Also it pointed out that a way to defeat this is any drug that dialates the pupils. So; smoke a bong and smile;)
Marijuana doesn't dialate the pupils, although it can make your eyes red and droopy (maybe just as good). Non-addictive drugs don't do jack to the pupils.
If you want your eyes dialated, you're going to have to snort coke or smoke meth or crack. Downers and narcotics like Heroin or Demerol will make your pupils constrict.
A passenger can be a second pair of eyes, which is where the danger lies - the eyes. Anything that forces you to take your eyes off the road is dangerous (including the passenger who is watching the scenery insttead of helping you watch the road and saying "oh look - ponies!").
I think if they're going to make any "distracted driving" laws they should outlaw those flashing, message-changing signs. Their whole purpose is to distract morotists!
There is one. It's called a "metamod". However, if someone is going for "funny" and fails it, what but "troll" or flamebait would you mod him with?
I saw that it was a joke, but damn, dude, the joke just sucked. You may think a joke about black people is hilarious, but the black people won't. You may think a joke about a homosexual is funny, but the gay guy won't. Those jokes wil be modded "troll" or "flamebait" and deservedly so.
I can't bring myself to read an article with "cloud" in it unless it's about weather, flying, or sunshine. There is no cloud.
I sure as hell hope it wasn't Stallman who used that ugly yuppified buzzword. Any time you hear one of these incredibly stupid, meaningless buzzwords you know for certain that the word's user is completely ignorant of the subject he is talking about and wants you to think you are the ignorant one.
and law enforcement gets it because terrorists scare the shit out of us.
It isn't the terrorists scaring the shit out of us, it's our own media and our own government. The terrorists haven't done jack shit in over half a decade.
So I'm not sure 'fear of terrorism' is a valid reason for doing, um, anything different.
This century almost 3000 psople died on American soil from terrorism. Over 4000 Americans died because the President sent them to a needless war in Iraq. 40,000 died on the Amnerican highways LAST YEAR ALONE. I'd like to see some of the Homeland Security money go to guard rails. There is very VERY little chance of my dying at the hands of a terrorist; almost any other cause of death is far more likely. I have a greater chance of winning the lottery than dying of terrorism.
Only idiots fear terrorists in America. In other countries YMMV.
Heck, like you said, just unplug the damn thing. Or if you are paranoid, get a ball of tin foil and cover up the antenna.
How would you where it even was?
The reason I ask, I don't have a GM vehicle, but the turn signals recently started malfunctioning on my used 2002 Concorde. The malfucntion affects both right and left bulbs, affacts the hazard flashers, and is intermittant. So it must be the relay.
The fuse/relay box is prominently placed under the hood and easily accessed, However, there are over half dozen relays, none of them marked. I have no clue which one is for the blinkers.
I would assume that the onstar antenna would also be the FM radio antenna and the keyless entry antenna. Which, come to think of it, I don't know where they are in my car, either.
Maybe she did have it on vibrate herself, my phone is always on vibrate, if a movie theater blocked signal it'd stop me "non-annoying" phone too which I think is less than fair.
Maybe? That's the problem. I'm for putting theaters and nice restaurants (not McDonald's or anywhere else where badly behaved children and their parents are allowed) inside faraday cages.
It's not extremely contrived, how did people manage 30 years ago without phones is a bad argument, it's like asking how did people survive 1000 years ago without medicine or computers
No it isn't, not the least. You can (and should, damn it) do without the internet for two hours for God's sake! And without your phone. The argument isn't for outlawing phones, it's for making them not work in places they're a nuisance. If you absolutely HAVE to be contacted, stay our of the theater. PERIOD.
is it fair for someone to put their entire life on hold just to get lung transplant?
Of course it is. Their life's already on hold. There aren't many places that need a no-cell zone; museums, libraries, theaters, nice rastaraunts; telling someone they can't have a phone in the se places is NOT to omuch to ask. If the guy waiting for a new liver because he drank it to death or a new heart because he's a McAddict needs to be contacted, he can hire someone to sit outside with his phone. Can't afford to hire someone? Tough. Lots of people can't afford a ticket to the theater in the first place.
Already have it. It's called a "moderator", and it illustrates Schneier's point perfectly, as it's often abused.
How about a kill switch to take mod points away from someone who automatically mods a first post as "offtopic" or "redundant" even though it can't possibly be redundant (it's FIRST, duh!) and may not only be on topic but insightful, interesting, informative, or funny?.
I absolutely HATE getting a first post because of the knee-jerk mods who mod without even reading the comment.
Actually there is a kill switch for these bozos - the metamoderator.
As to kill switches on busses, I'm all for that. There's little reason not to. On my private car, well, that's a different matter now. Nobody but me should have the right to shut off MY equipment.
You mentioned cell phones; no kill switch needed there. Put a faraday cage around your theater, and there are no calls made or recieved inside it, problem solved without abusing anyone's rights (it is, after all, YOUR theater and you have the right to cage it).
I don't often RTFA, but this one (actually most of Bruce Schneier's stuff) is worth a read.
That's ok, nobody here wants to work for an idiot who is too stupid to realize that there are probably a dozen people with the same name as you living in one state alone.
Besides, you're a troll. Who wants to work for a troll?
According to the bits and pieces you find about me online when you enter my name in a search engine I'm an accomplished freelancing game creator, writing articles for a local newspaper, who spends his spare time as a volunteer with the fire brigade, and so on.
Plug my name into Google and of the at least half dozen people in North America with the same name as me, a semi-famous comedian fro Colorado fills the first several pages of hits. Once on slashdot I made this same point, and one poster, sure he had found my true identity, posted the address and phone number of some poor schmuck from Canada who had the same name as me.
Anyone who uses Google to find out about a prospective employee is incredibly stupid, and there's no way I would work for a fucktard like that. I mean, who wants to be unemployed in only six months when the firm goes bankrupt after having your blood pressure raised daily by an idiot who is dumb enough to think they can find you using the internet?
There is a big, glaring problem with this - multinational corporations. The corporate owned media has convinced voters that if you vote for anyone but a Republican or a Democrat you've wasted your vote.
That way, the corporatti only have to bribe two candidates for any given office with "campaign contributions". So it doesn't matter which of the two candidates the corporate media even MENTIONS loses, they win.
So a vote for a Democrat or a Republican is a wasted vote. You might as well stay home and be painted by the corporate media as "apathetic".
I used to split my votes between Democrats and Republicans. Now I split them between Greens and Libertarians.
I'd like to see some REAL campaign finance reform, not the sham reforms McCain has touted. I want it to be against the law to contribute to more than one candidate in any given race, on the grounds that contributing to both is a thinly veiled bribe. And I'd like it to be a felony to contribute to any candidate you aren't eligible to vote for.
My IQ was 142 in school (it's more like 130 now, I suffered brain damage from an auto accident in 1976). I always got good grades, and went on to college, but the system failed me regardless. Once they taught me to read there is little they taught me afterwards; I'd already read it. My math teachers thought I must be really smart because I knew how to use a slide rule and they didn't; it was more akin to cheating (this was before pocket calculators).
My boredom got me in trouble a lot. I was a real pain in the ass to teachers, who I'd ask questions of that they not only didn't know the answers to but didn't know where to find the answers.
In fact, some of the things journaled here would see me in jail if I was in school now (the hydrogen experiment).
There were emotional issues. Her mother left us when the youngest was 15 and her sister was 17. On top of that there was an assistant Principal who very obviously hated white people and females; in fact the asshole was fired after a lot of kids (all of them white girls who had previously done very well in school) dropped out. She plans on college now, and is engaged to be married to a guy I firmly approve of.
The oldest is autistic. The psychiatrist we saw for family counseling after my ex-wife left us got her on SSI. The oldest just turned 23, the youngest is 21.
My dad always said "one 'oh, shit!' wipes out a lof of 'attaboys'", it only takes one or two bad teachers or administrators to screw up a kid's life. It needs to be a lot easier to get rid of bad teachers and principals than it currently is. Teaching is the second most important job there is, right after parenting.
She's planning on college with a major in music. That's my fault, I'm afraid; I play guitar. When the kids were little I'd start playing and they'd run into the room I was in and plop down on the floor making requests. "Play the one about our eyes!"
See, I'd change the lyrics so that the songs were about them. Leila (the oldest) has always been terrified of storms. She had the uncanny ability to predict the weather. If it was going to rain, she would know when to within twenty minutes. I have no idea how she did this.
Patty's brown eyes, they seem to me Remind me of childhood memories When everything was as big as a bright blue sky Now and then when I see her face It takes me away to that special place And if I stay too long I'll prob'ly break down and cry
Oh, Sweet child o' mine Oh, Sweet child o' mine
Leila's got eyes like the bluest skies As if they're gonna rain I'd hate to look into those eyes And see an ounce of pain Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place Where I couold go and hide I pray for the thunder And the rain To quietly pass her by
Damn, I get misty thinking about it.
I'm afraid I'm responsible for GameStop, too - I played Quake and Quake II and all sorts of other games with them on the computers I had networked together. Patty was a Jazz Jackrabbit fan, and one day she came to me wide eyed, "Dad, I didn't know you were famous!" It seems a fan of my old Springfield Fragfest web site ran across her playing Jazz Jackrabbit and was awe-struck that he'd met my daughter. Patty was awe-struck that game developers knew me online. One of the visual artists from Jazz Jackrabbit sent her a portrait of her as a rabbit.
She has a natural affinity for music, though. She can pick up a piece of sheet music she's never heard, pick up her clarinet and just start playing. I'm in awe of her.
Both of them are "Daddy's Girls". Their mom left us when they were teenagers.
There's nothing better than parenthood. I waited to have kids, my advice to young people is DON'T WAIT. Just do it.
Slashdot Mirror
Also it pointed out that a way to defeat this is any drug that dialates the pupils. So; smoke a bong and smile ;)
Marijuana doesn't dialate the pupils, although it can make your eyes red and droopy (maybe just as good). Non-addictive drugs don't do jack to the pupils.
If you want your eyes dialated, you're going to have to snort coke or smoke meth or crack. Downers and narcotics like Heroin or Demerol will make your pupils constrict.
techpawn's law: As a slashdot discussion of tech grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving George Orwell's 1984 approaches one."
A passenger can be a second pair of eyes, which is where the danger lies - the eyes. Anything that forces you to take your eyes off the road is dangerous (including the passenger who is watching the scenery insttead of helping you watch the road and saying "oh look - ponies!").
I think if they're going to make any "distracted driving" laws they should outlaw those flashing, message-changing signs. Their whole purpose is to distract morotists!
honestly... some mod needs a "WHOOOSH!"
There is one. It's called a "metamod". However, if someone is going for "funny" and fails it, what but "troll" or flamebait would you mod him with?
I saw that it was a joke, but damn, dude, the joke just sucked. You may think a joke about black people is hilarious, but the black people won't. You may think a joke about a homosexual is funny, but the gay guy won't. Those jokes wil be modded "troll" or "flamebait" and deservedly so.
NKB checked.
Good luck in this climate, a week from now our loyal OPPOSITION party here in the us is going to sell our fourth amendment rights down the river
I used to believe we had fourth amendments rights until last summer, when mine were violated twice, once on Memorial Day of all days.
In a plutocracy such as ours, only the rich have rights. You can't lose what you never had.
I can't bring myself to read an article with "cloud" in it unless it's about weather, flying, or sunshine. There is no cloud.
I sure as hell hope it wasn't Stallman who used that ugly yuppified buzzword. Any time you hear one of these incredibly stupid, meaningless buzzwords you know for certain that the word's user is completely ignorant of the subject he is talking about and wants you to think you are the ignorant one.
and law enforcement gets it because terrorists scare the shit out of us.
It isn't the terrorists scaring the shit out of us, it's our own media and our own government. The terrorists haven't done jack shit in over half a decade.
Wives do come with kill switches. They're called "divorce lawyers".
So I'm not sure 'fear of terrorism' is a valid reason for doing, um, anything different.
This century almost 3000 psople died on American soil from terrorism. Over 4000 Americans died because the President sent them to a needless war in Iraq. 40,000 died on the Amnerican highways LAST YEAR ALONE. I'd like to see some of the Homeland Security money go to guard rails. There is very VERY little chance of my dying at the hands of a terrorist; almost any other cause of death is far more likely. I have a greater chance of winning the lottery than dying of terrorism.
Only idiots fear terrorists in America. In other countries YMMV.
Heck, like you said, just unplug the damn thing. Or if you are paranoid, get a ball of tin foil and cover up the antenna.
How would you where it even was?
The reason I ask, I don't have a GM vehicle, but the turn signals recently started malfunctioning on my used 2002 Concorde. The malfucntion affects both right and left bulbs, affacts the hazard flashers, and is intermittant. So it must be the relay.
The fuse/relay box is prominently placed under the hood and easily accessed, However, there are over half dozen relays, none of them marked. I have no clue which one is for the blinkers.
I would assume that the onstar antenna would also be the FM radio antenna and the keyless entry antenna. Which, come to think of it, I don't know where they are in my car, either.
Everyone knows wikipedia is unreliable. Uncyclopedia has an article about turtles, too. And Kill Switches. And Bruce. And your mom. And slashdot.
This is a disambiguation page. This means Uncyclopedia is hopelessly confused.
(a shameless mocking of your post)
Maybe she did have it on vibrate herself, my phone is always on vibrate, if a movie theater blocked signal it'd stop me "non-annoying" phone too which I think is less than fair.
Maybe? That's the problem. I'm for putting theaters and nice restaurants (not McDonald's or anywhere else where badly behaved children and their parents are allowed) inside faraday cages.
It's not extremely contrived, how did people manage 30 years ago without phones is a bad argument, it's like asking how did people survive 1000 years ago without medicine or computers
No it isn't, not the least. You can (and should, damn it) do without the internet for two hours for God's sake! And without your phone. The argument isn't for outlawing phones, it's for making them not work in places they're a nuisance. If you absolutely HAVE to be contacted, stay our of the theater. PERIOD.
is it fair for someone to put their entire life on hold just to get lung transplant?
Of course it is. Their life's already on hold. There aren't many places that need a no-cell zone; museums, libraries, theaters, nice rastaraunts; telling someone they can't have a phone in the se places is NOT to omuch to ask. If the guy waiting for a new liver because he drank it to death or a new heart because he's a McAddict needs to be contacted, he can hire someone to sit outside with his phone. Can't afford to hire someone? Tough. Lots of people can't afford a ticket to the theater in the first place.
How about a kill switch to prevent a First Post?
Already have it. It's called a "moderator", and it illustrates Schneier's point perfectly, as it's often abused.
How about a kill switch to take mod points away from someone who automatically mods a first post as "offtopic" or "redundant" even though it can't possibly be redundant (it's FIRST, duh!) and may not only be on topic but insightful, interesting, informative, or funny?.
I absolutely HATE getting a first post because of the knee-jerk mods who mod without even reading the comment.
Actually there is a kill switch for these bozos - the metamoderator.
As to kill switches on busses, I'm all for that. There's little reason not to. On my private car, well, that's a different matter now. Nobody but me should have the right to shut off MY equipment.
You mentioned cell phones; no kill switch needed there. Put a faraday cage around your theater, and there are no calls made or recieved inside it, problem solved without abusing anyone's rights (it is, after all, YOUR theater and you have the right to cage it).
I don't often RTFA, but this one (actually most of Bruce Schneier's stuff) is worth a read.
That's ok, nobody here wants to work for an idiot who is too stupid to realize that there are probably a dozen people with the same name as you living in one state alone.
Besides, you're a troll. Who wants to work for a troll?
According to the bits and pieces you find about me online when you enter my name in a search engine I'm an accomplished freelancing game creator, writing articles for a local newspaper, who spends his spare time as a volunteer with the fire brigade, and so on.
Plug my name into Google and of the at least half dozen people in North America with the same name as me, a semi-famous comedian fro Colorado fills the first several pages of hits. Once on slashdot I made this same point, and one poster, sure he had found my true identity, posted the address and phone number of some poor schmuck from Canada who had the same name as me.
Anyone who uses Google to find out about a prospective employee is incredibly stupid, and there's no way I would work for a fucktard like that. I mean, who wants to be unemployed in only six months when the firm goes bankrupt after having your blood pressure raised daily by an idiot who is dumb enough to think they can find you using the internet?
-mcgrew
There's no such thing as an average slashdotter.
According to TFA the drug isn't all that new.
There is a big, glaring problem with this - multinational corporations. The corporate owned media has convinced voters that if you vote for anyone but a Republican or a Democrat you've wasted your vote.
That way, the corporatti only have to bribe two candidates for any given office with "campaign contributions". So it doesn't matter which of the two candidates the corporate media even MENTIONS loses, they win.
So a vote for a Democrat or a Republican is a wasted vote. You might as well stay home and be painted by the corporate media as "apathetic".
I used to split my votes between Democrats and Republicans. Now I split them between Greens and Libertarians.
I'd like to see some REAL campaign finance reform, not the sham reforms McCain has touted. I want it to be against the law to contribute to more than one candidate in any given race, on the grounds that contributing to both is a thinly veiled bribe. And I'd like it to be a felony to contribute to any candidate you aren't eligible to vote for.
Pigs will fly first.
That's why Daley is looking for a fight.
Hey, there, now, we have the best politicians money can buy!
As your obviously jealous comment comes from an anonymous coward, I take your flamebait as a compliment.
You're welcome. Now shoo.
Can I have her number?
42. Ask any parent, their kid's number is 42. Life, the universe, and everything.
My IQ was 142 in school (it's more like 130 now, I suffered brain damage from an auto accident in 1976). I always got good grades, and went on to college, but the system failed me regardless. Once they taught me to read there is little they taught me afterwards; I'd already read it. My math teachers thought I must be really smart because I knew how to use a slide rule and they didn't; it was more akin to cheating (this was before pocket calculators).
My boredom got me in trouble a lot. I was a real pain in the ass to teachers, who I'd ask questions of that they not only didn't know the answers to but didn't know where to find the answers.
In fact, some of the things journaled here would see me in jail if I was in school now (the hydrogen experiment).
There were emotional issues. Her mother left us when the youngest was 15 and her sister was 17. On top of that there was an assistant Principal who very obviously hated white people and females; in fact the asshole was fired after a lot of kids (all of them white girls who had previously done very well in school) dropped out. She plans on college now, and is engaged to be married to a guy I firmly approve of.
The oldest is autistic. The psychiatrist we saw for family counseling after my ex-wife left us got her on SSI. The oldest just turned 23, the youngest is 21.
My dad always said "one 'oh, shit!' wipes out a lof of 'attaboys'", it only takes one or two bad teachers or administrators to screw up a kid's life. It needs to be a lot easier to get rid of bad teachers and principals than it currently is. Teaching is the second most important job there is, right after parenting.
She's planning on college with a major in music. That's my fault, I'm afraid; I play guitar. When the kids were little I'd start playing and they'd run into the room I was in and plop down on the floor making requests. "Play the one about our eyes!"
See, I'd change the lyrics so that the songs were about them. Leila (the oldest) has always been terrified of storms. She had the uncanny ability to predict the weather. If it was going to rain, she would know when to within twenty minutes. I have no idea how she did this.
Damn, I get misty thinking about it.
I'm afraid I'm responsible for GameStop, too - I played Quake and Quake II and all sorts of other games with them on the computers I had networked together. Patty was a Jazz Jackrabbit fan, and one day she came to me wide eyed, "Dad, I didn't know you were famous!" It seems a fan of my old Springfield Fragfest web site ran across her playing Jazz Jackrabbit and was awe-struck that he'd met my daughter. Patty was awe-struck that game developers knew me online. One of the visual artists from Jazz Jackrabbit sent her a portrait of her as a rabbit.
She has a natural affinity for music, though. She can pick up a piece of sheet music she's never heard, pick up her clarinet and just start playing. I'm in awe of her.
Both of them are "Daddy's Girls". Their mom left us when they were teenagers.
There's nothing better than parenthood. I waited to have kids, my advice to young people is DON'T WAIT. Just do it.