You clearly do not live near speed trap towns. There are several in Florida. The AAA got onto them by placing billboards ahead of the enforcement zones (55 to 25 MPH in the span of a block or two) and the towns sued as I recall. Lost badly. One actually declared bankruptcy! Hampton, FL is looking at its end because of lost ticket revenue.

[...] smoking in public [...]

Oh how I wish they were able to feasibly enforce already-in-effect statutes regarding smoking where prohibited and for littering. I've long said that if I had Powerball money, I'd hire dozens of off-duty cops to do nothing but stand visibly at major intersections writing littering citations for smokers who throw their butts out (usually lit) rather than stuff 'em in the ashtray.

I'm also sick of people who smoke all the way to the entrance to a store and drop the lit end at the threshhold cos they couldn't be arsed to put it in the provided ashcan / pole thing because it's off to the side of the entrance.

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Are you thinking what I'm thinking, that TWoWS is cruel and unusual punishment?

I'm so very disappointed it took this many posts to get to this one. I figured it for FP, myself.

Not really. How close are we now to digital copyrights lasting a millennium?

To be fair, Adriax, the AC (somewhat rudely) did set a threshold for the fever. Yes, absolutely a fever that high and unresponsive means a doctor's visit. But having worked for three years with a healthcare group specifically established and funded by the city and the major area hospitals specifically to keep ER frequent fliers away, the AC has a valid point.

Our company took treatment data from the ERs and with our own nurse case managers and a multispecialty physician network rivaling paid insurance carriers, we worked to divert uninsured and underinsureds to PCP care for non-emergent issues. This was for far more than fevers - we did diabetes and hypertension management, obesity and smoking interventions, the works. The hospitals ponied up because they were sick (ha!) of eating the $6,500 average unpaid ER bill when people without insurance would skip out on paying. And because an ER is a /terrible/ place for routine health care. The people who complied with their care plans did better and had fewer ER visits and the hospitals and the city were happy,

Until budget cuts from the city and a lack of federal grant renewal put the kibosh on the whole thing. 1,400-odd covered folks went back to their old ways...

Why weren't you running Openwrt?

Because not everyone can be arsed to buy a commercial product to fill a specific need, choosing one designed for that need, and then removing core software or hardware in order to make it "open". Some people like to buy things without having to re-engineer them when they get home.

Don't get me wrong. I rooted both my cellphones shortly after purchase, and I have a Linksys home router running custom firmware. I mod things for performance reasons or because it's interesting or enlightening. But not everyone can or should do so. In an ideal world*, the routers would have sane security by default.

I'll take off my rose-tinted specs now and go back to yelling at the kids on my lawn.

... Getting a little tired of this disingenuous strawman. The purpose of personal property is to belong to its owner. The purpose of clothing is to cover our bodies. Neither suggests access is explicitly or implicitly granted to third parties.

Now, put a water fountain up at a public park with the intent (but no access control measures implemented) to limit its access and then let's talk. A publicly-available website's purpose is to disseminate information! Robots.txt is a timeworn and standard way to show your intent for access. As is having a log in page or similar. If you put up a public-facing website which conveys information relevant for public consumption, don't be surprised when the public uses it! Heaven forbid a speedreader with eidetic memory accesses pages too fast for your liking...

Now, if you implement a page cap and someone uses tricksy browsing to bypass THAT, then I agree that that is bad form. Until then, if you put the site up and effectively say "OPEN FOR BUSINESS"...

Also what if the decimal point is in the wrong place [...]

Waaait... Is Mike Bolton on the dev team for this? I hear he always messes up the mundane details.

re: the summary's title: One simple word would have needed all this hand-wringing. "Siphons Work PRIMARILY Due To Gravity [...]"

Also, help me out. Isn't reducing pressure at one end how siphoning is started? I understand gravity's role in moving the column of fluid along, but as pointed out, you need both gravity and pressure, right?

I'm completely spit-balling here, but what if each component needing drivers brought their own? I haven't seen the interconnect specs but could a firmware chip on the new component provide its own driver when connected?

Don't worry, I doubt the "entertainment" genre is dying off with the same rapidity as technical is. Tabloids in particular will continue to fester for years to come.

much debt. wow. such poor.

Have you compared Tasker to Llama? Llama was one of the first apps I downloaded to my then-new HTC Thunderbolt. Also, one of the first I donated to. Gotta love the location- and time-based control of volumes, WiFi / Cell radios, screen brightness, etc.

Interestingly enough, I use a Tasker plugin called Taskkill with Llama. I have Llama set to monitor certain apps that sit in the background rather than fully close, and using Taskkill, it force closes them after a defined period of time. Main reason is I noticed (thanks to XPrivacy) that lots of backgrounded apps were still polling the network, phone and storage even when logged out of or exited. Note that the FC option requires root.

I guess art is subjective - I've seen plenty of graffiti I'd easily consider art. Not so sure about tags - still sorting out the distinctions.

And as I mention above, I know it's vandalism (unless they go out of their way for permission, which does happen now and again). Doesn't preclude it being art as well.