Comment Re:First Vost (Score 1) 152
Also the only Vost, as far as I can see...
Also the only Vost, as far as I can see...
As Slashdot caters to an international audience, could someone please explain what AP means?
U.S. drivers are much more likely than Europeans to drive while distracted, federal health officials report Thursday
Nearly 69 percent of Americans who drive say that they talked on their cell phones while driving at least once in the previous month, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
That's a lot higher than what was reported by Europeans in another survey. Only 21 percent of British drivers reported chatting on their cell phones while behind the wheel, for example. In Germany and France it was about 40 percent
The same goes for reading or sending texts or emails. About a third of U.S. drivers said they did that. And that's about double what it was in Spain and Great Britain
Health officials say that's a big problem because driving while distracted causes fatal car accidents. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 3,331 Americans were killed in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2011, compared to 3,267 in 2010
"The cell phone can be a fatal distraction for those who use it while they drive," CDC Director Thomas Frieden said in a statement. "Driving and dialing or texting don't mix. If you are driving, pull over to safe place and stop before you use your phone"
You want someone two days into a simple desktop linux system to get a consumer appliance?
Surely there should be some simple point-and-click app he can install from the desktop that will prevent basic misbehaviours. The very act of asking here shows that he does indeed have pride enough to want not to be a menace.
Totally concur. Best product I've used in decades.
That being said, it runs on a separate box and supports things like balancing multiple uplinks and fail-over, so it's a wee bit beyond the stated requirements.
Totally concur. Best product I've used in decades.
None of the things will protect against theft.
No. The only way I know to do that is what I do: forget it at home every day.
"To get around this, Royal Games, formerly King and publisher of Candy Crush, from an older company whose game bears no resemblance to either of the games in question."
Is it just me or does this sentence have no verb?
Yes, it's actually kind of astounding that no-one in the poll-editing crew seems to have considered that anyone might recycle the things. Talk about missing options...
They get separated from their batteries. Batteries and devices get put in separate Tupperware bins, and every year or so the bins are taken to the local recycling center. After that I expect they wind up in the Far East where child labourers get poisoned as they disassemble them.
In my mind it centers around this question:
Assume an arbitrary community of 100,000. Leaving out natural deaths, let's say you have an annual death rate of 10 by gun, 3 by knife, and 5 by other (beating by trout, scissors, whatever), for a total of 18.
Then remove all the guns. Does the death rate stay at 18, with just the distribution of causes changing, or does it go down, because some who would have died from gunshots now don't (from e.g. mass shootings, gun accidents).
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.