Does anyone know if traffic accident rates have gone up in recent years?
Irrelevant. Accident rates in general depend on too many other things, including safety features (new and old) in cars on the road, how many cars are on the road, and how the roads are designed.
It's not rocket science to deduce that taking your eyes and mind off the road make you a more dangerous driver. If it's not contributing significantly to the accident rate, that just means that a lot of people, believe it or not, aren't stupid enough to do it.
It's not just about accidents. It's about fatalities, and technology has definitely helped to lower those. As for irresponsibility causing an accident, yes, I think it should cost more than money.
I have a friend that watched one of his employees actually texting while driving with my buddy(his boss) sitting in the van with him (he put the idiot back on probationary status with loss of incentive pay)... it just so happens that the same moron hurt himself often and collected workers comp once before finally being let go for repeated safety violations... that dudes head was never in the game as long as I ever associated with him... but he did force us to update the employee hand book a couple of times with stuff like don't eat lunch while driving to a job site, no texting or dialing a phone while driving, pull off the road to answer the phone (they often had to take notes from phone calls).Iit was pretty bad having to try to think of every bone headed thing the guy could do and make a rule against it...
Last I heard the dude was working for the phone company... yes, driving a company service vehicle. If he had been cited for distracted driving I think maybe he would not have gotten his current position, and that might be a better thing for everyone else on the road.
The steel rebar and the copper pipe being in close proximity will make them act as electrodes on a battery. This will cause the steel anode to slowly be destroyed by the chemical reaction.
True also if the pipe is buried in some soils with a high or low Ph. Hardware stores sell a plastic sleve to prevent this problem. Also, if your system is low pressure you don't need to use copper... flexible plastic will work... just don't put ANY fittings where you can't reach them later (i.e. in the slab).
If you use a DVR to skip commercials, you are of no use to them. In fact, knowing who watches what and how often commercials are skipped might cause advertisers to flee shows that attract the wrong demographic (i.e. the tech savvy crowd).
In the end, they are just going to have to make the ads an integral part of the content, so you have to be exposed in order to be entertained.
Well you just know all those insurance companies will share risk data...
"Customer goes through phones like mint candies, do not issue phone insurance!"
Then when they start really using the DNA information accumulating everywhere it will be: "DNA database indicates the customer has a predisposition to drop his phone during urination, do not issue phone insurance!"
Potentially, it could limit access to content it owns to subscribers to its own services, thus shutting out competing services (where they still exist at all).
Isn't that pretty much the old "AOL" plan of attack... stuff you could only get from us (as long as you don't look around very hard).
It's always fun on slashdot to see the IANAL-but-I-KNOW-I'm-right crowd come out of the woodwork on articles like this..
Well, they are really hiding in the woodwork and shouting out their opinion. The fact that they post AC is a pretty good indicator that they are full of crap. The rest of your points are spot on. Just like software, if you don't like the conditions just say no thanks.
Can someone please fork Burning Man... What to call it though...
Burning Guy? Smoldering Dude? Immolation Person?
Both DirecTV and Dish Network use SSN's to help them establish if you have ever been a customer before. Satellite TV "virgins" can get deals not available to existing or repeat customers. Free PVR's, special programing packages, rebates, etc. are offered as an incentive to start a new account. I have a friend that ran a sales and installation firm for both services as well as their internet offerings. At his shop they always counseled people to get everything they could when they signed up, as the deals would never be better than when they first activate a new account. Both companies also decline to activate used equipment if there is an outstanding balance owed, even if someone else had purchased the receivers and wanted to add them to an existing account. If a satellite box has a bill outstanding,, they won't turn the box on until it is payed off.
Really. They don't advertise it as a search engine, it's a "decision engine" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egwT1KjG6tM. So when you are using it, they decide what you should see based on what you type in. And, yes, it's no surprise at all they would favor themselves... Interestingly the top search results for "linux netbook" don't seem to be tainted at all. I did notice while typing "linux" in one of the search suggestions was Linux XP... and the top of that result did not seem to be tainted either, what's wrong with those people? What is the world coming to when even the evil doers are lackluster and inconsistent.
Those who mock the poo-pixies risk the wrath of the crap-creature. Since the creation of the microscope, poo-pixies have camouflaged themselves as bacteria, but their vengeance is undiminished.
I beg you to recant your heresy least you be condemned to eternity in the porta-potty of explosive diarrhea!
Well crap, I thought that they had found a REALLY short route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, under 7 microns is sweet but it makes turning around a bitch...
Well, they decided to move it during the last administration.
DHS officials and Kansas leaders say the selection system, which began in late 2006, was always fair and open. Brownback has noted that George W. Bush was president in mid-January when his home state of Texas lost the competition.
Also, it's a democrat, Rep. Bart Stupak, that is insisting that there be a hearing on the issue...
It's a bit like saying one speck of dust is protecting another speck of dust from other, smaller dust, as they swirl around an eddy of warm air in a coliseum.
Right, if the dust is going fast enough to vaporize on impact... Hey, that might be pretty except for the UV damage to the eyes. Anyway, as someone stuck on the "protected" speck, I'll take any extra protection I can get... Sure hope our magnetic field "condom" continues to hold up against all the nasty stuff in the sunlight too...
Well, first off people that DON'T have low level jobs will have to get a lot better at what they do. There will be no carpenter with 20 years experience to adapt the work to the inadequacies of the architect (happens all the time, they permit the changes later using the term "as built"). Also, I would think that because the first units are going to be expensive, they will target more expensive workers. You don't outsource the cheap labor... you outsource the high cost stuff...
I get this vision of "5" pecking away at a keyboard, working out his first "Hello World"...
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Does anyone know if traffic accident rates have gone up in recent years?
Irrelevant. Accident rates in general depend on too many other things, including safety features (new and old) in cars on the road, how many cars are on the road, and how the roads are designed.
It's not rocket science to deduce that taking your eyes and mind off the road make you a more dangerous driver. If it's not contributing significantly to the accident rate, that just means that a lot of people, believe it or not, aren't stupid enough to do it.
It's not just about accidents. It's about fatalities, and technology has definitely helped to lower those. As for irresponsibility causing an accident, yes, I think it should cost more than money.
I have a friend that watched one of his employees actually texting while driving with my buddy(his boss) sitting in the van with him (he put the idiot back on probationary status with loss of incentive pay)... it just so happens that the same moron hurt himself often and collected workers comp once before finally being let go for repeated safety violations... that dudes head was never in the game as long as I ever associated with him... but he did force us to update the employee hand book a couple of times with stuff like don't eat lunch while driving to a job site, no texting or dialing a phone while driving, pull off the road to answer the phone (they often had to take notes from phone calls).Iit was pretty bad having to try to think of every bone headed thing the guy could do and make a rule against it...
Last I heard the dude was working for the phone company... yes, driving a company service vehicle. If he had been cited for distracted driving I think maybe he would not have gotten his current position, and that might be a better thing for everyone else on the road.
The steel rebar and the copper pipe being in close proximity will make them act as electrodes on a battery. This will cause the steel anode to slowly be destroyed by the chemical reaction.
True also if the pipe is buried in some soils with a high or low Ph. Hardware stores sell a plastic sleve to prevent this problem. Also, if your system is low pressure you don't need to use copper... flexible plastic will work... just don't put ANY fittings where you can't reach them later (i.e. in the slab).
If you use a DVR to skip commercials, you are of no use to them. In fact, knowing who watches what and how often commercials are skipped might cause advertisers to flee shows that attract the wrong demographic (i.e. the tech savvy crowd).
In the end, they are just going to have to make the ads an integral part of the content, so you have to be exposed in order to be entertained.
Other than Google Voice and a bandwidth auction, I haven't heard much about the FCC in some years, aside of course from Janet Jackson's nipple.
Sunspots.
...on Janet Jackson's nipple...
Well you just know all those insurance companies will share risk data...
"Customer goes through phones like mint candies, do not issue phone insurance!"
Then when they start really using the DNA information accumulating everywhere it will be:
"DNA database indicates the customer has a predisposition to drop his phone during urination, do not issue phone insurance!"
Potentially, it could limit access to content it owns to subscribers to its own services, thus shutting out competing services (where they still exist at all).
Isn't that pretty much the old "AOL" plan of attack... stuff you could only get from us (as long as you don't look around very hard).
with yourself does not count...
A diamond really is forever, just try getting one of the little fuckers back.
Perl is for formal occassions, like when you wear hat and gloves.
And nothing else...
It's always fun on slashdot to see the IANAL-but-I-KNOW-I'm-right crowd come out of the woodwork on articles like this..
Well, they are really hiding in the woodwork and shouting out their opinion. The fact that they post AC is a pretty good indicator that they are full of crap. The rest of your points are spot on. Just like software, if you don't like the conditions just say no thanks.
Can someone please fork Burning Man... What to call it though...
Burning Guy?
Smoldering Dude?
Immolation Person?
Both DirecTV and Dish Network use SSN's to help them establish if you have ever been a customer before. Satellite TV "virgins" can get deals not available to existing or repeat customers. Free PVR's, special programing packages, rebates, etc. are offered as an incentive to start a new account. I have a friend that ran a sales and installation firm for both services as well as their internet offerings. At his shop they always counseled people to get everything they could when they signed up, as the deals would never be better than when they first activate a new account. Both companies also decline to activate used equipment if there is an outstanding balance owed, even if someone else had purchased the receivers and wanted to add them to an existing account. If a satellite box has a bill outstanding,, they won't turn the box on until it is payed off.
You know, out of all of the uses of this meme, this is the first one that really got me to laugh... well done.
Hardly vaporware. Its in production.
Hey! Duke Nukem Forever is gonna get done.
No, really!
Awww, come on, quit laughing....
Guys....
What's next, a Microsoft-Google merger (Googlesoft)?
I think it would be more like Microogle, but we would all shorten it to Moogle...
Is he no longer chairman of Microsoft? They have him listed as of the 2008 report:
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/ar08/10k_do_dir.html
I'm thinking if they call him, he'll probably pick it up...
Is that a picture of your daughter there on your desk?
Surprised, why?
Really. They don't advertise it as a search engine, it's a "decision engine" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egwT1KjG6tM.
So when you are using it, they decide what you should see based on what you type in. And, yes, it's no surprise at all they would favor themselves... Interestingly the top search results for "linux netbook" don't seem to be tainted at all. I did notice while typing "linux" in one of the search suggestions was Linux XP... and the top of that result did not seem to be tainted either, what's wrong with those people? What is the world coming to when even the evil doers are lackluster and inconsistent.
"nine-vehicle pileup" would be a great name for a band...
Those who mock the poo-pixies risk the wrath of the crap-creature.
Since the creation of the microscope, poo-pixies have camouflaged themselves as bacteria, but their vengeance is undiminished.
I beg you to recant your heresy least you be condemned to eternity in the porta-potty of explosive diarrhea!
Well crap, I thought that they had found a REALLY short route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, under 7 microns is sweet but it makes turning around a bitch...
...I believe that you need the right tools for the job when moderating.
Especially when moderating from a publicly-usable university library computer with IE7.
and a really sticky, smelly keyboard...
DHS officials and Kansas leaders say the selection system, which began in late 2006, was always fair and open. Brownback has noted that George W. Bush was president in mid-January when his home state of Texas lost the competition.
Also, it's a democrat, Rep. Bart Stupak, that is insisting that there be a hearing on the issue...
just saying...
If we let cursive die, calligraphy could be next to go!
When they came for the quills, I did not complain.
When they came for the crayons, there was no one left to complain...
It's a bit like saying one speck of dust is protecting another speck of dust from other, smaller dust, as they swirl around an eddy of warm air in a coliseum.
Right, if the dust is going fast enough to vaporize on impact... Hey, that might be pretty except for the UV damage to the eyes. Anyway, as someone stuck on the "protected" speck, I'll take any extra protection I can get... Sure hope our magnetic field "condom" continues to hold up against all the nasty stuff in the sunlight too...
Well, first off people that DON'T have low level jobs will have to get a lot better at what they do. There will be no carpenter with 20 years experience to adapt the work to the inadequacies of the architect (happens all the time, they permit the changes later using the term "as built"). Also, I would think that because the first units are going to be expensive, they will target more expensive workers. You don't outsource the cheap labor... you outsource the high cost stuff...
I get this vision of "5" pecking away at a keyboard, working out his first "Hello World"...
Bloody Neutral.
What makes a man turn neutral?
Being unsure about a choice between reverse and drive?