As I have been dealing with this for about a year now (first it was just the passenger side ones) so I can maybe shed some light on this, by the way BMW has been out ahead of this for a while issuing a auto manufacture recall long before the mandated airbag manufacture one. The problem is made more likely if you are in high humidity areas as the housing around the airbags corrodes. When I last checked on availability for my car a couple of months ago, in Minnesota, I was told that the first customers who would be getting this addressed were in the south along the coasts where the problem was most likely. At that point BMW said it would be about 6 weeks before they actually had the parts in for those areas so I would imagine that this process has just recently started or will be starting shortly. People in other areas will be served later as there is less of a chance of the problem happening to the with the lower humidity.
In dealing with BMW over this issue I get the impression that Takata has been dragging ass on this. I received the BMW recall notice late last October and was told when I got the passenger side one done in late July that there was another recall coming for the driver side one. In both cases BMW issued their own recall months before airbag manufacturer did.
who would think it a good idea to ban strong encryption, abolish net neutrality, increase the surveillance powers of the security services,... the list goes on.
So just like Hillary then. When it comes to groups of people Hillary has similar views just with different groups.
Hey I love my smart phone. I can make calls on it, it fits perfectly between the top of the ashtray and bottom of the radio in my car, it plays music that I can connect to my car radio, it functions as a gps when I am going to unfamiliar areas, functions as a USB thumb drive in a pinch, and it has a better alarm feature than previous cell phones I have had. Other than that I could care less so I guess I am not the target market.
I don't think communists would want to be associated with Mark Dayton. I don't think that guy could find his ass with both hands, considering the number of things he vetoed or signed that he had no idea what was in them and then whined an bitched about.
Thankfully I enjoy the situation that I don't have to eat that shit sandwich. Living in Minnesota and not being a fan of either the Democrat or Republican party means that I can vote for a 3rd party and my vote still won't matter, just as if I voted for a Republican since barring some act of god this state won't go Republican in the presidential election.
Personally I think all of the republican voters should just go out and in mass vote Sanders in the remaining primaries. Worse comes to worse it would be a Trump v Sanders election which would offer a real choice instead of the usual BS difference on wedge issues but willingness to work across the aisle to screw the regular person.
The military pays for more than that already. I have a good number of friends who went into the military and got their entire schooling paid for. Granted you have a fixed amount of time to get your shit together and through school before the benefits run out but it is enough time to go to get all or part of the way through school. If you take some of the gen ed courses while enlisted they military will pay for those as well and it makes it easy to get done in plenty of time. As an added benefit they got an additional stipend while in school after their service. Some of them went to college right out of high school and then quit eventually signing up for various branches of the service, others went straight in, one even went in at 17 while still in high school (Minnesota national guard) and did basic between junior and senior year.
I always figured that warning was because if gasoline worked well for cleaning carbs you wouldn't need to clean them. A good mix of acetone, ether, and lacquer thinner (about 1/3 each) seems to work wonders for cleaning carbs.
Now I am reminded of my time working at a gas station and every once and a while some one with a really leaky fuel tank would come in and pump 5-10 gallons of gas onto the ground. They would always be the ones who would go and sit in their vehicle and not pay attention. Eventually once we got the new pump controller we took to stopping pumps if people would go and get in their vehicles.
I would pay $18, make it an even $20 and offer the entire back catalogue, a month for the BBC. Hell I already "pay" $10 a month (a $120 donation each year to Minnesota Public Radio) since I listen to the BBC World Service (91.1 HD3 in the Twin Cities if anyone cares) all the time in the car and I let MPR know that is all I listen to of their offerings.
My beef with the ruling is that it contradicts itself. There were 3 parts, the first was to determine standing and that hinged on if the thing that you got if you didn't have insurance was a tax or a fine. The second part was about taking away medicare (or was it medicaid) money from the states. The 3rd part was if the things in the first ruling was and by extension the health insurance mandate was constitutional. On the first issue the court found that it was not a tax and by extension the plaintiffs had standing. On the second point they found that the government couldn't take that money away from the states. Finally on the 3rd issue Chief Justice Roberts had some tortured incoherent rambling but then says it is a tax and that makes it OK. So the way I look at this decision is that either we have entered time of quantum law which is unknowable, this is by far one of the worst rulings of all time since it contradicts itself, or the justices are so incompetent they overturned their own ruling from mere moments previous. Either way it should be a clear indication that all of the justices lack the mental facilities to make a rational and logical judgment and should be removed.
I'll just stick to my Kerby vacuum. A good strong efficient motor that when a kid decides he is going to show you be leaving marbles out after you told him to pick them up several times because you were going to vacuum will not only suck them up but will shatter them and be no worse for wear. I am amazed at what that thing can eat and not clog on and what it will suck up that is near by. I think it probably produces better suction than my shop vac and is about as hard to clog.
Well actually the word of a person is enough to get a warrant but if it was fabricated it does seem that the person should be brought up on perjury charges:
Fourth Amendment to the US constitution The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This a thousand times. It is almost seems like we a gradually moving to a system where if you don't confess you will be charged with contempt or obstruction of justice.
Personally even though I am in the same situation as you (nothing to hide from authorities) I would still tell them to piss off. I've done it to roaming TSA who asked if they could search my bag, I've done it to cops who have asked if they could search my car, I would do it to here as well. In the car incident they stuffed me in the back of the squad car and got a K-9 unit that happened to alert at the trunk, in the trunk they found my tool box, a couple quarts of oil, a set of spare belts (that fucking car threw belts all the time), a tire iron, spare tire and a jack, that was it. They dumped all of my tool out on the ground to "search" them so I got the joy of picking that mess up.
With the TSA agent they were kind enough to ask "Can I search your bag?" indicating that I had a choice and I responded with no. This horribly confuses them and resulted in re asking the question and getting the same response. The agent went and caller for their supervisor who also asked the same question and got the same response. The supervisor called his manager who then asked the same question and got the same answer. Eventually I was told by the highest person that they were going to be searching my bag. I responded that I do not consent to this search as it is a violation of my 4th amendment rights as they have neither probabal cause, reasonable suspicion, or a warrant as my person and effects were already screened while going through the security line. In the end they still did search my bag and found 2 changes of dirty cloths, a spare set of clean cloths, my work laptop, my phone, a note book, 2 pens, and my headphones. While in the end they still searched my bag I did waste over half an hour of each of their time which in my book is a net worth as was just waiting at the gate for my plane.
But if the police have the drives they have the physical evidence. What they want is for you to provide information to them but that information my prove his guilt and would against hist 5th amendment rights. Also what I have long wondered is as a person under investigation does one have to assist the prosecution in interpreting data? In other cases it seems like it has been well established that one does not have to assist investigators so long as one doesn't interfere with actions they undertake. If police have a warrant to search my house I can't stop them from searching but I am under no obligation to help them find what they are looking for. Same thing with cracking a safe I can't stop them from drilling out the lock but I in no way have to help them drill it out. A password to an encrypted volume is very much like a combination to a safe, just a safe that can't be drilled out in this universe.
As someone who has recently had my interest in this topic reignited you are correct that it is mostly about understating how to break crypto that leads to better crypto. Understanding the math isn't all that difficult if you have an applied math (CS) degree and a willingness to learn as when I was first interested in crypto about 20 years ago there wasn't as much info freely available to learn from and what was there was difficult to find. All of the major symmetric key crypto algorithms are just variations on the Feistel Network structure going back to the early 70s. Here is a paper I was reading just last night on the evaluation on all 16! 4x4bit s-boxes but most ciphers use 8x8-bit S-boxes. There is also a lot that can be learned by looking back at the NIST evaluations of the AES finalists and reading and understanding them.
Because it isn't a Sanders V republican race but instead is a Sanders V. Clinton race. There are a lot of people on the democrat side of things who really want Hillary and these are the long time democrats who are most likely to vote. In both parties there seems to be a large burn it all down contingent it is just that the one on the Republican side has had more success in getting rid of the establishment candidates. Personally I would love to see a Sanders V Cruz as it would offer a very different choices but instead we will likely get Clinton V Trump. Clinton seems like one who is a political opportunist and in it for herself and Trump seems like one as well.
Well considering that if one wanted to pull of a major terror attack it wouldn't require much thinking it seem that there are either very few terrorists or the ones that are here are so dumb I'm surprised they don't choke on their own tongues. Likely it is both and there are very few terrorists in the US and those that are here and the ones who are here are only slightly smarter than a jar of mayonnaise from what gets reported. If I wanted to pull off a major terror attack the simplest one I could think of would be to go and get 20 of my terrorist buddies, and each go and make a couple of bombs from smokeless powder. One goes in one of those suitcases that everyone knows is to large to fit into the overhead bin but no one says anything to you about because you're a dick head. The other goes in a larger backpack. Then on some nice busy travel day you and your 20 terrorist buddies go to 20 different large airports and detonate your suitcase + backpack bombs in the middle of the security lines at the same time. The easy thing here is anyone can go get into the line and you don't even have to buy a ticket. If you pick the winter time you could also have a suicide vest on under a coat for a little added punch and no one would be the wiser.
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As I have been dealing with this for about a year now (first it was just the passenger side ones) so I can maybe shed some light on this, by the way BMW has been out ahead of this for a while issuing a auto manufacture recall long before the mandated airbag manufacture one. The problem is made more likely if you are in high humidity areas as the housing around the airbags corrodes. When I last checked on availability for my car a couple of months ago, in Minnesota, I was told that the first customers who would be getting this addressed were in the south along the coasts where the problem was most likely. At that point BMW said it would be about 6 weeks before they actually had the parts in for those areas so I would imagine that this process has just recently started or will be starting shortly. People in other areas will be served later as there is less of a chance of the problem happening to the with the lower humidity.
In dealing with BMW over this issue I get the impression that Takata has been dragging ass on this. I received the BMW recall notice late last October and was told when I got the passenger side one done in late July that there was another recall coming for the driver side one. In both cases BMW issued their own recall months before airbag manufacturer did.
who would think it a good idea to ban strong encryption, abolish net neutrality, increase the surveillance powers of the security services, ... the list goes on.
So just like Hillary then. When it comes to groups of people Hillary has similar views just with different groups.
Hey I love my smart phone. I can make calls on it, it fits perfectly between the top of the ashtray and bottom of the radio in my car, it plays music that I can connect to my car radio, it functions as a gps when I am going to unfamiliar areas, functions as a USB thumb drive in a pinch, and it has a better alarm feature than previous cell phones I have had. Other than that I could care less so I guess I am not the target market.
I don't think communists would want to be associated with Mark Dayton. I don't think that guy could find his ass with both hands, considering the number of things he vetoed or signed that he had no idea what was in them and then whined an bitched about.
So not unlike his main competitor then?
Thankfully I enjoy the situation that I don't have to eat that shit sandwich. Living in Minnesota and not being a fan of either the Democrat or Republican party means that I can vote for a 3rd party and my vote still won't matter, just as if I voted for a Republican since barring some act of god this state won't go Republican in the presidential election.
Personally I think all of the republican voters should just go out and in mass vote Sanders in the remaining primaries. Worse comes to worse it would be a Trump v Sanders election which would offer a real choice instead of the usual BS difference on wedge issues but willingness to work across the aisle to screw the regular person.
The military pays for more than that already. I have a good number of friends who went into the military and got their entire schooling paid for. Granted you have a fixed amount of time to get your shit together and through school before the benefits run out but it is enough time to go to get all or part of the way through school. If you take some of the gen ed courses while enlisted they military will pay for those as well and it makes it easy to get done in plenty of time. As an added benefit they got an additional stipend while in school after their service. Some of them went to college right out of high school and then quit eventually signing up for various branches of the service, others went straight in, one even went in at 17 while still in high school (Minnesota national guard) and did basic between junior and senior year.
and do what again with the other government officials that broke the law ??
I suggest liquefying them and spreading them across farm fields for the good of society.
petrol stations make less than 5 cents a gallon typically from fuel sales
Not in Minnesota where they are by law guaranteed the lesser of 6% or $0.08/gallon profit as my state has one of those minimum markup laws.
I always figured that warning was because if gasoline worked well for cleaning carbs you wouldn't need to clean them. A good mix of acetone, ether, and lacquer thinner (about 1/3 each) seems to work wonders for cleaning carbs.
Now I am reminded of my time working at a gas station and every once and a while some one with a really leaky fuel tank would come in and pump 5-10 gallons of gas onto the ground. They would always be the ones who would go and sit in their vehicle and not pay attention. Eventually once we got the new pump controller we took to stopping pumps if people would go and get in their vehicles.
I would pay $18, make it an even $20 and offer the entire back catalogue, a month for the BBC. Hell I already "pay" $10 a month (a $120 donation each year to Minnesota Public Radio) since I listen to the BBC World Service (91.1 HD3 in the Twin Cities if anyone cares) all the time in the car and I let MPR know that is all I listen to of their offerings.
My beef with the ruling is that it contradicts itself. There were 3 parts, the first was to determine standing and that hinged on if the thing that you got if you didn't have insurance was a tax or a fine. The second part was about taking away medicare (or was it medicaid) money from the states. The 3rd part was if the things in the first ruling was and by extension the health insurance mandate was constitutional. On the first issue the court found that it was not a tax and by extension the plaintiffs had standing. On the second point they found that the government couldn't take that money away from the states. Finally on the 3rd issue Chief Justice Roberts had some tortured incoherent rambling but then says it is a tax and that makes it OK. So the way I look at this decision is that either we have entered time of quantum law which is unknowable, this is by far one of the worst rulings of all time since it contradicts itself, or the justices are so incompetent they overturned their own ruling from mere moments previous. Either way it should be a clear indication that all of the justices lack the mental facilities to make a rational and logical judgment and should be removed.
Just remember in Second Life there are no winners but there are losers.
Well it isn't like the KKK also endorsed Hillary.
I'll just stick to my Kerby vacuum. A good strong efficient motor that when a kid decides he is going to show you be leaving marbles out after you told him to pick them up several times because you were going to vacuum will not only suck them up but will shatter them and be no worse for wear. I am amazed at what that thing can eat and not clog on and what it will suck up that is near by. I think it probably produces better suction than my shop vac and is about as hard to clog.
So if you you have a cat or dog it will now go and hide under a bead and shit on the carpet when you turn this thing on.
Fourth Amendment to the US constitution
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This a thousand times. It is almost seems like we a gradually moving to a system where if you don't confess you will be charged with contempt or obstruction of justice.
Personally even though I am in the same situation as you (nothing to hide from authorities) I would still tell them to piss off. I've done it to roaming TSA who asked if they could search my bag, I've done it to cops who have asked if they could search my car, I would do it to here as well. In the car incident they stuffed me in the back of the squad car and got a K-9 unit that happened to alert at the trunk, in the trunk they found my tool box, a couple quarts of oil, a set of spare belts (that fucking car threw belts all the time), a tire iron, spare tire and a jack, that was it. They dumped all of my tool out on the ground to "search" them so I got the joy of picking that mess up.
With the TSA agent they were kind enough to ask "Can I search your bag?" indicating that I had a choice and I responded with no. This horribly confuses them and resulted in re asking the question and getting the same response. The agent went and caller for their supervisor who also asked the same question and got the same response. The supervisor called his manager who then asked the same question and got the same answer. Eventually I was told by the highest person that they were going to be searching my bag. I responded that I do not consent to this search as it is a violation of my 4th amendment rights as they have neither probabal cause, reasonable suspicion, or a warrant as my person and effects were already screened while going through the security line. In the end they still did search my bag and found 2 changes of dirty cloths, a spare set of clean cloths, my work laptop, my phone, a note book, 2 pens, and my headphones. While in the end they still searched my bag I did waste over half an hour of each of their time which in my book is a net worth as was just waiting at the gate for my plane.
But if the police have the drives they have the physical evidence. What they want is for you to provide information to them but that information my prove his guilt and would against hist 5th amendment rights. Also what I have long wondered is as a person under investigation does one have to assist the prosecution in interpreting data? In other cases it seems like it has been well established that one does not have to assist investigators so long as one doesn't interfere with actions they undertake. If police have a warrant to search my house I can't stop them from searching but I am under no obligation to help them find what they are looking for. Same thing with cracking a safe I can't stop them from drilling out the lock but I in no way have to help them drill it out. A password to an encrypted volume is very much like a combination to a safe, just a safe that can't be drilled out in this universe.
As someone who has recently had my interest in this topic reignited you are correct that it is mostly about understating how to break crypto that leads to better crypto. Understanding the math isn't all that difficult if you have an applied math (CS) degree and a willingness to learn as when I was first interested in crypto about 20 years ago there wasn't as much info freely available to learn from and what was there was difficult to find. All of the major symmetric key crypto algorithms are just variations on the Feistel Network structure going back to the early 70s. Here is a paper I was reading just last night on the evaluation on all 16! 4x4bit s-boxes but most ciphers use 8x8-bit S-boxes. There is also a lot that can be learned by looking back at the NIST evaluations of the AES finalists and reading and understanding them.
Because it isn't a Sanders V republican race but instead is a Sanders V. Clinton race. There are a lot of people on the democrat side of things who really want Hillary and these are the long time democrats who are most likely to vote. In both parties there seems to be a large burn it all down contingent it is just that the one on the Republican side has had more success in getting rid of the establishment candidates. Personally I would love to see a Sanders V Cruz as it would offer a very different choices but instead we will likely get Clinton V Trump. Clinton seems like one who is a political opportunist and in it for herself and Trump seems like one as well.
Well considering that if one wanted to pull of a major terror attack it wouldn't require much thinking it seem that there are either very few terrorists or the ones that are here are so dumb I'm surprised they don't choke on their own tongues. Likely it is both and there are very few terrorists in the US and those that are here and the ones who are here are only slightly smarter than a jar of mayonnaise from what gets reported. If I wanted to pull off a major terror attack the simplest one I could think of would be to go and get 20 of my terrorist buddies, and each go and make a couple of bombs from smokeless powder. One goes in one of those suitcases that everyone knows is to large to fit into the overhead bin but no one says anything to you about because you're a dick head. The other goes in a larger backpack. Then on some nice busy travel day you and your 20 terrorist buddies go to 20 different large airports and detonate your suitcase + backpack bombs in the middle of the security lines at the same time. The easy thing here is anyone can go get into the line and you don't even have to buy a ticket. If you pick the winter time you could also have a suicide vest on under a coat for a little added punch and no one would be the wiser.