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Comment Re:packet radio? (Score 1) 371

Sounds like they are regulating it incorrectly for 2013 then. Why worry about what, when you can easily control how often. Limit each participant to some amount.

This whole thing has too much legacy cruft it seems like from the outside looking in.

So if there are, say, 525600 licensed ham operators, each one gets to broadcast for exactly one minute every year?

Comment Re:Trust (Score 2) 273

Doctor's may be immune to discipline but nurses are not.

Nursing schools are cranking out young, low wage nurses, for which the hospitals are looking for any reason to get rid of the higher paid and older nurses... I know a nurse, she's in her 50s, been an RN all her life and still is forced to work x-mas and Thanksgiving otherwise her hospital will replace her with the girls coming out of the local nursing school.

Reminds me of the programming industry...

Are you saying that if you get sick on Thanksgiving it would be best, medically speaking, to only have inexperienced nurses treating you? As a patient, you would feel okay knowing that the experienced nurses were home with their families, while you were being treated by newbies?

Comment Re:With all due respect... (Score 1) 36

If you stopped building your homes out of match sticks and built homes that where able to withstand tornadoes (and yes this is perfectly possible) then the clean up would be a *LOT* simpler.

Other sensible measures would be putting electric and telecoms under ground as well.

Both those measures are expensive. Do you have any idea how many thousands of miles of telecom/electric cables are in Oklahoma? If they just have one mile of wire per square mile, that's 69,898 miles of wire. I think the figure is many times that.

Same with housing. Building with concrete or steel is expensive, and will turn your house into an E-Z Bake Oven as well. That would increase electricity needs for running AC, which would lead to more pollution, which would cause more deaths.

Comment Re:That will not happen. (Score 4, Insightful) 508

I really hope they don't put up ever more cameras. We don't need them. Crime has been falling since 1988 and the US murder rate is around 5.4 / 100,000 people. And that is close to its all time low. And terrorism is rare and unlikely to kill or hurt anyone. When can we start rolling out policy based on data and evidence not on fear?

As far as cameras looking at police officers. We need a lot more of that. Police routinely 'beat people up' and conduct illegal searches. They need to be put on a short leash.

You provided the per-capita murder rate. Can you also provide the per-capita for people beat up by police and for illegal searches?

Comment Re:not all that effective (Score 2) 211

I would think that shutting down cell towers wouldn't be particularly effective, given that the same mechanism that would allow one to trigger a bomb with a cell phone is also present in other RF devices such as baby monitors and walkie-talkies.

They could also set the bomb to trigger if it loses reception.

Comment Re:Not true. (Score 0) 984

What if to brake safely you come to a stop over the line? (large truck behind you or someone riding your ass, speeding etc?)

If someone rear-ends you, then that's their fault. 100% of the time. They were following you too close or not paying attention. You can only control one thing when you are driving--yourself. Stop staring in your rearview mirror when you are driving. You only need to look into it when you are going to make a lane change, or if you hear sirens. I rearended someone myself--going 50mph--because I was looking in my rearview mirror too long while doing a lane change, and they were stopped dead on the highway.

On the other hand, stop lights should have the timing set correctly--that is, they should stay yellow long enough for someone going the speed limit to either make it through the intersection, or to stop prior to the intersection. But the article is not about red light cameras, it's about speed cameras.

Comment Re:A link to Diaspora? (Score 1) 61

I want interoperability between Social network Providers!

It worked for network providers, it worked for email providers....

And you want all the inherent security advantages that SMTP provides, right?

HELO whitehouse.gov
MAIL FROM:president@whitehouse.gov
RCPT TO:raymabus@navy.mil
DATA
From: "Barak Obama"
To: "Ray Mabus" Subject: Attack North Korea
Hey Ray,
I want to make that Nobel Peace Prize committee look like an even bigger bunch of fools. And, I'm tired of the Democrat party being called 'weak' on national security. The North Korean missile threat is the last straw--let's send in the Marines!

Sincerely,
Barak Hussein Obama
.
QUIT

Comment Re:Attacks on bandwidth caps are shortsighted (Score 1) 213

I'm guessing people, like yourself, that download 208 GBs a month are not the target market. Any other products you'd like to declare dead just because you personally wouldn't use it?

Yes, I declare the following are dead: tampons, hang gliders, skirts, tofu, turkey burgers, yachts, and nuclear missiles.

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