Sure. But traffic deaths were already trending down, so while there was a decrease in traffic / traffic fatalities only part of that can be attributed to the recession.

Further, even at 10% fatality reduction; if you use that to infer a 10% traffic reduction, and therefore a 10% pollution reduction... and these are are all pretty handwavy connections that would need to be proprerly established.

But even we carry that through, that's less of an effect than the fleet aging effect in the original article.

Really?

I just tried the .cr one. Search works, and clicking on magnet link in the results gets me a torrent; I decided to search for "Weird Al"; picked his new album, clicked the link, went to content selected just the track "First World Problems" and that's exactly what I got.

So it seems to be a mirror. If its a "fake" what does that mean exactly?

https://thepiratebay.cr/
http://thepiratebay.ee/ ... seem to be working...

You're confusing the sort of password needed to resist offline cracking, versus the sort needed to protect a hardware device.

No. I am not.

A four digit code used for security on a device with physical access is much stronger. If the device allows you to try 4 codes then times out for 30 seconds, it will take 1,250 minutes to access the device if someone keeps trying.

Sure.

That assumes the attacker has no knowledge. Simple inspection of the screen is is often enough to guess which 4 digits are being used; due to dirt and fingerprints.

4 digits is also worthless to secure the device from onlookers. The guy behind me at the store. Or the table behind me at the bar. People at work, school, roomates, family members, any where that has video surveillance and catches me unlocking it. 4 digits ... even if they can't see clearly, its only 4 digits. Just getting one or 2 or an idea of the relative position drops the attack time dramatically into very feasible territory.

Are you sure that the recession didn't result in less people being on the roads in LA particularly, thus resulting in less pollution than if the recession was avoided?

Nope.

Care to cite a study showing the regional decline in traffic over the period, and the analysis of its impact pollution in support of your hypothesis?

How can Netherlands get more than 100% of its GDP from trade? You may as well say that income from trade accounts for 1.47x its GDP which makes it clear how absurd the statement is.

Or you could look at the link and then look up nomimal GDP vs PPP GDP and you'll have your answer.

Ads have always been contextual.

But they've always been limited to 'demographics'. And while im similar to my neighbors in many ways, we are not all clones.

We're gradually approaching a point where they are marketing to you: personally, because they know you: personally.

That is not a good thing, at least not for you.

It is curiously ironic I think that you don't show me ads for the Tesla, which I looked at at the same time I was looking at the Fusion.

Evidently Ford paid them more to advertise to you.

Your thinking small potatoes.

I'd happily allow them to show me ads for steaks instead of tofu because the know the reward card attached to my phone number saved $0.99/pound on beef last week -- if they're going to show me ads at all.

They'll show you ads for steak alright. But they'll be priced higher than they are for me, because they think your more likely to buy them; and they know you can afford them.

This is already starting to happen. Web sites are showing consumers different prices based on everything from what browser they use to where their ip geolocates to; if they can link that to your browsing profile / facebook account / ...

That's not trading privacy for peronsalized ads. That's letting a car salesman follow you around, root around in your pockets, your garbage, and your bank accounts and then when you drive up on the lot to inquire about a new car.

The tenuous balance of power between buyer and seller will be fundamentally altered. They'll know exactly what buttons to push; exactly what you can afford; and all your preferences and blind spots... so you walk away paying the most for the least.

The idea that they are just going to show you ads for things you want instead of things you don't and make your life better is naive. They are going to make you want things you wouldn't otherwise have wanted or even known about. And you will pay for them exactly the most you can afford, thinking you are getting a deal, and thanking them for taking your money. You will never be any happier, because they'll always know exactly what to show you to make you want more.

I cancelled cable early this year. (and we've got adblockers; and we watch ad free sources like netflix and torrents; and listen to music we've downloaded etc... ) And this last week my wife and I were realizing just how out of tune the whole family was of the advertising cycle.

Our kids "wishlists" for Christmas were both smaller and better thought out than usual. Stuff they had enjoyed at friends houses, stuff they wanted that pertained to their own interests.

I'd go as far as to say we're "happier and more content" due to the relatively limited exposure to ads.

I definitely prefer the advertisers I do still see not tailor the ads to me. I don't want to be constantly bombarded by ads each chosen specifically to push MY buttons. Its better that only a few hit there mark, and the majority are for products I've got no interest in nor use for. Those don't tempt me.

Manufacturing a car produces a significant amount of pollution

But it doesn't produce it downtown L.A.

Unless this effect is accounted for, the headline here is meaningless.

Not if your interested in the air quality in downtown L.A.

L.A. is dirtier right now than it otherwise would have been without a recession. That's not meaningless.

Total pollution footprints are interesting in their own right but they aren't the only conversation worth having.

I took a taxi Melbourne last month. Booked it through an app. I got a confirmation message for the booking, and another message shortly before the driver arrived.

It seems taxi companies have no problems adpoting the 'good' parts of Uber's business model.

If Uber wants to compete, that's fine with me... but they're just another taxi company.

The correct multi monitor setup is multiple computers + synergy or similar.

Sure, if you never need to drag any windows from one to the next though. Synergy is good if you only need to operate multiple computers. Its useless if you want to open that excel spreadsheet you just got in your email on computer 1 on monitor 2...

And I find for your suggested scenario... I prefer to just maximize a remote desktop window on a 2ndary monitor. Then monitor 2 can be the "other computer" as needed, or can be a different computer, or can be the same computer, or if I need mroe than 2 other computers, I can window remote desktops, etc, etc.

There -ARE- specific scenarios where synergy and other KVM / switching solutions make more sense, but not many.

Password protect your phone, then don't give them the password until they obtain a warrant. Done.

And there lies the rub. A 4 digit code is all but worthless to secure my private data. And a proper password makes the phone to inconvenient to actually use.

For the moment, I've got my phone protected by a passphrase and fingerprint (Samsung Galaxy S5) but I don't really like Androids implementation:

a) It won't fail over to passphrase only after x failed fingerprints. It should.

b) And after x (5?) failed fingerprints there is a 30 second lockout, and I can't even enter the passphrase without waiting, which is also extremely annoying.

c) I'd like finer control over where a passphrase is needed ...I'd like to be able to look at what movies are playing, make a local phone call, use google maps, take a picture, let the kids play games, etc without needing a passphrase,

And only need an unlock to get into pictures, emails, documents, and other things which I deem private.

And a fingerprint.. there's conflicting evidence whether I could be forced to provide it to unlock the phone.

In my case I'm mostly just worried about theives and lowlifes rather than law enforcement and the fingerprint is a good balance between convenience and security for that. But I'd like to have my legal privacy protected too... but a long passphrase is just too cumbersome to have to enter into a device repeatedly all day.

To maximize the complexity of its overall system,

That isn't its goal. To maximize entropy is the goal. Complex systems are one way of generating a lot of entropy, but not the only way, and there are lots of very simple ways to generate a lot of entropy.

A nuclear bomb is a pretty good entropy machine for example. Remember when people were freaking out that the LHC would create a black hole that would devour the planet? Suppose such a thing actually could be engineered... now THAT would be a good entropy machine.

  it will need the greatest variety of complex systems, and one complex system it can't create immediately is a system that evolved over the course of billions of years.

it is black and white.

And my neighborhood kids run lemonade stands in front of their homes without cowering in fear that they'll be shut down by health inspectors, fined for their failure to display a business license, audited for tax evasion, and arrested for exploiting child labor. "The law is very clear." All those rules technically apply.

Your right, technically the regs apply in your scenario, but its well beneath the FAAs notice, and we all know it.

The point is there are a lot of actually interesting things to discuss on the subject without dredging up fringe scenarios like that.

If the government proposes stiffer penalties for unpaid labor, you'd be the guy arguing how no one will risk running a lemonade stand with those regs in place. Its a waste of time; a distraction from meaningful discussion.