My father-in-law believed he could "witch" wires, pipes, or whatever, using two pieces of copper wire. Funny thing is, he could never repeat a witching while blindfolded. We figured that decades in the construction industry meant that he could subconsciously spot the clues where a typical pipeline would be run.

If I were planning where to run tile in a field, I'd look for the low spot, and the easiest, straightest run from there to a drainage ditch. Doesn't take beechwood sticks or copper wires to figure that out.

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V2V doesn't have to be limited to reporting just your own vehicle's data. Each packet could include data known about other nearby vehicles. Why does this matter? Because my car has radar, cameras, and ultrasonic sensors that detect all sorts of nearby vehicles today, so its packets could include reports on all the nearby vehicles it detects, including your old car.

Additional data on other vehicles helps identify failing systems (or cheats), and can theoretically provide some corroborating information about the nearby traffic. Let's say that one of the paranoid people who have posted above tries to dodge tickets by rigging their V2V to always report they're traveling the speed limit, even when they're exceeding it by 30 km/h (even though it's obvious that reporting your coordinates every 100 milliseconds will reveal your true speed.) But if a couple different cars with radar report "vehicle at X,Y, bearing B, change in bearing -3.000 d/s, velocity 38.00 m/s, acceleration +0.1 m/s/s", then even if the offending car self-reports that it is going at 29.00 m/s the rest of the cars in the area can still respond as if it were traveling at 38.00 m/s.

(It's also interesting to consider that evolution will tend to remove incorrectly reporting cars from the road, as they will be involved in more accidents.)

Note that this doesn't even violate anyone's privacy in order to achieve safety. The packet doesn't have to identify the vehicle, as its location is (or at least should be) unique. That way if my right side ultrasonic blind spot sensor picks up a car that is 2 m away, it can simply report the existence of a vehicle at the computed X,Y.

Finally, how does this benefit you, in your old vehicle that doesn't have a V2V system? Once other cars on the road have V2V, those other cars will control themselves to avoid colliding with you. Every car that automatically steers itself away from harming you is one less chance at an accident you might get in. It won't make much of a difference initially, but as time goes on and more vehicles become equipped, you'll gradually have your risks reduced.

Simple: you can automatically activate and deactivate it in certain trigger conditions (light bar, high speed, etc.) but you always let the cop turn it on and off at will.

If the cop has been issued a camera, but it's not recording at the same time that he's arresting someone who accuses him of using excessive force, what's that going to say to a lawyer, or to a jury? "Well, your Honor, we had three police officers trying to subdue the subject in the car when they all had to discharge their weapons and fatally shot the unarmed man with six bullets, but coincidentally the officers had all just been peeing by the side of the road so none of them had their cameras on." I know we have a few kangaroo courts in this country, but when it gets serious you still have to convince a jury to believe the shit being shoveled doesn't stink.

Because camera footage could have vindicated their behavior. And if a cop with a camera turns it off just before he shoots someone, especially an unarmed robbery suspect, do you really think a lawyer is going to just let that slide? The very existence of the cameras will be enough to change behaviors.

There are some jurisdictions that are talking about having the cameras enabled wirelessly whenever the light bar comes on, and then they keep the video rolling until the cop stops the car, gets out, gets back in, and starts driving at the posted speed. So if he stops at a rest area, restaurant, or wherever in a non-emergency capacity, it won't automatically turn on. Of course he'll have the option to turn it on or off whenever he wants. But a cop whose camera is coincidentally turned off every time he's accused of abuse will quickly raise suspicion.

And have you seen the crap cops have to put up with? They're constantly being accused by abusive liars. The honest cops don't seem to mind the cameras in those cases because it really cuts down on their stress. When a defendant accuses a camera-equipped cop of abuse, the quickest answer is to show the defendant's lawyer the video, and (according to NPR) the defendant almost always drops the accusation. And if provoked, the video can help justify the use of force.

It may get some cops to moderate their behavior, and that's fine - we need professional police, and if the camera helps remind them, there's nothing wrong with that.

No, Republic is prepaid just like Virgin Mobile. I use plan as that's the monthly rate for that service level, in fact Republic is much more flexible than anyone else in the industry, you can change your plan twice per month, so you can be on the $10 call and text only plan and if you find yourself away from WiFi and in need of data to look up some important bit of information you can change over to the $25 3G plan, grab what you need and then revert to the $10 plan and your monthly bill will be around $11.

Or spend $149 on a Moto G on Republic Wireless, use the $25 plan and save money in less than a year (or if you don't mind just using WiFi for data go with the $10 plan and you're saving money by month 5), plus you get better service because unlike Virgin Mobile, Republic roams to Sprints partner networks.

Yeah, nobody buys PC's, that's why there were 76M shipped in Q2...
Granted, it's less than the 240M smartphones sold in the same quarter, but PC's have never shipped in much higher quantity then they did last quarter.

But your quote specifically says, "principally through performance on a common statewide placement examination." It does not say the CSU system uses SAT or ACT for admissions standards. Perhaps if they based admissions on the SAT or ACT results, they'd need less remediation. Of course, that means rejecting a bunch of the little revenue-generating tykes instead of sending them over to the bursar's office to extract the maximum amount of Financial Aid money from them.

It would be interesting to compare the graduation rates to the remedial course attendance. Do the remedial students fail to graduate at a higher rate than the qualified students? Are we doing those younger, under-qualified students a disservice by allowing them to matriculate?

I know you're only trying to help defend the image of the American education system, but please, stop. I'm not sure you could have packed more condemnation of your school's English curriculum into a three sentence reply.

You did remind me of a joke, though. "The bigger America is, diverse it gets."

This was NOT DNS, multiple sites nation wide on static IPs went down for us as seen by AT&T and downdetector saw nearly every point they monitor within the TWC network as down.

Yeah, like that has never happened before.

Lets have a Methane Exchange and destroy peoples lives to fix it with Methane Tax Exchanges.

Year of the Linux desktop!?

Sorry, just had to post that.

Thank God for open source LINUX.

Seriously.

I would be running a chain of Indian Restaurants long ago if the only thing I was doing was product management of Wind0ze machines.

LINUS thanks for the greatest occupation anyone could want: LINUX Admin/LINUX Programmer.

PS: I need to buy LINUS something, but what do you do for a man that has all the source code? MMMmmmm....

The press is reporting that the Napa quake wrecked about a billion dollars worth of wine. Beats having a quake in Diablo canyon spilling plutonium.