It's a real shame you are not getting modded up. This is the best course of action I can see for fixing these kinds of problems, especially when people's lives are at stake. Screwing up a person's finances can be more damaging than a faulty toaster.
What is to stop BlackBerry from planting backdoors in their OS to allow this?
I think it's a given that they HAVE done this. To paraphrase Michael Dell, "Close the doors, sell off the assets, and give the money back to the stock holders." They're done.
I think this is just an exercise for publicity, but the connection issues to the pods are not that difficult with current technology. If the pods must remain powered up and connected, then a flexible cable race can be built into the channel the pod rides on. If not, then it's even easier. The connections are just a scaled-up version of the mechanisms used for robotic disk and tape systems in play already.
How reliable are they in winter driving conditions? How is the battery efficiency affected by temperature? What about cabin heating? I'm having a hard time seeing any of the current crop being adopted for year-round use in areas that get more than a smattering of snow, or a few days below freezing per year.
Your example falls down because the devices being bricked are in the hands of the end-users, not the store that sold them. To follow your analogy, the FBI should be going to each customer who bought a counterfeit jersey and setting it on fire in their front room.
Liberal Arts education long ago stopped being about becoming a well-rounded, intelligent individual and became an indoctrination in fitting in to the social machine. STEM degrees are going the same way, churning out cogs for the machine, willing to take whatever they can get to pay off the indentured bond.
See, the thing is, ALL news outlets are aligned with, or controlled by the political power structures./I will probably regret calling out an AC, but, YOLO and all that.
Why not simply have that option in the car? This is all those fancy new cars with video displays, right? You just get an option that says, "There are updates available for this vehicle." Just like most software these days.
I wouldn't want this tied to smartphones, because many people do not have them. My next car will probably have some of these new 'features' , because you won't be able to buy a car without them. But I don't have a smart phone anymore, and I won't be getting one.
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It's only an increase if you convert it to something useful, like real currency before the market crashes. Which it will. Bitcoin wasn't "designed" to do anything useful. It's a science fair experiment. As with many other prototypes, it got rolled into production without any thought whatsoever, and it is causing chaos. I wish the experiment well. Perhaps the lessons learned after the inevitable crash and burn will inform the next digital currency, which may actually succeed.
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It's a real shame you are not getting modded up. This is the best course of action I can see for fixing these kinds of problems, especially when people's lives are at stake. Screwing up a person's finances can be more damaging than a faulty toaster.
Gazpacho Soup!!
Usually this results in a totally garbled python script.
This is why I avoid Python. Program logic should not be governed by invisible things.
What part of auto-fsck is useful/necessary?
Apparently, they already have.
What is to stop BlackBerry from planting backdoors in their OS to allow this?
I think it's a given that they HAVE done this. To paraphrase Michael Dell, "Close the doors, sell off the assets, and give the money back to the stock holders." They're done.
I did NOT hit her. I did not. Oh, hai Mark!
I think this is just an exercise for publicity, but the connection issues to the pods are not that difficult with current technology. If the pods must remain powered up and connected, then a flexible cable race can be built into the channel the pod rides on. If not, then it's even easier. The connections are just a scaled-up version of the mechanisms used for robotic disk and tape systems in play already.
I just put some black electrical tape over the flashing 12:00.
I suppose it's a good thing I'm not running the system.
That one causes skin cancer.
If we're lucky.
Funniest thing I've read all day, and I've spent most of today on Fark.
Patreon.
Well, there's not much wrong with free-range, locally-sourced algae, but the real problems come from the container-bred, factory-farmed algae.
How reliable are they in winter driving conditions? How is the battery efficiency affected by temperature? What about cabin heating? I'm having a hard time seeing any of the current crop being adopted for year-round use in areas that get more than a smattering of snow, or a few days below freezing per year.
Nope. It's the chemtrails, man, the chemtrails!
Your example falls down because the devices being bricked are in the hands of the end-users, not the store that sold them. To follow your analogy, the FBI should be going to each customer who bought a counterfeit jersey and setting it on fire in their front room.
Liberal Arts education long ago stopped being about becoming a well-rounded, intelligent individual and became an indoctrination in fitting in to the social machine. STEM degrees are going the same way, churning out cogs for the machine, willing to take whatever they can get to pay off the indentured bond.
Mergers & Acquisitions. It's a Wall Street Term of Art that describes the rape and murder of smaller companies by bigger ones.
Excuse me, but is this just 5 minutes, or the full half-hour?
Name one. Go, on. I'll wait...
See, the thing is, ALL news outlets are aligned with, or controlled by the political power structures. /I will probably regret calling out an AC, but, YOLO and all that.
Pretty much any German music will do the job, Polka, Techno, Glockenspiel Rap...all effective 'person with a sense of hearing' deterrents.
Except for repelling Germans obviously but then Germans aren't really a demographic known for committing burglaries.
Burglaries, no? Invasions, on the other hand....
Like this: /earworm //you're welcome.
http://youtu.be/1OXjB3-MUcs
Why not simply have that option in the car? This is all those fancy new cars with video displays, right? You just get an option that says, "There are updates available for this vehicle." Just like most software these days.
I wouldn't want this tied to smartphones, because many people do not have them. My next car will probably have some of these new 'features' , because you won't be able to buy a car without them. But I don't have a smart phone anymore, and I won't be getting one.
It's only an increase if you convert it to something useful, like real currency before the market crashes. Which it will. Bitcoin wasn't "designed" to do anything useful. It's a science fair experiment. As with many other prototypes, it got rolled into production without any thought whatsoever, and it is causing chaos. I wish the experiment well. Perhaps the lessons learned after the inevitable crash and burn will inform the next digital currency, which may actually succeed.