I don't have a citation, but I read something last week that said that flying through an ash cloud could render the cockpit windows nearly opaque. Doesn't matter whether the engines make it or not, if the pilots can't see. The same article also mentioned that there was a previous instance where an overseas 747 flight lost all four engines (fortunately, they successfully restarted 3 of them) flying through an ash cloud.
I've seen that documentary of the design/building of the Boeing 777, and they DID dump a bunch of sand through the engine. But it can't be good for it, and why would you knowingly subject a multi-million dollar piece of equipment to that sort of abuse except in an emergency?
I have my credit card through a smallish credit union. They don't handle card themselves, they outsource it (to FIA, in this case).
They don't need to profile individual usage patterns, for the most part, because fraudulent use tends to fall into easily recognizable patterns, so they can just look for that.
In fact, they can detect it so quickly, that my cell phone rings less than 20 seconds after they swipe the card, and I'm (or they're) still at the POS.
And the drive to show quarterly increases in profit is in turn driven by greedy stock market speculators that treat companies with stable profits as losers.
Obviously, in addition to story aging, they need to update the story change process with something that disallows the use of the last n most recently used stories.
The thing that worries me most about that is that it seems to indicate that they're storing the passwords plain text rather than hashing them, so they're limited to whatever field width the DB designer pulled out of his ass that day.
Exactly. If someone is tailgating me, I'll slow down and leave enough space in front of me for BOTH of us. Usually pisses them off, but that's not my problem. The other advantage of slowing down in this situation (on multi-lane roads, anyway) is that it provides extra incentive for the tailgating idiot to go around instead of sit on your ass.
Cable TV *used* to be a natural monopoly, when it was all analog. Now, it's all just data.
You only need one fiber to each house (owned by the city, an independent non-profit, or even neighborhood associations - anyone but the content/service providers). You could easily have 10 each of cable TV companies, phone companies and internet companies all available over the same bit of fiber.
Just point out that with a 20 year copyright term, they'd be able to *legally* download a library of any/every song & movie created before 1990. People older than 30 would be signing up in droves. Might as well make greed work *for* us, for once.
Speaking only for myself, I can say that Gran Turismo greatly improved my real-life driving skills. I learned about following a line, about preloading suspension, and just about how to generally handle a car. When I first got my Subaru Impreza I was already able to go fast because I knew how an AWD car behaved from playing that game. Some of the skills are clearly not applicable to street driving, but some equally clearly are.
Some skills like following a good line that you might not think applicable to street driving actually are. Just because you're following a racing line doesn't mean you have to be going at racing speeds. Those same lines (or slight modifications), when driven at a lower speed can reduce tire & break wear, and give you a bigger margin of safety if you happen to hit a road hazard that reduces grip (bump, pile of leaves, sand from last week's snow, etc.).
More like they're taking something valuable and interesting, created with our tax money, and taking money to make it inaccessible to the people it actually belongs to.
But if you're starting up from a complete stop you're expecting to go.
And you've never seen those over-eager drivers that take their foot off the brake, then have to hit the brake again a second later because the car in front didn't go after all?
You're the one arguing automatics can't be controlled properly. I want to know in what ways.
As the driver of an AT car, my biggest gripe is that the damn thing never downshifts until *after* I start accelerating (thus going off the throttle), instead of before.
Instead of: Approach corner, decelerate & downshift into appropriate gear, turn, then accellerate..
you have: Approach corner, decelerate & the transmission shifts into one gear above what you really need. Turn corner, acceller-- wait-- shift -- ok now go.
Basically the difference is proactive control (with MT) vs. being limited to reactive control (with AT).
The problem is that too fast/too slow for conditions is different for every vehicle & driver. An attentive driver in a well-maintained relatively recent vehicle would be fine at any speed that's actually legal. A distracted soccer mom in a minivan is going to have trouble with any kind of emergency that happens at 70 mph. Anyone driving one of the mobile junk heaps you see around here probably isn't going to be safe at any speed over 40 mph. As a bonus, this latter category probably hasn't been inspected in years, and the driver is probably uninsured to boot.
If talking on the phone/to a passenger/messing with the radio/whatever doesn't affect the amount of attention you can direct toward driving, it just means you're not paying enough attention in the first place.
I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to not install the sensors in manual-transmission vehicles. They require two hands to drive, anyway, as you point out. Maybe not all the time, but in any situation that requires you to be paying close attention (turns, traffic, etc.), you'll be shifting often, too.
Besides, if this becomes widespread, it won't be long before someone starts selling a cheap USB pass-through that adds a random delay of a few ms to your keystrokes. Or just gets built into keyboards as a privacy feature.
Actually, that might not be a bad idea anyway as a security feature against using traffic analysis to divine passwords and such.
ATC primary radar (that tracks reflected radio signals) is generally only available near major airports anyway. The rest of the time, it just tracks the planes' transponder signals, which work over a much longer range. So the way things are now, a failed transponder would still mean it doesn't show up on radar until it was close to the airport. (and then it would still be missing a lot of information)
He's talking about the people that *game the system* of unemployment and welfare.
I'd have no problem taking out (or maybe just sterilizing) those people, since it would free up funds for people that *need* them, and let the people that can and do work keep more of theirs.
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I don't have a citation, but I read something last week that said that flying through an ash cloud could render the cockpit windows nearly opaque. Doesn't matter whether the engines make it or not, if the pilots can't see. The same article also mentioned that there was a previous instance where an overseas 747 flight lost all four engines (fortunately, they successfully restarted 3 of them) flying through an ash cloud.
I've seen that documentary of the design/building of the Boeing 777, and they DID dump a bunch of sand through the engine. But it can't be good for it, and why would you knowingly subject a multi-million dollar piece of equipment to that sort of abuse except in an emergency?
I have my credit card through a smallish credit union. They don't handle card themselves, they outsource it (to FIA, in this case).
They don't need to profile individual usage patterns, for the most part, because fraudulent use tends to fall into easily recognizable patterns, so they can just look for that.
In fact, they can detect it so quickly, that my cell phone rings less than 20 seconds after they swipe the card, and I'm (or they're) still at the POS.
And the drive to show quarterly increases in profit is in turn driven by greedy stock market speculators that treat companies with stable profits as losers.
Obviously, in addition to story aging, they need to update the story change process with something that disallows the use of the last n most recently used stories.
The thing that worries me most about that is that it seems to indicate that they're storing the passwords plain text rather than hashing them, so they're limited to whatever field width the DB designer pulled out of his ass that day.
Exactly. If someone is tailgating me, I'll slow down and leave enough space in front of me for BOTH of us. Usually pisses them off, but that's not my problem. The other advantage of slowing down in this situation (on multi-lane roads, anyway) is that it provides extra incentive for the tailgating idiot to go around instead of sit on your ass.
Cable TV *used* to be a natural monopoly, when it was all analog. Now, it's all just data.
You only need one fiber to each house (owned by the city, an independent non-profit, or even neighborhood associations - anyone but the content/service providers). You could easily have 10 each of cable TV companies, phone companies and internet companies all available over the same bit of fiber.
Just point out that with a 20 year copyright term, they'd be able to *legally* download a library of any/every song & movie created before 1990. People older than 30 would be signing up in droves. Might as well make greed work *for* us, for once.
Speaking only for myself, I can say that Gran Turismo greatly improved my real-life driving skills. I learned about following a line, about preloading suspension, and just about how to generally handle a car. When I first got my Subaru Impreza I was already able to go fast because I knew how an AWD car behaved from playing that game. Some of the skills are clearly not applicable to street driving, but some equally clearly are.
Some skills like following a good line that you might not think applicable to street driving actually are. Just because you're following a racing line doesn't mean you have to be going at racing speeds. Those same lines (or slight modifications), when driven at a lower speed can reduce tire & break wear, and give you a bigger margin of safety if you happen to hit a road hazard that reduces grip (bump, pile of leaves, sand from last week's snow, etc.).
More like they're taking something valuable and interesting, created with our tax money, and taking money to make it inaccessible to the people it actually belongs to.
...and other fields that don't have 3am emergencies.
My female keeps talking about quitting and raising kids, so this can't possibly be right...
But if you're starting up from a complete stop you're expecting to go.
And you've never seen those over-eager drivers that take their foot off the brake, then have to hit the brake again a second later because the car in front didn't go after all?
You're the one arguing automatics can't be controlled properly. I want to know in what ways.
As the driver of an AT car, my biggest gripe is that the damn thing never downshifts until *after* I start accelerating (thus going off the throttle), instead of before.
Instead of: Approach corner, decelerate & downshift into appropriate gear, turn, then accellerate..
you have: Approach corner, decelerate & the transmission shifts into one gear above what you really need. Turn corner, acceller-- wait-- shift -- ok now go.
Basically the difference is proactive control (with MT) vs. being limited to reactive control (with AT).
20000 defendants for 5 suits? I'd love to see this go to court with 4000 defendants in the one courtroom :)
And as a bonus, the US taxpayers get to pay for it instead of Toyota.
The problem is that too fast/too slow for conditions is different for every vehicle & driver. An attentive driver in a well-maintained relatively recent vehicle would be fine at any speed that's actually legal. A distracted soccer mom in a minivan is going to have trouble with any kind of emergency that happens at 70 mph. Anyone driving one of the mobile junk heaps you see around here probably isn't going to be safe at any speed over 40 mph. As a bonus, this latter category probably hasn't been inspected in years, and the driver is probably uninsured to boot.
You can forget to put a seatbelt on, although it is quite hard...
I haven't consciously put a seatbelt on in years. Although it somehow ends up buckled anyway, even when I'm just backing into the driveway.
This.
If talking on the phone/to a passenger/messing with the radio/whatever doesn't affect the amount of attention you can direct toward driving, it just means you're not paying enough attention in the first place.
I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to not install the sensors in manual-transmission vehicles. They require two hands to drive, anyway, as you point out. Maybe not all the time, but in any situation that requires you to be paying close attention (turns, traffic, etc.), you'll be shifting often, too.
Sat navs these days.. they're never happy.
I've always thought they should let you upload your wife's voice to those things...
Besides, if this becomes widespread, it won't be long before someone starts selling a cheap USB pass-through that adds a random delay of a few ms to your keystrokes. Or just gets built into keyboards as a privacy feature.
Actually, that might not be a bad idea anyway as a security feature against using traffic analysis to divine passwords and such.
I only have something to hide in that regard because the government requires me to hide it, not because I particularly care.
ATC primary radar (that tracks reflected radio signals) is generally only available near major airports anyway. The rest of the time, it just tracks the planes' transponder signals, which work over a much longer range. So the way things are now, a failed transponder would still mean it doesn't show up on radar until it was close to the airport. (and then it would still be missing a lot of information)
He's talking about the people that *game the system* of unemployment and welfare.
I'd have no problem taking out (or maybe just sterilizing) those people, since it would free up funds for people that *need* them, and let the people that can and do work keep more of theirs.
I may not be rich enough to benefit from the Republicans' policies, but I'm also definitely not rich enough to pay for the Democrats'.