I have not heard any youngster mention privacy in any context so I seriously doubt it has any significant relevance. It's just what popular right now. As apps now enable you to keep snapchat pics and texts forever, the basic privacy idea is long gone. People will return to FB simply because everybody else is there and it's easy to find long lost friends, classmates etc.
Facebook is its own worst enemy.
Their mule-headed instance that *everybody* sees *everything* doesn't work when teens have parents on there.
Actually Google had the right idea in dividing your friends into different groups ('circles') and only allow certain groups to see any given update. That solves the parents or boss issue. I'm not FB friends with my boss, nor any of my previous bosses, for that very reason. If I want to take a sick day and later feel better and go out and get tagged or do my own update, I'd not want my boss to see it and thus end up with completely unnecessary questions.
But FB is not dying. Apart from the initial burst I've never added that many new friends as I do now. Sure, I don't have that many new 20-something friends but people my own age (mid 40's) are jumping on FB as never before.
The Chinese are getting ready to send a repair guy there, in case they need a tow or a jump-start.
That picture will be awesome!
Could be needed soon... Word has it that one of the rovers on Mars may have a flat tire...
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Please RTFA. They only traced him because he used Harvards wireless network to access TOR, and the bomb threats came an anonymous email service accessed from TOR. Had he sent the email from a cafe off-campus they would not have been able to trace him.
A variation on this are cams that records drivers caught in the intersection, blocking cross traffic while being unable to clear the intersection due to the cross traffic. Depending on which intersection it is, at will cost you a hefty fine and points on your license. This pure egoistic driver error and the punishment is appropriate.
People living near intersections that's often blocked often demand such cams because the usual reaction from the drivers being blocked despite a green light is to honk their horn continously until the blocking car(s) move away. Not legal but most certainly justified as it works to shame the moron that entered the intersection without being sure to be able to pass completely through.
The bright flashlamps needed to take a clear picture are also distracting and momentarily blinding for drivers who happen to be looking at them when they pop off a picture.
What? - All the cams I've seen uses near-infrared flashes which can be seen only as dull red that cannot blind anyone even in pitch black darkness.
RLC cause more accidents because people slamming on their brakes for yellow lights. It is documented.
If you need to slam on your brakes you're either going too fast or not paying attention - or both.
Here in Copenhagen, Denmark at busy intersections you will see 2-3 or more cars running the red at the end of each green period simply because they don't really respect the light; they only respect the risk of hitting cross traffic, and the 2 second all red period allows them to stretch their green a second or two into the full red. Most know this and most do it. It's not just a single car here and there; it's simply standard behavior and if someone actually stops as intended, the cars behind will honk and give the finger as they expect to make it across.
This is why there's a movement here to make them wake up because the late cars reach the far crosswalk after it has tuned green (or 'walk'), thus creating some very dangerous situations. We simply start walking the very second the light turns red across, thus bringing us well out into the intersection before the late cars are through, thus causing some emergency breaking (and a few accidents from loss of control). If we pay attention we can avoid stepping out right in front of a car (we give the driver the finger instead) and I've not heard of a single accident involving a pedestrian doing this.
It doesn't require college level math.
The yellow light should have a duration based of the maximum legal speed, How long (including normal attentive reaction time) will it take to come to a rest safely from that speed? - Not emergency braking, just a normal stop. That is how long the yellow should be. No all red needed.
If you drive too fast or not paying attention, you deserve to get in trouble. A camera will determine if you ran the light and thus are at fault. Criminal charges in addition to the traffic fines should be applied, plus you get to pay all damages, both material and human. I'm sure that text can wait when the alternative is mandatory jailtime, a huge fine and a lifetime of paying for damages.
Im sorry, where did you get the idea that this helped keep intersections safe? Keeping intersections safe is actually fairly trivial without any sort of RLC or punishment. All you need to do, which many places already have done, is slightly increase the length of yellow lights, and delay the green transition on the other traffic lane, so that there is a period of 1-2 seconds where all sides are red; and thus cars that may have been late past the line, have time to make it through.
Sure it may not play into some people's fetish for punishment and strict rules enforcement, but, it does a great job of increasing safety.
And in light of that, when cities get caught reducing the yellow light time at lights, which is less safe and increases the chances of an accident, then YES it is a money making scheme.
Increasing the yellow light period is an incredibly stupid idea. Sure, in theory it may allow late vehicles to get through safely, but is has two major drawbacks.
The first is human psychology. It will make people keep going even if they could stop safely, making them even later, and then you'd have to extend the yellow again to make if safe etc.
The second is the waste of time the all red period causes. It adds up. It either adds to the time lost to transportation (which is already immense due to queues and congestion) or makes people try to catch up by driving even faster, causing more and more serious accidients.
Oh, and there's a movement here where pedestrians start walking as soon as the light turns red across, not waiting for the green (or 'walk') to come on. It has caused some pretty hefty emergency braking and hopefully a massive shock to the late driver, making him or her think twice before running a light on what we call taxi-green (because it used to be mostly taxies that tried to avoid having to wait for the next green). I'm more or less part of this movement. After all, yellow also means stop so there's always ample time to stop, especially at city speeds.
That is because some vitamins are easy to overdose on, often with nasty side effects. Vitamin D is actually of the few almost impossible to overdose on. Normal daily dose is around 5 micrograms and the overdose limit is in the 100 gram range, 100.000 times the normal daily dose. They really should put it everywhere, not just in milk.
If you feel better because of a multivitamin, it's almost certainly because of a single vitamin deficiency. Probably vitamin D, which is common and which can cause depression. A blood workup probably would have shown.
Yup, extremely common, especially here in Scandinavia with our long dark winters. I'm eating - on doctors orders - four 25 microgram vitamin D pills each day and have been for the past couple of years. Vitamin D deficiency is known to to cause what's called "winter depression" but will also affect your immune system. People lacking vitamin D tends to get more colds than average. Since I started my treatment I've had a total of one cold and zero flu. Before that I had around 3-4 colds during a year.
yeah, and those that don't get a balanced diet?
Exactly. Most regular people don't so for them there's bound to be a benefit from a daily multivitamin pill.
The word 'stealing' implies an evil act of greed. When I infringe on copyright it is an act of last resort. I download the most recent episodes from the series that I follow. Most are never going to be aired here in my country, and there's nowhere online I can pay for these. Sure, there's probably some people out there that would accept money for the pirated content but that not what I'm talking about. I want to send money in the direction of the people that should get paid (cast, crew etc.) but there's simply nowhere I can get to do that. I'm left with the choice of waiting or downloading illegally, leaving me with no choice.
What's up with you, rights holders?! - I want to pay but you won't sell - but you will procecute?!
Just release your stuff globally on all formats at the same time. Then we can support the shows we love instead of random internet pirates.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
