"car, drive from the house over the ice bridge to the back-forty barn."
"does not compute"
"tractor, drive over to Mabel where they're diggin' the fence posts."
"does not compute"
Yes. Many times more important than public schools.
Without modern education systems, but with roads: the world might (worst reasonable case) devolve into a 1800's style agrarian/industrial economy where farm-folk trade with the industrial city-folk. Education would happen because books would be traded, and parents would teach their children as they had for millenia. It might not be quantum physics, but people would prosper and ideas would be exchanged.
Without roads (and bridges and tunnels), but with modern education systems: No one can reach schools unless a school is right nearby or they can chop through the woods, ford rivers, cross mountain ranges. Trading of goods and food would not happen except on small-scales. Most families would be like this one: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
Not if you drive out-of-state frequently. You'd only want to be taxed on the in-state miles.
The other state would like for me to be taxed by them for the out-of-state miles. My state benefits extra by me paying upkeep costs for wear and tear on the local roads that my vehicle never caused. Even if my state is Hawaii, it's likely that someone is crossing the border into my state just as much as I am into their's so it's a wash if all the states just collect from their own citizens.
Lots of driving on private property tends to mean it's becoming public property.
That's a ridiculous statement. Private roads are private infrastructure and are built and maintained with private funds. If Disneyland wants to gate its parking lots and prevent people from driving or parking on the lots, that's Disneyland's business. It's also Disneyland's business to pony up the money to repair potholes in its parking lots if it wants to. It could let the lots turn to gravel or mud pits if it wanted.
But getting back on subject: so few people drive only on private property with a vehicle registered to drive on public streets that it's not worth figuring out when you were on public or private. Every registration renewal, list the new odometer reading. 1/20 times, someone walks out to your car to double check it, so you can fudge if you like to gamble against a hefty fine. Vehicles that drive only on private property like farm trucks, tractors, and Disney trams are already non-registered.
Where you drive is largely irrelevant. Unless you're driving a race track or farmland, you're driving on public roads, and it's better to check the odometer than to charge extra for gasoline which can also be used for generators, lawn/farm equipment, and I'm sure lots of other stuff. The odometer plan works for e-vehicles too. Politician X doesn't need to know where we all drive to implement a plan that works. They may ostensibly want that info for "city planning" or "proactive road upgrades", but there are other ways already in use to get traffic density info that don't track people everywhere they go.
Without roads, work won't be within walking distance. Some poor guy's job as an Apple Genius in Texas depends on those iPods from California. Everyone depends upon roads as much as everyone else once you start using indirect dependencies. More important than public schools.
the bank should know who they sent that information to.
If the bank really knew to whom they sent the email, then sure, they'd have suspect number one if anyone looked cross at the victim's credit history. But they only know the email address they sent it too. Not quite the same as a person, and if the account is subsequently closed (and records of said account purged after X months) then the victim could have her identity sold after this date. The bank then calls up the email provider:
"Hey, we think one of your users is a hackety mchackerson. The email address is..."
"Sorry, no email address like that on file"
"But we sent all these private details of the victim to that email address a year ago!"
"..."
What? Dangerous kids who bring a toy ring to school and suggest to a friend that it can (helpfully?) turn the friend invisible? I mean, there's not even any indication of malice on the part of the student toward his friend. "suggesting it can make his friend disappear" isn't necessarily a threat. It's a ring of invisibility, for Eru's sake!
"Deflategate" should have been solved quickly and decisively, before the Superbowl. Ignore. I'm not even watching the commercials. Not even online. Not even the ones with cute puppies.
Direct democracy or GTFO. For anyone who wants to cry "mob rule", quick quiz before anyone should give a shit what you think: 1) how many times in history has the electoral college disagreed with the popular vote?
The federal government of the United States of America is a federation of (supposedly independent) states. The electoral college and Congress are set up in ways that make the states more important than their constituent citizens. This is by design because of the nature of the union. Marriage between X and Y is a union between X and Y. Their children, A, B, C, and D have no say in the continuance or divorce of said union.
Also, direct democracy is rule by people who have enough time on their hands to vote on everything. That's retirees and internet trolls.
Did I miss something? Did they skip FBI 2 just like Windows 9? That headline could be written in a less confusing manner: "Google Handed Three Wikileaks Staffers' Data to FBI"
Mount an NFS share to/dumbidea then dd a huge new file to/dumbidea/superslowswap and mkswap/dumbidea/superslowswap ; swapon/dumbidea/superslowswap
This might not run as desired.
The problem with such a program is that the insurance company has the data from other dongles on the same roads. Presuming there are timestamps on the accelerations, they can model traffic flows. If everyone is stopped at a stoplight in the reconstructed model but your fake data shows you driving through the light at speed limit minus one, their analysis program will know something is wrong with your data. Investigation ensues.
Some companies will happily spend money and people on the security problem, but individual people within the company refuse the spend the time, using workarounds to skip having to deal with security. Sometimes this means using the computing resources nonsecurely, but other times it means avoiding using the computing resources.
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"car, drive from the house over the ice bridge to the back-forty barn."
"does not compute"
"tractor, drive over to Mabel where they're diggin' the fence posts."
"does not compute"
You're already paying the same tax on gasoline for your car that you would be paying for the odometer tax, so you're already "overpaying" per se.
More important than public schools?
Yes. Many times more important than public schools.
Without modern education systems, but with roads: the world might (worst reasonable case) devolve into a 1800's style agrarian/industrial economy where farm-folk trade with the industrial city-folk. Education would happen because books would be traded, and parents would teach their children as they had for millenia. It might not be quantum physics, but people would prosper and ideas would be exchanged.
Without roads (and bridges and tunnels), but with modern education systems: No one can reach schools unless a school is right nearby or they can chop through the woods, ford rivers, cross mountain ranges. Trading of goods and food would not happen except on small-scales. Most families would be like this one: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
Not if you drive out-of-state frequently. You'd only want to be taxed on the in-state miles.
The other state would like for me to be taxed by them for the out-of-state miles. My state benefits extra by me paying upkeep costs for wear and tear on the local roads that my vehicle never caused. Even if my state is Hawaii, it's likely that someone is crossing the border into my state just as much as I am into their's so it's a wash if all the states just collect from their own citizens.
Lots of driving on private property tends to mean it's becoming public property.
That's a ridiculous statement. Private roads are private infrastructure and are built and maintained with private funds. If Disneyland wants to gate its parking lots and prevent people from driving or parking on the lots, that's Disneyland's business. It's also Disneyland's business to pony up the money to repair potholes in its parking lots if it wants to. It could let the lots turn to gravel or mud pits if it wanted.
But getting back on subject: so few people drive only on private property with a vehicle registered to drive on public streets that it's not worth figuring out when you were on public or private. Every registration renewal, list the new odometer reading. 1/20 times, someone walks out to your car to double check it, so you can fudge if you like to gamble against a hefty fine. Vehicles that drive only on private property like farm trucks, tractors, and Disney trams are already non-registered.
Where you drive is largely irrelevant. Unless you're driving a race track or farmland, you're driving on public roads, and it's better to check the odometer than to charge extra for gasoline which can also be used for generators, lawn/farm equipment, and I'm sure lots of other stuff. The odometer plan works for e-vehicles too. Politician X doesn't need to know where we all drive to implement a plan that works. They may ostensibly want that info for "city planning" or "proactive road upgrades", but there are other ways already in use to get traffic density info that don't track people everywhere they go.
Without roads, work won't be within walking distance. Some poor guy's job as an Apple Genius in Texas depends on those iPods from California. Everyone depends upon roads as much as everyone else once you start using indirect dependencies. More important than public schools.
the bank should know who they sent that information to.
If the bank really knew to whom they sent the email, then sure, they'd have suspect number one if anyone looked cross at the victim's credit history. But they only know the email address they sent it too. Not quite the same as a person, and if the account is subsequently closed (and records of said account purged after X months) then the victim could have her identity sold after this date. The bank then calls up the email provider: ..."
"Hey, we think one of your users is a hackety mchackerson. The email address is
"Sorry, no email address like that on file"
"But we sent all these private details of the victim to that email address a year ago!"
"..."
You just don't have as strong a sense of taste, I'm sure. They not only taste different, they smell different before boiling.
this is what you get
What? Dangerous kids who bring a toy ring to school and suggest to a friend that it can (helpfully?) turn the friend invisible? I mean, there's not even any indication of malice on the part of the student toward his friend. "suggesting it can make his friend disappear" isn't necessarily a threat. It's a ring of invisibility, for Eru's sake!
"Deflategate" should have been solved quickly and decisively, before the Superbowl. Ignore. I'm not even watching the commercials. Not even online. Not even the ones with cute puppies.
Some games actually use your character's name as a random seed for the rest of the game.
Hedge Knight stands a head taller than Martin's other works.
Xroach: places animated roaches under their open windows and the roaches scatter when the windows are reduced or closed.
They're not advanced because they're all Hulks!
Direct democracy or GTFO. For anyone who wants to cry "mob rule", quick quiz before anyone should give a shit what you think: 1) how many times in history has the electoral college disagreed with the popular vote?
The federal government of the United States of America is a federation of (supposedly independent) states. The electoral college and Congress are set up in ways that make the states more important than their constituent citizens. This is by design because of the nature of the union. Marriage between X and Y is a union between X and Y. Their children, A, B, C, and D have no say in the continuance or divorce of said union.
Also, direct democracy is rule by people who have enough time on their hands to vote on everything. That's retirees and internet trolls.
Or even better: "Google Handed Data of Three Wikileaks Staffers to FBI"
Did I miss something? Did they skip FBI 2 just like Windows 9? That headline could be written in a less confusing manner: "Google Handed Three Wikileaks Staffers' Data to FBI"
Show me an unbiased politician, and I'll show you a politician who will care more about the bribes than the issue.
so what the [censored] do they actually DO all day long. all year long.
Create Star Trek parody videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... And according to the video, they also play Wii.
download enough ram
Mount an NFS share to /dumbidea then dd a huge new file to /dumbidea/superslowswap and mkswap /dumbidea/superslowswap ; swapon /dumbidea/superslowswap
This might not run as desired.
Are sedentary people more likely to die, or are people more likely to die sedentary?
Dead people are more likely to be sedentary.
The problem with such a program is that the insurance company has the data from other dongles on the same roads. Presuming there are timestamps on the accelerations, they can model traffic flows. If everyone is stopped at a stoplight in the reconstructed model but your fake data shows you driving through the light at speed limit minus one, their analysis program will know something is wrong with your data. Investigation ensues.
Some companies will happily spend money and people on the security problem, but individual people within the company refuse the spend the time, using workarounds to skip having to deal with security. Sometimes this means using the computing resources nonsecurely, but other times it means avoiding using the computing resources.
"Their impotent wails of despair give us sustenance."