Somewhat along the same lines of an earlier post claiming that piracy will solve this issue.
I agree that if someone wants to play the game in 18 years. They will play the game. Emulators rule. I love that MAME exists and give me strolls down memory lane without sucking quarters out of my pocket in that stuffy, over-heated, converted room behind the Mini-Golf rental shack. http://mamedev.org/legal.html
Read their "Legal" section if you think that "piracy" is the only solution.
Put your ego aside for just a moment, my little slashdotters.
I doubt that US, CA, UK, AU, NZ, or other Euro countries are the initial target market for the Chevy Segway.
Have you ever visited high population density cities in China or Taiwan (and Japan to a lesser extent)? If you have, you have also seen the insane scooter deathrace they call normal traffic conditions. I found this video on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=P19qFzqBKGs/ Now imagine it's raining. A canopy sounds like a good thing.
I have personally witnessed scooters being driven like bumper cars in Taipei. It dawned on me then, that this was the reason scooters are designed with the protected leg space in front of the seat vs. motorcycle style. Additional driver/rider protection of a frame and collision avoidance sound like good things.
At 6'3" 260lbs (1.905m 117.9 kg) for me to consider buying one of these is ludicrous. But it wouldn't stop me from making money by selling them to these folks in Taipei.
Hopefully not! FTIW I couldn't, but I wouldn't have modded you down. At least once it's modded to 0, folks rarely continue to punish the poster. I see you got a -1 tho and that was probably just from two people modding you down at the same time.
Offtopic, but sig related still counts right? I have run OSX in a VM. I'm not sure if I would call it funsies, but it only works on Macs running OSX and the VM must be OSX Server. Interesting, but that is about it.
But if you read into the "rationale" for the decisions you can speculate somewhat accurately that the justices are pushing the 4th Amendment to apply to technologies that are invasive. Read the NY times article linked in this thread already. Or the post that breaks it down also in this thread.
From the NY Times link above by Adam Liptak Though the ruling was limited to physical intrusions, the opinions in the case collectively suggested that a majority of the justices are prepared to apply broad Fourth Amendment privacy principles unrelated to such intrusions to an array of modern technologies, including video surveillance in public places, automatic toll collection systems on highways, devices that allow motorists to signal for roadside assistance and records kept by online merchants.
Further into the article are the juicy bits. I paste them here for you/.ers who are RTFA imparied. Justice Sotomayor joined the majority opinion, agreeing that many questions could be left for another day “because the government’s physical instruction on Jones’s jeep supplies a narrower basis for decision.”
But she seemed to leave little doubt that she would have joined Justice Alito’s analysis had the issue he addressed been the exclusive one presented in the case.
“Physical intrusion is now unnecessary to many forms of surveillance,” Justice Sotomayor wrote. In the case of G.P.S. devices, she wrote, “I would ask whether people reasonably expect that their movements will be recorded and aggregated in a manner that enables the government to ascertain, more or less at will, their political and religious beliefs, sexual habits, and so on.”
She went on to suggest that “it may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties.”
“People disclose the phone numbers that they dial or text to their cellular providers; the URLs that they visit and the e-mail addresses with which they correspond to their Internet service providers; and the books, groceries, and medications they purchase to online retailers,” she wrote. “I for one doubt that people would accept without complaint the warrantless disclosure to the government of a list of every Web site they had visited in the last week, or month, or year.”
Justice Alito listed other “new devices that permit the monitoring of a person’s movements” that fit uneasily with traditional Fourth Amendment privacy analysis.
“In some locales,” he wrote, “closed-circuit television video monitoring is becoming ubiquitous. On toll roads, automatic toll collection systems create a precise record of the movements of motorists who choose to make use of that convenience. Many motorists purchase cars that are equipped with devices that permit a central station to ascertain the car’s location at any time so that roadside assistance may be provided if needed and the car may be found if it is stolen.
“Perhaps most significant, cellphones and other wireless devices now permit wireless carriers to track and record the location of users— and as of June 2011, it has been reported, there were more than 322 million wireless devices in use in the United States.”
I was hoping for a comparison between the ReFS specs and other file systems, such as ext4, but I can't find anything informative enough despite the mods.
Will this for sure break linux os read-write compatibility for good? Or, just until a new module is available to read/write ReFS?
Once upon a time and at different chunks of time both my boss and I worked at another company that was/is run with a sweat shop mentality. One of the main reasons for leaving that company for the both of us.
I guess that our definition of "easy" is different. Most OnStar boxes that I have seen reside behind truck/cargo area panels. These require a decent amount of effort to remove or even destroy to rip out. Once you have access to the box then you can just pull out the antenna or cut the modem wire.
However, this does NOT disable the GPS tracking ability.
Easy to me would be a portable and concelable jammer of cell and GPS signals.
The key to most successful auto-theft is to look like the owner getting into the car, start it and get out of the area. NOT digging around in the trunk/cargo area looking suspicious.
Your personal attribution of the deepening cost vs benefit ratio somewhat applies. If you examine the cause of that "deepening" wouldn't it be all of the technological factors that previously discussed?
The reason this has not happened sooner is that remote start and auto-unlock are not the only features of OnStar. Key-fob/rfid cloning exists and is not prohibitively difficult. Remote engine kill makes initial get-away more difficult outside of a very small window of time. While vehicle tracking can find the vehicle after it has disappeared from the owners line of sight. Plus, exposes the chop shop location to the authorities.
Until it is possible to cheaply, easily, and quickly block/disable both GPS and cell signals to/from the vehicle after the theif comprimises the it, this high barrier to auto-theft will remain.
Criminals are VERY quick to change their m.o. in the face of tougher security. With many police forces adopting "no reponse with out confirmation" to burlgar alarms. It is much easier to burgle commercial and residential property.
Along the same vein: Watch an episode of "bait car". (one is all you really need) Where the police leave a car in a opportunistic way for a would-be theif to capitalize on the seemingly abandoned car.
I used to be a big fan of Ubuntu, but it seems that all of this recent effort to make Ubuntu work on tablets/touchscreens has come at the cost of the stability and robustness of the desktop product.
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of the TV commercials I fast-forward thru and the billboards I pass on the road. I have seen ZERO Nokia ads and few Windows Phone ads.
Somewhat along the same lines of an earlier post claiming that piracy will solve this issue.
I agree that if someone wants to play the game in 18 years. They will play the game. Emulators rule. I love that MAME exists and give me strolls down memory lane without sucking quarters out of my pocket in that stuffy, over-heated, converted room behind the Mini-Golf rental shack.
http://mamedev.org/legal.html
Read their "Legal" section if you think that "piracy" is the only solution.
The original version without the canopy/ferrings looks to have saftey wheels on it. No idea if these made it into the production version.
Put your ego aside for just a moment, my little slashdotters.
I doubt that US, CA, UK, AU, NZ, or other Euro countries are the initial target market for the Chevy Segway.
Have you ever visited high population density cities in China or Taiwan (and Japan to a lesser extent)? If you have, you have also seen the insane scooter deathrace they call normal traffic conditions.
I found this video on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=P19qFzqBKGs/
Now imagine it's raining. A canopy sounds like a good thing.
I have personally witnessed scooters being driven like bumper cars in Taipei. It dawned on me then, that this was the reason scooters are designed with the protected leg space in front of the seat vs. motorcycle style. Additional driver/rider protection of a frame and collision avoidance sound like good things.
At 6'3" 260lbs (1.905m 117.9 kg) for me to consider buying one of these is ludicrous. But it wouldn't stop me from making money by selling them to these folks in Taipei.
Hopefully not! FTIW I couldn't, but I wouldn't have modded you down. At least once it's modded to 0, folks rarely continue to punish the poster. I see you got a -1 tho and that was probably just from two people modding you down at the same time.
Offtopic, but sig related still counts right? I have run OSX in a VM. I'm not sure if I would call it funsies, but it only works on Macs running OSX and the VM must be OSX Server. Interesting, but that is about it.
But if you read into the "rationale" for the decisions you can speculate somewhat accurately that the justices are pushing the 4th Amendment to apply to technologies that are invasive. Read the NY times article linked in this thread already. Or the post that breaks it down also in this thread.
Ouch. Your post has got to sting. 5-4 split was over the "rationale" behind the 9-0 decision.
Even if tagged by law enforcement at this location you would have your Geocaching alibi. Hmm..... Light-Bulb!
I am glad this decision came down from the Supreme Court. I am also glad to find it here already on the news page at /. .
I am providing a link to the NY Times article on this same subject it is more informative IMHO.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/us/police-use-of-gps-is-ruled-unconstitutional.html
From the NY Times link above by Adam Liptak
Though the ruling was limited to physical intrusions, the opinions in the case collectively suggested that a majority of the justices are prepared to apply broad Fourth Amendment privacy principles unrelated to such intrusions to an array of modern technologies, including video surveillance in public places, automatic toll collection systems on highways, devices that allow motorists to signal for roadside assistance and records kept by online merchants.
Further into the article are the juicy bits. I paste them here for you /.ers who are RTFA imparied.
Justice Sotomayor joined the majority opinion, agreeing that many questions could be left for another day “because the government’s physical instruction on Jones’s jeep supplies a narrower basis for decision.”
But she seemed to leave little doubt that she would have joined Justice Alito’s analysis had the issue he addressed been the exclusive one presented in the case.
“Physical intrusion is now unnecessary to many forms of surveillance,” Justice Sotomayor wrote. In the case of G.P.S. devices, she wrote, “I would ask whether people reasonably expect that their movements will be recorded and aggregated in a manner that enables the government to ascertain, more or less at will, their political and religious beliefs, sexual habits, and so on.”
She went on to suggest that “it may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties.”
“People disclose the phone numbers that they dial or text to their cellular providers; the URLs that they visit and the e-mail addresses with which they correspond to their Internet service providers; and the books, groceries, and medications they purchase to online retailers,” she wrote. “I for one doubt that people would accept without complaint the warrantless disclosure to the government of a list of every Web site they had visited in the last week, or month, or year.”
Justice Alito listed other “new devices that permit the monitoring of a person’s movements” that fit uneasily with traditional Fourth Amendment privacy analysis.
“In some locales,” he wrote, “closed-circuit television video monitoring is becoming ubiquitous. On toll roads, automatic toll collection systems create a precise record of the movements of motorists who choose to make use of that convenience. Many motorists purchase cars that are equipped with devices that permit a central station to ascertain the car’s location at any time so that roadside assistance may be provided if needed and the car may be found if it is stolen.
“Perhaps most significant, cellphones and other wireless devices now permit wireless carriers to track and record the location of users— and as of June 2011, it has been reported, there were more than 322 million wireless devices in use in the United States.”
I can only hope that yours is a sarcastic post.
welcome to the future.
I doubt that the "games" or "puzzles" would be advertising "This is a DoD test for new software."
Most likely the users will not be aware that it is a test at all.
Besides nobody ever flew into a mountian because they didn't have a clear LTE signal.
Thank god it's over. I almost did some work today.
At least my decendants will have a place to pay taxes on.
Not to split hairs, but Charlie Sheen has a new TV show currently in production.
Or..
It will give the drinkers immunity to the bites.
I was hoping for a comparison between the ReFS specs and other file systems, such as ext4, but I can't find anything informative enough despite the mods.
Will this for sure break linux os read-write compatibility for good? Or, just until a new module is available to read/write ReFS?
Copy + Paste of the same exact AC post does not lend credibility to your position.
Once upon a time and at different chunks of time both my boss and I worked at another company that was/is run with a sweat shop mentality. One of the main reasons for leaving that company for the both of us.
If you are capable and organized then your vacation time will be taken and your area of ownership will not suffer.
Understanding, capable, and organized bosses are also a huge help.
I guess that our definition of "easy" is different. Most OnStar boxes that I have seen reside behind truck/cargo area panels. These require a decent amount of effort to remove or even destroy to rip out. Once you have access to the box then you can just pull out the antenna or cut the modem wire.
However, this does NOT disable the GPS tracking ability.
Easy to me would be a portable and concelable jammer of cell and GPS signals.
The key to most successful auto-theft is to look like the owner getting into the car, start it and get out of the area. NOT digging around in the trunk/cargo area looking suspicious.
As far as my dubious concepts, here are two links for support.
GPS leads to chop shop. (there were many of these if you search)
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=68129266-9628-4bdf-a7f8-52265fdaa318
FBI report states that technology has lead to a decline in auto-theft
http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2011/09/fbi-reports-a-decline-in-auto-theft-in-2010.html
Your personal attribution of the deepening cost vs benefit ratio somewhat applies. If you examine the cause of that "deepening" wouldn't it be all of the technological factors that previously discussed?
The reason this has not happened sooner is that remote start and auto-unlock are not the only features of OnStar. Key-fob/rfid cloning exists and is not prohibitively difficult. Remote engine kill makes initial get-away more difficult outside of a very small window of time. While vehicle tracking can find the vehicle after it has disappeared from the owners line of sight. Plus, exposes the chop shop location to the authorities.
Until it is possible to cheaply, easily, and quickly block/disable both GPS and cell signals to/from the vehicle after the theif comprimises the it, this high barrier to auto-theft will remain.
Criminals are VERY quick to change their m.o. in the face of tougher security. With many police forces adopting "no reponse with out confirmation" to burlgar alarms. It is much easier to burgle commercial and residential property.
Along the same vein: Watch an episode of "bait car". (one is all you really need) Where the police leave a car in a opportunistic way for a would-be theif to capitalize on the seemingly abandoned car.
I used to be a big fan of Ubuntu, but it seems that all of this recent effort to make Ubuntu work on tablets/touchscreens has come at the cost of the stability and robustness of the desktop product.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.