I often visit, so I upgraded it to the latest version, from 3.6! I miss the speed.
"They demonstrate that this technology is also extremely reliable."
Ask anyone who has cancer.
Are they calling the exhibit "The Cancer Of Tomorrow"?
We have better and cheaper ways now, a simple national ID program required for jobs (with teeth against employers) would have them leaving at near zero cost to us.
Respectfully, this will not work. A large portion will stay anyway: The construction industry, etc., will continue to pay them low wages under the table, en masse; like prostitution, most of it will not be found nor prosecuted. Other undocumented immigrants will stay, leeching off their American family members. Others will pervade illegal "industries" to make a buck. And the remaining will come and go from the country, almost as they please because we stopped taking border security seriously, you know, 'cause we have an ID system now, the one that gets hacked every other year.
What PewDiePie should do is file a copyright lawsuit! :) Maybe he would get an understanding judge to put his foot (gavel) down against "unfair use", and perhaps even stem the tide of the digital lying we find ourselves in these days. I mean, surely I can't edit a "Star Wars" video so that it looks like storm troopers are slaughtering innocent Jews in a camp and then expect it to stay up on the Internet video sites without Disney complaining.
Being the effect was temporary, could it be they just felt "sick" or stunned? A general brain fog?
The cost of living in a dump varies wildly throughout the country, and is constantly changing; so no number can be decided. Besides, we can't pay people to sit around and have sex (a favorite pastime, BTW) - so case closed. ...Unless you're planning on NOT also funding each child they happen to create, intentionally or by accident.